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If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Gage Gloverhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9373b3530fdc6b090f5b22c735cd510b.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-latest-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575857Sat, 29 Mar 2025 02:12:50 +0000Gage GloverGage Gloverfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/388/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you love Horror, Mystery stories, or want to learn about Astronomy & Physics? Our library with over 500,000+...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/388/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you love Horror, Mystery stories, or want to learn about Astronomy & Physics? Our library with over 500,000+ audiobooks will meet all your needs. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and start your journey of exploration. Easily listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices. Let audiobooks become your reliable companion! 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/a-story-lately-told-coming-of-age-in-ireland-london-and-new-york-by-anjelica-huston--65201306https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York Author: Anjelica Huston Narrator: Anjelica Huston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Anjelica Huston’s “gorgeously written” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is “an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life…A classic” (Vanity Fair). In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early life—her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which—between movies—her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O’Toole and Marlon Brando. In London, where she lived with her mother and brother in the early sixties when her parents separated, Huston encountered the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. She understudied Marianne Faithfull in Hamlet. Seventeen, striking, precocious, but still young and vulnerable, she was devastated when her mother died in a car crash. Months later she moved to New York, fell in love with the much older, brilliant but disturbed photographer, Bob Richardson, and became a model. Living in the Chelsea Hotel, working with Richard Avedon and other photographers, she navigated a volatile relationship and the dynamic cultural epicenter of New York in the seventies. A Story Lately Told is an “evocative” (The New York Times), “magically beautiful” (The Boston Globe) memoir. Huston’s second memoir, Watch Me, will be published in November 2014.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201129Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York Author: Anjelica Huston Narrator: Anjelica Huston Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York Author: Anjelica Huston Narrator: Anjelica Huston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Anjelica Huston’s “gorgeously written” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is “an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life…A classic” (Vanity Fair). In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional early life—her enchanted childhood in Ireland, living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse. Huston was raised on an Irish estate to which—between movies—her father, director John Huston, brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter O’Toole and Marlon Brando. In London, where she lived with her mother and brother in the early sixties when her parents separated, Huston encountered the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac. She understudied Marianne Faithfull in Hamlet. Seventeen, striking, precocious, but still young and vulnerable, she was devastated when her mother died in a car crash. Months later she moved to New York, fell in love with the much older, brilliant but disturbed photographer, Bob Richardson, and became a model. Living in the Chelsea Hotel, working with Richard Avedon and other photographers, she navigated a volatile relationship and the dynamic cultural epicenter of New York in the seventies. A Story Lately Told is an “evocative” (The New York Times), “magically beautiful” (The Boston Globe) memoir. Huston’s second memoir, Watch Me, will be published in November 2014.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/granny-is-my-wingman-by-kayli-stollak--65201317https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny is My Wingman Author: Kayli Stollak Narrator: Kayli Stollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-three, Kayli Stollak, like most starry-eyed twentysomethings, assumed that she and her boyfriend, Charlie, would be together forever. Besides a rockin’ sex life, they shared a passion for motorcycle adventures, hedonistic European music festivals, and wearing matching glittery spandex to the disco. What more could a gal ask for? She envisioned their love burning well into their sixties. And then he dumped her. Heartbroken, Kayli turned to her seventy-five-year-old granny for support. And this ain’t no ordinary granny. Granny Gail is a ball-busting, sh*t-talking, gossipy yenta with an anecdote or piece of unsolicited advice for every situation. Granny didn’t sugarcoat the truth or let Kayli dwell on her failed relationship. No, Granny told her to cut the crap and snap out of it. Why didn’t Kayli give “one of those dating websites” a shot? With her ego on the line, Kayli threw the dare right back at her—if it was so wonderful, why didn’t single Granny join her in the world of cyber romance? Granny Is My Wingman chronicles Kayli’s and Granny’s misadventures in online dating. What ensues is a hilarious tour through the obstacles of modern love: drunken hookups, late-night Facebook stalking, breathy phone calls with geriatric suitors, and the occasional rude dude. While Kayli powers through a marathon of OkCupid dates—the corporate drone married to his BlackBerry, the nail-biting thirty-three-year-old who still lives at home with his mom, the serial online dater—we learn about Granny’s romantic past and the bittersweet affair she carried on, even while married, for more than thirty years. The two women cheer each other on and become even closer as they share their dating exploits, learning that the hunt for happiness is the same whether you’re twenty-five or seventy-five. Fresh, funny, and honest, Granny Is My Wingman is a book for anyone who has ever found love, lost it, and been crazy enough to do it all over again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200346Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny is My Wingman Author: Kayli Stollak Narrator: Kayli Stollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Granny is My Wingman Author: Kayli Stollak Narrator: Kayli Stollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-three, Kayli Stollak, like most starry-eyed twentysomethings, assumed that she and her boyfriend, Charlie, would be together forever. Besides a rockin’ sex life, they shared a passion for motorcycle adventures, hedonistic European music festivals, and wearing matching glittery spandex to the disco. What more could a gal ask for? She envisioned their love burning well into their sixties. And then he dumped her. Heartbroken, Kayli turned to her seventy-five-year-old granny for support. And this ain’t no ordinary granny. Granny Gail is a ball-busting, sh*t-talking, gossipy yenta with an anecdote or piece of unsolicited advice for every situation. Granny didn’t sugarcoat the truth or let Kayli dwell on her failed relationship. No, Granny told her to cut the crap and snap out of it. Why didn’t Kayli give “one of those dating websites” a shot? With her ego on the line, Kayli threw the dare right back at her—if it was so wonderful, why didn’t single Granny join her in the world of cyber romance? Granny Is My Wingman chronicles Kayli’s and Granny’s misadventures in online dating. What ensues is a hilarious tour through the obstacles of modern love: drunken hookups, late-night Facebook stalking, breathy phone calls with geriatric suitors, and the occasional rude dude. While Kayli powers through a marathon of OkCupid dates—the corporate drone married to his BlackBerry, the nail-biting thirty-three-year-old who still lives at home with his mom, the serial online dater—we learn about Granny’s romantic past and the bittersweet affair she carried on, even while married, for more than thirty years. The two women cheer each other on and become even closer as they share their dating exploits, learning that the hunt for happiness is the same whether you’re twenty-five or seventy-five. Fresh, funny, and honest, Granny Is My Wingman is a book for anyone who has ever found love, lost it, and been crazy enough to do it all over again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-if-a-lifetime-of-questions-speculations-reasonable-guesses-and-a-few-things-i-know-for-sure-by-shirley-maclaine--65201314https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What If . . .: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Academy Award–winning actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine, a collection of imaginative ruminations: “Fun and thoughtful by turns and told in MacLaine’s feisty, funny voice, this should appeal to fans and doubters alike” (Booklist). Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates everything from the everyday to the esoteric in this collection of ideas and observations, each of which begins with two simple, powerful words: What if? Taking this as her starting point, Shirley explores a wide range of matters—spiritual and secular, humorous and profound, earthbound and intergalactic, personal and universal. Along the way, she also reflects on joining the cast of Downton Abbey, receiving the prestigious American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, and introducing a new puppy into her formerly one-dog home. From Shirley’s questions emerges a striking portrait of a constantly curious woman who thrills to new ideas and discoveries—all while enjoying one of the most extraordinary and enduring careers in Hollywood. What if . . . captures the one and only Shirley MacLaine at her witty, acerbic, imaginative, and irresistible best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200464Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What If . . .: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What If . . .: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Academy Award–winning actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine, a collection of imaginative ruminations: “Fun and thoughtful by turns and told in MacLaine’s feisty, funny voice, this should appeal to fans and doubters alike” (Booklist). Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates everything from the everyday to the esoteric in this collection of ideas and observations, each of which begins with two simple, powerful words: What if? Taking this as her starting point, Shirley explores a wide range of matters—spiritual and secular, humorous and profound, earthbound and intergalactic, personal and universal. Along the way, she also reflects on joining the cast of Downton Abbey, receiving the prestigious American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, and introducing a new puppy into her formerly one-dog home. From Shirley’s questions emerges a striking portrait of a constantly curious woman who thrills to new ideas and discoveries—all while enjoying one of the most extraordinary and enduring careers in Hollywood. What if . . . captures the one and only Shirley MacLaine at her witty, acerbic, imaginative, and irresistible best.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-detective-a-new-york-childhood-by-roger-rosenblatt--65201465https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood Author: Roger Rosenblatt Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times bestselling memoirs are also original literary works that carve out new territory at the intersection of poetry and prose. Now comes The Boy Detective, a story of the author's childhood in New York City, suffused with the same mixture of acute observation and bracing humor, lyricism and wit. Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. With the dreamlike mystery of the city before him, he sets off alone, out into the streets of Manhattan, thrilling to a life of unsolved cases. Six decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth: The writing class he teaches has just wrapped up, releasing him into the winter night and the very neighborhood in which he grew up. A grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s; the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library, once the site of an immense reservoir that nourished the city with water before it nourished it with books, and the Empire State Building, which, in Rosenblatt's imagination, vibrates sympathetically with the oversize loneliness of King Kong: "If you must fall, fall from me." As he walks, he is returned to himself, the boy detective on the case. Just as Rosenblatt invented a world for himself as a child, he creates one on this night—the writer a detective still, the chief suspect in the case of his own life, a case that discloses the shared mysteries of all our lives. A masterly evocation of the city and a meditation on memory as an act of faith, The Boy Detective treads the line between a novel and a poem, displaying a world at once dangerous and beautiful.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200898Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood Author: Roger Rosenblatt Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood Author: Roger Rosenblatt Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times bestselling memoirs are also original literary works that carve out new territory at the intersection of poetry and prose. Now comes The Boy Detective, a story of the author's childhood in New York City, suffused with the same mixture of acute observation and bracing humor, lyricism and wit. Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. With the dreamlike mystery of the city before him, he sets off alone, out into the streets of Manhattan, thrilling to a life of unsolved cases. Six decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth: The writing class he teaches has just wrapped up, releasing him into the winter night and the very neighborhood in which he grew up. A grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s; the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library, once the site of an immense reservoir that nourished the city with water before it nourished it with books, and the Empire State Building, which, in Rosenblatt's imagination, vibrates sympathetically with the oversize loneliness of King Kong: "If you must fall, fall from me." As he walks, he is returned to himself, the boy detective on the case. Just as Rosenblatt invented a world for himself as a child, he creates one on this night—the writer a detective still, the chief suspect in the case of his own life, a case that discloses the shared mysteries of all our lives. A masterly evocation of the city and a meditation on memory as an act of faith, The Boy Detective treads the line between a novel and a poem, displaying a world at once dangerous and beautiful.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rob-delaney-mother-wife-sister-human-warrior-falcon-yardstick-turban-cabbage-by-rob-delaney--65201440https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. Author: Rob Delaney Narrator: Rob Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From a Deadpool 2 fan favorite comes a “hilarious, raw” (Rolling Stone) memoir about love, sex, parenthood, work, substance abuse, and everything else that makes life wonderful and/or horrible. Rob Delaney is a comedy superstar. But if you’re ever watched him steal scenes as Peter in Deadpool 2, binged his streaming series Catastrophe, encountered his raunchy and mischievous Twitter presence, or witnessed the hilarious and painful sharing he does in his stand-up, you already know that. In his first book, he traces his journey from middle-class theater geek to public menace to devoted family man and passionately engaged model citizen—from his youthful obsession (and pen pal relationship) with heavy metal band Danzig and an episode of drunken bungee jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, to his court-ordered stint in rehab and the miracle of his son’s birth. All together, these essays make clear why it is he is so darn lovable—and so f#!%ing funny. Praise for Rob Delaney “Unlike some books by comics, Delaney’s volume offers a rich, deeply considered (and yes, funny) look at his life. . . . A great read by any standard, but even more so for including stories about needing (and failing) to find a bathroom while jogging.”—E! Online “One of the most hilarious bundles of words we have ever read.”—Vice “A book as funny, sincere, weird, wet, and wonderful as Rob Delaney himself.”—Jimmy Kimmel “Heart-wrenchingly true tales exuding self-effacing whimsy and smart-guy charm.”—Splitsider “Delaney has a knack for pinpointing what’s hilarious and sad about adolescent bed-wetting and his own abundant body hair, but somehow the darkest chapters [in this book] make you laugh hardest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Rob Delaney has done it again! Actually, this is his first book, so he has not ‘done it again.’ Actually, this book is so good, I doubt he will be able to do it again. He’s peaked.”—Judd Apatow “Rob’s transition from tweets to book is like a gold medal sprinter winning the marathon the next day. I am jealous and angry.”—Seth Meyers “WARNING: This book may cause involuntary seepage. Some funny, funny, funny, funny s*** from the most dangerous man on Twitter. The fact that he’s just as funny in long form makes me want to vomit with envy.”—Anthony Bourdain]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200790Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. Author: Rob Delaney Narrator: Rob Delaney Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. Author: Rob Delaney Narrator: Rob Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From a Deadpool 2 fan favorite comes a “hilarious, raw” (Rolling Stone) memoir about love, sex, parenthood, work, substance abuse, and everything else that makes life wonderful and/or horrible. Rob Delaney is a comedy superstar. But if you’re ever watched him steal scenes as Peter in Deadpool 2, binged his streaming series Catastrophe, encountered his raunchy and mischievous Twitter presence, or witnessed the hilarious and painful sharing he does in his stand-up, you already know that. In his first book, he traces his journey from middle-class theater geek to public menace to devoted family man and passionately engaged model citizen—from his youthful obsession (and pen pal relationship) with heavy metal band Danzig and an episode of drunken bungee jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, to his court-ordered stint in rehab and the miracle of his son’s birth. All together, these essays make clear why it is he is so darn lovable—and so f#!%ing funny. Praise for Rob Delaney “Unlike some books by comics, Delaney’s volume offers a rich, deeply considered (and yes, funny) look at his life. . . . A great read by any standard, but even more so for including stories about needing (and failing) to find a bathroom while jogging.”—E! Online “One of the most hilarious bundles of words we have ever read.”—Vice “A book as funny, sincere, weird, wet, and wonderful as Rob Delaney himself.”—Jimmy Kimmel “Heart-wrenchingly true tales exuding self-effacing whimsy and smart-guy charm.”—Splitsider “Delaney has a knack for pinpointing what’s hilarious and sad about adolescent bed-wetting and his own abundant body hair, but somehow the darkest chapters [in this book] make you laugh hardest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Rob Delaney has done it again! Actually, this is his first book, so he has not ‘done it again.’ Actually, this book is so good, I doubt he will be able to do it again. He’s peaked.”—Judd Apatow “Rob’s transition from tweets to book is like a gold medal sprinter winning the marathon the next day. I am jealous and angry.”—Seth Meyers “WARNING: This book may cause involuntary seepage. Some funny, funny, funny, funny s*** from the most dangerous man on Twitter. The fact that he’s just as funny in long form makes me want to vomit with envy.”—Anthony Bourdain]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-the-story-of-a-happy-marriage-by-ann-patchett--65201321https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Ann Patchett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book Review Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett's life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200903Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Ann Patchett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Ann Patchett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book Review Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett's life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dr-j-the-autobiography-by-karl-taro-greenfeld-julius-erving--65201304https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. J: The Autobiography Author: Karl Taro Greenfeld, Julius Erving Narrator: Julius Erving Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A terrific memoir by a man worthy of one.” — Sports Illustrated An honest, unflinching self-portrait of the basketball legend whose classy public image as a superstar and a gentleman masked his personal failings and painful losses, which he describes here—from his own point of view—for the very first time. For most of his life, Julius Erving has been two men in one. There is Julius, the bright, inquisitive son of a Long Island domestic worker who has always wanted to be respected for more than just his athletic ability, and there is Dr. J, the cool, acrobatic showman whose flamboyant dunks sent him to the Hall of Fame and turned the act of jamming a basketball through a hoop into an art form. In many ways, Erving’s life has been about the push and pull of Julius and The Doctor. It is Dr. J who has stories to tell of the wild days and nights of the ABA in the 1970s, and of being the seminal figure who transformed basketball from an earthbound and rigid game into the creative, free-flowing aerial display it is today. He has a long list of signature plays - he’s famous for winning the first dunk contest in 1976 with a jam on which he lifted off from the foul line, and he made a miraculous layup against the Lakers on which he soared behind the backboard before reaching back in to flip the ball in on the other side, with one hand. He inspired a generation of dunkers, including Michael Jordan, to express their improvisational talents. But Julius wasn’t always as graceful and in control as Dr. J. Erving had a pristine image throughout his career and early retirement, but he was far from a perfect man. Here he gives detailed accounts of some of the personal problems he faced -- or created -- behind the scenes, including the adulterous affair with sports writer Samantha Stephenson, which led to the birth of his daughter, professional tennis player Alexandra Stephenson. Though his marriage survived that infidelity, the death of Erving’s 20-year-old son Cory in 2000 in a tragic accident proved too much for the union to bear. Erving paints a raw, heartbreaking picture of the dissolution of his marriage, as his wife Turquoise began to blame him for his refusal to be paralyzed by grief for as long as she was. Their intense arguments came to a head when Erving stepped out of the shower one day to find his wife holding a lamp in one hand and a vase in the other, ready for a physical confrontation. “I knew somebody was going to get hurt, and it wasn’t going to be me,” he says. He packed a suitcase and he and Turquoise never lived under the same roof again. Erving’s story is a tale of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man, and how he has come to terms with both of them. It will appeal to readers on a sports level and on a human one.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200900Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. J: The Autobiography Author: Karl Taro Greenfeld, Julius Erving Narrator: Julius Erving Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. J: The Autobiography Author: Karl Taro Greenfeld, Julius Erving Narrator: Julius Erving Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A terrific memoir by a man worthy of one.” — Sports Illustrated An honest, unflinching self-portrait of the basketball legend whose classy public image as a superstar and a gentleman masked his personal failings and painful losses, which he describes here—from his own point of view—for the very first time. For most of his life, Julius Erving has been two men in one. There is Julius, the bright, inquisitive son of a Long Island domestic worker who has always wanted to be respected for more than just his athletic ability, and there is Dr. J, the cool, acrobatic showman whose flamboyant dunks sent him to the Hall of Fame and turned the act of jamming a basketball through a hoop into an art form. In many ways, Erving’s life has been about the push and pull of Julius and The Doctor. It is Dr. J who has stories to tell of the wild days and nights of the ABA in the 1970s, and of being the seminal figure who transformed basketball from an earthbound and rigid game into the creative, free-flowing aerial display it is today. He has a long list of signature plays - he’s famous for winning the first dunk contest in 1976 with a jam on which he lifted off from the foul line, and he made a miraculous layup against the Lakers on which he soared behind the backboard before reaching back in to flip the ball in on the other side, with one hand. He inspired a generation of dunkers, including Michael Jordan, to express their improvisational talents. But Julius wasn’t always as graceful and in control as Dr. J. Erving had a pristine image throughout his career and early retirement, but he was far from a perfect man. Here he gives detailed accounts of some of the personal problems he faced -- or created -- behind the scenes, including the adulterous affair with sports writer Samantha Stephenson, which led to the birth of his daughter, professional tennis player Alexandra Stephenson. Though his marriage survived that infidelity, the death of Erving’s 20-year-old son Cory in 2000 in a tragic accident proved too much for the union to bear. Erving paints a raw, heartbreaking picture of the dissolution of his marriage, as his wife Turquoise began to blame him for his refusal to be paralyzed by grief for as long as she was. Their intense arguments came to a head when Erving stepped out of the shower one day to find his wife holding a lamp in one hand and a vase in the other, ready for a physical confrontation. “I knew somebody was going to get hurt, and it wasn’t going to be me,” he says. He packed a suitcase and he and Turquoise never lived under the same roof again. Erving’s story is a tale of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man, and how he has come to terms with both of them. It will appeal to readers on a sports level and on a human one.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-death-of-santini-the-story-of-a-father-and-his-son-by-pat-conroy--65201345https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A painful, lyrical, addictive read” (People) by the cherished author of The Great Santini that brings his extraordinary career full circle   Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the often cruel and violent behavior of his father, Marine Corps fighter pilot Donald Patrick Conroy. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused brought even more attention, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy’s life, the Santini unexpectedly refocused his ire to defend his son’s honor.   The Death of Santini is a heart-wrenching act of reckoning whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to the oft-quoted line from Pat’s novel The Prince of Tides: “In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.”   Praise for The Death of Santini   “A painful, lyrical, addictive read that [Pat Conroy’s] fans won’t want to miss.”—People   “Conroy’s conviction pulls you fleetly through the book, as does the potency of his bond with his family, no matter their sins.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Vital, large-hearted and often raucously funny.”—The Washington Post   “Conroy writes athletically and beautifully, slicing through painful memories like a point guard splitting the defense.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune   “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradition.”—The Boston Globe]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198610Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A painful, lyrical, addictive read” (People) by the cherished author of The Great Santini that brings his extraordinary career full circle   Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the often cruel and violent behavior of his father, Marine Corps fighter pilot Donald Patrick Conroy. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused brought even more attention, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy’s life, the Santini unexpectedly refocused his ire to defend his son’s honor.   The Death of Santini is a heart-wrenching act of reckoning whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to the oft-quoted line from Pat’s novel The Prince of Tides: “In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.”   Praise for The Death of Santini   “A painful, lyrical, addictive read that [Pat Conroy’s] fans won’t want to miss.”—People   “Conroy’s conviction pulls you fleetly through the book, as does the potency of his bond with his family, no matter their sins.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Vital, large-hearted and often raucously funny.”—The Washington Post   “Conroy writes athletically and beautifully, slicing through painful memories like a point guard splitting the defense.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune   “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradition.”—The Boston Globe]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-will-the-heaven-begin-this-is-ben-breedlove-s-story-by-ken-abraham-ally-breedlove--65201332https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Will the Heaven Begin?: This Is Ben Breedlove's Story Author: Ken Abraham, Ally Breedlove Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN INSPIRATIONAL AND HEARTRENDING MEMOIR ABOUT BEN BREEDLOVE, WHO SHARED HIS NEAR-DEATHEXPERIENCES AND VISIONS OF HEAVEN IN HIS VIRAL VIDEOS—WRITTEN BY HIS SISTER, ALLY BREEDLOVE. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove’s soul went to heaven. But it wasn’t his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden death. His condition, a thickening of the heart muscle, worsened over time, leaving him weak and fatigued. It also led Ben to some close calls medically, in particular cardiac arrest on four separate occasions, during which he felt the presence of angels and experienced the perfect peace of heaven. Precocious and warm, Ben was close with his family and two siblings, and forged deep relationships with his friends. He loved to wakeboard and wake surf, and he had dreams of visiting foreign countries around the world. He created the YouTube channels TotalRandomness512 and BreedloveTV, and co-created the channel OurAdvice4You, where he posted videos about everything from dating advice for girls to more serious topics like his spirituality and heart condition. Unbeknownst to his parents and family, Ben created a two-part video called 'This Is My Story,' in which he used flashcards to tell the world about his near-death experiences and his beckoning toward heaven. When he died a short while later, at the tender age of eighteen, his family and the rest of the world stumbled upon these videos. The world responded with overwhelming acceptance of the message Ben shared. Sharing his vision of heaven was Ben’s gift to his family, and to the world. And now this is the Breedlove family’s gift to us – an in-depth look at the life and near-deaths of Ben, the strength and faith of a family, and ultimately, the hope of heaven. Do you believe in Angels or God? I Do. – Ben Breedlove]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200670Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Will the Heaven Begin?: This Is Ben Breedlove's Story Author: Ken Abraham, Ally Breedlove Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Will the Heaven Begin?: This Is Ben Breedlove's Story Author: Ken Abraham, Ally Breedlove Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN INSPIRATIONAL AND HEARTRENDING MEMOIR ABOUT BEN BREEDLOVE, WHO SHARED HIS NEAR-DEATHEXPERIENCES AND VISIONS OF HEAVEN IN HIS VIRAL VIDEOS—WRITTEN BY HIS SISTER, ALLY BREEDLOVE. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove’s soul went to heaven. But it wasn’t his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden death. His condition, a thickening of the heart muscle, worsened over time, leaving him weak and fatigued. It also led Ben to some close calls medically, in particular cardiac arrest on four separate occasions, during which he felt the presence of angels and experienced the perfect peace of heaven. Precocious and warm, Ben was close with his family and two siblings, and forged deep relationships with his friends. He loved to wakeboard and wake surf, and he had dreams of visiting foreign countries around the world. He created the YouTube channels TotalRandomness512 and BreedloveTV, and co-created the channel OurAdvice4You, where he posted videos about everything from dating advice for girls to more serious topics like his spirituality and heart condition. Unbeknownst to his parents and family, Ben created a two-part video called 'This Is My Story,' in which he used flashcards to tell the world about his near-death experiences and his beckoning toward heaven. When he died a short while later, at the tender age of eighteen, his family and the rest of the world stumbled upon these videos. The world responded with overwhelming acceptance of the message Ben shared. Sharing his vision of heaven was Ben’s gift to his family, and to the world. And now this is the Breedlove family’s gift to us – an in-depth look at the life and near-deaths of Ben, the strength and faith of a family, and ultimately, the hope of heaven. Do you believe in Angels or God? I Do. – Ben Breedlove]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pure-joy-the-dogs-we-love-by-danielle-steel--65201329https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Here from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel is a charming love letter to the pet dogs that have enriched her life. In this funny, lovely, moving memoir, Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse with a personality that could light up an entire room. From Minnie's arrival at home in San Francisco to clothes-shopping jaunts in Paris, her adventures provide the perfect backdrop for a heartfelt look at the magic that dogs bring to our lives and how they become part of the family. We meet Steel's childhood pug, James; and Elmer, the basset hound who was steadfastly at her side in her struggling days as a young writer. We also meet Sweet Pea—unveiled in a Tiffany box for a dog-loving husband—and all those lucky dogs who shared a household of nine children, other canines, and one potbellied pig. As Steel reflects on the beloved pets who have brought joy—and sometimes chaos—to her home through the years, she also shares her thoughts on the trials and tribulations of bringing a new dog into a household, the challenges of housebreaking and compatibility, and the losses we feel forever. Filled with colorful characters (human and otherwise), delightful photographs, practical wisdom drawn from long experience, and brimming with warmth and insight on every page, Pure Joy is a love letter to this special relationship—and one of the most charming books yet from the incomparable Danielle Steel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198469Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love Author: Danielle Steel Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Here from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel is a charming love letter to the pet dogs that have enriched her life. In this funny, lovely, moving memoir, Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse with a personality that could light up an entire room. From Minnie's arrival at home in San Francisco to clothes-shopping jaunts in Paris, her adventures provide the perfect backdrop for a heartfelt look at the magic that dogs bring to our lives and how they become part of the family. We meet Steel's childhood pug, James; and Elmer, the basset hound who was steadfastly at her side in her struggling days as a young writer. We also meet Sweet Pea—unveiled in a Tiffany box for a dog-loving husband—and all those lucky dogs who shared a household of nine children, other canines, and one potbellied pig. As Steel reflects on the beloved pets who have brought joy—and sometimes chaos—to her home through the years, she also shares her thoughts on the trials and tribulations of bringing a new dog into a household, the challenges of housebreaking and compatibility, and the losses we feel forever. Filled with colorful characters (human and otherwise), delightful photographs, practical wisdom drawn from long experience, and brimming with warmth and insight on every page, Pure Joy is a love letter to this special relationship—and one of the most charming books yet from the incomparable Danielle Steel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ties-that-bind-stories-of-love-and-gratitude-from-the-first-ten-years-of-storycorps-by-david-isay--65201339https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps Author: David Isay Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In celebration of StoryCorps’ ten year anniversary, Ties That Bind goes to the heart of the project’s great mission, sharing stories that are a testament to family and to the diversity of American experience. From the story of one couple separated temporarily by divorce and then permanently by the tragedy of 9/11, to the amazing power of forgiveness shown by a mother toward her son’s repentant killer, these are moving, uplifting, real-life stories from everyday Americans, gathered by StoryCorps and heard on NPR’s Morning Edition. This highlight edition features exclusive audio contents, including StoryCorps founder Dave Isay in conversation with NPR’s Scott Simon, as well as oral historian Studs Terkel’s memorable dedication of the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central Terminal. These moving, humanity-drenched, first-person accounts epitomize the strength of the ties that bind us to each other, against the pull of powerful forces.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198431Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps Author: David Isay Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps Author: David Isay Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In celebration of StoryCorps’ ten year anniversary, Ties That Bind goes to the heart of the project’s great mission, sharing stories that are a testament to family and to the diversity of American experience. From the story of one couple separated temporarily by divorce and then permanently by the tragedy of 9/11, to the amazing power of forgiveness shown by a mother toward her son’s repentant killer, these are moving, uplifting, real-life stories from everyday Americans, gathered by StoryCorps and heard on NPR’s Morning Edition. This highlight edition features exclusive audio contents, including StoryCorps founder Dave Isay in conversation with NPR’s Scott Simon, as well as oral historian Studs Terkel’s memorable dedication of the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central Terminal. These moving, humanity-drenched, first-person accounts epitomize the strength of the ties that bind us to each other, against the pull of powerful forces.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/smokin-joe-the-autobiography-of-a-heavyweight-champion-of-the-world-smokin-joe-frazier-by-joe-frazier-phil-berger--65201360https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smokin’ Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin’ Joe Frazier Author: Joe Frazier, Phil Berger Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When boxing was bold, bright, and glamorous and the fights were the hottest sporting events of the year, Joe Frazier was king as the Heavyweight Champion of the World. From 1970 to 1973 he reigned. With a career record of 32-4-1 with twenty-seven knockouts and an Olympic gold medal, Frazier leaves little question that he was one of the greatest fighters of all time. Well-known, loved, and revered as a gentleman and a fierce competitor in the ring, Joe Frazier speaks his mind in Smokin' Joe—about growing up poor and fighting in the first $2.5 million bout; about the early days of his friendship with Muhammad Ali and how their relationship changed; and about the often corrupt world of boxing and what really went on inside and outside the ring. Personable, good-natured, and funny, Frazier's story is a real delight.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198769Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smokin’ Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin’ Joe Frazier Author: Joe Frazier, Phil Berger Narrator: William Andrew...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smokin’ Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin’ Joe Frazier Author: Joe Frazier, Phil Berger Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When boxing was bold, bright, and glamorous and the fights were the hottest sporting events of the year, Joe Frazier was king as the Heavyweight Champion of the World. From 1970 to 1973 he reigned. With a career record of 32-4-1 with twenty-seven knockouts and an Olympic gold medal, Frazier leaves little question that he was one of the greatest fighters of all time. Well-known, loved, and revered as a gentleman and a fierce competitor in the ring, Joe Frazier speaks his mind in Smokin' Joe—about growing up poor and fighting in the first $2.5 million bout; about the early days of his friendship with Muhammad Ali and how their relationship changed; and about the often corrupt world of boxing and what really went on inside and outside the ring. Personable, good-natured, and funny, Frazier's story is a real delight.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-malala-the-girl-who-stood-up-for-education-and-was-shot-by-the-taliban-by-malala-yousafzai--65201338https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Author: Malala Yousafzai Narrator: Archie Panjabi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 220 Ratings of Narrator: 4.53 of Total 36 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman 'I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.' When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198095Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Author: Malala Yousafzai Narrator: Archie Panjabi Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Author: Malala Yousafzai Narrator: Archie Panjabi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 220 Ratings of Narrator: 4.53 of Total 36 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman 'I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.' When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/devotion-a-memoir-by-dani-shapiro--65201325https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devotion: A Memoir Author: Dani Shapiro Narrator: Dani Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Shapiro had no personal sense of faith, despite repeated attempts to create a connection to something greater. Feeling as if she was plunging headlong into what Carl Jung termed "the afternoon of life," she wrestled with self-doubt and a searing disquietude that would awaken her in the middle of the night. Set adrift by loss—her father's early death; the life-threatening illness of her infant son; her troubled relationship with her mother—she had become edgy and uncertain. At the heart of this anxiety, she realized, was a challenge: What did she believe? Spurred on by the big questions her young son began to raise, Shapiro embarked upon a surprisingly joyful quest to find meaning in a constantly changing world. The result is Devotion: a literary excavation to the core of a life. In this spiritual detective story, Shapiro explores the varieties of experience she has pursued—from the rituals of her black hat Orthodox Jewish relatives to yoga shalas and meditation retreats. A reckoning of the choices she has made and the knowledge she has gained, Devotion is the story of a woman whose search for meaning ultimately leads her home. Her journey is at once poignant and funny, intensely personal—and completely universal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198399Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devotion: A Memoir Author: Dani Shapiro Narrator: Dani Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devotion: A Memoir Author: Dani Shapiro Narrator: Dani Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Shapiro had no personal sense of faith, despite repeated attempts to create a connection to something greater. Feeling as if she was plunging headlong into what Carl Jung termed "the afternoon of life," she wrestled with self-doubt and a searing disquietude that would awaken her in the middle of the night. Set adrift by loss—her father's early death; the life-threatening illness of her infant son; her troubled relationship with her mother—she had become edgy and uncertain. At the heart of this anxiety, she realized, was a challenge: What did she believe? Spurred on by the big questions her young son began to raise, Shapiro embarked upon a surprisingly joyful quest to find meaning in a constantly changing world. The result is Devotion: a literary excavation to the core of a life. In this spiritual detective story, Shapiro explores the varieties of experience she has pursued—from the rituals of her black hat Orthodox Jewish relatives to yoga shalas and meditation retreats. A reckoning of the choices she has made and the knowledge she has gained, Devotion is the story of a woman whose search for meaning ultimately leads her home. Her journey is at once poignant and funny, intensely personal—and completely universal.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-story-by-elizabeth-smart-chris-stewart--65201316https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Story Author: Elizabeth Smart, Chris Stewart Narrator: Elizabeth Smart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 90 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 29 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The harrowing true story of abduction and survival from the courageous young woman who lived it—now the subject of a Lifetime original movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart. In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Elizabeth was kept chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. With My Story, Elizabeth tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Smart explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of a nightmare and how she found the strength to confront her captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the years after her rescue, Smart transformed from victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a foundation to help prevent crimes against children and is a frequent public speaker. She and her husband, Matthew Gilmour, now have two children.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198746Mon, 07 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Story Author: Elizabeth Smart, Chris Stewart Narrator: Elizabeth Smart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Story Author: Elizabeth Smart, Chris Stewart Narrator: Elizabeth Smart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 90 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 29 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The harrowing true story of abduction and survival from the courageous young woman who lived it—now the subject of a Lifetime original movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart. In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Elizabeth was kept chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. With My Story, Elizabeth tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Smart explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of a nightmare and how she found the strength to confront her captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the years after her rescue, Smart transformed from victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a foundation to help prevent crimes against children and is a frequent public speaker. She and her husband, Matthew Gilmour, now have two children.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-my-shoes-a-memoir-by-tamara-mellon-william-patrick--65201370https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Shoes: A Memoir Author: Tamara Mellon, William Patrick Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A candid business narrative and memoir from the founder of Jimmy Choo   Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime minister's trade envoy and was honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire—yet it's her personal glamour that keeps her an object of global media fascination. Vogue photographed her wedding; Vanity Fair covered her divorce and the criminal trial that followed. Harper's Bazaar toured her London town house and her New York mansion, right down to the closets. And the Wall Street Journal hinted at the real red meat: the three private equity deals, the relentless battle between 'the suits' and 'the creatives,' and Mellon's triumph against a brutally hostile takeover attempt.   In this candid memoir she shares the whole larger-than-life story, with genuinely shocking insider detail that has never been presented anywhere. From her troubled childhood to her time as a young editor at Vogue to her partnership with cobbler Jimmy Choo to her very public relationships, Mellon offers a gripping account of the episodes that have made her who she is today.   The result is a must read for entrepreneurs, fashionistas, and anyone who loves a juicy true story about sex, drugs, money, power, high heels, and overcoming adversity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196846Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Shoes: A Memoir Author: Tamara Mellon, William Patrick Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Shoes: A Memoir Author: Tamara Mellon, William Patrick Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A candid business narrative and memoir from the founder of Jimmy Choo   Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime minister's trade envoy and was honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire—yet it's her personal glamour that keeps her an object of global media fascination. Vogue photographed her wedding; Vanity Fair covered her divorce and the criminal trial that followed. Harper's Bazaar toured her London town house and her New York mansion, right down to the closets. And the Wall Street Journal hinted at the real red meat: the three private equity deals, the relentless battle between 'the suits' and 'the creatives,' and Mellon's triumph against a brutally hostile takeover attempt.   In this candid memoir she shares the whole larger-than-life story, with genuinely shocking insider detail that has never been presented anywhere. From her troubled childhood to her time as a young editor at Vogue to her partnership with cobbler Jimmy Choo to her very public relationships, Mellon offers a gripping account of the episodes that have made her who she is today.   The result is a must read for entrepreneurs, fashionistas, and anyone who loves a juicy true story about sex, drugs, money, power, high heels, and overcoming adversity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bruchko-by-bruce-olson--65201382https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruchko Author: Bruce Olson Narrator: Gary Dikeos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered through trial and error has revolutionized the world of missions. Bruchko, which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, has been called 'more fantastic and harrowing than anything Hollywood could concoct.' Having lived with the Motilone Indians since 1961, Olson has won the friendship of four presidents of Colombia and made appearances before the United Nations because of his efforts. Bruchko includes the story of Olson's 1988 kidnapping by communist guerrillas and the nine months of captivity that followed. This revised version of his story is an amazing reminder that simple faith in Christ can make anything possible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198208Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruchko Author: Bruce Olson Narrator: Gary Dikeos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 30, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruchko Author: Bruce Olson Narrator: Gary Dikeos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered through trial and error has revolutionized the world of missions. Bruchko, which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, has been called 'more fantastic and harrowing than anything Hollywood could concoct.' Having lived with the Motilone Indians since 1961, Olson has won the friendship of four presidents of Colombia and made appearances before the United Nations because of his efforts. Bruchko includes the story of Olson's 1988 kidnapping by communist guerrillas and the nine months of captivity that followed. This revised version of his story is an amazing reminder that simple faith in Christ can make anything possible.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-appetite-for-wonder-the-making-of-a-scientist-by-richard-dawkins--65201365https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist Author: Richard Dawkins Narrator: Lalla Ward, Richard Dawkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Timesbestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today    “A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons . . . Enchanting.” —NPR]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196946Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist Author: Richard Dawkins Narrator: Lalla Ward, Richard Dawkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist Author: Richard Dawkins Narrator: Lalla Ward, Richard Dawkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Timesbestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today    “A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons . . . Enchanting.” —NPR]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-a-life-lived-in-the-shadow-of-roman-polanski-by-samantha-geimer--65201333https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl: A Life Lived in the Shadow of Roman Polanski Author: Samantha Geimer Narrator: Samantha Geimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this memoir that “might be the most important and valuable book of the century so far” (The Guardian), Samantha Geimer reveals for the first time her side of one of the most notorious and complex legal cases in American history. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson’s house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring model named Samantha Geimer. She is thirteen years old. The undisputed facts of what happened in the hours that followed appear in the court record: Roman and Samantha spent hours taking pictures—on a kitchen counter, topless in a Jacuzzi. Wine and Quaaludes were consumed, balance and innocence were lost, and a young girl’s life was altered forever—eternally cast as a background player in her own story. For months on end, the Polanski case dominated the media both in the United States and abroad. But even with the extensive coverage, there is much about that day—and the girl at the center of it all—that has remained a mystery. The few times Samantha Geimer has spoken publically, it has been largely in reaction to Polanski—his latest film, his arrests, his releases. Virtually the entire narrative of Samantha’s life, and even the details of the rape itself, have all been left untold. Taking us far beyond the known headlines, this is the story of a girl who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable and even naive. Says New York Times bestselling author Sheila Weller, “Witty, snarky—but also precise and thoughtfully observant…Samantha Geimer is a reflective guide as she humanely tells of a complex violation that hurt but didn’t defeat her.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198344Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl: A Life Lived in the Shadow of Roman Polanski Author: Samantha Geimer Narrator: Samantha Geimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl: A Life Lived in the Shadow of Roman Polanski Author: Samantha Geimer Narrator: Samantha Geimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this memoir that “might be the most important and valuable book of the century so far” (The Guardian), Samantha Geimer reveals for the first time her side of one of the most notorious and complex legal cases in American history. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson’s house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring model named Samantha Geimer. She is thirteen years old. The undisputed facts of what happened in the hours that followed appear in the court record: Roman and Samantha spent hours taking pictures—on a kitchen counter, topless in a Jacuzzi. Wine and Quaaludes were consumed, balance and innocence were lost, and a young girl’s life was altered forever—eternally cast as a background player in her own story. For months on end, the Polanski case dominated the media both in the United States and abroad. But even with the extensive coverage, there is much about that day—and the girl at the center of it all—that has remained a mystery. The few times Samantha Geimer has spoken publically, it has been largely in reaction to Polanski—his latest film, his arrests, his releases. Virtually the entire narrative of Samantha’s life, and even the details of the rape itself, have all been left untold. Taking us far beyond the known headlines, this is the story of a girl who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable and even naive. Says New York Times bestselling author Sheila Weller, “Witty, snarky—but also precise and thoughtfully observant…Samantha Geimer is a reflective guide as she humanely tells of a complex violation that hurt but didn’t defeat her.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking-a-memoir-of-food-and-longing-by-anya-von-bremzen--65201326https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing Author: Anya Von Bremzen Narrator: Kathleen Gati Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations          Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.      Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. Includes a bonus PDF of recipes from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196773Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing Author: Anya Von Bremzen Narrator: Kathleen Gati Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing Author: Anya Von Bremzen Narrator: Kathleen Gati Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations          Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.      Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. Includes a bonus PDF of recipes from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/being-a-rockefeller-becoming-myself-a-memoir-by-eileen-rockefeller--65201324https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself: A Memoir Author: Eileen Rockefeller Narrator: Eileen Rockefeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 12, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A pioneering philanthropist and daughter of American royalty reveals what it was like to grow up in one of the world’s most famous families.   The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Eileen Rockefeller learned in childhood that while wealth and fame could open any door, they could not buy a feeling of personal worth. The privileges of having servants and lavish summer homes were offset by her parents’ thoughtful yet firm lessons in social obligation, at times by her mother’s dark depressions and mercurial moods, and the competition for attention among her siblings. In adulthood, Rockefeller yearned to be seen not as an icon but as a woman and mother with a normal life, and like all of us, she had to learn to find her own way. Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself is an affirmation of how family shapes our identity and the ways we contribute to the larger family of life, regardless of our origins.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196763Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself: A Memoir Author: Eileen Rockefeller Narrator: Eileen Rockefeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself: A Memoir Author: Eileen Rockefeller Narrator: Eileen Rockefeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 12, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A pioneering philanthropist and daughter of American royalty reveals what it was like to grow up in one of the world’s most famous families.   The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Eileen Rockefeller learned in childhood that while wealth and fame could open any door, they could not buy a feeling of personal worth. The privileges of having servants and lavish summer homes were offset by her parents’ thoughtful yet firm lessons in social obligation, at times by her mother’s dark depressions and mercurial moods, and the competition for attention among her siblings. In adulthood, Rockefeller yearned to be seen not as an icon but as a woman and mother with a normal life, and like all of us, she had to learn to find her own way. Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself is an affirmation of how family shapes our identity and the ways we contribute to the larger family of life, regardless of our origins.