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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 Russell Hanehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/804f01e07875bfe5c63fc3490cd74f39.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/get-top-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-arts-entertainment--6581496Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:58:27 +0000Russell HaneRussell Hanefeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/727/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/727/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories. Get 3 free audiobooks to start. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and enjoy audiobooks whenever you want. Let the sounds of these wonderful stories accompany you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flashback-an-actor-s-life-by-david-s-barry--65327181https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flashback - An Actor's Life Author: David S. Barry Narrator: David S. Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 5, 2014 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: David Barry’s autobiography spans almost five decades of theatre, film and television experience. As a 14-year-old he toured Europe with Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, in one of the most prestigious post-war theatre tours. Vivien Leigh took a shine to him and he saw both sides of her complex character first hand. One minute she was sweetness and light, and the next she became a screaming harridan as she publicly berated Sir Laurence. In his early twenties, he starred as Frankie Abbott in Please, Sir! and Fenn Street Gang, and those days are recounted with great humour. Hilarious events unfold as he describes working with dodgy producers and argumentative actors. His is a story that covers everything from the pitfalls of working in live television to performing with hard drinking actors.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196762Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flashback - An Actor's Life Author: David S. Barry Narrator: David S. Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flashback - An Actor's Life Author: David S. Barry Narrator: David S. Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 5, 2014 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: David Barry’s autobiography spans almost five decades of theatre, film and television experience. As a 14-year-old he toured Europe with Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, in one of the most prestigious post-war theatre tours. Vivien Leigh took a shine to him and he saw both sides of her complex character first hand. One minute she was sweetness and light, and the next she became a screaming harridan as she publicly berated Sir Laurence. In his early twenties, he starred as Frankie Abbott in Please, Sir! and Fenn Street Gang, and those days are recounted with great humour. Hilarious events unfold as he describes working with dodgy producers and argumentative actors. His is a story that covers everything from the pitfalls of working in live television to performing with hard drinking actors.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-experience-necessary-the-culinary-odyssey-of-chef-norman-van-aken-by-norman-van-aken--65327065https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken Author: Norman Van Aken Narrator: Norman Van Aken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken' s joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs-- including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with ' no experience necessary.' Long considered a culinary renegade and a pioneering chef, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith. After landing on the deceptively breezy shores of Key West, Van Aken faced hurricanes, economic downturns, and mercurial moneymen during the decades when a restaurant could open and close faster than you can type haute cuisine. From a graveyard shift grunt at an all-night barbeque joint to a James Beard- award finalist for best restaurant in America, Van Aken put his trusting heart, poetic soul, natural talent, and ever-expanding experience into every venture-- and helped transform the American culinary landscape along the way. In the irreverent tradition of Anthony Bourdain' s Kitchen Confidential, and populated by a rogues' gallery of colorful characters-- including movie stars, legendary musicians, and culinary giants Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, and Charlie Trotter-- No Experience Necessary offers a uniquely personal, highly-entertaining under-the-tablecloth view of the high-stakes world of American cuisine told with wit, insight, and great affection by a natural storyteller.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202776Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken Author: Norman Van Aken Narrator: Norman Van Aken Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Experience Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken Author: Norman Van Aken Narrator: Norman Van Aken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken' s joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs-- including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with ' no experience necessary.' Long considered a culinary renegade and a pioneering chef, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith. After landing on the deceptively breezy shores of Key West, Van Aken faced hurricanes, economic downturns, and mercurial moneymen during the decades when a restaurant could open and close faster than you can type haute cuisine. From a graveyard shift grunt at an all-night barbeque joint to a James Beard- award finalist for best restaurant in America, Van Aken put his trusting heart, poetic soul, natural talent, and ever-expanding experience into every venture-- and helped transform the American culinary landscape along the way. In the irreverent tradition of Anthony Bourdain' s Kitchen Confidential, and populated by a rogues' gallery of colorful characters-- including movie stars, legendary musicians, and culinary giants Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, and Charlie Trotter-- No Experience Necessary offers a uniquely personal, highly-entertaining under-the-tablecloth view of the high-stakes world of American cuisine told with wit, insight, and great affection by a natural storyteller.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-chance-a-memoir-by-paul-potts--65327064https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Chance: A Memoir Author: Paul Potts Narrator: Matt Addis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 29, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The inspirational memoir by international classical music star Paul Potts, winner of Britain' s GotTalent-- now a major motion picture from The Weinstein Company One Chance is the remarkable true story of Paul Potts, cell phone salesman by day, amateur singer by night, who stepped onto the stage in the premiere season of Britain' s Got Talent, and changed his life. When he opened his mouth to sing Puccini' s ' Nessun Dorma,' judge Simon Cowell and millions of viewers were stunned. Paul went on to win the show' s competition and become a YouTube sensation and multiplatinum artist virtually overnight. Filled with personal recollections not featured in the film, this is the wonderful story of the shy, bullied Welsh store manager who seized his biggest dreams and won audiences around the world. The film One Chance, starring James Corden, Tony-winning star of One Man, Two Guvnors, and Julie Walters, star of Mamma Mia! and Billy Elliot, was directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and written by Justin Zackham (The Bucket List), and will be released in fall 2013.