https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/find-best-selling-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/366/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Explore the world of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks in diverse categories like Ancient Mythology, Asia History, and Animals & Nature. We offer you 3 free audiobooks to start your exploration journey. Audiobooks can be listened to on many devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, helping you access knowledge anytime, anywhere. Let audiobooks open new horizons for you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Ferne Keelinghttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5143eed7791ecd3db157d15f0edfaaa3.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/find-best-selling-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575237Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:06:26 +0000Ferne KeelingFerne Keelingfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/366/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Explore the world of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks in diverse categories like Ancient Mythology, Asia...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/366/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Explore the world of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks in diverse categories like Ancient Mythology, Asia History, and Animals & Nature. We offer you 3 free audiobooks to start your exploration journey. Audiobooks can be listened to on many devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, helping you access knowledge anytime, anywhere. Let audiobooks open new horizons for you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/getting-out-of-saigon-how-a-27-year-old-banker-saved-113-vietnamese-civilians-by-ralph-white--65186484https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians Author: Ralph White Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “captivating” (The Washington Post) true story of “courage, resolve, and determination” (The Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White’s successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army. In April 1975, Ralph White was asked by his boss to transfer from the Bangkok branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank to the Saigon Branch. He was tasked with closing the branch if and when it appeared that Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese army and ensure the safety of the senior Vietnamese employees. But when he arrived, he realized the situation in Saigon was far more perilous than he had imagined. The senior staff members there urged him to evacuate the entire staff of the branch and their families, which was far more than he was authorized to do. Quickly he realized that no one would be safe when the city fell, and it was no longer a question of whether to evacuate but how. Getting Out of Saigon is an “edge-of-your-seat” (Oprah Daily) story of a city on the eve of destruction and the colorful characters who respond differently to impending doom. It’s a remarkable account of one man’s quest to save innocent lives not because he was ordered but because it was the right thing to do.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552941Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians Author: Ralph White Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians Author: Ralph White Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “captivating” (The Washington Post) true story of “courage, resolve, and determination” (The Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White’s successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army. In April 1975, Ralph White was asked by his boss to transfer from the Bangkok branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank to the Saigon Branch. He was tasked with closing the branch if and when it appeared that Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese army and ensure the safety of the senior Vietnamese employees. But when he arrived, he realized the situation in Saigon was far more perilous than he had imagined. The senior staff members there urged him to evacuate the entire staff of the branch and their families, which was far more than he was authorized to do. Quickly he realized that no one would be safe when the city fell, and it was no longer a question of whether to evacuate but how. Getting Out of Saigon is an “edge-of-your-seat” (Oprah Daily) story of a city on the eve of destruction and the colorful characters who respond differently to impending doom. It’s a remarkable account of one man’s quest to save innocent lives not because he was ordered but because it was the right thing to do.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/two-sisters-by-blake-morrison--65186599https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Sisters Author: Blake Morrison Narrator: Blake Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison’s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir. ‘She’s gone, that’s all, and though there’s no retrieving her I’d like to make sense of who she was and what she became. It wasn’t just that she changed over time. She could change from day to day. Drink made it worse but the origins went deeper. You never knew which you’d get, the kind and loving Gill or her doppelgänger. Two sisters.’ Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years. Both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with a forensic examination of sibling relationships in history and literature. Blake’s sister Gill struggled with alcoholism for a large part of her life, and her shocking death is the starting point for Two Sisters. Blake returns to their childhood to search for the origins of her later difficulties, and in doing so unearths the story behind his half-sister, Josie. As he unravels these narratives, Blake deals movingly in the guilt and shame that will be familiar to every person who has struggled with addiction in their family. He is unflinching in doing so, and the result is a book which provides testament to that common struggle, as well as acknowledging the complex, hidden forces on which all our lives are based. Two Sisters is the extraordinary new memoir from the chronicler of human frailty, Blake Morrison. Poems from Skin and Blister are featured by kind permission of Mariscat Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548333Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Sisters Author: Blake Morrison Narrator: Blake Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Sisters Author: Blake Morrison Narrator: Blake Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison’s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir. ‘She’s gone, that’s all, and though there’s no retrieving her I’d like to make sense of who she was and what she became. It wasn’t just that she changed over time. She could change from day to day. Drink made it worse but the origins went deeper. You never knew which you’d get, the kind and loving Gill or her doppelgänger. Two sisters.’ Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years. Both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with a forensic examination of sibling relationships in history and literature. Blake’s sister Gill struggled with alcoholism for a large part of her life, and her shocking death is the starting point for Two Sisters. Blake returns to their childhood to search for the origins of her later difficulties, and in doing so unearths the story behind his half-sister, Josie. As he unravels these narratives, Blake deals movingly in the guilt and shame that will be familiar to every person who has struggled with addiction in their family. He is unflinching in doing so, and the result is a book which provides testament to that common struggle, as well as acknowledging the complex, hidden forces on which all our lives are based. Two Sisters is the extraordinary new memoir from the chronicler of human frailty, Blake Morrison. Poems from Skin and Blister are featured by kind permission of Mariscat Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/transitional-in-one-way-or-another-we-all-transition-by-munroe-bergdorf--65186511https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition Author: Munroe Bergdorf Narrator: Mia Juul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely—regardless of how we identify—but nor do we stay the same forever. We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. In Transitional, activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf draws on her own experience and theory from key experts, change-makers and activists to reveal just how deeply ingrained transitioning is in human experience. This is a book to help bring us closer to a shared consciousness: a powerful guide to how our differences can be harnessed as a tool to heal, build community, and construct a better society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551333Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition Author: Munroe Bergdorf Narrator: Mia Juul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition Author: Munroe Bergdorf Narrator: Mia Juul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely—regardless of how we identify—but nor do we stay the same forever. We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. In Transitional, activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf draws on her own experience and theory from key experts, change-makers and activists to reveal just how deeply ingrained transitioning is in human experience. This is a book to help bring us closer to a shared consciousness: a powerful guide to how our differences can be harnessed as a tool to heal, build community, and construct a better society.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-still-with-you-a-reckoning-with-silence-inheritance-and-history-by-emmanuel-iduma--65186583https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘A lyrical investigation … both powerful and transcendent’ CHIGOZIE OBIOMA ‘Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting’ AMINATTA FORNA ‘Both epic and intimate’ MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history. Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father’s favourite brother and the man for whom he is named. The elder Emmanuel left home in 1967 to fight in the Biafran War and was not seen again. The war lasted for three years, with young Igbo men volunteering to fight for a breakaway republic in the chaotic wake of British decolonization. Around one hundred thousand others who fought in the war share a fate like Emmanuel’s uncle, though there are no official records of these losses. The tensions that gave rise to the conflict remain live, threatening sometimes to bubble over. In this landscape, there are no monuments or graves. Instead, a collective remembering that remains, for the most part, silent. I Am Still with You sees a young Nigerian return to his place of birth. Travelling the route of the war, Iduma explores both a national history and the mysteries of his own family, finding both somewhat scarred and haunted, the memories warped by time and the darkest parts left for decades unspoken.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘A lyrical investigation … both powerful and transcendent’ CHIGOZIE OBIOMA ‘Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting’ AMINATTA FORNA ‘Both epic and intimate’ MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history. Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father’s favourite brother and the man for whom he is named. The elder Emmanuel left home in 1967 to fight in the Biafran War and was not seen again. The war lasted for three years, with young Igbo men volunteering to fight for a breakaway republic in the chaotic wake of British decolonization. Around one hundred thousand others who fought in the war share a fate like Emmanuel’s uncle, though there are no official records of these losses. The tensions that gave rise to the conflict remain live, threatening sometimes to bubble over. In this landscape, there are no monuments or graves. Instead, a collective remembering that remains, for the most part, silent. I Am Still with You sees a young Nigerian return to his place of birth. Travelling the route of the war, Iduma explores both a national history and the mysteries of his own family, finding both somewhat scarred and haunted, the memories warped by time and the darkest parts left for decades unspoken.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-swedish-art-of-aging-exuberantly-life-wisdom-from-someone-who-will-probably-die-before-you-by-margareta-magnusson--65186535https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You Author: Margareta Magnusson Narrator: Natascha Mcelhone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully. In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the Swedish tradition of döstädning, or “death cleaning”—clearing out your unnecessary belongings so others don’t have to do it for you. Now, unburdened by (literal and emotional) baggage, Magnusson is able to focus on what makes each day worth living. In her new book she reveals her discoveries about aging—some difficult to accept, many rather wondrous. She reflects on her idyllic childhood on the west coast of Sweden, the fullness of her life with her husband and five children, and learning how to live alone. Throughout, she offers advice on how to age gracefully, such as: wear stripes, don’t resist new technology, let go of what doesn’t matter, and more. As with death cleaning, it’s never too early to begin. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly shows all readers how to prepare for and understand the process of growing older and the joys and sorrows it can bring. While Magnusson still recommends decluttering (your loved ones will thank you!), her ultimate message is that we should not live in fear of death but rather focus on appreciating beauty, connecting with our loved ones, and enjoying our time together. Wise, funny, and eminently practical, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly is a gentle and welcome reminder that, no matter your age, there are always fresh discoveries ahead, and pleasures both new and familiar to be encountered every day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552923Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You Author: Margareta Magnusson Narrator: Natascha...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You Author: Margareta Magnusson Narrator: Natascha Mcelhone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully. In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the Swedish tradition of döstädning, or “death cleaning”—clearing out your unnecessary belongings so others don’t have to do it for you. Now, unburdened by (literal and emotional) baggage, Magnusson is able to focus on what makes each day worth living. In her new book she reveals her discoveries about aging—some difficult to accept, many rather wondrous. She reflects on her idyllic childhood on the west coast of Sweden, the fullness of her life with her husband and five children, and learning how to live alone. Throughout, she offers advice on how to age gracefully, such as: wear stripes, don’t resist new technology, let go of what doesn’t matter, and more. As with death cleaning, it’s never too early to begin. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly shows all readers how to prepare for and understand the process of growing older and the joys and sorrows it can bring. While Magnusson still recommends decluttering (your loved ones will thank you!), her ultimate message is that we should not live in fear of death but rather focus on appreciating beauty, connecting with our loved ones, and enjoying our time together. Wise, funny, and eminently practical, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly is a gentle and welcome reminder that, no matter your age, there are always fresh discoveries ahead, and pleasures both new and familiar to be encountered every day.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cross-the-tracks-a-memoir-by-boosie-badazz--65186474https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cross the Tracks: A Memoir Author: Boosie Badazz Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of rap’s most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and “masterpiece of a book” (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry’s most controversial figures, was able to overcome insurmountable odds to make his music dreams a reality. A Baton Rouge native who began rapping at age fourteen, Boosie Badazz was already a cult hero in Louisiana when, in 2009, he was sentenced to two years in prison. The next year, he was indicted on even more serious charges, eventually landing him on Death Row. Prosecutors played Boosie’s music in the courtroom to paint him as a thug with no chance of redemption. However, against overwhelming odds and the backdrop of a social media campaign to #FreeBoosie, he was freed in March of 2014 with a rare second chance to make his music dreams come true. With illuminating prose, this “truly great read” (DJ Vlad, CEO of VladTV) explores the relationship between Boosie’s life on the streets with his ceaseless tear through the rap industry. From near-death experiences to a ruthless bout with kidney cancer to a life-threatening diabetes diagnosis, Boosie has overcome remarkable challenges to make a name for himself as one of rap’s most influential voices. A redemptive story with an urgent voice, Cross the Tracks is the survival tale of a man who wasn’t sure he would live to see another day...but who rose from the ashes to change the rap industry forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552949Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cross the Tracks: A Memoir Author: Boosie Badazz Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cross the Tracks: A Memoir Author: Boosie Badazz Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of rap’s most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and “masterpiece of a book” (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry’s most controversial figures, was able to overcome insurmountable odds to make his music dreams a reality. A Baton Rouge native who began rapping at age fourteen, Boosie Badazz was already a cult hero in Louisiana when, in 2009, he was sentenced to two years in prison. The next year, he was indicted on even more serious charges, eventually landing him on Death Row. Prosecutors played Boosie’s music in the courtroom to paint him as a thug with no chance of redemption. However, against overwhelming odds and the backdrop of a social media campaign to #FreeBoosie, he was freed in March of 2014 with a rare second chance to make his music dreams come true. With illuminating prose, this “truly great read” (DJ Vlad, CEO of VladTV) explores the relationship between Boosie’s life on the streets with his ceaseless tear through the rap industry. From near-death experiences to a ruthless bout with kidney cancer to a life-threatening diabetes diagnosis, Boosie has overcome remarkable challenges to make a name for himself as one of rap’s most influential voices. A redemptive story with an urgent voice, Cross the Tracks is the survival tale of a man who wasn’t sure he would live to see another day...but who rose from the ashes to change the rap industry forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-charytin-spanish-edition-el-tiempo-pasa-pero-yo-no-by-charytin--65186585https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551293 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - CHARYTÍN (Spanish edition): El tiempo pasa. . . ¡pero yo no! Author: Charytin Narrator: Charytin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Así siento que ha sido toda mi vida: un huracán, un torbellino, un tsunami arrasador que siempre me ha traído grandes alegrías, me las ha quitado, para volverme a traer más en este incesante vaivén. ¡O tal vez el huracán soy yo! Porque allá donde voy, me dicen que siempre se arma un revolú.” - Charytín Desde una infancia dolorosa con complicados secretos familiares a un amor muy diferente al de las novelas, Charytín Goyco nos lo cuenta todo, con su peculiar tono cargado de drama y comedia a la vez.  • Sus anécdotas con famosos (Juan Luis Guerra, Camilo Sesto, Jenni Rivera, entre muchos) •Los “besos de divorcio” que compartió con los galanes de moda en innumerables películas. • La pérdida de un bebé y su angustia más persistente: la de ser madre en una profesión donde tener hijos ponía en peligro todos los proyectos. • La verdadera razón por la cual dejó de cantar. • Sus incesantes sueños plagados de fantasmas, premoniciones y revelaciones, siempre encarando a la muerte, y los conflictos que este extraño don le causó con sus seres queridos. • Sus raíces, su historia, sus primeras memorias de niña, entre dos continentes, dignas de la mejor película. • Su lucha interna desde niña por ser tachada de “niña rara,” “ridícula” o estrambótica. Antes muerta que sencilla: a casi cincuenta años de haber iniciado su carrera artística, la “niña rara” no se da por vencida. No hay huracán que la logre tumbar. Sus sueños son muchos, su proyectos no cesan de llegar. Como le dijo una vez Celia Cruz: “Chary, nosotros los artistas no nos retiramos, trabajamos hasta que Dios nos llama a su lado.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551293Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551293 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - CHARYTÍN (Spanish edition): El tiempo pasa. . . ¡pero yo no! Author: Charytin Narrator: Charytin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551293 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - CHARYTÍN (Spanish edition): El tiempo pasa. . . ¡pero yo no! Author: Charytin Narrator: Charytin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Así siento que ha sido toda mi vida: un huracán, un torbellino, un tsunami arrasador que siempre me ha traído grandes alegrías, me las ha quitado, para volverme a traer más en este incesante vaivén. ¡O tal vez el huracán soy yo! Porque allá donde voy, me dicen que siempre se arma un revolú.” - Charytín Desde una infancia dolorosa con complicados secretos familiares a un amor muy diferente al de las novelas, Charytín Goyco nos lo cuenta todo, con su peculiar tono cargado de drama y comedia a la vez.  • Sus anécdotas con famosos (Juan Luis Guerra, Camilo Sesto, Jenni Rivera, entre muchos) •Los “besos de divorcio” que compartió con los galanes de moda en innumerables películas. • La pérdida de un bebé y su angustia más persistente: la de ser madre en una profesión donde tener hijos ponía en peligro todos los proyectos. • La verdadera razón por la cual dejó de cantar. • Sus incesantes sueños plagados de fantasmas, premoniciones y revelaciones, siempre encarando a la muerte, y los conflictos que este extraño don le causó con sus seres queridos. • Sus raíces, su historia, sus primeras memorias de niña, entre dos continentes, dignas de la mejor película. • Su lucha interna desde niña por ser tachada de “niña rara,” “ridícula” o estrambótica. Antes muerta que sencilla: a casi cincuenta años de haber iniciado su carrera artística, la “niña rara” no se da por vencida. No hay huracán que la logre tumbar. Sus sueños son muchos, su proyectos no cesan de llegar. Como le dijo una vez Celia Cruz: “Chary, nosotros los artistas no nos retiramos, trabajamos hasta que Dios nos llama a su lado.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/diary-of-a-misfit-a-memoir-and-a-mystery-by-casey-parks--65186593https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery Author: Casey Parks Narrator: Casey Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. 'Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit.' —The New York Times Book Review When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. 'I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man,' and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548821Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery Author: Casey Parks Narrator: Casey Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery Author: Casey Parks Narrator: Casey Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. 'Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit.' —The New York Times Book Review When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. 'I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man,' and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/she-s-nice-though-essays-on-being-bad-at-being-good-by-mia-mercado--65186514https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good Author: Mia Mercado Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST “And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of the uncomfortable truths that rule our lives. In this thought-provoking collection of new essays, Mercado examines what it means to be “polite,” “agreeable,” and “nice.” She covers topics from the subtleties of the “Bad Bitch” and why women dominate the ASMR market, to what makes her dog an adorable little freak and how you know if you’re shy. This is a book about the unspoken trick mirror of our “good” intentions: the inherent performance of the social media apology, celebrating men when they do the bare minimum, and why we trust a Midwesterner to watch our stuff when we go pee. Throughout, she ponders her identity as an Asian woman and asks what “nice” even means—and why anyone would want to be it. With writing that is as precise as it is profound, and cultural references that range from trash reality television to the New York Times Sunday-morning crossword puzzle, Mercado uncovers weird, long-overdue truths about our frailties and failings. In the end, she sees them not as a source of shame but as a cause for celebration. Filled with revelations that range from the silly to the serious, She’s Nice Though offers a mind-bending glimpse into the illusions and delusions of contemporary life—and reveals who we *really* are when no one is watching.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551302Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good Author: Mia Mercado Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good Author: Mia Mercado Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST “And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of the uncomfortable truths that rule our lives. In this thought-provoking collection of new essays, Mercado examines what it means to be “polite,” “agreeable,” and “nice.” She covers topics from the subtleties of the “Bad Bitch” and why women dominate the ASMR market, to what makes her dog an adorable little freak and how you know if you’re shy. This is a book about the unspoken trick mirror of our “good” intentions: the inherent performance of the social media apology, celebrating men when they do the bare minimum, and why we trust a Midwesterner to watch our stuff when we go pee. Throughout, she ponders her identity as an Asian woman and asks what “nice” even means—and why anyone would want to be it. With writing that is as precise as it is profound, and cultural references that range from trash reality television to the New York Times Sunday-morning crossword puzzle, Mercado uncovers weird, long-overdue truths about our frailties and failings. In the end, she sees them not as a source of shame but as a cause for celebration. Filled with revelations that range from the silly to the serious, She’s Nice Though offers a mind-bending glimpse into the illusions and delusions of contemporary life—and reveals who we *really* are when no one is watching.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/escape-into-meaning-essays-on-superman-public-benches-and-other-obsessions-by-evan-puschak--65186447https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions Author: Evan Puschak Narrator: Evan Puschak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Producer, editor, and writer behind the highly addictive, informative, and popular YouTube channel The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak presents “a brilliant, wide-ranging essay collection that explores meaning and how we make it with the thoughtfulness and open-hearted generosity that have long been hallmarks of Puschak’s writing” (John Green, New York Times bestselling author). As YouTube’s The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak plays the polymath, posing questions and providing answers across a wide range of fields—from the power of a split diopter shot in Toy Story 4 to the political dangers of schadenfreude. Now, he brings that same insatiable curiosity and striking wit to this engaging and unputdownable essay collection. Perfect for fans of Trick Mirror and the writing of John Hodgman and Chuck Klosterman, Escape into Meaning is “a passionate, perceptive” (Hua Hsu, author of Stay True) compendium of fascinating insights into obsession. Whether you’re interested in the philosophy of Jerry Seinfeld or how Clark Kent is the real hero, there’s something for everyone in this effervescent collection.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552948Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions Author: Evan Puschak Narrator: Evan Puschak Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions Author: Evan Puschak Narrator: Evan Puschak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Producer, editor, and writer behind the highly addictive, informative, and popular YouTube channel The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak presents “a brilliant, wide-ranging essay collection that explores meaning and how we make it with the thoughtfulness and open-hearted generosity that have long been hallmarks of Puschak’s writing” (John Green, New York Times bestselling author). As YouTube’s The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak plays the polymath, posing questions and providing answers across a wide range of fields—from the power of a split diopter shot in Toy Story 4 to the political dangers of schadenfreude. Now, he brings that same insatiable curiosity and striking wit to this engaging and unputdownable essay collection. Perfect for fans of Trick Mirror and the writing of John Hodgman and Chuck Klosterman, Escape into Meaning is “a passionate, perceptive” (Hua Hsu, author of Stay True) compendium of fascinating insights into obsession. Whether you’re interested in the philosophy of Jerry Seinfeld or how Clark Kent is the real hero, there’s something for everyone in this effervescent collection.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walking-in-my-joy-in-these-streets-by-jenifer-lewis--65186437https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking in My Joy: In These Streets Author: Jenifer Lewis Narrator: Jenifer Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.78 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul. A self-described “traveling fool and nature freak,” Jenifer takes readers with her all over the world, from Cape Town to Bali; Washington, DC, to the Serengeti; Mongolia to St. Petersburg; and Argentina to Antarctica to demonstrate how she walks in her joy by seeking pleasure in everyday encounters. Every step of the way you’ll be doubled over with laughter as she faints at the Obamas’ holiday party; awakens to a swollen face and has to go to the hospital during the height of the Covid pandemic; an alien visitation; a successful takedown of a conman; as well as meeting a handsome Maasai warrior and being chased by a Cape buffalo. An actress, activist, and mental health advocate, Jenifer Lewis imparts ways to love yourself that will allow you to deflect negative energy and keep people who may come to take your joy in check. She stresses the importance of fully living to your greatest ambitions and taking the time to admire the world’s natural gifts. She also encourages embracing each other’s uniqueness as a way of finding societal healing. Walking in My Joy is a riveting and enthralling journey. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555810Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking in My Joy: In These Streets Author: Jenifer Lewis Narrator: Jenifer Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking in My Joy: In These Streets Author: Jenifer Lewis Narrator: Jenifer Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.78 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul. A self-described “traveling fool and nature freak,” Jenifer takes readers with her all over the world, from Cape Town to Bali; Washington, DC, to the Serengeti; Mongolia to St. Petersburg; and Argentina to Antarctica to demonstrate how she walks in her joy by seeking pleasure in everyday encounters. Every step of the way you’ll be doubled over with laughter as she faints at the Obamas’ holiday party; awakens to a swollen face and has to go to the hospital during the height of the Covid pandemic; an alien visitation; a successful takedown of a conman; as well as meeting a handsome Maasai warrior and being chased by a Cape buffalo. An actress, activist, and mental health advocate, Jenifer Lewis imparts ways to love yourself that will allow you to deflect negative energy and keep people who may come to take your joy in check. She stresses the importance of fully living to your greatest ambitions and taking the time to admire the world’s natural gifts. She also encourages embracing each other’s uniqueness as a way of finding societal healing. Walking in My Joy is a riveting and enthralling journey. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-m-not-broken-a-memoir-by-jesse-leon--65186487https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Not Broken: A Memoir Author: Jesse Leon Narrator: Jesse Leon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse. 'A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives, bodhisattvas all.'  —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it—in alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. Overlooked by state-sanctioned institutions and systems intended to help victims of abuse, neglected like many other low-income Latinos, Jesse spiraled into cycles of suicide and substance abuse.   I’m Not Broken is the heartbreaking and remarkable story of the journey Jesse takes to win back his life, leading him to the steps of Harvard University. From being the lone young person of color in Narcotics Anonymous meetings to coming to terms with his own sexual identity, to becoming an engaged mentor for incarcerated youth, Jesse finds the will to live with the love and support of his family, friends, and mentors. Recounting the extraordinary circumstances of his life, Jesse offers a powerful, raw testament to the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance. Unforgettable, I’m Not Broken is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552827Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Not Broken: A Memoir Author: Jesse Leon Narrator: Jesse Leon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Not Broken: A Memoir Author: Jesse Leon Narrator: Jesse Leon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse. 'A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives, bodhisattvas all.'  —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it—in alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. Overlooked by state-sanctioned institutions and systems intended to help victims of abuse, neglected like many other low-income Latinos, Jesse spiraled into cycles of suicide and substance abuse.   I’m Not Broken is the heartbreaking and remarkable story of the journey Jesse takes to win back his life, leading him to the steps of Harvard University. From being the lone young person of color in Narcotics Anonymous meetings to coming to terms with his own sexual identity, to becoming an engaged mentor for incarcerated youth, Jesse finds the will to live with the love and support of his family, friends, and mentors. Recounting the extraordinary circumstances of his life, Jesse offers a powerful, raw testament to the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance. Unforgettable, I’m Not Broken is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-of-this-a-memoir-of-death-and-desire-by-rebecca-woolf--65186506https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire Author: Rebecca Woolf Narrator: Rebecca Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.”—ROXANE GAY “Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”—JENNY LAWSON “Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...A provocative and memorable work.”—Kirkus Reviews After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, All of This is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame—as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being—and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551290Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire Author: Rebecca Woolf Narrator: Rebecca Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire Author: Rebecca Woolf Narrator: Rebecca Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.”—ROXANE GAY “Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”—JENNY LAWSON “Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...A provocative and memorable work.”—Kirkus Reviews After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own. Stunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, All of This is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame—as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being—and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bad-sex-truth-pleasure-and-an-unfinished-revolution-by-nona-willis-aronowitz--65186618https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution Author: Nona Willis Aronowitz Narrator: Nona Willis Aronowitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Esquire, Nylon, and The Millions “Intimate, thoughtful, and accessible to anyone struggling with the persistent, maddening inequities of contemporary sex.” –Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that probes the meaning of desire and sexual freedom today. At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona Willis Aronowitz’s life, and in America, was in disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were both in overdrive. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning, and reimagining, her assumptions of what “sexual liberation” meant were suddenly up for debate.   In the thick of personal and political turmoil, Nona turned to the words of history’s sexual revolutionaries—including her late mother, early radical pro-sex feminist Ellen Willis. At a time when sex has never been more accepted and feminism has never been more mainstream, Nona asked herself: What, exactly, do I want? And are my sexual and romantic desires even possible amid the horrors and bribes of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy? Nona’s attempt to find the answer places her search for authentic intimacy alongside her family history and other stories stretching back nearly two hundred years. Stories of ambivalent wives and unchill sluts, free lovers and radical lesbians, sensitive men and woke misogynists, women who risk everything for sex—who buy sex, reject sex, have bad sex and good sex. The result is a brave, bold, and vulnerable exploration of what sexual freedom can mean. Bad Sex is Nona’s own journey to sexual satisfaction and romantic happiness, which not only lays bare the triumphs and flaws of contemporary feminism but also shines a light on universal questions of desire.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548750Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution Author: Nona Willis Aronowitz Narrator: Nona Willis Aronowitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution Author: Nona Willis Aronowitz Narrator: Nona Willis Aronowitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Esquire, Nylon, and The Millions “Intimate, thoughtful, and accessible to anyone struggling with the persistent, maddening inequities of contemporary sex.” –Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that probes the meaning of desire and sexual freedom today. At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona Willis Aronowitz’s life, and in America, was in disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were both in overdrive. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning, and reimagining, her assumptions of what “sexual liberation” meant were suddenly up for debate.   In the thick of personal and political turmoil, Nona turned to the words of history’s sexual revolutionaries—including her late mother, early radical pro-sex feminist Ellen Willis. At a time when sex has never been more accepted and feminism has never been more mainstream, Nona asked herself: What, exactly, do I want? And are my sexual and romantic desires even possible amid the horrors and bribes of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy? Nona’s attempt to find the answer places her search for authentic intimacy alongside her family history and other stories stretching back nearly two hundred years. Stories of ambivalent wives and unchill sluts, free lovers and radical lesbians, sensitive men and woke misogynists, women who risk everything for sex—who buy sex, reject sex, have bad sex and good sex. The result is a brave, bold, and vulnerable exploration of what sexual freedom can mean. Bad Sex is Nona’s own journey to sexual satisfaction and romantic happiness, which not only lays bare the triumphs and flaws of contemporary feminism but also shines a light on universal questions of desire.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fruit-punch-a-memoir-by-kendra-allen--65186547https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fruit Punch: A Memoir Author: Kendra Allen Narrator: Kendra Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this country Written in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind millennial talent. Growing up in Dallas, Texas, in the nineties and early 2000s, Kendra Allen had a complicated, loving, and intense family life filled with desire and community but also undercurrents of violence and turmoil. “We equate suffering to perseverance and misinterpret the weight of shame,” she writes. As she makes her way through a world of obscureness, Kendra finds herself slowly discovering outlets to help navigate growing up and against the expected performance of being a young Black woman in the South—a complex interplay of race, class, and gender that proves to be ever-shifting ground. Fruit Punch touches on everything from questions of beauty and how we form concepts of ourselves—as a small rebellion, young Kendra scratched a hole into every pair of stockings she was forced to wear—to what it means to grow up in her great uncle’s Southern Baptist church—with rules including “No uncrossed ankles” and “No questions.” Inflected by a powerful sense of place and touched by poetry, Fruit Punch is a stunning achievement—a memoir born of love and endurance, fight or flight, and what it means to be a witness, from a blisteringly honest and observant voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550106Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fruit Punch: A Memoir Author: Kendra Allen Narrator: Kendra Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fruit Punch: A Memoir Author: Kendra Allen Narrator: Kendra Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this country Written in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind millennial talent. Growing up in Dallas, Texas, in the nineties and early 2000s, Kendra Allen had a complicated, loving, and intense family life filled with desire and community but also undercurrents of violence and turmoil. “We equate suffering to perseverance and misinterpret the weight of shame,” she writes. As she makes her way through a world of obscureness, Kendra finds herself slowly discovering outlets to help navigate growing up and against the expected performance of being a young Black woman in the South—a complex interplay of race, class, and gender that proves to be ever-shifting ground. Fruit Punch touches on everything from questions of beauty and how we form concepts of ourselves—as a small rebellion, young Kendra scratched a hole into every pair of stockings she was forced to wear—to what it means to grow up in her great uncle’s Southern Baptist church—with rules including “No uncrossed ankles” and “No questions.” Inflected by a powerful sense of place and touched by poetry, Fruit Punch is a stunning achievement—a memoir born of love and endurance, fight or flight, and what it means to be a witness, from a blisteringly honest and observant voice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deer-creek-drive-a-reckoning-of-memory-and-murder-in-the-mississippi-delta-by-beverly-lowry--65186595https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta Author: Beverly Lowry Narrator: Beverly Lowry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.   In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi. Cover images: (pruning shears) Tragedy-of-the-Month, 1949, Triangle Publications, Inc.; (background) Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548806Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta Author: Beverly Lowry Narrator: Beverly Lowry Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta Author: Beverly Lowry Narrator: Beverly Lowry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.   In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi. Cover images: (pruning shears) Tragedy-of-the-Month, 1949, Triangle Publications, Inc.; (background) Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/survival-of-the-fastest-weed-speed-and-the-1980s-drug-scandal-that-shocked-the-sports-world-by-randy-lanier--65186468https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that Shocked the Sports World Author: Randy Lanier Narrator: Jonathan Beville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As featured on Netflix’s “Bad Sport,” the high-octane, Seabiscuit-meets-Scarface story of how Randy Lanier became a 1980s international sports star, soaring through the ranks of car racing while holding a dark secret: he was also one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he’d never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all changed when he bought a speedboat and began smuggling pot from the Bahamas. Fueled by what would become a historically massive smuggling operation, he started racing cars and became an overnight sensation. For Randy and his teammates, money was no object, and bigger hauls meant faster cars. At every event they attended, they were behind the wheel of the best machinery, flaunting their secret in front of huge crowds and live television cameras. But no matter how fast they drove, they couldn’t outrun the law. As Randy came ever closer to reaching his dream of high-speed glory, one of the biggest drug scandals ever to hit the professional sports world was about to unfold. Set in the 1980s Florida of Miami Vice, this is the unbelievable, unforgettable, unparalleled story of an ordinary guy whose attempts to become famous doing the thing he wanted most—become a world class race car driver—devolved into a you-can’t-make-this-up tale of one of the biggest crime rings and drug scandals of the 1980s. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime, Randy tells the whole truth for the first time ever, a gripping narrative unlike any other, a sports story for the ages, and shocking a true crime epic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553269Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that Shocked the Sports World Author: Randy Lanier Narrator: Jonathan Beville Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that Shocked the Sports World Author: Randy Lanier Narrator: Jonathan Beville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As featured on Netflix’s “Bad Sport,” the high-octane, Seabiscuit-meets-Scarface story of how Randy Lanier became a 1980s international sports star, soaring through the ranks of car racing while holding a dark secret: he was also one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he’d never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all changed when he bought a speedboat and began smuggling pot from the Bahamas. Fueled by what would become a historically massive smuggling operation, he started racing cars and became an overnight sensation. For Randy and his teammates, money was no object, and bigger hauls meant faster cars. At every event they attended, they were behind the wheel of the best machinery, flaunting their secret in front of huge crowds and live television cameras. But no matter how fast they drove, they couldn’t outrun the law. As Randy came ever closer to reaching his dream of high-speed glory, one of the biggest drug scandals ever to hit the professional sports world was about to unfold. Set in the 1980s Florida of Miami Vice, this is the unbelievable, unforgettable, unparalleled story of an ordinary guy whose attempts to become famous doing the thing he wanted most—become a world class race car driver—devolved into a you-can’t-make-this-up tale of one of the biggest crime rings and drug scandals of the 1980s. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime, Randy tells the whole truth for the first time ever, a gripping narrative unlike any other, a sports story for the ages, and shocking a true crime epic.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/acceptance-a-memoir-by-emi-nietfeld--65186459https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acceptance: A Memoir Author: Emi Nietfeld Narrator: Julia Knippen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review A hard-hitting and hilarious memoir of ambition, desperation, and the dark side of grit Growing up in a house filled with dirty feather boas and fearless mice, Emi Nietfeld dreams of escaping to the Ivy League. Emi’s single mom believes in her, but can’t stop hoarding—catapulting Emi into the underworld of troubled teen treatment, foster care, and homelessness. When her shot arrives to trade sleeping in her car for the hallowed halls of an elite college, Emi must decide: How far will she go to market herself as a perfect “overcomer” when her problems are far from over? And what will it cost to maintain that illusion at Harvard and into adulthood?   From journalist, mental health advocate, and software engineer Emi Nietfeld, this searing coming-of-age story is both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it. Exposing the price of trading a troubled past for the promise of a bright future, Nietfeld explores whether any amount of success can make trauma worth it. With a ribbon of dark humor, Acceptance challenges our ideas of what it means to overcome—and live on your own terms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556132Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acceptance: A Memoir Author: Emi Nietfeld Narrator: Julia Knippen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acceptance: A Memoir Author: Emi Nietfeld Narrator: Julia Knippen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review A hard-hitting and hilarious memoir of ambition, desperation, and the dark side of grit Growing up in a house filled with dirty feather boas and fearless mice, Emi Nietfeld dreams of escaping to the Ivy League. Emi’s single mom believes in her, but can’t stop hoarding—catapulting Emi into the underworld of troubled teen treatment, foster care, and homelessness. When her shot arrives to trade sleeping in her car for the hallowed halls of an elite college, Emi must decide: How far will she go to market herself as a perfect “overcomer” when her problems are far from over? And what will it cost to maintain that illusion at Harvard and into adulthood?   From journalist, mental health advocate, and software engineer Emi Nietfeld, this searing coming-of-age story is both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it. Exposing the price of trading a troubled past for the promise of a bright future, Nietfeld explores whether any amount of success can make trauma worth it. With a ribbon of dark humor, Acceptance challenges our ideas of what it means to overcome—and live on your own terms.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walking-gentry-home-a-memoir-of-my-foremothers-in-verse-by-alora-young--65186429https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse Author: Alora Young Narrator: Alora Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history. “A masterpiece that beautifully captures the heartbreak that accompanies coming of age for Black girls becoming Black women.”—Evette Dionne, author of Lifting as We Climb, longlisted for the National Book Award ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Ms. Magazine, Kirkus Reviews Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young’s ancestors, from the unnamed women forgotten by the historical record but brought to life through Young’s imagination; to Amy, the first of Young’s foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave, unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Young’s great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Young in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman.  The lives of these girls and women come together to form a unique American epic in verse, one that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in our nation’s psyche. Each poem is a story in verse, and together they form a heart-wrenching and inspiring family saga of girls and women connected through blood and history. Informed by archival research, the last will and testament of an enslaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those too often muted in America: Black girls and women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556142Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse Author: Alora Young Narrator: Alora Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse Author: Alora Young Narrator: Alora Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history. “A masterpiece that beautifully captures the heartbreak that accompanies coming of age for Black girls becoming Black women.”—Evette Dionne, author of Lifting as We Climb, longlisted for the National Book Award ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Ms. Magazine, Kirkus Reviews Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young’s ancestors, from the unnamed women forgotten by the historical record but brought to life through Young’s imagination; to Amy, the first of Young’s foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave, unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Young’s great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Young in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman.  The lives of these girls and women come together to form a unique American epic in verse, one that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in our nation’s psyche. Each poem is a story in verse, and together they form a heart-wrenching and inspiring family saga of girls and women connected through blood and history. Informed by archival research, the last will and testament of an enslaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those too often muted in America: Black girls and women.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adrenaline-my-untold-stories-by-zlatan-ibrahimovic--65186420https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adrenaline: My Untold Stories Author: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Narrator: James Hillier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Football's most prolific and controversial goalscorer has nothing left to prove on the pitch. There is only one Zlatan. In the decade since his megaselling memoir I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he has played at Paris Saint-Germain (2012-2016), Manchester United (2016-2018), LA Galaxy (2018-2019) and Milan (2020-). This outrageous and hilarious follow-up is bursting with personal confessions and revealing anecdotes about the world's best players and managers. Packed with revelations, in Adrenaline we hear for the first time what Zlatan really thinks about his time in the Premier League and what it was like to score that glorious bicycle kick against England. We hear about the club he very nearly signed for, and see his hilarious run-ins with the French media - and the French in general, really. Plus so much more. Zlatan transports you into the world of top-flight football like no one else. Filled with revelations - including Zlatan's life lessons on happiness, friendship and love - you'll be talking about this book a long time after finishing it. 'He is an amazing talent, one of the best around' Pep Guardiola © Zlatan Ibrahimovic 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556444Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adrenaline: My Untold Stories Author: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Narrator: James Hillier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adrenaline: My Untold Stories Author: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Narrator: James Hillier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Football's most prolific and controversial goalscorer has nothing left to prove on the pitch. There is only one Zlatan. In the decade since his megaselling memoir I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he has played at Paris Saint-Germain (2012-2016), Manchester United (2016-2018), LA Galaxy (2018-2019) and Milan (2020-). This outrageous and hilarious follow-up is bursting with personal confessions and revealing anecdotes about the world's best players and managers. Packed with revelations, in Adrenaline we hear for the first time what Zlatan really thinks about his time in the Premier League and what it was like to score that glorious bicycle kick against England. We hear about the club he very nearly signed for, and see his hilarious run-ins with the French media - and the French in general, really. Plus so much more. Zlatan transports you into the world of top-flight football like no one else. Filled with revelations - including Zlatan's life lessons on happiness, friendship and love - you'll be talking about this book a long time after finishing it. 'He is an amazing talent, one of the best around' Pep Guardiola © Zlatan Ibrahimovic 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-nurse-s-war-a-diary-of-hope-and-heartache-on-the-home-front-by-patricia-malcolmson-robert-malcolmson--65186503https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nurse’s War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front Author: Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson Narrator: Emma Pallant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone ‘Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.’ Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital The second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone. This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain’s ‘Greatest Generation’ brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire. In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home. Kathleen’s days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944. She muses on being working class, wartime austerity, and her anxiety about examinations. Here too are dances, Americans and a POW boyfriend in Germany. Kathleen’s observations are witty, wry and astute – but above all relatable, even today. Poignant and engrossing, Kathleen Johnstone’s tale of trauma, romance and friendship will leave a lasting impression.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551801Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nurse’s War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front Author: Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson Narrator: Emma Pallant Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nurse’s War: A Diary of Hope and Heartache on the Home Front Author: Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson Narrator: Emma Pallant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone ‘Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.’ Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital The second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone. This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain’s ‘Greatest Generation’ brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire. In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home. Kathleen’s days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944. She muses on being working class, wartime austerity, and her anxiety about examinations. Here too are dances, Americans and a POW boyfriend in Germany. Kathleen’s observations are witty, wry and astute – but above all relatable, even today. Poignant and engrossing, Kathleen Johnstone’s tale of trauma, romance and friendship will leave a lasting impression.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/any-given-tuesday-a-political-love-story-by-lis-smith--65186482https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story Author: Lis Smith Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller An irreverent look behind the scenes of American politics from one of the most sought-after operatives in the Democratic Party Lis Smith isn’t your average political strategist and Any Given Tuesday isn’t your typical political memoir. At once a revealing look at human nature at the highest levels of power and an intimate portrayal of a sometimes rocky personal journey, it breaks all the rules. Smith doesn’t pretend to be perfect—she owns the controversial choices that landed her in the tabloids, as well as the unorthodox ones that have paid off and defined her successful career.  Any Given Tuesday follows Smith from her earliest experiences as a college-aged intern to her days as a trusted adviser and confidante to some of the most high-profile politicians in the country—including her star turn as senior adviser on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Animated by Smith’s love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics and sustained by her deeply-held belief that it’s still possible to effect positive change, it’s an odyssey full of highs and lows and larger-than-life characters. Throughout, Smith shows what it’s really like behind the curtain: what happens when the lights go down and the cameras turn off, how it feels to be in the eye of the political media storm, and how the people responsible for heady, life and death decisions are as flawed as the rest of us. While the journey hasn’t always been smooth, Lis Smith has seen and learned a lot—and she shares it all in this eye-opening, entertaining memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554030Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story Author: Lis Smith Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story Author: Lis Smith Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller An irreverent look behind the scenes of American politics from one of the most sought-after operatives in the Democratic Party Lis Smith isn’t your average political strategist and Any Given Tuesday isn’t your typical political memoir. At once a revealing look at human nature at the highest levels of power and an intimate portrayal of a sometimes rocky personal journey, it breaks all the rules. Smith doesn’t pretend to be perfect—she owns the controversial choices that landed her in the tabloids, as well as the unorthodox ones that have paid off and defined her successful career.  Any Given Tuesday follows Smith from her earliest experiences as a college-aged intern to her days as a trusted adviser and confidante to some of the most high-profile politicians in the country—including her star turn as senior adviser on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Animated by Smith’s love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics and sustained by her deeply-held belief that it’s still possible to effect positive change, it’s an odyssey full of highs and lows and larger-than-life characters. Throughout, Smith shows what it’s really like behind the curtain: what happens when the lights go down and the cameras turn off, how it feels to be in the eye of the political media storm, and how the people responsible for heady, life and death decisions are as flawed as the rest of us. While the journey hasn’t always been smooth, Lis Smith has seen and learned a lot—and she shares it all in this eye-opening, entertaining memoir.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-crane-wife-a-memoir-in-essays-by-christina-joyce-hauser--65186554https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays Author: Christina Joyce Hauser Narrator: Cj Hauser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of 'how life was supposed to be' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to ask if you can ever have a fresh start with an old love. She writes about friends and lovers, grief and heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. The Crane Wife is a book for anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for anyone trying, if sometimes failing, to find joy in the unexpected. 