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-brief-history-by-stephen-hawking--65201385https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Brief History Author: Stephen Hawking Narrator: Matthew Brenher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.   My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. This concise, witty, and candid account introduces listeners to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.   Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time—one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.   Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking’s personal cosmos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195378Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Brief History Author: Stephen Hawking Narrator: Matthew Brenher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Brief History Author: Stephen Hawking Narrator: Matthew Brenher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.   My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. This concise, witty, and candid account introduces listeners to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.   Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time—one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.   Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking’s personal cosmos.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-house-in-the-sky-a-memoir-by-sara-corbett-amanda-lindhout--65201380https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House in the Sky: A Memoir Author: Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout Narrator: Amanda Lindhout Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 26 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into fifteen months of captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194990Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House in the Sky: A Memoir Author: Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout Narrator: Amanda Lindhout Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 17 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House in the Sky: A Memoir Author: Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout Narrator: Amanda Lindhout Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 26 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into fifteen months of captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/knocking-on-heaven-s-door-the-path-to-a-better-way-of-death-by-katy-butler--65201368https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death Author: Katy Butler Narrator: Katy Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become” (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review). This bestselling memoir—hailed a “triumph” by The New York Times—ponders the “Good Death” and the forces within medicine that stand in its way. Award-winning journalist Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her aging parents when the call came: her beloved seventy-nine-year-old father had suffered a crippling stroke. Katy and her mother joined the more than 28 million Americans who are shepherding loved ones through their final declines. Doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker, which kept his heart going while doing nothing to prevent a slide into dementia, near-blindness, and misery. When he said, “I’m living too long,” mother and daughter faced wrenching moral questions. Where is the line between saving a life and prolonging a dying? When do you say to a doctor, “Let my loved one go?” When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker, condemning her father to a lingering death, Butler set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother, faced with her own grave illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and met death the old-fashioned way: head-on. Part memoir, part medical history, and part spiritual guide, Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a map through the labyrinth of a broken medical system. Technological medicine, obsessed with maximum longevity, is creating more suffering than it prevents. Butler chronicles the rise of Slow Medicine, a movement bent on reclaiming the “Good Deaths” our ancestors prized. In families, hospitals, and the public sphere, this visionary memoir is inspiring the difficult conversations we must have to light the path to a better way of death. “A lyrical meditation written with extraordinary beauty and sensitivity” (San Francisco Chronicle).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196338Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death Author: Katy Butler Narrator: Katy Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death Author: Katy Butler Narrator: Katy Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become” (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review). This bestselling memoir—hailed a “triumph” by The New York Times—ponders the “Good Death” and the forces within medicine that stand in its way. Award-winning journalist Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her aging parents when the call came: her beloved seventy-nine-year-old father had suffered a crippling stroke. Katy and her mother joined the more than 28 million Americans who are shepherding loved ones through their final declines. Doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker, which kept his heart going while doing nothing to prevent a slide into dementia, near-blindness, and misery. When he said, “I’m living too long,” mother and daughter faced wrenching moral questions. Where is the line between saving a life and prolonging a dying? When do you say to a doctor, “Let my loved one go?” When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker, condemning her father to a lingering death, Butler set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother, faced with her own grave illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and met death the old-fashioned way: head-on. Part memoir, part medical history, and part spiritual guide, Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a map through the labyrinth of a broken medical system. Technological medicine, obsessed with maximum longevity, is creating more suffering than it prevents. Butler chronicles the rise of Slow Medicine, a movement bent on reclaiming the “Good Deaths” our ancestors prized. In families, hospitals, and the public sphere, this visionary memoir is inspiring the difficult conversations we must have to light the path to a better way of death. “A lyrical meditation written with extraordinary beauty and sensitivity” (San Francisco Chronicle).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/after-the-fire-a-memoir-in-poetry-and-prose-by-j-a-jance--65201362https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Fire: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose Author: J. A. Jance Narrator: J. A. Jance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 50 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat Before she found fame as a bestselling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she channeled her pain into words, composing the poems in this moving volume, first published in 1984, a year before her debut novel. In searing and direct language, After the Fire chronicles the collapse of Jance's first marriage under the weight of her husband's addiction—and her own unwitting denial and codependence while she struggled to find herself. "I will not be the price of your redemption," she wrote then. "I will not pay my life to ransom yours." An intimate, deeply personal look into a wrenching time in Jance's life, After the Fire is a portrait of addiction and its insidious effects on lives and love. It illuminates universal truths about unbearable loss and finding the courage to carry on, and offers inspiration and profound insight into the heart and work of a beloved bestselling author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196945Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Fire: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose Author: J. A. Jance Narrator: J. A. Jance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 50 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Fire: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose Author: J. A. Jance Narrator: J. A. Jance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 50 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat Before she found fame as a bestselling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she channeled her pain into words, composing the poems in this moving volume, first published in 1984, a year before her debut novel. In searing and direct language, After the Fire chronicles the collapse of Jance's first marriage under the weight of her husband's addiction—and her own unwitting denial and codependence while she struggled to find herself. "I will not be the price of your redemption," she wrote then. "I will not pay my life to ransom yours." An intimate, deeply personal look into a wrenching time in Jance's life, After the Fire is a portrait of addiction and its insidious effects on lives and love. It illuminates universal truths about unbearable loss and finding the courage to carry on, and offers inspiration and profound insight into the heart and work of a beloved bestselling author.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/weekends-with-daisy-by-sharron-kahn-luttrell--65201358https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Daisy Author: Sharron Kahn Luttrell Narrator: Jane Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: She was supposed to teach Daisy how to be a good dog…but Daisy taught her to be a better person. When Sharron Luttrell joins a weekend “Prison PUP” program for a service dog organization, she knew it was just what she needed to help her move on from the death of her own beloved dog. The position seemed ideal; pick up a puppy on Friday, return it on Sunday night, work with a new puppy each year, no strings attached. Well, it turns out there were strings—and they tugged at her every time she had to return “her dog” to its weekday caregiver. This memoir chronicles Sharron’s year co-parenting Daisy, a sweet Lab puppy, with Keith, the inmate who is Daisy’s other trainer. As Sharron and Keith develop a relationship she likens to “divorced parents handing over the kids,” she becomes curious about Keith’s life story. When Sharron uncovers the tragic event that set Keith on his path, she realizes she must take a lesson from Daisy and “think like a dog'—react to circumstances in the present, not the past. Sharron applies this way of thinking at home, too, using the lessons she learned from Daisy to mend her rocky relationship with her teenage daughter. Where once a dramatic eye roll from her daughter would have sparked a battle, Sharron has learned to employ the patience and understanding she practices with Daisy to become a better mom. As Sharron and Keith work tirelessly to ensure Daisy passes her service dog test, she is taught priceless lessons in empathy, compassion, and affection. In the end, Sharron’s weekends with Daisy have taught her more than she could ever have imagined.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196808Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Daisy Author: Sharron Kahn Luttrell Narrator: Jane Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Daisy Author: Sharron Kahn Luttrell Narrator: Jane Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: She was supposed to teach Daisy how to be a good dog…but Daisy taught her to be a better person. When Sharron Luttrell joins a weekend “Prison PUP” program for a service dog organization, she knew it was just what she needed to help her move on from the death of her own beloved dog. The position seemed ideal; pick up a puppy on Friday, return it on Sunday night, work with a new puppy each year, no strings attached. Well, it turns out there were strings—and they tugged at her every time she had to return “her dog” to its weekday caregiver. This memoir chronicles Sharron’s year co-parenting Daisy, a sweet Lab puppy, with Keith, the inmate who is Daisy’s other trainer. As Sharron and Keith develop a relationship she likens to “divorced parents handing over the kids,” she becomes curious about Keith’s life story. When Sharron uncovers the tragic event that set Keith on his path, she realizes she must take a lesson from Daisy and “think like a dog'—react to circumstances in the present, not the past. Sharron applies this way of thinking at home, too, using the lessons she learned from Daisy to mend her rocky relationship with her teenage daughter. Where once a dramatic eye roll from her daughter would have sparked a battle, Sharron has learned to employ the patience and understanding she practices with Daisy to become a better mom. As Sharron and Keith work tirelessly to ensure Daisy passes her service dog test, she is taught priceless lessons in empathy, compassion, and affection. In the end, Sharron’s weekends with Daisy have taught her more than she could ever have imagined.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-black-sheep-a-memoir-by-ashley-cleveland--65201352https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Black Sheep: A Memoir Author: Ashley Cleveland Narrator: Ashley Cleveland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Your deepest pain can be your greatest hope. This powerful memoir from Grammy Award–winner Ashley Cleveland reminds us that even in the lowest times of our lives, beauty can shine through. Ashley Cleveland grew up in a Southern family fractured by alcoholism, homosexuality, and the collapse of her parents’ marriage. She knew from the start that she was the “good-for-nothing” black sheep of her divided home, and she quickly learned to play the part. Yet in her destructive days of drugs, alcohol, and sex, she encountered a forgiving God who was relentlessly faithful. Change did not come quickly. The brokenness did not disappear. But Ashley allowed God to heal her, to transform her desires, to bring courage to others through her journey. Little by little she saw that it was her brokenness itself that God wanted to use. This beautifully told story will take you from the back rooms of Nashville to the churches of the San Francisco Bay area to a tender new life where one woman discovers that broken places often supply the best things we have to give away.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198192Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Black Sheep: A Memoir Author: Ashley Cleveland Narrator: Ashley Cleveland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Black Sheep: A Memoir Author: Ashley Cleveland Narrator: Ashley Cleveland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Your deepest pain can be your greatest hope. This powerful memoir from Grammy Award–winner Ashley Cleveland reminds us that even in the lowest times of our lives, beauty can shine through. Ashley Cleveland grew up in a Southern family fractured by alcoholism, homosexuality, and the collapse of her parents’ marriage. She knew from the start that she was the “good-for-nothing” black sheep of her divided home, and she quickly learned to play the part. Yet in her destructive days of drugs, alcohol, and sex, she encountered a forgiving God who was relentlessly faithful. Change did not come quickly. The brokenness did not disappear. But Ashley allowed God to heal her, to transform her desires, to bring courage to others through her journey. Little by little she saw that it was her brokenness itself that God wanted to use. This beautifully told story will take you from the back rooms of Nashville to the churches of the San Francisco Bay area to a tender new life where one woman discovers that broken places often supply the best things we have to give away.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outside-passage-a-memoir-of-an-alaskan-childhood-by-julia-scully--65201310https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood Author: Julia Scully Narrator: Celeste Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage—learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio—and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra—the summer wildflowers and berries, the reindeer, foxes, and wolves. Later she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II. A lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, Outside Passage is simultaneously an emotional account of a young girl's first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196867Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood Author: Julia Scully Narrator: Celeste Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood Author: Julia Scully Narrator: Celeste Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage—learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio—and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra—the summer wildflowers and berries, the reindeer, foxes, and wolves. Later she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II. A lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, Outside Passage is simultaneously an emotional account of a young girl's first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-kiss-your-hands-many-times-hearts-souls-and-wars-in-hungary-by-marianne-szegedy-maszak--65201391https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary Author: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Narrator: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart   Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding. In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal.   Aladár survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself. After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she’d last seen, but he was still in love with her. After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed.   Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Maszák’s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population—the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti-Semitism—and with the rest of the world. She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted—from a country and its individuals.   Praise for I Kiss Your Hands Many Times   “I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family in pre– and post–World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents’ devotion in one of history’s darkest hours.”—Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group   “In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history.”—Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America “How many times can a heart be broken? Hungarians know, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family more than most. History has broken theirs again and again. This is the story of that violence, told by the daughter of an extraordinary man and extraordinary woman who refused to surrender to it. Every perfectly chosen word is as it happened. So brace yourself. Truth can break hearts, too.”—Robert Sam Anson, author of War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina “This family memoir is everything you could wish for in the genre: the story of a fascinating family that illuminates the historical time it lived through. . . . Informative and fascinating in every way, [I Kiss Your Hands Many Times] is a great introduction to World War II Hungary and a moving tale of personal relationships in a time of great duress.”—Booklist (starred review)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194101Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary Author: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Narrator: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary Author: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Narrator: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart   Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding. In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal.   Aladár survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself. After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she’d last seen, but he was still in love with her. After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed.   Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Maszák’s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population—the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti-Semitism—and with the rest of the world. She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted—from a country and its individuals.   Praise for I Kiss Your Hands Many Times   “I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family in pre– and post–World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents’ devotion in one of history’s darkest hours.”—Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group   “In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history.”—Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America “How many times can a heart be broken? Hungarians know, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family more than most. History has broken theirs again and again. This is the story of that violence, told by the daughter of an extraordinary man and extraordinary woman who refused to surrender to it. Every perfectly chosen word is as it happened. So brace yourself. Truth can break hearts, too.”—Robert Sam Anson, author of War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina “This family memoir is everything you could wish for in the genre: the story of a fascinating family that illuminates the historical time it lived through. . . . Informative and fascinating in every way, [I Kiss Your Hands Many Times] is a great introduction to World War II Hungary and a moving tale of personal relationships in a time of great duress.”—Booklist (starred review)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/homeless-at-harvard-finding-faith-and-friendship-on-the-streets-of-harvard-square-by-john-christopher-frame--65201423https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square Author: John Christopher Frame Narrator: Jd Cullum Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Harvard Square is at the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the business district around Harvard University. It’s a place of history, culture, and some of the most momentous events of the nation. But it’s also a gathering place for some of the city’s homeless. What is life like for the homeless in Harvard Square? Do they have anything to tell people about life? And God? That’s what Harvard student John Frame discovered and shares in Homeless at Harvard. While taking his final course at Harvard, John Frame stepped outside the walls of academia and onto the streets, pursuing a different kind of education with his homeless friends. What he found—in the way of community and how people understand themselves may surprise you. In this unique book, each of these urban pioneers shares his own story, providing insider perspectives of life as homeless people see it. This heartwarming page-turner shows how John learned with, from, and about his homeless friends—who together tell an unforgettable story—helping readers’ better understand problems outside themselves and that they’re more similar to those on the streets than they may have believed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194011Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square Author: John Christopher Frame Narrator: Jd Cullum Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square Author: John Christopher Frame Narrator: Jd Cullum Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Harvard Square is at the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the business district around Harvard University. It’s a place of history, culture, and some of the most momentous events of the nation. But it’s also a gathering place for some of the city’s homeless. What is life like for the homeless in Harvard Square? Do they have anything to tell people about life? And God? That’s what Harvard student John Frame discovered and shares in Homeless at Harvard. While taking his final course at Harvard, John Frame stepped outside the walls of academia and onto the streets, pursuing a different kind of education with his homeless friends. What he found—in the way of community and how people understand themselves may surprise you. In this unique book, each of these urban pioneers shares his own story, providing insider perspectives of life as homeless people see it. This heartwarming page-turner shows how John learned with, from, and about his homeless friends—who together tell an unforgettable story—helping readers’ better understand problems outside themselves and that they’re more similar to those on the streets than they may have believed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/buck-a-memoir-by-mk-asante--65201379https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buck: A Memoir Author: MK Asante Narrator: MK Asante, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A rebellious boy’s journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.   MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation’s dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. Now he was alone—his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the country—and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.   Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachers—outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. It’s a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us. Praise for Buck   “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou    “In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”—NPR “The voice of a new generation. . . . You will love nearly everything about Buck.”—Essence “A virtuoso performance . . . [an] extraordinary page-turner of a memoir . . . written in a breathless, driving hip-hop prose style that gives it a tough, contemporary edge.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Frequently brilliant and always engaging . . . It takes great skill to render the wide variety of characters, male and female, young and old, that populate a memoir like Buck. Asante [is] at his best when he sets out into the city of Philadelphia itself. In fact, that city is the true star of this book. Philly’s skateboarders, its street-corner philosophers and its tattoo artists are all brought vividly to life here. . . . Asante’s memoir will find an eager readership, especially among young people searching in books for the kind of understanding and meaning that eludes them in their real-life relationships. . . . A powerful and captivating book.”—Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times “Remarkable . . . Asante’s prose is a fluid blend of vernacular swagger and tender poeticism. . . . [He] soaks up James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and Walt Whitman like thirsty ground in a heavy rain. Buck grew from that, and it’s a bumper crop.”—Salon   “Buck is so honest it floats—even while it’s so down-to-earth that the reader feels like an ant peering up from the concrete. It’s a powerful book. . . . Asante is a hip-hop raconteur, a storyteller in the Homeric tradition, an American, a rhymer, a big-thinker singing a song of himself. You’ll want to listen.”—The Buffalo News]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195233Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buck: A Memoir Author: MK Asante Narrator: MK Asante, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buck: A Memoir Author: MK Asante Narrator: MK Asante, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A rebellious boy’s journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.   MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation’s dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. Now he was alone—his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the country—and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.   Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachers—outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. It’s a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us. Praise for Buck   “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”—Maya Angelou    “In America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generation’s story.”—NPR “The voice of a new generation. . . . You will love nearly everything about Buck.”—Essence “A virtuoso performance . . . [an] extraordinary page-turner of a memoir . . . written in a breathless, driving hip-hop prose style that gives it a tough, contemporary edge.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Frequently brilliant and always engaging . . . It takes great skill to render the wide variety of characters, male and female, young and old, that populate a memoir like Buck. Asante [is] at his best when he sets out into the city of Philadelphia itself. In fact, that city is the true star of this book. Philly’s skateboarders, its street-corner philosophers and its tattoo artists are all brought vividly to life here. . . . Asante’s memoir will find an eager readership, especially among young people searching in books for the kind of understanding and meaning that eludes them in their real-life relationships. . . . A powerful and captivating book.”—Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times “Remarkable . . . Asante’s prose is a fluid blend of vernacular swagger and tender poeticism. . . . [He] soaks up James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and Walt Whitman like thirsty ground in a heavy rain. Buck grew from that, and it’s a bumper crop.”—Salon   “Buck is so honest it floats—even while it’s so down-to-earth that the reader feels like an ant peering up from the concrete. It’s a powerful book. . . . Asante is a hip-hop raconteur, a storyteller in the Homeric tradition, an American, a rhymer, a big-thinker singing a song of himself. You’ll want to listen.”—The Buffalo News]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-handoff-a-memoir-of-two-guys-sports-and-friendship-by-john-tournour--65201456https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Handoff: A Memoir of Two Guys, Sports, and Friendship Author: John Tournour Narrator: John Tournour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: John Tournour, known to his many listeners and fans as JT the Brick, is one of the biggest sports radio personalities in America. Making it as a sports radio host is almost impossible, and JT went about it in a fearless way, leaving a lucrative position as a Merrill Lynch stockbroker to pursue his dream. But Tournour's hardest challenge would come when his best friend and mentor, Andrew Ashwood was diagnosed with cancer. THE HANDOFF is about JT the Brick's rise to sports radio stardom, and how his entire view of life changed as his best friend fought a losing battle to a deadly disease. As Andrew heroically endured chemotherapy treatment after treatment, Tournour was at his side, marveling at his friend's bravery and trying to be there for him as best he could. THE HANDOFF is about facing your fears, the power of connection, and the incredible lessons Tournour learned from his dear friend.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194207Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Handoff: A Memoir of Two Guys, Sports, and Friendship Author: John Tournour Narrator: John Tournour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Handoff: A Memoir of Two Guys, Sports, and Friendship Author: John Tournour Narrator: John Tournour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: John Tournour, known to his many listeners and fans as JT the Brick, is one of the biggest sports radio personalities in America. Making it as a sports radio host is almost impossible, and JT went about it in a fearless way, leaving a lucrative position as a Merrill Lynch stockbroker to pursue his dream. But Tournour's hardest challenge would come when his best friend and mentor, Andrew Ashwood was diagnosed with cancer. THE HANDOFF is about JT the Brick's rise to sports radio stardom, and how his entire view of life changed as his best friend fought a losing battle to a deadly disease. As Andrew heroically endured chemotherapy treatment after treatment, Tournour was at his side, marveling at his friend's bravery and trying to be there for him as best he could. THE HANDOFF is about facing your fears, the power of connection, and the incredible lessons Tournour learned from his dear friend.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/son-of-a-gun-a-memoir-by-justin-st-germain--65201436https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Son of a Gun: A Memoir Author: Justin St. Germain Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. “A real-life old West murder mystery,” the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after.   Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride. Yet years later he’s still sleeping with a loaded rifle under his bed. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of desert with an unstable ex-cop?   Justin’s journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant, sometimes threatening presence in his life, to a harsh world on the margins full of men and women all struggling to define what family means. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother’s life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be.   Praise for Son of a Gun   “[A] spectacular memoir . . . calls to mind two others of the past decade: J. R. Moehringer’s Tender Bar and Nick Flynn’s Another Bull Night in Suck City. All three are about boys becoming men in a broken world. . . . [What] might have been . . . in the hands of a lesser writer, the book’s main point . . . [is] amplified from a tale of personal loss and grief into a parable for our time and our nation. . . . If the brilliance of Son of a Gun lies in its restraint, its importance lies in the generosity of the author’s insights.”—Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review “[A] gritty, enthralling new memoir . . . St. Germain has created a work of austere, luminous beauty. . . . In his understated, eloquent way, St. Germain makes you feel the heat, taste the dust, see those shimmering streets. By the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her. And like the author, you will mourn her forever.”—NPR   “If St. Germain had stopped at examining his mother’s psycho-social risk factors and how her murder affected him, this would still be a fine, moving memoir. But it’s his further probing—into the culture of guns, violence, and manhood that informed their lives in his hometown, Tombstone, Ariz.—that transforms the book, elevating the stakes from personal pain to larger, important questions of what ails our society.”—The Boston Globe   “A visceral, compelling portrait of [St. Germain’s] mother and the violent culture that claimed her.”—Entertainment Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195135Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Son of a Gun: A Memoir Author: Justin St. Germain Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Son of a Gun: A Memoir Author: Justin St. Germain Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. “A real-life old West murder mystery,” the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after.   Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride. Yet years later he’s still sleeping with a loaded rifle under his bed. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of desert with an unstable ex-cop?   Justin’s journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant, sometimes threatening presence in his life, to a harsh world on the margins full of men and women all struggling to define what family means. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother’s life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be.   Praise for Son of a Gun   “[A] spectacular memoir . . . calls to mind two others of the past decade: J. R. Moehringer’s Tender Bar and Nick Flynn’s Another Bull Night in Suck City. All three are about boys becoming men in a broken world. . . . [What] might have been . . . in the hands of a lesser writer, the book’s main point . . . [is] amplified from a tale of personal loss and grief into a parable for our time and our nation. . . . If the brilliance of Son of a Gun lies in its restraint, its importance lies in the generosity of the author’s insights.”—Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review “[A] gritty, enthralling new memoir . . . St. Germain has created a work of austere, luminous beauty. . . . In his understated, eloquent way, St. Germain makes you feel the heat, taste the dust, see those shimmering streets. By the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her. And like the author, you will mourn her forever.”—NPR   “If St. Germain had stopped at examining his mother’s psycho-social risk factors and how her murder affected him, this would still be a fine, moving memoir. But it’s his further probing—into the culture of guns, violence, and manhood that informed their lives in his hometown, Tombstone, Ariz.—that transforms the book, elevating the stakes from personal pain to larger, important questions of what ails our society.”—The Boston Globe   “A visceral, compelling portrait of [St. Germain’s] mother and the violent culture that claimed her.”—Entertainment Weekly]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-spite-of-myself-by-christopher-plummer--65201429https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Spite of Myself Author: Christopher Plummer Narrator: Christopher Plummer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors. Plummer tells how “this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer’s own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton (“she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis”) introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story (“It opened and closed in one night! One solitary night! But what a night!”). He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed “S&M”) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier’s invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself (“a great actor but lousy director”), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor—to this day, his “one true strength.” Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor’s (at least this actor’s) life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194097Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Spite of Myself Author: Christopher Plummer Narrator: Christopher Plummer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Spite of Myself Author: Christopher Plummer Narrator: Christopher Plummer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors. Plummer tells how “this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer’s own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton (“she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis”) introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story (“It opened and closed in one night! One solitary night! But what a night!”). He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed “S&M”) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier’s invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself (“a great actor but lousy director”), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor—to this day, his “one true strength.” Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor’s (at least this actor’s) life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walking-with-jack-a-father-s-journey-to-become-his-son-s-caddie-by-don-j-snyder--65201390https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Jack: A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie Author: Don J. Snyder Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 9, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Celebrated for both his novels and memoirs, Don J. Snyder is also the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship. A story of love and dedication, Walking with Jack chronicles Snyder's dream to caddie for his son Jack's pro golf tour debut. At nearly 60, Snyder left Maine for Scotland--the birthplace of golf--where he learned the game and earned his spot as a full-time caddie. His journey would finally coincide with Jack's own struggles in one of the PGA's toughest qualifying events.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194077Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Jack: A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie Author: Don J. Snyder Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Jack: A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie Author: Don J. Snyder Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 9, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Celebrated for both his novels and memoirs, Don J. Snyder is also the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship. A story of love and dedication, Walking with Jack chronicles Snyder's dream to caddie for his son Jack's pro golf tour debut. At nearly 60, Snyder left Maine for Scotland--the birthplace of golf--where he learned the game and earned his spot as a full-time caddie. His journey would finally coincide with Jack's own struggles in one of the PGA's toughest qualifying events.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shocked-my-mother-schiaparelli-and-me-by-patricia-volk--65201359https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me Author: Patricia Volk Narrator: Patricia Volk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Stuffed comes an intimate memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother—to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman. Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker, was a great beauty and the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli—'Schiap'—the haute couture designer whose creations shocked the world, blurred the line between fashion and art, and believed that everything, even a button, has the potential to delight. Audrey's daughter Patricia read Schiap's autobiography, Shocking Life, at a tender age, and was transformed by it. These two women—volatile, opinionated, and brilliant each in her own way—offered Patricia contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal style that allowed her to plot her own course. Moving seamlessly between the Volks' Manhattan and Florida milieu and Schiap's life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dal├¡, Duchamp, and Picasso), Shocked weaves Audrey's traditional notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli's often outrageous ideas into a marvel-filled meditation on beauty and on being a daughter, sister, and mother, while demonstrating how a single book can change a life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194276Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me Author: Patricia Volk Narrator: Patricia Volk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me Author: Patricia Volk Narrator: Patricia Volk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Stuffed comes an intimate memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother—to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman. Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker, was a great beauty and the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant. Elsa Schiaparelli—'Schiap'—the haute couture designer whose creations shocked the world, blurred the line between fashion and art, and believed that everything, even a button, has the potential to delight. Audrey's daughter Patricia read Schiap's autobiography, Shocking Life, at a tender age, and was transformed by it. These two women—volatile, opinionated, and brilliant each in her own way—offered Patricia contrasting lessons about womanhood and personal style that allowed her to plot her own course. Moving seamlessly between the Volks' Manhattan and Florida milieu and Schiap's life in Rome and Paris (among friends such as Dal├¡, Duchamp, and Picasso), Shocked weaves Audrey's traditional notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli's often outrageous ideas into a marvel-filled meditation on beauty and on being a daughter, sister, and mother, while demonstrating how a single book can change a life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-in-numbers-on-life-love-meaning-and-math-by-daniel-tammet--65201394https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math Author: Daniel Tammet Narrator: Daniel Tammet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The irresistibly engaging book that 'enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers' (Oliver Sacks, MD). Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples, and ruminations on history, literature, and more, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions, and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired variously by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's eleven fingers, and his many siblings, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person, and how we can make sense of those we love. His provocative and inspiring new book will change the way you think about math and fire your imagination to view the world with fresh eyes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180234Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math Author: Daniel Tammet Narrator: Daniel Tammet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math Author: Daniel Tammet Narrator: Daniel Tammet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The irresistibly engaging book that 'enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers' (Oliver Sacks, MD). Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples, and ruminations on history, literature, and more, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions, and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired variously by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's eleven fingers, and his many siblings, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person, and how we can make sense of those we love. His provocative and inspiring new book will change the way you think about math and fire your imagination to view the world with fresh eyes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bloom-finding-beauty-in-the-unexpected-a-memoir-by-kelle-hampton--65201357https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir Author: Kelle Hampton Narrator: Kelle Hampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There is us. Our Family. We will hold our precious gift and know that we are lucky . . . From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a thriving photography career. When she learned she was pregnant with their second child, they were ecstatic. But when their new daughter was placed in her arms in the delivery room, Kelle knew instantly that something was wrong. Nella looked different than her sister, Lainey, had at birth. As her friends and family celebrated, a terrified Kelle was certain that Nella had Down syndrome—a fear her pediatrician soon confirmed. Yet gradually Kelle embraced the realization that she had been chosen to experience an extraordinary and special gift. With lyrical prose and gorgeous photography, Bloom takes readers on a wondrous journey through Nella's first year of life—a gripping, hilarious, and intensely poignant trip of transformation in which a mother learns that perfection comes in all different shapes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192028Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir Author: Kelle Hampton Narrator: Kelle Hampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir Author: Kelle Hampton Narrator: Kelle Hampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There is us. Our Family. We will hold our precious gift and know that we are lucky . . . From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a thriving photography career. When she learned she was pregnant with their second child, they were ecstatic. But when their new daughter was placed in her arms in the delivery room, Kelle knew instantly that something was wrong. Nella looked different than her sister, Lainey, had at birth. As her friends and family celebrated, a terrified Kelle was certain that Nella had Down syndrome—a fear her pediatrician soon confirmed. Yet gradually Kelle embraced the realization that she had been chosen to experience an extraordinary and special gift. With lyrical prose and gorgeous photography, Bloom takes readers on a wondrous journey through Nella's first year of life—a gripping, hilarious, and intensely poignant trip of transformation in which a mother learns that perfection comes in all different shapes.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blue-plate-special-an-autobiography-of-my-appetites-by-kate-christensen--65201435https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites Author: Kate Christensen Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness. “To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.” Her appetites run deep; in her own words, she spent much of her life as “a hungry, lonely, wild animal looking for happiness and stability.” Now, having found them at last, in this passionate feast of a memoir she reflects upon her journey of innocence lost and wisdom gained, mistakes made and lessons learned, and hearts broken and mended.    In the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Ruth Reichl, Blue Plate Special is a narrative in which food—eating it, cooking it, reflecting on it—becomes the vehicle for unpacking a life. Christensen explores her history of hunger—not just for food but for love and confidence and a sense of belonging—with a profound honesty, starting with her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a mercurial legal activist who ruled the house with his fists. After a whirlwind adolescent awakening, Christensen strikes out to chart her own destiny within the literary world and the world of men, both equally alluring and dangerous. Food of all kinds, from Ho Hos to haute cuisine, remains an evocative constant throughout, not just as sustenance but as a realm of experience unto itself, always reflective of what is going on in her life. She unearths memories—sometimes joyful, sometimes painful—of the love between mother and daughter, sister and sister, and husband and wife, and of the times when the bonds of love were broken. Food sustains her as she endures the pain of these ruptures and fuels her determination not to settle for anything less than the love and contentment for which she’s always yearned.    The physical and emotional sensuality that defines Christensen’s fiction resonates throughout the pages of Blue Plate Special. A vibrant celebration of life in all its truth and complexity, this book is about embracing the world through the transformative power of food: it’s about listening to your appetites, about having faith, and about learning what is worth holding on to and what is not.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180353Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites Author: Kate Christensen Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites Author: Kate Christensen Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness. “To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.” Her appetites run deep; in her own words, she spent much of her life as “a hungry, lonely, wild animal looking for happiness and stability.” Now, having found them at last, in this passionate feast of a memoir she reflects upon her journey of innocence lost and wisdom gained, mistakes made and lessons learned, and hearts broken and mended.    In the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Ruth Reichl, Blue Plate Special is a narrative in which food—eating it, cooking it, reflecting on it—becomes the vehicle for unpacking a life. Christensen explores her history of hunger—not just for food but for love and confidence and a sense of belonging—with a profound honesty, starting with her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a mercurial legal activist who ruled the house with his fists. After a whirlwind adolescent awakening, Christensen strikes out to chart her own destiny within the literary world and the world of men, both equally alluring and dangerous. Food of all kinds, from Ho Hos to haute cuisine, remains an evocative constant throughout, not just as sustenance but as a realm of experience unto itself, always reflective of what is going on in her life. She unearths memories—sometimes joyful, sometimes painful—of the love between mother and daughter, sister and sister, and husband and wife, and of the times when the bonds of love were broken. Food sustains her as she endures the pain of these ruptures and fuels her determination not to settle for anything less than the love and contentment for which she’s always yearned.    The physical and emotional sensuality that defines Christensen’s fiction resonates throughout the pages of Blue Plate Special. A vibrant celebration of life in all its truth and complexity, this book is about embracing the world through the transformative power of food: it’s about listening to your appetites, about having faith, and about learning what is worth holding on to and what is not.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-wear-the-black-hat-essays-on-villains-real-and-imagined-by-chuck-klosterman--65201408https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) Author: Chuck Klosterman Narrator: Chuck Klosterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183231Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) Author: Chuck Klosterman Narrator: Chuck Klosterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) Author: Chuck Klosterman Narrator: Chuck Klosterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wallflower-at-the-orgy-by-nora-ephron--65201373https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wallflower at the Orgy Author: Nora Ephron Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world’s most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on renowned director Mike Nichols, Cosmopolitan magazine founder Helen Gurley Brown—or herself, as she chronicles her own beauty makeover—Ephron deftly weaves her journalistic skill with the intimate style of an essayist and the incomparable talent of a great storyteller.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180351Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wallflower at the Orgy Author: Nora Ephron Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wallflower at the Orgy Author: Nora Ephron Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world’s most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on renowned director Mike Nichols, Cosmopolitan magazine founder Helen Gurley Brown—or herself, as she chronicles her own beauty makeover—Ephron deftly weaves her journalistic skill with the intimate style of an essayist and the incomparable talent of a great storyteller.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-the-animals-taught-me-stories-of-love-and-healing-from-a-farm-animal-sanctuary-by-stephanie-marohn--65201402https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary Author: Stephanie Marohn Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What the Animals Taught Me is the story of how a woman came upon farm animals that needed rescuing and what she learned from them as they gradually changed her home in Sonoma County, California, into an animal sanctuary. Wishing to escape the urban rat race, freelance writer and editor Stephanie Marohn moved to rural Northern California in 1993. In return for reduced rent, she fed and cared for two horses. Life was sweet. Then more farm animals started to appear: a miniature white horse, a donkey, and sheep, followed by deer and other wildlife. Each needed sanctuary from abuse, physical injury, or neglect, and Marohn took them in, gradually turning her ten-acre spread into an animal sanctuary. With each new arrival, Marohn had to learn how to care for it, to help it to overcome trauma, and to transition back to life with other animals—and to trust people again. With each successful rescue and rehabilitation, Marohn learned lessons not only about animal care but also about love, compassion, patience, trust, and so many of the qualities we often try to cultivate in ourselves. She shares what she learned from the sheep she rescued from an animal collector and the abused donkey she helped nurse back to health. She also tells about the hilarious response from the guests at her Thanksgiving dinner when they saw wild turkeys come floating down 'like paratroopers' to land next to the miniature horse that had walked right up to the patio window. Marohn's delightful memoir illuminates how the animals have much to teach us and how they helped her to reconnect with the natural world and to see and embrace others as they truly are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181895Mon, 01 Jul 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary Author: Stephanie Marohn Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary Author: Stephanie Marohn Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What the Animals Taught Me is the story of how a woman came upon farm animals that needed rescuing and what she learned from them as they gradually changed her home in Sonoma County, California, into an animal sanctuary. Wishing to escape the urban rat race, freelance writer and editor Stephanie Marohn moved to rural Northern California in 1993. In return for reduced rent, she fed and cared for two horses. Life was sweet. Then more farm animals started to appear: a miniature white horse, a donkey, and sheep, followed by deer and other wildlife. Each needed sanctuary from abuse, physical injury, or neglect, and Marohn took them in, gradually turning her ten-acre spread into an animal sanctuary. With each new arrival, Marohn had to learn how to care for it, to help it to overcome trauma, and to transition back to life with other animals—and to trust people again. With each successful rescue and rehabilitation, Marohn learned lessons not only about animal care but also about love, compassion, patience, trust, and so many of the qualities we often try to cultivate in ourselves. She shares what she learned from the sheep she rescued from an animal collector and the abused donkey she helped nurse back to health. She also tells about the hilarious response from the guests at her Thanksgiving dinner when they saw wild turkeys come floating down 'like paratroopers' to land next to the miniature horse that had walked right up to the patio window. Marohn's delightful memoir illuminates how the animals have much to teach us and how they helped her to reconnect with the natural world and to see and embrace others as they truly are.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/second-suns-two-doctors-and-their-amazing-quest-to-restore-sight-and-save-lives-by-david-oliver-relin--65201442https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives Author: David Oliver Relin Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 18, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.   In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life’s calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness.   Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight—and hope—to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands—all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients’ lives.   Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time. Praise for Second Suns   “As miracles go, it’s hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that’s exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts—a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world’s leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness.”—Time   “A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters.”—The Washington Post   “Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy—or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world.”—Outside   “A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers.”—Kirkus Reviews]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177737Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives Author: David Oliver Relin Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives Author: David Oliver Relin Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 18, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.   In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life’s calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness.   Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight—and hope—to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands—all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients’ lives.   Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time. Praise for Second Suns   “As miracles go, it’s hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that’s exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts—a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world’s leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness.”—Time   “A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters.”—The Washington Post   “Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy—or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world.”—Outside   “A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers.”