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201574Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Chance: A Memoir Author: Paul Potts Narrator: Matt Addis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 29, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Chance: A Memoir Author: Paul Potts Narrator: Matt Addis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 29, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The inspirational memoir by international classical music star Paul Potts, winner of Britain' s GotTalent-- now a major motion picture from The Weinstein Company One Chance is the remarkable true story of Paul Potts, cell phone salesman by day, amateur singer by night, who stepped onto the stage in the premiere season of Britain' s Got Talent, and changed his life. When he opened his mouth to sing Puccini' s ' Nessun Dorma,' judge Simon Cowell and millions of viewers were stunned. Paul went on to win the show' s competition and become a YouTube sensation and multiplatinum artist virtually overnight. Filled with personal recollections not featured in the film, this is the wonderful story of the shy, bullied Welsh store manager who seized his biggest dreams and won audiences around the world. The film One Chance, starring James Corden, Tony-winning star of One Man, Two Guvnors, and Julie Walters, star of Mamma Mia! and Billy Elliot, was directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) and written by Justin Zackham (The Bucket List), and will be released in fall 2013.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-story-lately-told-coming-of-age-in-ireland-london-and-new-york-by-anjelica-huston--65327084https://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: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment 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/the-art-of-youth-crane-carrington-gershwin-and-the-nature-of-first-acts-by-nicholas-delbanco--65327067https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts Author: Nicholas Delbanco Narrator: Jeff Crawford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called “the most neglected serious painter of her time”); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess). All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this learned and elegant book, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life—one marked by both early success and longevity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201416Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts Author: Nicholas Delbanco Narrator: Jeff Crawford Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts Author: Nicholas Delbanco Narrator: Jeff Crawford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called “the most neglected serious painter of her time”); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess). All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this learned and elegant book, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life—one marked by both early success and longevity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/undisputed-truth-by-mike-tyson-larry-sloman--65327066https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undisputed Truth Author: Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman Narrator: Joshua Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 89 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 22 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world—and a legend both in and out of the ring.   Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most thrilling and ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Years of hard partying, violent fights, and criminal proceedings took their toll: by 2003, Tyson had hit rock bottom, a convicted felon, completely broke, the punch line to a thousand bad late-night jokes. Yet he fought his way back; the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” regained his success, his dignity, and the love of his family. With a triumphant one-man stage show, his unforgettable performances in the Hangover films, and his newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband, Tyson’s story is an inspiring American original. Brutally honest, raw, and often hilarious, Tyson chronicles his tumultuous highs and lows in the same sincere, straightforward manner we have come to expect from this legendary athlete. A singular journey from Brooklyn’s ghettos to worldwide fame to notoriety, and, finally, to a tranquil wisdom, Undisputed Truth is not only a great sports memoir but an autobiography for the ages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201892Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undisputed Truth Author: Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman Narrator: Joshua Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undisputed Truth Author: Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman Narrator: Joshua Henry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 89 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 22 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world—and a legend both in and out of the ring.   Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most thrilling and ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Years of hard partying, violent fights, and criminal proceedings took their toll: by 2003, Tyson had hit rock bottom, a convicted felon, completely broke, the punch line to a thousand bad late-night jokes. Yet he fought his way back; the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” regained his success, his dignity, and the love of his family. With a triumphant one-man stage show, his unforgettable performances in the Hangover films, and his newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband, Tyson’s story is an inspiring American original. Brutally honest, raw, and often hilarious, Tyson chronicles his tumultuous highs and lows in the same sincere, straightforward manner we have come to expect from this legendary athlete. A singular journey from Brooklyn’s ghettos to worldwide fame to notoriety, and, finally, to a tranquil wisdom, Undisputed Truth is not only a great sports memoir but an autobiography for the ages.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rob-delaney-mother-wife-sister-human-warrior-falcon-yardstick-turban-cabbage-by-rob-delaney--65327094https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/melissa-explains-it-all-tales-from-my-abnormally-normal-life-by-melissa-joan-hart--65327117https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life Author: Melissa Joan Hart Narrator: Melissa Joan Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more television viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny behind-the-scenes stories from her extraordinary past and her refreshingly normal present. Melissa has been entertaining audiences most of her life; when there were no girls named Melissa on her favorite show, the forceful four year old decided she'd get on TV her way. From that moment on, Melissa has shown a singular determination and focus—whether it's for booking three national commercials so her dad would build her a tree house or for nailing the audition for Clarissa. From her first commercial to her current starring role in ABC Family's hit Melissa and Joey, Hart never let fame go to her head. She always had one foot in Hollywood and one foot in reality—and still does. Melissa makes us laugh along with her as she talks about: --guest appearances in shows like Saturday Night Live and The Equalizer --auditioning for Punky Brewster and Clarissa --her early Broadway days --wacky parties she's thrown and attended -- the actors who influenced her and whom she befriended, worked with and competed against --her experiences both on and off-set—with Sabrina's Salem the Cat and Elvis the Alligator on Clarissa --how she met the love of her life at the Kentucky Derby Melissa Joan Hart explains all that she's learned along the way—what's kept her grounded, normal and working when others have not been so fortunate—and that she's the approachable, hilarious girl-next-door her fans have always thought she'd be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198621Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life Author: Melissa Joan Hart