'Outstanding' Roxane Gay 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee 'What a fantastic, original, funny and touching voice! C J Hauser is a wondrous writer. This book will give so much happiness.' CRESSIDA CONNOLLY, author of AFTER THE PARTY 'Brilliant and beautiful... An absolute must-read' FRANCES CHA, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACE 'Compassionate and funny and brave. CJ is a master story weaver. I was left wanting more, in the best way possible.' CHARLIE GILMOUR, author of FEATHERHOOD 'A thrillingly original deconstruction of desire and its many configurations' Publishers Weekly 'Bold and brilliant and psychologically exquisite, CJ Hauser is a deeply gifted and generous writer. THE CRANE WIFE is enthralling.' CHARLOTTE FOX WEBER, author of WHAT WE WANT © Christina Joyce Hauser 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552624Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays Author: Christina Joyce Hauser Narrator: Cj Hauser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays Author: Christina Joyce Hauser Narrator: Cj Hauser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of 'how life was supposed to be' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to ask if you can ever have a fresh start with an old love. She writes about friends and lovers, grief and heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. The Crane Wife is a book for anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for anyone trying, if sometimes failing, to find joy in the unexpected. 'Outstanding' Roxane Gay 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee 'What a fantastic, original, funny and touching voice! C J Hauser is a wondrous writer. This book will give so much happiness.' CRESSIDA CONNOLLY, author of AFTER THE PARTY 'Brilliant and beautiful... An absolute must-read' FRANCES CHA, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACE 'Compassionate and funny and brave. CJ is a master story weaver. I was left wanting more, in the best way possible.' CHARLIE GILMOUR, author of FEATHERHOOD 'A thrillingly original deconstruction of desire and its many configurations' Publishers Weekly 'Bold and brilliant and psychologically exquisite, CJ Hauser is a deeply gifted and generous writer. THE CRANE WIFE is enthralling.' CHARLOTTE FOX WEBER, author of WHAT WE WANT © Christina Joyce Hauser 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir-by-sean-hewitt--65186443https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Author: Seán Hewitt Narrator: Seán Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's suffering. By turns devastating and soaring, it is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal, and a work of rare and transcendent beauty. © Seán Hewitt 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555243Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Author: Seán Hewitt Narrator: Seán Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Author: Seán Hewitt Narrator: Seán Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's suffering. By turns devastating and soaring, it is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal, and a work of rare and transcendent beauty. © Seán Hewitt 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crying-in-the-bathroom-a-memoir-by-erika-l-sanchez--65186596https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir Author: Erika L. Sánchez Narrator: Erika L. Sánchez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!'--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is disarmingly funny Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the ‘90s, Erika L. Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy and dreamed of an unlikely life as a poet. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression to the redemptive pursuits of spirituality, art, and travel, Sánchez reveals an interior life that is rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception—that of a woman who charted a path entirely of her own making. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez at her best: a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548758Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir Author: Erika L. Sánchez Narrator: Erika L. Sánchez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir Author: Erika L. Sánchez Narrator: Erika L. Sánchez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!'--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is disarmingly funny Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the ‘90s, Erika L. Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy and dreamed of an unlikely life as a poet. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression to the redemptive pursuits of spirituality, art, and travel, Sánchez reveals an interior life that is rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception—that of a woman who charted a path entirely of her own making. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez at her best: a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-didn-t-you-tell-me-a-memoir-by-carmen-rita-wong--65186491https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A Memoir Author: Carmen Rita Wong Narrator: Carmen Rita Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir “Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a hero’s journey.”—The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, “Papi” Wong, a hustler, would show her and her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red and gold. Then came the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire after her mother married her stepfather, Marty, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad. As Carmen entered this new world with her new family—Lupe and Marty quickly had four more children—her relationship with her mother became fraught with tension, suspicion, and conflict, explained only years later by the secrets her mother had kept for so long. And when those secrets were revealed, bringing clarity to so much of Carmen’s life, it was too late for answers. When her mother passed away, Carmen wanted to shake her  soul by its shoulders and demand: Why didn’t you tell me? A former national television host, advice columnist, and professor, Carmen searches to understand who she really is as she discovers her mother’s hidden history, facing the revelations that seep out. Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is a riveting and poignant story of Carmen’s experience of race and culture in America and how they shape who we think we are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552823Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A Memoir Author: Carmen Rita Wong Narrator: Carmen Rita Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A Memoir Author: Carmen Rita Wong Narrator: Carmen Rita Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir “Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a hero’s journey.”—The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, “Papi” Wong, a hustler, would show her and her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red and gold. Then came the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire after her mother married her stepfather, Marty, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad. As Carmen entered this new world with her new family—Lupe and Marty quickly had four more children—her relationship with her mother became fraught with tension, suspicion, and conflict, explained only years later by the secrets her mother had kept for so long. And when those secrets were revealed, bringing clarity to so much of Carmen’s life, it was too late for answers. When her mother passed away, Carmen wanted to shake her  soul by its shoulders and demand: Why didn’t you tell me? A former national television host, advice columnist, and professor, Carmen searches to understand who she really is as she discovers her mother’s hidden history, facing the revelations that seep out. Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is a riveting and poignant story of Carmen’s experience of race and culture in America and how they shape who we think we are.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-who-could-move-clouds-a-memoir-by-ingrid-rojas-contreras--65186490https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER   From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”: the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit “the secrets,” Rojas Contreras’ mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to “the secrets.” In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono’s remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often hilarious guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe “the secrets” are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary. *Includes a downloadable PDF of the author’s personal photographs of family members, scenes, and mementos, from the printed book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552825Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER   From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”: the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit “the secrets,” Rojas Contreras’ mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to “the secrets.” In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono’s remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often hilarious guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe “the secrets” are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary. *Includes a downloadable PDF of the author’s personal photographs of family members, scenes, and mementos, from the printed book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/soundings-journeys-in-the-company-of-whales-a-memoir-by-doreen-cunningham--65186486https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales: A Memoir Author: Doreen Cunningham Narrator: Doreen Cunningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that “captures rarely observed natural places” (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this “striking, brave[,] and often lyrical” (The Guardian) blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. Big-hearted, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552928Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales: A Memoir Author: Doreen Cunningham Narrator: Doreen Cunningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales: A Memoir Author: Doreen Cunningham Narrator: Doreen Cunningham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that “captures rarely observed natural places” (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this “striking, brave[,] and often lyrical” (The Guardian) blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. Big-hearted, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir-by-sean-hewitt--65186454https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Author: Seán Hewitt Narrator: Seán Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist “The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic • 'Rapturous...Hewitt beautifully illuminates his own darknesses so that we might also see our own.'—Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review • “Exquisitely written.”—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it’s like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one’s deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure and what it cannot. Delving into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures before him, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of answers. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to a sacred grotto in the Pyrenees, it is a journey of lonely discovery followed by the light of community. Haunted by the rites of Catholicism and spectres of shame, it is nevertheless marked by an insistent search for beauty. Hewitt captures transcendent moments in nature with exquisite lyricism, honours the power of reciprocated desire and provides a master class in the incredible force of unsparing specificity. All Down Darkness Wide illuminates a path ahead for queer literature and for the literature of heartbreak, striking a piercing and resonant chord for all who trace Hewitt’s dauntless footsteps.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552795Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Author: Seán Hewitt Narrator: Seán Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Author: Seán Hewitt Narrator: Seán Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist “The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic • 'Rapturous...Hewitt beautifully illuminates his own darknesses so that we might also see our own.'—Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review • “Exquisitely written.”—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it’s like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one’s deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure and what it cannot. Delving into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures before him, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of answers. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to a sacred grotto in the Pyrenees, it is a journey of lonely discovery followed by the light of community. Haunted by the rites of Catholicism and spectres of shame, it is nevertheless marked by an insistent search for beauty. Hewitt captures transcendent moments in nature with exquisite lyricism, honours the power of reciprocated desire and provides a master class in the incredible force of unsparing specificity. All Down Darkness Wide illuminates a path ahead for queer literature and for the literature of heartbreak, striking a piercing and resonant chord for all who trace Hewitt’s dauntless footsteps.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stitched-up-stories-of-life-and-death-from-a-prison-doctor-by-shahed-yousaf--65186493https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stitched Up: Stories of life and death from a prison doctor Author: Shahed Yousaf Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Dr Shahed Yousaf is a prison doctor dedicated to caring for people on the margins of society. An outsider on the inside, in Stitched Up he introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters, including killers, con men and auto-cannibals. To Dr Yousaf, they are patients first and prisoners second - because any one of us could end up on the wrong side of the law. He tells us honestly and compassionately what it's like to be their doctor in a system that's chronically overcrowded, drastically under-resourced and all too easy to ignore. Dr Yousaf spends his time running between emergencies - from overdoses to assaults, from cell fires to suicides - with one hand perpetually hovering over the panic button. It's not a job for the faint-hearted. But while the system is failing, he and his colleagues are doing their very best to prop it up. In stories that are frequently harrowing, sometimes humorous and always hard-hitting, we discover how difficult life is for those behind bars - but that there is still hope for all those who dare to care. © Dr Shahed Yousaf 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551604Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stitched Up: Stories of life and death from a prison doctor Author: Shahed Yousaf Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stitched Up: Stories of life and death from a prison doctor Author: Shahed Yousaf Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Dr Shahed Yousaf is a prison doctor dedicated to caring for people on the margins of society. An outsider on the inside, in Stitched Up he introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters, including killers, con men and auto-cannibals. To Dr Yousaf, they are patients first and prisoners second - because any one of us could end up on the wrong side of the law. He tells us honestly and compassionately what it's like to be their doctor in a system that's chronically overcrowded, drastically under-resourced and all too easy to ignore. Dr Yousaf spends his time running between emergencies - from overdoses to assaults, from cell fires to suicides - with one hand perpetually hovering over the panic button. It's not a job for the faint-hearted. But while the system is failing, he and his colleagues are doing their very best to prop it up. In stories that are frequently harrowing, sometimes humorous and always hard-hitting, we discover how difficult life is for those behind bars - but that there is still hope for all those who dare to care. © Dr Shahed Yousaf 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/illuminated-by-water-nature-memory-and-the-delights-of-a-fishing-life-by-malachy-tallack--65186473https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life Author: Malachy Tallack Narrator: Malachy Tallack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Travel-writer, novelist and singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack has been passionate about fishing since he was young. Growing up in Shetland, with its myriad lochs, he and his brother would roam the island in search of trout, and in so doing discovered a sense of freedom, of wonder, and an abiding passion. But why is it that catching a fish - or simply contemplating catching a fish - can be so thrilling, so captivating? Why is it that time spent beside water can be imprinted so sharply in the memory? Why is it that what seems such a simple act - that of casting a line and hoping - can feel so rich in mystery? Illuminated by Water is Malachy's personal attempt to understand that freedom, and to trace the origins and sources of that sense of wonder. He shares the appeal of fishing, its intense joys and frustrations, the steadying effect it has both at water's edge and in the memory, and the contemplation of nature and landscape that comes with being an angler. He writes about fishing expeditions, from English canals and Scottish lochs to lakes in Canada and New Zealand, and he reflects on other aspects of angling, from its cultural significance and the emerging moral complexities to the intricacies of tying a fly. Beautifully written and hugely engaging, this book both articulates the inexplicable lure of the river and the endless desire to return to it, and illuminates a passion that has shaped the way so many see and think about the natural world. © Malachy Tallack 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551605Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life Author: Malachy Tallack Narrator: Malachy Tallack Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life Author: Malachy Tallack Narrator: Malachy Tallack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Travel-writer, novelist and singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack has been passionate about fishing since he was young. Growing up in Shetland, with its myriad lochs, he and his brother would roam the island in search of trout, and in so doing discovered a sense of freedom, of wonder, and an abiding passion. But why is it that catching a fish - or simply contemplating catching a fish - can be so thrilling, so captivating? Why is it that time spent beside water can be imprinted so sharply in the memory? Why is it that what seems such a simple act - that of casting a line and hoping - can feel so rich in mystery? Illuminated by Water is Malachy's personal attempt to understand that freedom, and to trace the origins and sources of that sense of wonder. He shares the appeal of fishing, its intense joys and frustrations, the steadying effect it has both at water's edge and in the memory, and the contemplation of nature and landscape that comes with being an angler. He writes about fishing expeditions, from English canals and Scottish lochs to lakes in Canada and New Zealand, and he reflects on other aspects of angling, from its cultural significance and the emerging moral complexities to the intricacies of tying a fly. Beautifully written and hugely engaging, this book both articulates the inexplicable lure of the river and the endless desire to return to it, and illuminates a passion that has shaped the way so many see and think about the natural world. © Malachy Tallack 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/original-sins-a-memoir-by-matt-rowland-hill--65186488https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Original Sins: A Memoir Author: Matt Rowland Hill Narrator: Daniel Hawksford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A shattering portrait of addiction—generously open, desperately honest and confronting.” —Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor’s son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents’ Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill’s substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive. Hill’s debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival—of growing up and learning how to live.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553733Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Original Sins: A Memoir Author: Matt Rowland Hill Narrator: Daniel Hawksford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Original Sins: A Memoir Author: Matt Rowland Hill Narrator: Daniel Hawksford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A shattering portrait of addiction—generously open, desperately honest and confronting.” —Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor’s son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents’ Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill’s substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive. Hill’s debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival—of growing up and learning how to live.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-good-country-my-life-in-twelve-towns-and-the-devastating-battle-for-a-white-america-by-sofia-ali-khan--65186480https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America Author: Sofia Ali-Khan Narrator: Kelsey Jaffer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she’s called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation. “At a time when many would rather ban or bury the truth, Ali-Khan bravely faces it in this bracing and necessary book.”—Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland Elegies Sofia Ali-Khan’s parents emigrated from Pakistan to America, believing it would be a good country. With a nerdy interest in American folk history and a devotion to the rule of law, Ali-Khan would pursue a career in social justice, serving some of America’s most vulnerable communities. By the time she had children of her own—having lived, worked, and worshipped in twelve different towns across the nation—Ali-Khan felt deeply American, maybe even a little extra American for having seen so much of the country.  But in the wake of 9/11, and on the cusp of the 2016 election, Ali-Khan’s dream of a good life felt under constant threat. As the vitriolic attacks on Islam and Muslims intensified, she wondered if the American dream had ever applied to families like her own, and if she had gravely misunderstood her home.  In A Good Country, Ali-Khan revisits the color lines in each of her twelve towns, unearthing the half-buried histories of forced migration that still shape every state, town, and reservation in America today. From the surprising origins of America’s Chinatowns, the expulsion of Maroon and Seminole people during the conquest of Florida, to Virginia’s stake in breeding humans for sale, Ali-Khan reveals how America’s settler colonial origins have defined the law and landscape to maintain a White America. She braids this historical exploration with her own story, providing an intimate perspective on the modern racialization of American Muslims and why she chose to leave the United States.  Equal parts memoir, history, and current events, A Good Country presents a vital portrait of our nation, its people, and the pathway to a better future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552836Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America Author: Sofia Ali-Khan Narrator: Kelsey Jaffer Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America Author: Sofia Ali-Khan Narrator: Kelsey Jaffer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she’s called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation. “At a time when many would rather ban or bury the truth, Ali-Khan bravely faces it in this bracing and necessary book.”—Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland Elegies Sofia Ali-Khan’s parents emigrated from Pakistan to America, believing it would be a good country. With a nerdy interest in American folk history and a devotion to the rule of law, Ali-Khan would pursue a career in social justice, serving some of America’s most vulnerable communities. By the time she had children of her own—having lived, worked, and worshipped in twelve different towns across the nation—Ali-Khan felt deeply American, maybe even a little extra American for having seen so much of the country.  But in the wake of 9/11, and on the cusp of the 2016 election, Ali-Khan’s dream of a good life felt under constant threat. As the vitriolic attacks on Islam and Muslims intensified, she wondered if the American dream had ever applied to families like her own, and if she had gravely misunderstood her home.  In A Good Country, Ali-Khan revisits the color lines in each of her twelve towns, unearthing the half-buried histories of forced migration that still shape every state, town, and reservation in America today. From the surprising origins of America’s Chinatowns, the expulsion of Maroon and Seminole people during the conquest of Florida, to Virginia’s stake in breeding humans for sale, Ali-Khan reveals how America’s settler colonial origins have defined the law and landscape to maintain a White America. She braids this historical exploration with her own story, providing an intimate perspective on the modern racialization of American Muslims and why she chose to leave the United States.  Equal parts memoir, history, and current events, A Good Country presents a vital portrait of our nation, its people, and the pathway to a better future.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/birdgirl-lyrical-poignant-and-insightful-margaret-atwood-by-mya-rose-craig--65186422https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birdgirl: ‘Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ Margaret Atwood Author: Mya-Rose Craig Narrator: Mya-Rose Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life, so tightly woven in that there's no way of pulling it free and leaving the rest of my life intact.' Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmentalist, diversity activist. To date she has seen over five thousand different types of bird: half the world's species. Every single bird a treasure. Each sighting a small step in her family journey - a collective moment of joy and stillness amidst her mother's deepening mental health crisis. And each helping her to find her voice. Since she was young, she has visited every continent to pursue her passion, seeing first-hand the inequality and reckless destruction we are inflicting on our fragile planet. And the simple, mindful act of looking for birds has made her ever-more determined to campaign for all our survival. This is her story; a journey defined by her love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies. © Mya-Rose Craig 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556423Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birdgirl: ‘Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ Margaret Atwood Author: Mya-Rose Craig Narrator: Mya-Rose Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birdgirl: ‘Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ Margaret Atwood Author: Mya-Rose Craig Narrator: Mya-Rose Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life, so tightly woven in that there's no way of pulling it free and leaving the rest of my life intact.' Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmentalist, diversity activist. To date she has seen over five thousand different types of bird: half the world's species. Every single bird a treasure. Each sighting a small step in her family journey - a collective moment of joy and stillness amidst her mother's deepening mental health crisis. And each helping her to find her voice. Since she was young, she has visited every continent to pursue her passion, seeing first-hand the inequality and reckless destruction we are inflicting on our fragile planet. And the simple, mindful act of looking for birds has made her ever-more determined to campaign for all our survival. This is her story; a journey defined by her love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies. © Mya-Rose Craig 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inheritance-an-autobiography-of-whiteness-by-baynard-woods--65186541https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness Author: Baynard Woods Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. "Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus  Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. He’d fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer and educator. Then he was accused of discriminating against a Black student at a local university. How could I be racist? he wondered. Whiteness was a problem, but it wasn’t really his problem. He taught at a majority Black school and wrote essays about education and Civil Rights. But it was his problem. Working as a reporter, it became clear that white supremacy was tearing the country apart. When a white kid from his hometown massacred nine Black people in Charleston, Woods began to delve into his family’s history—and the ways that history has affected his own life. When he discovered that his family—both the Baynards and the Woodses—collectively claimed ownership of more than 700 people in 1860, Woods realized his own name was a confederate monument. Along with his name, he had inherited privilege, wealth, and all the lies that his ancestors passed down through the generations.  In this gripping and perceptive memoir, Woods takes us along on his journey to understand how race has impacted his life.  Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance explores what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550463Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness Author: Baynard Woods Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness Author: Baynard Woods Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. "Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus  Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. He’d fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer and educator. Then he was accused of discriminating against a Black student at a local university. How could I be racist? he wondered. Whiteness was a problem, but it wasn’t really his problem. He taught at a majority Black school and wrote essays about education and Civil Rights. But it was his problem. Working as a reporter, it became clear that white supremacy was tearing the country apart. When a white kid from his hometown massacred nine Black people in Charleston, Woods began to delve into his family’s history—and the ways that history has affected his own life. When he discovered that his family—both the Baynards and the Woodses—collectively claimed ownership of more than 700 people in 1860, Woods realized his own name was a confederate monument. Along with his name, he had inherited privilege, wealth, and all the lies that his ancestors passed down through the generations.  In this gripping and perceptive memoir, Woods takes us along on his journey to understand how race has impacted his life.  Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance explores what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/would-it-surprise-you-to-know-by-janet-gleeson-ronnie-archer-morgan--65186582https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Would It Surprise You To Know…? Author: Janet Gleeson, Ronnie Archer-Morgan Narrator: Ronnie Archer-Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. For decades, Ronnie Archer-Morgan has brought to life the fascinating, often surprising backstories behind our most cherished heirlooms, antiques and household objects. Now, he tells his own unlikely story. Born in the fifties to a Sierra Leoneon mother battling mental health problems, Ronnie spent his childhood in and out of care. After difficult beginnings, marked by abuse, racism and brushes with both criminals and the police, he got into music, managing to get DJ gigs and, later, as a celebrity hairdresser for Vidal Sassoon and Smile in the height of seventies London. A flair for spotting antiques led him to start his own Knightsbridge gallery, ultimately becoming one of the most respected figures in the industry, culminating in a regular spot as an expert on Antiques Roadshow. Told with rich warmth, this is an extraordinary journey from deprivation and abuse to adventure and success against the odds - with stories of the incredible objects which shaped the way. © Janet Gleeson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549494Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Would It Surprise You To Know…? Author: Janet Gleeson, Ronnie Archer-Morgan Narrator: Ronnie Archer-Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Would It Surprise You To Know…? Author: Janet Gleeson, Ronnie Archer-Morgan Narrator: Ronnie Archer-Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. For decades, Ronnie Archer-Morgan has brought to life the fascinating, often surprising backstories behind our most cherished heirlooms, antiques and household objects. Now, he tells his own unlikely story. Born in the fifties to a Sierra Leoneon mother battling mental health problems, Ronnie spent his childhood in and out of care. After difficult beginnings, marked by abuse, racism and brushes with both criminals and the police, he got into music, managing to get DJ gigs and, later, as a celebrity hairdresser for Vidal Sassoon and Smile in the height of seventies London. A flair for spotting antiques led him to start his own Knightsbridge gallery, ultimately becoming one of the most respected figures in the industry, culminating in a regular spot as an expert on Antiques Roadshow. Told with rich warmth, this is an extraordinary journey from deprivation and abuse to adventure and success against the odds - with stories of the incredible objects which shaped the way. © Janet Gleeson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bff-the-truth-about-female-friendship-by-claire-cohen--65186550https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BFF?: The truth about female friendship Author: Claire Cohen Narrator: Claire Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are only temporary? How do you break up with a toxic friend? How many best friends should we be aiming for? BFF? will take a close look at society's most underappreciated relationship to interrogate what modern friendship means, how it can survive, why we need it and what we can do to get the most from it. Featuring interviews with brilliant women on what friendship means to them, Claire Cohen argues that, unlike romantic relationships, friendship is much harder to pin down and quantify - and shows how often our friendships are taken for granted. An antidote to the idea that every woman must belong to a perfect girl gang, this book is a reassuring guide to help women answer for themselves, 'Have we lost it? Are we still friends? Is there too much to catch up on?' 'This is a moment to take stock. To think about who our friends really are, what that means to us, what they give us (and we give them) and what we have learnt about friendship. Because, when we get it right, there is nothing so important as having true friends. What a shame that it took a rampaging virus to make us appreciate the value of that.' © Claire Cohen 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550262Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BFF?: The truth about female friendship Author: Claire Cohen Narrator: Claire Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BFF?: The truth about female friendship Author: Claire Cohen Narrator: Claire Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are only temporary? How do you break up with a toxic friend? How many best friends should we be aiming for? BFF? will take a close look at society's most underappreciated relationship to interrogate what modern friendship means, how it can survive, why we need it and what we can do to get the most from it. Featuring interviews with brilliant women on what friendship means to them, Claire Cohen argues that, unlike romantic relationships, friendship is much harder to pin down and quantify - and shows how often our friendships are taken for granted. An antidote to the idea that every woman must belong to a perfect girl gang, this book is a reassuring guide to help women answer for themselves, 'Have we lost it? Are we still friends? Is there too much to catch up on?' 'This is a moment to take stock. To think about who our friends really are, what that means to us, what they give us (and we give them) and what we have learnt about friendship. Because, when we get it right, there is nothing so important as having true friends. What a shame that it took a rampaging virus to make us appreciate the value of that.' © Claire Cohen 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dinner-for-one-how-cooking-in-paris-saved-me-by-sutanya-dacres--65186438https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me Author: Sutanya Dacres Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she married her Frenchman and moved to Paris, embarking on her own “happily-ever-after.” But when her marriage abruptly ended, the fairy tale came crashing down around her. Reeling from her sudden divorce and the cracked facade of that picture-perfect expat life, Sutanya grew determined to mend her broken heart and learn to love herself again. She began by cooking dinner for one in her Montmartre kitchen. Along the way, she builds Parisienne friendships, learns how to date in French, and examines what it means to be a Black American woman in Paris—all while adopting the French principle of pleasure, especially when it comes to good food, and exploring what the concept of self-care really means. Brimming with charm, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Sutanya's story takes you on an adventure through love, loss, and finding where you truly belong, even when it doesn’t look quite how you expected. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553380Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me Author: Sutanya Dacres Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me Author: Sutanya Dacres Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she married her Frenchman and moved to Paris, embarking on her own “happily-ever-after.” But when her marriage abruptly ended, the fairy tale came crashing down around her. Reeling from her sudden divorce and the cracked facade of that picture-perfect expat life, Sutanya grew determined to mend her broken heart and learn to love herself again. She began by cooking dinner for one in her Montmartre kitchen. Along the way, she builds Parisienne friendships, learns how to date in French, and examines what it means to be a Black American woman in Paris—all while adopting the French principle of pleasure, especially when it comes to good food, and exploring what the concept of self-care really means. Brimming with charm, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Sutanya's story takes you on an adventure through love, loss, and finding where you truly belong, even when it doesn’t look quite how you expected. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/becoming-the-one-heal-your-past-transform-your-relationship-patterns-and-come-home-to-yourself-by-sheleana-aiyana--65186440https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns and Come Home to Yourself Author: Sheleana Aiyana Narrator: Sheleana Aiyana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 16, 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. YOU ARE THE ONE Relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But often we can find ourselves chasing unavailable love, putting other's needs before our own all the while abandoning the one who needs us most - ourselves. From Sheleana Aiyana, spiritual writer and founder of Rising Woman, comes a transformational inner-work journey to heal lifelong relationship patterns and reclaim power over your life. Becoming the One is your invitation to make peace with your past, stand in your worth and find your way home to yourself. © Shaleana Aiyana 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555816Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns and Come Home to Yourself Author: Sheleana Aiyana Narrator: Sheleana Aiyana...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns and Come Home to Yourself Author: Sheleana Aiyana Narrator: Sheleana Aiyana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 16, 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. YOU ARE THE ONE Relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But often we can find ourselves chasing unavailable love, putting other's needs before our own all the while abandoning the one who needs us most - ourselves. From Sheleana Aiyana, spiritual writer and founder of Rising Woman, comes a transformational inner-work journey to heal lifelong relationship patterns and reclaim power over your life. Becoming the One is your invitation to make peace with your past, stand in your worth and find your way home to yourself. © Shaleana Aiyana 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/quilt-on-fire-the-messy-magic-of-friends-sex-love-by-christie-watson--65186426https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Friends, Sex & Love Author: Christie Watson Narrator: Christie Watson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. There is something raw in the fault lines, something wilder and more mysterious. There is beauty in the falling apart, a less polished, more honest version of expression. In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced she'd found her soulmate, in a glowing flash of light that turned out to be her tealights setting her quilt on fire. Twenty years later, her bed is burning once again... as she wakes in a perimenopausal sweat, night after night. This is the story of her journey through mid-life: of the joy of letting go and the pain of the morning after, of the unstoppable power of female friendship and the struggle to raise teenagers as a single parent. It lays bare the exhilaration, agony, wonder and fears of being a middle-aged woman with a wild heart, a changing body and a new set of challenges. And as her world takes on a different shape, there's something else she starts to feel: the hot flush of possibility. 'I adore Christie Watson. Quilt on Fire is full of her trademark candour, compassion and humour. A wildly entertaining - and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY © Christie Watson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555943Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Friends, Sex & Love Author: Christie Watson Narrator: Christie Watson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Friends, Sex & Love Author: Christie Watson Narrator: Christie Watson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. There is something raw in the fault lines, something wilder and more mysterious. There is beauty in the falling apart, a less polished, more honest version of expression. In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced she'd found her soulmate, in a glowing flash of light that turned out to be her tealights setting her quilt on fire. Twenty years later, her bed is burning once again... as she wakes in a perimenopausal sweat, night after night. This is the story of her journey through mid-life: of the joy of letting go and the pain of the morning after, of the unstoppable power of female friendship and the struggle to raise teenagers as a single parent. It lays bare the exhilaration, agony, wonder and fears of being a middle-aged woman with a wild heart, a changing body and a new set of challenges. And as her world takes on a different shape, there's something else she starts to feel: the hot flush of possibility. 'I adore Christie Watson. Quilt on Fire is full of her trademark candour, compassion and humour. A wildly entertaining - and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY © Christie Watson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-is-wellness-for-an-examination-of-wellness-culture-and-who-it-leaves-behind-by-fariha-roisin--65186572https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind Author: Fariha Roisin Narrator: Fariha Roisin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness. Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different—everything from ashwagandha to prayer—were now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people. In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet explores the way in which the progressive health industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions. She reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous people—while ignoring and excluding them. Who Is Wellness For? is divided into four sections, beginning with The Mind, in which Fariha examines the art of meditation and the importance of intuition. In part two, The Body, she investigates the physiology of trauma, detailing her own journey with fatphobia and gender dysmorphia, as well as her own chronic illness. In part three, Self-Care, she argues against the self-care industrial complex but cautious us against abandoning care completely and offers practical advice. She ends with Justice, arguing that if we truly want to be well, we must be invested in everyone’s well being and shift toward nurturance culture.  Deeply intimate and revelatory, Who Is Wellness For? forces us to confront the imbalance in health and healing and carves a path towards self-care that is inclusionary for all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551345Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind Author: Fariha Roisin Narrator: Fariha Roisin Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind Author: Fariha Roisin Narrator: Fariha Roisin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness. Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different—everything from ashwagandha to prayer—were now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people. In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet explores the way in which the progressive health industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions. She reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous people—while ignoring and excluding them. Who Is Wellness For? is divided into four sections, beginning with The Mind, in which Fariha examines the art of meditation and the importance of intuition. In part two, The Body, she investigates the physiology of trauma, detailing her own journey with fatphobia and gender dysmorphia, as well as her own chronic illness. In part three, Self-Care, she argues against the self-care industrial complex but cautious us against abandoning care completely and offers practical advice. She ends with Justice, arguing that if we truly want to be well, we must be invested in everyone’s well being and shift toward nurturance culture.  Deeply intimate and revelatory, Who Is Wellness For? forces us to confront the imbalance in health and healing and carves a path towards self-care that is inclusionary for all.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/evangelical-anxiety-a-memoir-by-charles-marsh--65186520https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir Author: Charles Marsh Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this riveting spiritual memoir, the writer, scholar, and commentator tells the story of his struggles with mental illness, explores the void between the Christian faith and scientific treatment, and forges a path toward reconciling these divergent worlds. For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will. While his Christian community resisted therapy and personal introspection, Marsh eventually knew he needed help. To alleviate his suffering, he made the bold decision to seek medical treatment and underwent years of psychoanalysis.  In this riveting spiritual memoir, Marsh tells the story of his struggle to find peace and the dramatic, inspiring transformation that redefined his life and his faith. He examines the tensions between faith and science and reflects on how his own experiences offer hope for bridging the gap between the two. Honest and revealing, Marsh traces the roots of shame, examines Christian notions of sex, faith, and mental illness and their genesis, and chronicles how he redefined his beliefs and rebuilt his relationship with his community.  A poignant and vital story of deep soul work, Evangelical Anxiety helps us look beyond the stigma that leaves too many people in pain and offers people of faith a way forward to find the help they need while remaining true to their beliefs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551328Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir Author: Charles Marsh Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 14,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir Author: Charles Marsh Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this riveting spiritual memoir, the writer, scholar, and commentator tells the story of his struggles with mental illness, explores the void between the Christian faith and scientific treatment, and forges a path toward reconciling these divergent worlds. For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will. While his Christian community resisted therapy and personal introspection, Marsh eventually knew he needed help. To alleviate his suffering, he made the bold decision to seek medical treatment and underwent years of psychoanalysis.  In this riveting spiritual memoir, Marsh tells the story of his struggle to find peace and the dramatic, inspiring transformation that redefined his life and his faith. He examines the tensions between faith and science and reflects on how his own experiences offer hope for bridging the gap between the two. Honest and revealing, Marsh traces the roots of shame, examines Christian notions of sex, faith, and mental illness and their genesis, and chronicles how he redefined his beliefs and rebuilt his relationship with his community.  A poignant and vital story of deep soul work, Evangelical Anxiety helps us look beyond the stigma that leaves too many people in pain and offers people of faith a way forward to find the help they need while remaining true to their beliefs.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blood-orange-night-my-journey-to-the-edge-of-madness-by-melissa-bond--65186479https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness Author: Melissa Bond Narrator: Melissa Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence—and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use—that chills to the bone” (Nylon). As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines—a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan—and increases her dosage regularly. Following her doctor’s orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her doctor—like so many others—has over-prescribed the medication and quitting cold turkey could lead to psychosis or fatal seizures. Benzodiazepine addiction is not well studied, and few experts know how to help Melissa as she begins the months-long process of tapering off the pills without suffering debilitating, potentially deadly consequences. Each page thrums with the heartbeat of Melissa’s struggle—how many hours has she slept? How many weeks old are her babies? How many milligrams has she taken? Her propulsive writing crescendos to a fever pitch as she fights for her health and her ability to care for her children. “Propulsive, poetic” (Shelf Awareness), and immersive, this “vivid chronicle of suffering” (Kirkus Reviews) and redemption shines a light on the prescription benzodiazepine epidemic as it reaches a crisis point in this country.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552924Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness Author: Melissa Bond Narrator: Melissa Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness Author: Melissa Bond Narrator: Melissa Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence—and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use—that chills to the bone” (Nylon). As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines—a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan—and increases her dosage regularly. Following her doctor’s orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her doctor—like so many others—has over-prescribed the medication and quitting cold turkey could lead to psychosis or fatal seizures. Benzodiazepine addiction is not well studied, and few experts know how to help Melissa as she begins the months-long process of tapering off the pills without suffering debilitating, potentially deadly consequences. Each page thrums with the heartbeat of Melissa’s struggle—how many hours has she slept? How many weeks old are her babies? How many milligrams has she taken? Her propulsive writing crescendos to a fever pitch as she fights for her health and her ability to care for her children. “Propulsive, poetic” (Shelf Awareness), and immersive, this “vivid chronicle of suffering” (Kirkus Reviews) and redemption shines a light on the prescription benzodiazepine epidemic as it reaches a crisis point in this country.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/raising-raffi-the-first-five-years-by-keith-gessen--65186614https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Raffi: The First Five Years Author: Keith Gessen Narrator: Keith Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic “An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, Romper NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONS An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life “I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.” Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of fatherhood came careening into view: Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical. Fatherhood is another country: a place where the old concerns are swept away, where the ordering of time is reconstituted, where days unfold according to a child’s needs. Whatever rulebooks once existed for this sort of thing seem irrelevant or outdated. Overnight, Gessen’s perception of his neighborhood changes: suddenly there are flocks of other parents and babies, playgrounds, and schools that span entire blocks. Raffi is enchanting, as well as terrifying, and like all parents, Gessen wants to do what is best for his child. But he has no idea what that is. Written over the first five years of Raffi’s life, Raising Raffi examines the profound, overwhelming, often maddening experience of being a dad. Gessen traces how the practical decisions one must make each day intersect with some of the weightiest concerns of our age: What does it mean to choose a school in a segregated city? How do you instill in your child a sense of his heritage without passing on that history’s darker sides? Is parental anger normal, possibly useful, or is it inevitably authoritarian and destructive? How do you get your kid to play sports? And what do you do, in a pandemic, when the whole world seems to fall apart? By turns hilarious and poignant, Raising Raffi is a story of what it means to invent the world anew.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548754Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Raffi: The First Five Years Author: Keith Gessen Narrator: Keith Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Raffi: The First Five Years Author: Keith Gessen Narrator: Keith Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic “An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, Romper NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONS An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life “I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.” Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of fatherhood came careening into view: Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical. Fatherhood is another country: a place where the old concerns are swept away, where the ordering of time is reconstituted, where days unfold according to a child’s needs. Whatever rulebooks once existed for this sort of thing seem irrelevant or outdated. Overnight, Gessen’s perception of his neighborhood changes: suddenly there are flocks of other parents and babies, playgrounds, and schools that span entire blocks. Raffi is enchanting, as well as terrifying, and like all parents, Gessen wants to do what is best for his child. But he has no idea what that is. Written over the first five years of Raffi’s life, Raising Raffi examines the profound, overwhelming, often maddening experience of being a dad. Gessen traces how the practical decisions one must make each day intersect with some of the weightiest concerns of our age: What does it mean to choose a school in a segregated city? How do you instill in your child a sense of his heritage without passing on that history’s darker sides? Is parental anger normal, possibly useful, or is it inevitably authoritarian and destructive? How do you get your kid to play sports? And what do you do, in a pandemic, when the whole world seems to fall apart? By turns hilarious and poignant, Raising Raffi is a story of what it means to invent the world anew.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-summer-friend-a-memoir-by-charles-mcgrath--65186612https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Friend: A Memoir Author: Charles Mcgrath Narrator: Charles Mcgrath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. “Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times “Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that? Over the course of this rich memoir, McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past: amateur lobstering, 9-hole golf, family costume charades, bridge-jumping, and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life. Recounting the vagaries of summer with such precision and warmth-- peeling long strips of sunburnt skin from your shoulder as if “shuffling off your own cocoon,” the outdoor shower curtain blowing open in the breeze, an M80 firework in the mailbox--The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548807Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Friend: A Memoir Author: Charles Mcgrath Narrator: Charles Mcgrath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Friend: A Memoir Author: Charles Mcgrath Narrator: Charles Mcgrath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. “Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times “Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that? Over the course of this rich memoir, McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past: amateur lobstering, 9-hole golf, family costume charades, bridge-jumping, and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life. Recounting the vagaries of summer with such precision and warmth-- peeling long strips of sunburnt skin from your shoulder as if “shuffling off your own cocoon,” the outdoor shower curtain blowing open in the breeze, an M80 firework in the mailbox--The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-life-in-the-sunshine-searching-for-my-father-and-discovering-my-family-by-nabil-ayers--65186581https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family Author: Nabil Ayers Narrator: Nabil Ayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately redefines what it means to be a family.” - Michelle Zauner, New York Times bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and Grammy nominated musician Japanese Breakfast A memoir about one man's journey to connect with his musician father, ultimately re-drawing the lines that define family and race. Throughout his adult life, whether he was opening a Seattle record store in the '90s or touring the world as the only non-white band member in alternative rock bands, Nabil Ayers felt the shadow and legacy of his father's musical genius, and his race, everywhere.    In 1971, a white, Jewish, former ballerina, chose to have a child with the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers, fully expecting and agreeing that he would not be involved in the child's life. In this highly original memoir, their son, Nabil Ayers, recounts a life spent living with the aftermath of that decision, and his journey to build an identity of his own despite and in spite of his father’s absence.   Growing up, Nabil only meets his father a handful of times. But Roy’s influence is strong, showing itself in Nabil’s instinctual love of music, and later, in the music industry—Nabil’s chosen career path. By turns hopeful--wanting to connect with the man who passed down his genetic predisposition for musical talent—and frustrated with Roy’s continued emotional distance, Nabil struggles with how much DNA can define a family… and a person.   Unable to fully connect with Roy, Nabil ultimately discovers the existence of several half-siblings as well as a paternal ancestor who was enslaved. Following these connections, Nabil meets and befriends the descendant of the plantation owner, which, strangely, paves the way for him to make meaningful connections with extended family he never knew existed.    Undeterred by his father's absence, Nabil, through sheer will and a drive to understand his roots, re-draws the lines that define family and race.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548971Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family Author: Nabil Ayers Narrator: Nabil Ayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family Author: Nabil Ayers Narrator: Nabil Ayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately redefines what it means to be a family.” - Michelle Zauner, New York Times bestselling author of Crying in H Mart and Grammy nominated musician Japanese Breakfast A memoir about one man's journey to connect with his musician father, ultimately re-drawing the lines that define family and race. Throughout his adult life, whether he was opening a Seattle record store in the '90s or touring the world as the only non-white band member in alternative rock bands, Nabil Ayers felt the shadow and legacy of his father's musical genius, and his race, everywhere.    In 1971, a white, Jewish, former ballerina, chose to have a child with the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers, fully expecting and agreeing that he would not be involved in the child's life. In this highly original memoir, their son, Nabil Ayers, recounts a life spent living with the aftermath of that decision, and his journey to build an identity of his own despite and in spite of his father’s absence.   Growing up, Nabil only meets his father a handful of times. But Roy’s influence is strong, showing itself in Nabil’s instinctual love of music, and later, in the music industry—Nabil’s chosen career path. By turns hopeful--wanting to connect with the man who passed down his genetic predisposition for musical talent—and frustrated with Roy’s continued emotional distance, Nabil struggles with how much DNA can define a family… and a person.   Unable to fully connect with Roy, Nabil ultimately discovers the existence of several half-siblings as well as a paternal ancestor who was enslaved. Following these connections, Nabil meets and befriends the descendant of the plantation owner, which, strangely, paves the way for him to make meaningful connections with extended family he never knew existed.    Undeterred by his father's absence, Nabil, through sheer will and a drive to understand his roots, re-draws the lines that define family and race.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daffodil-hill-uprooting-my-life-buying-a-farm-and-learning-to-bloom-by-jake-keiser--65186578https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom Author: Jake Keiser Narrator: Jake Keiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A candid and heartwarming memoir of reinvention about a city girl who trades her career and her heels for five acres and a herd of goats “Jake Keiser is my favorite kind of woman—gutsy, tenacious, and not afraid to be vulnerable. And the animals are pretty f*cking adorable, too.”—Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies Jake Keiser was living the life in Tampa, Florida, running a high-powered PR firm and juggling drink dates, shopping sprees, and charity galas. But at age thirty-eight, following a failed marriage, a series of miscarriages, and a still-blistering breakup, she began to suffer from extreme anxiety. Hit with the realization that no amount of Botox could fill the hole in her heart, she decided to make the impulse purchase of a lifetime and bought a farm in the middle of nowhere, Mississippi. Suddenly responsible for more than seventy-five animals and five acres of land, and with only one bar of cell service, Jake begins her search for inner peace. She learns to fix a well, haul wood, shoot a gun, and care for baby chicks, goats, turkeys, geese, dogs, and a cat, playing spa music for them when they’re sick and naming them after her favorite fashion designers. The only problem is that she still can’t figure out how to truly care for herself. Unable to escape the accumulated pain of her past, Jake hits rock bottom. With nowhere left to run, she’s finally forced to confront a bracing reality: The farm won’t save her. Only she can save herself. Poignant, hilarious, and utterly charming, Daffodil Hill is for anyone who feels stuck—for those of us strapped to our desks and dreaming of an unconventional life, for those of us searching for something more. Most of all, it is for people who believe that the greatest love story of all is the one we write with ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548803Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom Author: Jake Keiser Narrator: Jake Keiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom Author: Jake Keiser Narrator: Jake Keiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A candid and heartwarming memoir of reinvention about a city girl who trades her career and her heels for five acres and a herd of goats “Jake Keiser is my favorite kind of woman—gutsy, tenacious, and not afraid to be vulnerable. And the animals are pretty f*cking adorable, too.”—Tara Schuster, author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies Jake Keiser was living the life in Tampa, Florida, running a high-powered PR firm and juggling drink dates, shopping sprees, and charity galas. But at age thirty-eight, following a failed marriage, a series of miscarriages, and a still-blistering breakup, she began to suffer from extreme anxiety. Hit with the realization that no amount of Botox could fill the hole in her heart, she decided to make the impulse purchase of a lifetime and bought a farm in the middle of nowhere, Mississippi. Suddenly responsible for more than seventy-five animals and five acres of land, and with only one bar of cell service, Jake begins her search for inner peace. She learns to fix a well, haul wood, shoot a gun, and care for baby chicks, goats, turkeys, geese, dogs, and a cat, playing spa music for them when they’re sick and naming them after her favorite fashion designers. The only problem is that she still can’t figure out how to truly care for herself. Unable to escape the accumulated pain of her past, Jake hits rock bottom. With nowhere left to run, she’s finally forced to confront a bracing reality: The farm won’t save her. Only she can save herself. Poignant, hilarious, and utterly charming, Daffodil Hill is for anyone who feels stuck—for those of us strapped to our desks and dreaming of an unconventional life, for those of us searching for something more. Most of all, it is for people who believe that the greatest love story of all is the one we write with ourselves.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-extravagant-life-an-autobiography-incorporating-blue-water-green-skipper-by-stuart-woods--65186553https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Extravagant Life: An Autobiography Incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Tony Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today. Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist.    What many readers don’t know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked in advertising in New York, served in the US Air Force, and had a short stint as an advance man. At the age of 37, he found himself in a transatlantic sailing race, and pursued writing as a full-time career shortly thereafter. Along the way, Woods has lived all over the world, from New York to London, Santa Fe to Ireland. Incorporating his iconic sailing memoir Blue Water, Green Skipper, this is the story of a life well-lived, and a special inside look into the beloved author’s many exploits.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548769Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Extravagant Life: An Autobiography Incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Tony Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Extravagant Life: An Autobiography Incorporating Blue Water, Green Skipper Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Tony Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today. Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist.    What many readers don’t know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked in advertising in New York, served in the US Air Force, and had a short stint as an advance man. At the age of 37, he found himself in a transatlantic sailing race, and pursued writing as a full-time career shortly thereafter. Along the way, Woods has lived all over the world, from New York to London, Santa Fe to Ireland. Incorporating his iconic sailing memoir Blue Water, Green Skipper, this is the story of a life well-lived, and a special inside look into the beloved author’s many exploits.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-portrait-of-the-scientist-as-a-young-woman-a-memoir-by-lindy-elkins-tanton--65186516https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir Author: Lindy Elkins-Tanton Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of the world’s leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in space, and within oneself—equal parts ode to the beauty of science, meditation on loss, and roadmap for personal resilience ''Fierce, absorbing, and ultimately inspiring.'' —ELIZABETH KOLBERT ''[A] riveting book, beautifully written.'' —Washington Post Named a Best Book of the Year by Christian Science Monitor and Science News Deep in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, three times farther from the sun than the Earth is, orbits a massive asteroid called (16) Psyche. It is one of the largest objects in the belt, potentially containing the equivalent of the world’s total economy in metals, though they cannot be brought back to Earth. But (16) Psyche has the potential to unlock something even more valuable: the story of how planets form, and how our planet formed. Soon we will find out, thanks to the extraordinary work of Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the Principal Investigator of NASA’s $800 million Psyche mission, and the second woman ever to be awarded a major NASA space exploration contract. The journey that brought her to this place is extraordinary. Amid a childhood of terrible trauma, Elkins-Tanton fell in love with science as a means of healing and consolation. But still she wondered, was forced to wonder: as a woman, was science “for her”? In answering that question, she takes us from the wilds of the Siberian tundra to the furthest reaches of outer space, from the Mayo Clinic, where Elkins-Tanton battled ovarian cancer while writing the Psyche proposal, to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where her team brought that proposal to life. A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is a beautifully-constructed memoir that explores how a philosophy of life can be built from the tools of scientific inquiry. It teaches us how to approach difficult problems by asking the right questions and truly listening to the answers—and how we may find meaning through exploring the wonders of the universe around us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551273Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir Author: Lindy Elkins-Tanton Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir Author: Lindy Elkins-Tanton Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of the world’s leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in space, and within oneself—equal parts ode to the beauty of science, meditation on loss, and roadmap for personal resilience ''Fierce, absorbing, and ultimately inspiring.'' —ELIZABETH KOLBERT ''[A] riveting book, beautifully written.'' —Washington Post Named a Best Book of the Year by Christian Science Monitor and Science News Deep in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, three times farther from the sun than the Earth is, orbits a massive asteroid called (16) Psyche. It is one of the largest objects in the belt, potentially containing the equivalent of the world’s total economy in metals, though they cannot be brought back to Earth. But (16) Psyche has the potential to unlock something even more valuable: the story of how planets form, and how our planet formed. Soon we will find out, thanks to the extraordinary work of Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the Principal Investigator of NASA’s $800 million Psyche mission, and the second woman ever to be awarded a major NASA space exploration contract. The journey that brought her to this place is extraordinary. Amid a childhood of terrible trauma, Elkins-Tanton fell in love with science as a means of healing and consolation. But still she wondered, was forced to wonder: as a woman, was science “for her”? In answering that question, she takes us from the wilds of the Siberian tundra to the furthest reaches of outer space, from the Mayo Clinic, where Elkins-Tanton battled ovarian cancer while writing the Psyche proposal, to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where her team brought that proposal to life. A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is a beautifully-constructed memoir that explores how a philosophy of life can be built from the tools of scientific inquiry. It teaches us how to approach difficult problems by asking the right questions and truly listening to the answers—and how we may find meaning through exploring the wonders of the universe around us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/asylum-a-memoir-manifesto-by-edafe-okporo--65186497https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Author: Edafe Okporo Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “moving…dramatic” (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo’s twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years—that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but when he arrived just days before the tumultuous 2016 Presidential Election. Edafe would go on to spend the next six months at an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After navigating the confusing, often draconian, US immigration and legal system, he was finally granted asylum. But he would soon realize that America is exceptionally good at keeping people locked up but is seriously lacking in integrating freed refugees into society. Asylum is Edafe’s “powerful, eye-opening” (Dr. Eric Cervini, New York Times bestselling author of The Deviant’s War) memoir and manifesto, which documents his experiences growing up gay in Nigeria, fleeing to America, navigating the immigration system, and making a life for himself as a Black, gay immigrant. Alongside his personal story is a blaring call to action—not only for immigration reform but for a just immigration system for refugees everywhere. This book imagines a future where immigrants and asylees are treated with fairness, transparency, and compassion. It aims to help us understand that home is not just where you feel safe and welcome but also how you can make it feel safe and welcome for others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552909Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Author: Edafe Okporo Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Author: Edafe Okporo Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “moving…dramatic” (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo’s twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years—that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but when he arrived just days before the tumultuous 2016 Presidential Election. Edafe would go on to spend the next six months at an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After navigating the confusing, often draconian, US immigration and legal system, he was finally granted asylum. But he would soon realize that America is exceptionally good at keeping people locked up but is seriously lacking in integrating freed refugees into society. Asylum is Edafe’s “powerful, eye-opening” (Dr. Eric Cervini, New York Times bestselling author of The Deviant’s War) memoir and manifesto, which documents his experiences growing up gay in Nigeria, fleeing to America, navigating the immigration system, and making a life for himself as a Black, gay immigrant. Alongside his personal story is a blaring call to action—not only for immigration reform but for a just immigration system for refugees everywhere. This book imagines a future where immigrants and asylees are treated with fairness, transparency, and compassion. It aims to help us understand that home is not just where you feel safe and welcome but also how you can make it feel safe and welcome for others.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/liking-myself-back-an-influencer-s-journey-from-self-doubt-to-self-acceptance-by-jacey-duprie--65186492https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liking Myself Back: An Influencer's Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Acceptance Author: Jacey Duprie Narrator: Jacey Duprie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Entrepreneur and lifestyle influencer Jacey Duprie shares her inspiring journey of going from farm girl to fashion icon and her lessons about personal growth and self-made success. With millions of followers and a thriving lifestyle brand, Damsel in Dior, Jacey Duprie is one of today’s top fashion influencers. Her beautiful Instagram photos capture a life of glamour, luxury and elegance. But Jacey’s life offline has been far from perfect. In this candid memoir, Jacey reveals that behind her gorgeously curated photos was a woman struggling with deep insecurities. She shares intimate details of a difficult childhood growing up in rural Texas with an alcoholic father and her own battles with PTSD and mental health. Through resilience, hard work and self-reflection, Jacey eventually triumphed to become the strong, empowered woman she is today.  In Liking Myself Back, Jacey takes readers behind the scenes into the seductive world of fashion and influencing, and reveals how she overcame hardship to achieve her dreams. With raw emotional honesty, Jacey shows that conquering self-doubt and embracing your imperfect, authentic self is not only possible, but is the true key to happiness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553379Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liking Myself Back: An Influencer's Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Acceptance Author: Jacey Duprie Narrator: Jacey Duprie Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liking Myself Back: An Influencer's Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Acceptance Author: Jacey Duprie Narrator: Jacey Duprie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Entrepreneur and lifestyle influencer Jacey Duprie shares her inspiring journey of going from farm girl to fashion icon and her lessons about personal growth and self-made success. With millions of followers and a thriving lifestyle brand, Damsel in Dior, Jacey Duprie is one of today’s top fashion influencers. Her beautiful Instagram photos capture a life of glamour, luxury and elegance. But Jacey’s life offline has been far from perfect. In this candid memoir, Jacey reveals that behind her gorgeously curated photos was a woman struggling with deep insecurities. She shares intimate details of a difficult childhood growing up in rural Texas with an alcoholic father and her own battles with PTSD and mental health. Through resilience, hard work and self-reflection, Jacey eventually triumphed to become the strong, empowered woman she is today.  In Liking Myself Back, Jacey takes readers behind the scenes into the seductive world of fashion and influencing, and reveals how she overcame hardship to achieve her dreams. With raw emotional honesty, Jacey shows that conquering self-doubt and embracing your imperfect, authentic self is not only possible, but is the true key to happiness.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/james-patterson-by-james-patterson-the-stories-of-my-life-by-james-patterson--65186534https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life Author: James Patterson Narrator: James Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “It's quite a life, Patterson's, and this fizzing, funny, often deeply moving memoir is a perfect way to understand the dizzying world of a best-selling writer." —Daily Mail  “Damn near addictive. I loved it . . . that Patterson guy can write!” –Ron Howard THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? - On the morning he was born, he nearly died. - Growing up, he didn’t love to read.  That changed. - He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell.   - While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid.” - He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party. - He’s only been in love twice.  Both times are amazing. - Dolly Parton once sang “Happy Birthday” to James over the phone.  She calls him J.J., for Jimmy James.  - Three American presidents have invited him to golf with them.  How did a boy from small-town New York become the world’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, “I’m still working on that one.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550467Mon, 06 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life Author: James Patterson Narrator: James Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life Author: James Patterson Narrator: James Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “It's quite a life, Patterson's, and this fizzing, funny, often deeply moving memoir is a perfect way to understand the dizzying world of a best-selling writer." —Daily Mail  “Damn near addictive. I loved it . . . that Patterson guy can write!” –Ron Howard THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? - On the morning he was born, he nearly died. - Growing up, he didn’t love to read.  That changed. - He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell.   - While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid.” - He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party. - He’s only been in love twice.  Both times are amazing. - Dolly Parton once sang “Happy Birthday” to James over the phone.  She calls him J.J., for Jimmy James.  - Three American presidents have invited him to golf with them.  How did a boy from small-town New York become the world’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, “I’m still working on that one.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unearthed-on-race-and-roots-and-how-the-soil-taught-me-i-belong-by-claire-ratinon--65186505https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong Author: Claire Ratinon Narrator: Claire Ratinon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 2, 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. 'When we speak of our origins, that which made us, we speak of our roots. We acknowledge how our identities are intertwined with land, whether it's the one we are standing on or another we lay claim to.' Unearthed is the story of how Claire Ratinon found belonging through falling in love with growing plants. For years her troubled relationship with the land of her birth left her feeling unwanted, but reconnecting with nature allowed her finally to put down roots. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and stuck with the belief that success and status could fill the space where belonging was absent. Through learning the practice of growing food, she unpicked her beliefs about who she ought to be. Over her first year living in the English countryside and with the first vegetable patch of her own, she finds a pathway back to nature's embrace. And through growing the food of Mauritius, recording her parents' stories and exploring the history of the island, she also strengthens her connection to her homeland. A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling, Unearthed urges us to look to the world outside for the belonging and home we seek. It is a heartfelt call to reconsider our history, the way we think about nature and the complex relationships we all have with the land. © Claire Ratinon 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551879Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong Author: Claire Ratinon Narrator: Claire Ratinon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong Author: Claire Ratinon Narrator: Claire Ratinon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 2, 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. 'When we speak of our origins, that which made us, we speak of our roots. We acknowledge how our identities are intertwined with land, whether it's the one we are standing on or another we lay claim to.' Unearthed is the story of how Claire Ratinon found belonging through falling in love with growing plants. For years her troubled relationship with the land of her birth left her feeling unwanted, but reconnecting with nature allowed her finally to put down roots. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and stuck with the belief that success and status could fill the space where belonging was absent. Through learning the practice of growing food, she unpicked her beliefs about who she ought to be. Over her first year living in the English countryside and with the first vegetable patch of her own, she finds a pathway back to nature's embrace. And through growing the food of Mauritius, recording her parents' stories and exploring the history of the island, she also strengthens her connection to her homeland. A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling, Unearthed urges us to look to the world outside for the belonging and home we seek. It is a heartfelt call to reconsider our history, the way we think about nature and the complex relationships we all have with the land. © Claire Ratinon 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fatherhood-by-papa-b-a-game-changing-guide-for-parents-father-figures-and-fathers-to-be-by-bode-aboderin--65186431https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherhood by Papa B: A Game-changing Guide for Parents, Father Figures and Fathers-to-be Author: Bodé Aboderin Narrator: Bodé Aboderin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A relatable and practical guide, shaking up the narrative on what it means to be a present-day father Father of three, Motivational Speaker and Influencer Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B) is on a mission to show the world that Black fatherhood is not only compatible with ambition, but can inspire, nourish and amplify it too. Doing away with the negative stereotypes associated with being a Black dad in Britain, Papa B is using his natural flair for motivational speech to share the joyful and transformative journey of starting a family, including the challenges involved and the opportunities to grow along the way. Bodé reflects on how his own upbringing, alongside stigmas about fatherhood, race, and masculinity, have impacted his experiences of being a father, and talks candidly about how to overcome challenges commonly experienced by parents - from breaking generational cycles and adapting to modern-day family dynamics to communicating with your child and achieving a healthy work-life balance. Bodé Aboderin is a Motivational Speaker and Influencer. Recently bestowed with the honour of being the only male speaker at Pregnant Then Screwed, a festival celebrating mothers with careers, Papa B is going from strength to strength. Whether he's empowering his viewers to overcome their hurdles on his IGTV series 'Papa Don't Preach!', or tackling the thought-provoking issues of the day with his wife, Candice Brathwaite, on their weekly podcast 'Pillow Talk', Papa B is shifting the narrative on what it means to be a father. @iam_papab © 2022 Bodé Aboderin © 2022 DK Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555389Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherhood by Papa B: A Game-changing Guide for Parents, Father Figures and Fathers-to-be Author: Bodé Aboderin Narrator: Bodé Aboderin Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherhood by Papa B: A Game-changing Guide for Parents, Father Figures and Fathers-to-be Author: Bodé Aboderin Narrator: Bodé Aboderin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A relatable and practical guide, shaking up the narrative on what it means to be a present-day father Father of three, Motivational Speaker and Influencer Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B) is on a mission to show the world that Black fatherhood is not only compatible with ambition, but can inspire, nourish and amplify it too. Doing away with the negative stereotypes associated with being a Black dad in Britain, Papa B is using his natural flair for motivational speech to share the joyful and transformative journey of starting a family, including the challenges involved and the opportunities to grow along the way. Bodé reflects on how his own upbringing, alongside stigmas about fatherhood, race, and masculinity, have impacted his experiences of being a father, and talks candidly about how to overcome challenges commonly experienced by parents - from breaking generational cycles and adapting to modern-day family dynamics to communicating with your child and achieving a healthy work-life balance. Bodé Aboderin is a Motivational Speaker and Influencer. Recently bestowed with the honour of being the only male speaker at Pregnant Then Screwed, a festival celebrating mothers with careers, Papa B is going from strength to strength. Whether he's empowering his viewers to overcome their hurdles on his IGTV series 'Papa Don't Preach!', or tackling the thought-provoking issues of the day with his wife, Candice Brathwaite, on their weekly podcast 'Pillow Talk', Papa B is shifting the narrative on what it means to be a father. @iam_papab © 2022 Bodé Aboderin © 2022 DK Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-not-a-book-about-benedict-cumberbatch-the-joy-of-loving-something-anything-like-your-life-depends-on-it-by-tabitha-carvan--65186619https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It Author: Tabitha Carvan Narrator: Tanya Schneider Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Why We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.  Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyone—especially Carvan herself—by surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self.   In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence…and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age. She shines a light onto the hidden corners of fandom, from the passion of the online communities to the profound real-world connections forged between Cumberbatch devotees. But more importantly, she asks: what happens if we simply decide to follow our interests like we used to—unabashedly, audaciously, shamelessly? After all, Carvan realizes, there’s true, untapped power in finding your “thing” (even if that thing happens to be a  British-born Marvel superhero) and loving it like your life depends on it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546001Tue, 31 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It Author: Tabitha Carvan Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It Author: Tabitha Carvan Narrator: Tanya Schneider Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Why We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.  Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyone—especially Carvan herself—by surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self.   In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence…and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age. She shines a light onto the hidden corners of fandom, from the passion of the online communities to the profound real-world connections forged between Cumberbatch devotees. But more importantly, she asks: what happens if we simply decide to follow our interests like we used to—unabashedly, audaciously, shamelessly? After all, Carvan realizes, there’s true, untapped power in finding your “thing” (even if that thing happens to be a  British-born Marvel superhero) and loving it like your life depends on it.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/embrace-fearlessly-the-burning-world-essays-by-barry-lopez--65186601https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Author: Barry Lopez Narrator: Rebecca Solnit, James Naughton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists.   “Mesmerizing . . . a master observer . . . whose insight and moral clarity have earned comparisons to Henry David Thoreau.”—The Wall Street Journal ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Outside ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home place and the community around it—a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he’d long warned. At once a cri de coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds indelibly to Lopez’s legacy, and includes previously unpublished works, some written in the months before his death. They unspool memories both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes painful stories of his childhood in New York City and California, reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life, recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary places on earth, and meditations on finding oneself amid vast, dramatic landscapes. He reflects on those who taught him, including Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world. We witness poignant returns from his travels to the sanctuary of his Oregon backyard, adjacent to the McKenzie River. And in prose of searing candor, he reckons with the cycle of life, including his own, and—as he has done throughout his career—with the dangers the earth and its people are facing. With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that speaks to Lopez’s keen attention to the world, including its spiritual dimensions, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens our minds and souls to the importance of being wholly present for the beauty and complexity of life. “This posthumously published collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez reveals an exceptional life and mind . . . While certainly a testament to his legacy and an ephemeral reprieve from his death in 2020, this book is more than a memorial: it offers a clear-eyed praxis of hope in what Lopez calls this ‘Era of Emergencies.’”—Scientific American]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547359Tue, 31 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Author: Barry Lopez Narrator: Rebecca Solnit, James Naughton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Author: Barry Lopez Narrator: Rebecca Solnit, James Naughton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists.   “Mesmerizing . . . a master observer . . . whose insight and moral clarity have earned comparisons to Henry David Thoreau.”—The Wall Street Journal ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Outside ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home place and the community around it—a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he’d long warned. At once a cri de coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds indelibly to Lopez’s legacy, and includes previously unpublished works, some written in the months before his death. They unspool memories both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes painful stories of his childhood in New York City and California, reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life, recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary places on earth, and meditations on finding oneself amid vast, dramatic landscapes. He reflects on those who taught him, including Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world. We witness poignant returns from his travels to the sanctuary of his Oregon backyard, adjacent to the McKenzie River. And in prose of searing candor, he reckons with the cycle of life, including his own, and—as he has done throughout his career—with the dangers the earth and its people are facing. With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that speaks to Lopez’s keen attention to the world, including its spiritual dimensions, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens our minds and souls to the importance of being wholly present for the beauty and complexity of life. “This posthumously published collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez reveals an exceptional life and mind . . . While certainly a testament to his legacy and an ephemeral reprieve from his death in 2020, this book is more than a memorial: it offers a clear-eyed praxis of hope in what Lopez calls this ‘Era of Emergencies.’”—Scientific American]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-brother-love-tragedy-and-my-search-for-the-truth-by-ben-westhoff--65186624https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth Author: Ben Westhoff Narrator: Ben Westhoff, Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist’s long-time relationship with his mentee, Jorell Cleveland, through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and investigates Jorell's tragic fatal shooting. In 2005, soon after Ben Westhoff moved to St. Louis, he joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and was paired with Jorell Cleveland. Ben was twenty-eight, a white college grad from an affluent family. Jorell was eight, one of nine children from a poor, African American family living in nearby Ferguson. But the two instantly connected. Ben and Jorell formed a bond stronger than nearly any other in their lives. When Ben met the woman who'd become his wife, she observed that Ben and Jorell were "a package deal." They were brothers. In the summer of 2016, Jorell was shot at point blank range in broad daylight in the middle of the street, yet no one was charged in his death. Ben grappled with mourning Jorell, but also with a feeling of responsibility. As Jorell’s mentor, what could he have done differently? As a journalist, he had reported on gang life, interviewed crime kingpins, and even infiltrated drug labs in China. But now, he was investigating the life and death of someone he knew personally and examining what he did and did not know about his friend. Learning the truth about Jorell and the man who killed him required Ben to uncover a heartbreaking cycle of poverty, poor education, drug trafficking, and violence. Little Brother brilliantly combines a deeply personal history with a true-crime narrative that exposes the realities of life in communities like Ferguson all around the country.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546659Tue, 24 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth Author: Ben Westhoff Narrator: Ben Westhoff, Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth Author: Ben Westhoff Narrator: Ben Westhoff, Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist’s long-time relationship with his mentee, Jorell Cleveland, through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and investigates Jorell's tragic fatal shooting. In 2005, soon after Ben Westhoff moved to St. Louis, he joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and was paired with Jorell Cleveland. Ben was twenty-eight, a white college grad from an affluent family. Jorell was eight, one of nine children from a poor, African American family living in nearby Ferguson. But the two instantly connected. Ben and Jorell formed a bond stronger than nearly any other in their lives. When Ben met the woman who'd become his wife, she observed that Ben and Jorell were "a package deal." They were brothers. In the summer of 2016, Jorell was shot at point blank range in broad daylight in the middle of the street, yet no one was charged in his death. Ben grappled with mourning Jorell, but also with a feeling of responsibility. As Jorell’s mentor, what could he have done differently? As a journalist, he had reported on gang life, interviewed crime kingpins, and even infiltrated drug labs in China. But now, he was investigating the life and death of someone he knew personally and examining what he did and did not know about his friend. Learning the truth about Jorell and the man who killed him required Ben to uncover a heartbreaking cycle of poverty, poor education, drug trafficking, and violence. Little Brother brilliantly combines a deeply personal history with a true-crime narrative that exposes the realities of life in communities like Ferguson all around the country.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tales-of-al-the-water-rescue-dog-by-lynne-cox--65186586https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog Author: Lynne Cox Narrator: Suzanne Barbetta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog and super athlete—part of Italy's elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. Lynne Cox—acclaimed best-selling author of Swimming to Antarctica—is internationally famous for swimming the world’s most difficult waterways without a wet suit, and able to endure water temperatures so cold that they would kill anyone else, recognizes and celebrates all forms of athleticism in others, human or otherwise. And when she saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning, Cox was transfixed by the rescue, and captivated by the magnificence, physicality, and daring of the dog.    Tales of Al is the moving, inspiring story of Cox’s adventures on Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo, as witness to the rigorous training of  one of these spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs—Newfoundlands, German shepherds, and golden retrievers—for this rescue operation. Cox writes about coming to know the dog at the book’s center, Al herself, from puppyhood, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland—about the dreams, expectations, disappointments, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog’s full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained, highly specialized water rescue dog.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548796Tue, 24 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog Author: Lynne Cox Narrator: Suzanne Barbetta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog Author: Lynne Cox Narrator: Suzanne Barbetta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog and super athlete—part of Italy's elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. Lynne Cox—acclaimed best-selling author of Swimming to Antarctica—is internationally famous for swimming the world’s most difficult waterways without a wet suit, and able to endure water temperatures so cold that they would kill anyone else, recognizes and celebrates all forms of athleticism in others, human or otherwise. And when she saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning, Cox was transfixed by the rescue, and captivated by the magnificence, physicality, and daring of the dog.    Tales of Al is the moving, inspiring story of Cox’s adventures on Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo, as witness to the rigorous training of  one of these spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs—Newfoundlands, German shepherds, and golden retrievers—for this rescue operation. Cox writes about coming to know the dog at the book’s center, Al herself, from puppyhood, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland—about the dreams, expectations, disappointments, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog’s full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained, highly specialized water rescue dog.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-far-side-of-the-moon-trials-of-my-father-by-clive-stafford-smith--65186542https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Far Side of the Moon: Trials of My Father Author: Clive Stafford Smith Narrator: Clive Stafford Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row - and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'. But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them. In The Far Side of the Moon, Stafford Smith seeks the broad conversation about mental illness that was not accessible in his earlier years, reflecting on his father's fragmented life together with that of Larry Lonchar, a client who also struggled with severe depression, and whose fate continues to preoccupy him. Following the critically acclaimed Injustice, this courageous new book is an indictment of the failures in our social and justice systems, a meditation on privilege and its consequences, and an intimate exploration of how the mind's hinterlands can impact a family and shape a life. © Clive Stafford Smith 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550267Thu, 19 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Far Side of the Moon: Trials of My Father Author: Clive Stafford Smith Narrator: Clive Stafford Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Far Side of the Moon: Trials of My Father Author: Clive Stafford Smith Narrator: Clive Stafford Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row - and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'. But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them. In The Far Side of the Moon, Stafford Smith seeks the broad conversation about mental illness that was not accessible in his earlier years, reflecting on his father's fragmented life together with that of Larry Lonchar, a client who also struggled with severe depression, and whose fate continues to preoccupy him. Following the critically acclaimed Injustice, this courageous new book is an indictment of the failures in our social and justice systems, a meditation on privilege and its consequences, and an intimate exploration of how the mind's hinterlands can impact a family and shape a life. © Clive Stafford Smith 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/his-name-is-george-floyd-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-in-non-fiction-by-robert-samuels-toluse-olorunnipa--65186527https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Name Is George Floyd: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION Author: Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa Narrator: Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels, Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The murder of George Floyd sparked a fiery summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020. People marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. The movement has led many to redouble their efforts, and government officials to examine the causes of systemic inequality. Drawing on The Washington Post's in-depth reporting and award-winning series on Floyd, His Name Is George Floyd is a definitive biography diving deep into the structural racism that shaped Floyd's life and death. This biography features exclusive reporting as well as unparalleled access to Floyd's family and the people who were closest to the man whose name has become one of the most recognized on the planet. By zooming in for an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, while also assessing the institutions that shaped it, the authors deliver a powerful exploration of institutional racism and of a public reckoning of unprecedented breadth and intensity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551451Thu, 19 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Name Is George Floyd: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION Author: Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa Narrator: Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Name Is George Floyd: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION Author: Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa Narrator: Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels, Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The murder of George Floyd sparked a fiery summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020. People marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. The movement has led many to redouble their efforts, and government officials to examine the causes of systemic inequality. Drawing on The Washington Post's in-depth reporting and award-winning series on Floyd, His Name Is George Floyd is a definitive biography diving deep into the structural racism that shaped Floyd's life and death. This biography features exclusive reporting as well as unparalleled access to Floyd's family and the people who were closest to the man whose name has become one of the most recognized on the planet. By zooming in for an intimate portrait of this one, emblematic life, while also assessing the institutions that shaped it, the authors deliver a powerful exploration of institutional racism and of a public reckoning of unprecedented breadth and intensity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mother-noise-by-cindy-house--65186450https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Noise Author: Cindy House Narrator: Cindy House Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir told in essays and graphic shorts about what life looks like twenty years after recovery from addiction—and how to live with the past as a parent, writer, and sober person—from a regular opener for David Sedaris. In the opening of this “unexpectedly uplifting...masterfully crafted memoir” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) Cindy, twenty years into recovery after a heroin addiction, grapples with how to tell her nine-year-old son about her past. She wants him to learn this history from her, not anyone else; but she worries about the effect this truth may have on him. Told in essays and graphic narrative shorts, Mother Noise is a stunning memoir that delves deep into our responsibilities as parents while celebrating the moments of grace and generosity that mark a true friendship—in this case, her benefactor and champion through the years, David Sedaris. This is a powerful memoir about addiction, motherhood, and Cindy’s ongoing effort to reconcile the two. Are we required to share with our children the painful details of our past, or do we owe them protection from the harsh truth of who we were before? With dark humor and brutal, clear-eyed honesty, Mother Noise is “a full-throated anthem of hope, [that] lends light to a dark issue” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552944Tue, 17 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Noise Author: Cindy House Narrator: Cindy House Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Noise Author: Cindy House Narrator: Cindy House Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir told in essays and graphic shorts about what life looks like twenty years after recovery from addiction—and how to live with the past as a parent, writer, and sober person—from a regular opener for David Sedaris. In the opening of this “unexpectedly uplifting...masterfully crafted memoir” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) Cindy, twenty years into recovery after a heroin addiction, grapples with how to tell her nine-year-old son about her past. She wants him to learn this history from her, not anyone else; but she worries about the effect this truth may have on him. Told in essays and graphic narrative shorts, Mother Noise is a stunning memoir that delves deep into our responsibilities as parents while celebrating the moments of grace and generosity that mark a true friendship—in this case, her benefactor and champion through the years, David Sedaris. This is a powerful memoir about addiction, motherhood, and Cindy’s ongoing effort to reconcile the two. Are we required to share with our children the painful details of our past, or do we owe them protection from the harsh truth of who we were before? With dark humor and brutal, clear-eyed honesty, Mother Noise is “a full-throated anthem of hope, [that] lends light to a dark issue” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/because-our-fathers-lied-a-memoir-of-truth-and-family-from-vietnam-to-today-by-craig-mcnamara--65186608https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today Author: Craig Mcnamara Narrator: Craig Mcnamara, Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This unforgettable father and son story confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations: “an important book that should be read by every American” (Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of July). Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America. Before Robert McNamara joined Kennedy's cabinet, he was an executive who helped turn around Ford Motor Company. Known for his tremendous competence and professionalism, McNamara came to symbolize "the best and the brightest." Craig, his youngest child and only son, struggled in his father's shadow. When he ultimately fails his draft board physical, Craig decides to travel by motorcycle across Central and South America, learning more about the art of agriculture and making what he defines as an honest living. By the book's conclusion, Craig McNamara is farming walnuts in Northern California and coming to terms with his father's legacy. Because Our Fathers Lied tells the story of the war from the perspective of a single, unforgettable American family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546666Tue, 10 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today Author: Craig Mcnamara Narrator: Craig Mcnamara, Keith Sellon-Wright...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today Author: Craig Mcnamara Narrator: Craig Mcnamara, Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This unforgettable father and son story confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations: “an important book that should be read by every American” (Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of July). Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America. Before Robert McNamara joined Kennedy's cabinet, he was an executive who helped turn around Ford Motor Company. Known for his tremendous competence and professionalism, McNamara came to symbolize "the best and the brightest." Craig, his youngest child and only son, struggled in his father's shadow. When he ultimately fails his draft board physical, Craig decides to travel by motorcycle across Central and South America, learning more about the art of agriculture and making what he defines as an honest living. By the book's conclusion, Craig McNamara is farming walnuts in Northern California and coming to terms with his father's legacy. Because Our Fathers Lied tells the story of the war from the perspective of a single, unforgettable American family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ali-s-well-that-ends-well-tales-of-desperation-and-a-little-inspiration-by-ali-wentworth--65186522https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration Author: Ali Wentworth Narrator: Ali Wentworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes. Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places. In Ali’s Well That Ends Well, Wentworth turns her gimlet eye to the year no one saw coming. With her signature irreverent style, she shares the most hysterical, absurd, and sometimes trying episodes that her family endured during the terrible global pandemic. Thoroughly relatable, absolutely charming, and filled with moments both hilarious and poignant, this terrific collection once again showcases the comedic genius of a beloved star who is “the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything'' (Huffington Post).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551608Tue, 10 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration Author: Ali Wentworth Narrator: Ali Wentworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration Author: Ali Wentworth Narrator: Ali Wentworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes. Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places. In Ali’s Well That Ends Well, Wentworth turns her gimlet eye to the year no one saw coming. With her signature irreverent style, she shares the most hysterical, absurd, and sometimes trying episodes that her family endured during the terrible global pandemic. Thoroughly relatable, absolutely charming, and filled with moments both hilarious and poignant, this terrific collection once again showcases the comedic genius of a beloved star who is “the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything'' (Huffington Post).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/back-to-the-prairie-a-home-remade-a-life-rediscovered-by-melissa-gilbert--65186508https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered Author: Melissa Gilbert Narrator: Melissa Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she is always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And when work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home. But “rustic” is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable. When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552914Tue, 10 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered Author: Melissa Gilbert Narrator: Melissa Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered Author: Melissa Gilbert Narrator: Melissa Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she is always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And when work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home. But “rustic” is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable. When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/radical-confidence-11-lessons-on-how-to-get-the-relationship-career-and-life-you-want-by-lisa-bilyeu--65186434https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radical Confidence: 11 Lessons on How to Get the Relationship, Career, and Life You Want Author: Lisa Bilyeu Narrator: Lisa Bilyeu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “unfiltered and unafraid” (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable) guide to building the kind of confidence it really takes to live the life of your dreams, from Impact Theory cofounder and growth mindset guru Lisa Bilyeu. Author Lisa Bilyeu grew up in London, where she was always told her dreams of Hollywood were a little too big for a girl. Despite her first love of movie-making, Lisa moved to Los Angeles and became a housewife—for eight frikin’ years! How the heck did that happen? Radical Confidence is the “empowering, transformative, and practical” (Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Like A Monk) story of how Lisa unpaused her life to cofound a company that went from zero to a billion dollars in just five years and became the leader in the world of personal development. Transforming herself with a growth mindset, Lisa learned to face her insecurities and inadequacies, embrace new challenges, solve her own problems, tell her negative voice to shut the eff up, and become the hero of her own life by life-hacking her way to feeling confident. Part deeply personal memoir, part guide to life, Radical Confidence “challenges the deep-rooted beliefs that prevent so many of us from knowing or reaching for our dreams” (Dr. Nicole Lepera, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work). Lisa teaches you how to: -Dream big -Boost your confidence -Toughen the F up -And learn how to save yourself Full of insight and practical tools for honest self-assessment, mastering emotions, and staying motivated, Radical Confidence teaches you how to be driven by your insecurities to create the life of your dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555607Tue, 10 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radical Confidence: 11 Lessons on How to Get the Relationship, Career, and Life You Want Author: Lisa Bilyeu Narrator: Lisa Bilyeu Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555607 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radical Confidence: 11 Lessons on How to Get the Relationship, Career, and Life You Want Author: Lisa Bilyeu Narrator: Lisa Bilyeu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “unfiltered and unafraid” (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable) guide to building the kind of confidence it really takes to live the life of your dreams, from Impact Theory cofounder and growth mindset guru Lisa Bilyeu. Author Lisa Bilyeu grew up in London, where she was always told her dreams of Hollywood were a little too big for a girl. Despite her first love of movie-making, Lisa moved to Los Angeles and became a housewife—for eight frikin’ years! How the heck did that happen? Radical Confidence is the “empowering, transformative, and practical” (Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Like A Monk) story of how Lisa unpaused her life to cofound a company that went from zero to a billion dollars in just five years and became the leader in the world of personal development. Transforming herself with a growth mindset, Lisa learned to face her insecurities and inadequacies, embrace new challenges, solve her own problems, tell her negative voice to shut the eff up, and become the hero of her own life by life-hacking her way to feeling confident. Part deeply personal memoir, part guide to life, Radical Confidence “challenges the deep-rooted beliefs that prevent so many of us from knowing or reaching for our dreams” (Dr. Nicole Lepera, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work). Lisa teaches you how to: -Dream big -Boost your confidence -Toughen the F up -And learn how to save yourself Full of insight and practical tools for honest self-assessment, mastering emotions, and staying motivated, Radical Confidence teaches you how to be driven by your insecurities to create the life of your dreams.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/modern-whore-a-memoir-by-andrea-werhun--65186621https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MODERN WHORE: A Memoir Author: Andrea Werhun Narrator: Andrea Werhun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED BY SEAN BAKER. Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea's sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun's sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns, she writes it all down, and then, as per a signed document she handed to her Catholic mother in her early twenties, she quits. To become a stripper. Andrea and Nicole revisit the idea of the modern whore, with the enhanced perspective of Andrea's experience at the strip club. This new, engorged edition of the sold-out memoir-cum-art book expands on the original concept--a series of vignettes exploring the many identities sex workers adopt in the service of their clients and in the eyes of the public--in both a literal and literary way. But Andrea doesn't shy away from the serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take, and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them. This series of stories and portraits investigate the many ways we imagine—and mistake—the modern whore. It's Playboy if the Playmates were in charge.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548433Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MODERN WHORE: A Memoir Author: Andrea Werhun Narrator: Andrea Werhun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MODERN WHORE: A Memoir Author: Andrea Werhun Narrator: Andrea Werhun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED BY SEAN BAKER. Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea's sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun's sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns, she writes it all down, and then, as per a signed document she handed to her Catholic mother in her early twenties, she quits. To become a stripper. Andrea and Nicole revisit the idea of the modern whore, with the enhanced perspective of Andrea's experience at the strip club. This new, engorged edition of the sold-out memoir-cum-art book expands on the original concept--a series of vignettes exploring the many identities sex workers adopt in the service of their clients and in the eyes of the public--in both a literal and literary way. But Andrea doesn't shy away from the serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take, and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them. This series of stories and portraits investigate the many ways we imagine—and mistake—the modern whore. It's Playboy if the Playmates were in charge.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kiss-the-red-stairs-the-holocaust-once-removed-a-memoir-by-marsha-lederman--65186564https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir Author: Marsha Lederman Narrator: Marsha Lederman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: WINNER of the Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize—Western Canada Jewish Book Awards NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience. Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: the Holocaust. Decades later, her parents dead and herself a mother to a young son, Marsha begins to wonder how much history has shaped her own life. Reeling in the wake of a divorce, she craves her parents’ help. But in their absence, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma they suffered, and she begins her own journey into the past to tell her family’s stories of loss and resilience. Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir of Holocaust survival, intergenerational trauma, divorce, and discovery that will guide readers through several lifetimes of monumental change.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548745Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir Author: Marsha Lederman Narrator: Marsha Lederman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir Author: Marsha Lederman Narrator: Marsha Lederman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: WINNER of the Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize—Western Canada Jewish Book Awards NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience. Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: the Holocaust. Decades later, her parents dead and herself a mother to a young son, Marsha begins to wonder how much history has shaped her own life. Reeling in the wake of a divorce, she craves her parents’ help. But in their absence, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma they suffered, and she begins her own journey into the past to tell her family’s stories of loss and resilience. Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir of Holocaust survival, intergenerational trauma, divorce, and discovery that will guide readers through several lifetimes of monumental change.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-in-the-woods-a-true-story-of-survival-during-the-second-world-war-by-maxwell-smart--65186561https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War Author: Maxwell Smart Narrator: Mack Gordon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The astonishing true story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a hole in the ground for shelter and foraged for food in farmers’ fields. His clothes in rags and close to starvation, he repeatedly escaped death at the hands of Nazis and Ukrainian thugs. After months alone, Maxwell encountered a boy wandering in the forest looking for food. Janek was also alone; like Maxwell he had just become an orphan, and the two quickly became friends. They built a bunker in the ground to survive through the winter. One day, after a massacre took place nearby, the boys discovered a baby girl, still alive, lying in the arms of her dead mother. Maxwell and Janek rescued the baby, but this act came at a great cost.  Max’s epic tale of heroism will inspire with its proof of the enduring human spirit. From the brutality of war emerges a man who would become a celebrated artist, offering the world, in contrast to the horrors of his suffering, beautiful works of art. The Boy in the Woods is a remarkable historical document about a time that should never be forgotten. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550032Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War Author: Maxwell Smart Narrator: Mack Gordon Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War Author: Maxwell Smart Narrator: Mack Gordon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The astonishing true story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a hole in the ground for shelter and foraged for food in farmers’ fields. His clothes in rags and close to starvation, he repeatedly escaped death at the hands of Nazis and Ukrainian thugs. After months alone, Maxwell encountered a boy wandering in the forest looking for food. Janek was also alone; like Maxwell he had just become an orphan, and the two quickly became friends. They built a bunker in the ground to survive through the winter. One day, after a massacre took place nearby, the boys discovered a baby girl, still alive, lying in the arms of her dead mother. Maxwell and Janek rescued the baby, but this act came at a great cost.  Max’s epic tale of heroism will inspire with its proof of the enduring human spirit. From the brutality of war emerges a man who would become a celebrated artist, offering the world, in contrast to the horrors of his suffering, beautiful works of art. The Boy in the Woods is a remarkable historical document about a time that should never be forgotten. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ain-t-that-a-mother-postpartum-palsy-and-everything-in-between-by-adiba-nelson--65186483https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ain’t That A Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between Author: Adiba Nelson Narrator: Adiba Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From pasties to postpartum and everything in between No one said motherhood would be easy. For Adiba Nelson, the journey to parenthood started with a big bang and continues with a breakdown (or two) and several “why?” questions for God. Witty and bold, Afro-Latina Adiba grew up in survival mode. Her sometimes complicated relationship with her strong-willed, vibrant, religious mother marked her views of mothering and love. When a chance encounter with a tall-ish, brown-skinned brotha at Ruby Tuesday’s right before closing time collided with a Jill Scott song and the right time of the month, Adiba found herself unexpectedly pregnant. She also found herself unexpectedly falling into the same relationship patterns of the matriarchs before her—the ones she swore she’d never end up in. Mom to a new baby with high medical needs and with a slew of hardships that just won’t quit, she set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. Along the way, Adiba never loses her heart or her humor. This is a true love story, but the kind about a woman loving herself enough to change the course of her life for herself, her child, and the women after her as well as before. From pasties to postpartum depression, Ain’t That A Mother is not your average motherhood memoir—and Adiba is not your average mother. The in-between moments and the self-revelations are where this bold and brilliant story of love, family secrets, and lots of “what the…?” really shines. Just like parenting, the story is messy, but the reward is incredibly satisfying.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552286Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ain’t That A Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between Author: Adiba Nelson Narrator: Adiba Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ain’t That A Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between Author: Adiba Nelson Narrator: Adiba Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From pasties to postpartum and everything in between No one said motherhood would be easy. For Adiba Nelson, the journey to parenthood started with a big bang and continues with a breakdown (or two) and several “why?” questions for God. Witty and bold, Afro-Latina Adiba grew up in survival mode. Her sometimes complicated relationship with her strong-willed, vibrant, religious mother marked her views of mothering and love. When a chance encounter with a tall-ish, brown-skinned brotha at Ruby Tuesday’s right before closing time collided with a Jill Scott song and the right time of the month, Adiba found herself unexpectedly pregnant. She also found herself unexpectedly falling into the same relationship patterns of the matriarchs before her—the ones she swore she’d never end up in. Mom to a new baby with high medical needs and with a slew of hardships that just won’t quit, she set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. Along the way, Adiba never loses her heart or her humor. This is a true love story, but the kind about a woman loving herself enough to change the course of her life for herself, her child, and the women after her as well as before. From pasties to postpartum depression, Ain’t That A Mother is not your average motherhood memoir—and Adiba is not your average mother. The in-between moments and the self-revelations are where this bold and brilliant story of love, family secrets, and lots of “what the…?” really shines. Just like parenting, the story is messy, but the reward is incredibly satisfying.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/magic-season-a-son-s-story-by-wade-rouse--65186478https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic Season: A Son's Story Author: Wade Rouse Narrator: Wade Rouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Honest, authentic, heartbreaking and healing. I devoured it in one day."—Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author      Bestselling author Wade Rouse finds solace with his dying father through their shared love of baseball in this poignant, illuminating memoir of family and forgiveness. Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades, baseball offered Wade and his father a shared vocabulary—a way to stay in touch, to connect and to express their emotions. But when his father's health takes a turn for the worst, Wade returns to southwest Missouri to share one final season with his father. As the Cards race towards a dramatic pennant race, Wade and his father begin to open up in way they never thought possible.  Together, inning by inning during their own magic season, they'll move towards forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace. Heartfelt, hilarious and lovingly rendered, Magic Season is an unforgettable story of love, family and forgiveness against the backdrop of America's favorite pastime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553732Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic Season: A Son's Story Author: Wade Rouse Narrator: Wade Rouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic Season: A Son's Story Author: Wade Rouse Narrator: Wade Rouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Honest, authentic, heartbreaking and healing. I devoured it in one day."—Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author      Bestselling author Wade Rouse finds solace with his dying father through their shared love of baseball in this poignant, illuminating memoir of family and forgiveness. Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades, baseball offered Wade and his father a shared vocabulary—a way to stay in touch, to connect and to express their emotions. But when his father's health takes a turn for the worst, Wade returns to southwest Missouri to share one final season with his father. As the Cards race towards a dramatic pennant race, Wade and his father begin to open up in way they never thought possible.  Together, inning by inning during their own magic season, they'll move towards forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace. Heartfelt, hilarious and lovingly rendered, Magic Season is an unforgettable story of love, family and forgiveness against the backdrop of America's favorite pastime.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/managing-expectations-a-memoir-in-essays-by-minnie-driver--65186457https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays Author: Minnie Driver Narrator: Minnie Driver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t. In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphs—from being the only student in her acting school not taken on by an agent to being discovered at a rave in a muddy field in the English countryside; shooting to fame in one of the most influential films of the 1990s and being nominated for an Academy Award; and finding the true light of her life, her son. She chronicles her unconventional career path, including the time she gave up on acting to sell jeans in Uruguay, her journey as a single parent, and the heartbreaking loss of her mother.  Like Lena Dunham in Not That Kind of Girl, Gabrielle Union in We’re Going to Need More Wine and Patti Smith in Just Kids, Driver writes with razor-sharp humor and grace as she explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable grief. Effortlessly charming, deeply funny, personal, and honest, Managing Expectations reminds us of the way life works out—even when it doesn’t. Also included at the end of this audiobook is a conversation between Minnie Driver her friend Emma Forrest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554571Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays Author: Minnie Driver Narrator: Minnie Driver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays Author: Minnie Driver Narrator: Minnie Driver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t. In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphs—from being the only student in her acting school not taken on by an agent to being discovered at a rave in a muddy field in the English countryside; shooting to fame in one of the most influential films of the 1990s and being nominated for an Academy Award; and finding the true light of her life, her son. She chronicles her unconventional career path, including the time she gave up on acting to sell jeans in Uruguay, her journey as a single parent, and the heartbreaking loss of her mother.  Like Lena Dunham in Not That Kind of Girl, Gabrielle Union in We’re Going to Need More Wine and Patti Smith in Just Kids, Driver writes with razor-sharp humor and grace as she explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable grief. Effortlessly charming, deeply funny, personal, and honest, Managing Expectations reminds us of the way life works out—even when it doesn’t. Also included at the end of this audiobook is a conversation between Minnie Driver her friend Emma Forrest.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fierce-love-a-memoir-of-family-faith-and-purpose-by-sonya-curry--65186451https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose Author: Sonya Curry Narrator: Sonya Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sonya Curry chronicles the never-before-shared story of raising her children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith. Sonya Curry’s journey, like those of her extraordinary sons and daughter, was filled with defeats and hard-fought victories, but hers took place out of the limelight, without the eyes of the world watching, cheering, or drawing inspiration from her example. Until now. In this inspiring memoir, Sonya tells her story for the first time, beginning with her childhood in rural Virginia and moving through the peaks and valleys of an incredible life—from raising her immensely gifted but sometimes headstrong children, to becoming an educator and founding a Montessori school, to discovering a profound, life sustaining connection to God and faith. Fierce Love is a wise and illuminating story of family, faith, and purpose. With something for everyone—seekers, sports fans, people of faith, lovers of memoir— it’s one strong mother’s gift to all who wonder how, where, and whether they’ll find the strength.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554570Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose Author: Sonya Curry Narrator: Sonya Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose Author: Sonya Curry Narrator: Sonya Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sonya Curry chronicles the never-before-shared story of raising her children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith. Sonya Curry’s journey, like those of her extraordinary sons and daughter, was filled with defeats and hard-fought victories, but hers took place out of the limelight, without the eyes of the world watching, cheering, or drawing inspiration from her example. Until now. In this inspiring memoir, Sonya tells her story for the first time, beginning with her childhood in rural Virginia and moving through the peaks and valleys of an incredible life—from raising her immensely gifted but sometimes headstrong children, to becoming an educator and founding a Montessori school, to discovering a profound, life sustaining connection to God and faith. Fierce Love is a wise and illuminating story of family, faith, and purpose. With something for everyone—seekers, sports fans, people of faith, lovers of memoir— it’s one strong mother’s gift to all who wonder how, where, and whether they’ll find the strength.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-agoraphobia-by-graham-caveney--65186530https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Agoraphobia Author: Graham Caveney Narrator: Graham Caveney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If we’re talking agoraphobia, we’re talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and neurosis, uneasy bedfellows sleeping top to toe. When Graham Caveney was in his early twenties he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors. Graham’s quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee’s Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson, and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics – once you go looking for them. On Agoraphobia is a fascinating, entertaining and sometimes painfully acute look at what it means to go through life with an anxiety disorder that evades easy definition.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552968Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Agoraphobia Author: Graham Caveney Narrator: Graham Caveney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Agoraphobia Author: Graham Caveney Narrator: Graham Caveney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If we’re talking agoraphobia, we’re talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and neurosis, uneasy bedfellows sleeping top to toe. When Graham Caveney was in his early twenties he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors. Graham’s quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee’s Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson, and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics – once you go looking for them. On Agoraphobia is a fascinating, entertaining and sometimes painfully acute look at what it means to go through life with an anxiety disorder that evades easy definition.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-can-all-make-it-the-star-of-dragons-den-shares-her-secrets-of-success-by-sara-davies--65186513https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Can All Make It: the star of Dragons' Den shares her secrets of success Author: Sara Davies Narrator: Sara Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. By the time Sara Davies left university, she was running a business with a half million pound turnover from her student bedroom. When she became the youngest of BBC 1's iconic Dragons, that turnover was £25 million. Today, she is one of Britain's biggest business names. Now, in a memoir as full of warmth, wit and wisdom as she is, Sara shares what it took to get there - from manning factories overnight with her mam and dad to hitting the trade shows of Las Vegas alone, armed with little more than ambition and a passion for crafts. What does she look for in a business investment? Where does she find time to enjoy family life while running an empire? What did lockdown change about the way she ran her company? And which is the bigger buzz - witnessing your latest product sell out as you broadcast live to 96 American homes, or dancing the cha cha cha as one of Strictly Come Dancing's brightest stars while your family cheer you on? Sara says that 'good storytelling is the key to making sales'. In We Can All Make It she proves just what a great storyteller she is. © Sara Davies 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551878Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Can All Make It: the star of Dragons' Den shares her secrets of success Author: Sara Davies Narrator: Sara Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Can All Make It: the star of Dragons' Den shares her secrets of success Author: Sara Davies Narrator: Sara Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. By the time Sara Davies left university, she was running a business with a half million pound turnover from her student bedroom. When she became the youngest of BBC 1's iconic Dragons, that turnover was £25 million. Today, she is one of Britain's biggest business names. Now, in a memoir as full of warmth, wit and wisdom as she is, Sara shares what it took to get there - from manning factories overnight with her mam and dad to hitting the trade shows of Las Vegas alone, armed with little more than ambition and a passion for crafts. What does she look for in a business investment? Where does she find time to enjoy family life while running an empire? What did lockdown change about the way she ran her company? And which is the bigger buzz - witnessing your latest product sell out as you broadcast live to 96 American homes, or dancing the cha cha cha as one of Strictly Come Dancing's brightest stars while your family cheer you on? Sara says that 'good storytelling is the key to making sales'. In We Can All Make It she proves just what a great storyteller she is. © Sara Davies 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/off-with-my-head-the-definitive-basic-b-tch-handbook-to-surviving-rock-bottom-by-stassi-schroeder--65186574https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom Author: Stassi Schroeder Narrator: Stassi Schroeder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named one of Us Weekly’s Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2022 The New York Times bestselling author of Next Level Basic and fan-favorite alumna of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules returns with the definitive Basic Bitch handbook for surviving your rock-bottom moments. The year 2020 was going to be the best year of Stassi’s life. Besides getting engaged and feeling like she was on top of the world career-wise, she bought her first house and was planning her dream Italian wedding. The future showed so much freaking promise—until it all went to hell. Stassi may not be perfect—she may have made some (major) mistakes—but she does feel like she has some insight (and plenty of hilarious tales) about getting knocked up, called out, and learning from what went wrong. Through stories, confessions, illustrations, and plenty of self-reflection and self-deprecation, this new book goes behind the scenes and addresses the experience of getting cancelled, getting that positive pregnancy test, and saying “I do” in the backyard instead of in Italy. Stassi won’t hold back about her transformation from proud basic bitch to... proud basic bitch who has a deeper appreciation for what’s really important in life: love, relationships, mutual respect, and, okay fine, an Aperol spritz and some showtunes when you need them most. Stassi hopes her story will help others see the light at the end of the tunnel in their own lives and make them laugh along the way. She writes about the importance of having a good cry (at work, in the shower, in your closet), ways to navigate social media responsibly (sometimes that means logging the eff off when crowds are chanting, “OFF WITH HER HEAD”), how to practice self-care when wine is not an option, and how not to become a Bridezilla—plus she’ll offer tips on marrying your f*ckboy, embracing pregnancy sweats (both cashmere sweats and night sweats), and styling baby OOTDs. So roll up your bedazzled sleeves…or the sleeves of the tattered robe you’ve been wearing nonstop because you’re at rock bottom; grab a cocktail; and let your favorite (more evolved) basic bitch take you on a wild ride inside the bumpiest year of her life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551657Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom Author: Stassi Schroeder Narrator: Stassi Schroeder Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom Author: Stassi Schroeder Narrator: Stassi Schroeder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named one of Us Weekly’s Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2022 The New York Times bestselling author of Next Level Basic and fan-favorite alumna of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules returns with the definitive Basic Bitch handbook for surviving your rock-bottom moments. The year 2020 was going to be the best year of Stassi’s life. Besides getting engaged and feeling like she was on top of the world career-wise, she bought her first house and was planning her dream Italian wedding. The future showed so much freaking promise—until it all went to hell. Stassi may not be perfect—she may have made some (major) mistakes—but she does feel like she has some insight (and plenty of hilarious tales) about getting knocked up, called out, and learning from what went wrong. Through stories, confessions, illustrations, and plenty of self-reflection and self-deprecation, this new book goes behind the scenes and addresses the experience of getting cancelled, getting that positive pregnancy test, and saying “I do” in the backyard instead of in Italy. Stassi won’t hold back about her transformation from proud basic bitch to... proud basic bitch who has a deeper appreciation for what’s really important in life: love, relationships, mutual respect, and, okay fine, an Aperol spritz and some showtunes when you need them most. Stassi hopes her story will help others see the light at the end of the tunnel in their own lives and make them laugh along the way. She writes about the importance of having a good cry (at work, in the shower, in your closet), ways to navigate social media responsibly (sometimes that means logging the eff off when crowds are chanting, “OFF WITH HER HEAD”), how to practice self-care when wine is not an option, and how not to become a Bridezilla—plus she’ll offer tips on marrying your f*ckboy, embracing pregnancy sweats (both cashmere sweats and night sweats), and styling baby OOTDs. So roll up your bedazzled sleeves…or the sleeves of the tattered robe you’ve been wearing nonstop because you’re at rock bottom; grab a cocktail; and let your favorite (more evolved) basic bitch take you on a wild ride inside the bumpiest year of her life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-puzzler-one-man-s-quest-to-solve-the-most-baffling-puzzles-ever-from-crosswords-to-jigsaws-to-the-meaning-of-life-by-a-j-jacobs--65186551https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Author: A.J. Jacobs Narrator: A.J. Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers—The Puzzler will open listeners’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times. *Includes a downloadable PDF of puzzles, answers, illustrations, and more from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548793Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Author: A.J. Jacobs Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Author: A.J. Jacobs Narrator: A.J. Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers—The Puzzler will open listeners’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times. *Includes a downloadable PDF of puzzles, answers, illustrations, and more from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-ackee-tree-a-chef-s-memoir-of-finding-home-in-the-kitchen-by-suzanne-barr--65186441https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Ackee Tree: A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen Author: Suzanne Barr Narrator: Suzanne Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARDS* NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 HERITAGE TORONTO AWARDS For fans of The Measure of My Powers and Notes from a Young Black Chef, a memoir about food, family, and the recipes that brought one woman home when she needed it the most. Suzanne Barr’s journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor’s appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn’t know how to cook for her. She didn’t even know where to begin. Fast-forward to the summer of 2017 when Suzanne became the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. She wanted to create a menu that represented who she was as a chef and it emerged as a love letter to her mother. Her Rite of Passage Menu, as she called it, changed her. It started her on a journey that has brought her closer to her mother, to her ancestors, and to her Jamaican heritage. But a lot has happened before and since. My Ackee Tree tells the story of a woman who is always on the move, always seeking; who battles the stereotypes of being a Black female cook to become a culinary star in an industry beset by dated practices and landlords with too much power. From the ackee tree in front of her childhood home, through New York City, Atlanta, Hawaii, the Hamptons, and France, Suzanne takes us on her unpredictable journey, and at every turn, she finds light and comfort in the kitchen. Told in a voice as fresh and honest as her cooking, My Ackee Tree is a celebration of creativity, soul searching, and motherhood that asks, “How can I keep the things I love?”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555797Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Ackee Tree: A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen Author: Suzanne Barr Narrator: Suzanne Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Ackee Tree: A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen Author: Suzanne Barr Narrator: Suzanne Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARDS* NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 HERITAGE TORONTO AWARDS For fans of The Measure of My Powers and Notes from a Young Black Chef, a memoir about food, family, and the recipes that brought one woman home when she needed it the most. Suzanne Barr’s journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor’s appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn’t know how to cook for her. She didn’t even know where to begin. Fast-forward to the summer of 2017 when Suzanne became the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. She wanted to create a menu that represented who she was as a chef and it emerged as a love letter to her mother. Her Rite of Passage Menu, as she called it, changed her. It started her on a journey that has brought her closer to her mother, to her ancestors, and to her Jamaican heritage. But a lot has happened before and since. My Ackee Tree tells the story of a woman who is always on the move, always seeking; who battles the stereotypes of being a Black female cook to become a culinary star in an industry beset by dated practices and landlords with too much power. From the ackee tree in front of her childhood home, through New York City, Atlanta, Hawaii, the Hamptons, and France, Suzanne takes us on her unpredictable journey, and at every turn, she finds light and comfort in the kitchen. Told in a voice as fresh and honest as her cooking, My Ackee Tree is a celebration of creativity, soul searching, and motherhood that asks, “How can I keep the things I love?”]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deaf-utopia-a-memoir-and-a-love-letter-to-a-way-of-life-by-robert-siebert-nyle-dimarco--65186603https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life Author: Robert Siebert, Nyle Dimarco Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents. In this engrossing memoir, Nyle shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. From growing up in a rough-and-tumble childhood in Queens with his big and loving Italian-American family to where he is now, Nyle has always been driven to explore beyond the boundaries given him. A college math major and athlete at Gallaudet—the famed university for the Deaf in Washington, DC—Nyle was drawn as a young man to acting, and dove headfirst into the reality show competitions America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars—ultimately winning both competitions. Deaf Utopia is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem—a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle’s primary language. Through his stories and those of his Deaf brothers, parents, and grandparents, Nyle opens many windows into the Deaf experience. Deaf Utopia is intimate, suspenseful, hilarious, eye-opening, and smart—both a memoir and a celebration of what makes Deaf culture unique and beautiful. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547029Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life Author: Robert Siebert, Nyle Dimarco Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life Author: Robert Siebert, Nyle Dimarco Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents. In this engrossing memoir, Nyle shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. From growing up in a rough-and-tumble childhood in Queens with his big and loving Italian-American family to where he is now, Nyle has always been driven to explore beyond the boundaries given him. A college math major and athlete at Gallaudet—the famed university for the Deaf in Washington, DC—Nyle was drawn as a young man to acting, and dove headfirst into the reality show competitions America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars—ultimately winning both competitions. Deaf Utopia is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem—a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle’s primary language. Through his stories and those of his Deaf brothers, parents, and grandparents, Nyle opens many windows into the Deaf experience. Deaf Utopia is intimate, suspenseful, hilarious, eye-opening, and smart—both a memoir and a celebration of what makes Deaf culture unique and beautiful. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loving-edie-how-a-dog-afraid-of-everything-taught-me-to-be-brave-by-meredith-may--65186567https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me To Be Brave Author: Meredith May Narrator: Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Honey Bus comes a wild and emotional memoir of family and self-discovery, featuring a lovable golden retriever named Edie Meredith May had a difficult childhood, with a mother who was physically present but emotionally absent. She learned early on to fend for herself, and never had to care for anyone else. When she and her wife, Jenn, adopt Edie, a sweet golden retriever puppy with saucer brown eyes and buttery white fur, Edie wins their hearts immediately. But it isn’t long after Edie joins the family that the problems begin. Edie is an unusually anxious dog. She cowers around most people and the slightest noise sends her into a frenzy. Edie’s fears become so intense that Meredith and Jenn can’t leave the house. Is this normal puppy behavior or something more? Meredith grows determined to fix Edie, but what will she do if Edie can’t be fixed? In this poignant and heartfelt memoir, Meredith shares her unforgettable journey with Edie, and the lessons about selflessness and unconditional love that she learns along the way. From treating Edie with CBD gummies to visiting a dog medium, Meredith shows just how far she is willing to go to save her dog. But maybe Edie is secretly the one doing the saving—if Meredith will only open her heart. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550086Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me To Be Brave Author: Meredith May Narrator: Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me To Be Brave Author: Meredith May Narrator: Candace Thaxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Honey Bus comes a wild and emotional memoir of family and self-discovery, featuring a lovable golden retriever named Edie Meredith May had a difficult childhood, with a mother who was physically present but emotionally absent. She learned early on to fend for herself, and never had to care for anyone else. When she and her wife, Jenn, adopt Edie, a sweet golden retriever puppy with saucer brown eyes and buttery white fur, Edie wins their hearts immediately. But it isn’t long after Edie joins the family that the problems begin. Edie is an unusually anxious dog. She cowers around most people and the slightest noise sends her into a frenzy. Edie’s fears become so intense that Meredith and Jenn can’t leave the house. Is this normal puppy behavior or something more? Meredith grows determined to fix Edie, but what will she do if Edie can’t be fixed? In this poignant and heartfelt memoir, Meredith shares her unforgettable journey with Edie, and the lessons about selflessness and unconditional love that she learns along the way. From treating Edie with CBD gummies to visiting a dog medium, Meredith shows just how far she is willing to go to save her dog. But maybe Edie is secretly the one doing the saving—if Meredith will only open her heart. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/constructing-a-nervous-system-a-memoir-by-margo-jefferson--65186627https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From 'one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism' (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir 'as electric as the title suggests' (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From 'one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism' (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir 'as electric as the title suggests' (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-me-as-i-am-by-garcelle-beauvais--65186613https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Me As I Am Author: Garcelle Beauvais Narrator: Garcelle Beauvais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Dishy, warm, and entertaining.”—Kirkus Reviews ?The beloved Black pop culture icon, entrepreneur, Hollywood actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star bares her life in this frank, funny, and fearless memoir about life, love and the pursuit of true happiness. Love Me As I Am is Garcelle Beauvais’s smart, inspiring, and raw memoir—an entertaining and unforgettable emotional rollercoaster ride that moves from her early childhood years in Haiti to her adolescence in Boston; from her heady days as a young model in New York—her first taste of real freedom—to Los Angeles and the many ups, downs, and then more ups, both personal and professional, she experienced in her three-decade acting career, including her massive fame as a star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  Throughout her life, Beauvais has suffered from an emotional battle between her wild, rebellious nature and her desire to be a “good girl.” No matter how many cover stories she earned, “Most Beautiful” lists, or coveted roles in iconic series such as The Jamie Foxx Show and NYPD Blue, Beauvais could not cure herself of her “disease to please” or learn to put herself first. She also had to learn how to unapologetically put herself first. In Love Me As I Am, she brings together the voices of both the good girl and the rebel to deliver an unflinching examination of her successes and ongoing challenges as a mother, wife, daughter, sibling, and friend.  Beauvais fearlessly talks about how she boldly embraced her sexuality in her 40s, and her determination to break free of the stereotypes that define and limit African American women in popular culture. Most importantly, she reveals how finally putting herself first led to better relationships with her three sons and even her ex-husband. Beauvais dishes too—offering juicy behind-the-scenes stories from movie sets, red carpet events, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  Love Me As I Am is an unflinching look at one woman’s extraordinary journey to create a new and more exciting life—and to become the woman she was meant to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546763Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Me As I Am Author: Garcelle Beauvais Narrator: Garcelle Beauvais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Me As I Am Author: Garcelle Beauvais Narrator: Garcelle Beauvais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Dishy, warm, and entertaining.”—Kirkus Reviews ?The beloved Black pop culture icon, entrepreneur, Hollywood actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star bares her life in this frank, funny, and fearless memoir about life, love and the pursuit of true happiness. Love Me As I Am is Garcelle Beauvais’s smart, inspiring, and raw memoir—an entertaining and unforgettable emotional rollercoaster ride that moves from her early childhood years in Haiti to her adolescence in Boston; from her heady days as a young model in New York—her first taste of real freedom—to Los Angeles and the many ups, downs, and then more ups, both personal and professional, she experienced in her three-decade acting career, including her massive fame as a star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  Throughout her life, Beauvais has suffered from an emotional battle between her wild, rebellious nature and her desire to be a “good girl.” No matter how many cover stories she earned, “Most Beautiful” lists, or coveted roles in iconic series such as The Jamie Foxx Show and NYPD Blue, Beauvais could not cure herself of her “disease to please” or learn to put herself first. She also had to learn how to unapologetically put herself first. In Love Me As I Am, she brings together the voices of both the good girl and the rebel to deliver an unflinching examination of her successes and ongoing challenges as a mother, wife, daughter, sibling, and friend.  Beauvais fearlessly talks about how she boldly embraced her sexuality in her 40s, and her determination to break free of the stereotypes that define and limit African American women in popular culture. Most importantly, she reveals how finally putting herself first led to better relationships with her three sons and even her ex-husband. Beauvais dishes too—offering juicy behind-the-scenes stories from movie sets, red carpet events, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  Love Me As I Am is an unflinching look at one woman’s extraordinary journey to create a new and more exciting life—and to become the woman she was meant to be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-in-the-middle-growing-up-between-black-and-white-rich-and-poor-by-anais-granofsky--65186552https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Author: Anais Granofsky Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this poignant and timely memoir—written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a Crime—Degrassi Junior High star Anais Granofsky contemplates the lingering impact of a childhood spent in two opposite and warring worlds. Though recognized around the world for her role as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, Anais Granofsky’s true childhood story is largely unknown. Growing up, Anais was caught between two vastly different worlds: her father, Stanley, came from a wealthy, prominent, white Jewish family in Toronto. Her mother, Jean, was one of 15 children from a poor Black Methodist family in Ohio directly descended from freed Randolph slaves. When Anais’s parents met at Antioch College in the early 1970s and soon had their first child, they didn’t anticipate being cut off by the wealthy Granofskys, or that Stanley would find his calling in the spiritual teaching of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, change his name to Fakeer, and leave his family for an ashram in India. Young Anais and her mother teetered on the abyss of poverty, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived in a mansion that was 20 minutes away. As Anais grew up, she spent weekends with her wealthy Granofsky grandparents. On Saturdays and Sundays she would wear expensive clothes and eat lunch by the pool. In the weeks between, she and her mother lived day by day penniless, rarely knowing where their next meal would come from. From her earliest youth, Anais realized that if she wanted to be loved, she had to keep her two lives separate, learning to code switch between her Jewish identity on the weekend and her Black one during the week.  Her life was compartmentalized, until at age 12, Anais was cast in the internationally successful television show Degrassi Junior High.  The Girl in the Middle is a tale of two vastly different families and the granddaughter they shared and clashed over. Compassionate and vivid, Anais’s story is a powerful lens revealing two divided families and the systematic, generational oppression that separated them. As Anais shares her experiences growing up in opposing worlds, she offers a heart-wrenching exploration of generational trauma, love, shame, grief, and prejudice—and essential insight for healing and acceptance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550126Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Author: Anais Granofsky Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Author: Anais Granofsky Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this poignant and timely memoir—written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a Crime—Degrassi Junior High star Anais Granofsky contemplates the lingering impact of a childhood spent in two opposite and warring worlds. Though recognized around the world for her role as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, Anais Granofsky’s true childhood story is largely unknown. Growing up, Anais was caught between two vastly different worlds: her father, Stanley, came from a wealthy, prominent, white Jewish family in Toronto. Her mother, Jean, was one of 15 children from a poor Black Methodist family in Ohio directly descended from freed Randolph slaves. When Anais’s parents met at Antioch College in the early 1970s and soon had their first child, they didn’t anticipate being cut off by the wealthy Granofskys, or that Stanley would find his calling in the spiritual teaching of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, change his name to Fakeer, and leave his family for an ashram in India. Young Anais and her mother teetered on the abyss of poverty, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived in a mansion that was 20 minutes away. As Anais grew up, she spent weekends with her wealthy Granofsky grandparents. On Saturdays and Sundays she would wear expensive clothes and eat lunch by the pool. In the weeks between, she and her mother lived day by day penniless, rarely knowing where their next meal would come from. From her earliest youth, Anais realized that if she wanted to be loved, she had to keep her two lives separate, learning to code switch between her Jewish identity on the weekend and her Black one during the week.  Her life was compartmentalized, until at age 12, Anais was cast in the internationally successful television show Degrassi Junior High.  The Girl in the Middle is a tale of two vastly different families and the granddaughter they shared and clashed over. Compassionate and vivid, Anais’s story is a powerful lens revealing two divided families and the systematic, generational oppression that separated them. As Anais shares her experiences growing up in opposing worlds, she offers a heart-wrenching exploration of generational trauma, love, shame, grief, and prejudice—and essential insight for healing and acceptance.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-in-the-middle-growing-up-between-black-and-white-rich-and-poor-by-anais-granofsky--65186548https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Author: Anais Granofsky Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving and vivid memoir of a young girl—long before her starring role in the Degrassi series—who was always switching between worlds, wanting only to be loved When Anais Granofsky’s parents meet in the early 1970s, they are foreign and fascinating to each other. Stanley is the son of a very wealthy Toronto Jewish family; Jean is one of fifteen children from a poor Black Methodist family, direct descendants of the freed Randolph slaves. When Jean becomes pregnant at nineteen, Stanley doesn’t anticipate being cut off by his parents. Nor does the couple anticipate that Stanley, soon to rename himself Fakeer, will find his calling in the spiritual teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an ashram in India. The Girl in the Middle is the story of a child who spends her life navigating between two very different worlds. Alone, Anais and her mother teetered on the poverty line, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived a twenty-minute car ride away on the mansion-lined Bridle Path. As Anais grows up, she spends weekends having lunch with her grandmother by the pool, while during the week, she and her mother often don’t know where their next meal will come from, even after Fakeer’s return. Anais realizes that if she wants to be loved, she has to switch identities to please each of the adult women in her family. It isn’t until she gets a role in the TV series Degrassi Junior High that Anais finds a third world—her own—and begins to define an identity for herself. The Girl in the Middle offers a powerful lens to explore how two families, one white and one Black, faced systemic oppression spanning multiple generations and came out at opposite economic classes—and how they clashed when they shared a granddaughter. With compassion and vivid storytelling, Granofsky shares her experience of living in opposite worlds, and demonstrates how generational shame, grief and prejudice ultimately lead to love and forgiveness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550071Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Author: Anais Granofsky Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Author: Anais Granofsky Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving and vivid memoir of a young girl—long before her starring role in the Degrassi series—who was always switching between worlds, wanting only to be loved When Anais Granofsky’s parents meet in the early 1970s, they are foreign and fascinating to each other. Stanley is the son of a very wealthy Toronto Jewish family; Jean is one of fifteen children from a poor Black Methodist family, direct descendants of the freed Randolph slaves. When Jean becomes pregnant at nineteen, Stanley doesn’t anticipate being cut off by his parents. Nor does the couple anticipate that Stanley, soon to rename himself Fakeer, will find his calling in the spiritual teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an ashram in India. The Girl in the Middle is the story of a child who spends her life navigating between two very different worlds. Alone, Anais and her mother teetered on the poverty line, sharing a mattress in a single room in social housing in Toronto, while her grandparents lived a twenty-minute car ride away on the mansion-lined Bridle Path. As Anais grows up, she spends weekends having lunch with her grandmother by the pool, while during the week, she and her mother often don’t know where their next meal will come from, even after Fakeer’s return. Anais realizes that if she wants to be loved, she has to switch identities to please each of the adult women in her family. It isn’t until she gets a role in the TV series Degrassi Junior High that Anais finds a third world—her own—and begins to define an identity for herself. The Girl in the Middle offers a powerful lens to explore how two families, one white and one Black, faced systemic oppression spanning multiple generations and came out at opposite economic classes—and how they clashed when they shared a granddaughter. With compassion and vivid storytelling, Granofsky shares her experience of living in opposite worlds, and demonstrates how generational shame, grief and prejudice ultimately lead to love and forgiveness.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/forever-boy-a-mother-s-memoir-of-autism-and-finding-joy-by-kate-swenson--65186594https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy Author: Kate Swenson Narrator: Kate Swenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability. At first, Kate experienced the grief of broken dreams. Then she felt the frustration and exhaustion of having to fight for your child in a world that is stacked against them. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she would come to learn that Cooper wasn’t the one who needed to change. She was. And it was this transformation that led Kate to acceptance—and ultimately joy. In Forever Boy, Kate shares her inspiring journey with honesty and compassion, offering solace and hope to others on this path and illuminating the strength and perseverance of mothers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550085Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy Author: Kate Swenson Narrator: Kate Swenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy Author: Kate Swenson Narrator: Kate Swenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability. At first, Kate experienced the grief of broken dreams. Then she felt the frustration and exhaustion of having to fight for your child in a world that is stacked against them. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she would come to learn that Cooper wasn’t the one who needed to change. She was. And it was this transformation that led Kate to acceptance—and ultimately joy. In Forever Boy, Kate shares her inspiring journey with honesty and compassion, offering solace and hope to others on this path and illuminating the strength and perseverance of mothers.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stories-i-might-regret-telling-you-by-martha-wainwright--65186557https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories I Might Regret Telling You Author: Martha Wainwright Narrator: Martha Wainwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into.' EMMYLOU HARRIS This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with such incomparable folk legends as Leonard Cohen, Anna McGarrigle, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pete Townsend and Emmylou Harris. It was within this loud, boisterous, musical milieu that Martha came of age, struggling to find her voice until she exploded onto the music scene with her 2005 debut and critically acclaimed album, Martha Wainwright, which contained the blistering hit, ‘Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole’, which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of that year. Her successful debut album and the ones that followed such as Come Home to Mama, I Know You're Married but I've Got Feelings Too and Goodnight City came to define Martha's searing songwriting style and established her as a powerful voice to be reckoned with. In Stories I Might Regret Telling You, Martha digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music. She describes her tumultuous public-facing journey from awkward, earnest and ultimately rebellious daughter, through her intense competition and ultimate alliance with her brother, Rufus, to the heart-breaking loss of their mother, Kate, and then, finally, discovering her voice as an artist. With candour and grace, Martha writes of becoming a mother herself and making peace with her past struggles with Kate and her younger self. Ultimately, this book offers a thoughtful and deeply personal look into the extraordinary life of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in music today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550415Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories I Might Regret Telling You Author: Martha Wainwright Narrator: Martha Wainwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories I Might Regret Telling You Author: Martha Wainwright Narrator: Martha Wainwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into.' EMMYLOU HARRIS This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with such incomparable folk legends as Leonard Cohen, Anna McGarrigle, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pete Townsend and Emmylou Harris. It was within this loud, boisterous, musical milieu that Martha came of age, struggling to find her voice until she exploded onto the music scene with her 2005 debut and critically acclaimed album, Martha Wainwright, which contained the blistering hit, ‘Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole’, which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of that year. Her successful debut album and the ones that followed such as Come Home to Mama, I Know You're Married but I've Got Feelings Too and Goodnight City came to define Martha's searing songwriting style and established her as a powerful voice to be reckoned with. In Stories I Might Regret Telling You, Martha digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music. She describes her tumultuous public-facing journey from awkward, earnest and ultimately rebellious daughter, through her intense competition and ultimate alliance with her brother, Rufus, to the heart-breaking loss of their mother, Kate, and then, finally, discovering her voice as an artist. With candour and grace, Martha writes of becoming a mother herself and making peace with her past struggles with Kate and her younger self. Ultimately, this book offers a thoughtful and deeply personal look into the extraordinary life of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in music today.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sabine-s-war-the-incredible-true-story-of-a-resistance-fighter-who-survived-three-concentration-camps-by-eva-taylor--65186502https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sabine’s War: The Incredible True Story of a Resistance Fighter Who Survived Three Concentration Camps Author: Eva Taylor Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery ‘A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.’ Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Sabine’s War is the previously untold story of a remarkable resistance fighter and her incredible story of survival against the odds. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment’s hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via the Amersfoort and Ravensbrück camps. Enduring gruelling conditions and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after Sabine’s death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner world and a past she had discussed little. Amongst them were declarations of love from pilot Taro, shot down in his Spitfire over northern France aged just 26; notes from Sabine’s second love Gerard, executed by the Germans; letters to her mother smuggled out in her prison laundry; and passionate, creepy missives from a German professional criminal named Gebele who would ultimately save Sabine’s life. She emerges from this correspondence as a woman with an indefinable aura, somehow in control of her own destiny even when to all intents and purposes she was not. A transfixing story of survival, Sabine’s War captures a remarkable life in the words of the young woman who lived it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552601Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sabine’s War: The Incredible True Story of a Resistance Fighter Who Survived Three Concentration Camps Author: Eva Taylor Narrator: Nancy Peterson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sabine’s War: The Incredible True Story of a Resistance Fighter Who Survived Three Concentration Camps Author: Eva Taylor Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery ‘A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.’ Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Sabine’s War is the previously untold story of a remarkable resistance fighter and her incredible story of survival against the odds. When Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment’s hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via the Amersfoort and Ravensbrück camps. Enduring gruelling conditions and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after Sabine’s death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner world and a past she had discussed little. Amongst them were declarations of love from pilot Taro, shot down in his Spitfire over northern France aged just 26; notes from Sabine’s second love Gerard, executed by the Germans; letters to her mother smuggled out in her prison laundry; and passionate, creepy missives from a German professional criminal named Gebele who would ultimately save Sabine’s life. She emerges from this correspondence as a woman with an indefinable aura, somehow in control of her own destiny even when to all intents and purposes she was not. A transfixing story of survival, Sabine’s War captures a remarkable life in the words of the young woman who lived it.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/conversations-with-people-who-hate-me-by-dylan-marron--65186602https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conversations with People Who Hate Me Author: Dylan Marron Narrator: Dylan Marron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Dylan Marron is the internet’s Love Warrior. His work is fresh, deeply honest, wildly creative, and right on time.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Dylan Marron is like a modern Mister Rogers for the digital age.” —Jason Sudeikis ​​From the host of the award-winning, critically acclaimed podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me comes a thought-provoking, witty, and inspirational exploration of difficult conversations and how to navigate them. Dylan Marron’s work has racked up millions of views and worldwide support. From his acclaimed Every Single Word video series highlighting the lack of diversity in Hollywood to his web series Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Marron has explored some of today’s biggest social issues. Yet, according to some strangers on the internet, Marron is a “moron,” a “beta male,” and a “talentless hack.” Rather than running from this online vitriol, Marron began a social experiment in which he invited his detractors to chat with him on the phone—and those conversations revealed surprising and fascinating insights. Now, Marron retraces his journey through a project that connects adversarial strangers in a time of unprecedented division. After years of production and dozens of phone calls, he shares what he’s learned about having difficult conversations and how having them can help close the ever-growing distance between us. Charmingly candid and refreshingly hopeful, Conversations with People Who Hate Me will serve as both a guide to anyone partaking in dif­ficult conversations and a permission slip for those who dare to believe that connection is possible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548356Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conversations with People Who Hate Me Author: Dylan Marron Narrator: Dylan Marron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conversations with People Who Hate Me Author: Dylan Marron Narrator: Dylan Marron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Dylan Marron is the internet’s Love Warrior. His work is fresh, deeply honest, wildly creative, and right on time.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Dylan Marron is like a modern Mister Rogers for the digital age.” —Jason Sudeikis ​​From the host of the award-winning, critically acclaimed podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me comes a thought-provoking, witty, and inspirational exploration of difficult conversations and how to navigate them. Dylan Marron’s work has racked up millions of views and worldwide support. From his acclaimed Every Single Word video series highlighting the lack of diversity in Hollywood to his web series Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Marron has explored some of today’s biggest social issues. Yet, according to some strangers on the internet, Marron is a “moron,” a “beta male,” and a “talentless hack.” Rather than running from this online vitriol, Marron began a social experiment in which he invited his detractors to chat with him on the phone—and those conversations revealed surprising and fascinating insights. Now, Marron retraces his journey through a project that connects adversarial strangers in a time of unprecedented division. After years of production and dozens of phone calls, he shares what he’s learned about having difficult conversations and how having them can help close the ever-growing distance between us. Charmingly candid and refreshingly hopeful, Conversations with People Who Hate Me will serve as both a guide to anyone partaking in dif­ficult conversations and a permission slip for those who dare to believe that connection is possible.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-line-above-the-sky-on-mountains-and-motherhood-by-helen-mort--65186592https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood Author: Helen Mort Narrator: Helen Mort Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining her relationship with both the natural world and herself, as well as the way the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks. A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to ask why humans are drawn to danger, and how we can find freedom in pushing our limits. It is a visceral love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether climbing a mountain or bringing a child into the world, and an unforgettable celebration of womanhood in all its forms. © Helen Mort 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550250Thu, 24 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood Author: Helen Mort Narrator: Helen Mort Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood Author: Helen Mort Narrator: Helen Mort Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining her relationship with both the natural world and herself, as well as the way the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks. A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to ask why humans are drawn to danger, and how we can find freedom in pushing our limits. It is a visceral love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether climbing a mountain or bringing a child into the world, and an unforgettable celebration of womanhood in all its forms. © Helen Mort 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tour-de-force-my-history-making-tour-de-france-by-mark-cavendish--65186461https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France Author: Mark Cavendish Narrator: Mark Cavendish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 17, 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. 'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. 'That was perhaps the last race of my career...'' Deep down, Mark Cavendish thought he was finished. After illness, setbacks and clinical depression, the once fastest man in the world had been written off by most. And at the age of 36, even he believed his explosive cycling career would fade out with a whimper. The Manxman hadn't won a single Grand Tour stage in Italy, Spain or France since 2016. But then came his incredible resurrection at the 2021 Tour de France. Included on the Deceuninck Quick-Step team at the very last minute, only after Sam Bennett suffered an injury, Mark set about rewriting history. He claimed back the green jersey he first wore in 2011, and his four stage victories finally saw him matching Belgian legend Eddy Merckx's all-time record of 34 Tour de France stage wins. Cycling greats are never content, and Cav's dogged determination and inner strength had earned him the record that few believed he could ever achieve. This is his own intimate account of that race, right from the saddle of the miracle tour. © Mark Cavendish 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554388Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France Author: Mark Cavendish Narrator: Mark Cavendish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France Author: Mark Cavendish Narrator: Mark Cavendish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 17, 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. 'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. 