—Kirkus Reviews]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sex-lies-and-cookies-an-unrated-memoir-by-lisa-glasberg--65201431https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex, Lies, and Cookies: An Unrated Memoir Author: Lisa Glasberg Narrator: Lisa Glasberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 18, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One woman's misguided quest for love, sex, and as much airtime as possible . . . On The Howard Stern Show, radio personality Lisa Glasberg, aka Lisa G., is painted as a violin-playing, cookie-baking cat lady, but that's all about to change. This alleged wallflower once used her skills in the kitchen to show up at a suitor's doorstep wearing nothing but a fur coat and carrying a plate of freshly baked cookies. Now, in her unrated memoir, Lisa G. reveals all about her adventures and misadventures growing up and looking for love in all the wrong places. Her journey begins in the only place where she felt comfortable—behind the microphone. Lisa became a workaholic with a larger-than-life radio personality. But when the "on air" lights switched off, she struggled to find her true self. Through therapy and some soul-searching, she transformed from an insecure young woman who attempted to win over men with her culinary prowess into an independent adult who finally learned to love herself. Lisa's story is full of inspiration and lots of laughs. Smart, sassy, and stacked, Lisa always put her career first. While searching for the perfect job, the aspiring radio star dated her way through an urban bachelorette's predictable gallery of potential mates. In Sex, Lies, and Cookies, Lisa details her hilarious sexcapades, which include everyone from a nice Jewish doctor with a unique fetish to the classic unavailable type who wants an "open relationship." Lisa G. also shares behind-the-scenes stories from her A-list celebrity interviews, friendships, and time hanging with hip-hop royalty like P. Diddy, Will Smith, and Flavor Flav. Along the way, Lisa G. became known for having the hottest ticket in town—entry into her exclusive and legendary cookie parties. The book includes the recipes for more than twenty-five of Lisa G.'s famous desserts, like "Losing my Cherry Cookies" and "Double D-licious Oatmeal Cookies," as well as tips for hosting your own fabulous cookie party. Sex, Lies and Cookies is a tasty read that proves why the most satisfying relationship you'll ever have starts with learning to love yourself (and how a little cookie dough can help).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178399Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex, Lies, and Cookies: An Unrated Memoir Author: Lisa Glasberg Narrator: Lisa Glasberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sex, Lies, and Cookies: An Unrated Memoir Author: Lisa Glasberg Narrator: Lisa Glasberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 18, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One woman's misguided quest for love, sex, and as much airtime as possible . . . On The Howard Stern Show, radio personality Lisa Glasberg, aka Lisa G., is painted as a violin-playing, cookie-baking cat lady, but that's all about to change. This alleged wallflower once used her skills in the kitchen to show up at a suitor's doorstep wearing nothing but a fur coat and carrying a plate of freshly baked cookies. Now, in her unrated memoir, Lisa G. reveals all about her adventures and misadventures growing up and looking for love in all the wrong places. Her journey begins in the only place where she felt comfortable—behind the microphone. Lisa became a workaholic with a larger-than-life radio personality. But when the "on air" lights switched off, she struggled to find her true self. Through therapy and some soul-searching, she transformed from an insecure young woman who attempted to win over men with her culinary prowess into an independent adult who finally learned to love herself. Lisa's story is full of inspiration and lots of laughs. Smart, sassy, and stacked, Lisa always put her career first. While searching for the perfect job, the aspiring radio star dated her way through an urban bachelorette's predictable gallery of potential mates. In Sex, Lies, and Cookies, Lisa details her hilarious sexcapades, which include everyone from a nice Jewish doctor with a unique fetish to the classic unavailable type who wants an "open relationship." Lisa G. also shares behind-the-scenes stories from her A-list celebrity interviews, friendships, and time hanging with hip-hop royalty like P. Diddy, Will Smith, and Flavor Flav. Along the way, Lisa G. became known for having the hottest ticket in town—entry into her exclusive and legendary cookie parties. The book includes the recipes for more than twenty-five of Lisa G.'s famous desserts, like "Losing my Cherry Cookies" and "Double D-licious Oatmeal Cookies," as well as tips for hosting your own fabulous cookie party. Sex, Lies and Cookies is a tasty read that proves why the most satisfying relationship you'll ever have starts with learning to love yourself (and how a little cookie dough can help).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/with-patience-and-fortitude-a-memoir-by-christine-quinn--65201372https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Patience and Fortitude: A Memoir Author: Christine Quinn Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Christine Quinn's improbable journeybegan long before she becameNew York City's second-most-powerfulelected official. The granddaughter of Irishimmigrants—including a grandmother whoescaped the sinking Titanic when most teenagegirls in steerage perished—Christinelearned early in life that challenges aremeant to be met and overcome, and thatthey are ever present but surmountable. Christine's seemingly idyllic childhood—a time that was filled with every imaginablelesson from ballet and painting to swimmingand horseback riding—wasn't at allwhat it appeared to be. A cancer diagnosisleft Christine's mother fighting for her lifeand harboring a single wish: to see herbeloved little girl through grade school. Shelived more years than she'd dared hope for,but her decade-long battle with breast cancer,kept largely secret, cast a deep shadowover young Christine's life. At sixteen, left without a mother, Christinebegan carving her own path. Inspired by herparents' example of service—and drawing onfavorite childhood books about pioneerslike Marie Curie and Frederick Douglass—Christine set her sights on work that wouldhelp make a difference in the world. Yetshe bore secrets of her own that she wouldultimately have to face, coming of age in aworld where both women and gay peoplehad no choice but to fight for their dreams.Over time she met those obstacles, bothpersonal and professional, with more fortitudethan patience. In a strikingly intimate and forthright memoir,Christine Quinn demonstrates that life'schallenges can provide the fuel that drives usto be our better selves and, in turn, inspires usto reach out to those who need a helping hand.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177906Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Patience and Fortitude: A Memoir Author: Christine Quinn Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Patience and Fortitude: A Memoir Author: Christine Quinn Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Christine Quinn's improbable journeybegan long before she becameNew York City's second-most-powerfulelected official. The granddaughter of Irishimmigrants—including a grandmother whoescaped the sinking Titanic when most teenagegirls in steerage perished—Christinelearned early in life that challenges aremeant to be met and overcome, and thatthey are ever present but surmountable. Christine's seemingly idyllic childhood—a time that was filled with every imaginablelesson from ballet and painting to swimmingand horseback riding—wasn't at allwhat it appeared to be. A cancer diagnosisleft Christine's mother fighting for her lifeand harboring a single wish: to see herbeloved little girl through grade school. Shelived more years than she'd dared hope for,but her decade-long battle with breast cancer,kept largely secret, cast a deep shadowover young Christine's life. At sixteen, left without a mother, Christinebegan carving her own path. Inspired by herparents' example of service—and drawing onfavorite childhood books about pioneerslike Marie Curie and Frederick Douglass—Christine set her sights on work that wouldhelp make a difference in the world. Yetshe bore secrets of her own that she wouldultimately have to face, coming of age in aworld where both women and gay peoplehad no choice but to fight for their dreams.Over time she met those obstacles, bothpersonal and professional, with more fortitudethan patience. In a strikingly intimate and forthright memoir,Christine Quinn demonstrates that life'schallenges can provide the fuel that drives usto be our better selves and, in turn, inspires usto reach out to those who need a helping hand.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bootstrapper-from-broke-to-badass-on-a-northern-michigan-farm-by-mardi-jo-link--65201363https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm Author: Mardi Jo Link Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.  It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to hang on to her century-old farmhouse in northern Michigan and continue to raise her three boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of humor and three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and foxes, learns about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing contest and wins a year’s supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking, wrangles rampaging poultry, and withstands any blow to her pride in order to preserve the life she wants. With an infectious optimism that would put Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to shame and a deep appreciation of the natural world, Link tells the story of how, over the course of one long year, she holds on to her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure, and finds her way back to a life of richness and meaning on the land she loves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177743Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm Author: Mardi Jo Link Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm Author: Mardi Jo Link Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most.  It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to hang on to her century-old farmhouse in northern Michigan and continue to raise her three boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of humor and three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and foxes, learns about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing contest and wins a year’s supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking, wrangles rampaging poultry, and withstands any blow to her pride in order to preserve the life she wants. With an infectious optimism that would put Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to shame and a deep appreciation of the natural world, Link tells the story of how, over the course of one long year, she holds on to her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure, and finds her way back to a life of richness and meaning on the land she loves.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-joker-a-memoir-by-andrew-hudgins--65201354https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Joker: A Memoir Author: Andrew Hudgins Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A funny and insightful memoir, called “raw and risky” by The New York Times Book Review, from an award-winning poet who tells the story of his life through the jokes he loves to tell. Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself—what jokes taught him and mis-taught him, how they often delighted him, but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudgins’s father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently; he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. And jokes opened up to him the serious taboo subjects that his family didn’t talk about openly—religion, race, sex, and death. The Joker is then both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated him, delighted him, and occasionally horrified him as he grew. The book received overwhelming praise in hardcover: “The writer’s uncanny recall for the adolescent jokes…helping the young wordsmith determine just how he felt about each of those taboo topics—makes it stand apart…Thoughtful and…amusing” (The Boston Globe); 'Hudgins doesn't hold back in [this] rip-roaring memoir that examines how the ancient—and sometimes offensive—art of joke telling affects life, society, religion, and everything in between' (Entertainment Weekly); “If we’re lucky, [The Joker] will stir up an American dialogue about all kinds of fascinating, lurid, confounding, important subjects that reside in the great undertow of jokes” (Garden & Gun).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175489Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Joker: A Memoir Author: Andrew Hudgins Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Joker: A Memoir Author: Andrew Hudgins Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A funny and insightful memoir, called “raw and risky” by The New York Times Book Review, from an award-winning poet who tells the story of his life through the jokes he loves to tell. Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself—what jokes taught him and mis-taught him, how they often delighted him, but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudgins’s father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently; he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. And jokes opened up to him the serious taboo subjects that his family didn’t talk about openly—religion, race, sex, and death. The Joker is then both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated him, delighted him, and occasionally horrified him as he grew. The book received overwhelming praise in hardcover: “The writer’s uncanny recall for the adolescent jokes…helping the young wordsmith determine just how he felt about each of those taboo topics—makes it stand apart…Thoughtful and…amusing” (The Boston Globe); 'Hudgins doesn't hold back in [this] rip-roaring memoir that examines how the ancient—and sometimes offensive—art of joke telling affects life, society, religion, and everything in between' (Entertainment Weekly); “If we’re lucky, [The Joker] will stir up an American dialogue about all kinds of fascinating, lurid, confounding, important subjects that reside in the great undertow of jokes” (Garden & Gun).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tell-my-sons-a-father-s-last-letters-by-mark-weber--65201427https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters Author: Mark Weber Narrator: Mark Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would fight a desperate battle he wasn’t trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force.   When Weber realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him—about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and viewing life as a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration.   This book is that letter. And it’s not just for his sons. It’s for everyone who can use the best advice a dying hero has to offer.   Weber’s stories illustrate that in the end you become what you are through the causes to which you attach yourself—and that you’ve made your own along the way. Through his example, he teaches how to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way. Praise for Tell My Sons   “A gift to us all . . . Every page exudes courage, honesty, and an indomitable spirit. Mark Weber’s story has touched me in such a profound way.”—Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie   “Tell My Sons is a deeply moving, personal account of a soldier’s journey into an ultimate frontier. As I read Mark Weber’s book, I was astonished by its honesty, courage, and discipline. This book offers one of the most profound and detailed descriptions of the strange world of cancer and should be essential reading for all of us who seek to understand that topsy-turvy terrain.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies “Tell My Sons is one of the most profound and inspirational stories I have ever read. It may have been written for Mark’s children, but it may as well be a treatise for all of us about honest parenting and leadership with character in love, family, faith, and politics. For a man who is facing profound health issues, Mark is doing a remarkable job showing us all how to live with courage and integrity.”—Walter F. Mondale, former vice president of the United States   “This book is why I have always been proud to call Mark Weber my son. His ability to reach across complex boundaries and write and speak with such depth and beauty makes him a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. Mark’s passion, attitude, and thoughts about life are what is best about America.”—General Babakir S. Zibari, chief of defense, Republic of Iraq   “A poignant illustration of what being a hero is all about . . . Heroes exemplify invincible courage, character, and perseverance in times of insurmountable odds. Mark embodies these attributes. Tell My Sons will empower the reader with profound lessons of living life with hope and determination.”—John Elway, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177746Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters Author: Mark Weber Narrator: Mark Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters Author: Mark Weber Narrator: Mark Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would fight a desperate battle he wasn’t trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force.   When Weber realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him—about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and viewing life as a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration.   This book is that letter. And it’s not just for his sons. It’s for everyone who can use the best advice a dying hero has to offer.   Weber’s stories illustrate that in the end you become what you are through the causes to which you attach yourself—and that you’ve made your own along the way. Through his example, he teaches how to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way. Praise for Tell My Sons   “A gift to us all . . . Every page exudes courage, honesty, and an indomitable spirit. Mark Weber’s story has touched me in such a profound way.”—Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie   “Tell My Sons is a deeply moving, personal account of a soldier’s journey into an ultimate frontier. As I read Mark Weber’s book, I was astonished by its honesty, courage, and discipline. This book offers one of the most profound and detailed descriptions of the strange world of cancer and should be essential reading for all of us who seek to understand that topsy-turvy terrain.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies “Tell My Sons is one of the most profound and inspirational stories I have ever read. It may have been written for Mark’s children, but it may as well be a treatise for all of us about honest parenting and leadership with character in love, family, faith, and politics. For a man who is facing profound health issues, Mark is doing a remarkable job showing us all how to live with courage and integrity.”—Walter F. Mondale, former vice president of the United States   “This book is why I have always been proud to call Mark Weber my son. His ability to reach across complex boundaries and write and speak with such depth and beauty makes him a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. Mark’s passion, attitude, and thoughts about life are what is best about America.”—General Babakir S. Zibari, chief of defense, Republic of Iraq   “A poignant illustration of what being a hero is all about . . . Heroes exemplify invincible courage, character, and perseverance in times of insurmountable odds. Mark embodies these attributes. Tell My Sons will empower the reader with profound lessons of living life with hope and determination.”—John Elway, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-girls-above-me-inspired-by-a-true-story-by-charles-mcdowell--65201420https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story Author: Charles Mcdowell Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.   When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour.  Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test.   After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was “the one,” Charlie realized his neighbors’ conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman’s perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it—without ever having a clue of their impact on him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177911Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story Author: Charles Mcdowell Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story Author: Charles Mcdowell Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.   When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour.  Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test.   After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was “the one,” Charlie realized his neighbors’ conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman’s perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it—without ever having a clue of their impact on him.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/double-double-a-dual-memoir-of-alcoholism-by-martha-grimes-ken-grimes--65201392https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism Author: Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes Narrator: Holter Graham, Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overcame their addictions, now with two new chapters—one from each author. In this introspective and groundbreaking memoir of addiction, mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, present two different, often intersecting points of view. Chapters alternate between Ken’s and Martha's voices and experiences in 12-step program and outpatient clinics. Written with honesty, humor, a little self-deprecation, and a lot of self-evaluation, Double Double is “an honest, moving, and readable account of the drinking life and the struggle for recovery. This brave and engaging memoir is a gift” (Kirkus Reviews).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177758Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism Author: Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes Narrator: Holter Graham, Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism Author: Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes Narrator: Holter Graham, Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overcame their addictions, now with two new chapters—one from each author. In this introspective and groundbreaking memoir of addiction, mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, present two different, often intersecting points of view. Chapters alternate between Ken’s and Martha's voices and experiences in 12-step program and outpatient clinics. Written with honesty, humor, a little self-deprecation, and a lot of self-evaluation, Double Double is “an honest, moving, and readable account of the drinking life and the struggle for recovery. This brave and engaging memoir is a gift” (Kirkus Reviews).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tao-of-martha-my-year-of-living-or-why-i-m-never-getting-all-that-glitter-off-of-the-dog-by-jen-lancaster--65201309https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One would think that with Jen Lancaster’s impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs—Bitter Is the New Black; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Such a Pretty Fat; Pretty in Plaid; My Fair Lazy; and Jeneration X—that she would have it all together by now. One would be wrong. Jen’s still a little rough around the edges. Suffice it to say, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that is exactly why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according to the advice of America’s overachieving older sister—the woman who turns lemons into lavender-infused lemonade. By immersing herself in Martha’s media empire, Jen will embark on a yearlong quest to take herself, her house, her husband (and maybe even her pets) to the next level—from closet organization to craft making, from party planning to kitchen prep. Maybe Jen can go four days without giving herself food poisoning if she follows Martha’s dictates on proper storage....Maybe she can grow closer to her girlfriends by taking up their boring-ass hobbies like knitting and sewing.…Maybe she can finally rid her workout clothes of meatball stains by using Martha’s laundry tips.… Maybe she can create a more meaningful anniversary celebration than just getting drunk in the pool with her husband....again. And maybe, just maybe, she’ll discover that the key to happiness does, in fact, lie in Martha’s perfectly arranged cupboards and artfully displayed charcuterie platters. Or maybe not.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200447Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One would think that with Jen Lancaster’s impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs—Bitter Is the New Black; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Such a Pretty Fat; Pretty in Plaid; My Fair Lazy; and Jeneration X—that she would have it all together by now. One would be wrong. Jen’s still a little rough around the edges. Suffice it to say, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that is exactly why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according to the advice of America’s overachieving older sister—the woman who turns lemons into lavender-infused lemonade. By immersing herself in Martha’s media empire, Jen will embark on a yearlong quest to take herself, her house, her husband (and maybe even her pets) to the next level—from closet organization to craft making, from party planning to kitchen prep. Maybe Jen can go four days without giving herself food poisoning if she follows Martha’s dictates on proper storage....Maybe she can grow closer to her girlfriends by taking up their boring-ass hobbies like knitting and sewing.…Maybe she can finally rid her workout clothes of meatball stains by using Martha’s laundry tips.… Maybe she can create a more meaningful anniversary celebration than just getting drunk in the pool with her husband....again. And maybe, just maybe, she’ll discover that the key to happiness does, in fact, lie in Martha’s perfectly arranged cupboards and artfully displayed charcuterie platters. Or maybe not.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waterlogg-documentary-pack-by-joe-bevilacqua-barbara-bernstein--65201405https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waterlogg Documentary Pack Author: Joe Bevilacqua, Barbara Bernstein Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua comes a rare and exciting collection of radio documentaries, features, and dramas. One Song at a Time This radio performance includes many stories about the Kerrville Folk Festival, the longest continuously running music festival in North America. Lady Bird Johnson One of the most licensed audiobooks on the Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson is an award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. From Moonshine to Armadillos Veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this hour long program outlining the history of Threadgill's and Armadillo World Headquarters, which contributed to the birth of the Austin music scene. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis Recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans, this radio program features jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and others, who talk on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Healthy Living in the Catskills In this radio documentary, a husband and wife explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact. Radio Tales for the Road, Volume One Combining storytelling, documentary, radio drama, and original music, Radio Tales for the Road are vivid recollections of the 1960s. All Things Joe Bev This radio production is a collection of sixteen short audio features created for public radio by award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev. We Take You Now to Grover's Mill This 1988 documentary looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson and the people of Grover's Mill, New Jersey who lived through the 'Martian invasion.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194643Sat, 01 Jun 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waterlogg Documentary Pack Author: Joe Bevilacqua, Barbara Bernstein Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waterlogg Documentary Pack Author: Joe Bevilacqua, Barbara Bernstein Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua comes a rare and exciting collection of radio documentaries, features, and dramas. One Song at a Time This radio performance includes many stories about the Kerrville Folk Festival, the longest continuously running music festival in North America. Lady Bird Johnson One of the most licensed audiobooks on the Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson is an award-winning audio documentary examining the challenges and achievements of this extraordinary woman. From Moonshine to Armadillos Veteran NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this hour long program outlining the history of Threadgill's and Armadillo World Headquarters, which contributed to the birth of the Austin music scene. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis Recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans, this radio program features jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and others, who talk on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Healthy Living in the Catskills In this radio documentary, a husband and wife explore the rural byways within four miles of their home in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, and find local business owners working to promote healthy lifestyles that have a national impact. Radio Tales for the Road, Volume One Combining storytelling, documentary, radio drama, and original music, Radio Tales for the Road are vivid recollections of the 1960s. All Things Joe Bev This radio production is a collection of sixteen short audio features created for public radio by award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev. We Take You Now to Grover's Mill This 1988 documentary looks at how the landmark broadcast came about and examines its impact on broadcast history. The program includes rare interviews with Mercury Theater producer John Houseman and writer Howard Koch, actor Arthur Anderson and the people of Grover's Mill, New Jersey who lived through the 'Martian invasion.']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ungifted-intelligence-redefined-by-scott-kaufman--65201393https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined Author: Scott Kaufman Narrator: Walter Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 28, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right? In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman—who was relegated to special education as a child—sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory. In so doing, he increases our appreciation for the intelligence and diverse strengths of prodigies, savants, and late bloomers, as well as those with dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, and ADHD. Combining original research, anecdotes, and a singular compassion, Ungifted proves that anyone—even those without readily observable gifts at any single moment in time—can become great.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179945Tue, 28 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined Author: Scott Kaufman Narrator: Walter Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined Author: Scott Kaufman Narrator: Walter Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 28, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right? In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman—who was relegated to special education as a child—sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory. In so doing, he increases our appreciation for the intelligence and diverse strengths of prodigies, savants, and late bloomers, as well as those with dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, and ADHD. Combining original research, anecdotes, and a singular compassion, Ungifted proves that anyone—even those without readily observable gifts at any single moment in time—can become great.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-miss-landau-by-james-christie--65201384https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Miss Landau Author: James Christie Narrator: James Christie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 22, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but survival strategies. For James, coping with new experiences feels like smashing his head through a plate glass window. The only relief comes from belting the heavy bag at the boxing club or watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's an autistic man lost in a neuro-typical world. Differently wired. Alien. Despite a high IQ, it seems he'll spend the next 20 years cleaning toilets. But then his life takes an amazing turn - from a Glasgow tenement to a rendezvous with a Hollywood star on Sunset Boulevard. On that road trip across America, the man who feels he lacks a soul will find it. Eight time zones and 5,000 miles away, he has a date with the actress who played Drusilla, the kooky vampire who changed his life when he saw her in a Buffy episode. Drusilla has no soul either. And maybe that's the attraction. But Drusilla is fictional. The lady he'll see on Sunset is Juliet Landau. She's real, and that's a very different proposition...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178416Wed, 22 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Miss Landau Author: James Christie Narrator: James Christie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 22, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Miss Landau Author: James Christie Narrator: James Christie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 22, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but survival strategies. For James, coping with new experiences feels like smashing his head through a plate glass window. The only relief comes from belting the heavy bag at the boxing club or watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's an autistic man lost in a neuro-typical world. Differently wired. Alien. Despite a high IQ, it seems he'll spend the next 20 years cleaning toilets. But then his life takes an amazing turn - from a Glasgow tenement to a rendezvous with a Hollywood star on Sunset Boulevard. On that road trip across America, the man who feels he lacks a soul will find it. Eight time zones and 5,000 miles away, he has a date with the actress who played Drusilla, the kooky vampire who changed his life when he saw her in a Buffy episode. Drusilla has no soul either. And maybe that's the attraction. But Drusilla is fictional. The lady he'll see on Sunset is Juliet Landau. She's real, and that's a very different proposition...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brotherhood-dharma-destiny-and-the-american-dream-by-sanjiv-chopra-deepak-chopra--65201457https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream Author: Sanjiv Chopra, Deepak Chopra Narrator: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 21, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West. The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: While Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements—Deepak as a global spiritual teacher and best-selling author, Sanjiv as a world-renowned medical expert and professor at Harvard Medical School. Brotherhood will fascinate and inspire those who still believe in America’s capacity to foster achievement and reward hard work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175503Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream Author: Sanjiv Chopra, Deepak Chopra Narrator: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream Author: Sanjiv Chopra, Deepak Chopra Narrator: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 21, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West. The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: While Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements—Deepak as a global spiritual teacher and best-selling author, Sanjiv as a world-renowned medical expert and professor at Harvard Medical School. Brotherhood will fascinate and inspire those who still believe in America’s capacity to foster achievement and reward hard work.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/she-left-me-the-gun-by-emma-brockes--65201341https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She Left Me the Gun Author: Emma Brockes Narrator: Emma Brockes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 16, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A journalist struggles to unearth the story of her mother’s resilience and secrecy following an unbelievable childhood trauma in South Africa “One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Despite her mother’s tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London, Brockes grew up knowing that some crucial pieces of the past were left unspoken. A mystery to her friends and family, Brockes’s mother, Paula, was glamorous, no-nonsense, and totally out of place in their quaint English village. What compelled her to emigrate to England was never explained, nor what empowered her tremendous strengths and strange fears. Looking to unearth the truth after Paula’s death, Brockes begins a dangerous journey into the land—and the life—her mother fled from years before. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me is a tale of true transformation, the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to simply vanish—and of a daughter who transcends her mother’s fears and reclaims an abandoned past. Brockes soon learns that Paula’s father was a drunk megalomaniac who terrorized Paula and her seven half siblings for years. He is ultimately taken to court and vindicated of all charges—but not before Paula shoots him five times, and fails to kill him. She books passage to London, never to return. She Left Me the Gun carries Brockes to South Africa to meet her seven aunts and uncles, to weigh their stories against her mother’s silences, and to understand one of the world’s most beautiful yet bloody countries. Brockes learns of the violent pathologies and racial propaganda in which her grandfather was inculcated, sees the mine shafts and train yards where he worked as an itinerant mechanic, and finds buried in government archives the startling court records that prove he was secretly imprisoned for murder years before he first married. An extraordinary work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She Left Me the Gun chronicles Brockes’s efforts to walk the knife edge between understanding her mother’s unspeakable traumas and embracing the happiness she chose for herself and her daughter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200391Thu, 16 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She Left Me the Gun Author: Emma Brockes Narrator: Emma Brockes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 16, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She Left Me the Gun Author: Emma Brockes Narrator: Emma Brockes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 16, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A journalist struggles to unearth the story of her mother’s resilience and secrecy following an unbelievable childhood trauma in South Africa “One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Despite her mother’s tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London, Brockes grew up knowing that some crucial pieces of the past were left unspoken. A mystery to her friends and family, Brockes’s mother, Paula, was glamorous, no-nonsense, and totally out of place in their quaint English village. What compelled her to emigrate to England was never explained, nor what empowered her tremendous strengths and strange fears. Looking to unearth the truth after Paula’s death, Brockes begins a dangerous journey into the land—and the life—her mother fled from years before. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me is a tale of true transformation, the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to simply vanish—and of a daughter who transcends her mother’s fears and reclaims an abandoned past. Brockes soon learns that Paula’s father was a drunk megalomaniac who terrorized Paula and her seven half siblings for years. He is ultimately taken to court and vindicated of all charges—but not before Paula shoots him five times, and fails to kill him. She books passage to London, never to return. She Left Me the Gun carries Brockes to South Africa to meet her seven aunts and uncles, to weigh their stories against her mother’s silences, and to understand one of the world’s most beautiful yet bloody countries. Brockes learns of the violent pathologies and racial propaganda in which her grandfather was inculcated, sees the mine shafts and train yards where he worked as an itinerant mechanic, and finds buried in government archives the startling court records that prove he was secretly imprisoned for murder years before he first married. An extraordinary work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She Left Me the Gun chronicles Brockes’s efforts to walk the knife edge between understanding her mother’s unspeakable traumas and embracing the happiness she chose for herself and her daughter.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/someone-could-get-hurt-a-memoir-of-21st-century-parenthood-by-drew-magary--65201328https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood Author: Drew Magary Narrator: Drew Magary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online. And now he’s finally bringing that unique voice to a memoir. In Someone Could Get Hurt, he reflects on his own parenting experiences to explore the anxiety, rationalizations, compromises, and overpowering love that come with raising children in contemporary America. In brutally honest and funny stories, Magary reveals how American mothers and fathers cope with being in over their heads (getting drunk while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child defiantly pees in a hotel pool, engaging in role-play with a princess-crazed daughter), and how stepping back can sometimes make all the difference (talking a toddler down from the third story of a netted-in playhouse, allowing children to make little mistakes in the kitchen to keep them from making the bigger ones in life). It’s a celebration of all the surprises—joyful and otherwise—that come with being part of a real family. In the wake of recent bestsellers that expose how every other culture raises their children better, Someone Could Get Hurt offers a hilarious and heartfelt defense of American child rearing with a glimpse into the genuine love and compassion that accompany the missteps and flawed logic. It’s the story of head lice, almost-dirty words, and flat head syndrome, and a man trying to commit the ultimate act of selflessness is a selfish world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200511Thu, 16 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood Author: Drew Magary Narrator: Drew Magary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood Author: Drew Magary Narrator: Drew Magary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online. And now he’s finally bringing that unique voice to a memoir. In Someone Could Get Hurt, he reflects on his own parenting experiences to explore the anxiety, rationalizations, compromises, and overpowering love that come with raising children in contemporary America. In brutally honest and funny stories, Magary reveals how American mothers and fathers cope with being in over their heads (getting drunk while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child defiantly pees in a hotel pool, engaging in role-play with a princess-crazed daughter), and how stepping back can sometimes make all the difference (talking a toddler down from the third story of a netted-in playhouse, allowing children to make little mistakes in the kitchen to keep them from making the bigger ones in life). It’s a celebration of all the surprises—joyful and otherwise—that come with being part of a real family. In the wake of recent bestsellers that expose how every other culture raises their children better, Someone Could Get Hurt offers a hilarious and heartfelt defense of American child rearing with a glimpse into the genuine love and compassion that accompany the missteps and flawed logic. It’s the story of head lice, almost-dirty words, and flat head syndrome, and a man trying to commit the ultimate act of selflessness is a selfish world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-with-a-chance-of-drowning-a-memoir-by-torre-deroche--65201452https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love With a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir Author: Torre DeRoche Narrator: Candice Moll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong?City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that’s as exhilarating as it is terrifying.This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world’s most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.“A funny, irresistibly offbeat tale about the risks and rewards of living, and loving, with an open heart.” —Kirkus Reviews]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175856Tue, 14 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love With a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir Author: Torre DeRoche Narrator: Candice Moll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love With a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir Author: Torre DeRoche Narrator: Candice Moll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong?City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that’s as exhilarating as it is terrifying.This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world’s most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.“A funny, irresistibly offbeat tale about the risks and rewards of living, and loving, with an open heart.” —Kirkus Reviews]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/confessions-of-a-sociopath-a-life-spent-hiding-in-plain-sight-by-m-e-thomas--65201441https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight Author: M.E. Thomas Narrator: Bernadette Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life. As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence.  Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.”    Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld.com; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174863Tue, 14 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight Author: M.E. Thomas Narrator: Bernadette Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight Author: M.E. Thomas Narrator: Bernadette Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life. As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence.  Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.”    Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld.com; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-astor-orphan-a-memoir-by-alexandra-aldrich--65201428https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Astor Orphan: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Aldrich Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the famous Astor dynasty, grew up in the servants' quarters of Rokeby, the forty-three-room Hudson Valley mansion built by her ancestors. Her childhood was one of bohemian neglect and real privation. But it was fairly stable until the summer of her tenth year, when her father took up with an alluring interloper, Giselle. Alexandra idolized her father, Rokeby's charismatic lord of misrule, who had attended elite private schools as a child but inherited only landed property, not money. To him, she says, "poverty was amusing, a delightful challenge." All of the family's resources—emotional and financial—went to the maintenance of the Astor house and legacy. If the family had sold the house and its 450 acres, they all would have been able to live comfortably. Instead, Alexandra and her parents lived precariously in the grand house, scavenging for the next meal. Her mother, an icy Polish artist, disguised her maternal indifference by extolling the virtues of independence. Relatives preyed on Alexandra's low status in the household. Once her father got involved with Giselle, Alexandra's only stalwart was her affectionate grandmother (whose great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Fish, was a close friend of Alexander Hamilton's and an executor of his estate). Grandma Claire held Alexandra's life together with family dinner parties, rides to violin lessons, and snacks after school. But as she grew progressively more debilitated by alcohol, she soon became too frail to provide a safe haven for her granddaughter. Determined to impose order on her anarchic world and prove her worth, Alexandra awoke promptly at six thirty each morning, adhering to a strict personal regimen of exercise, grooming, and intensive violin practice. With money borrowed from the owner of the local gas station, she did the grocery shopping, occasionally setting aside four dollars to buy herself clean white socks. The betrayal of her father's flagrant affair, however, ignited a series of familial feuds that shook her hard-won stability and set her on a path toward escaping the Astor legacy. Reaching back to the Gilded Age, when that legacy first began to come undone, Alexandra has written an unflinching, mordantly funny account of neglect and class anxiety amid the ruins of a once prominent family. More than an insider's look at a decaying American institution, The Astor Orphan is the debut of a thrilling new voice able to render the secret pains and glories of childhood afresh.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175989Tue, 14 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Astor Orphan: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Aldrich Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Astor Orphan: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Aldrich Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alexandra Aldrich, a direct descendant of the famous Astor dynasty, grew up in the servants' quarters of Rokeby, the forty-three-room Hudson Valley mansion built by her ancestors. Her childhood was one of bohemian neglect and real privation. But it was fairly stable until the summer of her tenth year, when her father took up with an alluring interloper, Giselle. Alexandra idolized her father, Rokeby's charismatic lord of misrule, who had attended elite private schools as a child but inherited only landed property, not money. To him, she says, "poverty was amusing, a delightful challenge." All of the family's resources—emotional and financial—went to the maintenance of the Astor house and legacy. If the family had sold the house and its 450 acres, they all would have been able to live comfortably. Instead, Alexandra and her parents lived precariously in the grand house, scavenging for the next meal. Her mother, an icy Polish artist, disguised her maternal indifference by extolling the virtues of independence. Relatives preyed on Alexandra's low status in the household. Once her father got involved with Giselle, Alexandra's only stalwart was her affectionate grandmother (whose great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Fish, was a close friend of Alexander Hamilton's and an executor of his estate). Grandma Claire held Alexandra's life together with family dinner parties, rides to violin lessons, and snacks after school. But as she grew progressively more debilitated by alcohol, she soon became too frail to provide a safe haven for her granddaughter. Determined to impose order on her anarchic world and prove her worth, Alexandra awoke promptly at six thirty each morning, adhering to a strict personal regimen of exercise, grooming, and intensive violin practice. With money borrowed from the owner of the local gas station, she did the grocery shopping, occasionally setting aside four dollars to buy herself clean white socks. The betrayal of her father's flagrant affair, however, ignited a series of familial feuds that shook her hard-won stability and set her on a path toward escaping the Astor legacy. Reaching back to the Gilded Age, when that legacy first began to come undone, Alexandra has written an unflinching, mordantly funny account of neglect and class anxiety amid the ruins of a once prominent family. More than an insider's look at a decaying American institution, The Astor Orphan is the debut of a thrilling new voice able to render the secret pains and glories of childhood afresh.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/impossible-odds-the-kidnapping-of-jessica-buchanan-and-her-dramatic-rescue-by-seal-team-six-by-anthony-flacco-erik-landemalm-jessica-buch--65201410https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six Author: Anthony Flacco, Erik Landemalm, Jessica Buchanan Narrator: Anthony Flacco, Candace Thaxton, George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A harrowing and heartwrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan’s kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the Navy SEALs, and her husband’s extraordinary efforts to help bring her home. In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married the man of her dreams, a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with local authorities in Africa. With dreams of starting a family, they moved from Nairobi to Somalia, and their future couldn’t have been brighter… But on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a male colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom by an organized band of Somali land pirates. For the next three months, Jessica was terrorized by more than two dozen gangsters. She was held outdoors in filthy conditions and kept on a starvation diet while her health steadily deteriorated. Negotiations for ransom dragged on, and as the ordeal stretched into its third month, the captors grew increasingly impatient. Every terrifying moment Jessica spent suffering in captivity was matched by that of her adoring husband working behind the scenes to deal with her captors. Finally, on January 25, 2012, President Barack Obama ordered a rescue operation by a team of twenty-four Navy SEALs. The team killed all nine kidnappers, with no harm to the hostages, who were quickly airlifted out on a military rescue helicopter. In riveting detail, Impossible Odds details Jessica and Erik’s mutual journey during those torturous months. Together they relate the events prior to the kidnapping, the drama of Jessica’s fight to stay alive, and Erik’s efforts to bolster and support the hunt for her while he acted as liaison between their two families, the FBI, professional hostage negotiators, and the United States government.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177756Tue, 14 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six Author: Anthony Flacco, Erik Landemalm, Jessica Buchanan...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six Author: Anthony Flacco, Erik Landemalm, Jessica Buchanan Narrator: Anthony Flacco, Candace Thaxton, George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A harrowing and heartwrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan’s kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the Navy SEALs, and her husband’s extraordinary efforts to help bring her home. In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married the man of her dreams, a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with local authorities in Africa. With dreams of starting a family, they moved from Nairobi to Somalia, and their future couldn’t have been brighter… But on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a male colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom by an organized band of Somali land pirates. For the next three months, Jessica was terrorized by more than two dozen gangsters. She was held outdoors in filthy conditions and kept on a starvation diet while her health steadily deteriorated. Negotiations for ransom dragged on, and as the ordeal stretched into its third month, the captors grew increasingly impatient. Every terrifying moment Jessica spent suffering in captivity was matched by that of her adoring husband working behind the scenes to deal with her captors. Finally, on January 25, 2012, President Barack Obama ordered a rescue operation by a team of twenty-four Navy SEALs. The team killed all nine kidnappers, with no harm to the hostages, who were quickly airlifted out on a military rescue helicopter. In riveting detail, Impossible Odds details Jessica and Erik’s mutual journey during those torturous months. Together they relate the events prior to the kidnapping, the drama of Jessica’s fight to stay alive, and Erik’s efforts to bolster and support the hunt for her while he acted as liaison between their two families, the FBI, professional hostage negotiators, and the United States government.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-outsider-a-memoir-by-jimmy-connors--65201403https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outsider: A Memoir Author: Jimmy Connors Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors. Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public’s adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open, competing against players half his age. More than just the story of a tennis champion, The Outsider is the uncensored account of Connors' life, from his complicated relationship with his formidable mother and his storybook romance with tennis legend Chris Evert, to his battles with gambling and fidelity that threatened to derail his career and his long-lasting marriage to Playboy playmate Patti McGuire.   When he retired from tennis twenty years ago, Connors all but disappeared from public view. In The Outsider, he is back at the top of his game, and as feisty, outspoken, and defiant as ever. This autobiography includes original color photographs from the author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175997Tue, 14 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outsider: A Memoir Author: Jimmy Connors Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outsider: A Memoir Author: Jimmy Connors Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors. Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public’s adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open, competing against players half his age. More than just the story of a tennis champion, The Outsider is the uncensored account of Connors' life, from his complicated relationship with his formidable mother and his storybook romance with tennis legend Chris Evert, to his battles with gambling and fidelity that threatened to derail his career and his long-lasting marriage to Playboy playmate Patti McGuire.   When he retired from tennis twenty years ago, Connors all but disappeared from public view. In The Outsider, he is back at the top of his game, and as feisty, outspoken, and defiant as ever. This autobiography includes original color photographs from the author.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cooked-seed-a-memoir-by-anchee-min--65201443https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cooked Seed: A Memoir Author: Anchee Min Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175563Tue, 07 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cooked Seed: A Memoir Author: Anchee Min Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cooked Seed: A Memoir Author: Anchee Min Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/anyone-who-had-a-heart-my-life-and-music-by-burt-bacharach--65201430https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music Author: Burt Bacharach Narrator: Tony Call, Therese Plummer, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the greatest songwriters of all time finally shares his story. From his tumultuous marriages and the tragic loss of his daughter to his collaborations with Dionne Warwick and the surprising stories behind the songs that generations have come to know and love, Burt Bacharach offers a frank, moving account of an unparalleled life. Over the past six decades, Burt Bacharach's legendary songwriting has touched millions of devoted listeners all over the world. In Anyone Who Had a Heart, Bacharach steps out from behind the music to give an honest, engaging look at his life—from his childhood in Forest Hills, New York, during the 1930s and 1940s to his rise as one of the most accomplished composers in modern popular music, working with Hal David, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, and many others. While he soared professionally, Bacharach's private life was dominated by the never-ending search for love—and the heartbreak that comes when it is lost. His first three marriages ended in divorce. His long-running partnership with the late Hal David suffered a bitter split that lasted seventeen years. Throughout the highs and lows, Bacharach pursued his muse. Powerful and honest, Anyone Who Had a Heart illuminates the sensitivity and intelligence of a musical legend and offers a unique backstage look at the world of show business.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175548Tue, 07 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music Author: Burt Bacharach Narrator: Tony Call, Therese Plummer, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music Author: Burt Bacharach Narrator: Tony Call, Therese Plummer, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the greatest songwriters of all time finally shares his story. From his tumultuous marriages and the tragic loss of his daughter to his collaborations with Dionne Warwick and the surprising stories behind the songs that generations have come to know and love, Burt Bacharach offers a frank, moving account of an unparalleled life. Over the past six decades, Burt Bacharach's legendary songwriting has touched millions of devoted listeners all over the world. In Anyone Who Had a Heart, Bacharach steps out from behind the music to give an honest, engaging look at his life—from his childhood in Forest Hills, New York, during the 1930s and 1940s to his rise as one of the most accomplished composers in modern popular music, working with Hal David, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, and many others. While he soared professionally, Bacharach's private life was dominated by the never-ending search for love—and the heartbreak that comes when it is lost. His first three marriages ended in divorce. His long-running partnership with the late Hal David suffered a bitter split that lasted seventeen years. Throughout the highs and lows, Bacharach pursued his muse. Powerful and honest, Anyone Who Had a Heart illuminates the sensitivity and intelligence of a musical legend and offers a unique backstage look at the world of show business.