Narrator: Melissa Joan Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life Author: Melissa Joan Hart Narrator: Melissa Joan Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more television viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny behind-the-scenes stories from her extraordinary past and her refreshingly normal present. Melissa has been entertaining audiences most of her life; when there were no girls named Melissa on her favorite show, the forceful four year old decided she'd get on TV her way. From that moment on, Melissa has shown a singular determination and focus—whether it's for booking three national commercials so her dad would build her a tree house or for nailing the audition for Clarissa. From her first commercial to her current starring role in ABC Family's hit Melissa and Joey, Hart never let fame go to her head. She always had one foot in Hollywood and one foot in reality—and still does. Melissa makes us laugh along with her as she talks about: --guest appearances in shows like Saturday Night Live and The Equalizer --auditioning for Punky Brewster and Clarissa --her early Broadway days --wacky parties she's thrown and attended -- the actors who influenced her and whom she befriended, worked with and competed against --her experiences both on and off-set—with Sabrina's Salem the Cat and Elvis the Alligator on Clarissa --how she met the love of her life at the Kentucky Derby Melissa Joan Hart explains all that she's learned along the way—what's kept her grounded, normal and working when others have not been so fortunate—and that she's the approachable, hilarious girl-next-door her fans have always thought she'd be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tune-in-the-beatles-all-these-years-by-mark-lewisohn--65327096https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years Author: Mark Lewisohn Narrator: Clive Mantle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 43 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Ten years in the making, Tune In takes the Beatles from before their childhoods through the final hour of 1962—when, with breakthrough success just days away, they stand on the cusp of a whole new kind of fame and celebrity. They’ve one hit record ('Love Me Do') behind them and the next ('Please Please Me') primed for release, their first album session is booked, and America is clear on the horizon.  This is the lesser-known Beatles story—the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg—and in many respects the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. Here is the complete and true account of their family lives, childhoods, teenage years and their infatuation with American music, here is the riveting narrative of their unforgettable days and nights in the Cavern Club, their laughs, larks and adventures when they could move about freely, before fame closed in.   For those who’ve never read a Beatles book before, this is the place to discover the young men behind the icons. For those who think they know John, Paul, George, and Ringo, it’s time to press the Reset button and tune into the real story, the lasting word.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200697Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years Author: Mark Lewisohn Narrator: Clive Mantle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 43 hours 45 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years Author: Mark Lewisohn Narrator: Clive Mantle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 43 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Ten years in the making, Tune In takes the Beatles from before their childhoods through the final hour of 1962—when, with breakthrough success just days away, they stand on the cusp of a whole new kind of fame and celebrity. They’ve one hit record ('Love Me Do') behind them and the next ('Please Please Me') primed for release, their first album session is booked, and America is clear on the horizon.  This is the lesser-known Beatles story—the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg—and in many respects the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. Here is the complete and true account of their family lives, childhoods, teenage years and their infatuation with American music, here is the riveting narrative of their unforgettable days and nights in the Cavern Club, their laughs, larks and adventures when they could move about freely, before fame closed in.   For those who’ve never read a Beatles book before, this is the place to discover the young men behind the icons. For those who think they know John, Paul, George, and Ringo, it’s time to press the Reset button and tune into the real story, the lasting word.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-time-in-the-world-a-book-of-hours-by-jessica-kerwin-jenkins--65327093https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours Author: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages. All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures and eras. Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus' belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of 'lumia,' or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless and wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London's Bright Young Things; and the musical revolution known as bebop. An antidote to the contemporary cult of 'getting things done,' All the Time in the World revives forgotten treasures of the past while inspiring a passion for good living in the present.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200825Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours Author: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours Author: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages. All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures and eras. Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus' belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of 'lumia,' or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless and wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London's Bright Young Things; and the musical revolution known as bebop. An antidote to the contemporary cult of 'getting things done,' All the Time in the World revives forgotten treasures of the past while inspiring a passion for good living in the present.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/johnny-cash-the-life-by-robert-hilburn--65327089https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Cash: The Life Author: Robert Hilburn Narrator: Charles Pittard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The national bestseller celebrated as 'the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep.' -- Rolling Stone In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's extraordinary career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to the remarkable creative last hurrah, at age 69, that resulted in the brave, moving 'Hurt' video. As music critic for the Los Angeles Times, Hilburn knew Cash throughout his life: he was the only music journalist at the legendary Folsom Prison concert in 1968, and he interviewed both Cash and his wife June Carter just months before their deaths. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-seen material from the singer's inner circle, Hilburn creates an utterly compelling, deeply human portrait of a towering figure in country music, a seminal influence in rock, and an icon of American popular culture. Hilburn's reporting shows the astonishing highs and deep lows that marked the journey of a man of great faith and humbling addiction who throughout his life strove to use his music to lift people's spirits.