'That was perhaps the last race of my career...'' Deep down, Mark Cavendish thought he was finished. After illness, setbacks and clinical depression, the once fastest man in the world had been written off by most. And at the age of 36, even he believed his explosive cycling career would fade out with a whimper. The Manxman hadn't won a single Grand Tour stage in Italy, Spain or France since 2016. But then came his incredible resurrection at the 2021 Tour de France. Included on the Deceuninck Quick-Step team at the very last minute, only after Sam Bennett suffered an injury, Mark set about rewriting history. He claimed back the green jersey he first wore in 2011, and his four stage victories finally saw him matching Belgian legend Eddy Merckx's all-time record of 34 Tour de France stage wins. Cycling greats are never content, and Cav's dogged determination and inner strength had earned him the record that few believed he could ever achieve. This is his own intimate account of that race, right from the saddle of the miracle tour. © Mark Cavendish 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/long-life-honey-in-the-heart-by-martin-prechtel--65186428https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Life, Honey in the Heart Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Martín Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Guatemala's political upheaval in the 1980s, this heady mix of magic, humor, and spirituality immerses the reader in the experiences of Mayan birth, courting, marriage, childrearing, old age, death, and beyond, using the true story of Prechtel's own family and friends.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556186Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Life, Honey in the Heart Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Life, Honey in the Heart Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Martín Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Guatemala's political upheaval in the 1980s, this heady mix of magic, humor, and spirituality immerses the reader in the experiences of Mayan birth, courting, marriage, childrearing, old age, death, and beyond, using the true story of Prechtel's own family and friends.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rebel-my-escape-from-saudi-arabia-to-freedom-by-rahaf-mohammed--65186544https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom Author: Rahaf Mohammed Narrator: Anonymous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world  In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia—but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she opened a Twitter account. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered—she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West. Now Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. Raised with immense financial privilege but under the control of her male relatives—including her high-profile politician father—she endured an abusive childhood in which oppression and deceit were the norm. Moving from Rahaf’s early days on the underground online network of Saudi runaways, who use coded entries to learn how to flee the brutalities of their homeland, to her solo escape to Canada, Rebel is a breathtaking and life-affirming memoir about one woman’s tenacious pursuit of freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550125Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom Author: Rahaf Mohammed Narrator: Anonymous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom Author: Rahaf Mohammed Narrator: Anonymous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world  In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia—but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she opened a Twitter account. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered—she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West. Now Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. Raised with immense financial privilege but under the control of her male relatives—including her high-profile politician father—she endured an abusive childhood in which oppression and deceit were the norm. Moving from Rahaf’s early days on the underground online network of Saudi runaways, who use coded entries to learn how to flee the brutalities of their homeland, to her solo escape to Canada, Rebel is a breathtaking and life-affirming memoir about one woman’s tenacious pursuit of freedom.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/humanity-is-trying-experiments-in-living-with-grief-finding-connection-and-resisting-easy-answers-by-jason-gots--65186617https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers Author: Jason Gots Narrator: Jason Gots Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book." —Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads “Humanity Is Trying.” It’s a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how. Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It’s a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It’s the story of a series of escape attempts—cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful—experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it’s a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice. From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546771Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers Author: Jason Gots Narrator: Jason Gots Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers Author: Jason Gots Narrator: Jason Gots Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book." —Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads “Humanity Is Trying.” It’s a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how. Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It’s a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It’s the story of a series of escape attempts—cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful—experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it’s a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice. From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/diagnosis-normal-living-with-abuse-undiagnosed-autism-and-covid-grade-crazy-by-emma-a-jane--65186540https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diagnosis Normal: Living with abuse, undiagnosed autism, and COVID-grade crazy Author: Emma A. Jane Narrator: Emma A. Jane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'I have three gears: glum melancholy, inappropriate outbursts, and extreme slapstick. On a good day, I can pass as normal but not for too many minutes. I'm what most people would regard as a hardened introvert . . . I like other people. I'm just not very good at them.' Emma Jane has lived a thousand colourful lives. She escaped a small town and a traumatic childhood by moving to Sydney, where she made an indelible imprint on the oppressively blokey mediascape. She played in an all-girl band, married a rock star she hardly knew, had a baby, ditched journalism for academia, and changed her name from Emma Tom to Emma Jane. But all the while she was struggling with her mental health. Then, during the first Sydney lockdown she was accidentally sectioned in a psychiatric ward. At the time she wasn't sure whether to be more embarrassed by the institutionalisation or the fact she'd forgotten to set her at-home eyebrow dye timer and looked like Groucho Marx. Given everyone suffered some sort of corona-related DIY body hair disaster, however, she decided to focus on her confinement, and when she was subsequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder a number of things suddenly fell into place. Emma writes candidly about the complex combination of autism, mental illness and childhood sexual abuse that led to her being the person she is, and explores the impact each has on so many others in society. Critically, by breaking the toxic silence surrounding sexual violence and mental illness, she raises the possibility of not just surviving them but thriving. As she writes: 'We need to speak unspeakable things. We need more un-pretty stories.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550543Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diagnosis Normal: Living with abuse, undiagnosed autism, and COVID-grade crazy Author: Emma A. Jane Narrator: Emma A. Jane Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diagnosis Normal: Living with abuse, undiagnosed autism, and COVID-grade crazy Author: Emma A. Jane Narrator: Emma A. Jane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'I have three gears: glum melancholy, inappropriate outbursts, and extreme slapstick. On a good day, I can pass as normal but not for too many minutes. I'm what most people would regard as a hardened introvert . . . I like other people. I'm just not very good at them.' Emma Jane has lived a thousand colourful lives. She escaped a small town and a traumatic childhood by moving to Sydney, where she made an indelible imprint on the oppressively blokey mediascape. She played in an all-girl band, married a rock star she hardly knew, had a baby, ditched journalism for academia, and changed her name from Emma Tom to Emma Jane. But all the while she was struggling with her mental health. Then, during the first Sydney lockdown she was accidentally sectioned in a psychiatric ward. At the time she wasn't sure whether to be more embarrassed by the institutionalisation or the fact she'd forgotten to set her at-home eyebrow dye timer and looked like Groucho Marx. Given everyone suffered some sort of corona-related DIY body hair disaster, however, she decided to focus on her confinement, and when she was subsequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder a number of things suddenly fell into place. Emma writes candidly about the complex combination of autism, mental illness and childhood sexual abuse that led to her being the person she is, and explores the impact each has on so many others in society. Critically, by breaking the toxic silence surrounding sexual violence and mental illness, she raises the possibility of not just surviving them but thriving. As she writes: 'We need to speak unspeakable things. We need more un-pretty stories.']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lovers-dreamers-fighters-by-lo-carmen--65186435https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers Dreamers Fighters Author: Lo Carmen Narrator: Lo Carmen, Mark Mordue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A beautiful and moving memoir about passion, creativity and fearlessness from one of Australia's true creatives, singer/songwriter Lo Carmen, inspired by the lives and careers of other remarkable Australian women - such as Renee Geyer, Chrissy Amphlett, Robyn Archer and Wendy Saddington. 'If you don't know Lo, you don't know sh*t. This is the best music book of the year, a dream-like celebration of women and song. A triumph.' Noah Taylor 'We've all got them, the lighters of the way, those mythological wonders who glow in our dark. These are the ones I got to be close to, whether in a real or allusive sense; these are the ones that got to me in a way that still flows through my veins. I think you'll understand why soon...' Lo Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as in the seminal Australian film The Year My Voice Broke, for which she was nominated for an AFI award. But even before that, Lo has lived a bigger life than most. From being backstage at Rolling Stones concerts when she was a baby to writing her first song at eight; performing an original song onstage at nine; having a baby while barely out of her teens; forming her first band at twenty one; touring Europe without a manager, funds or a safety net; and all the while making music her life and her art. In all this, Lo has been inspired by a handful of women - all icons, one way or another, of modern Australian life. Lo Carmen weaves her own remarkable story as a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter together with compelling portraits of the women who have influenced her life and career: bold creative visionaries, trailblazers, provocateurs, pioneers, feminists and activists such as Renee Geyer, Chrissy Amphlett, Robyn Archer and Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, exploring the often complex lives of these fascinating women as a way of understanding her own life and choices. A tender, joyous, messy, vibrant and wholly inspiring investigation of creativity, passion, purpose, art and music. 'A hard won account of the mess, glory and risk of making art. Lo tells her story by telling the stories of all those who've lit and tended her flame. She knows that worship is at the heart of creation. And she writes like a river.' Paul Kelly 'Loene has always been unique. Lovers Dreamers Fighters is beautifully written.' Don Walker 'There is an electricity and trueness to Loene's voice you can't fake. It involves her passion for art and music, but also a love for outsiders who have something special to give. Her intense humanity and feel for unexpected intimate detail goes to your core.' Mark Mordue, Boy on Fire 'A little bit country, a little bit rock n roll, Loene Carmen's writing is vivid, sassy and intimate. From the studios of Nashville to the grimy bars of the Cross, Lovers Dreamers Fighters is a memoir about the power of song, family and spiritual connection, but most of all a love letter to the soul-sisters who have shaped Lo's creative spirit, and Australia's cultural history, through the generations.' Kirsten Krauth, Almost a Mirror]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554184Wed, 23 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers Dreamers Fighters Author: Lo Carmen Narrator: Lo Carmen, Mark Mordue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers Dreamers Fighters Author: Lo Carmen Narrator: Lo Carmen, Mark Mordue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A beautiful and moving memoir about passion, creativity and fearlessness from one of Australia's true creatives, singer/songwriter Lo Carmen, inspired by the lives and careers of other remarkable Australian women - such as Renee Geyer, Chrissy Amphlett, Robyn Archer and Wendy Saddington. 'If you don't know Lo, you don't know sh*t. This is the best music book of the year, a dream-like celebration of women and song. A triumph.' Noah Taylor 'We've all got them, the lighters of the way, those mythological wonders who glow in our dark. These are the ones I got to be close to, whether in a real or allusive sense; these are the ones that got to me in a way that still flows through my veins. I think you'll understand why soon...' Lo Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as in the seminal Australian film The Year My Voice Broke, for which she was nominated for an AFI award. But even before that, Lo has lived a bigger life than most. From being backstage at Rolling Stones concerts when she was a baby to writing her first song at eight; performing an original song onstage at nine; having a baby while barely out of her teens; forming her first band at twenty one; touring Europe without a manager, funds or a safety net; and all the while making music her life and her art. In all this, Lo has been inspired by a handful of women - all icons, one way or another, of modern Australian life. Lo Carmen weaves her own remarkable story as a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter together with compelling portraits of the women who have influenced her life and career: bold creative visionaries, trailblazers, provocateurs, pioneers, feminists and activists such as Renee Geyer, Chrissy Amphlett, Robyn Archer and Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, exploring the often complex lives of these fascinating women as a way of understanding her own life and choices. A tender, joyous, messy, vibrant and wholly inspiring investigation of creativity, passion, purpose, art and music. 'A hard won account of the mess, glory and risk of making art. Lo tells her story by telling the stories of all those who've lit and tended her flame. She knows that worship is at the heart of creation. And she writes like a river.' Paul Kelly 'Loene has always been unique. Lovers Dreamers Fighters is beautifully written.' Don Walker 'There is an electricity and trueness to Loene's voice you can't fake. It involves her passion for art and music, but also a love for outsiders who have something special to give. Her intense humanity and feel for unexpected intimate detail goes to your core.' Mark Mordue, Boy on Fire 'A little bit country, a little bit rock n roll, Loene Carmen's writing is vivid, sassy and intimate. From the studios of Nashville to the grimy bars of the Cross, Lovers Dreamers Fighters is a memoir about the power of song, family and spiritual connection, but most of all a love letter to the soul-sisters who have shaped Lo's creative spirit, and Australia's cultural history, through the generations.' Kirsten Krauth, Almost a Mirror]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hunting-buffalo-with-bent-nails-by-lawrence-block--65186496https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails Author: Lawrence Block Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. Over the years, Block has written extensively for magazines and periodicals. Generally Speaking collects his philatelic columns from Linn's Stamp News, while his extensive observations of crime fiction, along with personal glimpses of some of its foremost practitioners, have won wide acclaim in book form as The Crime of Our Lives. Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails is what he's got left over. The title piece, originally published in American Heritage, recounts the ongoing adventure Block and his wife undertook, crisscrossing the United States and parts of Canada in their quixotic and exotic quest to find every 'village, hamlet, and wide place in the road named Buffalo.' Other travel tales share space with a remembrance of his mother, odes to New York, a disquisition on pen names and book tours, and, well, no end of bent nails not worth straightening. Where else will you find 'Raymond Chandler and the Brasher Doubloon,' an assessment of that compelling writer from a numismatic standpoint? Where else can you hear about Block's collection of old subway cars? Highly recommended.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552274Tue, 22 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails Author: Lawrence Block Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails Author: Lawrence Block Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. Over the years, Block has written extensively for magazines and periodicals. Generally Speaking collects his philatelic columns from Linn's Stamp News, while his extensive observations of crime fiction, along with personal glimpses of some of its foremost practitioners, have won wide acclaim in book form as The Crime of Our Lives. Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails is what he's got left over. The title piece, originally published in American Heritage, recounts the ongoing adventure Block and his wife undertook, crisscrossing the United States and parts of Canada in their quixotic and exotic quest to find every 'village, hamlet, and wide place in the road named Buffalo.' Other travel tales share space with a remembrance of his mother, odes to New York, a disquisition on pen names and book tours, and, well, no end of bent nails not worth straightening. Where else will you find 'Raymond Chandler and the Brasher Doubloon,' an assessment of that compelling writer from a numismatic standpoint? Where else can you hear about Block's collection of old subway cars? Highly recommended.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-compromise-the-life-story-of-keith-green-by-melody-green--65186495https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green Author: Melody Green Narrator: Brittany Goodwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Get a glimpse into the life of the late musician Keith Green through this revised, updated, and expanded 25th-anniversary edition of his inspiring biography, written by his wife, Melody. American pianist, singer, and contemporary Christian songwriter Keith Green was only 28 when he died in a plane crash with two of his small children, but he had already created a legacy of music and inspiration that would outlive him. Keith touched people through vibrant lyrics in songs like 'Your Love Broke Through', 'You Put This Love in My Heart', and 'Asleep in the Light'. In No Compromise, Melody has updated her husband's biography to include: - New never-before-seen photos - Essays from current musicians who Keith influenced - Selections from Keith’s private journal - Stories about what it’s like raising their two remaining children alone A spiritual revolutionary, Keith found freedom through Jesus and spent his last years convincing others to refuse to accept the status quo and instead to bring compassion and honesty back to the church. Last Days Ministries, which he and his wife Melody founded, went on to challenge thousands of people to take to the mission fields of the world. Now, on the 25th anniversary of his death, Melody has updated her husband's biography with new stories and insights about their life, photographs never before published, and glimpses into Melody’s season of grieving.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552636Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green Author: Melody Green Narrator: Brittany Goodwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green Author: Melody Green Narrator: Brittany Goodwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Get a glimpse into the life of the late musician Keith Green through this revised, updated, and expanded 25th-anniversary edition of his inspiring biography, written by his wife, Melody. American pianist, singer, and contemporary Christian songwriter Keith Green was only 28 when he died in a plane crash with two of his small children, but he had already created a legacy of music and inspiration that would outlive him. Keith touched people through vibrant lyrics in songs like 'Your Love Broke Through', 'You Put This Love in My Heart', and 'Asleep in the Light'. In No Compromise, Melody has updated her husband's biography to include: - New never-before-seen photos - Essays from current musicians who Keith influenced - Selections from Keith’s private journal - Stories about what it’s like raising their two remaining children alone A spiritual revolutionary, Keith found freedom through Jesus and spent his last years convincing others to refuse to accept the status quo and instead to bring compassion and honesty back to the church. Last Days Ministries, which he and his wife Melody founded, went on to challenge thousands of people to take to the mission fields of the world. Now, on the 25th anniversary of his death, Melody has updated her husband's biography with new stories and insights about their life, photographs never before published, and glimpses into Melody’s season of grieving.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-in-the-world-a-memoir-by-amartya-sen--65186449https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home in the World: A Memoir Author: Amartya Sen Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” from Dhaka in modern Bangladesh to Trinity College, Cambridge. In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first century life. Interweaving scenes from his youth with candid reflections on wealth, welfare, and social justice, Sen shows how his life experiences—in Asia, Europe, and later America—vitally informed his work, culminating in the ultimate “portrait of a citizen of the world” (Philip Hensher, Spectator).“Sen is more than an economist, moral philosopher or even an academic. He is a life-long campaigner … for a more noble idea of home.”—Edward Luce, Financial Times (UK)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554612Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home in the World: A Memoir Author: Amartya Sen Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home in the World: A Memoir Author: Amartya Sen Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” from Dhaka in modern Bangladesh to Trinity College, Cambridge. In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth- and twenty-first century life. Interweaving scenes from his youth with candid reflections on wealth, welfare, and social justice, Sen shows how his life experiences—in Asia, Europe, and later America—vitally informed his work, culminating in the ultimate “portrait of a citizen of the world” (Philip Hensher, Spectator).“Sen is more than an economist, moral philosopher or even an academic. He is a life-long campaigner … for a more noble idea of home.”—Edward Luce, Financial Times (UK)]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/foreverland-on-the-divine-tedium-of-marriage-by-heather-havrilesky--65186630https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage Author: Heather Havrilesky Narrator: Heather Havrilesky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Full of razor-sharp, big-hearted wisdom…. Couples should read this book aloud to each other instead of writing vows. People who never want to get married should read this book anyway.” —Leslie Jamison An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life? In Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky illustrates the delights, aggravations, and sublime calamities of her marriage over the span of fifteen years, charting an unpredictable course from meeting her one true love to slowly learning just how much energy is required to keep that love aflame. This refreshingly honest portrait of a marriage reveals that our relationships are not simply “happy” or “unhappy,” but something much murkier—at once unsavory, taxing, and deeply satisfying. With tales of fumbled proposals, harrowing suburban migrations, external temptations, and the bewildering insults of growing older, Foreverland is a work of rare candor and insight. Havrilesky traces a path from daydreaming about forever for the first time to understanding what a tedious, glorious drag forever can be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546762Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage Author: Heather Havrilesky Narrator: Heather Havrilesky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage Author: Heather Havrilesky Narrator: Heather Havrilesky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Full of razor-sharp, big-hearted wisdom…. Couples should read this book aloud to each other instead of writing vows. People who never want to get married should read this book anyway.” —Leslie Jamison An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life? In Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky illustrates the delights, aggravations, and sublime calamities of her marriage over the span of fifteen years, charting an unpredictable course from meeting her one true love to slowly learning just how much energy is required to keep that love aflame. This refreshingly honest portrait of a marriage reveals that our relationships are not simply “happy” or “unhappy,” but something much murkier—at once unsavory, taxing, and deeply satisfying. With tales of fumbled proposals, harrowing suburban migrations, external temptations, and the bewildering insults of growing older, Foreverland is a work of rare candor and insight. Havrilesky traces a path from daydreaming about forever for the first time to understanding what a tedious, glorious drag forever can be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-is-a-black-woman-by-christena-cleveland--65186577https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Is a Black Woman Author: Christena Cleveland Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural “whitemalegod” and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence. For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she’d been implicitly taught to worship—a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena.  Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped  by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America’s collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549503Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Is a Black Woman Author: Christena Cleveland Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Is a Black Woman Author: Christena Cleveland Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural “whitemalegod” and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence. For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she’d been implicitly taught to worship—a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena.  Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped  by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America’s collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-host-a-viking-funeral-the-case-for-burning-your-regrets-chasing-your-crazy-ideas-and-becoming-the-person-you-re-meant-to-be-by-kyl--65186555https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Host a Viking Funeral: The Case for Burning Your Regrets, Chasing Your Crazy Ideas, and Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be Author: Kyle Scheele Narrator: Kyle Scheele Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship.  This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope. Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this milestone. Instead of a birthday bash, he decided to hold a funeral to memorialize the decade of his life that was ending. Building a 16-foot Viking ship out of cardboard, he invited friends to help him set it on fire—a symbolic farewell to his 20s and all the grief, regret, and mistakes that accompanied those years.  When video of his Viking funeral went viral, it encouraged many others to let go of past hurts as well. Moved by the response he received, Kyle planned a second funeral (this time with a 30-foot cardboard Viking ship) and asked people to share the things they carried—the bad choices, disappointments, heartaches, and negative thinking that they wanted to lay to rest. He received more than 20,000 responses from around the world—stories both heartbreaking and hilarious, painful and inspiring.  In this entertaining and wise book, Kyle reflects on what he discovered about freeing ourselves from the pain of the past, interweaving anecdotes from those who participated with the story of his own journey of renewal. “This story involves multiple Viking funerals, thousands of square feet of cardboard, and enough hot glue to supply your mother-in-law's craft night for the rest of time,” he writes. “But it also involves regret, self-doubt, insecurity, and ultimately, redemption. So buckle up. It's about to get bumpy.” How to Host a Viking Funeral is the story of letting go of the people we used to be, but no longer want to be. It’s about renewal; where there was once regret there is now blank space—an opportunity for a fresh start.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550048Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Host a Viking Funeral: The Case for Burning Your Regrets, Chasing Your Crazy Ideas, and Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be Author: Kyle...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Host a Viking Funeral: The Case for Burning Your Regrets, Chasing Your Crazy Ideas, and Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be Author: Kyle Scheele Narrator: Kyle Scheele Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship.  This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope. Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this milestone. Instead of a birthday bash, he decided to hold a funeral to memorialize the decade of his life that was ending. Building a 16-foot Viking ship out of cardboard, he invited friends to help him set it on fire—a symbolic farewell to his 20s and all the grief, regret, and mistakes that accompanied those years.  When video of his Viking funeral went viral, it encouraged many others to let go of past hurts as well. Moved by the response he received, Kyle planned a second funeral (this time with a 30-foot cardboard Viking ship) and asked people to share the things they carried—the bad choices, disappointments, heartaches, and negative thinking that they wanted to lay to rest. He received more than 20,000 responses from around the world—stories both heartbreaking and hilarious, painful and inspiring.  In this entertaining and wise book, Kyle reflects on what he discovered about freeing ourselves from the pain of the past, interweaving anecdotes from those who participated with the story of his own journey of renewal. “This story involves multiple Viking funerals, thousands of square feet of cardboard, and enough hot glue to supply your mother-in-law's craft night for the rest of time,” he writes. “But it also involves regret, self-doubt, insecurity, and ultimately, redemption. So buckle up. It's about to get bumpy.” How to Host a Viking Funeral is the story of letting go of the people we used to be, but no longer want to be. It’s about renewal; where there was once regret there is now blank space—an opportunity for a fresh start.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-work-with-animals-by-gareth-steel--65186629https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Work with Animals Author: Gareth Steel Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour – all in one day. Welcome to the extraordinary world of veterinary medicine… In Never Work with Animals, vet Gareth Steel shares the moments of humour, horror and heroism across his 20-year career caring for creatures great and small, from bulls to stick insects. Thought-provoking, heartwarming and often laugh-out-loud funny, this unforgettable memoir reveals what life is really like for our vets.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546784Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Work with Animals Author: Gareth Steel Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 3,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Work with Animals Author: Gareth Steel Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour – all in one day. Welcome to the extraordinary world of veterinary medicine… In Never Work with Animals, vet Gareth Steel shares the moments of humour, horror and heroism across his 20-year career caring for creatures great and small, from bulls to stick insects. Thought-provoking, heartwarming and often laugh-out-loud funny, this unforgettable memoir reveals what life is really like for our vets.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sequins-for-a-ragged-hem-by-amryl-johnson--65186590https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sequins for a Ragged Hem Series: #8 of Black Britain: Writing Back Author: Amryl Johnson Narrator: Martina Laird, Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s 'Memories demanded that I complete this book. If what I experienced was, in fact, a haunting, I believe I have now laid these ghosts to rest in a style which I hope will satisfy even the most determined ones.' Amryl Johnson came to England from Trinidad when she was eleven. As an adult in 1983, ready for a homecoming, she embarks on a journey through the Caribbean searching for home, searching for herself. Landing in Trinidad as carnival begins, she instantly surrenders to the collective, pulsating rhythm of the crowd, euphoric in her total freedom. This elation is shattered when she finds the house where she was born has been destroyed. She cannot escape - nor wants to - from the inheritance of colonialism. Her bittersweet welcome sets the tone for her intoxicating exploration of these distinct islands. In evocative, lyrical prose Sequins for a Ragged Hem is an astonishingly unique memoir, interrogating the way our past and present selves live alongside one another. Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books from Black Britain and the diaspora, which remap the nation and reframe our history. © Amryl Johnson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550251Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sequins for a Ragged Hem Series: #8 of Black Britain: Writing Back Author: Amryl Johnson Narrator: Martina Laird, Bernardine Evaristo Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sequins for a Ragged Hem Series: #8 of Black Britain: Writing Back Author: Amryl Johnson Narrator: Martina Laird, Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s 'Memories demanded that I complete this book. If what I experienced was, in fact, a haunting, I believe I have now laid these ghosts to rest in a style which I hope will satisfy even the most determined ones.' Amryl Johnson came to England from Trinidad when she was eleven. As an adult in 1983, ready for a homecoming, she embarks on a journey through the Caribbean searching for home, searching for herself. Landing in Trinidad as carnival begins, she instantly surrenders to the collective, pulsating rhythm of the crowd, euphoric in her total freedom. This elation is shattered when she finds the house where she was born has been destroyed. She cannot escape - nor wants to - from the inheritance of colonialism. Her bittersweet welcome sets the tone for her intoxicating exploration of these distinct islands. In evocative, lyrical prose Sequins for a Ragged Hem is an astonishingly unique memoir, interrogating the way our past and present selves live alongside one another. Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books from Black Britain and the diaspora, which remap the nation and reframe our history. © Amryl Johnson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-fathers-daughter-by-hannah-azieb-pool--65186463https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fathers' Daughter Series: #7 of Black Britain: Writing Back Author: Hannah Azieb Pool Narrator: Yusra Warsama, Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time 'When I stepped off the plane in Asmara, I had no idea what lay ahead, or how those events would change me . . .' In her twenties, Hannah-Azieb Pool is given a letter that unravels everything she knows about her life. She knew she was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea, and as her adoptive family brought her to the UK, they believed she did not have any surviving relatives. When she discovers the truth in a letter from her brother - that her birth father is alive and her Eritrean family are desperate to meet her - she is faced with a critical choice. Should she go? In this intimate memoir, she takes us with her on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, as she travels to Eritrea to uncover her own story. With radiant warmth, courage and wisdom, Hannah-Azieb disentangles the charged concepts of identity, family and home. Featuring a new introduction from Bernardine Evaristo and an updated afterword from the author, this is a timeless, essential read. 'Remarkable' Observer 'What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books from black Britain and the diaspora, which remap the nation and reframe our history. © Hannah Azieb 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555124Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fathers' Daughter Series: #7 of Black Britain: Writing Back Author: Hannah Azieb Pool Narrator: Yusra Warsama, Bernardine Evaristo Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fathers' Daughter Series: #7 of Black Britain: Writing Back Author: Hannah Azieb Pool Narrator: Yusra Warsama, Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time 'When I stepped off the plane in Asmara, I had no idea what lay ahead, or how those events would change me . . .' In her twenties, Hannah-Azieb Pool is given a letter that unravels everything she knows about her life. She knew she was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea, and as her adoptive family brought her to the UK, they believed she did not have any surviving relatives. When she discovers the truth in a letter from her brother - that her birth father is alive and her Eritrean family are desperate to meet her - she is faced with a critical choice. Should she go? In this intimate memoir, she takes us with her on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, as she travels to Eritrea to uncover her own story. With radiant warmth, courage and wisdom, Hannah-Azieb disentangles the charged concepts of identity, family and home. Featuring a new introduction from Bernardine Evaristo and an updated afterword from the author, this is a timeless, essential read. 'Remarkable' Observer 'What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books from black Britain and the diaspora, which remap the nation and reframe our history. © Hannah Azieb 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ex-boyfriend-yard-sale-finding-a-formula-for-the-cost-of-love-by-haley-mcgee--65186570https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love Author: Haley Mcgee Narrator: Haley Mcgee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Haley McGee sets out to calculate—with mathematical precision—the exact cost of love, and whether all of her former relationships were worth it. Haley McGee is in debt. The solution? A yard sale of gifts from her ex-boyfriends.   But when it comes to pricing, she gets stuck. Surely the ways we invest in our romantic relationships should be reflected in the price. But how? Is the mixtape from your first love worth more than the vintage typewriter from a philanderer? Does sitting on an X-Acto knife wedged between seats on a bus to see the boyfriend you lost your virginity to increase or decrease the value of the necklace he gave you? Should you be compensated for the miserable times or do they render an item worthless?   Haley decides to gamble on a larger payout. She interviews her exes and enlists the help of a mathematician to create a formula—with eighty-six variables—for the cost of love. As she's searching for answers, the one that got away reappears with a new proposition.   Female desire, heartbreak and the chance for integrity in the aftermath of both are held up in this whipsmart, original and daringly candid memoir. As Haley McGee interrogates her romantic triumphs and failures with unflinching detail and hilarity, her exquisite prose elevates this all too human conundrum: Is love worth it?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548740Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love Author: Haley Mcgee Narrator: Haley Mcgee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love Author: Haley Mcgee Narrator: Haley Mcgee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Haley McGee sets out to calculate—with mathematical precision—the exact cost of love, and whether all of her former relationships were worth it. Haley McGee is in debt. The solution? A yard sale of gifts from her ex-boyfriends.   But when it comes to pricing, she gets stuck. Surely the ways we invest in our romantic relationships should be reflected in the price. But how? Is the mixtape from your first love worth more than the vintage typewriter from a philanderer? Does sitting on an X-Acto knife wedged between seats on a bus to see the boyfriend you lost your virginity to increase or decrease the value of the necklace he gave you? Should you be compensated for the miserable times or do they render an item worthless?   Haley decides to gamble on a larger payout. She interviews her exes and enlists the help of a mathematician to create a formula—with eighty-six variables—for the cost of love. As she's searching for answers, the one that got away reappears with a new proposition.   Female desire, heartbreak and the chance for integrity in the aftermath of both are held up in this whipsmart, original and daringly candid memoir. As Haley McGee interrogates her romantic triumphs and failures with unflinching detail and hilarity, her exquisite prose elevates this all too human conundrum: Is love worth it?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mala-s-cat-the-moving-and-unforgettable-true-story-of-one-girl-s-survival-during-the-holocaust-by-mala-kacenberg--65186481https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust Author: Mala Kacenberg Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Alone in a forest with only a cat for company, this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust. Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends reduced to starvation. She takes matters into her own hands, and bravely removes her yellow star, risking sneaking out to the surrounding villages to barter for food. It is on her way back that she sees her loved ones rounded up for deportation, and receives a smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away. With only her cat, Malach, and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she walks away from everything she holds dear. Malach becomes her family, her only respite from painful loneliness, a guide and reminder to stay hopeful even when faced with unfathomable darkness. With her guardian angel by her side, Mala finds a way to navigate the dangerous forests, outwit German soldiers and hostile villagers, and survive, against all odds. © Mala Kacenberg 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553737Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust Author: Mala Kacenberg Narrator: Kristin Atherton...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust Author: Mala Kacenberg Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Alone in a forest with only a cat for company, this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust. Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends reduced to starvation. She takes matters into her own hands, and bravely removes her yellow star, risking sneaking out to the surrounding villages to barter for food. It is on her way back that she sees her loved ones rounded up for deportation, and receives a smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away. With only her cat, Malach, and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she walks away from everything she holds dear. Malach becomes her family, her only respite from painful loneliness, a guide and reminder to stay hopeful even when faced with unfathomable darkness. With her guardian angel by her side, Mala finds a way to navigate the dangerous forests, outwit German soldiers and hostile villagers, and survive, against all odds. © Mala Kacenberg 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-will-be-funny-later-a-memoir-by-jenny-pentland--65186591https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir Author: Jenny Pentland Narrator: Jenny Pentland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame. Growing up, Jenny Pentland’s life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother’s smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland’s early family life in working-class Denver. But that was only the beginning of the drama. Roseanne Barr’s success as a comedian catapulted the family from the Rockies to star-studded Hollywood—with its toxic culture of money, celebrity, and prying tabloids that was destabilizing for a child in grade school.  By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues. Her parents and new stepfather, struggling to help, responded by sending Jenny and her siblings on a grand tour of the self-help movement of the ’80s—from fat camps to brat camps, wilderness survival programs to drug rehab clinics (even though Jenny didn’t take drugs). Becoming an adult, all Jenny wanted was to get married and have kids, despite Roseanne’s admonishments not to limit herself to being just a wife and mother.  In this scathingly funny and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it’s like to grow up as the daughter of a television star and how she navigated the turmoil, eventually finding her own path. Now happily married and raising five sons on a farm, Pentland has worked tirelessly to create the stable family she never had, while coming to terms at last with her deep-seated anxiety.  This Will Be Funny Later is a darkly funny and frank chronicle of transition, from childhood to adulthood and motherhood—one woman’s journey to define herself and create the life she always wanted.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548481Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir Author: Jenny Pentland Narrator: Jenny Pentland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir Author: Jenny Pentland Narrator: Jenny Pentland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame. Growing up, Jenny Pentland’s life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother’s smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland’s early family life in working-class Denver. But that was only the beginning of the drama. Roseanne Barr’s success as a comedian catapulted the family from the Rockies to star-studded Hollywood—with its toxic culture of money, celebrity, and prying tabloids that was destabilizing for a child in grade school.  By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues. Her parents and new stepfather, struggling to help, responded by sending Jenny and her siblings on a grand tour of the self-help movement of the ’80s—from fat camps to brat camps, wilderness survival programs to drug rehab clinics (even though Jenny didn’t take drugs). Becoming an adult, all Jenny wanted was to get married and have kids, despite Roseanne’s admonishments not to limit herself to being just a wife and mother.  In this scathingly funny and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it’s like to grow up as the daughter of a television star and how she navigated the turmoil, eventually finding her own path. Now happily married and raising five sons on a farm, Pentland has worked tirelessly to create the stable family she never had, while coming to terms at last with her deep-seated anxiety.  This Will Be Funny Later is a darkly funny and frank chronicle of transition, from childhood to adulthood and motherhood—one woman’s journey to define herself and create the life she always wanted.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-inconvenient-journalist-by-dusko-doder-louise-branson--65186507https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inconvenient Journalist Author: Dusko Doder, Louise Branson Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that 'Doder must be smoking pot.' When Soviet authorities confirmed Andropov's death, journalists and intelligence officials questioned how a lone reporter could scoop the multibillion-dollar US spy agency. The stage was set for Cold War-style revenge against the star journalist, and that long night at the teletype machine in Moscow became a pivotal moment in Doder's life. Taking aim at Doder, the CIA insinuated a story into Time magazine suggesting that he had been coopted by the KGB. Doder's professional world collapsed and his personal life was shaken as he fought Time in court. In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder reflects on this attempt to destroy his reputation, his dedication to reporting the truth, and the vital but precarious role of the free press today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553134Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inconvenient Journalist Author: Dusko Doder, Louise Branson Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inconvenient Journalist Author: Dusko Doder, Louise Branson Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that 'Doder must be smoking pot.' When Soviet authorities confirmed Andropov's death, journalists and intelligence officials questioned how a lone reporter could scoop the multibillion-dollar US spy agency. The stage was set for Cold War-style revenge against the star journalist, and that long night at the teletype machine in Moscow became a pivotal moment in Doder's life. Taking aim at Doder, the CIA insinuated a story into Time magazine suggesting that he had been coopted by the KGB. Doder's professional world collapsed and his personal life was shaken as he fought Time in court. In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder reflects on this attempt to destroy his reputation, his dedication to reporting the truth, and the vital but precarious role of the free press today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/free-a-child-and-a-country-at-the-end-of-history-by-lea-ypi--65186485https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History Author: Lea Ypi Narrator: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A reflection on 'freedom' in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were 'universities' from which few 'graduated,' she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. Then the statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote and worship freely, and invest in hopes of striking it rich. But factories shut, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy, only to be sent back. Pyramid schemes bankrupted the country, leading to violence. One generation's dreams became another's disillusionment. As her own family's secrets were revealed, Ypi found herself questioning what 'freedom' really means. With acute insight and wit, Ypi traces the perils of ideology, and what people need to flourish.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552436Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History Author: Lea Ypi Narrator: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History Author: Lea Ypi Narrator: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A reflection on 'freedom' in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were 'universities' from which few 'graduated,' she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. Then the statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote and worship freely, and invest in hopes of striking it rich. But factories shut, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy, only to be sent back. Pyramid schemes bankrupted the country, leading to violence. One generation's dreams became another's disillusionment. As her own family's secrets were revealed, Ypi found herself questioning what 'freedom' really means. With acute insight and wit, Ypi traces the perils of ideology, and what people need to flourish.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/persephone-s-children-a-life-in-fragments-by-rowan-mccandless--65186433https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments Author: Rowan Mccandless Narrator: Deanna Anthony Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell. Persephone's Children chronicles Rowan McCandless's odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency. It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554699Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments Author: Rowan Mccandless Narrator: Deanna Anthony Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments Author: Rowan Mccandless Narrator: Deanna Anthony Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After years of secrecy and silence, Rowan McCandless leaves an abusive relationship and rediscovers her voice and identity through writing. She was never to lie to him. She was never to leave him; and she was never supposed to tell. Persephone's Children chronicles Rowan McCandless's odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship. Through a series of thematically linked and structurally inventive essays, McCandless explores the fraught and fragmented relationship between memory and trauma. Multiple mythologies emerge to bind legacy and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, racism and intergenerational trauma, mental illness and resiliency. It is only in the aftermath that she can begin to see the patterns in her history, hear the echoes of oppression passed down from unknown, unnamed ancestors, and discover her worth and right to exist in the world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/manifesto-on-never-giving-up-by-bernardine-evaristo--65186423https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up Author: Bernardine Evaristo Narrator: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo’s astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo’s life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic humor, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings, with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother; tells the story of how she helped set up Britain’s first Black women’s theater company; remembers the queer relationships of her twenties; and recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and aging. She reminds us of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. In Manifesto, Evaristo charts her theory of unstoppability, showing creative people how they too can visualize and find success in their work, ignoring the naysayers. Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text, Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted. Evaristo shows us how we too can follow in her footsteps, from first vision, to insistent perseverance, to eventual triumph.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556159Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up Author: Bernardine Evaristo Narrator: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up Author: Bernardine Evaristo Narrator: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo’s astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo’s life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic humor, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings, with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother; tells the story of how she helped set up Britain’s first Black women’s theater company; remembers the queer relationships of her twenties; and recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and aging. She reminds us of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. In Manifesto, Evaristo charts her theory of unstoppability, showing creative people how they too can visualize and find success in their work, ignoring the naysayers. Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text, Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted. Evaristo shows us how we too can follow in her footsteps, from first vision, to insistent perseverance, to eventual triumph.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silk-by-shaun-burgoyne--65186524https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silk Author: Shaun Burgoyne Narrator: Tamblyn Lord Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shaun Burgoyne - inspirational footballer, leader of his people, devoted family man - is one of the most respected players in AFL history, on and off the field. The man they call 'Silk' was the ultimate team player - versatile, highly skilled and hard at the contest, with an enviable reputation for being able to stand up in big moments. Burgoyne is a proud Indigenous man, with a football pedigree that is a story in itself. Starting with his father's time at the Koonibba Roosters, the oldest surviving Indigenous footy club in Australia, the Burgoyne name is directly linked to Gavin Wanganeen, Eddie Betts, Graham Johncock and many other AFL stars. In his 400-plus games, Burgoyne had only two coaches. He reveals the tough love dished out by Port Adelaide coach Mark 'Choco' Williams, and the left-field techniques of legendary Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson. He shares how he changed from star midfielder to role player, a move that enabled him to overcome injuries and become one of the best impact players the game has seen. Burgoyne's story isn't just about winning four premierships and becoming the Indigenous games record holder. He experienced the ugliness of racist taunts, from growing up in Port Lincoln to bearing witness to the fallout of Adam Goodes' public stance on racism. The way Burgoyne sees it, we can't change history but we must learn from it, and work towards reconciliation, to a position of mutual respect and understanding. This modest champion shares what he has learnt to show others what is possible when you seize opportunities, are willing to put in the work and surround yourself with the right people - family, friends, teammates, mentors - who will inspire, support and guide you every step of the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551256Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silk Author: Shaun Burgoyne Narrator: Tamblyn Lord Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 5, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silk Author: Shaun Burgoyne Narrator: Tamblyn Lord Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shaun Burgoyne - inspirational footballer, leader of his people, devoted family man - is one of the most respected players in AFL history, on and off the field. The man they call 'Silk' was the ultimate team player - versatile, highly skilled and hard at the contest, with an enviable reputation for being able to stand up in big moments. Burgoyne is a proud Indigenous man, with a football pedigree that is a story in itself. Starting with his father's time at the Koonibba Roosters, the oldest surviving Indigenous footy club in Australia, the Burgoyne name is directly linked to Gavin Wanganeen, Eddie Betts, Graham Johncock and many other AFL stars. In his 400-plus games, Burgoyne had only two coaches. He reveals the tough love dished out by Port Adelaide coach Mark 'Choco' Williams, and the left-field techniques of legendary Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson. He shares how he changed from star midfielder to role player, a move that enabled him to overcome injuries and become one of the best impact players the game has seen. Burgoyne's story isn't just about winning four premierships and becoming the Indigenous games record holder. He experienced the ugliness of racist taunts, from growing up in Port Lincoln to bearing witness to the fallout of Adam Goodes' public stance on racism. The way Burgoyne sees it, we can't change history but we must learn from it, and work towards reconciliation, to a position of mutual respect and understanding. This modest champion shares what he has learnt to show others what is possible when you seize opportunities, are willing to put in the work and surround yourself with the right people - family, friends, teammates, mentors - who will inspire, support and guide you every step of the way.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unbreakable-boy-a-father-s-fear-a-son-s-courage-and-a-story-of-unconditional-love-by-scott-michael-lerette--65186600https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love Author: Scott Michael Lerette Narrator: Stu Gray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Unbreakable Boy is a raucously tender story of a teenage boy who joyfully embraces life's tragedies and triumphs--and an inspiring story of how his father was transformed through their journey together. Like any other teenage boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year-olds, he has a rare brittle bone disease, was locked in a mental ward as a child, and is autistic. Yet Austin doesn't let any of that stop him from embracing life. His is a world where suffering a broken back is a minor inconvenience and the quest for the ultimate strawberry shake just might be the best day of his life. Austin's journey dares us to believe that - miracles are possible; - hope does spring eternal; and - we can find joyous moments to celebrate every day. Written with remarkable candor by Austin's father, Scott, and New York Times bestselling author Susy Flory, The Unbreakable Boy weaves the beautiful and often humorous tale of how Austin teaches his father--and everyone else he encounters--to have faith in God and trust that one day life's messes will all make sense. Family photos and further resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547375Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love Author: Scott Michael Lerette Narrator: Stu Gray Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love Author: Scott Michael Lerette Narrator: Stu Gray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Unbreakable Boy is a raucously tender story of a teenage boy who joyfully embraces life's tragedies and triumphs--and an inspiring story of how his father was transformed through their journey together. Like any other teenage boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year-olds, he has a rare brittle bone disease, was locked in a mental ward as a child, and is autistic. Yet Austin doesn't let any of that stop him from embracing life. His is a world where suffering a broken back is a minor inconvenience and the quest for the ultimate strawberry shake just might be the best day of his life. Austin's journey dares us to believe that - miracles are possible; - hope does spring eternal; and - we can find joyous moments to celebrate every day. Written with remarkable candor by Austin's father, Scott, and New York Times bestselling author Susy Flory, The Unbreakable Boy weaves the beautiful and often humorous tale of how Austin teaches his father--and everyone else he encounters--to have faith in God and trust that one day life's messes will all make sense. Family photos and further resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unthinkable-trauma-truth-and-the-trials-of-american-democracy-by-jamie-raskin--65186598https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy Author: Jamie Raskin Narrator: Jamie Raskin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.  