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dinner-with-the-smileys-one-military-family-one-year-of-heroes-and-lessons-for-a-lifetime-by-sarah-smiley--65201424https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime Author: Sarah Smiley Narrator: Sarah Smiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fifty-two guests take turns filling a military father's chair at his family's dinner table while he serves his yearlong deployment. The week before Thanksgiving 2011, Dustin Smiley left for a yearlong military deployment. Soon after, his son Ford, eleven, invited Senator Susan Collins to fill his dad's chair at dinner. On January 3, 2012, Senator Collins came to dinner ... and brought brownies. So began Dinner with the Smileys, nationally syndicated columnist Sarah Smiley's fifty-two-week commitment to fill her husband's place at the family dinner table with interesting people--from schoolteachers to Olympians, professional athletes to famous authors, comedians to politicians--and unique role models for her three sons, even as she knows Dustin's seat cannot truly be 'filled' until he is home again for the fifty-third dinner. Why dinner? Because dinnertime is often the loneliest time for people living alone. If houses and apartments were like dollhouses with one side totally exposed, Sarah says, we'd see plenty of people eating alone to the glow of a television. That was the fate Sarah feared for herself and her children during Dustin's absence. So she opened her home, and she and the kids sent invitations. And they found that a surprising number of people really are available for dinner. You just have to ask. In a time when popular culture leads us to believe that the family dinner table is dead, Dinner with the Smileys shows people that time spent with family, friends, and neighbors is still very much part of the American lifestyle.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175815Tue, 07 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime Author: Sarah Smiley Narrator: Sarah Smiley Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime Author: Sarah Smiley Narrator: Sarah Smiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fifty-two guests take turns filling a military father's chair at his family's dinner table while he serves his yearlong deployment. The week before Thanksgiving 2011, Dustin Smiley left for a yearlong military deployment. Soon after, his son Ford, eleven, invited Senator Susan Collins to fill his dad's chair at dinner. On January 3, 2012, Senator Collins came to dinner ... and brought brownies. So began Dinner with the Smileys, nationally syndicated columnist Sarah Smiley's fifty-two-week commitment to fill her husband's place at the family dinner table with interesting people--from schoolteachers to Olympians, professional athletes to famous authors, comedians to politicians--and unique role models for her three sons, even as she knows Dustin's seat cannot truly be 'filled' until he is home again for the fifty-third dinner. Why dinner? Because dinnertime is often the loneliest time for people living alone. If houses and apartments were like dollhouses with one side totally exposed, Sarah says, we'd see plenty of people eating alone to the glow of a television. That was the fate Sarah feared for herself and her children during Dustin's absence. So she opened her home, and she and the kids sent invitations. And they found that a surprising number of people really are available for dinner. You just have to ask. In a time when popular culture leads us to believe that the family dinner table is dead, Dinner with the Smileys shows people that time spent with family, friends, and neighbors is still very much part of the American lifestyle.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lessons-from-everest-seven-powerful-steps-to-the-top-of-the-world-by-dr-tim-warren--65201401https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons from Everest: Seven Powerful Steps to the Top of the World Author: Dr. Tim Warren Narrator: Dr. Tim Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking alone for three days down the Khumbu Valley of Nepal to heal his damaged lung tissue in the luxury of oxygen-rich lower altitude. He felt an overpowering desire to return to the mountain the next year and experienced a clear vision of himself at the summit and arriving safely back in base camp. After testing those lessons over the next year and a half, and within an inch of his life, he achieved this goal. Equally importantly, he realized that the lessons learned on the 'Big E' were universal to people seeking to overcome difficulties in life or simply to edge a little closer to their full potential. Lessons From Everest describes seven lessons, each a stepping stone to greater understanding and awareness of the reader's inner journey to their own Everest with a healthy dose of seat-of-your-pants adventure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175506Wed, 01 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons from Everest: Seven Powerful Steps to the Top of the World Author: Dr. Tim Warren Narrator: Dr. Tim Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons from Everest: Seven Powerful Steps to the Top of the World Author: Dr. Tim Warren Narrator: Dr. Tim Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking alone for three days down the Khumbu Valley of Nepal to heal his damaged lung tissue in the luxury of oxygen-rich lower altitude. He felt an overpowering desire to return to the mountain the next year and experienced a clear vision of himself at the summit and arriving safely back in base camp. After testing those lessons over the next year and a half, and within an inch of his life, he achieved this goal. Equally importantly, he realized that the lessons learned on the 'Big E' were universal to people seeking to overcome difficulties in life or simply to edge a little closer to their full potential. Lessons From Everest describes seven lessons, each a stepping stone to greater understanding and awareness of the reader's inner journey to their own Everest with a healthy dose of seat-of-your-pants adventure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heaven-hears-the-true-story-of-what-happened-when-pat-boone-asked-the-world-to-pray-for-his-grandson-s-survival-by-lindy-boone-michaelis--65201364https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven Hears: The True Story of What Happened When Pat Boone Asked the World to Pray for His Grandson's Survival Author: Lindy Boone Michaelis Narrator: Lindy Boone Michaelis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hope from Heaven. On June 19, 2001, Ryan Corbin, grandson of Pat Boone and son of Lindy Boone Michaelis, accidentally stepped through a skylight and fell three stories onto a cement floor. As Ryan lingered between life and death in intensive care, Pat and Lindy decided to take action in a big way: They went on Larry King Live, shared their faith, and asked millions of TV viewers to pray for Ryan. Heaven Hears is the amazing story of what happened next. You won't want to miss this story of tragedy and triumph from the Boone family. It's a story of the immovable faith of a mother, the incredible power of prayer, and the undeniable evidence that heaven hears us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194135Wed, 01 May 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven Hears: The True Story of What Happened When Pat Boone Asked the World to Pray for His Grandson's Survival Author: Lindy Boone Michaelis...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven Hears: The True Story of What Happened When Pat Boone Asked the World to Pray for His Grandson's Survival Author: Lindy Boone Michaelis Narrator: Lindy Boone Michaelis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 1, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hope from Heaven. On June 19, 2001, Ryan Corbin, grandson of Pat Boone and son of Lindy Boone Michaelis, accidentally stepped through a skylight and fell three stories onto a cement floor. As Ryan lingered between life and death in intensive care, Pat and Lindy decided to take action in a big way: They went on Larry King Live, shared their faith, and asked millions of TV viewers to pray for Ryan. Heaven Hears is the amazing story of what happened next. You won't want to miss this story of tragedy and triumph from the Boone family. It's a story of the immovable faith of a mother, the incredible power of prayer, and the undeniable evidence that heaven hears us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/attempting-normal-by-marc-maron--65201459https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Attempting Normal Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER People make a mess.   Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could find—minor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mind—but nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back.   Attempting Normal is Marc Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up who’s trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate. Praise for Attempting Normal   “I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris   “Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times   “Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times   “Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte    Praise for Marc Maron and WTF   “The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone    “Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K.   “I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross   “Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times   “For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174750Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Attempting Normal Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Attempting Normal Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER People make a mess.   Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could find—minor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mind—but nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back.   Attempting Normal is Marc Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up who’s trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate. Praise for Attempting Normal   “I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris   “Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times   “Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times   “Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte    Praise for Marc Maron and WTF   “The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone    “Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K.   “I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross   “Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times   “For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/country-girl-a-memoir-by-edna-o-brien--65201418https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Girl: A Memoir Author: Edna O'Brien Narrator: Edna O'Brien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.'-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173676Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Girl: A Memoir Author: Edna O'Brien Narrator: Edna O'Brien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Girl: A Memoir Author: Edna O'Brien Narrator: Edna O'Brien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.'-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-jerusalem-syndrome-my-life-as-a-reluctant-messiah-by-marc-maron--65201415https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome is The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.  The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land_the delusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. As his quest matures, he reveals the religious aspects of Corporate America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logo and even taking a trip to the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workers puff their own products with a zealot-like fervor. The culmination of Maron’s Jerusalem Syndrome comes during his own tour of the Holy Land, where, with Sony camcorder glued to his eye socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaism and reaches the brink of spiritual revelation_or is it nervous breakdown? Marc Maron has considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man show to craft a genuine literary memoir. Whether he’s a genuine prophet or a neurotic mess, he’ll make you laugh as you question the meaning of life. “Marc Maron is blazingly smart, rapid-fire, and very funny . . . A brilliant and relentless screed.” –David Rakoff, author of Fraud “Marc Maron is the first crazy person I’ve ever envied. In his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he demonstrates the ability to tell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligence that is regrettably shared by few.” _ Janeane Garofolo, comedian]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176041Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome is The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.  The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land_the delusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. As his quest matures, he reveals the religious aspects of Corporate America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logo and even taking a trip to the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workers puff their own products with a zealot-like fervor. The culmination of Maron’s Jerusalem Syndrome comes during his own tour of the Holy Land, where, with Sony camcorder glued to his eye socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaism and reaches the brink of spiritual revelation_or is it nervous breakdown? Marc Maron has considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man show to craft a genuine literary memoir. Whether he’s a genuine prophet or a neurotic mess, he’ll make you laugh as you question the meaning of life. “Marc Maron is blazingly smart, rapid-fire, and very funny . . . A brilliant and relentless screed.” –David Rakoff, author of Fraud “Marc Maron is the first crazy person I’ve ever envied. In his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he demonstrates the ability to tell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligence that is regrettably shared by few.” _ Janeane Garofolo, comedian]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waiting-to-be-heard-a-memoir-by-amanda-knox--65201378https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to be Heard: A Memoir Author: Amanda Knox Narrator: Amanda Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment. After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now. Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved. With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy—a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication—and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom. Waiting to Be Heard includes 24 pages of color photographs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175222Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to be Heard: A Memoir Author: Amanda Knox Narrator: Amanda Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to be Heard: A Memoir Author: Amanda Knox Narrator: Amanda Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit, as seen in the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment. After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now. Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved. With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy—a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication—and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom. Waiting to Be Heard includes 24 pages of color photographs.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-at-the-marmont-the-inside-story-of-hollywood-s-legendary-hotel-of-the-stars-chateau-marmont-by-raymond-sarlot--65201342https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont Author: Raymond Sarlot Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Back in print after two decades, the story of Hollywood’s most exclusive hotel and its star-studded guest list Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel’s incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades as the spot for artists, writers, musicians, and actors of every stripe and remains a home-away-from-home for A-listers like Scarlett Johansson and Johnny Depp. Here, Sarlot and coauthor Fred E. Basten share a wealth of scandalous and intriguing tales about them all, from the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era like Jean Harlow and Grace Kelly to idols of the sixties and seventies like Jim Morrison and John Belushi (who tragically died there in 1982).               Whether your obsession is Hollywood history or celebrity gossip, Life at the Marmont has plenty of gripping, juicy stories to fascinate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199507Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont Author: Raymond Sarlot Narrator: Coleen Marlo...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont Author: Raymond Sarlot Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Back in print after two decades, the story of Hollywood’s most exclusive hotel and its star-studded guest list Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel’s incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades as the spot for artists, writers, musicians, and actors of every stripe and remains a home-away-from-home for A-listers like Scarlett Johansson and Johnny Depp. Here, Sarlot and coauthor Fred E. Basten share a wealth of scandalous and intriguing tales about them all, from the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era like Jean Harlow and Grace Kelly to idols of the sixties and seventies like Jim Morrison and John Belushi (who tragically died there in 1982).               Whether your obsession is Hollywood history or celebrity gossip, Life at the Marmont has plenty of gripping, juicy stories to fascinate.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-way-of-the-fight-by-georges-st-pierre--65201471https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of the Fight Author: Georges St-Pierre Narrator: Eric Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There’s more to winning battles than fists and feet For world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism—it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free time in the gym, his hard-fought rise in the sport of mixed martial arts, and his long, painful recovery from a career-threatening injury, Georges never lost sight of his ambition to become the greatest martial artist of all time. In The Way of the Fight, Georges for the first time reveals what propelled him not only to become a champion but to embrace obstacles as opportunities to build character. Georges’s story is interwoven with fascinating insights from those who know him best: his mother, who tells of his drive to master new skills, even as a child. His mentor Kristof Midoux, who describes a young fighter with an extraordinary sense of discipline. His Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teacher John Danaher, who witnessed the development of an indomitable work ethic. His coach Firas Zahabi, who worked alongside the champion through a potentially career-ending injury. And his longtime friend, training partner and manager, Rodolphe Beaulieu, who may understand this intensely focused athlete more than anyone. The Way of the Fight is an inspirational look into the mindset of a master. To Georges, all life is competition, and there’s no more perfect metaphor for competition than the life of a fighter. He explains the value of discipline, risk and even fear, with the wisdom of one who knows that nothing is assured—his next fight could always be his last. Drawing inspiration from fighting legends, Eastern philosophy and a trusted inner circle, The Way of the Fight is a powerful, life-changing guide to living with purpose and finding the way to accomplish your loftiest goals.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173847Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of the Fight Author: Georges St-Pierre Narrator: Eric Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of the Fight Author: Georges St-Pierre Narrator: Eric Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There’s more to winning battles than fists and feet For world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism—it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free time in the gym, his hard-fought rise in the sport of mixed martial arts, and his long, painful recovery from a career-threatening injury, Georges never lost sight of his ambition to become the greatest martial artist of all time. In The Way of the Fight, Georges for the first time reveals what propelled him not only to become a champion but to embrace obstacles as opportunities to build character. Georges’s story is interwoven with fascinating insights from those who know him best: his mother, who tells of his drive to master new skills, even as a child. His mentor Kristof Midoux, who describes a young fighter with an extraordinary sense of discipline. His Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teacher John Danaher, who witnessed the development of an indomitable work ethic. His coach Firas Zahabi, who worked alongside the champion through a potentially career-ending injury. And his longtime friend, training partner and manager, Rodolphe Beaulieu, who may understand this intensely focused athlete more than anyone. The Way of the Fight is an inspirational look into the mindset of a master. To Georges, all life is competition, and there’s no more perfect metaphor for competition than the life of a fighter. He explains the value of discipline, risk and even fear, with the wisdom of one who knows that nothing is assured—his next fight could always be his last. Drawing inspiration from fighting legends, Eastern philosophy and a trusted inner circle, The Way of the Fight is a powerful, life-changing guide to living with purpose and finding the way to accomplish your loftiest goals.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-ll-see-you-again-by-jackie-hance--65201454https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll See You Again Author: Jackie Hance Narrator: Jackie Hance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this “wonderful and courageous” (Jeannette Walls) memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and—slowly, painfully, and miraculously—her cautious return to hope and love. Until the horrific car accident on New York’s Taconic State Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young daughters, Jackie Hance was an ordinary Long Island mom, fulfilled by the joyful chaos of a household bustling with life and chatter and love. After the tragedy, she was “The Taconic Mom,” whose unimaginable loss embodied every parent’s worst nightmare. Suddenly, her lifelong Catholic faith no longer explained the world. Her marriage to her husband, Warren, was ravaged by wrenching grief and recrimination. Unable to cope with the unfathomable, she reinvented reality each night so that she awoke each morning having forgotten the heartbreaking facts: that Emma, age 8; Alyson, age 7; and Katie, age 5, were gone forever. They were killed in a minivan driven by their aunt, Jackie’s sister-in-law, Diane Schuler, while returning from a camping weekend on a sunny July morning. I’ll See You Again chronicles the day Jackie received the traumatizing phone call that defied all understanding, and the numbed and torturous events that followed—including the devastating medical findings that shattered Jackie to the core and shocked America. But this profoundly honest account is also the story of how a tight-knit community rallied around the Hances, providing the courage and strength for them to move forward. It’s a story of forgiveness, hope, and rebirth, as Jackie and Warren struggle to rediscover the possibility of joy by welcoming their fourth daughter, Kasey Rose Hance. The story that Jackie Hance shares for the first time will touch your heart and warm you to the power of love and hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173435Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll See You Again Author: Jackie Hance Narrator: Jackie Hance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll See You Again Author: Jackie Hance Narrator: Jackie Hance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 23, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this “wonderful and courageous” (Jeannette Walls) memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and—slowly, painfully, and miraculously—her cautious return to hope and love. Until the horrific car accident on New York’s Taconic State Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young daughters, Jackie Hance was an ordinary Long Island mom, fulfilled by the joyful chaos of a household bustling with life and chatter and love. After the tragedy, she was “The Taconic Mom,” whose unimaginable loss embodied every parent’s worst nightmare. Suddenly, her lifelong Catholic faith no longer explained the world. Her marriage to her husband, Warren, was ravaged by wrenching grief and recrimination. Unable to cope with the unfathomable, she reinvented reality each night so that she awoke each morning having forgotten the heartbreaking facts: that Emma, age 8; Alyson, age 7; and Katie, age 5, were gone forever. They were killed in a minivan driven by their aunt, Jackie’s sister-in-law, Diane Schuler, while returning from a camping weekend on a sunny July morning. I’ll See You Again chronicles the day Jackie received the traumatizing phone call that defied all understanding, and the numbed and torturous events that followed—including the devastating medical findings that shattered Jackie to the core and shocked America. But this profoundly honest account is also the story of how a tight-knit community rallied around the Hances, providing the courage and strength for them to move forward. It’s a story of forgiveness, hope, and rebirth, as Jackie and Warren struggle to rediscover the possibility of joy by welcoming their fourth daughter, Kasey Rose Hance. The story that Jackie Hance shares for the first time will touch your heart and warm you to the power of love and hope.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/che-guevara-speaks-selected-speeches-and-writings-by-che-guevara--65201347https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings Author: Che Guevara Narrator: Che Guevara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 20, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 20 speeches, interviews, and letters, Guevara dissects the workings of the imperialist system with scientific clarity, unflinching truthfulness, and biting humor. Cuba has shown by its example, he says, that "People can liberate themselves and keep themselves free."]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200231Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings Author: Che Guevara Narrator: Che Guevara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings Author: Che Guevara Narrator: Che Guevara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 20, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 20 speeches, interviews, and letters, Guevara dissects the workings of the imperialist system with scientific clarity, unflinching truthfulness, and biting humor. Cuba has shown by its example, he says, that "People can liberate themselves and keep themselves free."]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hillbilly-heart-a-memoir-by-billy-ray-cyrus-todd-gold--65201395https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Heart: A Memoir Author: Billy Ray Cyrus, Todd Gold Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 16, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose “Achy Breaky Heart” propelled his debut album, “Some Gave All,” to the top of the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He’s also father of Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood’s most successful young stars, who grew up on stage and on screen, most famously as the lead on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana,” where Billy Ray Cyrus played her father. But sometimes the truth is even better than fiction. Now, for the first time, fans can read about Cyrus’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to find his own way to faith, family, and the power of music. Hillbilly Heart opens during Cyrus’s turbulent childhood in Kentucky, where he sought refuge in music and sports after his parents’ divorce. He was a troublemaker in training, known more for pulling pranks than for following in his preacher grandfather’s much-vaunted footsteps. But when he heard a voice telling him to get a left-handed guitar and start a band, this rebel found his cause. Ten years later, after tirelessly working the club circuit and knocking on the closed doors of music executives from Nashville to Los Angeles, Cyrus finally made a stratospheric breakthrough, becoming a multi-platinum selling artist and taking his rock-and-roll twist on country music to the world’s stage. Cyrus fans have always been able to piece together the details of his life through his lyrics—the ups and downs, adventures and disappointments—but Hillbilly Heart gives them a front row seat for his most candid performance ever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171227Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Heart: A Memoir Author: Billy Ray Cyrus, Todd Gold Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Heart: A Memoir Author: Billy Ray Cyrus, Todd Gold Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 16, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose “Achy Breaky Heart” propelled his debut album, “Some Gave All,” to the top of the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He’s also father of Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood’s most successful young stars, who grew up on stage and on screen, most famously as the lead on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana,” where Billy Ray Cyrus played her father. But sometimes the truth is even better than fiction. Now, for the first time, fans can read about Cyrus’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to find his own way to faith, family, and the power of music. Hillbilly Heart opens during Cyrus’s turbulent childhood in Kentucky, where he sought refuge in music and sports after his parents’ divorce. He was a troublemaker in training, known more for pulling pranks than for following in his preacher grandfather’s much-vaunted footsteps. But when he heard a voice telling him to get a left-handed guitar and start a band, this rebel found his cause. Ten years later, after tirelessly working the club circuit and knocking on the closed doors of music executives from Nashville to Los Angeles, Cyrus finally made a stratospheric breakthrough, becoming a multi-platinum selling artist and taking his rock-and-roll twist on country music to the world’s stage. Cyrus fans have always been able to piece together the details of his life through his lyrics—the ups and downs, adventures and disappointments—but Hillbilly Heart gives them a front row seat for his most candid performance ever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pete-seeger-the-storm-king-stories-narratives-poems-spoken-word-set-to-a-world-of-music-by-pete-seeger--65201450https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pete Seeger: The Storm King: Stories, Narratives, Poems: Spoken Word Set to a World of Music Author: Pete Seeger Narrator: Pete Seeger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Gems from the life of one of the most influential figures in American music! Pete Seeger: The Storm King audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he captivatingly recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems-set to new music created by nearly 50 musicians from traditions as diverse as African Music, Blues, Bluegrass, Classical Guitar, Folk, Jazz, and Native American Music, Pete's wisdom and stories out to new audiences and into a new technological age. Each piece is unique in sound and emotion and also in how it came together. Jeff Haynes, world-renowned percussionist and producer, has worked closely with Pete to create something spectacular -- weaving Pete's words to the music of artists from around the world who would not otherwise have shared a stage with Pete but who have been deeply influenced by him. The result is astounding. 'It brings out things in my words that I never knew before.' -- Pete Seeger 'Pete's still finding the hope and planting the seeds . . . and keeping us invigorated in our own best intentions.' -- Dar Williams]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168554Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pete Seeger: The Storm King: Stories, Narratives, Poems: Spoken Word Set to a World of Music Author: Pete Seeger Narrator: Pete Seeger Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pete Seeger: The Storm King: Stories, Narratives, Poems: Spoken Word Set to a World of Music Author: Pete Seeger Narrator: Pete Seeger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Gems from the life of one of the most influential figures in American music! Pete Seeger: The Storm King audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he captivatingly recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems-set to new music created by nearly 50 musicians from traditions as diverse as African Music, Blues, Bluegrass, Classical Guitar, Folk, Jazz, and Native American Music, Pete's wisdom and stories out to new audiences and into a new technological age. Each piece is unique in sound and emotion and also in how it came together. Jeff Haynes, world-renowned percussionist and producer, has worked closely with Pete to create something spectacular -- weaving Pete's words to the music of artists from around the world who would not otherwise have shared a stage with Pete but who have been deeply influenced by him. The result is astounding. 'It brings out things in my words that I never knew before.' -- Pete Seeger 'Pete's still finding the hope and planting the seeds . . . and keeping us invigorated in our own best intentions.' -- Dar Williams]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-spark-a-mother-s-story-of-nurturing-genius-and-autism-by-kristine-barnett--65201433https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism Author: Kristine Barnett Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum physics. But the story of Kristine’s journey with Jake is all the more remarkable because his extraordinary mind was almost lost to autism. At age two, when Jake was diagnosed, Kristine was told he might never be able to tie his own shoes.   The Spark is a remarkable memoir of mother and son. Surrounded by “experts” at home and in special ed who tried to focus on Jake’s most basic skills and curtail his distracting interests—moving shadows on the wall, stars, plaid patterns on sofa fabric—Jake made no progress, withdrew more and more into his own world, and eventually stopped talking completely. Kristine knew in her heart that she had to make a change. Against the advice of her husband, Michael, and the developmental specialists, Kristine followed her instincts, pulled Jake out of special ed, and began preparing him for mainstream kindergarten on her own.   Relying on the insights she developed at the daycare center she runs out of the garage in her home, Kristine resolved to follow Jacob’s “spark”—his passionate interests. Why concentrate on what he couldn’t do? Why not focus on what he could?  This basic philosophy, along with her belief in the power of ordinary childhood experiences (softball, picnics, s’mores around the campfire) and the importance of play, helped Kristine overcome huge odds.   The Barnetts were not wealthy people, and in addition to financial hardship, Kristine herself faced serious health issues. But through hard work and determination on behalf of Jake and his two younger brothers, as well as an undying faith in their community, friends, and family, Kristine and Michael prevailed. The results were beyond anything anyone could have imagined.   Dramatic, inspiring, and transformative, The Spark is about the power of love and courage in the face of overwhelming obstacles, and the dazzling possibilities that can occur when we learn how to tap the true potential that lies within every child, and in all of us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170383Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism Author: Kristine Barnett Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius, and Autism Author: Kristine Barnett Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum physics. But the story of Kristine’s journey with Jake is all the more remarkable because his extraordinary mind was almost lost to autism. At age two, when Jake was diagnosed, Kristine was told he might never be able to tie his own shoes.   The Spark is a remarkable memoir of mother and son. Surrounded by “experts” at home and in special ed who tried to focus on Jake’s most basic skills and curtail his distracting interests—moving shadows on the wall, stars, plaid patterns on sofa fabric—Jake made no progress, withdrew more and more into his own world, and eventually stopped talking completely. Kristine knew in her heart that she had to make a change. Against the advice of her husband, Michael, and the developmental specialists, Kristine followed her instincts, pulled Jake out of special ed, and began preparing him for mainstream kindergarten on her own.   Relying on the insights she developed at the daycare center she runs out of the garage in her home, Kristine resolved to follow Jacob’s “spark”—his passionate interests. Why concentrate on what he couldn’t do? Why not focus on what he could?  This basic philosophy, along with her belief in the power of ordinary childhood experiences (softball, picnics, s’mores around the campfire) and the importance of play, helped Kristine overcome huge odds.   The Barnetts were not wealthy people, and in addition to financial hardship, Kristine herself faced serious health issues. But through hard work and determination on behalf of Jake and his two younger brothers, as well as an undying faith in their community, friends, and family, Kristine and Michael prevailed. The results were beyond anything anyone could have imagined.   Dramatic, inspiring, and transformative, The Spark is about the power of love and courage in the face of overwhelming obstacles, and the dazzling possibilities that can occur when we learn how to tap the true potential that lies within every child, and in all of us.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carrie-and-me-a-mother-daughter-love-story-by-carol-burnett--65201375https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Author: Carol Burnett Narrator: Carol Burnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling memoir from legendary comedienne Carol Burnett is a “loving, poignant” (People) tribute to her eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton. The daughter of one of television’s most recognizable and beloved stars, Carol Burnett, Carrie Hamilton won the hearts of everyone she met with her kindness, her quirky humor, and her unconventional approach to life. After overcoming her painful and public teenage struggle with drug addiction in a time when personal troubles were kept private, Carrie lived her adult life of sobriety to the fullest, achieving happiness and success as an actress, writer, musician, and director before losing a hard-fought battle with cancer at age thirty-eight. Now Carol Burnett shares her personal diary entries, photographs, and correspondence as she traces the journey she and Carrie took through some of life’s toughest challenges and sweetest miracles. Authentic, intimate, and full of love, Carrie and Me is a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172570Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Author: Carol Burnett Narrator: Carol Burnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Author: Carol Burnett Narrator: Carol Burnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling memoir from legendary comedienne Carol Burnett is a “loving, poignant” (People) tribute to her eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton. The daughter of one of television’s most recognizable and beloved stars, Carol Burnett, Carrie Hamilton won the hearts of everyone she met with her kindness, her quirky humor, and her unconventional approach to life. After overcoming her painful and public teenage struggle with drug addiction in a time when personal troubles were kept private, Carrie lived her adult life of sobriety to the fullest, achieving happiness and success as an actress, writer, musician, and director before losing a hard-fought battle with cancer at age thirty-eight. Now Carol Burnett shares her personal diary entries, photographs, and correspondence as she traces the journey she and Carrie took through some of life’s toughest challenges and sweetest miracles. Authentic, intimate, and full of love, Carrie and Me is a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-little-way-of-ruthie-leming-a-southern-girl-a-small-town-and-the-secret-of-a-good-life-by-rod-dreher--65201355https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life Author: Rod Dreher Narrator: Rod Dreher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie 'decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171249Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life Author: Rod Dreher Narrator: Rod Dreher Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life Author: Rod Dreher Narrator: Rod Dreher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie 'decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community.']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/istanbul-memories-and-the-city-by-orhan-pamuk--65201334https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Istanbul: Memories and the City Author: Orhan Pamuk Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.   'Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory.' —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196728Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Istanbul: Memories and the City Author: Orhan Pamuk Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 9,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Istanbul: Memories and the City Author: Orhan Pamuk Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.   'Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory.' —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waking-up-in-heaven-a-true-story-of-brokenness-heaven-and-life-again-by-crystal-mcvea-alex-tresniowski--65201479https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again Author: Crystal McVea, Alex Tresniowski Narrator: Crystal McVea Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller! A remarkable and inspirational memoir about one woman's near-death experience, who was dramatically changed by the nine minutes she spent in heaven. On December 10, 2009, McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital for a routine procedure. While undergoing treatment, her face suddenly turned a dark shade of blue, then black. Her mother screamed for help, and a nurse tried to revive her…to no avail. Today, Crystal does not remember what happened in that hospital room during the nine minutes she was unconscious and unable to breathe on her own. She has no memory of the panic and the rushing nurses and the loud cries of “Code Blue.” She only remembers drifting off…and waking up in heaven. This unexpected meeting of a self-described sinner and skeptic with her God changed everything. Raised Christian, she had left her faith behind after childhood abuse and the subsequent struggles and suffering of her troubled teens and early adulthood. She longed to believe but felt abandoned, broken, and undeserving. A moving autobiographical testament to the power of divine love and forgiveness, Waking Up in Heaven shares the message of hope, healing, and compassion McVea brought back from her brush with God. This brave, honest account of years lost to shame and guilt will inspire those who’ve stumbled along their own spiritual journey, with the uplifting reminder that no one is beyond the reach of grace and redemption, and that, in the words of the author, “God is real. Heaven is real. And God’s love for us is the realest thing of all.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168447Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again Author: Crystal McVea, Alex Tresniowski Narrator: Crystal McVea Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again Author: Crystal McVea, Alex Tresniowski Narrator: Crystal McVea Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller! A remarkable and inspirational memoir about one woman's near-death experience, who was dramatically changed by the nine minutes she spent in heaven. On December 10, 2009, McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital for a routine procedure. While undergoing treatment, her face suddenly turned a dark shade of blue, then black. Her mother screamed for help, and a nurse tried to revive her…to no avail. Today, Crystal does not remember what happened in that hospital room during the nine minutes she was unconscious and unable to breathe on her own. She has no memory of the panic and the rushing nurses and the loud cries of “Code Blue.” She only remembers drifting off…and waking up in heaven. This unexpected meeting of a self-described sinner and skeptic with her God changed everything. Raised Christian, she had left her faith behind after childhood abuse and the subsequent struggles and suffering of her troubled teens and early adulthood. She longed to believe but felt abandoned, broken, and undeserving. A moving autobiographical testament to the power of divine love and forgiveness, Waking Up in Heaven shares the message of hope, healing, and compassion McVea brought back from her brush with God. This brave, honest account of years lost to shame and guilt will inspire those who’ve stumbled along their own spiritual journey, with the uplifting reminder that no one is beyond the reach of grace and redemption, and that, in the words of the author, “God is real. Heaven is real. And God’s love for us is the realest thing of all.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mom-me-mom-by-maya-angelou--65201451https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mom & Me & Mom Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Maya Angelou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.   For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been told. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with the mother she preferred to simply call “Lady,” revealing the profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between them.   Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167479Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mom & Me & Mom Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Maya Angelou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mom & Me & Mom Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Maya Angelou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.   For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been told. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with the mother she preferred to simply call “Lady,” revealing the profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between them.   Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-spoonful-of-sugar-a-nanny-s-story-by-brenda-ashford--65201437https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story Author: Brenda Ashford Narrator: Jean Gilpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brenda Ashford is the quintessential British nanny. Prim and proper, gentle and kind, she seems to have stepped straight out of Mary Poppins. For more than six decades Nanny Brenda swaddled, diapered, dressed, played with, sang to, cooked for, and looked after more than one hundred children. From the pampered sons and daughters of lords ensconced in their grand estates to the children of tough war evacuees in London’s East End, Brenda has taught countless little ones to be happy, healthy, and thoroughly well bred. In this delightful memoir, Brenda shares her endearing, amusing, and sometimes downright bizarre experiences turning generations of children into successful adults. From the moment Brenda first held her baby brother David she was hooked. She became a second mother to him, changing his nappies, reading him stories, and giving him all the love her warm heart contained. Knowing a career caring for children was her calling in life, Brenda attended London’s prestigious Norland College, famous for producing top-notch nannies. It was a sign of privilege and good taste for the children of the well-to-do to be seen being pushed in their Silver Cross prams by Norland nannies, who were recognizable by their crisp, starched black uniforms with white bib collars, and their flowing black capes lined with red silk. And what skills were these trainees tested on daily? Lullaby singing, storytelling, pram shining, bed making, all forms of sewing, cooking simple meals, and dispensing first aid—including knowing the best way to help the medicine go down. In A Spoonful of Sugar, Brenda recalls her years at Norland and her experiences during the war (after all, even if bombs are dropping, there’s no reason to let standards slip), and recounts in lovely detail a life devoted to the care of other people’s children. Sprinkled throughout with pearls of wisdom (you can never give children too much love, and you should learn how to sew a button, for goodness’ sake), this delightful memoir from Britain’s oldest living nanny is practically perfect in every way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167471Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story Author: Brenda Ashford Narrator: Jean Gilpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167471 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story Author: Brenda Ashford Narrator: Jean Gilpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brenda Ashford is the quintessential British nanny. Prim and proper, gentle and kind, she seems to have stepped straight out of Mary Poppins. For more than six decades Nanny Brenda swaddled, diapered, dressed, played with, sang to, cooked for, and looked after more than one hundred children. From the pampered sons and daughters of lords ensconced in their grand estates to the children of tough war evacuees in London’s East End, Brenda has taught countless little ones to be happy, healthy, and thoroughly well bred. In this delightful memoir, Brenda shares her endearing, amusing, and sometimes downright bizarre experiences turning generations of children into successful adults. From the moment Brenda first held her baby brother David she was hooked. She became a second mother to him, changing his nappies, reading him stories, and giving him all the love her warm heart contained. Knowing a career caring for children was her calling in life, Brenda attended London’s prestigious Norland College, famous for producing top-notch nannies. It was a sign of privilege and good taste for the children of the well-to-do to be seen being pushed in their Silver Cross prams by Norland nannies, who were recognizable by their crisp, starched black uniforms with white bib collars, and their flowing black capes lined with red silk. And what skills were these trainees tested on daily? Lullaby singing, storytelling, pram shining, bed making, all forms of sewing, cooking simple meals, and dispensing first aid—including knowing the best way to help the medicine go down. In A Spoonful of Sugar, Brenda recalls her years at Norland and her experiences during the war (after all, even if bombs are dropping, there’s no reason to let standards slip), and recounts in lovely detail a life devoted to the care of other people’s children. Sprinkled throughout with pearls of wisdom (you can never give children too much love, and you should learn how to sew a button, for goodness’ sake), this delightful memoir from Britain’s oldest living nanny is practically perfect in every way.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/keeping-hope-alive-one-woman-90-000-lives-changed-by-hawa-abdi--65201434https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed Author: Hawa Abdi Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, 'the Mother Teresa of Somalia' and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced people located a few miles from war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Since 1991, when the Somali government collapsed, famine struck, and aid groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty. She turned her 1300 acres of farmland into a camp that has numbered up to 90,000 displaced people, ignoring the clan lines that have often served to divide the country. She inspired her daughters, Deqo and Amina, to become doctors. Together, they have saved tens of thousands of lives in her hospital, while providing an education to hundreds of displaced children. In 2010, Dr. Abdi was kidnapped by radical insurgents, who also destroyed much of her hospital, simply because she was a woman. She, along with media pressure, convinced the rebels to let her go, and she demanded and received a written apology. Dr. Abdi's story of incomprehensible bravery and perseverance will inspire readers everywhere.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171255Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed Author: Hawa Abdi Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed Author: Hawa Abdi Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, 'the Mother Teresa of Somalia' and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced people located a few miles from war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Since 1991, when the Somali government collapsed, famine struck, and aid groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty. She turned her 1300 acres of farmland into a camp that has numbered up to 90,000 displaced people, ignoring the clan lines that have often served to divide the country. She inspired her daughters, Deqo and Amina, to become doctors. Together, they have saved tens of thousands of lives in her hospital, while providing an education to hundreds of displaced children. In 2010, Dr. Abdi was kidnapped by radical insurgents, who also destroyed much of her hospital, simply because she was a woman. She, along with media pressure, convinced the rebels to let her go, and she demanded and received a written apology. Dr. Abdi's story of incomprehensible bravery and perseverance will inspire readers everywhere.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unsinkable-a-memoir-by-dorian-hannaway-debbie-reynolds--65201412https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsinkable: A Memoir Author: Dorian Hannaway, Debbie Reynolds Narrator: Debbie Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds. In Unsinkable, the late great actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, anecdotes about her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, her experiences as the foremost collector of Hollywood memorabilia, and intimate details of her marriages and family life with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher. A story of heartbreak, hope, and survival, “America’s Sweetheart” Debbie Reynolds picks up where she left off in her first memoir, Debbie: My Life, and is illustrated with previously unpublished photos from Reynolds’s personal collection. Debbie Reynolds died on December 28, 2016, at the age of 84, just one day after the death of her daughter, actress and author Carrie Fisher.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172962Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsinkable: A Memoir Author: Dorian Hannaway, Debbie Reynolds Narrator: Debbie Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsinkable: A Memoir Author: Dorian Hannaway, Debbie Reynolds Narrator: Debbie Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds. In Unsinkable, the late great actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds shares the highs and lows of her life as an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age, anecdotes about her lifelong friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, her experiences as the foremost collector of Hollywood memorabilia, and intimate details of her marriages and family life with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher. A story of heartbreak, hope, and survival, “America’s Sweetheart” Debbie Reynolds picks up where she left off in her first memoir, Debbie: My Life, and is illustrated with previously unpublished photos from Reynolds’s personal collection. Debbie Reynolds died on December 28, 2016, at the age of 84, just one day after the death of her daughter, actress and author Carrie Fisher.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carry-on-warrior-thoughts-on-life-unarmed-by-glennon-doyle-melton--65201399https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed Author: Glennon Doyle Melton Narrator: Glennon Doyle Melton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: **The first book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed** The inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and founder of Momastery, whose memoir Love Warrior was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Glennon Doyle’s hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they’re not alone. In Carry On, Warrior, she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud new essays and some of the best-loved material from Momastery. Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they’re not hard. In this one woman’s attempt to love herself and others, readers will find a wise and witty friend who shows that we can build better lives in our hearts, homes, and communities.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167503Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed Author: Glennon Doyle Melton Narrator: Glennon Doyle Melton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed Author: Glennon Doyle Melton Narrator: Glennon Doyle Melton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: **The first book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed** The inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and founder of Momastery, whose memoir Love Warrior was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Glennon Doyle’s hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they’re not alone. In Carry On, Warrior, she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud new essays and some of the best-loved material from Momastery. Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they’re not hard. In this one woman’s attempt to love herself and others, readers will find a wise and witty friend who shows that we can build better lives in our hearts, homes, and communities.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/if-it-s-not-one-thing-it-s-your-mother-by-julia-sweeney--65201396https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother Author: Julia Sweeney Narrator: Julia Sweeney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Saturday Night Live veteran Julia Sweeney’s “endearing series of true tales from parenthood’s front lines” (O, The Oprah Magazine) is a funny, smart tour de force that reads like a conversation with your best friend. In these candidly witty and poignant essays, comedienne and writer Julia Sweeney muses on the complex blessings of motherhood: deciding to adopt her daughter, a Chinese girl named Mulan (“After the movie?”); nannies (including the Chinese Pat); being adopted by a dog; and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger who wrote, “Desperately Seeking Sweeney-in-Law.” She recounts how she explained the facts of life to nine-year-old Mulan, a story that became a wildly popular TED talk and YouTube video. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168446Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother Author: Julia Sweeney Narrator: Julia Sweeney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother Author: Julia Sweeney Narrator: Julia Sweeney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Saturday Night Live veteran Julia Sweeney’s “endearing series of true tales from parenthood’s front lines” (O, The Oprah Magazine) is a funny, smart tour de force that reads like a conversation with your best friend. In these candidly witty and poignant essays, comedienne and writer Julia Sweeney muses on the complex blessings of motherhood: deciding to adopt her daughter, a Chinese girl named Mulan (“After the movie?”); nannies (including the Chinese Pat); being adopted by a dog; and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger who wrote, “Desperately Seeking Sweeney-in-Law.” She recounts how she explained the facts of life to nine-year-old Mulan, a story that became a wildly popular TED talk and YouTube video. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/instant-mom-by-nia-vardalos--65201389https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Instant Mom Author: Nia Vardalos Narrator: Nia Vardalos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family. Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. Instant Mom is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "frenemies" and Hollywood reporters asking, "Any baby news?" With her signature wit and candor, she describes her and husband Ian Gomez's bumpy road to parenting, how they found their daughter, and what happened next. Vardalos includes a comprehensive how-to-adopt section and explores innovative ways to conquer the challenges all new moms face, from sleep to personal grooming. She learns that whether via biology, relationship, or adoption—motherhood comes in many forms. In Instant Mom, Vardalos shares the terrifying joys of parenthood and for the first time reveals her stubborn optimism and perseverance on her trek to finally becoming a mom, instantly.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172424Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Instant Mom Author: Nia Vardalos Narrator: Nia Vardalos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Instant Mom Author: Nia Vardalos Narrator: Nia Vardalos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family. Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. Instant Mom is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "frenemies" and Hollywood reporters asking, "Any baby news?" With her signature wit and candor, she describes her and husband Ian Gomez's bumpy road to parenting, how they found their daughter, and what happened next. Vardalos includes a comprehensive how-to-adopt section and explores innovative ways to conquer the challenges all new moms face, from sleep to personal grooming. She learns that whether via biology, relationship, or adoption—motherhood comes in many forms. In Instant Mom, Vardalos shares the terrifying joys of parenthood and for the first time reveals her stubborn optimism and perseverance on her trek to finally becoming a mom, instantly.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everything-is-perfect-when-you-re-a-liar-by-kelly-oxford--65201367https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar Author: Kelly Oxford Narrator: Kelly Oxford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kelly Oxford is . . . A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds Not the queen of the world An underage schnitzel-house dishwasher The kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rush A born salesman Capable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20 That girl who peed her pants in the gas station that one time Totally an expert on strep throat Incapable of making Leonardo DiCaprio her boyfriend A writer A certified therapy assistant who heals with Metallica mixtapes "Not fat enough to be super snuggly." —Bea, age four Not above using raspberry-studded sh*t to get out of a speeding ticket "Bitingly funny. But everybody knows that." —Roger Ebert Sad that David Copperfield doesn't own a falcon A terrible liar]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172413Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar Author: Kelly Oxford Narrator: Kelly Oxford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/172413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar Author: Kelly Oxford Narrator: Kelly Oxford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kelly Oxford is . . . A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds Not the queen of the world An underage schnitzel-house dishwasher The kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rush A born salesman Capable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20 That girl who peed her pants in the gas station that one time Totally an expert on strep throat Incapable of making Leonardo DiCaprio her boyfriend A writer A certified therapy assistant who heals with Metallica mixtapes "Not fat enough to be super snuggly." —Bea, age four Not above using raspberry-studded sh*t to get out of a speeding ticket "Bitingly funny. But everybody knows that." —Roger Ebert Sad that David Copperfield doesn't own a falcon A terrible liar]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/captive-in-iran-a-remarkable-true-story-of-hope-and-triumph-amid-the-horror-of-tehran-s-brutal-evin-prison-by-marziyeh-amirizadeh-maryam-r--65201344https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison Author: Marziyeh Amirizadeh, Maryam Rostampour Narrator: Patty Fogarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Locked away, but not silenced... Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Though Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, in three years they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of 20,000 of their countrymen. They’d started two secret house churches, including one for prostitutes — many of whom were women abandoned by their husbands with no other way to support themselves and their children. Maryam and Marziyeh had almost been caught so many times that it felt like divine intervention. But finally — perhaps inevitably — the two women were arrested in 2009 and held the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran. There, inmates are routinely tortured, and executions are swift and sudden. But in the face of chilling interrogation, intimidation, and a possible death sentence, something remarkable happened. Instead of succumbing to fear, they chose to take the radical — and dangerous — step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them. In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to bring about a miraculous reversal: shining light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything, and showing love to those in despair.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194081Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison Author: Marziyeh Amirizadeh, Maryam...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison Author: Marziyeh Amirizadeh, Maryam Rostampour Narrator: Patty Fogarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Locked away, but not silenced... Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Though Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, in three years they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of 20,000 of their countrymen. They’d started two secret house churches, including one for prostitutes — many of whom were women abandoned by their husbands with no other way to support themselves and their children. Maryam and Marziyeh had almost been caught so many times that it felt like divine intervention. But finally — perhaps inevitably — the two women were arrested in 2009 and held the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran. There, inmates are routinely tortured, and executions are swift and sudden. But in the face of chilling interrogation, intimidation, and a possible death sentence, something remarkable happened. Instead of succumbing to fear, they chose to take the radical — and dangerous — step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them. In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to bring about a miraculous reversal: shining light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything, and showing love to those in despair.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/moms-who-drink-and-swear-true-tales-of-loving-my-kids-while-losing-my-mind-by-nicole-knepper--65201312https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind Author: Nicole Knepper Narrator: Nicole Knepper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place. Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind-f*?% it can be to try to civilize those wild little beasts. Based on her hugely popular Facebook page, “Moms Who Drink and Swear,” this book reveals why family dinners are like herpes, how to avoid smashing toys that are being fought over, and the joy of hearing that your son has murdered his imaginary friend. As Nicole rants and raves about caring for children (without crushing their souls), family togetherness (without too many tears), the saving grace of girlfriends (and vodka), and love and marriage (and all the baggage that goes with them), she gets to the heart of what every exasperated mom is thinking, just much funnier.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200446Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind Author: Nicole Knepper Narrator: Nicole Knepper Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind Author: Nicole Knepper Narrator: Nicole Knepper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place. Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind-f*?% it can be to try to civilize those wild little beasts. Based on her hugely popular Facebook page, “Moms Who Drink and Swear,” this book reveals why family dinners are like herpes, how to avoid smashing toys that are being fought over, and the joy of hearing that your son has murdered his imaginary friend. As Nicole rants and raves about caring for children (without crushing their souls), family togetherness (without too many tears), the saving grace of girlfriends (and vodka), and love and marriage (and all the baggage that goes with them), she gets to the heart of what every exasperated mom is thinking, just much funnier.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brothers-emanuel-a-memoir-of-an-american-family-by-ezekiel-j-emanuel--65201374https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family Author: Ezekiel j. Emanuel Narrator: Ezekiel j. Emanuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER For years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question: What did your mom put in the cereal? Middle brother Rahm is the mayor of Chicago, erstwhile White House chief of staff, and one of the most colorful figures in American politics. Youngest brother Ari is a Hollywood superagent, the real-life model for the character of Ari Gold on the hit series Entourage. And Zeke himself, whom the other brothers consider to be the smartest of them all, is one of the world’s leading bioethicists and oncologists, and a former special advisor for health policy in the Obama administration. How did one family of modest means produce three such high-achieving kids? Here, for the first time, Zeke provides the answer.   Set amid the tumult of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, Brothers Emanuel recounts the intertwined histories of these three rambunctious, hypercompetitive Jewish American boys, each with his own unique and compelling life story. But ultimately, this is the story of the entire Emanuel family: the tough, colorful Old World grandparents; a mischievous, loving father who immigrated to the United States with twenty-five dollars and who enthralled his boys with tales of his adventures in Israel’s war for independence; and a proud, politically engaged mother who took the boys with her to rallies and protests—including a civil rights march through the streets of Chicago led by Martin Luther King himself.   Even as the Emanuels distinguished themselves as individuals, the bond of brotherhood that tied them together was never broken. Brothers Emanuel is a wry, rollicking, and often poignant narrative of how one American family succeeded in raising three extraordinary children. Praise for Brothers Emanuel   “An endearing, honest and gripping account of an American success story.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A beautiful portrait of growing up Jewish in an urban environment during an era of profound social change.”—Publishers Weekly   “This delightful memoir is a deeply personal tale of one family, but it’s also about much larger things: America and tribal identity, love and rivalry, and the moral lessons to be learned as you grow up.”—Walter Isaacson   “Fascinating . . . a classic tale of an immigrant family.”—Chicago Tribune   “Mighty entertaining.”—The Hollywood Reporter   “A clear-eyed, candid memoir that is unique and yet quintessentially American.”—BookPage   “A fun read.”—The Forward]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166752Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family Author: Ezekiel j. Emanuel Narrator: Ezekiel j. Emanuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family Author: Ezekiel j. Emanuel Narrator: Ezekiel j. Emanuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER For years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question: What did your mom put in the cereal? Middle brother Rahm is the mayor of Chicago, erstwhile White House chief of staff, and one of the most colorful figures in American politics. Youngest brother Ari is a Hollywood superagent, the real-life model for the character of Ari Gold on the hit series Entourage. And Zeke himself, whom the other brothers consider to be the smartest of them all, is one of the world’s leading bioethicists and oncologists, and a former special advisor for health policy in the Obama administration. How did one family of modest means produce three such high-achieving kids? Here, for the first time, Zeke provides the answer.   Set amid the tumult of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, Brothers Emanuel recounts the intertwined histories of these three rambunctious, hypercompetitive Jewish American boys, each with his own unique and compelling life story. But ultimately, this is the story of the entire Emanuel family: the tough, colorful Old World grandparents; a mischievous, loving father who immigrated to the United States with twenty-five dollars and who enthralled his boys with tales of his adventures in Israel’s war for independence; and a proud, politically engaged mother who took the boys with her to rallies and protests—including a civil rights march through the streets of Chicago led by Martin Luther King himself.   Even as the Emanuels distinguished themselves as individuals, the bond of brotherhood that tied them together was never broken. Brothers Emanuel is a wry, rollicking, and often poignant narrative of how one American family succeeded in raising three extraordinary children. Praise for Brothers Emanuel   “An endearing, honest and gripping account of an American success story.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A beautiful portrait of growing up Jewish in an urban environment during an era of profound social change.”—Publishers Weekly   “This delightful memoir is a deeply personal tale of one family, but it’s also about much larger things: America and tribal identity, love and rivalry, and the moral lessons to be learned as you grow up.”—Walter Isaacson   “Fascinating . . . a classic tale of an immigrant family.”—Chicago Tribune   “Mighty entertaining.”—The Hollywood Reporter   “A clear-eyed, candid memoir that is unique and yet quintessentially American.”—BookPage   “A fun read.”—The Forward]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/snake-oil-the-art-of-healing-and-truth-telling-by-becca-stevens--65201458https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling Author: Becca Stevens Narrator: Becca Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'In the world of snake oils, you have to see the world a little differently. Where others see poverty, you see riches; where others see weeds, you see flowers; where others see sickness, you see openness.' Becca Stevens calls herself a 'snake oil seller': She takes natural oils, mixes them with a good story, sells them in an open market and believes they help to heal the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms, one of the most successful examples in the US of a social enterprise whose mission is the work force. She is also the founder of its residential program, Magdalene. The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction, and the natural body care products they manufacture-balms, soaps, and lotions-aid in their own healing as well as that of the people who buy them. The book weaves together the beginnings of the enterprise with individual stories from Becca's own journey as well as 20 women in the community. In Snake Oil, Becca tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father's death as a child. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167418Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling Author: Becca Stevens Narrator: Becca Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling Author: Becca Stevens Narrator: Becca Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'In the world of snake oils, you have to see the world a little differently. Where others see poverty, you see riches; where others see weeds, you see flowers; where others see sickness, you see openness.' Becca Stevens calls herself a 'snake oil seller': She takes natural oils, mixes them with a good story, sells them in an open market and believes they help to heal the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms, one of the most successful examples in the US of a social enterprise whose mission is the work force. She is also the founder of its residential program, Magdalene. The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction, and the natural body care products they manufacture-balms, soaps, and lotions-aid in their own healing as well as that of the people who buy them. The book weaves together the beginnings of the enterprise with individual stories from Becca's own journey as well as 20 women in the community. In Snake Oil, Becca tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father's death as a child. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/until-i-say-good-bye-my-year-of-living-with-joy-by-susan-spencer-wendel-bret-witter--65201422https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy Author: Susan Spencer-Wendel, Bret Witter Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Susan Spencer-Wendel’s Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, she embarks on several adventures, traveling toseveral countries and sharing special experiences with loved ones. One trip takes Spencer-Wendel and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Marina, to New York City’s Kleinfeld’s Bridal to shop for Marina’s future wedding dress—an occasion that Susan knows she will never see. Co-written with Bret Witter, Until I Say Good-Bye is Spencer-Wendel’s account of living a full life with humor, courage, and love, but also accepting death with grace and dignity. It’s a celebration of life, a look into the face of death, and the effort we must make to show the people that we love and care about how very much they mean to us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167863Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy Author: Susan Spencer-Wendel, Bret Witter Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy Author: Susan Spencer-Wendel, Bret Witter Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Susan Spencer-Wendel’s Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, she embarks on several adventures, traveling toseveral countries and sharing special experiences with loved ones. One trip takes Spencer-Wendel and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Marina, to New York City’s Kleinfeld’s Bridal to shop for Marina’s future wedding dress—an occasion that Susan knows she will never see. Co-written with Bret Witter, Until I Say Good-Bye is Spencer-Wendel’s account of living a full life with humor, courage, and love, but also accepting death with grace and dignity. It’s a celebration of life, a look into the face of death, and the effort we must make to show the people that we love and care about how very much they mean to us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/raising-cubby-a-father-and-son-s-adventures-with-asperger-s-trains-tractors-and-high-explosives-by-john-elder-robison--65201386https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives Author: John Elder Robison Narrator: John Elder Robison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble   Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, “Where did I come from?” John said he’d bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores.” He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime. He told Cubby that wizards turned children into stone when they misbehaved. Still, John got the basics right. He made sure Cubby never drank diesel fuel at the automobile repair shop he owns. And he gave him a life of adventure: By the time Cubby was ten, he’d steered a Coast Guard cutter, driven a freight locomotive, and run an antique Rolls Royce into a fence. The one thing John couldn’t figure out was what to do when school authorities decided that Cubby was dumb and stubborn—the very same thing he had been told as a child. Did Cubby have Asperger’s too? The answer was unclear. One thing was clear, though: By the time he turned seventeen, Cubby had become a brilliant chemist—smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring state and federal agents calling. Afterward, with Cubby facing up to sixty years in prison, both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally coming to terms with being “on the spectrum” as both a challenge and a unique gift. By turns tender, suspenseful, and hilarious, this is more than just the story of raising Cubby. It’s the story of a father and son who grow up together. Praise for John Robison's first book, Look Me In the Eye: 'Lean, powerful in its descriptive accuracy and engaging in its understated humor...Emotionally gripping.' --Chicago Tribune 'A fantastic life story told with grace, humor, and a bracing lack of sentimentality.' --Entertainment Weekly 'Endearing...Robison is a natural storyteller.' --Boston Globe]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166656Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives Author: John Elder Robison Narrator: John Elder...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives Author: John Elder Robison Narrator: John Elder Robison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble   Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, “Where did I come from?” John said he’d bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores.” He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime. He told Cubby that wizards turned children into stone when they misbehaved. Still, John got the basics right. He made sure Cubby never drank diesel fuel at the automobile repair shop he owns. And he gave him a life of adventure: By the time Cubby was ten, he’d steered a Coast Guard cutter, driven a freight locomotive, and run an antique Rolls Royce into a fence. The one thing John couldn’t figure out was what to do when school authorities decided that Cubby was dumb and stubborn—the very same thing he had been told as a child. Did Cubby have Asperger’s too? The answer was unclear. One thing was clear, though: By the time he turned seventeen, Cubby had become a brilliant chemist—smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring state and federal agents calling. Afterward, with Cubby facing up to sixty years in prison, both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally coming to terms with being “on the spectrum” as both a challenge and a unique gift. By turns tender, suspenseful, and hilarious, this is more than just the story of raising Cubby. It’s the story of a father and son who grow up together. Praise for John Robison's first book, Look Me In the Eye: 'Lean, powerful in its descriptive accuracy and engaging in its understated humor...Emotionally gripping.' --Chicago Tribune 'A fantastic life story told with grace, humor, and a bracing lack of sentimentality.' --Entertainment Weekly 'Endearing...Robison is a natural storyteller.' --Boston Globe]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bringing-mulligan-home-the-other-side-of-the-good-war-by-dale-maharidge--65201349https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War Author: Dale Maharidge Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he’d served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement workshop. After Steve Maharidge’s death, his son Dale, now an adult, began a twelve-year quest to understand his father’s preoccupation with the photo. What had happened during the battle for Okinawa, and why had his father remained silent about his experiences and the man in the picture, Herman Mulligan? In his search for answers, Maharidge sought out the survivors of Love Company, many of whom had never before spoken so openly and emotionally about what they saw and experienced on Okinawa. In Bringing Mulligan Home, Maharidge delivers an affecting narrative of war and its aftermath, of fathers and sons, with lessons for the children whose parents are returning from war today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197938Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War Author: Dale Maharidge Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War Author: Dale Maharidge Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he’d served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement workshop. After Steve Maharidge’s death, his son Dale, now an adult, began a twelve-year quest to understand his father’s preoccupation with the photo. What had happened during the battle for Okinawa, and why had his father remained silent about his experiences and the man in the picture, Herman Mulligan? In his search for answers, Maharidge sought out the survivors of Love Company, many of whom had never before spoken so openly and emotionally about what they saw and experienced on Okinawa. In Bringing Mulligan Home, Maharidge delivers an affecting narrative of war and its aftermath, of fathers and sons, with lessons for the children whose parents are returning from war today.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lean-in-women-work-and-the-will-to-lead-by-sheryl-sandberg--65201432https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Author: Sheryl Sandberg Narrator: Elisa Donovan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 11, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 318 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 50 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto' (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.  In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166663Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Author: Sheryl Sandberg Narrator: Elisa Donovan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Author: Sheryl Sandberg Narrator: Elisa Donovan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 11, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 318 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 50 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto' (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.  In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/astonished-by-beverly-donofrio--65201307https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Astonished Author: Beverly Donofrio Narrator: Janet Donofrio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 7, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bestselling memoirist bravely tells the story of the night evil paid her a visit—and how prayer chased evil away Beverly Donofrio had already lived two lives, first as a scrappy young mother on the streets of the East Village and later as the bestselling author of Riding in Cars with Boys. By the time she reached her fifties, she thought she had seen it all. Now, even though she was living in a vibrant, picturesque Mexican town, where she practiced yoga, drank margaritas in her backyard, and took salsa lessons, she felt lost and was searching for monasteries to visit. The religious practice that had nourished her for several years had faded. She missed God. Then one night she woke to find a rapist holding a knife to her throat. So begins the memoir that charts Donofrio’s journey—a long and twisting road through denial, mourning, anger, vulnerability, and retreat at five very different monasteries. Told through Donofrio’s brutally honest, often ribald, emotionally unsparing voice, Astonished is a tender and hopeful narrative of healing and learning to love life again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200431Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Astonished Author: Beverly Donofrio Narrator: Janet Donofrio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 7, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Astonished Author: Beverly Donofrio Narrator: Janet Donofrio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 7, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bestselling memoirist bravely tells the story of the night evil paid her a visit—and how prayer chased evil away Beverly Donofrio had already lived two lives, first as a scrappy young mother on the streets of the East Village and later as the bestselling author of Riding in Cars with Boys. By the time she reached her fifties, she thought she had seen it all. Now, even though she was living in a vibrant, picturesque Mexican town, where she practiced yoga, drank margaritas in her backyard, and took salsa lessons, she felt lost and was searching for monasteries to visit. The religious practice that had nourished her for several years had faded. She missed God. Then one night she woke to find a rapist holding a knife to her throat. So begins the memoir that charts Donofrio’s journey—a long and twisting road through denial, mourning, anger, vulnerability, and retreat at five very different monasteries. Told through Donofrio’s brutally honest, often ribald, emotionally unsparing voice, Astonished is a tender and hopeful narrative of healing and learning to love life again.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wave-a-memoir-by-sonali-deraniyagala--65201419https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wave: A Memoir Author: Sonali Deraniyagala Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164193Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wave: A Memoir Author: Sonali Deraniyagala Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/164193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wave: A Memoir Author: Sonali Deraniyagala Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rita-moreno-a-memoir-by-rita-moreno--65201311https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rita Moreno: A Memoir Author: Rita Moreno Narrator: Rita Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico  to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys. Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea voyage with her mother and wound up in the harsh barrios of the Bronx, where she discovered dancing, singing, and acting as ways to escape a tumultuous childhood. Making her Broadway debut by age thirteen—and moving on to Hollywood in its Golden Age just a few years later—she worked alongside such stars as Gary Cooper,  Yul Brynner, and Ann Miller. When discovered by Louis B. Mayer of MGM, the wizard himself declared: “She looks like a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor.”  Cast by Gene Kelly as Zelda Zanders in Singin’ in the Rain and then  on to her Oscar-winning performance in West Side Story, she catapulted to fame—yet found herself repeatedly typecast as the “utility ethnic,” a role she found almost impossible to elude. Here, for the first time, Rita reflects on her struggles to break through Hollywood’s racial and sexual barriers. She explores the wounded little girl behind the glamorous façade—and what it took to find her place in the world. She talks candidly about her relationship with Elvis Presley, her encounters with Howard Hughes, and the passionate romance with Marlon Brando that drove her to attempt suicide. And she shares the illusiveness of a  “perfect” marriage and the incomparable joys of motherhood. Infused with Rita Moreno’s quick wit and deep insight, this memoir is the dazzling portrait of a stage and screen star who longed to become who she really is—and triumphed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200519Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rita Moreno: A Memoir Author: Rita Moreno Narrator: Rita Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rita Moreno: A Memoir Author: Rita Moreno Narrator: Rita Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico  to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys. Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea voyage with her mother and wound up in the harsh barrios of the Bronx, where she discovered dancing, singing, and acting as ways to escape a tumultuous childhood. Making her Broadway debut by age thirteen—and moving on to Hollywood in its Golden Age just a few years later—she worked alongside such stars as Gary Cooper,  Yul Brynner, and Ann Miller. When discovered by Louis B. Mayer of MGM, the wizard himself declared: “She looks like a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor.”  Cast by Gene Kelly as Zelda Zanders in Singin’ in the Rain and then  on to her Oscar-winning performance in West Side Story, she catapulted to fame—yet found herself repeatedly typecast as the “utility ethnic,” a role she found almost impossible to elude. Here, for the first time, Rita reflects on her struggles to break through Hollywood’s racial and sexual barriers. She explores the wounded little girl behind the glamorous façade—and what it took to find her place in the world. She talks candidly about her relationship with Elvis Presley, her encounters with Howard Hughes, and the passionate romance with Marlon Brando that drove her to attempt suicide. And she shares the illusiveness of a  “perfect” marriage and the incomparable joys of motherhood. Infused with Rita Moreno’s quick wit and deep insight, this memoir is the dazzling portrait of a stage and screen star who longed to become who she really is—and triumphed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/with-or-without-you-a-memoir-by-domenica-ruta--65201400https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With or Without You: A Memoir Author: Domenica Ruta Narrator: Domenica Ruta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice   Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art—via a classic film or a classical education—could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica’s unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ’90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Domenica Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.   Advance praise for With or Without You   “Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Domenica Ruta has done something every artist with a failed family must do: She has created herself.”—Gary Shteyngart   “ ‘Make it new,’ Ezra Pound directed, and Domenica Ruta has. Difficult childhoods are plentiful; the talent to transform adversity into art is in short supply. Unflinching in its regard, forgiving in its humor, With or Without You is that rare thing, a story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to the end.”—Kathryn Harrison   “In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s exceptional books burn and brighten, like actual stars among strings of tinsel. With or Without You is like that. I will read whatever Domenica Ruta writes.”—Amy Bloom]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162900Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With or Without You: A Memoir Author: Domenica Ruta Narrator: Domenica Ruta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With or Without You: A Memoir Author: Domenica Ruta Narrator: Domenica Ruta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice   Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art—via a classic film or a classical education—could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica’s unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ’90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Domenica Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.   Advance praise for With or Without You   “Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Domenica Ruta has done something every artist with a failed family must do: She has created herself.”—Gary Shteyngart   “ ‘Make it new,’ Ezra Pound directed, and Domenica Ruta has. Difficult childhoods are plentiful; the talent to transform adversity into art is in short supply. Unflinching in its regard, forgiving in its humor, With or Without You is that rare thing, a story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to the end.”—Kathryn Harrison   “In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s exceptional books burn and brighten, like actual stars among strings of tinsel. With or Without You is like that. I will read whatever Domenica Ruta writes.”—Amy Bloom]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gifts-gratitude-the-joyful-adventures-of-a-life-well-lived-by-elizabeth-gaylynn-baker--65201438https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gifts Gratitude: The Joyful Adventures of a Life Well Lived Author: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker Narrator: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From writer to producer and speaker, Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker lives an interesting and creative life. From celebrities, spiritual leaders to Yogi's, she has been mentored by them all. As times become more uncertain, many great minds suggest we must change our thinking if we want to continue to exist as a species. This collection of sweet stories will share wisdom and wit and allow you to live outside of fear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167644Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gifts Gratitude: The Joyful Adventures of a Life Well Lived Author: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker Narrator: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gifts Gratitude: The Joyful Adventures of a Life Well Lived Author: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker Narrator: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From writer to producer and speaker, Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker lives an interesting and creative life. From celebrities, spiritual leaders to Yogi's, she has been mentored by them all. As times become more uncertain, many great minds suggest we must change our thinking if we want to continue to exist as a species. This collection of sweet stories will share wisdom and wit and allow you to live outside of fear.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/solo-a-memoir-of-hope-by-hope-solo--65201448https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo: A Memoir of Hope Author: Hope Solo Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise." Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer team. Her outsized talent has led her to the pinnacle of her sport—the Olympics and the World Cup—and made her into an international celebrity who is just as likely to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars as she is on the covers of Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and Vogue. But her journey—which began in Richland, Washington, where she was raised by her strong-willed mother on the scorched earth of defunct nuclear testing sites—is similarly haunted by the fallout of her family history. Her father, a philanderer and con man, was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She lost touch with him as he drifted out of prison and into homelessness. By the time they reunited, years later, in the parking lot of a grocery store, she was an All-American goalkeeper at the University of Washington and already a budding prospect for the U.S. national team. He was living in the woods. Despite harboring serious doubts even about the provenance of her father's last name (and her own), Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her dreams of being a world-class soccer player. When those dreams are threatened by her standing within the national team, as when she was famously benched in the semifinals of the 2007 World Cup after four shutouts and spoke her piece publicly, we see a woman of uncompromising independence and hard-won perseverance navigate the petty backlash against her. For the first time, she tells her version of that controversial episode, and offers with it a full understanding of her hard-scrabble life. Moving, sometimes shocking, Solo is a portrait of an athlete finding redemption. This is the Hope Solo whom few have ever glimpsed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163699Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo: A Memoir of Hope Author: Hope Solo Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo: A Memoir of Hope Author: Hope Solo Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise." Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer team. Her outsized talent has led her to the pinnacle of her sport—the Olympics and the World Cup—and made her into an international celebrity who is just as likely to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars as she is on the covers of Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and Vogue. But her journey—which began in Richland, Washington, where she was raised by her strong-willed mother on the scorched earth of defunct nuclear testing sites—is similarly haunted by the fallout of her family history. Her father, a philanderer and con man, was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She lost touch with him as he drifted out of prison and into homelessness. By the time they reunited, years later, in the parking lot of a grocery store, she was an All-American goalkeeper at the University of Washington and already a budding prospect for the U.S. national team. He was living in the woods. Despite harboring serious doubts even about the provenance of her father's last name (and her own), Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her dreams of being a world-class soccer player. When those dreams are threatened by her standing within the national team, as when she was famously benched in the semifinals of the 2007 World Cup after four shutouts and spoke her piece publicly, we see a woman of uncompromising independence and hard-won perseverance navigate the petty backlash against her. For the first time, she tells her version of that controversial episode, and offers with it a full understanding of her hard-scrabble life. Moving, sometimes shocking, Solo is a portrait of an athlete finding redemption. This is the Hope Solo whom few have ever glimpsed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-turnaround-reinventing-at-t-and-gm-and-the-way-we-do-business-in-the-usa-by-edward-whitacre--65201491https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA Author: Edward Whitacre Narrator: Edward Whitacre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ed Whitacre is credited with taking over the corporate reins at General Motors (GM) when the automotive manufacturer was on the brink of bankruptcy during 2009 and turned the company around in magnificent fashion. In this business memoir, the native Texan explores his unique management style, business acumen and patriotism. It was President Obama who reached out to Ed Whitacre to come out of retirement and take over GM in 2009. A down-to-earth, no-nonsense Texas native with a distinctive Texas twang in his voice, Whitacre was reluctant to come out of retirement to work at GM. But Whitacre is that rare CEO with great charisma and extraordinary management instincts. And when he got to Detroit, he started to whittle down the corporate bureaucracy right away - and got GM back on track in record time. Before being pulled out of retirement to run GM by Obama, Ed Whitacre had spent his entire corporate career in the telecom business, where he ultimately ended up running AT&T.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160027Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA Author: Edward Whitacre Narrator: Edward Whitacre Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA Author: Edward Whitacre Narrator: Edward Whitacre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ed Whitacre is credited with taking over the corporate reins at General Motors (GM) when the automotive manufacturer was on the brink of bankruptcy during 2009 and turned the company around in magnificent fashion. In this business memoir, the native Texan explores his unique management style, business acumen and patriotism. It was President Obama who reached out to Ed Whitacre to come out of retirement and take over GM in 2009. A down-to-earth, no-nonsense Texas native with a distinctive Texas twang in his voice, Whitacre was reluctant to come out of retirement to work at GM. But Whitacre is that rare CEO with great charisma and extraordinary management instincts. And when he got to Detroit, he started to whittle down the corporate bureaucracy right away - and got GM back on track in record time. Before being pulled out of retirement to run GM by Obama, Ed Whitacre had spent his entire corporate career in the telecom business, where he ultimately ended up running AT&T.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-belief-my-secret-life-inside-scientology-and-my-harrowing-escape-by-jenna-miscavige-hill--65201477https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Author: Jenna Miscavige Hill Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.15 of Total 20 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape. In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider's profile of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163684Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Author: Jenna Miscavige Hill Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Author: Jenna Miscavige Hill Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.15 of Total 20 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape. In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider's profile of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tolstoy-and-the-purple-chair-my-year-of-magical-reading-by-nina-sankovitch--65201425https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading Author: Nina Sankovitch Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books and authors (and even other readers), her life changed profoundly, and in unexpected ways. Reading, it turns out, can be the ultimate therapy. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair also tells the story of the Sankovitch family: Nina's father, who barely escaped death in Belarus during World War II; her four rambunctious children, who offer up their own book recommendations while helping out with the cooking and cleaning; and Anne-Marie, her oldest sister and idol, with whom Nina shared the pleasure of books, even in her last moments of life. In our lightning-paced culture that encourages us to seek more, bigger, and better things, Nina's daring journey shows how we can deepen the quality of our everyday lives—if we only find the time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163152Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading Author: Nina Sankovitch Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading Author: Nina Sankovitch Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books and authors (and even other readers), her life changed profoundly, and in unexpected ways. Reading, it turns out, can be the ultimate therapy. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair also tells the story of the Sankovitch family: Nina's father, who barely escaped death in Belarus during World War II; her four rambunctious children, who offer up their own book recommendations while helping out with the cooking and cleaning; and Anne-Marie, her oldest sister and idol, with whom Nina shared the pleasure of books, even in her last moments of life. In our lightning-paced culture that encourages us to seek more, bigger, and better things, Nina's daring journey shows how we can deepen the quality of our everyday lives—if we only find the time.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unknown-pleasures-inside-joy-division-by-peter-hook--65201426https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division Author: Peter Hook Narrator: Peter Hook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer Ian Curtis—who took his own life just before the band's first U.S. Tour—Unknown Pleasures tells Joy Division's story from the unique perspective of one of the three surviving band members. Told with surprising humor and vivid detail, Unknown Pleasures is the book Joy Division fans have been waiting for.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163153Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division Author: Peter Hook Narrator: Peter Hook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/163153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division Author: Peter Hook Narrator: Peter Hook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer Ian Curtis—who took his own life just before the band's first U.S. Tour—Unknown Pleasures tells Joy Division's story from the unique perspective of one of the three surviving band members. Told with surprising humor and vivid detail, Unknown Pleasures is the book Joy Division fans have been waiting for.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jujitsu-rabbi-and-the-godless-blonde-a-true-story-by-rebecca-dana--65201318https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story Author: Rebecca Dana Narrator: Rebecca Dana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 24, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . .  A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny. For a time, life turned out exactly as she’d planned: glamorous parties; beautiful people; the perfect job, apartment, and man. But when it all came crashing down, she found herself catapulted into another world. She moves into Brooklyn’s enormous Lubavitch community, and lives with Cosmo, a thirty-year-old Russian rabbi who practices jujitsu on the side. While Cosmo, disenchanted with Orthodoxy, flirts with leaving the community, Rebecca faces the fact that her religion—the books, magazines, TV shows, and movies that made New York seem like salvation—has also failed her. As she shuttles between the world of religious extremism and the world of secular excess, Rebecca goes on a search for meaning.  Trenchantly observant, entertaining as hell, a mix of Shalom Auslander and The Odd Couple, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is a thought-provoking coming-of-age story for the twenty-first century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200428Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story Author: Rebecca Dana Narrator: Rebecca Dana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story Author: Rebecca Dana Narrator: Rebecca Dana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 24, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . .  A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny. For a time, life turned out exactly as she’d planned: glamorous parties; beautiful people; the perfect job, apartment, and man. But when it all came crashing down, she found herself catapulted into another world. She moves into Brooklyn’s enormous Lubavitch community, and lives with Cosmo, a thirty-year-old Russian rabbi who practices jujitsu on the side. While Cosmo, disenchanted with Orthodoxy, flirts with leaving the community, Rebecca faces the fact that her religion—the books, magazines, TV shows, and movies that made New York seem like salvation—has also failed her. As she shuttles between the world of religious extremism and the world of secular excess, Rebecca goes on a search for meaning.  Trenchantly observant, entertaining as hell, a mix of Shalom Auslander and The Odd Couple, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is a thought-provoking coming-of-age story for the twenty-first century.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/madam-secretary-a-memoir-by-madeleine-albright--65201381https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madam Secretary: A Memoir Author: Madeleine Albright Narrator: Madeleine Albright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO's intervention in the Balkans to America's troubled relations with Iran and Iraq. In this thoughtful memoir, one of the most admired women in U.S. history reflects on her remarkable personal story, including her upbringing in war-torn Europe and the balancing of career and family responsibilities, and on America's leading role in a changing world. With a new epilogue by the author, Madam Secretary offers an inimitable blend of Albright's warm humor, probing insights, and distinctive ideas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161772Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madam Secretary: A Memoir Author: Madeleine Albright Narrator: Madeleine Albright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 19 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madam Secretary: A Memoir Author: Madeleine Albright Narrator: Madeleine Albright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO's intervention in the Balkans to America's troubled relations with Iran and Iraq. In this thoughtful memoir, one of the most admired women in U.S. history reflects on her remarkable personal story, including her upbringing in war-torn Europe and the balancing of career and family responsibilities, and on America's leading role in a changing world. With a new epilogue by the author, Madam Secretary offers an inimitable blend of Albright's warm humor, probing insights, and distinctive ideas.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-backyard-parables-lessons-on-gardening-and-life-by-margaret-roach--65201489https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life Author: Margaret Roach Narrator: Margaret Roach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo.' In THE BACKYARD PARABLES, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her listeners and herself to keep on digging.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160016Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life Author: Margaret Roach Narrator: Margaret Roach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life Author: Margaret Roach Narrator: Margaret Roach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo.' In THE BACKYARD PARABLES, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her listeners and herself to keep on digging.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-beloved-world-by-sonia-sotomayor--65201445https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Beloved World Author: Sonia Sotomayor Narrator: Rita Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself.  She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162907Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Beloved World Author: Sonia Sotomayor Narrator: Rita Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Beloved World Author: Sonia Sotomayor Narrator: Rita Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself.  She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-share-of-the-task-a-memoir-by-stanley-mcchrystal--65201369https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Share of the Task: A Memoir Author: Stanley Mcchrystal Narrator: Kevin Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Never shall I fail my comrades. . . . I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.” —from the Ranger Creed  In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, walked with President Hamid Karzai through a small rural bazaar. As Afghan townspeo­ple crowded around them, a Taliban rocket loudly thudded into the ground some distance away. Karzai looked to McChrystal, who shrugged. The two leaders continued greeting the townspeople and listening to their views. That trip was typical of McChrystal’s entire career, from his first day as a West Point plebe to his last day as a four-star general. The values he has come to be widely admired for were evident: a hunger to know the truth on the ground, the courage to find it, and the humility to listen to those around him. Even as a senior commander, McChrystal stationed him­self forward, and frequently went on patrols with his troops to experience their challenges firsthand. In this illuminating memoir, McChrystal frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. He delves candidly into the intersection of history, leadership, and his own experience to produce a book of enduring value. Joining the troubled post-Vietnam army as a young officer, McChrystal witnessed and participated in some of our military’s most difficult struggles. He describes the many outstanding leaders he served with and the handful of bad leaders he learned not to emulate. He paints a vivid portrait of the traditional military establishment that turned itself, in one gen­eration, into the adaptive, resilient force that would soon be tested in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wider War on Terror. McChrystal spent much of his early career in the world of special operations, at a time when these elite forces became increasingly effective—and necessary. He writes of a fight waged in the shadows by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which he led from 2003 to 2008. JSOC became one of our most effective counterterrorism weapons, facing off against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Over time, JSOC gathered staggering amounts of intelligence in order to find and remove the most influential and dangerous terrorists, including the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The hunt for Zarqawi drives some of the most grip­ping scenes in this book, as McChrystal’s team grappled with tricky interrogations, advanced but scarce technology, weeks of unbroken surveillance, and agonizing decisions. McChrystal brought the same energy to the war in Afghanistan, where the challenges loomed even larger. His revealing account draws on his close relationships with Afghan leaders, giving readers a unique window into the war and the country. Ultimately, My Share of the Task is about much more than war and peace, terrorism and counterin­surgency. As McChrystal writes, “More by luck than design, I’d been a part of some events, organizations, and efforts that will loom large in history, and more that will not. I saw selfless commitment, petty politics, unspeakable cruelty, and quiet courage in places and quantities that I’d never have imagined. But what I will remember most are the leaders.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200515Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Share of the Task: A Memoir Author: Stanley Mcchrystal Narrator: Kevin Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 10 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Share of the Task: A Memoir Author: Stanley Mcchrystal Narrator: Kevin Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Never shall I fail my comrades. . . . I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.” —from the Ranger Creed  In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, walked with President Hamid Karzai through a small rural bazaar. As Afghan townspeo­ple crowded around them, a Taliban rocket loudly thudded into the ground some distance away. Karzai looked to McChrystal, who shrugged. The two leaders continued greeting the townspeople and listening to their views. That trip was typical of McChrystal’s entire career, from his first day as a West Point plebe to his last day as a four-star general. The values he has come to be widely admired for were evident: a hunger to know the truth on the ground, the courage to find it, and the humility to listen to those around him. Even as a senior commander, McChrystal stationed him­self forward, and frequently went on patrols with his troops to experience their challenges firsthand. In this illuminating memoir, McChrystal frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career. He delves candidly into the intersection of history, leadership, and his own experience to produce a book of enduring value. Joining the troubled post-Vietnam army as a young officer, McChrystal witnessed and participated in some of our military’s most difficult struggles. He describes the many outstanding leaders he served with and the handful of bad leaders he learned not to emulate. He paints a vivid portrait of the traditional military establishment that turned itself, in one gen­eration, into the adaptive, resilient force that would soon be tested in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wider War on Terror. McChrystal spent much of his early career in the world of special operations, at a time when these elite forces became increasingly effective—and necessary. He writes of a fight waged in the shadows by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which he led from 2003 to 2008. JSOC became one of our most effective counterterrorism weapons, facing off against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Over time, JSOC gathered staggering amounts of intelligence in order to find and remove the most influential and dangerous terrorists, including the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The hunt for Zarqawi drives some of the most grip­ping scenes in this book, as McChrystal’s team grappled with tricky interrogations, advanced but scarce technology, weeks of unbroken surveillance, and agonizing decisions. McChrystal brought the same energy to the war in Afghanistan, where the challenges loomed even larger. His revealing account draws on his close relationships with Afghan leaders, giving readers a unique window into the war and the country. Ultimately, My Share of the Task is about much more than war and peace, terrorism and counterin­surgency. As McChrystal writes, “More by luck than design, I’d been a part of some events, organizations, and efforts that will loom large in history, and more that will not. I saw selfless commitment, petty politics, unspeakable cruelty, and quiet courage in places and quantities that I’d never have imagined. But what I will remember most are the leaders.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/small-steps-the-year-i-got-polio-by-peg-kehret--65201444https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Author: Peg Kehret Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again. Peg Kehret was stricken with polio when she was twelve years old. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their own battles with the disease, and plenty of grit and luck With the humor and suspense that are her trademarks, acclaimed author Peg Kehret vividly recreates the true story of her year of heartbreak and triumph.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162319Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Author: Peg Kehret Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 8 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Author: Peg Kehret Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again. Peg Kehret was stricken with polio when she was twelve years old. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their own battles with the disease, and plenty of grit and luck With the humor and suspense that are her trademarks, acclaimed author Peg Kehret vividly recreates the true story of her year of heartbreak and triumph.