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200526Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Cash: The Life Author: Robert Hilburn Narrator: Charles Pittard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johnny Cash: The Life Author: Robert Hilburn Narrator: Charles Pittard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The national bestseller celebrated as 'the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep.' -- Rolling Stone In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's extraordinary career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to the remarkable creative last hurrah, at age 69, that resulted in the brave, moving 'Hurt' video. As music critic for the Los Angeles Times, Hilburn knew Cash throughout his life: he was the only music journalist at the legendary Folsom Prison concert in 1968, and he interviewed both Cash and his wife June Carter just months before their deaths. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-seen material from the singer's inner circle, Hilburn creates an utterly compelling, deeply human portrait of a towering figure in country music, a seminal influence in rock, and an icon of American popular culture. Hilburn's reporting shows the astonishing highs and deep lows that marked the journey of a man of great faith and humbling addiction who throughout his life strove to use his music to lift people's spirits.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heretics-and-heroes-how-renaissance-artists-and-reformation-priests-created-our-world-by-thomas-cahill--65327069https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Series: Part of The Hinges of History Author: Thomas Cahill Narrator: Thomas Cahill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book.   In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past.  It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200788Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Series: Part of The Hinges of History Author: Thomas Cahill...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World Series: Part of The Hinges of History Author: Thomas Cahill Narrator: Thomas Cahill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book.   In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past.  It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eminent-hipsters-by-donald-fagen--65327144https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eminent Hipsters Author: Donald Fagen Narrator: Donald Fagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A witty, revealing, sharply written work of memoir and criticism by the cofounder of Steely Dan Musician and songwriter Donald Fagen presents a group of vivid set pieces in his entertaining debut as an author, from portraits of the cultural figures and currents that shaped him as a youth to an account of his college days and of life on the road. Fagen begins by introducing the “eminent hipsters” that spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s, among them Jean Shepherd, whose manic nightly broadcasts out of WOR-Radio “enthralled a generation of alienated young people”; Henry Mancini, whose swank, noirish soundtracks left their mark on him; and Mort Fega, the laid-back, knowledgeable all-night jazz man at WEVD who was like “the cool uncle you always wished you had.” He writes of how, coming of age during the paranoid Cold War era, one of his primary doors of escape became reading science fiction, and of his invigorating trips into New York City to hear jazz. “Class of ’69” recounts Fagen’s colorful, mind-expanding years at Bard College, the progressive school north of New York City, where he first met his future musical partner Walter Becker. “With the Dukes of September” offers a cranky, hilarious account of the ups and downs of a recent cross-country tour Fagen made with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald, performing a program of old R&B and soul tunes as well as some of their own hits. Acclaimed for the elaborate arrangements and jazz harmonies of his songs, Fagen proves himself a sophisticated writer with a very distinctive voice in this engaging book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198516Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eminent Hipsters Author: Donald Fagen Narrator: Donald Fagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eminent Hipsters Author: Donald Fagen Narrator: Donald Fagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A witty, revealing, sharply written work of memoir and criticism by the cofounder of Steely Dan Musician and songwriter Donald Fagen presents a group of vivid set pieces in his entertaining debut as an author, from portraits of the cultural figures and currents that shaped him as a youth to an account of his college days and of life on the road. Fagen begins by introducing the “eminent hipsters” that spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s, among them Jean Shepherd, whose manic nightly broadcasts out of WOR-Radio “enthralled a generation of alienated young people”; Henry Mancini, whose swank, noirish soundtracks left their mark on him; and Mort Fega, the laid-back, knowledgeable all-night jazz man at WEVD who was like “the cool uncle you always wished you had.” He writes of how, coming of age during the paranoid Cold War era, one of his primary doors of escape became reading science fiction, and of his invigorating trips into New York City to hear jazz. “Class of ’69” recounts Fagen’s colorful, mind-expanding years at Bard College, the progressive school north of New York City, where he first met his future musical partner Walter Becker. “With the Dukes of September” offers a cranky, hilarious account of the ups and downs of a recent cross-country tour Fagen made with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald, performing a program of old R&B and soul tunes as well as some of their own hits. Acclaimed for the elaborate arrangements and jazz harmonies of his songs, Fagen proves himself a sophisticated writer with a very distinctive voice in this engaging book.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/provence-1970-m-f-k-fisher-julia-child-james-beard-and-the-reinvention-of-american-taste-by-luke-barr--65327137https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste Author: Luke Barr Narrator: John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today’s tastes and culture, the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters—some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew. In Provence, 1970, he captures this seminal season, set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scope—complete with gossip, drama, and contemporary relevance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198041Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste Author: Luke Barr Narrator: John Rubinstein Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste Author: Luke Barr Narrator: John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today’s tastes and culture, the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters—some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew. In Provence, 1970, he captures this seminal season, set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scope—complete with gossip, drama, and contemporary relevance.