On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief—both personal and professional—and lead the impeachment effort against President Trump for inciting the violence. Together this nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in American history.  Now for the first time, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy’s convictions fueled the Congressman’s work in the aftermath of modern democracy’s darkest day. Going inside Congress on January 6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup—not against a President but for one. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden’s election. With an inside account of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate, Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans alike of Trump’s responsibility for inciting insurrectionary violence against our government.  Through it all, he reckons with the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son, a Harvard Law student whose values and memory continually inspired the Congressman to confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump. At turns, a moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence he fomented, this book is a vital reminder of the ongoing struggle for the soul of American democracy and the perseverance that our Constitution demands from us all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547454Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy Author: Jamie Raskin Narrator: Jamie Raskin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy Author: Jamie Raskin Narrator: Jamie Raskin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.  On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief—both personal and professional—and lead the impeachment effort against President Trump for inciting the violence. Together this nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in American history.  Now for the first time, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy’s convictions fueled the Congressman’s work in the aftermath of modern democracy’s darkest day. Going inside Congress on January 6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup—not against a President but for one. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden’s election. With an inside account of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate, Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans alike of Trump’s responsibility for inciting insurrectionary violence against our government.  Through it all, he reckons with the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son, a Harvard Law student whose values and memory continually inspired the Congressman to confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump. At turns, a moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence he fomented, this book is a vital reminder of the ongoing struggle for the soul of American democracy and the perseverance that our Constitution demands from us all.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-letter-a-father-s-struggle-a-daughter-s-quest-and-the-long-shadow-of-the-holocaust-by-karen-baum-gordon--65186568https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, A Daughter's Quest and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust Author: Karen Baum Gordon Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home, turned on the car ignition, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father's attempted suicide, Karen Baum Gordon, Rudy's daughter, began a sincere effort to understand the sequence of events that led her father to that dreadful day in 2002. What she found were hidden scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich. In The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust, Gordon explores not only her father's life story, but also the stories and events that shaped the lives of her grandparents—two Holocaust victims that Rudy tried in vain to save in the late 1930s and early years of World War II. This investigation of her family's history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Rudy's mother and Karen's grandmother, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. In five parts, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period and the psychological impact that reverberated from it in the generations that followed. Contains mature themes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552319Tue, 28 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, A Daughter's Quest and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust Author: Karen Baum Gordon Narrator: Christa Lewis Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, A Daughter's Quest and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust Author: Karen Baum Gordon Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home, turned on the car ignition, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father's attempted suicide, Karen Baum Gordon, Rudy's daughter, began a sincere effort to understand the sequence of events that led her father to that dreadful day in 2002. What she found were hidden scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich. In The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust, Gordon explores not only her father's life story, but also the stories and events that shaped the lives of her grandparents—two Holocaust victims that Rudy tried in vain to save in the late 1930s and early years of World War II. This investigation of her family's history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Rudy's mother and Karen's grandmother, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. In five parts, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period and the psychological impact that reverberated from it in the generations that followed. Contains mature themes.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bright-lights-prairie-dust-reflections-on-life-loss-and-love-from-little-house-s-ma-by-karen-grassle--65186453https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma Author: Karen Grassle Narrator: Karen Grassle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc. In this candid memoir, Grassle reveals her journey to succeed as an actress even as she struggles to overcome depression, combat her own dependence on alcohol, and find true love. With humor and hard-won wisdom, Grassle takes listeners on an inspiring journey through the political turmoil on '60s campuses, on to studies with some of the most celebrated artists at the famed London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and ultimately behind the curtains of Broadway stages and storied Hollywood sets. In these pages, readers meet actors and directors who have captivated us on screen and stage as they fall in love, betray and befriend, and don costumes only to reveal themselves. We know Karen Grassle best as the proud prairie woman Caroline Ingalls, with her quiet strength and devotion to family, but this memoir introduces readers to the complex, funny, rebellious, and soulful woman who, in addition to being the force behind those many strong women she played, fought passionately—as a writer, producer, and activist—on behalf of equal rights for women. Raw, emotional, and tender, Bright Lights celebrates and honors womanhood, in all its complexity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555670Tue, 28 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma Author: Karen Grassle Narrator: Karen Grassle Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma Author: Karen Grassle Narrator: Karen Grassle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc. In this candid memoir, Grassle reveals her journey to succeed as an actress even as she struggles to overcome depression, combat her own dependence on alcohol, and find true love. With humor and hard-won wisdom, Grassle takes listeners on an inspiring journey through the political turmoil on '60s campuses, on to studies with some of the most celebrated artists at the famed London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and ultimately behind the curtains of Broadway stages and storied Hollywood sets. In these pages, readers meet actors and directors who have captivated us on screen and stage as they fall in love, betray and befriend, and don costumes only to reveal themselves. We know Karen Grassle best as the proud prairie woman Caroline Ingalls, with her quiet strength and devotion to family, but this memoir introduces readers to the complex, funny, rebellious, and soulful woman who, in addition to being the force behind those many strong women she played, fought passionately—as a writer, producer, and activist—on behalf of equal rights for women. Raw, emotional, and tender, Bright Lights celebrates and honors womanhood, in all its complexity.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-first-50-by-natascia-tornetta-mallin--65186536https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First 50 Author: Natascia Tornetta-Mallin Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War, and The Great Recession set the stage as a young woman navigates the ambient decadence that has long defined Los Angeles. From hot tubs in Santa Monica mansions to bar bathrooms on Venice street corners, this book inverts Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero by replacing Gen X ennui with a Millennial zest for living. Meet 'The First 50,' but not the last . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550660Tue, 14 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First 50 Author: Natascia Tornetta-Mallin Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First 50 Author: Natascia Tornetta-Mallin Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War, and The Great Recession set the stage as a young woman navigates the ambient decadence that has long defined Los Angeles. From hot tubs in Santa Monica mansions to bar bathrooms on Venice street corners, this book inverts Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero by replacing Gen X ennui with a Millennial zest for living. Meet 'The First 50,' but not the last . . .]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/uneven-justice-the-plot-to-sink-galleon-by-raj-rajaratnam--65186533https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon Author: Raj Rajaratnam Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Raj Rajaratnam, the respected founder of the iconic hedge fund Galleon Group, which managed seven billion and employed 180 people in its heyday, chose to go to trial rather than concede to a false narrative concocted by ambitious prosecutors looking for a scapegoat for the 2008 financial crisis. Naively perhaps, Rajaratnam had expected to get a fair hearing in court. As an immigrant who had achieved tremendous success in his adopted country, he trusted the system. He had not anticipated prosecutorial overreach—inspired by political ambition—FBI fabrications, judicial compliance, and lies told under oath by cooperating witnesses. In the end, Rajaratnam was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He served seven and a half. Meanwhile, not a single senior bank executive responsible for the financial crisis was even charged. Uneven Justice is the story of his bewildering and confounding prosecution by forces who, quite frankly, were looking for bigger game. When Rajaratnam refused to support the narrative that would make that happen, he and the Galleon Group became collateral damage. A must-listen cautionary tale with implications for us all, Uneven Justice is an eye-opening lesson in the vagaries of justice when an unscrupulous prosecutor is calling the shots.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550699Tue, 14 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon Author: Raj Rajaratnam Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon Author: Raj Rajaratnam Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Raj Rajaratnam, the respected founder of the iconic hedge fund Galleon Group, which managed seven billion and employed 180 people in its heyday, chose to go to trial rather than concede to a false narrative concocted by ambitious prosecutors looking for a scapegoat for the 2008 financial crisis. Naively perhaps, Rajaratnam had expected to get a fair hearing in court. As an immigrant who had achieved tremendous success in his adopted country, he trusted the system. He had not anticipated prosecutorial overreach—inspired by political ambition—FBI fabrications, judicial compliance, and lies told under oath by cooperating witnesses. In the end, Rajaratnam was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He served seven and a half. Meanwhile, not a single senior bank executive responsible for the financial crisis was even charged. Uneven Justice is the story of his bewildering and confounding prosecution by forces who, quite frankly, were looking for bigger game. When Rajaratnam refused to support the narrative that would make that happen, he and the Galleon Group became collateral damage. A must-listen cautionary tale with implications for us all, Uneven Justice is an eye-opening lesson in the vagaries of justice when an unscrupulous prosecutor is calling the shots.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughter-of-gloriavale-my-life-in-a-religious-cult-by-lilia-tarawa--65186494https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult Author: Lilia Tarawa Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices. When her parents fled with their children, Lilia was forced to make a desperate choice: to stay or to leave. No matter what she chose, she would lose people she loved. In the outside world, Lilia struggled. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? How would she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And would she ever find out the truth about the criminal convictions against her grandfather?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553152Tue, 14 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult Author: Lilia Tarawa Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult Author: Lilia Tarawa Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices. When her parents fled with their children, Lilia was forced to make a desperate choice: to stay or to leave. No matter what she chose, she would lose people she loved. In the outside world, Lilia struggled. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? How would she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And would she ever find out the truth about the criminal convictions against her grandfather?]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adickted-with-andy-dick-by-andy-dick--65186430https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adickted with Andy Dick Author: Andy Dick Narrator: Andy Dick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This audio original includes ten must-listen podcast episodes from comedian and actor Andy Dick. Contains mature themes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554701Tue, 14 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adickted with Andy Dick Author: Andy Dick Narrator: Andy Dick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adickted with Andy Dick Author: Andy Dick Narrator: Andy Dick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This audio original includes ten must-listen podcast episodes from comedian and actor Andy Dick. Contains mature themes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-memoria-por-correspondencia-by-emma-reyes--65186609https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memoria por correspondencia Author: Emma Reyes Narrator: Carmenza González Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Memoria por correspondencia ha tocado el corazón de los lectores por muchas razones: por su frescura, por su capacidad de revelar un mundo sin caer en el costumbrismo y por la sabia medida de sus palabras. Pero, ante todo porque sus páginas son hondamente humanas y poéticas.' —Piedad Bonnet 'Un relato digno de Dickens (…) Un nuevo clásico, un libro duro y entrañable destinado a perdurar.' —Darío Jaramillo Agudelo 'Emma Reyes es alguien que ha sabido pasar el sentido trágico de la vida por el tamiz adecuado para transformarlo en el regocijo trágico de la prosa.' —Leila Guerriero Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas, Emma Reyes asumió el arduo ejercicio de narrar los giros y adversidades que vivió durante su infancia. Estos textos, escritos entre 1969 y 1997, son una conmovedora mezcla de inocencia y serenidad ante la tragedia, y articulan magistralmente un relato personal que evoca el duro contexto de la Colombia de la segunda y tercera décadas del siglo xx. Cuando el libro de Emma Reyes se publicó por primera vez, me contrarió ver que los lectores entregaban su entusiasmo unánime a la obra de una escritora que, convenientemente para la misoginia nacional, cumplía con las condiciones de estar muerta, de no haber sido escritora y de haber sido autora de una literatura supuestamente carente de artificio, lo cual correspondía a la fantasía de una escritura femenina como discurso «al natural». Se trataba, además, de una mujer que escribía su vida en respuesta a un hombre. El obispo recriminador de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y el confesor de Santa Teresa reencarnaban en el igualmente patriarcal Germán Arciniegas, a quien iban dirigidas —y por cuya iniciativa se habían escrito— las cartas que contenían la infancia. Todavía siento malestar ante esa custodia y ante el condescendiente viático de Arciniegas (ante la calificación de «inteligentísima» que dedica a Emma en el artículo que se publica con este libro), pero me interesa el abrigo que proporciona la carta —dirigida a un destinatario individual, a un lector conocido y querido— para que la memoria anterior a la memoria —la escritura de la desnudez— pueda surgir, extenderse, inventarse, encontrarse y comunicarse; me interesa cómo el oído del amigo se impone sobre los ojos imaginarios de los lectores inciertos —y también cómo al fin estos ojos (los de la lectora) se sobreponen a aquel oído—. (Del prólogo de Carolina Sanín a la edición de Memoria por correspondencia de Laguna Libros)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548327Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memoria por correspondencia Author: Emma Reyes Narrator: Carmenza González Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memoria por correspondencia Author: Emma Reyes Narrator: Carmenza González Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Memoria por correspondencia ha tocado el corazón de los lectores por muchas razones: por su frescura, por su capacidad de revelar un mundo sin caer en el costumbrismo y por la sabia medida de sus palabras. Pero, ante todo porque sus páginas son hondamente humanas y poéticas.' —Piedad Bonnet 'Un relato digno de Dickens (…) Un nuevo clásico, un libro duro y entrañable destinado a perdurar.' —Darío Jaramillo Agudelo 'Emma Reyes es alguien que ha sabido pasar el sentido trágico de la vida por el tamiz adecuado para transformarlo en el regocijo trágico de la prosa.' —Leila Guerriero Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas, Emma Reyes asumió el arduo ejercicio de narrar los giros y adversidades que vivió durante su infancia. Estos textos, escritos entre 1969 y 1997, son una conmovedora mezcla de inocencia y serenidad ante la tragedia, y articulan magistralmente un relato personal que evoca el duro contexto de la Colombia de la segunda y tercera décadas del siglo xx. Cuando el libro de Emma Reyes se publicó por primera vez, me contrarió ver que los lectores entregaban su entusiasmo unánime a la obra de una escritora que, convenientemente para la misoginia nacional, cumplía con las condiciones de estar muerta, de no haber sido escritora y de haber sido autora de una literatura supuestamente carente de artificio, lo cual correspondía a la fantasía de una escritura femenina como discurso «al natural». Se trataba, además, de una mujer que escribía su vida en respuesta a un hombre. El obispo recriminador de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y el confesor de Santa Teresa reencarnaban en el igualmente patriarcal Germán Arciniegas, a quien iban dirigidas —y por cuya iniciativa se habían escrito— las cartas que contenían la infancia. Todavía siento malestar ante esa custodia y ante el condescendiente viático de Arciniegas (ante la calificación de «inteligentísima» que dedica a Emma en el artículo que se publica con este libro), pero me interesa el abrigo que proporciona la carta —dirigida a un destinatario individual, a un lector conocido y querido— para que la memoria anterior a la memoria —la escritura de la desnudez— pueda surgir, extenderse, inventarse, encontrarse y comunicarse; me interesa cómo el oído del amigo se impone sobre los ojos imaginarios de los lectores inciertos —y también cómo al fin estos ojos (los de la lectora) se sobreponen a aquel oído—. (Del prólogo de Carolina Sanín a la edición de Memoria por correspondencia de Laguna Libros)]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-a-la-puta-calle-cronica-de-un-desahucio-by-cristina-fallaras--65186571https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - A la puta calle. Crónica de un desahucio Author: Cristina Fallarás Narrator: Cristina Fallarás Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La crónica en primera persona de un desahucio, el de Cristina Fallarás, periodista, escritora premiada y editora digital, leído por la propia autora. Fallarás narra el día a día del proceso de empobrecimiento que le acarreó un despido motivado por la crisis económica, y que ocasionaría la notificación de su desahucio. Un valiente testimonio que nos muestra una realidad en España.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551808Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - A la puta calle. Crónica de un desahucio Author: Cristina Fallarás Narrator: Cristina Fallarás Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - A la puta calle. Crónica de un desahucio Author: Cristina Fallarás Narrator: Cristina Fallarás Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La crónica en primera persona de un desahucio, el de Cristina Fallarás, periodista, escritora premiada y editora digital, leído por la propia autora. Fallarás narra el día a día del proceso de empobrecimiento que le acarreó un despido motivado por la crisis económica, y que ocasionaría la notificación de su desahucio. Un valiente testimonio que nos muestra una realidad en España.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sometimes-farmgirls-become-revolutionaries-florence-tate-on-black-power-black-politics-and-the-fbi-by-florence-tate-jake-ann-jones--65186605https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI Author: Florence Tate, Jake-Ann Jones Narrator: Kim Staunton, Beresford Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931–2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-themovement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.Tate defied stereotypes of the 1960s, playing key roles in the lives and work of an astonishing number of high-profile leaders of the most influential social-change organizations and events of the twentieth century. She also worked with numerous Black Nationalist leaders and Pan-African activists, US politicians, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She was close to Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, serving both men as press secretary.An accomplished activist, most people never knew that Tate was bravely fighting chronic depression. She endured years of electroconvulsive shock treatments and therapy to live a full life, contribute to her community, fight for human and civil rights, and be available to her family.Farmgirls is an engaging collage of Tate’s life, woven together from her journal entries, memories from people who knew her, and excerpts from her FBI files. These multiple perspectives bring into focus the complex and complicated saga of a public persona engaged in private struggle, defying and overcoming the odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546508Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI Author: Florence Tate, Jake-Ann Jones Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI Author: Florence Tate, Jake-Ann Jones Narrator: Kim Staunton, Beresford Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931–2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-themovement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.Tate defied stereotypes of the 1960s, playing key roles in the lives and work of an astonishing number of high-profile leaders of the most influential social-change organizations and events of the twentieth century. She also worked with numerous Black Nationalist leaders and Pan-African activists, US politicians, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She was close to Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, serving both men as press secretary.An accomplished activist, most people never knew that Tate was bravely fighting chronic depression. She endured years of electroconvulsive shock treatments and therapy to live a full life, contribute to her community, fight for human and civil rights, and be available to her family.Farmgirls is an engaging collage of Tate’s life, woven together from her journal entries, memories from people who knew her, and excerpts from her FBI files. These multiple perspectives bring into focus the complex and complicated saga of a public persona engaged in private struggle, defying and overcoming the odds.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sea-state-a-memoir-by-tabitha-lasley--65186576https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea State: A Memoir Author: Tabitha Lasley Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men—and her. Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security. Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546176Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea State: A Memoir Author: Tabitha Lasley Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea State: A Memoir Author: Tabitha Lasley Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men—and her. Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security. Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/her-oics-women-s-lived-experiences-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-by-amy-roost-joanell-serra--65186625https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic Author: Amy Roost, Joanell Serra Narrator: Samara Naeymi, Frankie Corzo, Amielynn Abellera, Karen Chilton, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: frontline responders and recovering patients; going out to work, staying home to work, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location, age, race, and health, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength, ingenuity and love-for others and for self-to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country's response. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546449Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic Author: Amy Roost, Joanell Serra Narrator: Samara Naeymi, Frankie Corzo, Amielynn...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic Author: Amy Roost, Joanell Serra Narrator: Samara Naeymi, Frankie Corzo, Amielynn Abellera, Karen Chilton, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: frontline responders and recovering patients; going out to work, staying home to work, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location, age, race, and health, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength, ingenuity and love-for others and for self-to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country's response. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mortuary-confidential-undertakers-spill-the-dirt-by-todd-harra-kenneth-mckenzie--65186531https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Susan Larkin, Allan Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape. Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corked—in a wine bottle. And then meet their families—the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck. If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best 'bodies of work' from America's darkest profession.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553020Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Susan Larkin, Allan Robertson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Susan Larkin, Allan Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape. Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corked—in a wine bottle. And then meet their families—the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck. If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best 'bodies of work' from America's darkest profession.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/over-our-dead-bodies-undertakers-lift-the-lid-by-todd-harra-kenneth-mckenzie--65186446https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Gregory St. John, Reay Kaplan, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I HAD LOST THE HEARSE! From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother's wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned—even if it doesn't.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553021Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Gregory St. John, Reay Kaplan, Brian Troxell Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Gregory St. John, Reay Kaplan, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I HAD LOST THE HEARSE! From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother's wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned—even if it doesn't.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-adolescencia-en-barcelona-hacia-1970-by-laura-freixas-revuelta--65186499https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 Author: Laura Freixas Revuelta Narrator: Marta Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 29, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Laura Freixas aborda este libro el género de la autobiografía ficcionada, abarcando sus primeros años hasta su adolescencia, tal y como indica el título, en la Barcelona de los 70. En el texto asistimos a los primeros signos de la autora en que se convertiría la adolescente protagonista y del despertar de su profunda conciencia feminista. Sin embargo, la novela también plantea una historia directa y honesta formada por los recuerdos de niñez y las impresiones en la memoria de la autora. - Laura Freixas es una escritora nacida en Barcelona en 1958. Su producción, de un marcado corte feminista y centrada en la literatura escrita por mujeres, abarca la novela, el relato, el ensayo, los artículos periodísticos y la crítica literaria. Es fundadora de la asociación para la igualdad de género Clásicas y Modernas, que promueve políticas culturales que apoyen a la producción e investigación de la literatura escrita por mujeres.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552784Mon, 29 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 Author: Laura Freixas Revuelta Narrator: Marta Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 Author: Laura Freixas Revuelta Narrator: Marta Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 29, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Laura Freixas aborda este libro el género de la autobiografía ficcionada, abarcando sus primeros años hasta su adolescencia, tal y como indica el título, en la Barcelona de los 70. En el texto asistimos a los primeros signos de la autora en que se convertiría la adolescente protagonista y del despertar de su profunda conciencia feminista. Sin embargo, la novela también plantea una historia directa y honesta formada por los recuerdos de niñez y las impresiones en la memoria de la autora. - Laura Freixas es una escritora nacida en Barcelona en 1958. Su producción, de un marcado corte feminista y centrada en la literatura escrita por mujeres, abarca la novela, el relato, el ensayo, los artículos periodísticos y la crítica literaria. Es fundadora de la asociación para la igualdad de género Clásicas y Modernas, que promueve políticas culturales que apoyen a la producción e investigación de la literatura escrita por mujeres.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blood-brother-a-memoir-by-susan-keller--65186580https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Brother: A Memoir Author: Susan Keller Narrator: Lexi Mae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan had it all—or thought she did—until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Ninety-eight percent of her bone marrow was cancerous, and a heart attack or brain aneurism was imminent. Within minutes of being admitted to the hospital, her beautifully ordinary life disappeared. Facing a possible death sentence, Susan experienced visions so lucid and beautiful that she imagined she was looking into the foyer of death or a magnificent afterlife. Her mind and body melded into all that surrounded her. Bliss replaced all fear. But during the darkest moments, Susan questioned the nature of mortality. Does death have the same shape, sound, and feeling for everyone? Did the father she yearned for think of her the moment he died? What would she think of? Would there be regret, celebration, or nothingness? After months of grueling inpatient chemo, she faced another seemingly impossible hurdle. To live, she needed a stem cell transplant. But Johnny—her brilliant, off-the-grid brother—was the only possible donor. He hadn't been heard from in thirty years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552446Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Brother: A Memoir Author: Susan Keller Narrator: Lexi Mae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Brother: A Memoir Author: Susan Keller Narrator: Lexi Mae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan had it all—or thought she did—until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Ninety-eight percent of her bone marrow was cancerous, and a heart attack or brain aneurism was imminent. Within minutes of being admitted to the hospital, her beautifully ordinary life disappeared. Facing a possible death sentence, Susan experienced visions so lucid and beautiful that she imagined she was looking into the foyer of death or a magnificent afterlife. Her mind and body melded into all that surrounded her. Bliss replaced all fear. But during the darkest moments, Susan questioned the nature of mortality. Does death have the same shape, sound, and feeling for everyone? Did the father she yearned for think of her the moment he died? What would she think of? Would there be regret, celebration, or nothingness? After months of grueling inpatient chemo, she faced another seemingly impossible hurdle. To live, she needed a stem cell transplant. But Johnny—her brilliant, off-the-grid brother—was the only possible donor. He hadn't been heard from in thirty years.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/catalan-sinatra-esta-refredat-i-altres-escrits-by-gaty-talese--65186528https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Catalan] - Sinatra està refredat i altres escrits Author: Gaty Talese Narrator: Marc Lobato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Aquest famós recull d’històries de Gay Talese, peça de museu del periodisme nord-americà d’ara i d’abans, mostra un Frank Sinatra malhumorat amb un fort refredat que li ha fet perdre la veu. A més a més, conté històries del bevedor i perdedor Patterson, del genial Peter O’Tootle, de les models de Vogue, de Joe Louis i l’anècdota del seu pare amb la màfia siciliana, de la patètica trobada entre Fidel Castro i Muhammad Ali, o dels seus inicis com a periodista. Històries intranscendents que enganxen al lector amb un estil de no-ficció, ja que el periodista no idolatra aquests herois populars, però els humanitza, i ho fa amb ironia. Un reportatge realment interessant i excel·lent pel que fa a la descripció d’icones de la cultura pop que val la pena llegir. - Gay Talese (Ocean City, 7 de febrer de 1932) és un periodista i escriptor nord-americà. A principis de la dècada del seixanta va escriure per al diari 'The New York Times' i va ajudar a definir (juntament amb Tom Wolfe) el periodisme literari o 'reportatge de no ficció', també conegut com a 'Nou Periodisme'. Els seus articles més reconeguts parlen sobre Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin i Frank Sinatra.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550615Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Catalan] - Sinatra està refredat i altres escrits Author: Gaty Talese Narrator: Marc Lobato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Catalan] - Sinatra està refredat i altres escrits Author: Gaty Talese Narrator: Marc Lobato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Aquest famós recull d’històries de Gay Talese, peça de museu del periodisme nord-americà d’ara i d’abans, mostra un Frank Sinatra malhumorat amb un fort refredat que li ha fet perdre la veu. A més a més, conté històries del bevedor i perdedor Patterson, del genial Peter O’Tootle, de les models de Vogue, de Joe Louis i l’anècdota del seu pare amb la màfia siciliana, de la patètica trobada entre Fidel Castro i Muhammad Ali, o dels seus inicis com a periodista. Històries intranscendents que enganxen al lector amb un estil de no-ficció, ja que el periodista no idolatra aquests herois populars, però els humanitza, i ho fa amb ironia. Un reportatge realment interessant i excel·lent pel que fa a la descripció d’icones de la cultura pop que val la pena llegir. - Gay Talese (Ocean City, 7 de febrer de 1932) és un periodista i escriptor nord-americà. A principis de la dècada del seixanta va escriure per al diari 'The New York Times' i va ajudar a definir (juntament amb Tom Wolfe) el periodisme literari o 'reportatge de no ficció', també conegut com a 'Nou Periodisme'. Els seus articles més reconeguts parlen sobre Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin i Frank Sinatra.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/go-by-boat-stories-of-a-maine-island-doctor-by-dr-chuck-radis--65186518https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go By Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor Author: Dr. Chuck Radis Narrator: Cole Tamminen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. Absent-minded and initially oblivious to island mores, Dr. Radis slowly adapts to a medical practice where x-rays and advanced laboratory testing are available only on the mainland. When he travels to the outer islands of Casco Bay for house calls, he relies on his physical examination skills and a tackle box of emergency medications to successfully manage his patients. With stories ranging from hilarious to heart breaking, Go by Boat is a respite from contemporary living, immersing the listener in the distinct culture of Maine island communities. Come along with Dr. Radis as he finds acceptance and friendship on the hardscrabble islands of Casco Bay.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552301Tue, 16 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go By Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor Author: Dr. Chuck Radis Narrator: Cole Tamminen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go By Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor Author: Dr. Chuck Radis Narrator: Cole Tamminen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. Absent-minded and initially oblivious to island mores, Dr. Radis slowly adapts to a medical practice where x-rays and advanced laboratory testing are available only on the mainland. When he travels to the outer islands of Casco Bay for house calls, he relies on his physical examination skills and a tackle box of emergency medications to successfully manage his patients. With stories ranging from hilarious to heart breaking, Go by Boat is a respite from contemporary living, immersing the listener in the distinct culture of Maine island communities. Come along with Dr. Radis as he finds acceptance and friendship on the hardscrabble islands of Casco Bay.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/skiing-into-the-bright-open-my-solo-journey-to-the-south-pole-by-liv-arnesen--65186470https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skiing into the Bright Open: My Solo Journey to the South Pole Author: Liv Arnesen Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Skiing into the Bright Open Liv Arnesen describes the exhausting, exhilarating experience of being the first known woman to ski unsupported to the South Pole. From her childhood in Norway to the seasons she spent working as a guide on Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, Arnesen courted the cold, and her memoir reflects the knowledge and passion for Arctic and Antarctic exploration that grew with her adventures in the wintry reaches of Norway and beyond. Tracing her path from the heroic stories of explorers like Fridtjof Nansen and Ernest Shackleton to her own crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap in 1992, Arnesen credits the inspiring feats of those who preceded her but also describes the obstacles—including niggling self-doubt—that tradition, convention, and downright prejudice put in her way as she endeavored to find the support and sponsorship granted to men in her field. A tale of solitary adventure in the bleak and beautiful bone-chilling cold of Antarctica, Skiing into the Bright Open tells a story of gritty determination, thrilling achievement, and perseverance in the face of near despair and daunting odds; it is, ultimately, an object lesson in the power of a dream if one is willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552277Tue, 16 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skiing into the Bright Open: My Solo Journey to the South Pole Author: Liv Arnesen Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skiing into the Bright Open: My Solo Journey to the South Pole Author: Liv Arnesen Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Skiing into the Bright Open Liv Arnesen describes the exhausting, exhilarating experience of being the first known woman to ski unsupported to the South Pole. From her childhood in Norway to the seasons she spent working as a guide on Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, Arnesen courted the cold, and her memoir reflects the knowledge and passion for Arctic and Antarctic exploration that grew with her adventures in the wintry reaches of Norway and beyond. Tracing her path from the heroic stories of explorers like Fridtjof Nansen and Ernest Shackleton to her own crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap in 1992, Arnesen credits the inspiring feats of those who preceded her but also describes the obstacles—including niggling self-doubt—that tradition, convention, and downright prejudice put in her way as she endeavored to find the support and sponsorship granted to men in her field. A tale of solitary adventure in the bleak and beautiful bone-chilling cold of Antarctica, Skiing into the Bright Open tells a story of gritty determination, thrilling achievement, and perseverance in the face of near despair and daunting odds; it is, ultimately, an object lesson in the power of a dream if one is willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/misfit-in-hell-to-heaven-expat-lessons-from-a-dark-near-death-experience-and-how-to-avoid-hell-in-the-afterlife-by-m-k-mcdaniel--65186504https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551655 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat: Lessons from a Dark Near-Death Experience and How to Avoid Hell in the Afterlife Author: M.K. Mcdaniel Narrator: Amanda Mckibbin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Placed on a ventilator for lung failure in 1999, M.K. McDaniel fought for her life in a drug-induced coma for three weeks. Misfit In Hell to Heaven Expat is based on a story of M.K.’s experiences before, during, and after a Dark Near-Death Experience. Her family waited and prayed, totally unaware of the horrors M.K. was bravely facing and miserably enduring in a seemingly eternal hell, culminating in her eventual glimpse of heaven and chat with her deceased fiancé. But M.K. still had work to do on Earth. During her lengthy recovery, as M.K. reflected on the purpose of her experiences in the Afterlife, she recalled the tribulations of her family ancestors and their courage to survive. If they could overcome their overwhelming obstacles, then so could she. As memories of former earthly hellish traumas surfaced and seemed to parallel her actual hell experiences, M.K. sought out others with the same story. She eventually found solace, hope, and understanding at the International Association of Near-Death Studies meetings in Seattle. IANDS offered insights, camaraderie, and a joy she had nearly forgotten to be possible in this life. Uplifting, humorous, chilling, and engrossing, Misfit In Hell to Heaven Expat takes the reader by the hand to safely explore our human and otherworldly selves. Its gentle message will help the reader find their way along the bumpy, earthly road to eternity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551655Fri, 12 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551655 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat: Lessons from a Dark Near-Death Experience and How to Avoid Hell in the Afterlife Author: M.K. Mcdaniel Narrator: Amanda...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551655 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat: Lessons from a Dark Near-Death Experience and How to Avoid Hell in the Afterlife Author: M.K. Mcdaniel Narrator: Amanda Mckibbin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Placed on a ventilator for lung failure in 1999, M.K. McDaniel fought for her life in a drug-induced coma for three weeks. Misfit In Hell to Heaven Expat is based on a story of M.K.’s experiences before, during, and after a Dark Near-Death Experience. Her family waited and prayed, totally unaware of the horrors M.K. was bravely facing and miserably enduring in a seemingly eternal hell, culminating in her eventual glimpse of heaven and chat with her deceased fiancé. But M.K. still had work to do on Earth. During her lengthy recovery, as M.K. reflected on the purpose of her experiences in the Afterlife, she recalled the tribulations of her family ancestors and their courage to survive. If they could overcome their overwhelming obstacles, then so could she. As memories of former earthly hellish traumas surfaced and seemed to parallel her actual hell experiences, M.K. sought out others with the same story. She eventually found solace, hope, and understanding at the International Association of Near-Death Studies meetings in Seattle. IANDS offered insights, camaraderie, and a joy she had nearly forgotten to be possible in this life. Uplifting, humorous, chilling, and engrossing, Misfit In Hell to Heaven Expat takes the reader by the hand to safely explore our human and otherworldly selves. Its gentle message will help the reader find their way along the bumpy, earthly road to eternity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-in-a-time-of-war-by-lara-marlowe--65186587https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in a Time of War Author: Lara Marlowe Narrator: Lara Marlowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir by Lara Marlowe, the Irish Times' correspondent in Paris. Lara Marlowe first met Robert Fisk in 1983, in Damascus. He was already a famous war correspondent; she was a young American reporter, who would soon become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife, friends, occasionally estranged from and angry with each other. They learned from each other and from the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war as well as Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the deadly Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. They survived encounters with murderous militiamen; sheltered together under artillery and aerial bombardment in Beirut, Belgrade and Baghdad. In countries under attack from their own governments they had to gain the trust of interlocutors who automatically assumed they were spies. Back home in the US and Britain, they were accused of partisan reporting because they refused to tow the party line. Through all this they loved and respected each other, but their marriage eventually disintegrated, partly under the pressures of their work. Even after they separated they remained friends and wrote and spoke to each other affectionately. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man by a woman who loved him, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545975Thu, 11 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in a Time of War Author: Lara Marlowe Narrator: Lara Marlowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in a Time of War Author: Lara Marlowe Narrator: Lara Marlowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir by Lara Marlowe, the Irish Times' correspondent in Paris. Lara Marlowe first met Robert Fisk in 1983, in Damascus. He was already a famous war correspondent; she was a young American reporter, who would soon become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife, friends, occasionally estranged from and angry with each other. They learned from each other and from the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war as well as Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the deadly Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. They survived encounters with murderous militiamen; sheltered together under artillery and aerial bombardment in Beirut, Belgrade and Baghdad. In countries under attack from their own governments they had to gain the trust of interlocutors who automatically assumed they were spies. Back home in the US and Britain, they were accused of partisan reporting because they refused to tow the party line. Through all this they loved and respected each other, but their marriage eventually disintegrated, partly under the pressures of their work. Even after they separated they remained friends and wrote and spoke to each other affectionately. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man by a woman who loved him, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/diddly-squat-a-year-on-the-farm-by-jeremy-clarkson--65186526https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm Author: Jeremy Clarkson Narrator: Jeremy Clarkson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seemed obvious that the actual, you know, farming was much better left to someone else Then one day he decided he would do the farming himself. After all, how hard could it be? Well . . . Faced with suffocating red tape, biblical weather, local objections, a global pandemic and his own frankly staggering ignorance of how to 'do farming', Jeremy soon realises that turning the farm around is going to take more than splashing out on a massive tractor. Fortunately, there's help at hand from a large and (mostly) willing team, including girlfriend Lisa, Kaleb the Tractor Driver, Cheerful Charlie, Ellen the Shepherd and Gerald, his Head of Security and Dry Stone Waller. Between them they enthusiastically cultivate crops, rear livestock and hens, keep bees, bottle spring water and open a farm shop. But profits remain elusive. And yet while the farm may be called Diddly Squat for good reason, Jeremy soon begins to understand that it's worth a whole lot more to him than pounds, shillings and pence . . . Praise for Clarkson's Farm: 'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . it pains me to say this' THE GUARDIAN; 'Shockingly hopeful' THE INDEPENDENT; 'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here' THE TELEGRAPH; 'Quite lovely' THE TIMES © Jeremy Clarkson 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551603Thu, 11 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm Author: Jeremy Clarkson Narrator: Jeremy Clarkson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 32 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm Author: Jeremy Clarkson Narrator: Jeremy Clarkson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seemed obvious that the actual, you know, farming was much better left to someone else Then one day he decided he would do the farming himself. After all, how hard could it be? Well . . . Faced with suffocating red tape, biblical weather, local objections, a global pandemic and his own frankly staggering ignorance of how to 'do farming', Jeremy soon realises that turning the farm around is going to take more than splashing out on a massive tractor. Fortunately, there's help at hand from a large and (mostly) willing team, including girlfriend Lisa, Kaleb the Tractor Driver, Cheerful Charlie, Ellen the Shepherd and Gerald, his Head of Security and Dry Stone Waller. Between them they enthusiastically cultivate crops, rear livestock and hens, keep bees, bottle spring water and open a farm shop. But profits remain elusive. And yet while the farm may be called Diddly Squat for good reason, Jeremy soon begins to understand that it's worth a whole lot more to him than pounds, shillings and pence . . . Praise for Clarkson's Farm: 'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . it pains me to say this' THE GUARDIAN; 'Shockingly hopeful' THE INDEPENDENT; 'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here' THE TELEGRAPH; 'Quite lovely' THE TIMES © Jeremy Clarkson 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fathers-brothers-and-sons-surviving-anguish-abandonment-and-anthrax-by-frank-bello-joel-mciver--65186584https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax Author: Frank Bello, Joel Mciver Narrator: Frank Bello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born into a family of five, Frank Bello grew up in difficult circumstances. His father abandoned his wife and children. Left with no male role model, Frank found inspiration in heavy metal bass players, following their example and forging a career with Anthrax from his early teens—first as a roadie, and then as the group's bass player. International stardom came Frank's way by the mid-to-late 1980s, when he was still in his early twenties, but tragedy struck in 1996 when his brother Anthony was murdered in New York. Although the case went to trial, the suspected killer was released without charge after a witness, intimidated by violent elements, withdrew his testimony. Two decades later, Frank is a father himself to a young son. Like many men who grew up without the guidance of a dad, he asks himself important questions about the meaning of fatherhood and how to do the job well. This is the wisdom which Fathers, Brothers, and Sons offers listeners. Frank doesn't preach or seek sympathy in his book. Instead, he simply passes on the wisdom gained from a lifetime of turbulence, paying tribute to his loved ones in a way that will resonate with us all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548619Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax Author: Frank Bello, Joel Mciver Narrator: Frank Bello Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax Author: Frank Bello, Joel Mciver Narrator: Frank Bello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born into a family of five, Frank Bello grew up in difficult circumstances. His father abandoned his wife and children. Left with no male role model, Frank found inspiration in heavy metal bass players, following their example and forging a career with Anthrax from his early teens—first as a roadie, and then as the group's bass player. International stardom came Frank's way by the mid-to-late 1980s, when he was still in his early twenties, but tragedy struck in 1996 when his brother Anthony was murdered in New York. Although the case went to trial, the suspected killer was released without charge after a witness, intimidated by violent elements, withdrew his testimony. Two decades later, Frank is a father himself to a young son. Like many men who grew up without the guidance of a dad, he asks himself important questions about the meaning of fatherhood and how to do the job well. This is the wisdom which Fathers, Brothers, and Sons offers listeners. Frank doesn't preach or seek sympathy in his book. Instead, he simply passes on the wisdom gained from a lifetime of turbulence, paying tribute to his loved ones in a way that will resonate with us all.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meet-me-in-buenos-aires-by-marlene-hobsbawm--65186546https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meet Me in Buenos Aires Author: Marlene Hobsbawm Narrator: Charlotte Strevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a jazz journalist for The New Statesman. This is the story of his family life. Marlene Hobsbawm grew up in a comfortable middle class Jewish home in Vienna but that life was shattered by the rise of Nazism. Her family left Austria for the UK in 1937 to escape the rise of Nazism. A talented linguist, Marlene worked post-war for the UN in Italy helping to rebuild the country and then onto war torn Congo. Returning to the UK she met Eric Hobsbawm. This is the story of their roller coaster life together, much of it spent under the scrutiny of MI5. 'Her memoir, starting from the sadness of exile and war in childhood, reveals her on every page as enterprising, courageous and warm-hearted – and is a delight to read.''- Claire Tomalin. - Marlene Hobsbawm worked for the Foreign Office and the UN before becoming a music teacher. She lives in Battersea, South London]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552780Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meet Me in Buenos Aires Author: Marlene Hobsbawm Narrator: Charlotte Strevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meet Me in Buenos Aires Author: Marlene Hobsbawm Narrator: Charlotte Strevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a jazz journalist for The New Statesman. This is the story of his family life. Marlene Hobsbawm grew up in a comfortable middle class Jewish home in Vienna but that life was shattered by the rise of Nazism. Her family left Austria for the UK in 1937 to escape the rise of Nazism. A talented linguist, Marlene worked post-war for the UN in Italy helping to rebuild the country and then onto war torn Congo. Returning to the UK she met Eric Hobsbawm. This is the story of their roller coaster life together, much of it spent under the scrutiny of MI5. 'Her memoir, starting from the sadness of exile and war in childhood, reveals her on every page as enterprising, courageous and warm-hearted – and is a delight to read.''- Claire Tomalin. - Marlene Hobsbawm worked for the Foreign Office and the UN before becoming a music teacher. She lives in Battersea, South London]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/volunteers-growing-up-in-the-forever-war-by-jerad-w-alexander--65186543https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War Author: Jerad W. Alexander Narrator: Jerad W. Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life “inside the castle,” within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. Most of all, he dreamed of enlisting—like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him—and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, eager for action. Once in Iraq, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage. Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550232Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War Author: Jerad W. Alexander Narrator: Jerad W. Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War Author: Jerad W. Alexander Narrator: Jerad W. Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life “inside the castle,” within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. Most of all, he dreamed of enlisting—like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him—and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, eager for action. Once in Iraq, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage. Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-silent-act-up-and-my-life-in-activism-by-peter-staley--65186462https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism Author: Peter Staley Narrator: Peter Staley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—ACT UP—in the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made. ACT UP would change the course of AIDS, pressuring the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and three administrations to finally respond with research that ultimately saved millions of lives. Staley, a shrewd strategist with nerves of steel, organized some of the group's most spectacular actions, from shutting down trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to putting a giant condom over the house of Senator Jesse Helms. Never Silent is the inside story of what brought Staley to ACT UP and the explosive and sometimes painful years to follow—years filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552357Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism Author: Peter Staley Narrator: Peter Staley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism Author: Peter Staley Narrator: Peter Staley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power—ACT UP—in the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made. ACT UP would change the course of AIDS, pressuring the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and three administrations to finally respond with research that ultimately saved millions of lives. Staley, a shrewd strategist with nerves of steel, organized some of the group's most spectacular actions, from shutting down trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to putting a giant condom over the house of Senator Jesse Helms. Never Silent is the inside story of what brought Staley to ACT UP and the explosive and sometimes painful years to follow—years filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-philosophy-of-an-explorer-16-life-lessons-from-surviving-the-extreme-by-erling-kagge--65186575https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme Author: Erling Kagge Narrator: Atli Gunnarsson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 4, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot - the North, the South, and the summit of Everest. In The Philosophy of an Explorer, he brings together the wisdom and expertise he has gained from the expeditions that have taken him to the limits of the earth, and of human endurance. In sixteen meditative but practical lessons - from cultivating an optimistic outlook, to getting up at the right time, to learning to take pleasure in the small things and comfort in solitude - Erling Kagge reveals what survival in the most extreme conditions can teach us about how to lead a meaningful life. Wherever we may be headed. 'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton 'His wisdom will soothe and awaken' Fearne Cotton 'A delightful book that explores the strange land between getting out of bed in the morning and reaching for the moon Tristan Gooley 'A wonderfully deft Swiss army knife of a book' Dan Richards 'As an explorer Erling Kagge is world class; as a writer he is equally gifted' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Erling Kagge is a philosophical adventurer - or perhaps an adventurous philosopher' The New York Times 'An author for our noisy times, full of a rare and deeply redemptive languor and perspective' Alain de Botton © Erling Kagge 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549660Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme Author: Erling Kagge Narrator: Atli Gunnarsson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme Author: Erling Kagge Narrator: Atli Gunnarsson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 4, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot - the North, the South, and the summit of Everest. In The Philosophy of an Explorer, he brings together the wisdom and expertise he has gained from the expeditions that have taken him to the limits of the earth, and of human endurance. In sixteen meditative but practical lessons - from cultivating an optimistic outlook, to getting up at the right time, to learning to take pleasure in the small things and comfort in solitude - Erling Kagge reveals what survival in the most extreme conditions can teach us about how to lead a meaningful life. Wherever we may be headed. 'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton 'His wisdom will soothe and awaken' Fearne Cotton 'A delightful book that explores the strange land between getting out of bed in the morning and reaching for the moon Tristan Gooley 'A wonderfully deft Swiss army knife of a book' Dan Richards 'As an explorer Erling Kagge is world class; as a writer he is equally gifted' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Erling Kagge is a philosophical adventurer - or perhaps an adventurous philosopher' The New York Times 'An author for our noisy times, full of a rare and deeply redemptive languor and perspective' Alain de Botton © Erling Kagge 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/starlight-ranch-and-other-stories-of-army-life-on-the-frontier-by-charles-king--65186466https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Author: Charles King Narrator: David Wales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier' collects five of Captain Charles King's frontline stories, and offers a glimpse of American army life in the mid- to late 19th century. It follows his campaigns in the American-Indian wars in a number of battles. It offers valuable insights into life in the military at this time as well as stunning first-hand accounts of combat in these theatres. It is a fascinating insight into the formative years of the American army as well as the formative years of American society as a whole. If you enjoyed ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ this stunning first-hand account is perfect for you. This collection contains: 'Starlight Ranch,' 'Well Won, or From the Plains to the Point’, 'From the point to the Plains', 'The Worst Man in the Troop,' and 'Van'. - Charles King (1844-1933) was a graduate of the prestigious West Point academy, grandson of a signatory of the American Constitution as well as a decorated war veteran with over seventy years of service. Much of his work covers the Indian wars of the 1870s, the American wars in the Philippines as well as the First World War. Apart from his non-fiction he wrote dozens of novels and short stories earning him the name the ‘American Kipling’. His most famous works include 'Marion’s Faith,' 'The Colonel’s Daughter,' 'Campaigning with Crook,' 'Fort Frayne,' 'Under Fire' and 'Daughter of the Sioux.