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/still-lolo-a-spinning-propeller-a-horrific-accident-and-a-family-s-journey-of-hope-by-lauren-scruggs--65201377https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Lolo: A Spinning Propeller, a Horrific Accident, and a Family's Journey of Hope Author: Lauren Scruggs Narrator: Eleni Pappageorge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning and unexpected tale of tragedy, survival, and true beauty. For fashion journalist Lauren (“LoLo”) Scruggs, a short flight to look at Christmas lights turned into a nightmare when she was struck by the plane’s spinning propeller blades. As Lauren was rushed to the hospital, fighting for her life, the world watched in shock and horror. Several major surgeries and thousands of prayers later, Lauren was still alive. But she had suffered brain trauma and lost her left hand and left eye. Some thought that this would be the end of everything for her, a beautiful young woman working in an industry focused completely on appearance. They were wrong. In Still LoLo, Lauren reveals what really happened that night, how she survived against all odds, and what her life is like today. She is unflinchingly honest in the face of difficult questions: What kind of future will I have? Will anyone be able to love me now? Where is God in all this pain? Through her story, Lauren calls us all to live a life without fear and to overcome whatever challenges threaten to limit us. Containing personal stories from Lauren and her family, Still LoLo is a compelling and fiercely beautiful account of faith, determination, and staying true to who you are — no matter what.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194048Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Lolo: A Spinning Propeller, a Horrific Accident, and a Family's Journey of Hope Author: Lauren Scruggs Narrator: Eleni Pappageorge Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Lolo: A Spinning Propeller, a Horrific Accident, and a Family's Journey of Hope Author: Lauren Scruggs Narrator: Eleni Pappageorge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning and unexpected tale of tragedy, survival, and true beauty. For fashion journalist Lauren (“LoLo”) Scruggs, a short flight to look at Christmas lights turned into a nightmare when she was struck by the plane’s spinning propeller blades. As Lauren was rushed to the hospital, fighting for her life, the world watched in shock and horror. Several major surgeries and thousands of prayers later, Lauren was still alive. But she had suffered brain trauma and lost her left hand and left eye. Some thought that this would be the end of everything for her, a beautiful young woman working in an industry focused completely on appearance. They were wrong. In Still LoLo, Lauren reveals what really happened that night, how she survived against all odds, and what her life is like today. She is unflinchingly honest in the face of difficult questions: What kind of future will I have? Will anyone be able to love me now? Where is God in all this pain? Through her story, Lauren calls us all to live a life without fear and to overcome whatever challenges threaten to limit us. Containing personal stories from Lauren and her family, Still LoLo is a compelling and fiercely beautiful account of faith, determination, and staying true to who you are — no matter what.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saving-each-other-a-mother-daughter-love-story-by-victoria-jackson-ali-guthy--65201388https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Author: Victoria Jackson, Ali Guthy Narrator: Lori Tritel, Amanda Troop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 19, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education, she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy — self-made principal of infomercial marketing giant Guthy-Renker — Victoria’s most treasured role is mother to three beautiful, beloved children, Evan, Ali, and Jackson. Suddenly, Victoria’s dream life is broken as she begins to battle a mother’s greatest fear. In 2008, her daughter, Ali, began experiencing unusual symptoms of blurred vision and an ache in her eye. Ali’s test results led to the diagnosis of Neuromyelitis Optica. NMO is a little understood, incurable, and often fatal autoimmune disease that can cause blindness, paralysis, and life-threatening seizures, and afflicts as few as 20,000 people in the world. At the age of 14, Ali was given a terrifying prognosis of four to six years to live. Saving Each Other begins just as Victoria and Bill learn of Ali’s disease, starting them on a powerful journey to save their only daughter. They even brought together a team of more than 50 of the world’s leading experts in autoimmune and NMO-related diseases to create the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation. Told in alternating viewpoints, Victoria and Ali narrate their very different journeys of coming to terms with the lack of control that neither mother nor daughter have over NMO, and their pioneering efforts and courage to take their fight to a global level. Bringing their story to light with raw emotion, humor, warmth, and refreshing candor, Saving Each Other is the extraordinary journey of a mother and daughter who demonstrate how the power of love can transcend our greatest fears, while at the same time battling to find a cure for the incurable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193970Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Author: Victoria Jackson, Ali Guthy Narrator: Lori Tritel, Amanda Troop Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Author: Victoria Jackson, Ali Guthy Narrator: Lori Tritel, Amanda Troop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 19, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education, she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy — self-made principal of infomercial marketing giant Guthy-Renker — Victoria’s most treasured role is mother to three beautiful, beloved children, Evan, Ali, and Jackson. Suddenly, Victoria’s dream life is broken as she begins to battle a mother’s greatest fear. In 2008, her daughter, Ali, began experiencing unusual symptoms of blurred vision and an ache in her eye. Ali’s test results led to the diagnosis of Neuromyelitis Optica. NMO is a little understood, incurable, and often fatal autoimmune disease that can cause blindness, paralysis, and life-threatening seizures, and afflicts as few as 20,000 people in the world. At the age of 14, Ali was given a terrifying prognosis of four to six years to live. Saving Each Other begins just as Victoria and Bill learn of Ali’s disease, starting them on a powerful journey to save their only daughter. They even brought together a team of more than 50 of the world’s leading experts in autoimmune and NMO-related diseases to create the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation. Told in alternating viewpoints, Victoria and Ali narrate their very different journeys of coming to terms with the lack of control that neither mother nor daughter have over NMO, and their pioneering efforts and courage to take their fight to a global level. Bringing their story to light with raw emotion, humor, warmth, and refreshing candor, Saving Each Other is the extraordinary journey of a mother and daughter who demonstrate how the power of love can transcend our greatest fears, while at the same time battling to find a cure for the incurable.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whirlybirds-and-ordinary-times-reflections-on-faith-and-the-changing-of-seasons-by-katie-savage--65201407https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times: Reflections on Faith and the Changing of Seasons Author: Katie Savage Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times, author Katie Savage beckons you to join her as she embraces the mystery of faith and gently eases into the sometimes turbulent waters of contemplative exploration. She writes with honesty and humor about the uncertainty and doubt that is inherent in the life of the growing believer, finding that even in the midst of questions, bold assurances of faith emerge. You’ll find yourself falling into step with Katie as she meanders through the liturgical calendar of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost, as this insightful audio book weaves ordinary stories and surprising insights into satisfying reflections of the spiritual life, relationships, and life as we know it. This delightful collection of essays will stimulate your thinking, stir your heart, and nurture your soul.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194049Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times: Reflections on Faith and the Changing of Seasons Author: Katie Savage Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times: Reflections on Faith and the Changing of Seasons Author: Katie Savage Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times, author Katie Savage beckons you to join her as she embraces the mystery of faith and gently eases into the sometimes turbulent waters of contemplative exploration. She writes with honesty and humor about the uncertainty and doubt that is inherent in the life of the growing believer, finding that even in the midst of questions, bold assurances of faith emerge. You’ll find yourself falling into step with Katie as she meanders through the liturgical calendar of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost, as this insightful audio book weaves ordinary stories and surprising insights into satisfying reflections of the spiritual life, relationships, and life as we know it. This delightful collection of essays will stimulate your thinking, stir your heart, and nurture your soul.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/there-was-a-country-a-personal-history-of-biafra-by-chinua-achebe--65201319https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra Author: Chinua Achebe Narrator: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 11, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe’s people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. By then, Chinua Achebe was already a world-renowned novelist, with a young family to protect. He took the Biafran side in the conflict and served his government as a roving cultural ambassador, from which vantage he absorbed the war’s full horror. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than forty years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa’s most fateful events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature. Achebe masterfully relates his experience, bothas he lived it and how he has come to understand it. He begins his story with Nigeria’s birth pangs and the story of his own upbringing as a man and as a writer so that we might come to understand the country’s promise, which turned to horror when the hot winds of hatred began to stir. To read There Was a Country is to be powerfully reminded that artists have a particular obligation, especially during a time of war. All writers, Achebe argues, should be committed writers—they should speak for their history, their beliefs, and their people. Marrying history and memoir, poetry and prose, There Was a Country is a distillation of vivid firsthand observation and forty years of research and reflection. Wise, humane, and authoritative, it will stand as definitive and reinforce Achebe’s place as one of the most vital literary and moral voices of our age. "1966", "Benin Road", "Penalty of Godhead", "Generation Gap", "Biafra, 1969", "A Mother in a Refugee Camp", "The First Shot", "Air Raid", "Mango Seedling", "We Laughed at Him", "Vultures", and "After a War" from Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe. Copyright © 1971, 1973, 2004 by Chinua Achebe. Used by permission of Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc. and The Wylie Agency, LLC.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200808Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra Author: Chinua Achebe Narrator: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra Author: Chinua Achebe Narrator: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 11, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe’s people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. By then, Chinua Achebe was already a world-renowned novelist, with a young family to protect. He took the Biafran side in the conflict and served his government as a roving cultural ambassador, from which vantage he absorbed the war’s full horror. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than forty years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa’s most fateful events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature. Achebe masterfully relates his experience, bothas he lived it and how he has come to understand it. He begins his story with Nigeria’s birth pangs and the story of his own upbringing as a man and as a writer so that we might come to understand the country’s promise, which turned to horror when the hot winds of hatred began to stir. To read There Was a Country is to be powerfully reminded that artists have a particular obligation, especially during a time of war. All writers, Achebe argues, should be committed writers—they should speak for their history, their beliefs, and their people. Marrying history and memoir, poetry and prose, There Was a Country is a distillation of vivid firsthand observation and forty years of research and reflection. Wise, humane, and authoritative, it will stand as definitive and reinforce Achebe’s place as one of the most vital literary and moral voices of our age. "1966", "Benin Road", "Penalty of Godhead", "Generation Gap", "Biafra, 1969", "A Mother in a Refugee Camp", "The First Shot", "Air Raid", "Mango Seedling", "We Laughed at Him", "Vultures", and "After a War" from Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe. Copyright © 1971, 1973, 2004 by Chinua Achebe. Used by permission of Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc. and The Wylie Agency, LLC.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/impact-player-leaving-a-lasting-legacy-on-and-off-the-field-by-bobby-richardson--65201387https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field Author: Bobby Richardson Narrator: Bill Dewees Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'I want to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.' —Bobby Richardson. Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, and Yogi Berra during one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from a losing team ever to be named World Series MVP. Impact Player chronicles Bobby’s life story — from his early days playing American Legion ball in South Carolina through his storied career with the Yankee’s and his decision to walk away from the game in his prime. He shares never-before-told tales from the Yankees clubhouse during the historic ‘55–‘64 pennant runs, and he speaks candidly about the unlikely friendship this devout, clean-cut Christian shared with the fast-and-hard-living Mickey Mantle — a friendship that lasted for decades and would ultimately change the lives of these former teammates forever. The perfect combination of faith and baseball, Impact Player is a must-listen for baseball fans and historians of all ages. It not only offers a rare glimpse into one of those most celebrated dynasties in the history of the game but also paints a fascinating portrait of a life well lived and portrays the lasting rewards that come from knowing and loving God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192848Sat, 01 Sep 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field Author: Bobby Richardson Narrator: Bill Dewees Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field Author: Bobby Richardson Narrator: Bill Dewees Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'I want to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.' —Bobby Richardson. Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, and Yogi Berra during one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from a losing team ever to be named World Series MVP. Impact Player chronicles Bobby’s life story — from his early days playing American Legion ball in South Carolina through his storied career with the Yankee’s and his decision to walk away from the game in his prime. He shares never-before-told tales from the Yankees clubhouse during the historic ‘55–‘64 pennant runs, and he speaks candidly about the unlikely friendship this devout, clean-cut Christian shared with the fast-and-hard-living Mickey Mantle — a friendship that lasted for decades and would ultimately change the lives of these former teammates forever. The perfect combination of faith and baseball, Impact Player is a must-listen for baseball fans and historians of all ages. It not only offers a rare glimpse into one of those most celebrated dynasties in the history of the game but also paints a fascinating portrait of a life well lived and portrays the lasting rewards that come from knowing and loving God.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cruel-harvest-a-memoir-by-bryan-reardon-fran-elizabeth-grubb--65201361https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cruel Harvest: A Memoir Author: Bryan Reardon, Fran Elizabeth Grubb Narrator: Fran Elizabeth Grubb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 14, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Get out here, now, or I'm gonna kill you!" he hollered. Little girls are hardwired to hold their daddies in high esteem, so it comes as a shock the first time a daughter feels the back of her daddy's hand across her face . . . or watches him punch and kick her mother to within an inch of her life. How could this be? Her older sisters teach her how to survive, even when he comes for her in the night. A girl learns to become invisible, to look the other way, to say nothing when a curious stranger asks if she's okay. -- To lie. To expect nothing, not even from relatives. -- To cry without tears. -- To pray silently. When she is fourteen, and weary, a girl begins to wish she were dead. Cruel Harvest is the compelling story of how she lived instead.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192658Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cruel Harvest: A Memoir Author: Bryan Reardon, Fran Elizabeth Grubb Narrator: Fran Elizabeth Grubb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cruel Harvest: A Memoir Author: Bryan Reardon, Fran Elizabeth Grubb Narrator: Fran Elizabeth Grubb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 14, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Get out here, now, or I'm gonna kill you!" he hollered. Little girls are hardwired to hold their daddies in high esteem, so it comes as a shock the first time a daughter feels the back of her daddy's hand across her face . . . or watches him punch and kick her mother to within an inch of her life. How could this be? Her older sisters teach her how to survive, even when he comes for her in the night. A girl learns to become invisible, to look the other way, to say nothing when a curious stranger asks if she's okay. -- To lie. To expect nothing, not even from relatives. -- To cry without tears. -- To pray silently. When she is fourteen, and weary, a girl begins to wish she were dead. Cruel Harvest is the compelling story of how she lived instead.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/call-of-a-coward-the-god-of-moses-and-the-middle-class-housewife-by-marcia-moston--65201447https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call of A Coward: The God of Moses and the Middle-Class Housewife Author: Marcia Moston Narrator: Patty Fogarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "It's difficult to get your mind around trust. You just have to do it" Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his missions call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign mission's, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and required courage she couldn't seem to find. She promised to follow where God led, but she never thought the road would lead to a Mayan village on a Guatemalan mountainside. From the treacherous road trip to their new village home, to learning to navigate a new culture, to a stateside mission field in Vermont, Moston's journey reveals that God leads just as clearly today as he did in biblical times. Her candid account tells a story of learning to trust and obey when faithfulness seems foolish. With humor and insight, Call of a Coward is an engaging reminder that with our very real God in control, cowards become courageous and ordinary people find great purpose.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192656Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call of A Coward: The God of Moses and the Middle-Class Housewife Author: Marcia Moston Narrator: Patty Fogarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call of A Coward: The God of Moses and the Middle-Class Housewife Author: Marcia Moston Narrator: Patty Fogarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "It's difficult to get your mind around trust. You just have to do it" Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his missions call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign mission's, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and required courage she couldn't seem to find. She promised to follow where God led, but she never thought the road would lead to a Mayan village on a Guatemalan mountainside. From the treacherous road trip to their new village home, to learning to navigate a new culture, to a stateside mission field in Vermont, Moston's journey reveals that God leads just as clearly today as he did in biblical times. Her candid account tells a story of learning to trust and obey when faithfulness seems foolish. With humor and insight, Call of a Coward is an engaging reminder that with our very real God in control, cowards become courageous and ordinary people find great purpose.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blue-water-green-skipper-a-memoir-of-sailing-alone-across-the-atlantic-by-stuart-woods--65201376https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Stephen Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200318Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Stephen Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Stephen Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 2, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-will-carry-you-the-sacred-dance-of-grief-and-joy-by-angie-smith--65201383https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy Author: Angie Smith Narrator: Pam Turlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Angie Smith was eighteen weeks pregnant with her fourth daughter, Audrey Caroline, when doctors discovered conditions leaving Audrey "incompatible with life." Faced with the decision whether to terminate the pregnancy, Angie and her husband chose to carry Audrey for as long as she had life. This began what turned out to be three months of loving and carrying a little girl that was not expected to live more than a few minutes. Audrey Caroline lived for over two hours, weighing three pounds, two ounces. Yet, in the midst of the sorrow of loss, there was still joy. Angie weaves the faith-filled story of Audrey Caroline with a biblical story of hope to help us all to understand how better to cope with loss and disappointment. In I Will Carry You, Audrey's mom tells the sweet story of her baby girl who changed the world. Be part of Audrey's story as you hear of this mom, her daughter, and the family's faith - you will be among the changed!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192841Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy Author: Angie Smith Narrator: Pam Turlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy Author: Angie Smith Narrator: Pam Turlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Angie Smith was eighteen weeks pregnant with her fourth daughter, Audrey Caroline, when doctors discovered conditions leaving Audrey "incompatible with life." Faced with the decision whether to terminate the pregnancy, Angie and her husband chose to carry Audrey for as long as she had life. This began what turned out to be three months of loving and carrying a little girl that was not expected to live more than a few minutes. Audrey Caroline lived for over two hours, weighing three pounds, two ounces. Yet, in the midst of the sorrow of loss, there was still joy. Angie weaves the faith-filled story of Audrey Caroline with a biblical story of hope to help us all to understand how better to cope with loss and disappointment. In I Will Carry You, Audrey's mom tells the sweet story of her baby girl who changed the world. Be part of Audrey's story as you hear of this mom, her daughter, and the family's faith - you will be among the changed!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/let-s-pretend-this-never-happened-a-mostly-true-memoir-by-jenny-lawson--65201337https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir Author: Jenny Lawson Narrator: Jenny Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 17, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 110 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 27 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195127Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir Author: Jenny Lawson Narrator: Jenny Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir Author: Jenny Lawson Narrator: Jenny Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 17, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 110 Ratings of Narrator: 4.3 of Total 27 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vow-the-true-events-that-inspired-the-movie-by-krickitt-carpenter-dana-wilkerson-kim-carpenter--65201340https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie Author: Krickitt Carpenter, Dana Wilkerson, Kim Carpenter Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 9, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition two months after their marriage when a devastating car wreck left Krickitt with a massive head injury and in a coma for weeks. When she finally awoke, she had no idea who Kim was. With no recollection of their relationship and while Krickitt experienced personality changes common to those who suffer head injuries, Kim realized the woman he had married essentially died in the accident. And yet, against all odds, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again. The Vow tells the true story of this journey, one of a commitment unbroken and a vow fulfilled. Includes an exclusive interview with Kim & Krickitt Carpenter!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196570Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie Author: Krickitt Carpenter, Dana Wilkerson, Kim Carpenter Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie Author: Krickitt Carpenter, Dana Wilkerson, Kim Carpenter Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 9, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition two months after their marriage when a devastating car wreck left Krickitt with a massive head injury and in a coma for weeks. When she finally awoke, she had no idea who Kim was. With no recollection of their relationship and while Krickitt experienced personality changes common to those who suffer head injuries, Kim realized the woman he had married essentially died in the accident. And yet, against all odds, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again. The Vow tells the true story of this journey, one of a commitment unbroken and a vow fulfilled. Includes an exclusive interview with Kim & Krickitt Carpenter!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/two-rings-a-story-of-love-and-war-by-eve-keller-millie-werber--65201308https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Rings: A Story of Love and War Author: Eve Keller, Millie Werber Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet and carried a secret in her heart. Many years later, Millie began telling her story to writer Eve Keller. Together, the two women rediscovered the teenage girl Millie had been during the war—and the man to whom she was married for a few brief months. Betrayed by a fellow Jewish guard, he died, leaving Millie with their wedding rings and a single photograph. Nothing else remained to prove that he ever existed. Millie never told her family about him, but she never abandoned his memory. A worthy addition to the bestselling tradition of Holocaust coming-of-age memoirs, this is a spare, unsentimental, and indelibly poignant tale of a history reclaimed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198333Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Rings: A Story of Love and War Author: Eve Keller, Millie Werber Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Rings: A Story of Love and War Author: Eve Keller, Millie Werber Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet and carried a secret in her heart. Many years later, Millie began telling her story to writer Eve Keller. Together, the two women rediscovered the teenage girl Millie had been during the war—and the man to whom she was married for a few brief months. Betrayed by a fellow Jewish guard, he died, leaving Millie with their wedding rings and a single photograph. Nothing else remained to prove that he ever existed. Millie never told her family about him, but she never abandoned his memory. A worthy addition to the bestselling tradition of Holocaust coming-of-age memoirs, this is a spare, unsentimental, and indelibly poignant tale of a history reclaimed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tough-sh-t-life-advice-from-a-fat-lazy-slob-who-did-good-by-kevin-smith--65201346https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good Author: Kevin Smith Narrator: Kevin Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: That Kevin Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibly learn from the director of “Cop Out”? How about this: he changed filmmaking forever when he was twenty-three, and since then, he’s done whatever the hell he wants. He makes movies, writes comics, owns a store, and now he’s built a podcasting empire with his friends and family, including a wife who’s way out of his league. So here’s some tough shit: Kevin Smith has cracked the code.  Or, he’s just cracked. Tough Sh*t is the dirty business that Kevin has been digesting for 41 years and now, he’s ready to put it in your hands. Smear this shit all over yourself, because this is your blueprint (or brownprint) for success. Kev takes you through some big moments in his life to help you live your days in as Gretzky a fashion as you can: going where the puck is gonna be. Read all about how a zero like Smith managed to make ten movies with no discernible talent, and how when he had everything he thought he’d ever want, he decided to blow up his own career. Along the way, Kev shares stories about folks who inspired him (like George Carlin), folks who befuddled him (like Bruce Willis), and folks who let him jerk off onto their legs (like his beloved wife, Jen). So make this your daily reader. Hell, read it on the toilet if you want. Just make sure you grab the bowl and push, because you’re about to take one Tough Sh*t.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196592Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good Author: Kevin Smith Narrator: Kevin Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good Author: Kevin Smith Narrator: Kevin Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: That Kevin Smith? The guy who did “Clerks” a million years ago? Didn’t they bounce his fat ass off a plane once? What could you possibly learn from the director of “Cop Out”? How about this: he changed filmmaking forever when he was twenty-three, and since then, he’s done whatever the hell he wants. He makes movies, writes comics, owns a store, and now he’s built a podcasting empire with his friends and family, including a wife who’s way out of his league. So here’s some tough shit: Kevin Smith has cracked the code.  Or, he’s just cracked. Tough Sh*t is the dirty business that Kevin has been digesting for 41 years and now, he’s ready to put it in your hands. Smear this shit all over yourself, because this is your blueprint (or brownprint) for success. Kev takes you through some big moments in his life to help you live your days in as Gretzky a fashion as you can: going where the puck is gonna be. Read all about how a zero like Smith managed to make ten movies with no discernible talent, and how when he had everything he thought he’d ever want, he decided to blow up his own career. Along the way, Kev shares stories about folks who inspired him (like George Carlin), folks who befuddled him (like Bruce Willis), and folks who let him jerk off onto their legs (like his beloved wife, Jen). So make this your daily reader. Hell, read it on the toilet if you want. Just make sure you grab the bowl and push, because you’re about to take one Tough Sh*t.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-there-is-love-stories-from-storycorps-by-david-isay--65201351https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps Author: David Isay Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 2, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: StoryCorps travels America, collecting and preserving the stories of our lives. Each conversation is housed in the Library of Congress, and many are broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition, heard by millions of listeners each week. Told from the hearts, souls, and lives of individual Americans, these stories make us laugh, cry, think, feel, and know that we are all worth listening to and remembering.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198356Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps Author: David Isay Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps Author: David Isay Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 2, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: StoryCorps travels America, collecting and preserving the stories of our lives. Each conversation is housed in the Library of Congress, and many are broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition, heard by millions of listeners each week. Told from the hearts, souls, and lives of individual Americans, these stories make us laugh, cry, think, feel, and know that we are all worth listening to and remembering.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/as-good-as-she-imagined-the-redeeming-story-of-the-angel-of-tucson-christina-taylor-green-by-roxanna-green-jerry-b-jenkins--65201406https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Good As She Imagined: The Redeeming Story of the Angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green Author: Roxanna Green, Jerry B. Jenkins Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: January 3, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the day Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot, a remarkable little girl went to heaven. This is the story of a mother's quest for peace in the midst of unspeakable heartache. By the time the shooting ended on that cloudless January day in front of a Tucson grocery store, 19 innocent people lay wounded, dead, or dying. Among the gravely wounded was U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The youngest among the six who died was a little girl whose dark eyes and smiling face would soon appear on newscasts around the world. Some would refer to her as “The Angel of Tucson.” Christina-Taylor Green entered this world on September 11, 2001—a ray of sheer joy on a dark day of madness, shock, and sorrow. On January 8, 2011, another act of madness tore her from this world. She was talented. She was popular. She was beautiful. And she was nine. As Good As She Imagined is her mother’s remarkable account of her life, death, and inspiring legacy. With the help of New York Times best-selling author Jerry B. Jenkins, Roxanna Green shares her family’s journey of faith and their quest for redemption amid unspeakable tragedy. It is a story that touched a nation and the world—and a story that will inspire you.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196456Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Good As She Imagined: The Redeeming Story of the Angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green Author: Roxanna Green, Jerry B. Jenkins Narrator: Cassandra...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Good As She Imagined: The Redeeming Story of the Angel of Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green Author: Roxanna Green, Jerry B. Jenkins Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: January 3, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the day Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot, a remarkable little girl went to heaven. This is the story of a mother's quest for peace in the midst of unspeakable heartache. By the time the shooting ended on that cloudless January day in front of a Tucson grocery store, 19 innocent people lay wounded, dead, or dying. Among the gravely wounded was U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The youngest among the six who died was a little girl whose dark eyes and smiling face would soon appear on newscasts around the world. Some would refer to her as “The Angel of Tucson.” Christina-Taylor Green entered this world on September 11, 2001—a ray of sheer joy on a dark day of madness, shock, and sorrow. On January 8, 2011, another act of madness tore her from this world. She was talented. She was popular. She was beautiful. And she was nine. As Good As She Imagined is her mother’s remarkable account of her life, death, and inspiring legacy. With the help of New York Times best-selling author Jerry B. Jenkins, Roxanna Green shares her family’s journey of faith and their quest for redemption amid unspeakable tragedy. It is a story that touched a nation and the world—and a story that will inspire you.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/always-running-la-vida-loca-gang-days-in-l-a-by-luis-j-rodriguez--65201343https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Author: Luis J. Rodriguez Narrator: Luis J. Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 13, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more - until his son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in this vivid memoir. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-learned lesson for the next generation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177101Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Author: Luis J. Rodriguez Narrator: Luis J. Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Author: Luis J. Rodriguez Narrator: Luis J. Rodriguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 13, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more - until his son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in this vivid memoir. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-learned lesson for the next generation.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/precious-objects-a-story-of-diamonds-family-and-a-way-of-life-by-alicia-oltuski--65201411https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life Author: Alicia Oltuski Narrator: Alicia Oltuski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only to the people who inhabit it. Alicia Oltuski, daughter and granddaughter of diamond dealers, seamlessly blends family narrative with literary reportage to reveal the fascinating secrets of the diamond industry and its madcap characters, including her own eccentric father. Entertaining and illuminating, Precious Objects offers an insider's look at the history, business, and society behind one of the world's most coveted natural resources.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177107Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life Author: Alicia Oltuski Narrator: Alicia Oltuski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life Author: Alicia Oltuski Narrator: Alicia Oltuski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only to the people who inhabit it. Alicia Oltuski, daughter and granddaughter of diamond dealers, seamlessly blends family narrative with literary reportage to reveal the fascinating secrets of the diamond industry and its madcap characters, including her own eccentric father. Entertaining and illuminating, Precious Objects offers an insider's look at the history, business, and society behind one of the world's most coveted natural resources.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/true-strength-my-journey-from-hercules-to-mere-mortal-and-how-nearly-dying-saved-my-life-by-kevin-sorbo--65201366https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal--and How Nearly Dying Saved My LIfe Author: Kevin Sorbo Narrator: Sam Sorbo, Kevin Sorbo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On television, as the star of the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demi god. He relished living the part—putting in 14-hour days on set, doing his own stunts, and relentlessly working out at the gym. Until one day it all came to an abrupt end. Now, for the first time, Sorbo shares what viewers didn’t know: he suffered three strokes from an aneurysm in his shoulder that had been radiating blood clots throughout his body, likely for months. He was left partially blind and entirely incapacitated at just thirty-eight years old. Appearances are everything in Hollywood, so Sorbo and the production studio hid the full details of his condition from the media. After all, how could the strongest man in the world be…fragile? To continue filming Hercules, the number-one worldwide syndicated TV series at the time, they frantically reworked scripts and revamped production to allow for the star’s severely limited involvement. But as the effects of the strokes persisted—with painful, mysterious, debilitating symptoms—and physicians could offer few answers, Sorbo grew increasingly despondent. What happens when your entire identity vanishes? True Strength is the story of how one man faced the unimaginable and ultimately found the real measure of success. With tongue-in-cheek humor and an unfailingly candid voice, Sorbo reflects on his childhood in Minnesota, his early modeling and acting days, and his hard-charging charmed life in television. He recounts the onset of his stroke symptoms, the frightening hospitalizations, his battle with depression, and fighting for a recovery that defied medical expectations. And how through it all, love conspired to save him from missing out on what matters. With this refreshingly honest account of celebrity, personal tragedy, and the power of letting go, Sorbo aims to blaze a trail for anyone who may have suffered a serious setback in life and is struggling to find their way forward.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196451Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal--and How Nearly Dying Saved My LIfe Author: Kevin Sorbo Narrator: Sam Sorbo, Kevin Sorbo Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal--and How Nearly Dying Saved My LIfe Author: Kevin Sorbo Narrator: Sam Sorbo, Kevin Sorbo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On television, as the star of the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demi god. He relished living the part—putting in 14-hour days on set, doing his own stunts, and relentlessly working out at the gym. Until one day it all came to an abrupt end. Now, for the first time, Sorbo shares what viewers didn’t know: he suffered three strokes from an aneurysm in his shoulder that had been radiating blood clots throughout his body, likely for months. He was left partially blind and entirely incapacitated at just thirty-eight years old. Appearances are everything in Hollywood, so Sorbo and the production studio hid the full details of his condition from the media. After all, how could the strongest man in the world be…fragile? To continue filming Hercules, the number-one worldwide syndicated TV series at the time, they frantically reworked scripts and revamped production to allow for the star’s severely limited involvement. But as the effects of the strokes persisted—with painful, mysterious, debilitating symptoms—and physicians could offer few answers, Sorbo grew increasingly despondent. What happens when your entire identity vanishes? True Strength is the story of how one man faced the unimaginable and ultimately found the real measure of success. With tongue-in-cheek humor and an unfailingly candid voice, Sorbo reflects on his childhood in Minnesota, his early modeling and acting days, and his hard-charging charmed life in television. He recounts the onset of his stroke symptoms, the frightening hospitalizations, his battle with depression, and fighting for a recovery that defied medical expectations. And how through it all, love conspired to save him from missing out on what matters. With this refreshingly honest account of celebrity, personal tragedy, and the power of letting go, Sorbo aims to blaze a trail for anyone who may have suffered a serious setback in life and is struggling to find their way forward.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-calls-you-back-an-odyssey-through-love-addiction-revolutions-a-by-luis-j-rodriguez--65201397https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, a Author: Luis J. Rodriguez Narrator: Jacob Vargas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up on the streets of East L.A., Luis Rodriguez narrowly escaped a serious jail term and then struggled to overcome his powerful addiction to heroin and alcohol. Eventually, Rodriguez embarked on a career as a successful journalist and a highly regarded poet. In It Calls You Back, Rodriguez describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a husband and a father and his difficulty leaving his criminal past completely behind. Most disturbing is the terrifying realization that he cannot save his own son from the deadly lure of gang life. Luis's emotional journey offers deep insight into barrio life and the embattled souls of those heroic men and women who risk everything to make it out - and return to help those left behind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177108Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, a Author: Luis J. Rodriguez Narrator: Jacob Vargas Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, a Author: Luis J. Rodriguez Narrator: Jacob Vargas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up on the streets of East L.A., Luis Rodriguez narrowly escaped a serious jail term and then struggled to overcome his powerful addiction to heroin and alcohol. Eventually, Rodriguez embarked on a career as a successful journalist and a highly regarded poet. In It Calls You Back, Rodriguez describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a husband and a father and his difficulty leaving his criminal past completely behind. Most disturbing is the terrifying realization that he cannot save his own son from the deadly lure of gang life. Luis's emotional journey offers deep insight into barrio life and the embattled souls of those heroic men and women who risk everything to make it out - and return to help those left behind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-in-what-it-takes-to-be-the-best-by-gene-chizik--65201348https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All In: What It Takes to Be the Best Author: Gene Chizik Narrator: Kelly Ryan Dolan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At 5–19, the odds against Gene Chizik leading Auburn to a national championship were staggering. But the odds were about to change. All In chronicles the remarkable journey of Gene Chizik, who in two short years went from being the much-maligned 5–19 coach of the Iowa State Cyclones to the undefeated AP SEC Coach of the Year of the 2010 national champion Auburn Tigers. Coach Chizik shares never-before-told stories about his controversial head coaching career—from his highly contentious departure from Iowa State and his heavily criticized appointment at Auburn to his historic 2010 championship run and all the unexpected twists, turns, tragedies, and triumphs along the way. As he recounts his journey, he opens up about the pivotal role his faith has played in his life and career, and he shares his time-tested secrets to success, both on and off the field.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196333Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All In: What It Takes to Be the Best Author: Gene Chizik Narrator: Kelly Ryan Dolan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All In: What It Takes to Be the Best Author: Gene Chizik Narrator: Kelly Ryan Dolan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At 5–19, the odds against Gene Chizik leading Auburn to a national championship were staggering. But the odds were about to change. All In chronicles the remarkable journey of Gene Chizik, who in two short years went from being the much-maligned 5–19 coach of the Iowa State Cyclones to the undefeated AP SEC Coach of the Year of the 2010 national champion Auburn Tigers. Coach Chizik shares never-before-told stories about his controversial head coaching career—from his highly contentious departure from Iowa State and his heavily criticized appointment at Auburn to his historic 2010 championship run and all the unexpected twists, turns, tragedies, and triumphs along the way. As he recounts his journey, he opens up about the pivotal role his faith has played in his life and career, and he shares his time-tested secrets to success, both on and off the field.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-in-the-gray-flannel-skirt-by-jon-jon-goulian--65201356https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt Author: Jon-Jon Goulian Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 17, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The vibrant, funny, and heartwarming story of an outcast who becomes an odd man in   If you have ever felt like a misfit in school or been paralyzed by your family’s imposing expectations, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever wondered if every single thing to which your body is exposed, from egg yolks to X-rays, might harm you, then you may be surprised to find a kindred spirit in The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt. Growing up in sunny La Jolla, California, Jon-Jon Goulian was a hyperneurotic kid who felt out of place wherever he turned, and who, in his own words, was forever on the verge of “caving in beneath the pressures of modern life.” From his fear of competition to his fear of pimples, from his fear of sex to his fear of saturated fat, the range and depth of Jon-Jon’s phobias were seemingly boundless. With his two older brothers providing a sterling example he believed he could never live up to, and his stern grandfather, the political philosopher Sidney Hook, continually calling him to account for his intellectual failure, Jon-Jon, feeling pressed against the wall, wracked with despair, and dizzy with insecurity, instinctively resorted, for reasons that became clear to him only many years later, to a most ingenious scheme for keeping conventional expectations at bay: women’s clothing! Ingenious, perhaps, but woefully ineffective, as Jon-Jon discovers, again and again, that behind his skirt, leggings, halter top, and high heels, he’s still as wildly neurotic, and as wracked with anxiety, as he’s always been. In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Jon-Jon Goulian’s witty and exuberant voice shines through, as he comes to terms with what it means to truly be yourself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196940Tue, 17 May 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt Author: Jon-Jon Goulian Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt Author: Jon-Jon Goulian Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 17, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The vibrant, funny, and heartwarming story of an outcast who becomes an odd man in   If you have ever felt like a misfit in school or been paralyzed by your family’s imposing expectations, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever wondered if every single thing to which your body is exposed, from egg yolks to X-rays, might harm you, then you may be surprised to find a kindred spirit in The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt. Growing up in sunny La Jolla, California, Jon-Jon Goulian was a hyperneurotic kid who felt out of place wherever he turned, and who, in his own words, was forever on the verge of “caving in beneath the pressures of modern life.” From his fear of competition to his fear of pimples, from his fear of sex to his fear of saturated fat, the range and depth of Jon-Jon’s phobias were seemingly boundless. With his two older brothers providing a sterling example he believed he could never live up to, and his stern grandfather, the political philosopher Sidney Hook, continually calling him to account for his intellectual failure, Jon-Jon, feeling pressed against the wall, wracked with despair, and dizzy with insecurity, instinctively resorted, for reasons that became clear to him only many years later, to a most ingenious scheme for keeping conventional expectations at bay: women’s clothing! Ingenious, perhaps, but woefully ineffective, as Jon-Jon discovers, again and again, that behind his skirt, leggings, halter top, and high heels, he’s still as wildly neurotic, and as wracked with anxiety, as he’s always been. In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Jon-Jon Goulian’s witty and exuberant voice shines through, as he comes to terms with what it means to truly be yourself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-latehomecomer-a-hmong-family-memoir-by-kao-kalia-yang--65201322https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Author: Kao Kalia Yang Narrator: Kao Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 10, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 3.42 of Total 12 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States—all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family’s story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together through their imprisonment in Laos, their narrow escape into Thailand’s Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, their immigration to St. Paul when Yang was only six years old, and their transition to life in America. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard in their adopted homeland.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198526Tue, 10 May 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Author: Kao Kalia Yang Narrator: Kao Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Author: Kao Kalia Yang Narrator: Kao Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 10, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 3.42 of Total 12 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States—all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family’s story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together through their imprisonment in Laos, their narrow escape into Thailand’s Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, their immigration to St. Paul when Yang was only six years old, and their transition to life in America. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard in their adopted homeland.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/s-mother-the-story-of-a-man-his-mom-and-the-thousands-of-by-adam-chester--65201371https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: S'Mother: The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Author: Adam Chester Narrator: Adam Chester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are adult trick-or-treaters really that much of a threat? Adam saved his mom's letters as proof this all happened and reproduces many of them in the book. And now, with time, perspective, and plenty of therapy, he acknowledges and accepts the comedy of it all and is proud to share his story with you, if for no other reason than to make you feel better about your own mother.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177131Tue, 03 May 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: S'Mother: The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Author: Adam Chester Narrator: Adam Chester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: S'Mother: The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Author: Adam Chester Narrator: Adam Chester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are adult trick-or-treaters really that much of a threat? Adam saved his mom's letters as proof this all happened and reproduces many of them in the book. And now, with time, perspective, and plenty of therapy, he acknowledges and accepts the comedy of it all and is proud to share his story with you, if for no other reason than to make you feel better about your own mother.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/transition-the-story-of-how-i-became-a-man-by-chaz-bono--65201350https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man Author: Chaz Bono Narrator: Chaz Bono Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to maleAt first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher as Chastity, the cherubic little girl who appeared on her parents' TV show. In later years, she became famous for coming out on a national stage, working with two major organizations toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights and publishing two books. And just within the past eighteen months, Chaz Bono has entered the public consciousness as the most high-profile transgender person ever.All through the hoopla surrounding his change, Chaz has insisted on maintaining his privacy. Now, in Transition, Chaz finally tells his story. Part One traces his decision to transition, beginning in his childhood-when he played on the boys' teams and wore boys' clothing whenever possible-and going through his painful, but ultimately joyful, coming out in his twenties, up to 2008, when, after the death of his father, drug addiction, and five years of sobriety, Chaz was finally ready to begin the process of changing his gender. In Part Two, he offers an unprecedented record in words and photographs of the actual transition, a real-time diary as he navigates uncharted waters. These chapters capture the day-to-day momentum of his life as his body changes.Throughout the book, Chaz touches on themes of identity, gender, and sexuality; parents and children; and how harboring secrets shatters the soul. It is an amazing contribution to our understanding of a much- misunderstood community.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198763Tue, 03 May 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man Author: Chaz Bono Narrator: Chaz Bono Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man Author: Chaz Bono Narrator: Chaz Bono Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to maleAt first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher as Chastity, the cherubic little girl who appeared on her parents' TV show. In later years, she became famous for coming out on a national stage, working with two major organizations toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights and publishing two books. And just within the past eighteen months, Chaz Bono has entered the public consciousness as the most high-profile transgender person ever.All through the hoopla surrounding his change, Chaz has insisted on maintaining his privacy. Now, in Transition, Chaz finally tells his story. Part One traces his decision to transition, beginning in his childhood-when he played on the boys' teams and wore boys' clothing whenever possible-and going through his painful, but ultimately joyful, coming out in his twenties, up to 2008, when, after the death of his father, drug addiction, and five years of sobriety, Chaz was finally ready to begin the process of changing his gender. In Part Two, he offers an unprecedented record in words and photographs of the actual transition, a real-time diary as he navigates uncharted waters. These chapters capture the day-to-day momentum of his life as his body changes.Throughout the book, Chaz touches on themes of identity, gender, and sexuality; parents and children; and how harboring secrets shatters the soul. It is an amazing contribution to our understanding of a much- misunderstood community.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-jane-austen-education-how-six-novels-taught-me-about-love-friendship-and-the-things-that-really-matter-by-william-deresiewicz--65201335https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Author: William Deresiewicz Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 28, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself. A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen's novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary lives, ignited something in Deresiewicz. He began viewing the world through Austen's eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Along the way, Deresiewicz was amazed to discover that the people in his life developed the depth and richness of literary characters-that his own life had suddenly acquired all the fascination of a novel. His real education had finally begun. Weaving his own story-and Austen's-around the ones her novels tell, Deresiewicz shows how her books are both about education and themselves an education. Her heroines learn about friendship and feeling, staying young and being good, and, of course, love. As they grow up, they learn lessons that are imparted to Austen's reader, who learns and grows by their sides. A Jane Austen Education is a testament to the transformative power of literature, a celebration of Austen's mastery, and a joy to read. Whether for a newcomer to Austen or a lifelong devotee, Deresiewicz brings fresh insights to the novelist and her beloved works. Ultimately, Austen's world becomes indelibly entwined with our own, showing the relevance of her message and the triumph of her vision.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198872Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Author: William Deresiewicz Narrator: Sean...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Author: William Deresiewicz Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 28, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself. A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen's novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary lives, ignited something in Deresiewicz. He began viewing the world through Austen's eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Along the way, Deresiewicz was amazed to discover that the people in his life developed the depth and richness of literary characters-that his own life had suddenly acquired all the fascination of a novel. His real education had finally begun. Weaving his own story-and Austen's-around the ones her novels tell, Deresiewicz shows how her books are both about education and themselves an education. Her heroines learn about friendship and feeling, staying young and being good, and, of course, love. As they grow up, they learn lessons that are imparted to Austen's reader, who learns and grows by their sides. A Jane Austen Education is a testament to the transformative power of literature, a celebration of Austen's mastery, and a joy to read. Whether for a newcomer to Austen or a lifelong devotee, Deresiewicz brings fresh insights to the novelist and her beloved works. Ultimately, Austen's world becomes indelibly entwined with our own, showing the relevance of her message and the triumph of her vision.