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-night-at-the-viper-room-river-phoenix-and-the-hollywood-he-left-behind-by-gavin-edwards--65327108https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind Author: Gavin Edwards Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens. Hailed for their acting prowess and admired for choosing meaty roles, actors such as Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves, and Brad Pitt were soon rocketing toward stardom while an unknown Leonardo DiCaprio prepared to make his acting debut. River Phoenix, however, stood in front of the pack. Blessed with natural talent and fueled by integrity, Phoenix was admired by his peers and adored by his fans. More than just a pinup on teenage girls' walls, Phoenix was also a fervent defender of the environment and a vocal proponent of a vegan lifestyle—well on his way to becoming a symbol of his generation. At age eighteen, he received his first Oscar nomination. But behind his beautiful public face, there was a young man who had been raised in a cult by nonconformist parents, who was burdened with supporting his family from a young age, and who eventually succumbed to addiction, escaping into a maelstrom of drink and drugs. And then he was gone. After a dozen films, including Stand by Me and My Own Private Idaho, and with a seemingly limitless future, River Phoenix died of a drug overdose. He was twenty-three years old. In Last Night at the Viper Room, bestselling author and journalist Gavin Edwards toggles between the tragic events at the Viper Room in West Hollywood on Halloween 1993 and the story of an extraordinary life. Last Night at the Viper Room is part biography, part cultural history of the 1990s, and part celebration of River Phoenix, a Hollywood icon gone too soon. Full of interviews from his fellow actors, directors, friends, and family, Last Night at the Viper Room shows the role he played in creating the place of the actor in our modern culture and the impact his work still makes today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199191Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind Author: Gavin Edwards Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind Author: Gavin Edwards Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens. Hailed for their acting prowess and admired for choosing meaty roles, actors such as Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves, and Brad Pitt were soon rocketing toward stardom while an unknown Leonardo DiCaprio prepared to make his acting debut. River Phoenix, however, stood in front of the pack. Blessed with natural talent and fueled by integrity, Phoenix was admired by his peers and adored by his fans. More than just a pinup on teenage girls' walls, Phoenix was also a fervent defender of the environment and a vocal proponent of a vegan lifestyle—well on his way to becoming a symbol of his generation. At age eighteen, he received his first Oscar nomination. But behind his beautiful public face, there was a young man who had been raised in a cult by nonconformist parents, who was burdened with supporting his family from a young age, and who eventually succumbed to addiction, escaping into a maelstrom of drink and drugs. And then he was gone. After a dozen films, including Stand by Me and My Own Private Idaho, and with a seemingly limitless future, River Phoenix died of a drug overdose. He was twenty-three years old. In Last Night at the Viper Room, bestselling author and journalist Gavin Edwards toggles between the tragic events at the Viper Room in West Hollywood on Halloween 1993 and the story of an extraordinary life. Last Night at the Viper Room is part biography, part cultural history of the 1990s, and part celebration of River Phoenix, a Hollywood icon gone too soon. Full of interviews from his fellow actors, directors, friends, and family, Last Night at the Viper Room shows the role he played in creating the place of the actor in our modern culture and the impact his work still makes today.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/duke-a-life-of-duke-ellington-by-terry-teachout--65327124https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Author: Terry Teachout Narrator: Peter Francis James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 17, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong   Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style. He wrote some fifteen hundred compositions, many of which, like “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady,” remain beloved standards, and he sought inspiration in an endless string of transient lovers, concealing his inner self behind a smiling mask of flowery language and ironic charm.   As the biographer of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the public and private lives of Duke Ellington. Duke peels away countless layers of Ellington’s evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, “All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198958Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Author: Terry Teachout Narrator: Peter Francis James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 44 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Author: Terry Teachout Narrator: Peter Francis James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 17, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong   Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style. He wrote some fifteen hundred compositions, many of which, like “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady,” remain beloved standards, and he sought inspiration in an endless string of transient lovers, concealing his inner self behind a smiling mask of flowery language and ironic charm.   As the biographer of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the public and private lives of Duke Ellington. Duke peels away countless layers of Ellington’s evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, “All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/devotion-a-memoir-by-dani-shapiro--65327161https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/paddle-your-own-canoe-one-man-s-fundamentals-for-delicious-living-by-nick-offerman--65327115https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living Author: Nick Offerman Narrator: Nick Offerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 183 Ratings of Narrator: 4.48 of Total 44 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson?  Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally.   It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198518Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living Author: Nick Offerman Narrator: Nick Offerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living Author: Nick Offerman Narrator: Nick Offerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 183 Ratings of Narrator: 4.48 of Total 44 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson?  Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally.   It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jim-henson-the-biography-by-brian-jay-jones--65327123https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jim Henson: The Biography Author: Brian Jay Jones Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story. This extraordinary biography—written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family—covers the full arc of Henson’s all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in America, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three. Drawing on hundreds of hours of new interviews with Henson's family, friends, and closest collaborators, as well as unprecedented access to private family and company archives, Brian Jay Jones explores the creation of the Muppets, Henson’s contributions to Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live, and his nearly ten-year campaign to bring The Muppet Show to television. Jones provides the imaginative context for Henson’s non-Muppet projects, including the richly imagined worlds of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth—as well as fascinating misfires like Henson’s dream of opening an inflatable psychedelic nightclub. An uncommonly intimate portrait, Jim Henson captures all the facets of this American original: the master craftsman who revolutionized the presentation of puppets on television, the savvy businessman whose dealmaking prowess won him a reputation as “the new Walt Disney,” and the creative team leader whose collaborative ethos earned him the undying loyalty of everyone who worked for him. Here also is insight into Henson’s intensely private personal life: his Christian Science upbringing, his love of fast cars and expensive art, and his weakness for women. Though an optimist by nature, Henson was haunted by the notion that he would not have time to do all the things he wanted to do in life—a fear that his heartbreaking final hours would prove all too well founded. An up-close look at the charmed life of a legend, Jim Henson gives the full measure to a man whose joyful genius transcended age, language, geography, and culture—and continues to beguile audiences worldwide. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE “Jim Henson vibrantly delves into the magnificent man and his Muppet methods: It’s an absolute must-read!”—Neil Patrick Harris “An exhaustive work that is never exhausting, a credit both to Jones’s brisk style and to Henson’s exceptional life.”—The New York Times “[A] sweeping portrait that is a mix of humor, mirth and poignancy.”—Washington Independent Review of Books “A meticulously researched tome chock-full of gems about the Muppets and the most thorough portrait of their creator ever crafted.”—Associated Press]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195373Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jim Henson: The Biography Author: Brian Jay Jones Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jim Henson: The Biography Author: Brian Jay Jones Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story. This extraordinary biography—written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family—covers the full arc of Henson’s all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in America, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three. Drawing on hundreds of hours of new interviews with Henson's family, friends, and closest collaborators, as well as unprecedented access to private family and company archives, Brian Jay Jones explores the creation of the Muppets, Henson’s contributions to Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live, and his nearly ten-year campaign to bring The Muppet Show to television. Jones provides the imaginative context for Henson’s non-Muppet projects, including the richly imagined worlds of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth—as well as fascinating misfires like Henson’s dream of opening an inflatable psychedelic nightclub. An uncommonly intimate portrait, Jim Henson captures all the facets of this American original: the master craftsman who revolutionized the presentation of puppets on television, the savvy businessman whose dealmaking prowess won him a reputation as “the new Walt Disney,” and the creative team leader whose collaborative ethos earned him the undying loyalty of everyone who worked for him. Here also is insight into Henson’s intensely private personal life: his Christian Science upbringing, his love of fast cars and expensive art, and his weakness for women. Though an optimist by nature, Henson was haunted by the notion that he would not have time to do all the things he wanted to do in life—a fear that his heartbreaking final hours would prove all too well founded. An up-close look at the charmed life of a legend, Jim Henson gives the full measure to a man whose joyful genius transcended age, language, geography, and culture—and continues to beguile audiences worldwide. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE “Jim Henson vibrantly delves into the magnificent man and his Muppet methods: It’s an absolute must-read!”—Neil Patrick Harris “An exhaustive work that is never exhausting, a credit both to Jones’s brisk style and to Henson’s exceptional life.”—The New York Times “[A] sweeping portrait that is a mix of humor, mirth and poignancy.”—Washington Independent Review of Books “A meticulously researched tome chock-full of gems about the Muppets and the most thorough portrait of their creator ever crafted.”—Associated Press]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-a-life-lived-in-the-shadow-of-roman-polanski-by-samantha-geimer--65327159https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/wild-tales-a-rock-roll-life-by-graham-nash--65327133https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life Author: Graham Nash Narrator: Graham Nash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 11 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Graham Nash—the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies—comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.   Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock and roll—he’s written over 200 songs, including such classic hits as 'Carrie Anne,' “On A Carousel,” 'Simple Man,' 'Our House,' “Marrakesh Express,” and 'Teach Your Children.' From the opening salvos of the British Rock Revolution to the last shudders of Woodstock, he has rocked and rolled wherever music mattered. Now Graham is ready to tell his story: his lower-class childhood in post-war England, his early days in the British Invasion group The Hollies; becoming the lover and muse of Joni Mitchell during the halcyon years, when both produced their most introspective and important work; meeting Stephen Stills and David Crosby and reaching superstardom with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and his enduring career as a solo musician and political activist.  Nash has valuable insights into a world and time many think they know from the outside but few have experienced at its epicenter, and equally wonderful anecdotes about the people around him: the Beatles, the Stones, Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Dylan, and other rock luminaries. From London to Laurel Canyon and beyond, Wild Tales is a revealing look back at an extraordinary life—with all the highs and the lows; the love, the sex, and the jealousy; the politics; the drugs; the insanity—and the sanity—of a magical era of music.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196599Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life Author: Graham Nash Narrator: Graham Nash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life Author: Graham Nash Narrator: Graham Nash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 11 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Graham Nash—the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies—comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.   Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock and roll—he’s written over 200 songs, including such classic hits as 'Carrie Anne,' “On A Carousel,” 'Simple Man,' 'Our House,' “Marrakesh Express,” and 'Teach Your Children.' From the opening salvos of the British Rock Revolution to the last shudders of Woodstock, he has rocked and rolled wherever music mattered. Now Graham is ready to tell his story: his lower-class childhood in post-war England, his early days in the British Invasion group The Hollies; becoming the lover and muse of Joni Mitchell during the halcyon years, when both produced their most introspective and important work; meeting Stephen Stills and David Crosby and reaching superstardom with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and his enduring career as a solo musician and political activist.  Nash has valuable insights into a world and time many think they know from the outside but few have experienced at its epicenter, and equally wonderful anecdotes about the people around him: the Beatles, the Stones, Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Dylan, and other rock luminaries. From London to Laurel Canyon and beyond, Wild Tales is a revealing look back at an extraordinary life—with all the highs and the lows; the love, the sex, and the jealousy; the politics; the drugs; the insanity—and the sanity—of a magical era of music.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/being-a-rockefeller-becoming-myself-a-memoir-by-eileen-rockefeller--65327129https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/empty-mansions-the-mysterious-life-of-huguette-clark-and-the-spending-of-a-great-american-fortune-by-bill-dedman-paul-clark-newell--65327138https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Author: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 16 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?   Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world.   Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else.   The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic.   Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. The audiobook edition includes bonus audio featuring phone calls between Paul Clark Newell, Jr. and Huguette Clark—believed to be the only known recording of her voice. Praise for Empty Mansions   “An exhaustively researched, well-written account . . . a blood-boiling expose [that] will make you angry and will make you sad.”