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554124Tue, 02 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Author: Charles King Narrator: David Wales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Author: Charles King Narrator: David Wales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier' collects five of Captain Charles King's frontline stories, and offers a glimpse of American army life in the mid- to late 19th century. It follows his campaigns in the American-Indian wars in a number of battles. It offers valuable insights into life in the military at this time as well as stunning first-hand accounts of combat in these theatres. It is a fascinating insight into the formative years of the American army as well as the formative years of American society as a whole. If you enjoyed ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ this stunning first-hand account is perfect for you. This collection contains: 'Starlight Ranch,' 'Well Won, or From the Plains to the Point’, 'From the point to the Plains', 'The Worst Man in the Troop,' and 'Van'. - Charles King (1844-1933) was a graduate of the prestigious West Point academy, grandson of a signatory of the American Constitution as well as a decorated war veteran with over seventy years of service. Much of his work covers the Indian wars of the 1870s, the American wars in the Philippines as well as the First World War. Apart from his non-fiction he wrote dozens of novels and short stories earning him the name the ‘American Kipling’. His most famous works include 'Marion’s Faith,' 'The Colonel’s Daughter,' 'Campaigning with Crook,' 'Fort Frayne,' 'Under Fire' and 'Daughter of the Sioux.']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-los-anos-de-plomo-by-isabel-san-sebastian--65186616https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los años de plomo Author: Isabel San Sebastián Narrator: Menchu González Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Yo pensaba: al final se ha disfrazado de guardia civil y, para escarnecerme más, me va a sacar de aquí para matarme fuera. Entonces fue cuando le dije: 'No, no, fuera no. Hazlo aquí, que es más fácil y no quiero salir'». Así describe José Antonio Ortega Lara su liberación en una extensa entrevista en la que relata, por primera y única vez, los detalles de su cautiverio por parte de la banda terrorista ETA en aquel zulo de cuatro metros cuadrados en el que permaneció secuestrado 532 días. Como él, otras nueve víctimas desgranan ante Isabel San Sebastián los recuerdos que han marcado sus vidas, que la periodista recoge en esta obra «Los años de plomo: Memoria en carne viva de las víctimas». Esas víctimas son Marta Bergareche, madre de Pertur, quien evoca al hijo asesinado por sus compañeros; Álvaro Cabrerizo, quien rememora la tragedia de Hipercor, donde perdió a su esposa y sus dos niñas; o Domingo Durán (policía tetrapléjico fallecido apenas unos días después de aportar su testimonio) y su mujer, Manoli, quienes revelan el horror de las secuelas de un atentado. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Isabel San Sebastián es una famosa periodista española. Este libro recopila entrevistas y testimonios inéditos de las víctimas de ETA. Isabel San Sebastián es una periodista y escritora española. Se licenció en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha trabajado en numerosos medios de comunicación españoles, tanto públicos como privados, pero también es conocida por sus novelas de ficción histórica y sus obras de no ficción, algunas de las cuales dedicó a la denuncia de la lucha armada en País Vasco.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546159Mon, 01 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los años de plomo Author: Isabel San Sebastián Narrator: Menchu González Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los años de plomo Author: Isabel San Sebastián Narrator: Menchu González Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Yo pensaba: al final se ha disfrazado de guardia civil y, para escarnecerme más, me va a sacar de aquí para matarme fuera. Entonces fue cuando le dije: 'No, no, fuera no. Hazlo aquí, que es más fácil y no quiero salir'». Así describe José Antonio Ortega Lara su liberación en una extensa entrevista en la que relata, por primera y única vez, los detalles de su cautiverio por parte de la banda terrorista ETA en aquel zulo de cuatro metros cuadrados en el que permaneció secuestrado 532 días. Como él, otras nueve víctimas desgranan ante Isabel San Sebastián los recuerdos que han marcado sus vidas, que la periodista recoge en esta obra «Los años de plomo: Memoria en carne viva de las víctimas». Esas víctimas son Marta Bergareche, madre de Pertur, quien evoca al hijo asesinado por sus compañeros; Álvaro Cabrerizo, quien rememora la tragedia de Hipercor, donde perdió a su esposa y sus dos niñas; o Domingo Durán (policía tetrapléjico fallecido apenas unos días después de aportar su testimonio) y su mujer, Manoli, quienes revelan el horror de las secuelas de un atentado. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Isabel San Sebastián es una famosa periodista española. Este libro recopila entrevistas y testimonios inéditos de las víctimas de ETA. Isabel San Sebastián es una periodista y escritora española. Se licenció en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha trabajado en numerosos medios de comunicación españoles, tanto públicos como privados, pero también es conocida por sus novelas de ficción histórica y sus obras de no ficción, algunas de las cuales dedicó a la denuncia de la lucha armada en País Vasco.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-bloody-good-rant-by-thomas-keneally--65186563https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bloody Good Rant Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Jim Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren't to be a better society, if we were simply serfs designed to support a system of privilege, what was the bloody point?' Thomas Keneally has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over fifty years. In this deeply personal, passionately drawn and richly tuned collection he now turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him, drawing on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding. He writes with unbounded joy of being a grandparent, and with intimacy and insight about the prospect of death and the meaning of faith. He is outraged about the treatment of Indigenous Australians and refugees, and argues fiercely against market economics and the cowardice of climate change deniers. And he introduces us to some of the people, both great and small, who have dappled his life. Beautifully written, erudite and at times slyly funny, A Bloody Good Rant is an invitation to share the deep humanity of a truly great Australian.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547640Mon, 01 Nov 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bloody Good Rant Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Jim Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bloody Good Rant Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Jim Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren't to be a better society, if we were simply serfs designed to support a system of privilege, what was the bloody point?' Thomas Keneally has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over fifty years. In this deeply personal, passionately drawn and richly tuned collection he now turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him, drawing on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding. He writes with unbounded joy of being a grandparent, and with intimacy and insight about the prospect of death and the meaning of faith. He is outraged about the treatment of Indigenous Australians and refugees, and argues fiercely against market economics and the cowardice of climate change deniers. And he introduces us to some of the people, both great and small, who have dappled his life. Beautifully written, erudite and at times slyly funny, A Bloody Good Rant is an invitation to share the deep humanity of a truly great Australian.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-beak-in-the-heart-true-tales-of-misfit-southern-women-by-betina-entzminger--65186512https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beak in the Heart: True Tales of Misfit Southern Women Author: Betina Entzminger Narrator: Julie Niblett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 29, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author’s “misfit” female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a “proper Southern woman.” The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up “Southern.” Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of women who preceded her—misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and concubine to her third great uncle, Rosalee, a great aunt committed to the state hospital for forty years, and Louise, an aunt who unwittingly married a gay man at a time when divorce was not legal in South Carolina. She also shares candid details of her rebellious youth and her own struggles with marriage and parenthood. In exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger—their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant—restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity. The Beak in the Heart speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices. "]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551454Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beak in the Heart: True Tales of Misfit Southern Women Author: Betina Entzminger Narrator: Julie Niblett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beak in the Heart: True Tales of Misfit Southern Women Author: Betina Entzminger Narrator: Julie Niblett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 29, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author’s “misfit” female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a “proper Southern woman.” The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up “Southern.” Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of women who preceded her—misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and concubine to her third great uncle, Rosalee, a great aunt committed to the state hospital for forty years, and Louise, an aunt who unwittingly married a gay man at a time when divorce was not legal in South Carolina. She also shares candid details of her rebellious youth and her own struggles with marriage and parenthood. In exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger—their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant—restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity. The Beak in the Heart speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices. "]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/celebrating-the-seasons-with-the-yorkshire-shepherdess-farming-family-and-delicious-recipes-to-share-by-amanda-owen--65186517https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share Author: Amanda Owen Narrator: Amanda Owen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning audiobook from Amanda Owen – shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5’s Our Yorkshire Farm – that brings her world to life in glorious colour. In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda shares funny and charming stories about life with her family and their many four-legged charges and describes their activities at Ravenseat, from lambing and shearing to haymaking and feeding the flock in midwinter. Her gorgeous photographs showcase the famous Swaledale landscape she writes about, from the sweeping moors to rare wildflowers and the elusive hares glimpsed in the field. She lives in tune with nature and Amanda's attitude to food is the same. She believes in buying good, seasonal ingredients when it comes to feeding her family and includes her favourite recipes here, from wild garlic lamb with hasselback roast potatoes to rhubarb and custard crumble cake and Yorkshire curd tart. As inspirational as Amanda herself, this is a beautiful audiobook that will delight everyone who has followed her adventures so far.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551667Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share Author: Amanda Owen Narrator: Amanda Owen...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share Author: Amanda Owen Narrator: Amanda Owen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning audiobook from Amanda Owen – shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5’s Our Yorkshire Farm – that brings her world to life in glorious colour. In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda shares funny and charming stories about life with her family and their many four-legged charges and describes their activities at Ravenseat, from lambing and shearing to haymaking and feeding the flock in midwinter. Her gorgeous photographs showcase the famous Swaledale landscape she writes about, from the sweeping moors to rare wildflowers and the elusive hares glimpsed in the field. She lives in tune with nature and Amanda's attitude to food is the same. She believes in buying good, seasonal ingredients when it comes to feeding her family and includes her favourite recipes here, from wild garlic lamb with hasselback roast potatoes to rhubarb and custard crumble cake and Yorkshire curd tart. As inspirational as Amanda herself, this is a beautiful audiobook that will delight everyone who has followed her adventures so far.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-diario-de-un-confinamiento-by-eduardo-galan--65186477https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de un confinamiento Author: Eduardo Galán Narrator: Martín Quirós Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Diario de un confinamiento es una obra poliédrica. Lo que empieza como diario abierto, un diario que se pretende bálsamo para el autor y medicina para el alma de aquellos contactos a los que cada noche, religiosamente, envía sus páginas, se va convirtiendo poco a poco en un cajón de sastre de emociones y vivencias. En palabras del autor, el diario le permite narrar sus historias cerca de los políticos, anécdotas del mundo educativo, los procesos de creación, introducir fragmentos líricos, pensamientos filosóficos o existencialistas u al mismo tiempo cultivar el humor, la frase hecha, el refrán, las expresiones malsonantes y el tópico. En un diario cabe todo, concluye, menos la mentira vital.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555292Wed, 27 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de un confinamiento Author: Eduardo Galán Narrator: Martín Quirós Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de un confinamiento Author: Eduardo Galán Narrator: Martín Quirós Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Diario de un confinamiento es una obra poliédrica. Lo que empieza como diario abierto, un diario que se pretende bálsamo para el autor y medicina para el alma de aquellos contactos a los que cada noche, religiosamente, envía sus páginas, se va convirtiendo poco a poco en un cajón de sastre de emociones y vivencias. En palabras del autor, el diario le permite narrar sus historias cerca de los políticos, anécdotas del mundo educativo, los procesos de creación, introducir fragmentos líricos, pensamientos filosóficos o existencialistas u al mismo tiempo cultivar el humor, la frase hecha, el refrán, las expresiones malsonantes y el tópico. En un diario cabe todo, concluye, menos la mentira vital.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/girlz-n-the-hood-a-memoir-of-mama-in-south-central-los-angeles-by-mary-hill-wagner--65186620https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girlz 'n the Hood: A Memoir of Mama in South Central Los Angeles Author: Mary Hill-Wagner Narrator: Mary Hill-Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Girlz 'n the Hood is the unsentimental, moving, and surprisingly humorous account of a girl and her ten siblings who grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Mary’s mother was a fierce matriarch, a single mom who raised eleven children with the help of welfare checks and a fire arm hidden in her bra. Drugs, guns, and pregnancies were everyday occurrences, but Mary and her siblings took it all in stride, spying on the grown-ups, playing in the streets, and helping to take care of the new babies when they were born. The dubious yet colorful cast of characters that came into their lives (the Jehovah Witnesses, the whores, the addicts, the “fathers”), and the never-ending series of hardships (the jail terms, the knife fights, the mental illness, and homicides), couldn’t shake the core of the family. This is the story of Mary, but, even more so, it’s the story of her mother, a uniquely strong and extraordinary woman who was able to survive moments of pain and disappointment by laughing at the comedy of human missteps, miscalculations, and downright stupidity. This is also a story about race and of poverty and how, over time, it can wear you down and destroy you, because, although Mary got out okay, her sisters and brothers were not so lucky.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546405Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girlz 'n the Hood: A Memoir of Mama in South Central Los Angeles Author: Mary Hill-Wagner Narrator: Mary Hill-Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girlz 'n the Hood: A Memoir of Mama in South Central Los Angeles Author: Mary Hill-Wagner Narrator: Mary Hill-Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Girlz 'n the Hood is the unsentimental, moving, and surprisingly humorous account of a girl and her ten siblings who grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Mary’s mother was a fierce matriarch, a single mom who raised eleven children with the help of welfare checks and a fire arm hidden in her bra. Drugs, guns, and pregnancies were everyday occurrences, but Mary and her siblings took it all in stride, spying on the grown-ups, playing in the streets, and helping to take care of the new babies when they were born. The dubious yet colorful cast of characters that came into their lives (the Jehovah Witnesses, the whores, the addicts, the “fathers”), and the never-ending series of hardships (the jail terms, the knife fights, the mental illness, and homicides), couldn’t shake the core of the family. This is the story of Mary, but, even more so, it’s the story of her mother, a uniquely strong and extraordinary woman who was able to survive moments of pain and disappointment by laughing at the comedy of human missteps, miscalculations, and downright stupidity. This is also a story about race and of poverty and how, over time, it can wear you down and destroy you, because, although Mary got out okay, her sisters and brothers were not so lucky.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-trail-to-kanjiroba-rediscovering-earth-in-an-age-of-loss-by-william-debuys--65186509https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss Author: William Debuys Narrator: William Debuys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A revitalizing new perspective on Earthcare from Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys. In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth; he sought a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of Earth's remotest regions, his writing celebrates the land's staggering natural beauty, and treats his listeners to deep dives into two scientific discoveries—the theories of natural selection and plate tectonics—that forever changed human understanding of our planet. Written in a vivid and nuanced style evocative of John McPhee or Peter Matthiessen, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that lies ahead.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551513Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss Author: William Debuys Narrator: William Debuys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss Author: William Debuys Narrator: William Debuys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A revitalizing new perspective on Earthcare from Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys. In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth; he sought a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of Earth's remotest regions, his writing celebrates the land's staggering natural beauty, and treats his listeners to deep dives into two scientific discoveries—the theories of natural selection and plate tectonics—that forever changed human understanding of our planet. Written in a vivid and nuanced style evocative of John McPhee or Peter Matthiessen, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that lies ahead.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-childhood-in-tibet-a-biography-by-therese-obrecht-hodler--65186500https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Childhood in Tibet: A Biography Author: Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Narrator: Tenzin Kalsang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 31 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tendöl Namling turned 60 in March 2019. She was born at the time when the Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa and the uprising of his people by the Chinese People's Army was brutally suppressed. She has lived for 22 years under Chinese rule. As the daughter of a high government official, she underwent the ordeal of 're-education' with full force. All she has kept from these years are painful memories and some crumpled photographs. They show her with her friends and cousins in Lhasa, smiling as if nothing had happened. When Tendöl turned 10 her brother was arrested and her mother sentenced to ten years in prison. Tendöl was sent to work in road construction for several years. At the age of 20 she was allowed to start an apprenticeship as motor mechanic. Thanks to the efforts of her family in exile, Tendöl was able to leave Tibet in 1982. After twenty years of hardship she landed in prosperous Switzerland. It felt as if she had to start her life all over again. She struggled but she never gave up. She founded a family and a business and reconciled herself with the painful past. In Tendöl's words, 'this little book is dedicated to all the Tibetans who continue to rebel against the Chinese occupation'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551886Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Childhood in Tibet: A Biography Author: Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Narrator: Tenzin Kalsang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 31 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Childhood in Tibet: A Biography Author: Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Narrator: Tenzin Kalsang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 31 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tendöl Namling turned 60 in March 2019. She was born at the time when the Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa and the uprising of his people by the Chinese People's Army was brutally suppressed. She has lived for 22 years under Chinese rule. As the daughter of a high government official, she underwent the ordeal of 're-education' with full force. All she has kept from these years are painful memories and some crumpled photographs. They show her with her friends and cousins in Lhasa, smiling as if nothing had happened. When Tendöl turned 10 her brother was arrested and her mother sentenced to ten years in prison. Tendöl was sent to work in road construction for several years. At the age of 20 she was allowed to start an apprenticeship as motor mechanic. Thanks to the efforts of her family in exile, Tendöl was able to leave Tibet in 1982. After twenty years of hardship she landed in prosperous Switzerland. It felt as if she had to start her life all over again. She struggled but she never gave up. She founded a family and a business and reconciled herself with the painful past. In Tendöl's words, 'this little book is dedicated to all the Tibetans who continue to rebel against the Chinese occupation'.]]>545cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crucible-leadership-embrace-your-trials-to-lead-a-life-of-significance-by-warwick-fairfax--65186458https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance Author: Warwick Fairfax Narrator: Warwick Fairfax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For leaders who believe they may not be maximizing their leadership potential, Warwick Fairfax is the trusted leadership advisor who helps readers uncover their own unique path to living and leading with significance, effectiveness, and authenticity in all areas of life. In Crucible Leadership, he shares the power of embracing the crucible moments: those past trials, failures, and setbacks that can be seen as either roadblocks or as jumping-off points to leading a life of significance and purpose dedicated to serving others. Crucible Leadership comes alive through the unique framework of Warwick’s own story: how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment. He demonstrates to readers in an honest, self-reflective way how they can make sense of their own talents and trials to lead with authenticity in all areas of life. Warwick empowers readers to become the leader they were designed to be through his unique perspective, which has been shaped by three powerful touchstones:  - Hard-won insights and honest, self-reflective lessons learned from his own crucible moment, and the long road back from it - Inspiring and instructive stories from his rich and iconic family history  - Time-honored leadership truths proven out by history’s greatest and most inspirational figures]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554782Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance Author: Warwick Fairfax Narrator: Warwick Fairfax Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance Author: Warwick Fairfax Narrator: Warwick Fairfax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For leaders who believe they may not be maximizing their leadership potential, Warwick Fairfax is the trusted leadership advisor who helps readers uncover their own unique path to living and leading with significance, effectiveness, and authenticity in all areas of life. In Crucible Leadership, he shares the power of embracing the crucible moments: those past trials, failures, and setbacks that can be seen as either roadblocks or as jumping-off points to leading a life of significance and purpose dedicated to serving others. Crucible Leadership comes alive through the unique framework of Warwick’s own story: how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment. He demonstrates to readers in an honest, self-reflective way how they can make sense of their own talents and trials to lead with authenticity in all areas of life. Warwick empowers readers to become the leader they were designed to be through his unique perspective, which has been shaped by three powerful touchstones:  - Hard-won insights and honest, self-reflective lessons learned from his own crucible moment, and the long road back from it - Inspiring and instructive stories from his rich and iconic family history  - Time-honored leadership truths proven out by history’s greatest and most inspirational figures]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mermaid-singing-by-charmian-clift--65186525https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mermaid Singing Author: Charmian Clift Narrator: Josie Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece. Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended. A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. 'Mermaid Singing' is the companion volume to Peel Me a Lotus. - Charmian Clift was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1923. She became a journalist on the Melbourne Argus after World War II and in 1947 married novelist and journalist George Johnston. Early in their marriage they collaborated on three novels: the prizewinning High Valley, The Big Chariot and the Sponge Divers. Then in 1954, having lived in London for a few years, they took their family to live in the Greek Islands. During the period Charmian wrote two accounts of their life there, Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus, and two novels, Honour’s Mimic and Walk to the Paradise Gardens. In 1964 the family returned to Australia and Charmian began a weekly newspaper column which quickly gained her a wide and devoted readership. She died in 1969. Polly Samson is an author, lyricist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her most recent novel, the bestselling A Theatre for Dreamers, features Charmian Clift as one of the central characters]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550622Fri, 15 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mermaid Singing Author: Charmian Clift Narrator: Josie Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 15, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mermaid Singing Author: Charmian Clift Narrator: Josie Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece. Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended. A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. 'Mermaid Singing' is the companion volume to Peel Me a Lotus. - Charmian Clift was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1923. She became a journalist on the Melbourne Argus after World War II and in 1947 married novelist and journalist George Johnston. Early in their marriage they collaborated on three novels: the prizewinning High Valley, The Big Chariot and the Sponge Divers. Then in 1954, having lived in London for a few years, they took their family to live in the Greek Islands. During the period Charmian wrote two accounts of their life there, Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus, and two novels, Honour’s Mimic and Walk to the Paradise Gardens. In 1964 the family returned to Australia and Charmian began a weekly newspaper column which quickly gained her a wide and devoted readership. She died in 1969. Polly Samson is an author, lyricist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her most recent novel, the bestselling A Theatre for Dreamers, features Charmian Clift as one of the central characters]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/only-happy-tears-how-i-dealt-with-the-loss-of-a-loved-one-by-lynne-minyard-christer--65186452https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Happy Tears: How I Dealt With the Loss of a Loved One Author: Lynne Minyard-Christer Narrator: Jessica Mathison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the beginning, it was shock and what am I to do now, feeling numb. Lessons to be learned, an awakening. By the end of the book, there is so much more confidence, looking forward to enjoying life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555750Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Happy Tears: How I Dealt With the Loss of a Loved One Author: Lynne Minyard-Christer Narrator: Jessica Mathison Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Happy Tears: How I Dealt With the Loss of a Loved One Author: Lynne Minyard-Christer Narrator: Jessica Mathison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the beginning, it was shock and what am I to do now, feeling numb. Lessons to be learned, an awakening. By the end of the book, there is so much more confidence, looking forward to enjoying life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/making-faith-great-again-wisdom-from-a-life-with-no-regrets-by-marlene-ostrom--65186489https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making Faith Great Again: Wisdom from a Life with No Regrets Author: Marlene Ostrom Narrator: Stella June Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Does your life need more amazing adventures? Do you want more fulfillment and significance? Marlene was twenty-two, a new baby in arms, when her husband said, “I think God’s calling us to give our lives to the Philippines.” Her response? “Sounds like an adventure!” But three years into their successful ministry, Marlene loses her entire family to a plane crash, and Don and Marlene must return home to run the family business. They’d planned on selling the business and returning to “God’s work” until a world-famous evangelist told them that they could do even more good for the Kingdom of God by running their business well and supporting missionaries. That conversation changed everything. Over the next sixty years, they planted hundreds of churches and touched hundreds of thousands of lives. In this book, Marlene tells her fascinating story and shares hard-won wisdom about prayer, prosperity, marriage, and generosity. Above all, she urges us to pursue an adventurous life of great faith.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553234Wed, 13 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making Faith Great Again: Wisdom from a Life with No Regrets Author: Marlene Ostrom Narrator: Stella June Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making Faith Great Again: Wisdom from a Life with No Regrets Author: Marlene Ostrom Narrator: Stella June Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Does your life need more amazing adventures? Do you want more fulfillment and significance? Marlene was twenty-two, a new baby in arms, when her husband said, “I think God’s calling us to give our lives to the Philippines.” Her response? “Sounds like an adventure!” But three years into their successful ministry, Marlene loses her entire family to a plane crash, and Don and Marlene must return home to run the family business. They’d planned on selling the business and returning to “God’s work” until a world-famous evangelist told them that they could do even more good for the Kingdom of God by running their business well and supporting missionaries. That conversation changed everything. Over the next sixty years, they planted hundreds of churches and touched hundreds of thousands of lives. In this book, Marlene tells her fascinating story and shares hard-won wisdom about prayer, prosperity, marriage, and generosity. Above all, she urges us to pursue an adventurous life of great faith.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-streamed-beneath-it-a-memoir-of-grief-and-celebration-by-shawn-hitchins--65186566https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration Author: Shawn Hitchins Narrator: Shawn Hitchins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Publishers Weekly Notable Book 49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. "This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery - raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe at human resilience." - Shelf Awareness "A timely story so human, so beautiful, so bravely told with heart and humour." - Rosie O'Donnell A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief - and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open. Never without an edge of self-awareness, The Light Streamed Beneath It invites the reader into Hitchins's world as he reckons with his past and stays painfully in the present. As he builds an embodied future, he confronts the stories that have shaped him, sets aside his ambition, and seeks connection in what he used to deflect with laughter - therapy, community and chosen family, movement, spirituality, and an awareness of death's ever-presence. A heartrending and hope-filled story of resilience in the wake of death, The Light Streamed Beneath It joyfully affirms that life is essentially good, as Hitchins weaves his tale full of tenacious spirit, humor, kindness, and grit through life's most unforgiving challenges.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548572Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration Author: Shawn Hitchins Narrator: Shawn Hitchins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration Author: Shawn Hitchins Narrator: Shawn Hitchins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Publishers Weekly Notable Book 49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. "This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery - raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe at human resilience." - Shelf Awareness "A timely story so human, so beautiful, so bravely told with heart and humour." - Rosie O'Donnell A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief - and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open. Never without an edge of self-awareness, The Light Streamed Beneath It invites the reader into Hitchins's world as he reckons with his past and stays painfully in the present. As he builds an embodied future, he confronts the stories that have shaped him, sets aside his ambition, and seeks connection in what he used to deflect with laughter - therapy, community and chosen family, movement, spirituality, and an awareness of death's ever-presence. A heartrending and hope-filled story of resilience in the wake of death, The Light Streamed Beneath It joyfully affirms that life is essentially good, as Hitchins weaves his tale full of tenacious spirit, humor, kindness, and grit through life's most unforgiving challenges.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surviving-the-island-of-grace-a-life-on-the-wild-edge-of-america-2nd-rev-ed-by-leslie-leyland-fields--65186559https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving the Island of Grace: A Life on the Wild Edge of America (2nd Rev Ed) Author: Leslie Leyland Fields Narrator: Leslie Leyland Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of one woman's life on the far edge of America and her struggle to find home amid the isolation, work, risk and beauty of the Alaskan wilderness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550024Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving the Island of Grace: A Life on the Wild Edge of America (2nd Rev Ed) Author: Leslie Leyland Fields Narrator: Leslie Leyland Fields Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving the Island of Grace: A Life on the Wild Edge of America (2nd Rev Ed) Author: Leslie Leyland Fields Narrator: Leslie Leyland Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of one woman's life on the far edge of America and her struggle to find home amid the isolation, work, risk and beauty of the Alaskan wilderness.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/centered-autism-basketball-and-one-athlete-s-dreams-by-anthony-ianni-rob-keast--65186558https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams Author: Anthony Ianni, Rob Keast Narrator: Anthony Ianni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of.' Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play for the Michigan State Spartans. Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams is the firsthand account of a young man's social, academic, and athletic struggles and his determination to reach his goals. In this remarkable memoir, Ianni reflects on his experiences with both basketball and the autism spectrum. Centered, an inspirational sports story in the vein of Rudy, reveals Ianni to be unflinching in his honesty, generous in his gratitude, and gracious in his compassion. Sports fans will root for the underdog. Parents, teachers, and coaches will gain insight into the experience of an autistic child. And everyone will triumph in the achievements of Centered.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549434Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams Author: Anthony Ianni, Rob Keast Narrator: Anthony Ianni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams Author: Anthony Ianni, Rob Keast Narrator: Anthony Ianni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of.' Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play for the Michigan State Spartans. Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams is the firsthand account of a young man's social, academic, and athletic struggles and his determination to reach his goals. In this remarkable memoir, Ianni reflects on his experiences with both basketball and the autism spectrum. Centered, an inspirational sports story in the vein of Rudy, reveals Ianni to be unflinching in his honesty, generous in his gratitude, and gracious in his compassion. Sports fans will root for the underdog. Parents, teachers, and coaches will gain insight into the experience of an autistic child. And everyone will triumph in the achievements of Centered.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flesh-blood-reflections-on-infertility-family-and-creating-a-bountiful-life-a-memoir-by-n-west-moss--65186556https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir Author: N. West Moss Narrator: Erin Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Honest, warm, and witty, this memoir reads like a chat with a dear friend sharing her insight and taking us along as she heals. Complete with family stories over cocktails and a praying mantis named Claude. “I drive and say to myself, if I am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die.” When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she manages to drive herself to the nearest hospital. Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosis—uterine hemangioma—is rendered and a hysterectomy is scheduled. In prose both lyrical and unsparing, Moss takes us along through illness, relapse, and recovery. And as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, she reflects on kin and kinship and on what it means to leave a legacy. Moss’s wise, droll voice and limitless curiosity lift this narrative beyond any narrow focus. Among her interests: yellow fever, good cocktails, the history of New Orleans, and, always, the natural world, including the praying mantis in her sunroom whom she names Claude. And we learn about the inspiring women in Moss’s family—her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother—as she sorts out her feelings that this line will end with her. But Moss discovers that there are ways besides having children to make a mark, and that grief is not a stopping place but a companion that travels along with us through everything, even happiness. A remarkably honest memoir about heartache and healing, Flesh & Blood opens up a conversation with the millions of women who live with infertility and loss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550226Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir Author: N. West Moss Narrator: Erin Spencer Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir Author: N. West Moss Narrator: Erin Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Honest, warm, and witty, this memoir reads like a chat with a dear friend sharing her insight and taking us along as she heals. Complete with family stories over cocktails and a praying mantis named Claude. “I drive and say to myself, if I am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die.” When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she manages to drive herself to the nearest hospital. Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosis—uterine hemangioma—is rendered and a hysterectomy is scheduled. In prose both lyrical and unsparing, Moss takes us along through illness, relapse, and recovery. And as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, she reflects on kin and kinship and on what it means to leave a legacy. Moss’s wise, droll voice and limitless curiosity lift this narrative beyond any narrow focus. Among her interests: yellow fever, good cocktails, the history of New Orleans, and, always, the natural world, including the praying mantis in her sunroom whom she names Claude. And we learn about the inspiring women in Moss’s family—her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother—as she sorts out her feelings that this line will end with her. But Moss discovers that there are ways besides having children to make a mark, and that grief is not a stopping place but a companion that travels along with us through everything, even happiness. A remarkably honest memoir about heartache and healing, Flesh & Blood opens up a conversation with the millions of women who live with infertility and loss.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-some-animals-eat-their-young-a-survivor-s-guide-to-motherhood-by-dallas-louis--65186529https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood Author: Dallas Louis Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Dallas Louis decided that all she wanted was to meet and marry her Prince Charming and become a mom, she had no idea what was in store for her. But she would soon find out. After only seven months of dating the love of her life, she married him, and within the course of twenty-six months, she gave birth to three children. Her husband knew her longer pregnant than not pregnant! In this laugh-out-loud book, Dallas shares highlights of what happened in her world once she and her husband, Jeff, brought home three kids in a time span that was barely long enough to build a house, let alone build three humans. She would like listeners to find comfort in knowing they aren't the only ones suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome or buyer's remorse. And, yes, it’s okay to admit that both of these conditions apply to parenting, though hopefully not all the time. Channeling Erma Bombeck, Dallas will tell you the things your friends won't and the things other books are too afraid to print. With her irreverent humor and brash 'tell it like it is' style, she'll help you laugh at everyday situations, easing the pressure of the toughest job in the world: being a mom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550388Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood Author: Dallas Louis Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood Author: Dallas Louis Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Dallas Louis decided that all she wanted was to meet and marry her Prince Charming and become a mom, she had no idea what was in store for her. But she would soon find out. After only seven months of dating the love of her life, she married him, and within the course of twenty-six months, she gave birth to three children. Her husband knew her longer pregnant than not pregnant! In this laugh-out-loud book, Dallas shares highlights of what happened in her world once she and her husband, Jeff, brought home three kids in a time span that was barely long enough to build a house, let alone build three humans. She would like listeners to find comfort in knowing they aren't the only ones suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome or buyer's remorse. And, yes, it’s okay to admit that both of these conditions apply to parenting, though hopefully not all the time. Channeling Erma Bombeck, Dallas will tell you the things your friends won't and the things other books are too afraid to print. With her irreverent humor and brash 'tell it like it is' style, she'll help you laugh at everyday situations, easing the pressure of the toughest job in the world: being a mom.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-cares-encouraging-words-and-stories-from-an-alzheimer-s-caregiver-by-charles-towne--65186573https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Cares: Encouraging Words and Stories from an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Author: Charles Towne Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One Man’s Prayers and Reflections on Caring for a Loved One Alzheimer’s. Dementia. Such a diagnosis creates fear and apprehension in the hearts of families whose loved one has received it. What to do? Where to turn? Author Charles Towne had such fears and questions as he faced the long-term prospect of his wife’s illness. Through 20 years of caregiving, he found answers. In Love Cares he shares them with you. Through short vignettes, Towne details his journey. With honesty and humor, he draws you in as he navigates his challenging life, always relying on Papa God to carry him through the tough times. Are you or someone you love in the midst of the challenges of caregiving? As you read this book, author Towne wishes you “hope and the realization that your journey, like mine, is purpose driven and, though at times difficult, is likely the most rewarding journey you will ever embark upon.” Because love always cares. Charles Towne is an author and newspaper columnist whose life has been and continues to be anything but boring. For his 87th birthday, he celebrated by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 14,000 feet! Charles says that being the father of his four children definitely helped prepare him for directing a zoo in Iowa and operating a breeding facility for large cats in Michigan during the next chapter of his story. Yes, zoo director, breeder of big cats, and wildlife photographer specializing in bears . . . and then, the too-soon death of the mother of his children by a drunk driver. Another chapter. Eventually Charles met and married his present wife Nancy, the inspiration for this book. Nothing that had gone before could possibly have prepared him for the cascade of tests that were to come. That is what this book is about. Twenty-one years of caregiving can present some daunting challenges, many joyous moments, much laughter, a bunch of pain, and many, many victories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551729Wed, 06 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Cares: Encouraging Words and Stories from an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Author: Charles Towne Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Cares: Encouraging Words and Stories from an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Author: Charles Towne Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One Man’s Prayers and Reflections on Caring for a Loved One Alzheimer’s. Dementia. Such a diagnosis creates fear and apprehension in the hearts of families whose loved one has received it. What to do? Where to turn? Author Charles Towne had such fears and questions as he faced the long-term prospect of his wife’s illness. Through 20 years of caregiving, he found answers. In Love Cares he shares them with you. Through short vignettes, Towne details his journey. With honesty and humor, he draws you in as he navigates his challenging life, always relying on Papa God to carry him through the tough times. Are you or someone you love in the midst of the challenges of caregiving? As you read this book, author Towne wishes you “hope and the realization that your journey, like mine, is purpose driven and, though at times difficult, is likely the most rewarding journey you will ever embark upon.” Because love always cares. Charles Towne is an author and newspaper columnist whose life has been and continues to be anything but boring. For his 87th birthday, he celebrated by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 14,000 feet! Charles says that being the father of his four children definitely helped prepare him for directing a zoo in Iowa and operating a breeding facility for large cats in Michigan during the next chapter of his story. Yes, zoo director, breeder of big cats, and wildlife photographer specializing in bears . . . and then, the too-soon death of the mother of his children by a drunk driver. Another chapter. Eventually Charles met and married his present wife Nancy, the inspiration for this book. Nothing that had gone before could possibly have prepared him for the cascade of tests that were to come. That is what this book is about. Twenty-one years of caregiving can present some daunting challenges, many joyous moments, much laughter, a bunch of pain, and many, many victories.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-ll-take-your-questions-now-what-i-saw-at-the-trump-white-house-by-stephanie-grisham--65186626https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House Author: Stephanie Grisham Narrator: Stephanie Grisham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546766Tue, 05 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House Author: Stephanie Grisham Narrator: Stephanie Grisham Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House Author: Stephanie Grisham Narrator: Stephanie Grisham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-caso-florence-cassez-mi-testimonio-by-pablo-reinah--65186589https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El caso Florence Cassez: Mi testimonio Author: Pablo Reinah Narrator: Rafael Pacheco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Éste es su valioso testimonio en torno a un caso que hoy, a pesar de haber sucedido hace ya más de 15 años y de que Florence Cassez haya sido liberada, aún sigue dando de qué hablar. El 9 de diciembre de 2005, el reportero Pablo Reinah cubrió un “operativo” en el rancho Las Chinitas para Televisa. Se trataba de la captura de dos presuntos secuestradores de la banda Los Zodiaco: la francesa Florence Cassez y el mexicanoIsrael Vallarta. Poco después, se supo que este “operativo” había sido un montaje. La noticia se volvió un escándalo mediático y político de proporciones inimaginables que puso al descubierto las ineficiencias y la corrupción que atraviesan al sistema de justicia mexicano. La trama de este caso incluye a un famoso conductor, a dos presidentes que se enemistaron y a un exfuncionario que hoy está preso, entre muchos otros. Sin prueba alguna, tanto Televisa como la afi acusaron a Reinah de haber orquestado dicho montaje. El reportero fue despedido, acusado y señalado injustamente. Pero Reinah inició una valiente batalla legal para limpiar su nombre.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550522Sun, 03 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El caso Florence Cassez: Mi testimonio Author: Pablo Reinah Narrator: Rafael Pacheco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El caso Florence Cassez: Mi testimonio Author: Pablo Reinah Narrator: Rafael Pacheco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Éste es su valioso testimonio en torno a un caso que hoy, a pesar de haber sucedido hace ya más de 15 años y de que Florence Cassez haya sido liberada, aún sigue dando de qué hablar. El 9 de diciembre de 2005, el reportero Pablo Reinah cubrió un “operativo” en el rancho Las Chinitas para Televisa. Se trataba de la captura de dos presuntos secuestradores de la banda Los Zodiaco: la francesa Florence Cassez y el mexicanoIsrael Vallarta. Poco después, se supo que este “operativo” había sido un montaje. La noticia se volvió un escándalo mediático y político de proporciones inimaginables que puso al descubierto las ineficiencias y la corrupción que atraviesan al sistema de justicia mexicano. La trama de este caso incluye a un famoso conductor, a dos presidentes que se enemistaron y a un exfuncionario que hoy está preso, entre muchos otros. Sin prueba alguna, tanto Televisa como la afi acusaron a Reinah de haber orquestado dicho montaje. El reportero fue despedido, acusado y señalado injustamente. Pero Reinah inició una valiente batalla legal para limpiar su nombre.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-ese-instante-by-silvia-cherem--65186569https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ese instante Author: Silvia Cherem Narrator: Silvia Cherem, Noé Velázquez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En un segundo la vida se fractura y todo se desgarra: crónicas sobre una mujer que sobrevivióa un tsunami; el infierno del atentado a las Torres Gemelas; la cuadriplejia tras un accidentemortalinverosímil; dar a luz con sida; la desaparición de una hija, y tres muertes y una resurrección por covid-19. Pocas veces un recuento de crónicas logra un equilibrio perfecto entre dolor y esperanza, desesperación y voluntad: Ese instante lo consigue y lo rebasa. Se cuentan en estas páginas los días de pavor de una sobreviviente a un tsunami; el horror y salvación de una mujer durante el atentado a las Torres Gemelas; la inmensa fortaleza espiritual de un hombre después de sufrir un accidente automovilístico absurdo, mortal; la condena y batalla de una mujer inolvidable contagiada de sida; el misterio doliente de una joven desaparecida en el Caribe mexicano, y la lucha feroz contra la muerte y posterior resurrección de un enfermo de covid-19. La destacada periodista Silvia Cherem emplea toda su destreza y sensibilidad narrativas para trazar los rasgos más complejos de seres humanos expuestos a los padecimientos más atroces; comparte una serie detestimonios donde el sufrimiento físico y la fractura existencial se transforman en un nuevo aliento para doblegar la crisis, un jamás darse por vencido después de ese instante que desgarró numerosas vidas. El lector tiene en sus manos un libro que hace ver muy frágil a la ficción por su memorial intenso de sobrevivencia, desafío mortal y deseos de vivir, en suma, una obra escrita desde la entraña de sus protagonistas: inolvidable, extraordinaria. testimonios victimas; testimonios desaparecidos; supervivientes sobrevivientes tsunamis; enfermo de covid 19; superviviente de covid sida virus; atentado terrorista; personajes reales; [Críticas/Reseñas]]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549749Fri, 01 Oct 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ese instante Author: Silvia Cherem Narrator: Silvia Cherem, Noé Velázquez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ese instante Author: Silvia Cherem Narrator: Silvia Cherem, Noé Velázquez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En un segundo la vida se fractura y todo se desgarra: crónicas sobre una mujer que sobrevivióa un tsunami; el infierno del atentado a las Torres Gemelas; la cuadriplejia tras un accidentemortalinverosímil; dar a luz con sida; la desaparición de una hija, y tres muertes y una resurrección por covid-19. Pocas veces un recuento de crónicas logra un equilibrio perfecto entre dolor y esperanza, desesperación y voluntad: Ese instante lo consigue y lo rebasa. Se cuentan en estas páginas los días de pavor de una sobreviviente a un tsunami; el horror y salvación de una mujer durante el atentado a las Torres Gemelas; la inmensa fortaleza espiritual de un hombre después de sufrir un accidente automovilístico absurdo, mortal; la condena y batalla de una mujer inolvidable contagiada de sida; el misterio doliente de una joven desaparecida en el Caribe mexicano, y la lucha feroz contra la muerte y posterior resurrección de un enfermo de covid-19. La destacada periodista Silvia Cherem emplea toda su destreza y sensibilidad narrativas para trazar los rasgos más complejos de seres humanos expuestos a los padecimientos más atroces; comparte una serie detestimonios donde el sufrimiento físico y la fractura existencial se transforman en un nuevo aliento para doblegar la crisis, un jamás darse por vencido después de ese instante que desgarró numerosas vidas. El lector tiene en sus manos un libro que hace ver muy frágil a la ficción por su memorial intenso de sobrevivencia, desafío mortal y deseos de vivir, en suma, una obra escrita desde la entraña de sus protagonistas: inolvidable, extraordinaria. testimonios victimas; testimonios desaparecidos; supervivientes sobrevivientes tsunamis; enfermo de covid 19; superviviente de covid sida virus; atentado terrorista; personajes reales; [Críticas/Reseñas]]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wearing-a-cape-by-sally-cook--65186545https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wearing a Cape Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 25, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wearing a Cape tells of a job working with clients from fifty different nationalities. Going to court with them, representing them at hearings,, being with a murderer and held captive by two psychotic clients - one of whom burnt and old people's home down. It is about working with the repressed, the under represented, the unfortunate and the fortunate. It portrays the stamina to work where there are court room threats, gifts of kindness, conflict and resolution.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550428Sat, 25 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wearing a Cape Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 25, 2021 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wearing a Cape Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 25, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wearing a Cape tells of a job working with clients from fifty different nationalities. Going to court with them, representing them at hearings,, being with a murderer and held captive by two psychotic clients - one of whom burnt and old people's home down. It is about working with the repressed, the under represented, the unfortunate and the fortunate. It portrays the stamina to work where there are court room threats, gifts of kindness, conflict and resolution.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-como-ser-antirracista-by-ibram-x-kendi--65186610https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cómo ser antirracista Author: Ibram X. Kendi Narrator: Tony Dandrades Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “EL MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO” The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews El racismo es, en su esencia, un sistema poderoso que crea falsas jerarquías de los valores humanos; su lógica distorsionada se extiende más allá de la raza: desde la forma en que consideramos a las personas de diferentes etnias o colores de piel hasta el modo en que tratamos a las personas de diferentes sexos, identidades de género y tipos de cuerpo. El racismo se entrecruza con asuntos de clase, cultura y geografía e incluso cambia la manera en que nos vemos y nos valoramos. En Cómo ser antirracista, Kendi lleva a los lectores a través de un círculo cada vez más amplio de ideas antirracistas —desde los conceptos más básicos hasta sus posibilidades visionarias— que ayudarán a identificar claramente todas las formas de racismo, comprender sus peligrosas consecuencias y trabajar para oponerse a ellas tanto en nuestros sistemas sociales como en nuestro interior. El antirracismo es un concepto transformador que reorienta y revitaliza la conversación sobre el racismo y, más fundamentalmente, nos señala nuevas formas de pensar sobre nosotros mismos y los que nos rodean.   Kendi teje una combinación electrizante de ética, historia, derecho y ciencia con su propia historia personal de despertar al antirracismo. Una obra esencial para quien desee ir más allá de la simple conciencia del racismo y dar un paso más allá para contribuir a la formación de una sociedad justa y equitativa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547356Thu, 23 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cómo ser antirracista Author: Ibram X. Kendi Narrator: Tony Dandrades Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cómo ser antirracista Author: Ibram X. Kendi Narrator: Tony Dandrades Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “EL MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO” The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews El racismo es, en su esencia, un sistema poderoso que crea falsas jerarquías de los valores humanos; su lógica distorsionada se extiende más allá de la raza: desde la forma en que consideramos a las personas de diferentes etnias o colores de piel hasta el modo en que tratamos a las personas de diferentes sexos, identidades de género y tipos de cuerpo. El racismo se entrecruza con asuntos de clase, cultura y geografía e incluso cambia la manera en que nos vemos y nos valoramos. En Cómo ser antirracista, Kendi lleva a los lectores a través de un círculo cada vez más amplio de ideas antirracistas —desde los conceptos más básicos hasta sus posibilidades visionarias— que ayudarán a identificar claramente todas las formas de racismo, comprender sus peligrosas consecuencias y trabajar para oponerse a ellas tanto en nuestros sistemas sociales como en nuestro interior. El antirracismo es un concepto transformador que reorienta y revitaliza la conversación sobre el racismo y, más fundamentalmente, nos señala nuevas formas de pensar sobre nosotros mismos y los que nos rodean.   