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/idea-man-a-memoir-by-the-cofounder-of-microsoft-by-paul-allen--65201330https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft Author: Paul Allen Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 19, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigor-combined with the resources to launch and support new initiatives-have literally changed the world. In 2009 Allen discovered that he had lymphoma, lending urgency to his desire to share his story for the first time. In this classic memoir, Allen explains how he has solved problems, what he's learned from his many endeavors-both the triumphs and the failures-and his compelling vision for the future. He reflects candidly on an extraordinary life. The book also features previously untold stories about everything from the true origins of Microsoft to Allen's role in the dawn of private space travel (with SpaceShipOne) and in discoveries at the frontiers of brain science. With honesty, humor, and insight, Allen tells the story of a life of ideas made real.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200814Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft Author: Paul Allen Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft Author: Paul Allen Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 19, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigor-combined with the resources to launch and support new initiatives-have literally changed the world. In 2009 Allen discovered that he had lymphoma, lending urgency to his desire to share his story for the first time. In this classic memoir, Allen explains how he has solved problems, what he's learned from his many endeavors-both the triumphs and the failures-and his compelling vision for the future. He reflects candidly on an extraordinary life. The book also features previously untold stories about everything from the true origins of Microsoft to Allen's role in the dawn of private space travel (with SpaceShipOne) and in discoveries at the frontiers of brain science. With honesty, humor, and insight, Allen tells the story of a life of ideas made real.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother-by-amy-chua--65201336https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Author: Amy Chua Narrator: Amy Chua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Courageous and thought-provoking.” —David Brooks, The New York Times “Breathtakingly personal . . . [Chua’s] tale is as compelling as a good thriller.” —The Financial Times '[F]ascinating. . . . the most stimulating book on the subject of child rearing since Dr. Spock.' —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Chua’s memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is a quick, easy read. It’s smart, funny, honest and a little heartbreaking . . .” —Chicago Sun-Times At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting.  Amy Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children’s individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future.   Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother chronicles Chua’s iron-willed decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, the Chinese way – and the remarkable, sometimes heartbreaking  results her choice inspires.  Achingly honest and profoundly challenging, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is one of the most talked-about books of our times.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196597Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Author: Amy Chua Narrator: Amy Chua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Author: Amy Chua Narrator: Amy Chua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Courageous and thought-provoking.” —David Brooks, The New York Times “Breathtakingly personal . . . [Chua’s] tale is as compelling as a good thriller.” —The Financial Times '[F]ascinating. . . . the most stimulating book on the subject of child rearing since Dr. Spock.' —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Chua’s memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is a quick, easy read. It’s smart, funny, honest and a little heartbreaking . . .” —Chicago Sun-Times At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting.  Amy Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children’s individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future.   Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother chronicles Chua’s iron-willed decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, the Chinese way – and the remarkable, sometimes heartbreaking  results her choice inspires.  Achingly honest and profoundly challenging, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is one of the most talked-about books of our times.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/weaving-dreams-the-joy-of-work-the-love-of-life-by-tami-longaberger--65201468https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weaving Dreams: The Joy of Work, The Love of Life Author: Tami Longaberger Narrator: Mary Kae Irvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 30, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tami Longaberger, CEO of The Longaberger Company, offers readers a glimpse of her unique 'American Dream.' Whether sharing memories of her impoverished childhood in Appalachia or accounts of reaching out to business women of the Middle East, Longaberger evokes a balanced nostalgia for the sweetness of the past comingled with a passionate call for hope for the future, prompting readers to dream bigger, think more broadly, and risk taking the road less traveled in business and in life. In Weaving Dreams: The Joy of Work, the Love of Life, Tami Longaberger emerges as a clear voice of encouragement and inspiration, challenging us all to live each moment to the fullest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177154Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weaving Dreams: The Joy of Work, The Love of Life Author: Tami Longaberger Narrator: Mary Kae Irvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weaving Dreams: The Joy of Work, The Love of Life Author: Tami Longaberger Narrator: Mary Kae Irvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 30, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tami Longaberger, CEO of The Longaberger Company, offers readers a glimpse of her unique 'American Dream.' Whether sharing memories of her impoverished childhood in Appalachia or accounts of reaching out to business women of the Middle East, Longaberger evokes a balanced nostalgia for the sweetness of the past comingled with a passionate call for hope for the future, prompting readers to dream bigger, think more broadly, and risk taking the road less traveled in business and in life. In Weaving Dreams: The Joy of Work, the Love of Life, Tami Longaberger emerges as a clear voice of encouragement and inspiration, challenging us all to live each moment to the fullest.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/even-silence-has-an-end-my-six-years-of-captivity-in-the-colombian-jungle-by-ingrid-betancourt--65201315https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Author: Ingrid Betancourt Narrator: Margaret Nichols Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ingrid Bettancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201059Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Author: Ingrid Betancourt Narrator: Margaret Nichols Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Author: Ingrid Betancourt Narrator: Margaret Nichols Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 7, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ingrid Bettancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shattered-struck-down-but-not-destroyed-by-frank-pastore-ellen-vaughn--65201417https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed Author: Frank Pastore, Ellen Vaughn Narrator: Frank Pastore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cincinnati Reds pitcher Frank Pastore stepped onto the mound in Dodger Stadium to throw another fastball—something he’d done thousands of times since childhood. But this time was different. The batter connected and the ball came rocketing back to the mound, shattering not only Frank’s pitching elbow—but also his dream of getting “rich and famous” through Major League Baseball.™ As he walked to the training room, Frank found himself asking a God he didn’t believe in, “Why is this happening to me?” There was no answer—at least not then. It was this injury that sent Frank, a lifelong atheist, on a journey that would change not only his mind but also his whole life—as a husband, father, friend, and troubled son. We all know the pain of shattered dreams. We’ve all wondered how to pick up the broken pieces after a crisis. We’ve all wondered, “Where is God?” when life hurts so bad. This is a story of how the fragments of broken dreams can be reassembled into even bigger and better things. A story of how, when life’s disasters and difficulties knock us down, they don’t have to destroy us. This is a story that shows how all of us can come to know we’re in God’s good hands. Even when we’re shattered.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194701Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed Author: Frank Pastore, Ellen Vaughn Narrator: Frank Pastore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed Author: Frank Pastore, Ellen Vaughn Narrator: Frank Pastore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cincinnati Reds pitcher Frank Pastore stepped onto the mound in Dodger Stadium to throw another fastball—something he’d done thousands of times since childhood. But this time was different. The batter connected and the ball came rocketing back to the mound, shattering not only Frank’s pitching elbow—but also his dream of getting “rich and famous” through Major League Baseball.™ As he walked to the training room, Frank found himself asking a God he didn’t believe in, “Why is this happening to me?” There was no answer—at least not then. It was this injury that sent Frank, a lifelong atheist, on a journey that would change not only his mind but also his whole life—as a husband, father, friend, and troubled son. We all know the pain of shattered dreams. We’ve all wondered how to pick up the broken pieces after a crisis. We’ve all wondered, “Where is God?” when life hurts so bad. This is a story of how the fragments of broken dreams can be reassembled into even bigger and better things. A story of how, when life’s disasters and difficulties knock us down, they don’t have to destroy us. This is a story that shows how all of us can come to know we’re in God’s good hands. Even when we’re shattered.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-a-heartbeat-sharing-the-power-of-cheerful-giving-by-sean-tuohy-leigh-anne-tuohy-sally-jenkins--65201421https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving Author: Sean Tuohy, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sally Jenkins Narrator: Kathleen Mcinerney, Sean Tuohy, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Rick Adamson, Sally Jenkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words. For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become 'cheerful givers.' Sean, who grew up poor, believed that one day he could provide a home that would be 'a place of miracles.' Together, they raised two remarkable children—Collins and Sean Jr.—who shared their deep Christian faith and their commitment to making a difference. And then one day Leigh Anne met a homeless African-American boy named Michael and decided that her family could be his. She and her husband taught Michael what this book teaches all of us: Everyone has a blind side, but a loving heart always sees a path toward true charity. Michael Oher's improbable transformation could never have happened if Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy had not opened their hearts to him. In this compelling, funny, and profoundly inspiring book, the Tuohys take us on an extraordinary journey of faith and love—and teach us unforgettable lessons about the power of giving.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191207Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving Author: Sean Tuohy, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sally Jenkins Narrator: Kathleen Mcinerney, Sean Tuohy,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving Author: Sean Tuohy, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sally Jenkins Narrator: Kathleen Mcinerney, Sean Tuohy, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Rick Adamson, Sally Jenkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words. For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become 'cheerful givers.' Sean, who grew up poor, believed that one day he could provide a home that would be 'a place of miracles.' Together, they raised two remarkable children—Collins and Sean Jr.—who shared their deep Christian faith and their commitment to making a difference. And then one day Leigh Anne met a homeless African-American boy named Michael and decided that her family could be his. She and her husband taught Michael what this book teaches all of us: Everyone has a blind side, but a loving heart always sees a path toward true charity. Michael Oher's improbable transformation could never have happened if Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy had not opened their hearts to him. In this compelling, funny, and profoundly inspiring book, the Tuohys take us on an extraordinary journey of faith and love—and teach us unforgettable lessons about the power of giving.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/captive-my-time-as-a-prisoner-of-the-taliban-by-jere-van-dyk--65201404https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban Author: Jere Van Dyk Narrator: Jere Van Dyk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 22, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen armed men in black turbans appeared over the crest of a hill. Captive is Van Dyk's searing account of his forty-five days in a Taliban prison, and it is gripping and terrifying in the tradition of the best prison literature. The main action takes place in a single room, cut off from the outside world, where Van Dyk feels he can trust nobody—not his jailers, not his guides (who he fears may have betrayed him), and certainly not the charismatic Taliban leader whose fleeting appearances carry the hope of redemption as well as the prospect of immediate, violent death. Van Dyk went to the tribal areas to investigate the challenges facing America there. His story is of a deeper, more personal challenge, an unforgettable tale of human endurance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191220Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban Author: Jere Van Dyk Narrator: Jere Van Dyk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban Author: Jere Van Dyk Narrator: Jere Van Dyk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 22, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen armed men in black turbans appeared over the crest of a hill. Captive is Van Dyk's searing account of his forty-five days in a Taliban prison, and it is gripping and terrifying in the tradition of the best prison literature. The main action takes place in a single room, cut off from the outside world, where Van Dyk feels he can trust nobody—not his jailers, not his guides (who he fears may have betrayed him), and certainly not the charismatic Taliban leader whose fleeting appearances carry the hope of redemption as well as the prospect of immediate, violent death. Van Dyk went to the tribal areas to investigate the challenges facing America there. His story is of a deeper, more personal challenge, an unforgettable tale of human endurance.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/committed-a-skeptic-makes-peace-with-marriage-by-elizabeth-gilbert--65201313https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 58 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which—after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing—gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committed attempts to 'turn on all the lights' when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert's memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198894Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 58 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which—after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing—gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committed attempts to 'turn on all the lights' when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert's memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-better-not-cry-stories-for-christmas-by-augusten-burroughs--65201414https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas Author: Augusten Burroughs Narrator: Augusten Burroughs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: You've eaten too much candy at Christmas…but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses…but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover…but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection he recounts Christmases past and present—as only he could. With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179963Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas Author: Augusten Burroughs Narrator: Augusten Burroughs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas Author: Augusten Burroughs Narrator: Augusten Burroughs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: You've eaten too much candy at Christmas…but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses…but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover…but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection he recounts Christmases past and present—as only he could. With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mennonite-in-a-little-black-dress-a-memoir-of-going-home-by-rhonda-janzen--65201305https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home Author: Rhonda Janzen Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis. The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on. Marriage over, body bruised, life upside-down, Rhoda does what any sensible 43-year-old would do: She goes home. But hers is not just any home. It’s a Mennonite home, the scene of her painfully uncool childhood and the bosom of her family: handsome but grouchy Dad, plain but cheerful Mom. Drinking, smoking, and slumber parties are nixed; potlucks, prune soup, and public prayer are embraced. Having long ago left the faith behind, Rhoda is surprised when the conservative community welcomes her back with open arms—and offbeat advice. She discovers that this safe, sheltered world is the perfect place to come to terms with her failed marriage and the choices that both freed and entrapped her.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199146Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home Author: Rhonda Janzen Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home Author: Rhonda Janzen Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis. The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on. Marriage over, body bruised, life upside-down, Rhoda does what any sensible 43-year-old would do: She goes home. But hers is not just any home. It’s a Mennonite home, the scene of her painfully uncool childhood and the bosom of her family: handsome but grouchy Dad, plain but cheerful Mom. Drinking, smoking, and slumber parties are nixed; potlucks, prune soup, and public prayer are embraced. Having long ago left the faith behind, Rhoda is surprised when the conservative community welcomes her back with open arms—and offbeat advice. She discovers that this safe, sheltered world is the perfect place to come to terms with her failed marriage and the choices that both freed and entrapped her.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/traveling-with-pomegranates-a-mother-daughter-story-by-sue-monk-kidd-ann-kidd-taylor--65201320https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story Author: Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor Narrator: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 8, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017.  Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter. A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199388Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story Author: Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor Narrator: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story Author: Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor Narrator: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 8, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017.  Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter. A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-holocaust-diaries-by-carolyn-tomlin-denise-george-nonna-bannister--65201327https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Holocaust Diaries Author: Carolyn Tomlin, Denise George, Nonna Bannister Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.68 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos, official documents, and scraps of a diary written by a young girl. “The time has come when I must share my life story... some facts from the past that could make a contribution, however small it may be, to the history of mankind.”  The Secret Holocaust Diaries is a haunting eyewitness account of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister, a remarkable Russian-American woman who saw and survived unspeakable evils as a young girl. For half a century, she kept her story secret while living a normal American life. She locked all her photos, documents, diaries, and dark memories from World War II in a trunk. Late in life, she unlocked the trunk, first for herself, then for her husband, and now for the rest of the world. Nonna’s story is one of suffering, torture, and death—but also of incredible acts of kindness that show the ultimate triumph of faith and love over despair and evil. The Secret Holocaust Diaries is in part a tragedy, yet it’s also an unforgettable true story about forgiveness, courage, and hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194355Fri, 01 May 2009 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Holocaust Diaries Author: Carolyn Tomlin, Denise George, Nonna Bannister Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Holocaust Diaries Author: Carolyn Tomlin, Denise George, Nonna Bannister Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.68 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos, official documents, and scraps of a diary written by a young girl. “The time has come when I must share my life story... some facts from the past that could make a contribution, however small it may be, to the history of mankind.”  The Secret Holocaust Diaries is a haunting eyewitness account of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister, a remarkable Russian-American woman who saw and survived unspeakable evils as a young girl. For half a century, she kept her story secret while living a normal American life. She locked all her photos, documents, diaries, and dark memories from World War II in a trunk. Late in life, she unlocked the trunk, first for herself, then for her husband, and now for the rest of the world. Nonna’s story is one of suffering, torture, and death—but also of incredible acts of kindness that show the ultimate triumph of faith and love over despair and evil. The Secret Holocaust Diaries is in part a tragedy, yet it’s also an unforgettable true story about forgiveness, courage, and hope.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sarah-palin-a-new-kind-of-leader-by-joe-hilley--65201462https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader Author: Joe Hilley Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 21, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Our present era demands a new style of leadership that transcends political affiliation and party lines. In an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are prized commodities. Governor Sarah Palin (R—Alaska) brings both of those qualities to her new role as candidate for the vice presidency of the United States. Her familiarity with a broad range of issues and her strong moral center are just two of the leadership traits that have allowed Palin to organize and focus her efforts in elected office. Exploring themes from her career in politics, her life as a hockey mom, and her strongly held Christian faith, author Joe Hilley’s biographical leadership study of Sarah Palin explores the leadership principles that have catapulted her into the national spotlight and explains how she models a fresh paradigm of leadership that will guide our nation through the 21st century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162420Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader Author: Joe Hilley Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader Author: Joe Hilley Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 21, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Our present era demands a new style of leadership that transcends political affiliation and party lines. In an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are prized commodities. Governor Sarah Palin (R—Alaska) brings both of those qualities to her new role as candidate for the vice presidency of the United States. Her familiarity with a broad range of issues and her strong moral center are just two of the leadership traits that have allowed Palin to organize and focus her efforts in elected office. Exploring themes from her career in politics, her life as a hockey mom, and her strongly held Christian faith, author Joe Hilley’s biographical leadership study of Sarah Palin explores the leadership principles that have catapulted her into the national spotlight and explains how she models a fresh paradigm of leadership that will guide our nation through the 21st century.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pieces-of-glass-a-moment-of-tragedy-a-lifetime-of-faith-by-sarah-kay--65201482https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pieces of Glass: A Moment of Tragedy, a Lifetime of Faith Author: Sarah Kay Narrator: Connie Wetzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sometimes joy and grief are separated by mere moments. A last-minute run down a ski slope … a catastrophic accident … and an amazing young man is reduced to a comatose form in a hospital bed. His adoring fiancée remains to weep, pray, grieve, rage, and struggle with the jagged trauma of suffering and loss. Some questions have no answers. Some things in life just don’t make sense—including God. And yet … There is God. There is a deeper, more real faith that roots in the wasteland. There is a promise that comforts, and there is hope, and there is life. Pieces of Glass is the poignant, deeply personal chronicle of a young woman’s journey through grief. With eloquence and relentless honesty, author Sarah Kay shares the emotional ebb and flow of her own heart and spirit—and in so doing, reassures, comforts, and encourages us all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162603Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pieces of Glass: A Moment of Tragedy, a Lifetime of Faith Author: Sarah Kay Narrator: Connie Wetzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pieces of Glass: A Moment of Tragedy, a Lifetime of Faith Author: Sarah Kay Narrator: Connie Wetzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sometimes joy and grief are separated by mere moments. A last-minute run down a ski slope … a catastrophic accident … and an amazing young man is reduced to a comatose form in a hospital bed. His adoring fiancée remains to weep, pray, grieve, rage, and struggle with the jagged trauma of suffering and loss. Some questions have no answers. Some things in life just don’t make sense—including God. And yet … There is God. There is a deeper, more real faith that roots in the wasteland. There is a promise that comforts, and there is hope, and there is life. Pieces of Glass is the poignant, deeply personal chronicle of a young woman’s journey through grief. With eloquence and relentless honesty, author Sarah Kay shares the emotional ebb and flow of her own heart and spirit—and in so doing, reassures, comforts, and encourages us all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-wolf-at-the-table-a-memoir-of-my-father-by-augusten-burroughs--65201398https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father Author: Augusten Burroughs Narrator: Augusten Burroughs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year 'As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?' When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence in his life: a form on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette in the dark. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father began to unfurl. Something dark and secretive that could not be named. Betrayal after shocking betrayal ensued, and Augusten's childhood was over. The kind of father he wanted didn't exist for him. This father was distant, aloof, uninterested… And then the 'games' began. With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who has ever longed for unconditional love from a parent. Though harrowing and brutal, A Wolf at the Table will ultimately leave you buoyed with the profound joy of simply being alive. It's a memoir of stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191419Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father Author: Augusten Burroughs Narrator: Augusten Burroughs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father Author: Augusten Burroughs Narrator: Augusten Burroughs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nominated for the 2009 Audiobook of the Year 'As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?' When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence in his life: a form on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette in the dark. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father began to unfurl. Something dark and secretive that could not be named. Betrayal after shocking betrayal ensued, and Augusten's childhood was over. The kind of father he wanted didn't exist for him. This father was distant, aloof, uninterested… And then the 'games' began. With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who has ever longed for unconditional love from a parent. Though harrowing and brutal, A Wolf at the Table will ultimately leave you buoyed with the profound joy of simply being alive. It's a memoir of stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/candy-girl-a-year-in-the-life-of-an-unlikely-stripper-by-diablo-cody--65201460https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper Author: Diablo Cody Narrator: Natalie Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 18, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of 'Dave's Book Club 2006,' Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source--amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesn't take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill.This is Diablo's captivating fish-out-of-water story of her year-long walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemen's clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writer's keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now-husband.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198693Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper Author: Diablo Cody Narrator: Natalie Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper Author: Diablo Cody Narrator: Natalie Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 18, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of 'Dave's Book Club 2006,' Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source--amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesn't take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill.This is Diablo's captivating fish-out-of-water story of her year-long walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemen's clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writer's keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now-husband.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/foreskin-s-lament-a-memoir-by-shalom-auslander--65201323https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir Author: Shalom Auslander Narrator: Shalom Auslander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200937Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir Author: Shalom Auslander Narrator: Shalom Auslander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir Author: Shalom Auslander Narrator: Shalom Auslander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miracle-in-the-andes-72-days-on-the-mountain-and-my-long-trek-home-by-nando-parrado-vince-rause--65201492https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home Author: Nando Parrado, Vince Rause Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 9, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.”   Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends’ lives as well as his own.   Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159778Tue, 09 May 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home Author: Nando Parrado, Vince Rause Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home Author: Nando Parrado, Vince Rause Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 9, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.”   Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends’ lives as well as his own.   Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/strange-piece-of-paradise-a-return-to-the-american-west-to-investigate-my-attempted-murder-and-solve-the-riddle-of-myself-by-terri-jentz--65201353https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West To Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself Author: Terri Jentz Narrator: Margaret Colin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 2, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack. Their friendship is shattered. Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered, on the first of many visits she will make 'to solve the crime that would solve me.' And she makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her extensive interviews with the townspeople yield a terrifying revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth about the crime and its aftermath, and to come to terms with the wounds that broke her life into a before and an after. Ultimately she finds herself face-to-face with the alleged axman. Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of Terri's investigation into the mystery of her near murder. A startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of a brave inner journey from violence to hope, this searing, unforgettable work is certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191536Tue, 02 May 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West To Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself Author: Terri Jentz...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West To Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself Author: Terri Jentz Narrator: Margaret Colin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 2, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack. Their friendship is shattered. Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered, on the first of many visits she will make 'to solve the crime that would solve me.' And she makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her extensive interviews with the townspeople yield a terrifying revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth about the crime and its aftermath, and to come to terms with the wounds that broke her life into a before and an after. Ultimately she finds herself face-to-face with the alleged axman. Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of Terri's investigation into the mystery of her near murder. A startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of a brave inner journey from violence to hope, this searing, unforgettable work is certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-writer-s-life-by-gay-talese--65201490https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Writer's Life Author: Gay Talese Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 25, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power), the Mafia (Honor Thy Father), the sex industry (Thy Neighbor’s Wife), and, focusing on his own family, the American immigrant experience (Unto the Sons). How has Talese found his subjects? What has stimulated, blocked, or inspired his writing? Here are his amateur beginnings on his college newspaper; his professional climb at The New York Times; his desire to write on a larger canvas, which led him to magazine writing at Esquire and then to books. We see his involvement with issues of race from his student days in the Deep South to a recent interracial wedding in Selma, Alabama, where he once covered the fierce struggle for civil rights. Here are his reflections on the changing American sexual mores he has written about over the last fifty years, and a striking look at the lives—and their meaning—of Lorena and John Bobbitt. He takes us behind the scenes of his legendary profile of Frank Sinatra, his writings about Joe DiMaggio and heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, and his interview with the head of a Mafia family.But he is at his most poignant in talking about the ordinary men and women whose stories led to his most memorable work. In remarkable fashion, he traces the history of a single restaurant location in New York, creating an ethnic mosaic of one restaurateur after the other whose dreams were dashed while a successor’s were born. And as he delves into the life of a young female Chinese soccer player, we see his consuming interest in the world in its latest manifestation.In these and other recollections and stories, Talese gives us a fascinating picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness involved in getting a story. He makes clear that every one of us represents a good one, if a writer has the curiosity to know it, the diligence to pursue it, and the desire to get it right.Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned—a dazzling book about the nature of writing in one man’s life, and of writing itself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160071Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Writer's Life Author: Gay Talese Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 25, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Writer's Life Author: Gay Talese Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 25, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power), the Mafia (Honor Thy Father), the sex industry (Thy Neighbor’s Wife), and, focusing on his own family, the American immigrant experience (Unto the Sons). How has Talese found his subjects? What has stimulated, blocked, or inspired his writing? Here are his amateur beginnings on his college newspaper; his professional climb at The New York Times; his desire to write on a larger canvas, which led him to magazine writing at Esquire and then to books. We see his involvement with issues of race from his student days in the Deep South to a recent interracial wedding in Selma, Alabama, where he once covered the fierce struggle for civil rights. Here are his reflections on the changing American sexual mores he has written about over the last fifty years, and a striking look at the lives—and their meaning—of Lorena and John Bobbitt. He takes us behind the scenes of his legendary profile of Frank Sinatra, his writings about Joe DiMaggio and heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, and his interview with the head of a Mafia family.But he is at his most poignant in talking about the ordinary men and women whose stories led to his most memorable work. In remarkable fashion, he traces the history of a single restaurant location in New York, creating an ethnic mosaic of one restaurateur after the other whose dreams were dashed while a successor’s were born. And as he delves into the life of a young female Chinese soccer player, we see his consuming interest in the world in its latest manifestation.In these and other recollections and stories, Talese gives us a fascinating picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness involved in getting a story. He makes clear that every one of us represents a good one, if a writer has the curiosity to know it, the diligence to pursue it, and the desire to get it right.Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned—a dazzling book about the nature of writing in one man’s life, and of writing itself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ride-of-our-lives-roadside-lessons-of-an-american-family-by-mike-leonard--65201488https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family Author: Mike Leonard Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month? Mike was thinking that he wanted to give his parents the ultimate family reunion. And so, one February morning, three generations of Leonards set out on their journey under the dazzling Arizona sky. Thirty minutes later, one of the humongous recreational vehicles has an unplanned meeting with a concrete island at a convenience store. Thus begins the adventure of a lifetime–and an absolute gem of a book. In the course of their humorous, often poignant cross-country tour, from the desert Southwest to the New England coastline, the Leonards reminisce about their loves, their losses, and their rich and heartwarming (and sometimes heartbreaking) lives, while encountering a veritable Greek chorus of roadside characters along the way. The home stretch finds the clan racing back to Chicago, hoping to catch the arrival of the next generation, Jack and Marge’s first great-grandchild. Through it all, Mike pieces together acentury of family lore and lunacy–and discovers surprising sides to his parents that allow him to see them in a whole new light. Mike Leonard has captivated millions of television viewers with his wry and witty feature stories for NBC’s Today. Now he brings that same engaging charm and keen insight to the foibles and passions of his own blessedly unique family. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, The Ride of Our Lives delivers a lifetime of laughs, lessons, and priceless memories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289029Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family Author: Mike Leonard Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family Author: Mike Leonard Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month? Mike was thinking that he wanted to give his parents the ultimate family reunion. And so, one February morning, three generations of Leonards set out on their journey under the dazzling Arizona sky. Thirty minutes later, one of the humongous recreational vehicles has an unplanned meeting with a concrete island at a convenience store. Thus begins the adventure of a lifetime–and an absolute gem of a book. In the course of their humorous, often poignant cross-country tour, from the desert Southwest to the New England coastline, the Leonards reminisce about their loves, their losses, and their rich and heartwarming (and sometimes heartbreaking) lives, while encountering a veritable Greek chorus of roadside characters along the way. The home stretch finds the clan racing back to Chicago, hoping to catch the arrival of the next generation, Jack and Marge’s first great-grandchild. Through it all, Mike pieces together acentury of family lore and lunacy–and discovers surprising sides to his parents that allow him to see them in a whole new light. Mike Leonard has captivated millions of television viewers with his wry and witty feature stories for NBC’s Today. Now he brings that same engaging charm and keen insight to the foibles and passions of his own blessedly unique family. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, The Ride of Our Lives delivers a lifetime of laughs, lessons, and priceless memories.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-life-in-france-by-julia-child--65201463https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in France Author: Julia Child Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 4, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.” From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors in the local markets, and enrolled in the Cordon Bleu. This memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia embraced so wholeheartedly. Here, she reveals the kind of spirit and determination, the sheer love of cooking, and the drive to share that with her fellow Americans that made her the extraordinary success she became.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289028Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in France Author: Julia Child Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 4, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in France Author: Julia Child Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 4, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.” From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors in the local markets, and enrolled in the Cordon Bleu. This memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia embraced so wholeheartedly. Here, she reveals the kind of spirit and determination, the sheer love of cooking, and the drive to share that with her fellow Americans that made her the extraordinary success she became.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-year-in-the-world-journeys-of-a-passionate-traveller-by-frances-mayes--65201483https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 14, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. In Andalucía, she relishes the intersection of cultures. She cooks in Portugal, gathers ideas in the gardens of England and Scotland, takes a literary pilgrimage to Burgundy, discovers an ideal place to live in Mantova, and explores the essential Moroccan city of Fez. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of home. While in Greece, she follows the classic Homeric voyage across the Aegean, lives in a bougainvillea-draped stone house in Crete, and then drives deep into the Mani. In Turkey with friends, she sails the ancient coast, hiking to archaeological sites and snorkeling over sunken Byzantine towns. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader. An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160151Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 14, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. In Andalucía, she relishes the intersection of cultures. She cooks in Portugal, gathers ideas in the gardens of England and Scotland, takes a literary pilgrimage to Burgundy, discovers an ideal place to live in Mantova, and explores the essential Moroccan city of Fez. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of home. While in Greece, she follows the classic Homeric voyage across the Aegean, lives in a bougainvillea-draped stone house in Crete, and then drives deep into the Mani. In Turkey with friends, she sails the ancient coast, hiking to archaeological sites and snorkeling over sunken Byzantine towns. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader. An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-piece-of-cake-a-memoir-by-cupcake-brown--65201461https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Piece of Cake: A Memoir Author: Cupcake Brown Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 17 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake “[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.  And that’s when things got interesting. . .  Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.  A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take. Praise for A Piece of Cake “[Brown] reflects now with insight and honesty on her experiences. . . . An engaging account . . . of a remarkable life filled with pain and wisdom, hope and redemption.”—San Fracisco Chronicle “Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.”—Washington Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160178Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Piece of Cake: A Memoir Author: Cupcake Brown Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 7 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Piece of Cake: A Memoir Author: Cupcake Brown Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 17 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake “[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.  And that’s when things got interesting. . .  Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.  A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take. Praise for A Piece of Cake “[Brown] reflects now with insight and honesty on her experiences. . . . An engaging account . . . of a remarkable life filled with pain and wisdom, hope and redemption.”—San Fracisco Chronicle “Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.”—Washington Post]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eat-pray-love-one-woman-s-search-for-everything-across-italy-india-and-indonesia-by-elizabeth-gilbert--65201416https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 994 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 60 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196583Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 994 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 60 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-heart-of-a-soldier-a-true-love-story-of-love-war-and-sacrifice-by-dana-white-kate-blaise--65201331https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of a Soldier: A True Love Story of Love, War, and Sacrifice Author: Dana White, Kate Blaise Narrator: Melissa Edris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 29, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The powerful true story of a heroic couple whose love for their country was matched only by their love for each other. Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Macon, Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army—she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted infantry soldier who later became a helicopter pilot with the Air Cavalry. Forced to accept the realities of a military marriage yet determined to stay with her husband, Kate passed up her dream assignment in the United States to be with Mike, who was deployed to Korea. But they never imagined a day like 9/11 or the military aftermath that sent them to Iraq, where Mike would lose his life in combat.A memoir unlike any other, The Heart of a Soldier captures the human side of war through the eyes of a unique insider. Delivering a candid take on life as a woman in the military as well as the grueling challenges facing all who serve, Kate Blaise takes us from the dreams of her idealistic youth to her final days with Mike, when she served in the battalion that provided support to his unit in Iraq. In vivid scenes, she describes her personal evolution as a female officer and a wife—and the incalculable price she and Mike paid in service to a country they love. Both a tribute and a work of riveting narrative, The Heart of a Soldier puts an unforgettable new face on love and war.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201076Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of a Soldier: A True Love Story of Love, War, and Sacrifice Author: Dana White, Kate Blaise Narrator: Melissa Edris Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of a Soldier: A True Love Story of Love, War, and Sacrifice Author: Dana White, Kate Blaise Narrator: Melissa Edris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 29, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The powerful true story of a heroic couple whose love for their country was matched only by their love for each other. Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Macon, Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army—she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted infantry soldier who later became a helicopter pilot with the Air Cavalry. Forced to accept the realities of a military marriage yet determined to stay with her husband, Kate passed up her dream assignment in the United States to be with Mike, who was deployed to Korea. But they never imagined a day like 9/11 or the military aftermath that sent them to Iraq, where Mike would lose his life in combat.A memoir unlike any other, The Heart of a Soldier captures the human side of war through the eyes of a unique insider. Delivering a candid take on life as a woman in the military as well as the grueling challenges facing all who serve, Kate Blaise takes us from the dreams of her idealistic youth to her final days with Mike, when she served in the battalion that provided support to his unit in Iraq. In vivid scenes, she describes her personal evolution as a female officer and a wife—and the incalculable price she and Mike paid in service to a country they love. Both a tribute and a work of riveting narrative, The Heart of a Soldier puts an unforgettable new face on love and war.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dean-and-me-a-love-story-by-jerry-lewis--65201464https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dean and Me: A Love Story Author: Jerry Lewis Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin.  They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years after it all started, it ended suddenly. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers—Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of a series of hugely successful movie comedies—their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each man’s heart. In Dean & Me, Lewis makes a convincing case for Martin as one of the great—and most underrated—comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160287Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dean and Me: A Love Story Author: Jerry Lewis Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dean and Me: A Love Story Author: Jerry Lewis Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin.  They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked—something miraculous—and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions flowed in, seemingly without end—and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years after it all started, it ended suddenly. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn’t speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers—Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of a series of hugely successful movie comedies—their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each man’s heart. In Dean & Me, Lewis makes a convincing case for Martin as one of the great—and most underrated—comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thieves-of-baghdad-one-marine-s-passion-for-ancient-civilizations-and-the-journey-to-recover-the-world-s-greatest-stolen-treasures-by-matth--65201409https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures Author: Matthew Bogdanos Narrator: Matthew Bogdanos Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 26, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures. A blend of treasure hunt, police procedural, war-time thriller, and exposé of the international black-market in stolen art, told in the voice of a truly remarkable man: a soldier, a father, and a scholar. The New York tabloids call him ‘the pit bull' for his relentless prosecution of high-profile defendants. He's an assistant D.A., a spit-and-polish Marine, a trigger-puller on counter-terrorist missions to Afghanistan, a competitive boxer—and a dedicated classics scholar. So when Matthew Bogdanos discovered that the Iraq National Museum had been looted during the battle of Baghdad, he immediately embarked on a mission to recover the stolen antiquities. Accompanied by a select group of men, Bogdanos set off across the desert without official sanction, risking his career and his life in pursuit of this priceless international treasure. THIEVES OF BAGHDAD immerses the listener into the rich culture, the colorful characters, the double-dealing, and the derring-do, to sort out once and for all what actually happened during the chaos of the Baghdad invasion, exactly how the thefts took place, and how the most notable objects were retrieved. We hear Bogdanos and his team going on raids and negotiating recoveries, blowing open safes, and mingling in the marketplaces—often encountering an assortment of rogues and villains. He gradually earns the trust of Iraqis eager to preserve their cultural heritage—and then stuns the world by unearthing the most sensational treasure of all, The Gold of Nimrud over 1,000 pieces of gold jewelry, precious stones, and ornaments often called 'Iraq's Crown Jewels.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191563Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures Author: Matthew...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures Author: Matthew Bogdanos Narrator: Matthew Bogdanos Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 26, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures. A blend of treasure hunt, police procedural, war-time thriller, and exposé of the international black-market in stolen art, told in the voice of a truly remarkable man: a soldier, a father, and a scholar. The New York tabloids call him ‘the pit bull' for his relentless prosecution of high-profile defendants. He's an assistant D.A., a spit-and-polish Marine, a trigger-puller on counter-terrorist missions to Afghanistan, a competitive boxer—and a dedicated classics scholar. So when Matthew Bogdanos discovered that the Iraq National Museum had been looted during the battle of Baghdad, he immediately embarked on a mission to recover the stolen antiquities. Accompanied by a select group of men, Bogdanos set off across the desert without official sanction, risking his career and his life in pursuit of this priceless international treasure. THIEVES OF BAGHDAD immerses the listener into the rich culture, the colorful characters, the double-dealing, and the derring-do, to sort out once and for all what actually happened during the chaos of the Baghdad invasion, exactly how the thefts took place, and how the most notable objects were retrieved. We hear Bogdanos and his team going on raids and negotiating recoveries, blowing open safes, and mingling in the marketplaces—often encountering an assortment of rogues and villains. He gradually earns the trust of Iraqis eager to preserve their cultural heritage—and then stuns the world by unearthing the most sensational treasure of all, The Gold of Nimrud over 1,000 pieces of gold jewelry, precious stones, and ornaments often called 'Iraq's Crown Jewels.']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-get-too-comfortable-the-indignities-of-coach-class-the-torments-of-low-thread-count-the-never-ending-quest-for-artisanal-olive-oil--65201467https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems Author: David Rakoff Narrator: David Rakoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 20, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty that is contemporary North America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily portrayed. Whether contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good times and chicken wings of Hooters Air, portraying the rarified universe of Paris fashion shows where an evening dress can cost as much as four years of college, or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core Playboy TV shoot, where he is provided with his very own personal manservant, David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess, delving into the manic getting and spending that defines the North American way of life. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism, and Rakoff is there to map that frontier. He sits through the grotesqueries of “avant garde” vaudeville in Times Square immediately following 9/11. Twenty days without food allows him to experience firsthand the wonders of “detoxification,” and the frozen world of cryonics, whose promise of eternal life is the ultimate status symbol, leaves him very cold indeed (much to our good fortune). At once a Wildean satire of our ridiculous culture of overconsumption and a plea for a little human decency, Don’t Get Too Comfortable is a bitingly funny grand tour of our special circle of gilded-age hell.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160374Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems Author: David Rakoff Narrator: David Rakoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 20, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty that is contemporary North America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily portrayed. Whether contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good times and chicken wings of Hooters Air, portraying the rarified universe of Paris fashion shows where an evening dress can cost as much as four years of college, or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core Playboy TV shoot, where he is provided with his very own personal manservant, David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess, delving into the manic getting and spending that defines the North American way of life. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism, and Rakoff is there to map that frontier. He sits through the grotesqueries of “avant garde” vaudeville in Times Square immediately following 9/11. Twenty days without food allows him to experience firsthand the wonders of “detoxification,” and the frozen world of cryonics, whose promise of eternal life is the ultimate status symbol, leaves him very cold indeed (much to our good fortune). At once a Wildean satire of our ridiculous culture of overconsumption and a plea for a little human decency, Don’t Get Too Comfortable is a bitingly funny grand tour of our special circle of gilded-age hell.