—The Seattle Times   “An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol.”—The Daily Beast   “A childlike, self-exiled eccentric, [Huguette Clark] is the sort of of subject susceptible to a biography of broad strokes, which makes Empty Mansions, the first full-length account of her life, impressive for its delicacy and depth.”—Town & Country   “A spellbinding mystery.”—Booklist]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196832Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Author: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Author: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 16 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?   Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world.   Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else.   The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic.   Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. The audiobook edition includes bonus audio featuring phone calls between Paul Clark Newell, Jr. and Huguette Clark—believed to be the only known recording of her voice. Praise for Empty Mansions   “An exhaustively researched, well-written account . . . a blood-boiling expose [that] will make you angry and will make you sad.”—The Seattle Times   “An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol.”—The Daily Beast   “A childlike, self-exiled eccentric, [Huguette Clark] is the sort of of subject susceptible to a biography of broad strokes, which makes Empty Mansions, the first full-length account of her life, impressive for its...]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everybody-s-brother-by-ceelo-green--65327100https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Brother Author: Ceelo Green Narrator: Big Gipp, Ceelo Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He inspires awe with his colorful costumes and helps ordinary people find a Voice and without a doubt, CeeLo Green is a superhero of soul-and every superhero has an origin story. This story begins in The Dirty South, where South Atlanta's native son transformed himself into the Abominable SHOWman. Along the way, innocence was lost; farther down the path, his parents passed on. Yet he still found family at the Dungeon with the likes of Goodie Mob, Outkast, L.A. Reid, and Lauryn Hill. Then one day he teamed up with Danger Mouse and everything went 'Crazy.' Everybody's Brother is the untold story of CeeLo Green's rise from the streets of Atlanta to the top of the charts-a story so cool, so complex that his brother-from-another-mother, Big Gipp, couldn't help but chime in. Now CeeLo gives his fans what they've been waiting for: an all-access pass into his perfectly imperfect piece of mind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197991Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Brother Author: Ceelo Green Narrator: Big Gipp, Ceelo Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Brother Author: Ceelo Green Narrator: Big Gipp, Ceelo Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He inspires awe with his colorful costumes and helps ordinary people find a Voice and without a doubt, CeeLo Green is a superhero of soul-and every superhero has an origin story. This story begins in The Dirty South, where South Atlanta's native son transformed himself into the Abominable SHOWman. Along the way, innocence was lost; farther down the path, his parents passed on. Yet he still found family at the Dungeon with the likes of Goodie Mob, Outkast, L.A. Reid, and Lauryn Hill. Then one day he teamed up with Danger Mouse and everything went 'Crazy.' Everybody's Brother is the untold story of CeeLo Green's rise from the streets of Atlanta to the top of the charts-a story so cool, so complex that his brother-from-another-mother, Big Gipp, couldn't help but chime in. Now CeeLo gives his fans what they've been waiting for: an all-access pass into his perfectly imperfect piece of mind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/si-cology-1-tales-and-wisdom-from-duck-dynasty-s-favorite-uncle-by-si-robertson--65327122https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle Author: Si Robertson Narrator: Jay Stone, Si Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 16 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You know him from the hit A&E® show Duck Dynasty®—now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous collection! “These hands are so fast, I can get your wallet before you know it. In a minute, you’ll be standing there buck naked and won’t know what hit you!” “Look here—if it wasn’t for my tripped knee, I’d be playing in the NBA today.” “Hey, Jack!” Any of these sound familiar? If they do—or even if they don’t—you’re in for a good laugh. The brother of patriarch Phil Robertson, Uncle Si has a limitless supply of stories about his childhood, duck hunting adventures, his days in Vietnam, and everything in between. Now the best of those tales are gathered into this roaring book. And as Uncle Si recounts his outlandish tales, he weaves in an up-close look into his personal life. You’ll learn about his childhood as the youngest son in the Robertson family, his college days, and how he came to use a green Tupperware cup for his ever-present tea.. And in many of these never-before-heard tales, Si openly talks about his wife Christine and two children, Scott and Trasa—who are never seen and rarely mentioned on the show. Sure to please die-hard fans and curious newbies alike, Si’s one-liners are presented alongside fun, expressive photographs, as well as photos of his family. As you learn about his behind-the-scenes life, this smattering of zany stories will have you falling over with laughter and retelling them to all your friends.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194526Tue, 03 Sep 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle Author: Si Robertson Narrator: Jay Stone, Si Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle Author: Si Robertson Narrator: Jay Stone, Si Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 16 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You know him from the hit A&E® show Duck Dynasty®—now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous collection! “These hands are so fast, I can get your wallet before you know it. In a minute, you’ll be standing there buck naked and won’t know what hit you!” “Look here—if it wasn’t for my tripped knee, I’d be playing in the NBA today.” “Hey, Jack!” Any of these sound familiar? If they do—or even if they don’t—you’re in for a good laugh. The brother of patriarch Phil Robertson, Uncle Si has a limitless supply of stories about his childhood, duck hunting adventures, his days in Vietnam, and everything in between. Now the best of those tales are gathered into this roaring book. And as Uncle Si recounts his outlandish tales, he weaves in an up-close look into his personal life. You’ll learn about his childhood as the youngest son in the Robertson family, his college days, and how he came to use a green Tupperware cup for his ever-present tea.. And in many of these never-before-heard tales, Si openly talks about his wife Christine and two children, Scott and Trasa—who are never seen and rarely mentioned on the show. Sure to please die-hard fans and curious newbies alike, Si’s one-liners are presented alongside fun, expressive photographs, as well as photos of his family. As you learn about his behind-the-scenes life, this smattering of zany stories will have you falling over with laughter and retelling them to all your friends.