Kendi teje una combinación electrizante de ética, historia, derecho y ciencia con su propia historia personal de despertar al antirracismo. Una obra esencial para quien desee ir más allá de la simple conciencia del racismo y dar un paso más allá para contribuir a la formación de una sociedad justa y equitativa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/slap-it-on-by-sally-cook--65186549https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slap It On! Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Slap It On! tells the story of living among mud brick houses in an artists belt in Eltham,,Victoria. It portrays an atmospheric view which includes the famous artists colony of Montsalvat as well as raising small girls on a property replete with vegetable and herb gardens, hens, fruit and nut trees and re-cycled materials. It features a medieval feast, a train crash and a flasher as well as an earthquake and a deadly bush fire. .Special sound effects add to the experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549569Mon, 20 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slap It On! Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 20, 2021 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slap It On! Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Slap It On! tells the story of living among mud brick houses in an artists belt in Eltham,,Victoria. It portrays an atmospheric view which includes the famous artists colony of Montsalvat as well as raising small girls on a property replete with vegetable and herb gardens, hens, fruit and nut trees and re-cycled materials. It features a medieval feast, a train crash and a flasher as well as an earthquake and a deadly bush fire. .Special sound effects add to the experience.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-ankommen-aber-wo-war-ich-eigentlich-ungekurzt-by-bulent-ceylan--65186588https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ankommen - Aber wo war ich eigentlich? (Ungekürzt) Author: Bülent Ceylan Narrator: Bülent Ceylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Er heißt Tschäilan. Kann aber kein Wort Türkisch. Monnemer Dialekt und Cordhosen. Das alles ist doch irgendwie eine Bankrotterklärung. 'Nenn dich lieber Billy', raten die Geschwister. Doch Bülent Ceylan entdeckt als Kind ein Talent. Er kann Stimmen parodieren und damit Leute zum Lachen bringen. Die Wirkung ist verblüffend: Witze lenken von den Geldsorgen seines Vaters ab, Witze zaubern seinen Mitschülern ebenso wie seiner bedrückten Mutter ein Lächeln ins Gesicht. Mittlerweile füllt Bülent Ceylan damit ganze Arenen mit Tausenden Zuschauern. Zum ersten Mal erzählt der Comedian von seinem Aufwachsen in Mannheim, spricht über die Bedeutung von Vielfalt und Identität, Heimat und den Wert der Familie - entwaffnend ehrlich, mit Herz, Humor und Tiefgang.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547826Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ankommen - Aber wo war ich eigentlich? (Ungekürzt) Author: Bülent Ceylan Narrator: Bülent Ceylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ankommen - Aber wo war ich eigentlich? (Ungekürzt) Author: Bülent Ceylan Narrator: Bülent Ceylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Er heißt Tschäilan. Kann aber kein Wort Türkisch. Monnemer Dialekt und Cordhosen. Das alles ist doch irgendwie eine Bankrotterklärung. 'Nenn dich lieber Billy', raten die Geschwister. Doch Bülent Ceylan entdeckt als Kind ein Talent. Er kann Stimmen parodieren und damit Leute zum Lachen bringen. Die Wirkung ist verblüffend: Witze lenken von den Geldsorgen seines Vaters ab, Witze zaubern seinen Mitschülern ebenso wie seiner bedrückten Mutter ein Lächeln ins Gesicht. Mittlerweile füllt Bülent Ceylan damit ganze Arenen mit Tausenden Zuschauern. Zum ersten Mal erzählt der Comedian von seinem Aufwachsen in Mannheim, spricht über die Bedeutung von Vielfalt und Identität, Heimat und den Wert der Familie - entwaffnend ehrlich, mit Herz, Humor und Tiefgang.]]>185lent,rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cyclamen-a-journey-of-hope-by-chadia-chalmers--65186604https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cyclamen: A Journey Of Hope Author: Chadia Chalmers Narrator: Nadine Chemali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Novel Based On A True Story The cyclamen flower, outwardly poised and delicate, manifests boldly below the surface with great tenacity. Her roots endure all winters, waiting on the promise of spring – a moment to blossom again. Chadia was a bright and beautiful child with a zest for life. The cyclamen, native to her homeland and reminiscent of her childhood, became a metaphor for her life. Once civil war erupted in her home of Beirut, no one was left unscathed by what followed. Neighbours against neighbours, friends against their brothers; families torn, mothers weeping. With mercenaries taking aim on her family, Chadia took action. Her deep-rooted compassion would not see her bring harm to anyone, but she had to do something. Eventually, fleeing to the United States, Chadia’s hardships were not over. The battle was no longer physical but emotional. Struggling to fit in and embrace the new season, an abusive marriage withered her joy in the South. Clinging to hope, it was time for her to flee again. Australia, her sanctuary... Chadia believes she is purposed to help others and demonstrate the beauty that is multiculturalism, during a time of fragmented humanity. She endeavours to be a voice and advocate for the strength and resilience of women globally. This is her story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548402Mon, 06 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cyclamen: A Journey Of Hope Author: Chadia Chalmers Narrator: Nadine Chemali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cyclamen: A Journey Of Hope Author: Chadia Chalmers Narrator: Nadine Chemali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Novel Based On A True Story The cyclamen flower, outwardly poised and delicate, manifests boldly below the surface with great tenacity. Her roots endure all winters, waiting on the promise of spring – a moment to blossom again. Chadia was a bright and beautiful child with a zest for life. The cyclamen, native to her homeland and reminiscent of her childhood, became a metaphor for her life. Once civil war erupted in her home of Beirut, no one was left unscathed by what followed. Neighbours against neighbours, friends against their brothers; families torn, mothers weeping. With mercenaries taking aim on her family, Chadia took action. Her deep-rooted compassion would not see her bring harm to anyone, but she had to do something. Eventually, fleeing to the United States, Chadia’s hardships were not over. The battle was no longer physical but emotional. Struggling to fit in and embrace the new season, an abusive marriage withered her joy in the South. Clinging to hope, it was time for her to flee again. Australia, her sanctuary... Chadia believes she is purposed to help others and demonstrate the beauty that is multiculturalism, during a time of fragmented humanity. She endeavours to be a voice and advocate for the strength and resilience of women globally. This is her story.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bitchographies-random-commentaries-about-life-love-and-knock-off-christian-louboutins-by-vivienne-vuitton--65186501https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bitchographies: Random Commentaries About Life, Love and Knock-off Christian Louboutins Author: Vivienne Vuitton Narrator: Sasha dunbrooke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Take a step into the world of Vivienne Vuitton. She, along with her friends and acquaintances-all newly single-have a lot to say these days. Tired of following life's ever so complicated script of relationships dos and don'ts, corporate etiquette, and everything in between, Vivienne bares it all in relatable and hilariously unfiltered vignettes. Nothing is off-limits, from dating disasters, divorces, botched Botox, calculating colleagues, terrible bosses, fake friends, and so much more! Please make no mistake-this book isn't intended to change the world or win a Pulitzer. Hell, it isn't even politically correct! So, buckle up for a sassy journey into petty indifferences and quirky insights. The Bitchographies is a reminder that it's alright to vent and even bitch on occasion, use your outside voice, be the most fabulous YOU that you can be, and unapologetically live your label.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552551Fri, 03 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bitchographies: Random Commentaries About Life, Love and Knock-off Christian Louboutins Author: Vivienne Vuitton Narrator: Sasha dunbrooke Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bitchographies: Random Commentaries About Life, Love and Knock-off Christian Louboutins Author: Vivienne Vuitton Narrator: Sasha dunbrooke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Take a step into the world of Vivienne Vuitton. She, along with her friends and acquaintances-all newly single-have a lot to say these days. Tired of following life's ever so complicated script of relationships dos and don'ts, corporate etiquette, and everything in between, Vivienne bares it all in relatable and hilariously unfiltered vignettes. Nothing is off-limits, from dating disasters, divorces, botched Botox, calculating colleagues, terrible bosses, fake friends, and so much more! Please make no mistake-this book isn't intended to change the world or win a Pulitzer. Hell, it isn't even politically correct! So, buckle up for a sassy journey into petty indifferences and quirky insights. The Bitchographies is a reminder that it's alright to vent and even bitch on occasion, use your outside voice, be the most fabulous YOU that you can be, and unapologetically live your label.]]>245cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau--65186539https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Gord Mackenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and - to some degree - a manual for self-reliance. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly 'bottomless' Walden Pond.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550307Wed, 01 Sep 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Gord Mackenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 1, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Gord Mackenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and - to some degree - a manual for self-reliance. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly 'bottomless' Walden Pond.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/journey-into-darkness-days-of-tears-triumphs-fear-and-faith-behind-the-iron-curtain-by-kathy-vobora--65186611https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Into Darkness:: Days of Tears, Triumphs, Fear and Faith Behind the Iron Curtain Author: Kathy Vobora Narrator: Mike Previti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: True story. Intense emotions of fear, anger, alarm, peace, suspicion, reassurance, discouragement, hope, sorrow and joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546827Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Into Darkness:: Days of Tears, Triumphs, Fear and Faith Behind the Iron Curtain Author: Kathy Vobora Narrator: Mike Previti Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey Into Darkness:: Days of Tears, Triumphs, Fear and Faith Behind the Iron Curtain Author: Kathy Vobora Narrator: Mike Previti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: True story. Intense emotions of fear, anger, alarm, peace, suspicion, reassurance, discouragement, hope, sorrow and joy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/will-s-story-our-son-s-brave-battle-by-tim-lipscombe--65186606https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Will's Story: Our son's brave battle Author: Tim Lipscombe Narrator: Tim Lipscombe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This story is a glimpse into the journey of our amazing and inspirational son, Will, and his brave battle through two rare illnesses. It is a story of pain and tragedy, that brought with it a never-ending bond of love and hope . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546837Tue, 03 Aug 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Will's Story: Our son's brave battle Author: Tim Lipscombe Narrator: Tim Lipscombe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Will's Story: Our son's brave battle Author: Tim Lipscombe Narrator: Tim Lipscombe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This story is a glimpse into the journey of our amazing and inspirational son, Will, and his brave battle through two rare illnesses. It is a story of pain and tragedy, that brought with it a never-ending bond of love and hope . . .]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-march-at-midnight-a-war-memoir-by-ray-mcpadden--65186427https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We March at Midnight: A War Memoir Author: Ray Mcpadden Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What would the war do without me? We March at Midnight is award-winning author Ray McPadden’s chronicle of his experience as a highly decorated Ranger Officer leading some of the most dangerous missions during the height of the Iraq and Afghan wars. In 2005, Ray joined the army in search of what he calls “the moment”—a chance to prove to himself and his brothers in arms that he is a true leader. His job is to establish the first outpost in the Korengal, Afghanistan’s deadliest valley, and his decisions and mistakes will have a permanent impact on the men he commands. During the fifteen-month tour, his unit receives numerous decorations for valor while suffering nearly 50 percent casualties, ultimately accomplishing their mission in a land considered unwinnable. Prowess with a rifle platoon soon earns Ray a position in the world’s premiere raiding force, the 75th Ranger Regiment, an accomplishment earned by less than 1 percent of the officers in the US Army, and during the most combat-heavy period of the twenty-first century. Ray spearheads the first joint-strike force of Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, in a shadow war against the agents of a foreign government, where lightning raids by helicopter, armored vehicle, and foot are his nightly routine. In 2009, when Ray returns to the same corner of Afghanistan where his military career began, he suddenly finds himself tasked with leading Rangers against a target he knows all too well: the home of friends from his first tour. As he leads one last raid, Ray is at war with himself. Conquering this unexpected enemy proves the greatest challenge of all. We March at Midnight is a blood-spattered tour de force of growing up, leadership, the nature of war, and its aftermath.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555854Tue, 03 Aug 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We March at Midnight: A War Memoir Author: Ray Mcpadden Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We March at Midnight: A War Memoir Author: Ray Mcpadden Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What would the war do without me? We March at Midnight is award-winning author Ray McPadden’s chronicle of his experience as a highly decorated Ranger Officer leading some of the most dangerous missions during the height of the Iraq and Afghan wars. In 2005, Ray joined the army in search of what he calls “the moment”—a chance to prove to himself and his brothers in arms that he is a true leader. His job is to establish the first outpost in the Korengal, Afghanistan’s deadliest valley, and his decisions and mistakes will have a permanent impact on the men he commands. During the fifteen-month tour, his unit receives numerous decorations for valor while suffering nearly 50 percent casualties, ultimately accomplishing their mission in a land considered unwinnable. Prowess with a rifle platoon soon earns Ray a position in the world’s premiere raiding force, the 75th Ranger Regiment, an accomplishment earned by less than 1 percent of the officers in the US Army, and during the most combat-heavy period of the twenty-first century. Ray spearheads the first joint-strike force of Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, in a shadow war against the agents of a foreign government, where lightning raids by helicopter, armored vehicle, and foot are his nightly routine. In 2009, when Ray returns to the same corner of Afghanistan where his military career began, he suddenly finds himself tasked with leading Rangers against a target he knows all too well: the home of friends from his first tour. As he leads one last raid, Ray is at war with himself. Conquering this unexpected enemy proves the greatest challenge of all. We March at Midnight is a blood-spattered tour de force of growing up, leadership, the nature of war, and its aftermath.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/open-skies-my-life-as-afghanistan-s-first-female-pilot-by-niloofar-rahmani--65186521https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan’s First Female Pilot Author: Niloofar Rahmani Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan’s first female air force pilot. In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Niloofar entered Afghanistan’s military academy. Niloofar had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership, and decisiveness—essential qualities for a combat pilot. Niloofar performed the first solo flight of her class—ahead of all her male classmates—and in 2013 became Afghanistan’s first female fixed-wing air force pilot. The US State Department honored Niloofar with the International Women of Courage Award and brought her to the United States to meet Michelle Obama and fly with the US Navy’s Blue Angels. But when she returned to Kabul, the danger to her and her family had increased significantly. Rahmani and her family are portraits of the resiliency of refugees and the accomplishments they can reach when afforded with opportunities.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551639Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan’s First Female Pilot Author: Niloofar Rahmani Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan’s First Female Pilot Author: Niloofar Rahmani Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan’s first female air force pilot. In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Niloofar entered Afghanistan’s military academy. Niloofar had to break through social barriers to demonstrate confidence, leadership, and decisiveness—essential qualities for a combat pilot. Niloofar performed the first solo flight of her class—ahead of all her male classmates—and in 2013 became Afghanistan’s first female fixed-wing air force pilot. The US State Department honored Niloofar with the International Women of Courage Award and brought her to the United States to meet Michelle Obama and fly with the US Navy’s Blue Angels. But when she returned to Kabul, the danger to her and her family had increased significantly. Rahmani and her family are portraits of the resiliency of refugees and the accomplishments they can reach when afforded with opportunities.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/citizen-surgeon-a-memoir-by-paul-bryan-roach--65186510https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen-Surgeon: A Memoir Author: Paul Bryan Roach Narrator: Emmett Schrader Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Citizen-Surgeon takes listeners into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the US-led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining US Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] US Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Margo (the “Desert of Death”) in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and professionally execute their role as one of the few medical and surgical companies supporting this major offensive. In the course of the audiobook’s events the author undergoes a transformation from being a physician in a military uniform into a military officer that happens to be a physician. The crucible effecting this change is the military offensive and his role within it. Shocking and intense, an array of critical injuries and their treatments are described in rich language that anyone, medical or nonmedical alike, can absorb. Death also pervades the atmosphere; intrusive, unyielding, and painful, its battlefield familiarity and personal impact is resisted, suffered, and ultimately accepted. Citizen-Surgeon is an intimate portrayal, a chronicle, and a celebration of friendship, love, success and failure, contemporary war, and military medicine. It is an account of a slice of reality that few people are privileged to know. It reflects deeply upon the nature of personal choice and how that choice puts us where we are in life, even if we did not fully see in advance how the choice would change us. Citizen-Surgeon also explores a variant of post-traumatic stress particular to medical assets, and it reveal’s one man’s chess match against it. It is a must-listen for those with a specific interest in contemporary military medicine and for those with broader, essentially human interests in individual growth, adventure, and self-actualization. Author’s Note: The Military Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan earned the Presidential Unit Citation for their efforts. This is one of only two such awards that the United States Marine Corps has received since the Persian Gulf, and it is the only Presidential Unit Citation given to any unit during the entire Afghan war. It is the highest unit commendation award that can be given.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551643Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen-Surgeon: A Memoir Author: Paul Bryan Roach Narrator: Emmett Schrader Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen-Surgeon: A Memoir Author: Paul Bryan Roach Narrator: Emmett Schrader Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Citizen-Surgeon takes listeners into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the US-led war in Afghanistan, amidst a defining US Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] US Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Margo (the “Desert of Death”) in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and professionally execute their role as one of the few medical and surgical companies supporting this major offensive. In the course of the audiobook’s events the author undergoes a transformation from being a physician in a military uniform into a military officer that happens to be a physician. The crucible effecting this change is the military offensive and his role within it. Shocking and intense, an array of critical injuries and their treatments are described in rich language that anyone, medical or nonmedical alike, can absorb. Death also pervades the atmosphere; intrusive, unyielding, and painful, its battlefield familiarity and personal impact is resisted, suffered, and ultimately accepted. Citizen-Surgeon is an intimate portrayal, a chronicle, and a celebration of friendship, love, success and failure, contemporary war, and military medicine. It is an account of a slice of reality that few people are privileged to know. It reflects deeply upon the nature of personal choice and how that choice puts us where we are in life, even if we did not fully see in advance how the choice would change us. Citizen-Surgeon also explores a variant of post-traumatic stress particular to medical assets, and it reveal’s one man’s chess match against it. It is a must-listen for those with a specific interest in contemporary military medicine and for those with broader, essentially human interests in individual growth, adventure, and self-actualization. Author’s Note: The Military Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan earned the Presidential Unit Citation for their efforts. This is one of only two such awards that the United States Marine Corps has received since the Persian Gulf, and it is the only Presidential Unit Citation given to any unit during the entire Afghan war. It is the highest unit commendation award that can be given.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-guru-wears-heels-by-joanna-rajendran--65186532https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Guru Wears Heels Author: Joanna Rajendran Narrator: Joanna Rajendran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Did you ever wonder if Jesus had a bestie? How did average girl Joanna Rajendran have such a backstage pass to magical Guru Tao Porchon-Lynch? This intergenerational spiritual journey shows how the philosophies of the World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher shaped two women generations apart. From trauma to triumphs and everything in between, these friends experience their respective worlds guided by the inspiring lessons first learned and then passed on by Tao. In addition to teaching for over seventy years, Tao was an activist, an actress, a model, a producer, and a writer. Later in life, she was on the Panel for Peace with His Holiness The Dalai Lama, collaborated with Tony Robbins, and was considered by Deepak Chopra to be his yoga teacher. Joanna watched in awe as Tao inspired transformation in everyone she encountered and at the end realized that her own may have been the biggest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550590Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Guru Wears Heels Author: Joanna Rajendran Narrator: Joanna Rajendran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Guru Wears Heels Author: Joanna Rajendran Narrator: Joanna Rajendran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Did you ever wonder if Jesus had a bestie? How did average girl Joanna Rajendran have such a backstage pass to magical Guru Tao Porchon-Lynch? This intergenerational spiritual journey shows how the philosophies of the World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher shaped two women generations apart. From trauma to triumphs and everything in between, these friends experience their respective worlds guided by the inspiring lessons first learned and then passed on by Tao. In addition to teaching for over seventy years, Tao was an activist, an actress, a model, a producer, and a writer. Later in life, she was on the Panel for Peace with His Holiness The Dalai Lama, collaborated with Tony Robbins, and was considered by Deepak Chopra to be his yoga teacher. Joanna watched in awe as Tao inspired transformation in everyone she encountered and at the end realized that her own may have been the biggest.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-never-ends-a-memoir-with-nice-memories-by-tom-scharpling--65186523https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! Author: Tom Scharpling Narrator: Tom Scharpling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the comedian, television writer, and host of The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, a revealing and powerful memoir exploring a life of struggle and reinvention. Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he’s survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly escaping with his life on the night of the 2016 election. But that’s nothing compared to the struggles he had earlier in his life. It Never Ends is his memoir of a life writing comedy amidst a lifelong struggle with mental illness, a story he has never told before. It’s the heartbreaking account of his intense coming-of-age, and the lengths he’s undertaken to pull away from the brink of self-destruction. Scharpling brought himself back to life first with punk zines and NBA coverage, then through the world of comedy, writing, and executive producing Monk, and creating one of the most beloved, longest running comedy radio broadcasts/podcasts, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling. Of course, there are also the tangents into auditioning for the New Monkees, why Billy Joel sucks, the siren call of the Sex and the City slot machines, and how he made a fool of himself in an elevator with Patti Smith. Tom is the quintessential underdog, and he wears that status on his sleeve as a badge of honor. With this memoir, he lifts the curtain to let the light in on the turmoil that still follows him, even as he racks up accolades and achievements. But most importantly, he reminds us that while many of us carry trauma and shame, we are not alone. It Never Ends is about rising above whatever circumstance you find yourself in and getting the most out of your life, while steamrolling the chumps along the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550583Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! Author: Tom Scharpling Narrator: Tom Scharpling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! Author: Tom Scharpling Narrator: Tom Scharpling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the comedian, television writer, and host of The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, a revealing and powerful memoir exploring a life of struggle and reinvention. Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he’s survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly escaping with his life on the night of the 2016 election. But that’s nothing compared to the struggles he had earlier in his life. It Never Ends is his memoir of a life writing comedy amidst a lifelong struggle with mental illness, a story he has never told before. It’s the heartbreaking account of his intense coming-of-age, and the lengths he’s undertaken to pull away from the brink of self-destruction. Scharpling brought himself back to life first with punk zines and NBA coverage, then through the world of comedy, writing, and executive producing Monk, and creating one of the most beloved, longest running comedy radio broadcasts/podcasts, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling. Of course, there are also the tangents into auditioning for the New Monkees, why Billy Joel sucks, the siren call of the Sex and the City slot machines, and how he made a fool of himself in an elevator with Patti Smith. Tom is the quintessential underdog, and he wears that status on his sleeve as a badge of honor. With this memoir, he lifts the curtain to let the light in on the turmoil that still follows him, even as he racks up accolades and achievements. But most importantly, he reminds us that while many of us carry trauma and shame, we are not alone. It Never Ends is about rising above whatever circumstance you find yourself in and getting the most out of your life, while steamrolling the chumps along the way.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mirror-of-the-sea-memories-impressions-by-joseph-conrad--65186519https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories & Impressions Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation…I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life; went on full of love’s delight and love’s anguish, facing them in open-eyed exultation without bitterness and without repining, from the first hour to the last.” The Mirror of the Sea is a personal meditation on the sea and its meanings by one of the twentieth century’s most important novelists. When Joseph Conrad was discharged from the clipper Torrens in London during the summer of 1893, his seafaring career was over. He had travelled the world by then, risen in rank from apprentice to captain, survived shipwreck and turbulent seas. But, after nineteen years afloat he longed for the land, and wrote to his cousin of the “uniform grey of my existence.” Once ashore, however, vivid memories of his past life began to surface. While steam and internal combustion were changing maritime travel forever, Conrad started to reflect on the voyages he had made in the Golden Age of Sail, the people and ships he had known, and the extraordinary communities whose lives, language, and very nature were shaped by the swells and silences of the open ocean.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550578Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories & Impressions Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories & Impressions Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation…I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life; went on full of love’s delight and love’s anguish, facing them in open-eyed exultation without bitterness and without repining, from the first hour to the last.” The Mirror of the Sea is a personal meditation on the sea and its meanings by one of the twentieth century’s most important novelists. When Joseph Conrad was discharged from the clipper Torrens in London during the summer of 1893, his seafaring career was over. He had travelled the world by then, risen in rank from apprentice to captain, survived shipwreck and turbulent seas. But, after nineteen years afloat he longed for the land, and wrote to his cousin of the “uniform grey of my existence.” Once ashore, however, vivid memories of his past life began to surface. While steam and internal combustion were changing maritime travel forever, Conrad started to reflect on the voyages he had made in the Golden Age of Sail, the people and ships he had known, and the extraordinary communities whose lives, language, and very nature were shaped by the swells and silences of the open ocean.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/india-a-wounded-civilization-by-v-s-naipaul--65186562https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: India: A Wounded Civilization Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Sam Dastor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indians—from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombay’s homeless—Naipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the five thousand volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549676Tue, 29 Jun 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: India: A Wounded Civilization Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Sam Dastor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: India: A Wounded Civilization Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Sam Dastor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indians—from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombay’s homeless—Naipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the five thousand volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whistled-a-memoir-of-achievement-betrayal-and-the-search-for-self-worth-by-dawn-duhamel--65186471https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistled: A Memoir of Achievement, Betrayal, and the Search for Self-Worth Author: Dawn Duhamel Narrator: Dawn Duhamel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 25, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A variety of traumatic personal events, including a physical assault, a home burglary, a school shooting, the layoffs of the Great Recession, and #metoo impacted Dawn Duhamel’s life. In Whistled, she shares her story, chronicling the events that shaped her. Living under the belief that working hard always pays off, and experiencing success that proved her theory, Duhamel was unprepared when, at the age of fifty, an anonymous, contrived whistleblower complaint was filed against her, ultimately resulting in her controversial termination. Blindsided by being fired for the first time, the ensuing self-doubt suffocated her spirit until, after twenty-four months of questioning and processing, she discovered what truly mattered, and the reasons to love herself again. Whistled narrates a story of how Duhamel found meaning in loss, hope in resiliency, and courage in vulnerability. For anyone who has been betrayed, fired, or felt discarded, this memoir is about finding your way back to your true and best self.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551733Fri, 25 Jun 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistled: A Memoir of Achievement, Betrayal, and the Search for Self-Worth Author: Dawn Duhamel Narrator: Dawn Duhamel Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistled: A Memoir of Achievement, Betrayal, and the Search for Self-Worth Author: Dawn Duhamel Narrator: Dawn Duhamel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 25, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A variety of traumatic personal events, including a physical assault, a home burglary, a school shooting, the layoffs of the Great Recession, and #metoo impacted Dawn Duhamel’s life. In Whistled, she shares her story, chronicling the events that shaped her. Living under the belief that working hard always pays off, and experiencing success that proved her theory, Duhamel was unprepared when, at the age of fifty, an anonymous, contrived whistleblower complaint was filed against her, ultimately resulting in her controversial termination. Blindsided by being fired for the first time, the ensuing self-doubt suffocated her spirit until, after twenty-four months of questioning and processing, she discovered what truly mattered, and the reasons to love herself again. Whistled narrates a story of how Duhamel found meaning in loss, hope in resiliency, and courage in vulnerability. For anyone who has been betrayed, fired, or felt discarded, this memoir is about finding your way back to your true and best self.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tokyo-junkie-60-years-of-bright-lights-and-back-alleys-and-baseball-by-robert-whiting--65186560https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball Author: Robert Whiting Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first bestselling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548568Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball Author: Robert Whiting Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball Author: Robert Whiting Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first bestselling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-of-the-old-katfish-one-pathfinder-s-way-of-living-with-arthritis-by-john-p-lynch--65186565https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return of the Old Katfish: One Pathfinder's Way of Living with Arthritis Author: John P. Lynch Narrator: John P. Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: John Lynch was a promising athlete, but at age eleven was struck by a crippling illness. He was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis (JA), a disease that affects 300,000 children, making them unable to live full-functioning, pain-free lives. Children with JA are called “Katfish,” a name derived from Kids and Teens’ Families Investing Support and Hope. John continued to seek new treatments, but not until age fifty-three was he given the “miracle drug” that enabled him to sustain a thirty-year legal practice. During that time he dedicated his life to helping others who suffered from JA and became a much-honored advocate for easing their distress. In addition to chronicling John’s journey from victim to advocate, Return of the Old Katfish includes the stories of children fighting through pain to carve out successful lives. These tales will give hope and inspiration to those afflicted with chronic illness and to anyone who must overcome a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in order to lead a happy and meaningful life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547633Tue, 15 Jun 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return of the Old Katfish: One Pathfinder's Way of Living with Arthritis Author: John P. Lynch Narrator: John P. Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return of the Old Katfish: One Pathfinder's Way of Living with Arthritis Author: John P. Lynch Narrator: John P. Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: John Lynch was a promising athlete, but at age eleven was struck by a crippling illness. He was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis (JA), a disease that affects 300,000 children, making them unable to live full-functioning, pain-free lives. Children with JA are called “Katfish,” a name derived from Kids and Teens’ Families Investing Support and Hope. John continued to seek new treatments, but not until age fifty-three was he given the “miracle drug” that enabled him to sustain a thirty-year legal practice. During that time he dedicated his life to helping others who suffered from JA and became a much-honored advocate for easing their distress. In addition to chronicling John’s journey from victim to advocate, Return of the Old Katfish includes the stories of children fighting through pain to carve out successful lives. These tales will give hope and inspiration to those afflicted with chronic illness and to anyone who must overcome a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in order to lead a happy and meaningful life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-waters-between-us-a-boy-a-father-outdoor-misadventures-and-the-healing-power-of-nature-by-michael-j-tougias--65186615https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Waters Between Us: A Boy, a Father, Outdoor Misadventures, and the Healing Power of Nature Author: Michael J. Tougias Narrator: Michael J. Tougias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming and delightful reminiscence of growing up loving the woods, waters, fields, and fauna of Massachusetts by Michael Tougias, New York Times bestselling author of The Finest Hours, Overboard!, and Fatal Forecast. Untamed. Unsupervised. Uncontrolled. Boyhood in the 1960s and ’70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water: some life-threatening but others innocently hilarious. Over time—and after reading a multitude of adventure books—these experiences took shape in his quest to be a mountain man, owning a cabin in the forest and living off the land. Part of that dream would come true but only after a family tragedy that shook his world and forced changes in his life. This is also a story of a complex and strained relationship between father and son, the efforts at understanding, and ultimately respect and devotion. In The Waters Between Us Tougias channels Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods to mix laugh out loud humor with insight into the natural world through the eyes of a curious boy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546997Tue, 08 Jun 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Waters Between Us: A Boy, a Father, Outdoor Misadventures, and the Healing Power of Nature Author: Michael J. Tougias Narrator: Michael J. Tougias...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Waters Between Us: A Boy, a Father, Outdoor Misadventures, and the Healing Power of Nature Author: Michael J. Tougias Narrator: Michael J. Tougias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming and delightful reminiscence of growing up loving the woods, waters, fields, and fauna of Massachusetts by Michael Tougias, New York Times bestselling author of The Finest Hours, Overboard!, and Fatal Forecast. Untamed. Unsupervised. Uncontrolled. Boyhood in the 1960s and ’70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water: some life-threatening but others innocently hilarious. Over time—and after reading a multitude of adventure books—these experiences took shape in his quest to be a mountain man, owning a cabin in the forest and living off the land. Part of that dream would come true but only after a family tragedy that shook his world and forced changes in his life. This is also a story of a complex and strained relationship between father and son, the efforts at understanding, and ultimately respect and devotion. In The Waters Between Us Tougias channels Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods to mix laugh out loud humor with insight into the natural world through the eyes of a curious boy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-passenger-how-a-travel-writer-learned-to-love-cruises-other-lies-from-a-sinking-ship-by-chaney-kwak--65186607https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship Author: Chaney Kwak Narrator: Keong Sim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first even for him: trapped on the battered cruise ship, he stuffs his passport into his underwear just in case his body has to be identified. As the massive cruise ship sways in surging waves, Kwak holds on and watches news of the impending disaster unfold on Twitter, where the ship’s nearly 1,400 passengers are showered with “thoughts and prayers.” Kwak uses his twenty-seven hours aboard the teetering ship to examine his family history, maritime tragedies, and the failing relationship back on shore with a man he’s loved for nearly two decades: the Viking Sky, he realizes, may not be the only sinking ship he needs to escape. The Passenger takes listeners on an unforgettable journey from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco. Kwak weaves his personal experience into events spanning decades and continents to explore the serendipity and the relationships that move us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546998Tue, 08 Jun 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship Author: Chaney Kwak Narrator: Keong Sim Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship Author: Chaney Kwak Narrator: Keong Sim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first even for him: trapped on the battered cruise ship, he stuffs his passport into his underwear just in case his body has to be identified. As the massive cruise ship sways in surging waves, Kwak holds on and watches news of the impending disaster unfold on Twitter, where the ship’s nearly 1,400 passengers are showered with “thoughts and prayers.” Kwak uses his twenty-seven hours aboard the teetering ship to examine his family history, maritime tragedies, and the failing relationship back on shore with a man he’s loved for nearly two decades: the Viking Sky, he realizes, may not be the only sinking ship he needs to escape. The Passenger takes listeners on an unforgettable journey from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco. Kwak weaves his personal experience into events spanning decades and continents to explore the serendipity and the relationships that move us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/redefining-normal-how-two-foster-kids-beat-the-odds-and-discovered-healing-happiness-and-love-by-justin-black-alexis-black--65186424https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love Author: Justin Black, Alexis Black Narrator: Alexis Black, Justin Black Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up, they didn’t believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever. Alexis Black persevered through her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman on the first day of their scholarship program, she feels the world melt away, as though it were only the two of them in the room. Justin Black lived in the poorest section of Detroit before his parents surrendered him to the foster care system at the age of nine. But when he grabs the chance for better opportunities by pursuing higher education, he can’t help but be drawn to a beautiful third-year student. At first, their past traumas--and their age difference--conspired to complicate their attraction. But the joy each took in the other and eventually conquered those obstacles, and these two survivors journeyed together toward healing. In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-in-hand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their past, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors. Written in an engaging novelistic style, the authors put forward a thoughtful exchange of ideas and personal experiences illustrating how anybody, no matter their backgrounds, can have a life of self-empowerment and joy. Broken down into four sections that cover crucial topics such as “Worthiness” and “Mental Health,” this compelling narrative will help any who are learning to love themselves and want to end the line of toxic relationships. If you like honest tales of triumph, refreshing transparency, and resilient faith in God, then you’ll adore Justin and Alexis’ inspirational story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555777Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love Author: Justin Black, Alexis Black Narrator: Alexis...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love Author: Justin Black, Alexis Black Narrator: Alexis Black, Justin Black Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up, they didn’t believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever. Alexis Black persevered through her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman on the first day of their scholarship program, she feels the world melt away, as though it were only the two of them in the room. Justin Black lived in the poorest section of Detroit before his parents surrendered him to the foster care system at the age of nine. But when he grabs the chance for better opportunities by pursuing higher education, he can’t help but be drawn to a beautiful third-year student. At first, their past traumas--and their age difference--conspired to complicate their attraction. But the joy each took in the other and eventually conquered those obstacles, and these two survivors journeyed together toward healing. In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-in-hand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their past, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors. Written in an engaging novelistic style, the authors put forward a thoughtful exchange of ideas and personal experiences illustrating how anybody, no matter their backgrounds, can have a life of self-empowerment and joy. Broken down into four sections that cover crucial topics such as “Worthiness” and “Mental Health,” this compelling narrative will help any who are learning to love themselves and want to end the line of toxic relationships. If you like honest tales of triumph, refreshing transparency, and resilient faith in God, then you’ll adore Justin and Alexis’ inspirational story.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-burden-is-light-the-autobiography-of-a-transformed-pagan-who-took-god-at-his-word-by-eugenia-price--65186476https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burden is Light: The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan Who Took God at His Word Author: Eugenia Price Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: March 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Told in the vibrant, honest prose that has made Eugenia Price a classic religious writer and bestselling novelist, The Burden Is Light offers an intimate account of her conversion to Christianity at the age of thirty-three. Traversing the mountains and valleys of her journey from birth to rebirth in Jesus Christ, Ms. Price examines closely her spiritual, personal, and professional development through the years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553279Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burden is Light: The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan Who Took God at His Word Author: Eugenia Price Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burden is Light: The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan Who Took God at His Word Author: Eugenia Price Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: March 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Told in the vibrant, honest prose that has made Eugenia Price a classic religious writer and bestselling novelist, The Burden Is Light offers an intimate account of her conversion to Christianity at the age of thirty-three. Traversing the mountains and valleys of her journey from birth to rebirth in Jesus Christ, Ms. Price examines closely her spiritual, personal, and professional development through the years.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-mehr-als-100-jahre-eine-liebe-zwischen-den-kulturen-ein-autobiografischer-roman-von-angelika-horn-by-angelika-horn--65186515https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mehr als 100 Jahre: Eine Liebe zwischen den Kulturen - ein autobiografischer Roman von Angelika Horn Author: Angelika Horn Narrator: Marco Wittorf, Angelika Horn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 14, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Es ist das Frühjahr 1978. Raj und Angelika lernen sich in Berlin kennen. Er kommt aus Bangladesch, sie ist Berlinerin. Gemeinsam tauchen die beiden tief in die Geschichten ihrer Familien ein und so hören wir über Schicksale in zwei Kontinenten über eine Zeitraum von mehr als 100 Jahren.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552758Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mehr als 100 Jahre: Eine Liebe zwischen den Kulturen - ein autobiografischer Roman von Angelika Horn Author: Angelika Horn Narrator: Marco...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mehr als 100 Jahre: Eine Liebe zwischen den Kulturen - ein autobiografischer Roman von Angelika Horn Author: Angelika Horn Narrator: Marco Wittorf, Angelika Horn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 14, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Es ist das Frühjahr 1978. Raj und Angelika lernen sich in Berlin kennen. Er kommt aus Bangladesch, sie ist Berlinerin. Gemeinsam tauchen die beiden tief in die Geschichten ihrer Familien ein und so hören wir über Schicksale in zwei Kontinenten über eine Zeitraum von mehr als 100 Jahren.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-between-a-mother-and-son-s-journey-from-a-world-gone-grey-by-amanda-prowse-josiah-hartley--65186442https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey Author: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley Narrator: Josiah Hartley, Amanda Prowse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son came to her with a real one… Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student’s mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times. Josiah’s situation is not unusual: the statistics on student mental health are terrifying. And he was not the only one suffering; his family was also hijacked by his illness, watching him struggle and fearing the day he might succeed in taking his life. In this book, Josiah and Amanda hope to give a voice to those who suffer, and to show them that help can be found. It is Josiah’s raw, at times bleak, sometimes humorous, but always honest account of what it is like to live with depression. It is Amanda’s heart-rending account of her pain at watching him suffer, speaking from the heart about a mother’s love for her child. For anyone with depression and anyone who loves someone with depression, Amanda and Josiah have a clear message—you are not alone, and there is hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554890Sun, 01 Nov 2020 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey Author: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley Narrator: Josiah Hartley, Amanda Prowse...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey Author: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley Narrator: Josiah Hartley, Amanda Prowse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son came to her with a real one… Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student’s mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times. Josiah’s situation is not unusual: the statistics on student mental health are terrifying. And he was not the only one suffering; his family was also hijacked by his illness, watching him struggle and fearing the day he might succeed in taking his life. In this book, Josiah and Amanda hope to give a voice to those who suffer, and to show them that help can be found. It is Josiah’s raw, at times bleak, sometimes humorous, but always honest account of what it is like to live with depression. It is Amanda’s heart-rending account of her pain at watching him suffer, speaking from the heart about a mother’s love for her child. For anyone with depression and anyone who loves someone with depression, Amanda and Josiah have a clear message—you are not alone, and there is hope.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-anxiety-observations-from-a-reforming-neurotic-by-jen-lancaster--65186579https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is here to help you chill the hell out. When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake up, we’re bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-inducing foods we’ve been enjoying for years. We’re judged by social media’s faceless masses, pressured into maintaining a Pinterest-perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO, and the disparity between the ideal and reality, is leading us to spend more and feel worse. No wonder we’re getting twitchy. Save for an Independence Day–style alien invasion, how do we begin to escape from the stressors that make up our days? Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549009Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is here to help you chill the hell out. When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake up, we’re bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-inducing foods we’ve been enjoying for years. We’re judged by social media’s faceless masses, pressured into maintaining a Pinterest-perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO, and the disparity between the ideal and reality, is leading us to spend more and feel worse. No wonder we’re getting twitchy. Save for an Independence Day–style alien invasion, how do we begin to escape from the stressors that make up our days? Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bigamist-the-true-story-of-a-husband-s-ultimate-betrayal-by-mary-turner-thomson--65186622https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction. When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who’d given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating background. Soon they were in love, and when he proposed after a month it seemed recklessly romantic. Caught up in a whirlwind, Mary accepted that Will’s work often took him away from home, out of contact. She was his rock, supporting him emotionally when a misunderstanding led to criminal charges, and even selling everything when blackmailers threatened to kidnap their children. Together, they took on the world. And then one day the phone rang, and a woman introduced herself as ‘the other Mrs Jordan’… In this raw account of deception on a grand scale, Mary Turner Thomson recounts what happened after she discovered every word he’d said, from the very first moment, was a lie. This is her painful, humiliating truth—but she tells it for one reason: she too was once a strong, independent woman who would have read all this and thought It could never happen to me… Revised edition: Previously published as The Bigamist: the true story of a husband’s ultimate betrayal, this edition of The Bigamist includes editorial revisions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547133Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction. When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who’d given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating background. Soon they were in love, and when he proposed after a month it seemed recklessly romantic. Caught up in a whirlwind, Mary accepted that Will’s work often took him away from home, out of contact. She was his rock, supporting him emotionally when a misunderstanding led to criminal charges, and even selling everything when blackmailers threatened to kidnap their children. Together, they took on the world. And then one day the phone rang, and a woman introduced herself as ‘the other Mrs Jordan’… In this raw account of deception on a grand scale, Mary Turner Thomson recounts what happened after she discovered every word he’d said, from the very first moment, was a lie. This is her painful, humiliating truth—but she tells it for one reason: she too was once a strong, independent woman who would have read all this and thought It could never happen to me… Revised edition: Previously published as The Bigamist: the true story of a husband’s ultimate betrayal, this edition of The Bigamist includes editorial revisions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/world-of-wonders-in-praise-of-fireflies-whale-sharks-and-other-astonishments-by-aimee-nezhukumatathil--65186628https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Author: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Narrator: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction A Southern Book Prize Finalist An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A BookPage Best Book of 2020 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020 An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 A Publishers Weekly 'Big Indie Book of Fall 2020' A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 A Literary Hub 'Most Anticipated Book of 2020 A Ralph Lauren Summer Reading Recommendation A Garden & Gun Summer Reading Recommendation A Bustle 'Best Book of Fall 2020 Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2020' by The Millions An Alma 'Favorite Book for Fall 2020' A Literary Hub 'Recommended Climate Read for September 2020' A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020 From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction―a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted―no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape―she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547147Tue, 08 Sep 2020 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Author: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Narrator: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Author: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Narrator: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction A Southern Book Prize Finalist An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A BookPage Best Book of 2020 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020 An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 A Publishers Weekly 'Big Indie Book of Fall 2020' A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 A Literary Hub 'Most Anticipated Book of 2020 A Ralph Lauren Summer Reading Recommendation A Garden & Gun Summer Reading Recommendation A Bustle 'Best Book of Fall 2020 Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2020' by The Millions An Alma 'Favorite Book for Fall 2020' A Literary Hub 'Recommended Climate Read for September 2020' A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020 From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction―a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted―no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape―she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/raising-them-our-adventure-in-gender-creative-parenting-by-kyl-myers--65186623https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting Author: Kyl Myers Narrator: Kyl Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “What did you have? A boy or a girl?” Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then… As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered. In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family’s choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression. Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the limitless possibilities of being yourself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547109Tue, 08 Sep 2020 06:02:11 +0000Ferne KeelingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting Author: Kyl Myers Narrator: Kyl Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting Author: Kyl Myers Narrator: Kyl Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “What did you have? A boy or a girl?” Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then… As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered. In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family’s choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression. Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the limitless possibilities of being yourself.]]>185cleanfull