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-weeks-with-my-brother-by-micah-sparks-nicholas-sparks--65201475https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Weeks with My Brother Author: Micah Sparks, Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 162 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope. As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragic. In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective Nicholas recalled their rambunctious childhood adventures and the tragedies that tested their faith. And in the process, they discovered startling truths about loss, love, and hope. Narrated with irrepressible humor and rare candor, and including personal photos, Three Weeks with My Brother reminds us to embrace life with all its uncertainties . . . and most of all, to cherish the joyful times, both small and momentous, and the wonderful people who make them possible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160024Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Weeks with My Brother Author: Micah Sparks, Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Weeks with My Brother Author: Micah Sparks, Nicholas Sparks Narrator: Henry Leyva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 162 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope. As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragic. In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective Nicholas recalled their rambunctious childhood adventures and the tragedies that tested their faith. And in the process, they discovered startling truths about loss, love, and hope. Narrated with irrepressible humor and rare candor, and including personal photos, Three Weeks with My Brother reminds us to embrace life with all its uncertainties . . . and most of all, to cherish the joyful times, both small and momentous, and the wonderful people who make them possible.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/right-turns-unconventional-lessons-from-a-controversial-life-by-michael-medved--65201470https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life Author: Michael Medved Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 28, 2004 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers—and more than his share of enemies—by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive arguments, including: • Liberals love losing because it makes them feel virtuous • America isn’t normal—it’s bizarrely blessed • Hollywood has lost touch with America—and punishes people who point that out • Conservatives are both happier and nicer than liberals • Talk radio is a source of hope, not hatred • Business isn’t exploitative—it’s heroic • There is no such thing as “planned parenthood” • A more Christian America is good for the Jews • Do-it-yourself conservatism provides the only cure for save-the-world liberalism In the candid, electrifying Right Turns, Medved chronicles the adventures that taught him these and many other lessons—the startling events that propelled him from Vietnam protest leader to optimistic promoter of American patriotism, from secularism to religion, from adventurous single guy to doting husband and father. In the process he skewers leftist orthodoxy, revealing why the Right is right and why his former colleagues on the Left remain hopelessly wrong on every cultural, political, and social issue. Medved enters today’s ideological fray armed with experience as, among many other things, a campaign aide for radical Democrats, a minority recruiter for police departments, a Hollywood screenwriter, a Bobby Kennedy volunteer, a teacher at religious schools, a world-champion hitchhiker, an expert on bad movies, and a veteran TV host on PBS and a British network—who declines to own a TV himself. Medved relishes the contradictions behind the high-profile controversies in which he’s played a leading role—as a prominent movie reviewer who attacked the film industry in a bestselling book, as an observant Jew whose radio show is a favorite with evangelical Christians, as a writer once designated the “Bard of the Baby Boomers” who now expresses contempt for his generation’s arrogant indulgence, and as a fearless battler who has sought advice from both Rush Limbaugh and Hillary Clinton and has given advice to both Mel Gibson and Barbra Streisand. Right Turns displays the slashing argument and disarming wit that have made Medved’s radio program America’s number one show on politics and pop culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160117Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life Author: Michael Medved Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life Author: Michael Medved Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 28, 2004 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers—and more than his share of enemies—by advancing controversial, often counterintuitive arguments, including: • Liberals love losing because it makes them feel virtuous • America isn’t normal—it’s bizarrely blessed • Hollywood has lost touch with America—and punishes people who point that out • Conservatives are both happier and nicer than liberals • Talk radio is a source of hope, not hatred • Business isn’t exploitative—it’s heroic • There is no such thing as “planned parenthood” • A more Christian America is good for the Jews • Do-it-yourself conservatism provides the only cure for save-the-world liberalism In the candid, electrifying Right Turns, Medved chronicles the adventures that taught him these and many other lessons—the startling events that propelled him from Vietnam protest leader to optimistic promoter of American patriotism, from secularism to religion, from adventurous single guy to doting husband and father. In the process he skewers leftist orthodoxy, revealing why the Right is right and why his former colleagues on the Left remain hopelessly wrong on every cultural, political, and social issue. Medved enters today’s ideological fray armed with experience as, among many other things, a campaign aide for radical Democrats, a minority recruiter for police departments, a Hollywood screenwriter, a Bobby Kennedy volunteer, a teacher at religious schools, a world-champion hitchhiker, an expert on bad movies, and a veteran TV host on PBS and a British network—who declines to own a TV himself. Medved relishes the contradictions behind the high-profile controversies in which he’s played a leading role—as a prominent movie reviewer who attacked the film industry in a bestselling book, as an observant Jew whose radio show is a favorite with evangelical Christians, as a writer once designated the “Bard of the Baby Boomers” who now expresses contempt for his generation’s arrogant indulgence, and as a fearless battler who has sought advice from both Rush Limbaugh and Hillary Clinton and has given advice to both Mel Gibson and Barbra Streisand. Right Turns displays the slashing argument and disarming wit that have made Medved’s radio program America’s number one show on politics and pop culture.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/learning-to-sing-hearing-the-music-in-your-life-by-allison-glock-clay-aiken--65201478https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life Author: Allison Glock, Clay Aiken Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 8, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.” –CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star. His ambition was to be a teacher, maybe even a high school principal. But Clay’s mother was right, and the music that was Clay’s joy in life was destined to lead him to unexpected triumphs. In Learning to Sing, Clay details what his astonishing success has meant to him. He writes from the heart about his life before and since his instant stardom on American Idol, how he has changed, and how he struggles to adapt to life in the public eye. He speaks candidly about his lonely childhood: the father who abandoned him, the school bullies who tormented him, the mother who taught him to be strong, and the friends and teachers who–more than they ever knew–kept him going. He describes his new high-profile life in Los Angeles– the awards shows, the free clothes, the unfortunate presence of avocado on all the food. More significant, he reveals what he has discovered from diving into the white-hot center of pop culture: what it takes for him to stay true to himself and remember the lessons he learned growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Clay shares his struggle to remain a man his mother can be proud of, and writes about the faith that sustains him today just as it did when he was an awkward, unpopular outsider. “I believe God has a direction for me. He did not give me this life just so I could buy a big house and an SUV. My job is to give back and to be a decent human being no matter how many people cheer my name.” Clay’s friends–the old ones from North Carolina and the millions of new ones who love his voice–will hold this inspiring memoir as close to their hearts as they do his music. Learning to Sing reminds you that anything is possible. Like a perfect song, it will send your spirit soaring.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160146Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life Author: Allison Glock, Clay Aiken Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life Author: Allison Glock, Clay Aiken Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 8, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.” –CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star. His ambition was to be a teacher, maybe even a high school principal. But Clay’s mother was right, and the music that was Clay’s joy in life was destined to lead him to unexpected triumphs. In Learning to Sing, Clay details what his astonishing success has meant to him. He writes from the heart about his life before and since his instant stardom on American Idol, how he has changed, and how he struggles to adapt to life in the public eye. He speaks candidly about his lonely childhood: the father who abandoned him, the school bullies who tormented him, the mother who taught him to be strong, and the friends and teachers who–more than they ever knew–kept him going. He describes his new high-profile life in Los Angeles– the awards shows, the free clothes, the unfortunate presence of avocado on all the food. More significant, he reveals what he has discovered from diving into the white-hot center of pop culture: what it takes for him to stay true to himself and remember the lessons he learned growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Clay shares his struggle to remain a man his mother can be proud of, and writes about the faith that sustains him today just as it did when he was an awkward, unpopular outsider. “I believe God has a direction for me. He did not give me this life just so I could buy a big house and an SUV. My job is to give back and to be a decent human being no matter how many people cheer my name.” Clay’s friends–the old ones from North Carolina and the millions of new ones who love his voice–will hold this inspiring memoir as close to their hearts as they do his music. Learning to Sing reminds you that anything is possible. Like a perfect song, it will send your spirit soaring.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-long-goodbye-a-memoir-by-patti-davis--65201472https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Author: Patti Davis Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 2, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life. In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious–a person’s memory. “Alzheimer’s,” she writes, “snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch, cry, and whisper a soft stream of goodbyes.” She writes of needing to be reunited at forty-two with her mother (“she had wept as much as I over our long, embittered war”), of regaining what they had spent decades demolishing; a truce was necessary to bring together a splintered family, a few weeks before her father released his letter telling the country and the world of his illness . . . The author delves into her memories to touch her father again, to hear his voice, to keep alive the years she had with him. She writes as if past and present were coming together, of her memories as a child, holding her father’s hand, and as a young woman whose hand is being given away in marriage by her father . . . of her father teaching her to ride a bicycle, of the moment when he let her go and she went off on her own . . . of his teaching her the difference between a hawk and a buzzard . . . of the family summer vacations at a rented beach house–each of them tan, her father looking like the athlete he was, with a swimmer’s broad shoulders and lean torso. . . . She writes of how her father never resisted solitude, in fact was born for it, of that strange reserve that made people reach for him. . . . She recalls him sitting at his desk, writing, staring out the window . . . and she writes about the toll of the disease itself, the look in her father’s eyes, and her efforts to reel him back to her. Moving . . . honest . . . an illuminating portrait of grief, of a man, a disease, and a woman and her father.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160219Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Author: Patti Davis Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Author: Patti Davis Narrator: Staci Snell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 2, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life. In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious–a person’s memory. “Alzheimer’s,” she writes, “snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch, cry, and whisper a soft stream of goodbyes.” She writes of needing to be reunited at forty-two with her mother (“she had wept as much as I over our long, embittered war”), of regaining what they had spent decades demolishing; a truce was necessary to bring together a splintered family, a few weeks before her father released his letter telling the country and the world of his illness . . . The author delves into her memories to touch her father again, to hear his voice, to keep alive the years she had with him. She writes as if past and present were coming together, of her memories as a child, holding her father’s hand, and as a young woman whose hand is being given away in marriage by her father . . . of her father teaching her to ride a bicycle, of the moment when he let her go and she went off on her own . . . of his teaching her the difference between a hawk and a buzzard . . . of the family summer vacations at a rented beach house–each of them tan, her father looking like the athlete he was, with a swimmer’s broad shoulders and lean torso. . . . She writes of how her father never resisted solitude, in fact was born for it, of that strange reserve that made people reach for him. . . . She recalls him sitting at his desk, writing, staring out the window . . . and she writes about the toll of the disease itself, the look in her father’s eyes, and her efforts to reel him back to her. Moving . . . honest . . . an illuminating portrait of grief, of a man, a disease, and a woman and her father.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blood-done-sign-my-name-a-true-story-by-timothy-b-tyson--65201446https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Author: Timothy B. Tyson Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 9, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird   *Chicago Tribune On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life.    Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town’s tobacco warehouses. Tyson’s father, the pastor of Oxford’s all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.    Tim Tyson’s gripping narrative brings gritty blues truth and soaring gospel vision to a shocking episode of our history.   FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD   “If you want to read only one book to understand the uniquely American struggle for racial equality and the swirls of emotion around it, this is it.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   “Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer   “Pulses with vital paradox . . . It’s a detached dissertation, a damning dark-night-of-the-white-soul, and a ripping yarn, all united by Tyson’s powerful voice, a brainy, booming Bubba profundo.”—Entertainment Weekly   “Engaging and frequently stunning.”—San Diego Union-Tribune]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160345Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Author: Timothy B. Tyson Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Author: Timothy B. Tyson Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 9, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird   *Chicago Tribune On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life.    Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town’s tobacco warehouses. Tyson’s father, the pastor of Oxford’s all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.    Tim Tyson’s gripping narrative brings gritty blues truth and soaring gospel vision to a shocking episode of our history.   FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD   “If you want to read only one book to understand the uniquely American struggle for racial equality and the swirls of emotion around it, this is it.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   “Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer   “Pulses with vital paradox . . . It’s a detached dissertation, a damning dark-night-of-the-white-soul, and a ripping yarn, all united by Tyson’s powerful voice, a brainy, booming Bubba profundo.”—Entertainment Weekly   “Engaging and frequently stunning.”—San Diego Union-Tribune]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/idyll-banter-weekly-excursions-to-a-very-small-town-by-chris-bohjalian--65201474https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Chris Bohjalian Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 16, 2003 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time to move to New England. Months later they traded in their co-op in Brooklyn for a century-old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975), and Bohjalian began chronicling life in that town in a wide variety of magazine essays and in his newspaper column, "Idyll Banter." These pieces, written weekly for twelve years and collected here for the first time, serve as a diary of both this writer's life and how America has been transformed in the last decade. Rich with idiosyncratic universals that come with being a parent, a child, and a spouse, Chris Bohjalian's personal observations are a reflection of our own common experience. "Chris Bohjalian is a terrific columnist—thoughtful and thought-provoking. Just like me! No, really, this guy is good." —Dave Barry, author of Boogers Are My Beat “The best book I’ve ever read about life in a contemporary village. There’s no doubt that Chris Bohjalian has established himself as one of America’s finest, most thoughtful, and most humane writers.” —Howard Frank Mosher]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160423Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Chris Bohjalian Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town Author: Chris Bohjalian Narrator: Chris Bohjalian Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 16, 2003 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time to move to New England. Months later they traded in their co-op in Brooklyn for a century-old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975), and Bohjalian began chronicling life in that town in a wide variety of magazine essays and in his newspaper column, "Idyll Banter." These pieces, written weekly for twelve years and collected here for the first time, serve as a diary of both this writer's life and how America has been transformed in the last decade. Rich with idiosyncratic universals that come with being a parent, a child, and a spouse, Chris Bohjalian's personal observations are a reflection of our own common experience. "Chris Bohjalian is a terrific columnist—thoughtful and thought-provoking. Just like me! No, really, this guy is good." —Dave Barry, author of Boogers Are My Beat “The best book I’ve ever read about life in a contemporary village. There’s no doubt that Chris Bohjalian has established himself as one of America’s finest, most thoughtful, and most humane writers.” —Howard Frank Mosher]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-in-the-driest-season-a-family-memoir-by-neely-tucker--65201487https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir Author: Neely Tucker Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 9, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She’d been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season. After a near-death hospital stay, and under strict doctor’s orders, the ailing child was entrusted to the care of Tucker and Vita. Within weeks Chipo, the girl-child whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them. Still an active correspondent, Tucker crisscrossed the continent, filing stories about the uprisings in the Congo, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and the postgenocidal conflict in Rwanda. He witnessed heartbreaking scenes of devastation and violence, steeling him further to take a personal role in helping anywhere he could. At home in Harare, Vita was nursing Chipo back to health. Soon she and Tucker decided to alter their lives forever—they would adopt Chipo. That decision challenged an unspoken social norm—that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Raised in rural Mississippi in the sixties and seventies, Tucker was familiar with the mores associated with and dictated by race. His wife, a savvy black woman whose father escaped the Jim Crow South for a new life in the industrial North, would not be deterred in her resolve to welcome Chipo into their loving family. As if their situation wasn’t tenuous enough, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was stirring up national fervor against foreigners, especially journalists, abroad and at home. At its peak, his antagonizing branded all foreign journalists personae non grata. For Tucker, the only full-time American correspondent in Zimbabwe, the declaration was a direct threat to his life and his wife’s safety, and an ultimatum to their decision to adopt the child who had already become their only daughter. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo’s story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love—and dogged determination—can sometimes achieve. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant, this family memoir will resonate throughout the ages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160436Tue, 09 Dec 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir Author: Neely Tucker Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir Author: Neely Tucker Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 9, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She’d been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season. After a near-death hospital stay, and under strict doctor’s orders, the ailing child was entrusted to the care of Tucker and Vita. Within weeks Chipo, the girl-child whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them. Still an active correspondent, Tucker crisscrossed the continent, filing stories about the uprisings in the Congo, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and the postgenocidal conflict in Rwanda. He witnessed heartbreaking scenes of devastation and violence, steeling him further to take a personal role in helping anywhere he could. At home in Harare, Vita was nursing Chipo back to health. Soon she and Tucker decided to alter their lives forever—they would adopt Chipo. That decision challenged an unspoken social norm—that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Raised in rural Mississippi in the sixties and seventies, Tucker was familiar with the mores associated with and dictated by race. His wife, a savvy black woman whose father escaped the Jim Crow South for a new life in the industrial North, would not be deterred in her resolve to welcome Chipo into their loving family. As if their situation wasn’t tenuous enough, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was stirring up national fervor against foreigners, especially journalists, abroad and at home. At its peak, his antagonizing branded all foreign journalists personae non grata. For Tucker, the only full-time American correspondent in Zimbabwe, the declaration was a direct threat to his life and his wife’s safety, and an ultimatum to their decision to adopt the child who had already become their only daughter. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo’s story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love—and dogged determination—can sometimes achieve. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant, this family memoir will resonate throughout the ages.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-a-soldier-too-the-jessica-lynch-story-by-rick-bragg--65201455https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story Author: Rick Bragg Narrator: Rick Bragg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 11, 2003 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed, caught in enemy crossfire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. Lynch, perhaps the most famous P.O.W. this country has ever known, was taken prisoner and held captive in an Iraqi hospital for nine days. Her rescue galvanized the nation; she became a symbol of victory, of innocence and courage, of heroism; and then, just as quickly, of deceit and manipulation. What never changed, as the nation veered wildly between these extremes of mythmaking, was her story, the events and the experiences of a nineteen-year-old girl caught up in what was and will remain the battle of her life: what she saw, what she felt, what she experienced, what she survived. I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story is the story this country has hungered for, as told by Lynch herself to Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rick Bragg. In it, she tells what really happened in the ambush; what really happened in the hospital; what really happened, from her perspective, on the night of the rescue. More than this, the collaboration between Lynch and Bragg captures who she is and where she’s from: her childhood in Palestine, West Virginia, a lovely, rugged stretch of land always referred to as the hollow, where she rode horses, played softball, and was crowned Miss Congeniality at the Wirt County Fair the same year the steer she raised took a ribbon. It reveals her relationships with her older brother, Greg Jr., also an enlisted soldier, and her younger sister, Brandi; with her father, Greg Sr., a forty-three-year-old truck driver who has at times worked construction, cut hay, cut firewood, hauled timber, hauled concrete, run a bulldozer, run a backhoe, cleaned houses, and dug graves; and with her mother, Deadra, a city girl from Parkersburg who moved to the hollow and met her future husband when he was eleven and she was nine. And it describes what happened to the Lynch family in the agony of Jessica’s capture and captivity; the terror and disbelief that cascaded through an entire town at the news of her disappearance into enemy hands; the joy of her rescue; and the long work of healing and recovery that lie ahead. Jessica Lynch has won the hearts and minds of Americans. In the hands of Rick Bragg, a renowned chronicler of American lives, her tale is told at last, with grace, and care, and astonishing candor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160447Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story Author: Rick Bragg Narrator: Rick Bragg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 35 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story Author: Rick Bragg Narrator: Rick Bragg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 11, 2003 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed, caught in enemy crossfire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. Lynch, perhaps the most famous P.O.W. this country has ever known, was taken prisoner and held captive in an Iraqi hospital for nine days. Her rescue galvanized the nation; she became a symbol of victory, of innocence and courage, of heroism; and then, just as quickly, of deceit and manipulation. What never changed, as the nation veered wildly between these extremes of mythmaking, was her story, the events and the experiences of a nineteen-year-old girl caught up in what was and will remain the battle of her life: what she saw, what she felt, what she experienced, what she survived. I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story is the story this country has hungered for, as told by Lynch herself to Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rick Bragg. In it, she tells what really happened in the ambush; what really happened in the hospital; what really happened, from her perspective, on the night of the rescue. More than this, the collaboration between Lynch and Bragg captures who she is and where she’s from: her childhood in Palestine, West Virginia, a lovely, rugged stretch of land always referred to as the hollow, where she rode horses, played softball, and was crowned Miss Congeniality at the Wirt County Fair the same year the steer she raised took a ribbon. It reveals her relationships with her older brother, Greg Jr., also an enlisted soldier, and her younger sister, Brandi; with her father, Greg Sr., a forty-three-year-old truck driver who has at times worked construction, cut hay, cut firewood, hauled timber, hauled concrete, run a bulldozer, run a backhoe, cleaned houses, and dug graves; and with her mother, Deadra, a city girl from Parkersburg who moved to the hollow and met her future husband when he was eleven and she was nine. And it describes what happened to the Lynch family in the agony of Jessica’s capture and captivity; the terror and disbelief that cascaded through an entire town at the news of her disappearance into enemy hands; the joy of her rescue; and the long work of healing and recovery that lie ahead. Jessica Lynch has won the hearts and minds of Americans. In the hands of Rick Bragg, a renowned chronicler of American lives, her tale is told at last, with grace, and care, and astonishing candor.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cosmopolitan-a-bartender-s-life-by-toby-cecchini--65201449https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life Author: Toby Cecchini Narrator: Toby Cecchini Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2003 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cosmopolitan is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life of Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature—of the outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, of lust, and of the sheer desire to bust loose and party. As the typical day progresses, Cecchini muses over a life spent in the service industry and the fascinating particulars of his chosen profession. He is by turns witty, acute, mordant, and lyrical in dealing with the realities of his profession, shedding plenty of light on the hidden corners of what people do when they go out at night.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160663Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life Author: Toby Cecchini Narrator: Toby Cecchini Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 29 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life Author: Toby Cecchini Narrator: Toby Cecchini Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2003 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cosmopolitan is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life of Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature—of the outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, of lust, and of the sheer desire to bust loose and party. As the typical day progresses, Cecchini muses over a life spent in the service industry and the fascinating particulars of his chosen profession. He is by turns witty, acute, mordant, and lyrical in dealing with the realities of his profession, shedding plenty of light on the hidden corners of what people do when they go out at night.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-becomes-of-the-brokenhearted-a-memoir-by-e-lynn-harris--65201473https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 10, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own. Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and romanced millions of readers. As a master storyteller, E. Lynn Harris has created an intimate and glamorous world centered around his signature themes of love, friendship and family. People all over the world have fallen in love with his characters and laughed and cried with them. Now, in his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life–from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, E. Lynn Harris shares an extraordinary life touched by loneliness and depression, but more important, he reveals the triumphant life of a small-town dreamer who was able through writing to make his dreams–and more–come true.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160954Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 10, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own. Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and romanced millions of readers. As a master storyteller, E. Lynn Harris has created an intimate and glamorous world centered around his signature themes of love, friendship and family. People all over the world have fallen in love with his characters and laughed and cried with them. Now, in his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life–from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, E. Lynn Harris shares an extraordinary life touched by loneliness and depression, but more important, he reveals the triumphant life of a small-town dreamer who was able through writing to make his dreams–and more–come true.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-losing-season-by-pat-conroy--65201413https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Losing Season Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Chuck Montgomery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 21, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man.   With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated.   Praise for My Losing Season   “A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington Post Book World   “A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle   “A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.”—Newsweek   “In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.”—New York Daily News   “Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160996Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Losing Season Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Chuck Montgomery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 21, 2003...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Losing Season Author: Pat Conroy Narrator: Chuck Montgomery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 21, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man.   With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated.   Praise for My Losing Season   “A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington Post Book World   “A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle   “A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.”—Newsweek   “In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.”—New York Daily News   “Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/five-years-to-freedom-the-true-story-of-a-vietnam-pow-by-james-n-rowe--65201486https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW Author: James N. Rowe Narrator: Reathel Bean Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48 minutes Release date: March 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161696Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW Author: James N. Rowe Narrator: Reathel Bean Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW Author: James N. Rowe Narrator: Reathel Bean Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48 minutes Release date: March 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-may-be-wrong-but-i-doubt-it-by-charles-barkley--65201466https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It Author: Charles Barkley Narrator: Charles Barkley Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If there’s one thing Charles Barkley knows, it’s the crying need for honest, open discussion in this country—the more uncomfortable the subject, the more necessary the dialogue. And if the discussion leader can be as wise, irreverent, (occasionally) profane and (consistently) funny as Charles Barkley, so much the better. Many people are going to be shocked and scandalized by I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It, but many more will stand up and cheer. Like Molly Ivins or Bill O’Reilly, Charles Barkley is utterly his own thinker, and everything he says comes from deep reflection. One way or another, if more blood hasn’t reached your brain by the time you’ve finished this book, maybe you’ve been embalmed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161714Tue, 01 Oct 2002 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It Author: Charles Barkley Narrator: Charles Barkley Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It Author: Charles Barkley Narrator: Charles Barkley Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If there’s one thing Charles Barkley knows, it’s the crying need for honest, open discussion in this country—the more uncomfortable the subject, the more necessary the dialogue. And if the discussion leader can be as wise, irreverent, (occasionally) profane and (consistently) funny as Charles Barkley, so much the better. Many people are going to be shocked and scandalized by I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It, but many more will stand up and cheer. Like Molly Ivins or Bill O’Reilly, Charles Barkley is utterly his own thinker, and everything he says comes from deep reflection. One way or another, if more blood hasn’t reached your brain by the time you’ve finished this book, maybe you’ve been embalmed.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-save-the-sweet-potato-queens-by-jill-conner-browne--65201439https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Save the Sweet Potato Queens Author: Jill Conner Browne Narrator: Jill Conner Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 23, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back! In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestseller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (which contained everything you ever need to know about Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and the importance of Being Prepared). But, fortunately for us, that was not the final chapter in the Queens' splendid saga. The Sweet Potato Queens still have plenty of stuff to say and valuable wisdom to impart about how they went from being Cute Girls to Fabulous Women, including: • Dating for the Advanced, or Advancing • The Joys of Marriage—if you must • More Delicious, Death-Defying Recipes • The Promise for Men—six little words that will make any woman swoon • Lolling About—the official activity of the Sweet Potato Queens • The All-True Story of the Two Most Wonderful Men in the World • Reader Mail—honoring the adventures of brand-new Wannabes and Honorary Queens from around the world If you haven't met the Sweet Potato Queens yet, this is the introduction you've been waiting for. If you already know the joys of Queendom, this is your official welcome-back party.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160382Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Save the Sweet Potato Queens Author: Jill Conner Browne Narrator: Jill Conner Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Save the Sweet Potato Queens Author: Jill Conner Browne Narrator: Jill Conner Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 23, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back! In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestseller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (which contained everything you ever need to know about Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and the importance of Being Prepared). But, fortunately for us, that was not the final chapter in the Queens' splendid saga. The Sweet Potato Queens still have plenty of stuff to say and valuable wisdom to impart about how they went from being Cute Girls to Fabulous Women, including: • Dating for the Advanced, or Advancing • The Joys of Marriage—if you must • More Delicious, Death-Defying Recipes • The Promise for Men—six little words that will make any woman swoon • Lolling About—the official activity of the Sweet Potato Queens • The All-True Story of the Two Most Wonderful Men in the World • Reader Mail—honoring the adventures of brand-new Wannabes and Honorary Queens from around the world If you haven't met the Sweet Potato Queens yet, this is the introduction you've been waiting for. If you already know the joys of Queendom, this is your official welcome-back party.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-long-way-from-home-growing-up-in-the-american-heartland-by-tom-brokaw--65201485https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Dan Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 12, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the ‘40s, into his early journalism career in the ‘50s and the tumultuous ‘60s, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ project building the Ft. Randall dam along the Missouri River. Tom Brokaw describes how this move became the pivotal decision in their lives, as the Brokaw family, along with others after World War II, began to live out the American Dream: community, relative prosperity, middle-class pleasures, and good educations for their children. “Along the river and in the surrounding hills, I had a Tom Sawyer boyhood,” Brokaw writes. As he describes his own pilgrimage as it unfolded—from childhood to love, marriage, the early days in broadcast journalism, and beyond—he also reflects on what brought him and so many Americans of his generation to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160385Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Dan Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Dan Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 12, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the ‘40s, into his early journalism career in the ‘50s and the tumultuous ‘60s, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ project building the Ft. Randall dam along the Missouri River. Tom Brokaw describes how this move became the pivotal decision in their lives, as the Brokaw family, along with others after World War II, began to live out the American Dream: community, relative prosperity, middle-class pleasures, and good educations for their children. “Along the river and in the surrounding hills, I had a Tom Sawyer boyhood,” Brokaw writes. As he describes his own pilgrimage as it unfolded—from childhood to love, marriage, the early days in broadcast journalism, and beyond—he also reflects on what brought him and so many Americans of his generation to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/worth-the-fighting-for-the-education-of-an-american-maverick-and-the-heroes-who-inspired-him-by-mark-salter-john-mccain--65201453https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him Author: Mark Salter, John McCain Narrator: Dan Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 5, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years. After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man. Regaining his health and flight-eligibility status, he resumed his military career, commanding carrier pilots and serving as the navy’s liaison to what is sometimes ironically called the world’s most exclusive club, the United States Senate. Accompanying Senators John Tower and Henry “Scoop” Jackson on international trips, McCain began his political education in the company of two masters, leaders whose standards he would strive to maintain upon his election to the U.S. Congress. There, he learned valuable lessons in cooperation from a good-humored congressman from the other party, Morris Udall. In 1986, McCain was elected to the U.S. Senate, inheriting the seat of another role model, Barry Goldwater. During his time in public office, McCain has seen acts of principle and acts of craven self-interest. He describes both extremes in these pages, with his characteristic straight talk and humor. He writes honestly of the lowest point in his career, the Keating Five savings and loan debacle, as well as his triumphant moments—his return to Vietnam and his efforts to normalize relations between the U.S. and Vietnamese governments; his fight for campaign finance reform; and his galvanizing bid for the presidency in 2000. Writes McCain: “A rebel without a cause is just a punk. Whatever you’re called—rebel, unorthodox, nonconformist, radical—it’s all self-indulgence without a good cause to give your life meaning.” This is the story of McCain’s causes, the people who made him do it, and the meaning he found. Worth the Fighting For reminds us of what’s best in America, and in ourselves. Praise for Worth the Fighting For “When [John] McCain writes of people and patriotism, his pages shine with a devotion, a loving awe, that makes Worth the Fighting For worth the shelling out for. . . . McCain the man remains one of the most inspiring public figures of his generation.”—Jonathan Raunch, The Washington Post “[An] unpredictable, outspoken memoir . . . a testimonial to heroism from someone who has first-hand knowledge of what it takes.”—The New York Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240989Wed, 05 Jun 2002 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him Author: Mark Salter, John McCain Narrator: Dan Cashman...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/240989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him Author: Mark Salter, John McCain Narrator: Dan Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 5, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years. After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man. Regaining his health and flight-eligibility status, he resumed his military career, commanding carrier pilots and serving as the navy’s liaison to what is sometimes ironically called the world’s most exclusive club, the United States Senate. Accompanying Senators John Tower and Henry “Scoop” Jackson on international trips, McCain began his political education in the company of two masters, leaders whose standards he would strive to maintain upon his election to the U.S. Congress. There, he learned valuable lessons in cooperation from a good-humored congressman from the other party, Morris Udall. In 1986, McCain was elected to the U.S. Senate, inheriting the seat of another role model, Barry Goldwater. During his time in public office, McCain has seen acts of principle and acts of craven self-interest. He describes both extremes in these pages, with his characteristic straight talk and humor. He writes honestly of the lowest point in his career, the Keating Five savings and loan debacle, as well as his triumphant moments—his return to Vietnam and his efforts to normalize relations between the U.S. and Vietnamese governments; his fight for campaign finance reform; and his galvanizing bid for the presidency in 2000. Writes McCain: “A rebel without a cause is just a punk. Whatever you’re called—rebel, unorthodox, nonconformist, radical—it’s all self-indulgence without a good cause to give your life meaning.” This is the story of McCain’s causes, the people who made him do it, and the meaning he found. Worth the Fighting For reminds us of what’s best in America, and in ourselves. Praise for Worth the Fighting For “When [John] McCain writes of people and patriotism, his pages shine with a devotion, a loving awe, that makes Worth the Fighting For worth the shelling out for. . . . McCain the man remains one of the most inspiring public figures of his generation.”—Jonathan Raunch, The Washington Post “[An] unpredictable, outspoken memoir . . . a testimonial to heroism from someone who has first-hand knowledge of what it takes.”—The New York Times]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-song-flung-up-to-heaven-by-maya-angelou--65201480https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Maya Angelou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 2, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 26 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160416Tue, 02 Apr 2002 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Maya Angelou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Maya Angelou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 2, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 26 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lazy-b-growing-up-on-a-cattle-ranch-in-the-american-southwest-by-sandra-day-o-connor-h-alan-day--65201469https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest Author: Sandra Day O'Connor, H. Alan Day Narrator: Sandra Day O'Connor Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What was it in Sandra Day O'Connor's background and early life that helped make her the woman she is today-the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America? In this beautiful, illuminating, and unusual book, Sandra Day O'Connor, with her brother, Alan, tells the story of the Day family and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B Ranch in Arizona. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, about people, self-reliance, and survival, and the reader will learn how the values of the Lazy B shaped them and their lives. Sandra's grandfather first put some cattle on open grazing land in 1886, and the Lazy B developed and continued to prosper as Sandra's parents, who eloped and then lived on the Lazy B all their lives, carved out a frugal and happy life for themselves and their three children on the rugged frontier. As you read about the daily adventures, the cattle drives and roundups, the cowboys and horses, the continual praying for rain and fixing of windmills, the values instilled by a self-reliant way of life, you see how Sandra Day O'Connor grew up. This fascinating glimpse of life in the American Southwest in the last century recounts an interesting time in our history, and gives us an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160431Tue, 29 Jan 2002 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest Author: Sandra Day O'Connor, H. Alan Day Narrator: Sandra Day O'Connor Format: Abridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest Author: Sandra Day O'Connor, H. Alan Day Narrator: Sandra Day O'Connor Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 29, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What was it in Sandra Day O'Connor's background and early life that helped make her the woman she is today-the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America? In this beautiful, illuminating, and unusual book, Sandra Day O'Connor, with her brother, Alan, tells the story of the Day family and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B Ranch in Arizona. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, about people, self-reliance, and survival, and the reader will learn how the values of the Lazy B shaped them and their lives. Sandra's grandfather first put some cattle on open grazing land in 1886, and the Lazy B developed and continued to prosper as Sandra's parents, who eloped and then lived on the Lazy B all their lives, carved out a frugal and happy life for themselves and their three children on the rugged frontier. As you read about the daily adventures, the cattle drives and roundups, the cowboys and horses, the continual praying for rain and fixing of windmills, the values instilled by a self-reliant way of life, you see how Sandra Day O'Connor grew up. This fascinating glimpse of life in the American Southwest in the last century recounts an interesting time in our history, and gives us an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/soul-survivor-how-thirteen-unlikely-mentors-helped-my-faith-survive-the-church-by-philip-yancey--65201481https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church Author: Philip Yancey Narrator: Philip Yancey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 18, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. 'When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in recovery from the church.' Yancey acknowledges that many spiritual seekers find few answers and little solace in the institutional church. 'I have met many people, and heard from many more, who have gone through a similar process of mining truth from their religious past: Roman Catholics who flinch whenever they see a nun or priest, former Seventh Day Adventists who cannot drink a cup of coffee without a stab of guilt, Mennonites who worry whether wedding rings give evidence of worldliness.' How did Yancey manage to survive spiritually despite early encounters with a racist, legalistic church that he now views as almost cultic? In this, his most soul-searching book yet, he probes that very question. He tells the story of his own struggle to reclaim belief, interwoven with inspiring portraits of notable people from all walks of life, whom he calls his spiritual directors. Soul Survivor is his tribute to thirteen remarkable individuals, mentors who transformed his life and work. Besides recalling their effect on him, Yancey also provides fresh glimpses of the lives and faith journeys of each one. From the scatterbrained journalist G. K. Chesterton to the tortured novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, to contemporaries such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Annie Dillard, Shusaku Endo, and Robert Coles, Yancey gives inspiring portraits of those who modeled for him a life-enhancing rather than a life-constricting faith. 'I became a writer, I now believe, to sort out and reclaim words used and misused by the Christians of my youth,' Yancey says. 'These are the people who ushered me into the Kingdom. In many ways they are why I remain a Christian today, and I want to introduce them to other spiritual seekers.' Soul Survivor offers illuminating insights that will enrich the lives of veteran believers and cautious seekers alike. Yancey's own story, unveiled here as never before, is a beacon for those who seek to rejuvenate their faith, and for those who are still longing for something to have faith in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160688Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church Author: Philip Yancey Narrator: Philip Yancey Format: Abridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church Author: Philip Yancey Narrator: Philip Yancey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 18, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. 'When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in recovery from the church.' Yancey acknowledges that many spiritual seekers find few answers and little solace in the institutional church. 'I have met many people, and heard from many more, who have gone through a similar process of mining truth from their religious past: Roman Catholics who flinch whenever they see a nun or priest, former Seventh Day Adventists who cannot drink a cup of coffee without a stab of guilt, Mennonites who worry whether wedding rings give evidence of worldliness.' How did Yancey manage to survive spiritually despite early encounters with a racist, legalistic church that he now views as almost cultic? In this, his most soul-searching book yet, he probes that very question. He tells the story of his own struggle to reclaim belief, interwoven with inspiring portraits of notable people from all walks of life, whom he calls his spiritual directors. Soul Survivor is his tribute to thirteen remarkable individuals, mentors who transformed his life and work. Besides recalling their effect on him, Yancey also provides fresh glimpses of the lives and faith journeys of each one. From the scatterbrained journalist G. K. Chesterton to the tortured novelists Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, to contemporaries such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Annie Dillard, Shusaku Endo, and Robert Coles, Yancey gives inspiring portraits of those who modeled for him a life-enhancing rather than a life-constricting faith. 'I became a writer, I now believe, to sort out and reclaim words used and misused by the Christians of my youth,' Yancey says. 'These are the people who ushered me into the Kingdom. In many ways they are why I remain a Christian today, and I want to introduce them to other spiritual seekers.' Soul Survivor offers illuminating insights that will enrich the lives of veteran believers and cautious seekers alike. Yancey's own story, unveiled here as never before, is a beacon for those who seek to rejuvenate their faith, and for those who are still longing for something to have faith in.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/best-friends-the-true-story-of-the-world-s-most-beloved-animal-sanctuary-by-samantha-glen--65201476https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary Author: Samantha Glen Narrator: Juliette Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 29, 2001 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the broken-down packhorse. Meet their rescuers: a famous symphony conductor, a successful architect, veterinarians, and others. Most of all, fall in love with the animals and people who share a special bond and whose often comic, sometimes poignant, always enchanting adventures together will touch your heart—and teach us all the true meaning of Best Friends. “For everyone who has ever loved a pet, this is a message of the universal love between animals and people.”—Booklist]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160812Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary Author: Samantha Glen Narrator: Juliette Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary Author: Samantha Glen Narrator: Juliette Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 29, 2001 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the broken-down packhorse. Meet their rescuers: a famous symphony conductor, a successful architect, veterinarians, and others. Most of all, fall in love with the animals and people who share a special bond and whose often comic, sometimes poignant, always enchanting adventures together will touch your heart—and teach us all the true meaning of Best Friends. “For everyone who has ever loved a pet, this is a message of the universal love between animals and people.”—Booklist]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/off-camera-private-thoughts-made-public-by-ted-koppel--65201484https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public Author: Ted Koppel Narrator: Ted Koppel Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 3, 2000 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of America's most admired TV anchors gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In this engrossing narrative, a national bestseller, are all the most significant matters of that year--from Bill Clinton’s impeachment to Columbine, from the war in Kosovo to Y2K and the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the people who made the news--from Slobodan Milosevic to Hillary Rodham Clinton to Michael Jordan to John F. Kennedy Jr. The events of 1999 anticipate so many of the on-going challenges America faces today that Koppel’s account feels entirely prescient. Koppel's book moves on yet another level as events trigger memories of his own past, providing a more personal resonance to his telling of the history we all share. He takes us back to the England in which he lived until he was thirteen. He revisits his powerful experiences as an interviewer investigating prison abuses and probing the violence in our schools. He discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the media; he talks about racial intolerance, about brutality toward gay people, about the absence of political leadership. He also examines such cultural phenomena as our obsession with celebrity and the impact of great theater and overhyped movies.           Here is the voice we knew so well from Nightline--intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned--reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160868Tue, 03 Oct 2000 06:02:26 +0000Gage GloverPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public Author: Ted Koppel Narrator: Ted Koppel Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public Author: Ted Koppel Narrator: Ted Koppel Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 3, 2000 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of America's most admired TV anchors gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In this engrossing narrative, a national bestseller, are all the most significant matters of that year--from Bill Clinton’s impeachment to Columbine, from the war in Kosovo to Y2K and the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the people who made the news--from Slobodan Milosevic to Hillary Rodham Clinton to Michael Jordan to John F. Kennedy Jr. The events of 1999 anticipate so many of the on-going challenges America faces today that Koppel’s account feels entirely prescient. Koppel's book moves on yet another level as events trigger memories of his own past, providing a more personal resonance to his telling of the history we all share. He takes us back to the England in which he lived until he was thirteen. He revisits his powerful experiences as an interviewer investigating prison abuses and probing the violence in our schools. He discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the media; he talks about racial intolerance, about brutality toward gay people, about the absence of political leadership. He also examines such cultural phenomena as our obsession with celebrity and the impact of great theater and overhyped movies.           Here is the voice we knew so well from Nightline--intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned--reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives.]]>605cleanfull