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-spite-of-myself-by-christopher-plummer--65327155https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/when-they-were-boys-the-true-story-of-the-beatles-rise-to-the-top-by-larry-kane--65327151https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top Author: Larry Kane Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This is the real story of the Beatles’ harrowing rise to fame: focusing on that 7-year stretch from the time the boys met as teenagers in the 50’s to early 1964, when the Fab Four prepared to invade America. From the boys’ humble beginnings in Liverpool, to the cellars of Hamburg, When They Were Boys includes stories never before told, including heartbreaks, lucky breaks, and the dramatic twists of timing, fate, loyalty, and betrayal. Included are an eyewitness account of that first meeting between Lennon and McCartney, the inside story of how Ringo replaced Pete Best, an exploration of the brilliant but troubled soul of manager Brian Epstein, the real scoop on their disastrous first visit to Germany and the death of Stu Sutcliffe. With an eye for life in Liverpool during the 50’s and 60’s, and with the help of his own conversations with the Beatles in the early years, Larry Kane brings to life the evolution of the group that changed music forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180163Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top Author: Larry Kane Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top Author: Larry Kane Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This is the real story of the Beatles’ harrowing rise to fame: focusing on that 7-year stretch from the time the boys met as teenagers in the 50’s to early 1964, when the Fab Four prepared to invade America. From the boys’ humble beginnings in Liverpool, to the cellars of Hamburg, When They Were Boys includes stories never before told, including heartbreaks, lucky breaks, and the dramatic twists of timing, fate, loyalty, and betrayal. Included are an eyewitness account of that first meeting between Lennon and McCartney, the inside story of how Ringo replaced Pete Best, an exploration of the brilliant but troubled soul of manager Brian Epstein, the real scoop on their disastrous first visit to Germany and the death of Stu Sutcliffe. With an eye for life in Liverpool during the 50’s and 60’s, and with the help of his own conversations with the Beatles in the early years, Larry Kane brings to life the evolution of the group that changed music forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/signifying-rappers-by-david-foster-wallace-mark-costello--65327125https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/190849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Signifying Rappers Author: David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 23, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared 'an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop.' The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? Back in print at last, Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/190849Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/190849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Signifying Rappers Author: David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/190849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Signifying Rappers Author: David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 23, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared 'an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop.' The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? Back in print at last, Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-mrs-hollywood-edie-and-lew-wasserman-and-their-entertainment-empire-by-kathleen-sharp--65327185https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire Author: Kathleen Sharp Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Ever wonder why so many B actors wind up as A-grade politicians? Or how the casting couch worked? Acclaimed author Kathleen Sharp traces the influence of show business through the lives of its first power couple. Edie and Lew Wasserman built the world’s largest talent agency, MCA, created the multibillion-dollar Universal Studios, and helped shape Washington, DC. Starting from MCA’s birth in gangland Chicago, Lew represented stars such as Jimmy Stewart and Marilyn Monroe; pioneered TV with Leave It to Beaver and Miami Vice; spawned the blockbuster movie model with Psycho and Jaws; and developed a mega–theme park. His savvy wife, Edie, was the daughter of a mob attorney, the queen of A-list parties, and Lew’s secret agent who boosted their status. Yet, the couple was attacked by rivals, federal prosecutors, and their own protégés. Even so, over the course of seven decades they managed to vanquish their enemies and parlay their influence far beyond Sunset Strip into governors’ mansions, Senate chambers, and the White House. At the end, Edie and Lew became diplomats, kingmakers, and philanthropists, who elevated the fortunes of middle-class workers and California itself. Based on some four hundred interviews, this book features Janet Leigh, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, John Belushi, Jean Stein, and Steven Spielberg along with the Kennedys, the Johnsons, the Reagans, and the Clintons. It’s a fascinating read about how two kids from Cleveland created the largest entertainment conglomerate in the world and wound up ruling twentieth-century America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193944Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire Author: Kathleen Sharp Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/193944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire Author: Kathleen Sharp Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 16, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Ever wonder why so many B actors wind up as A-grade politicians? Or how the casting couch worked? Acclaimed author Kathleen Sharp traces the influence of show business through the lives of its first power couple. Edie and Lew Wasserman built the world’s largest talent agency, MCA, created the multibillion-dollar Universal Studios, and helped shape Washington, DC. Starting from MCA’s birth in gangland Chicago, Lew represented stars such as Jimmy Stewart and Marilyn Monroe; pioneered TV with Leave It to Beaver and Miami Vice; spawned the blockbuster movie model with Psycho and Jaws; and developed a mega–theme park. His savvy wife, Edie, was the daughter of a mob attorney, the queen of A-list parties, and Lew’s secret agent who boosted their status. Yet, the couple was attacked by rivals, federal prosecutors, and their own protégés. Even so, over the course of seven decades they managed to vanquish their enemies and parlay their influence far beyond Sunset Strip into governors’ mansions, Senate chambers, and the White House. At the end, Edie and Lew became diplomats, kingmakers, and philanthropists, who elevated the fortunes of middle-class workers and California itself. Based on some four hundred interviews, this book features Janet Leigh, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, John Belushi, Jean Stein, and Steven Spielberg along with the Kennedys, the Johnsons, the Reagans, and the Clintons. It’s a fascinating read about how two kids from Cleveland created the largest entertainment conglomerate in the world and wound up ruling twentieth-century America.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blue-plate-special-an-autobiography-of-my-appetites-by-kate-christensen--65327134https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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-m-no-angel-from-victoria-s-secret-model-to-role-model-by-kylie-bisutti--65327189https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’m No Angel: From Victoria’s Secret Model to Role Model Author: Kylie Bisutti Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 1, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In December 2011, twenty-one-year-old Victoria's Secret model Kylie Bisutti stunned the fashion industry when she chose faith over fame and fortune and made the switch from supermodel to role model. In I'm No Angel, Kylie shares her story—from her early years struggling to make it big in the cut-throat world of modeling, her big break winning the Victoria's Secret Runway Angel competition, and the disillusionment and spiritual warfare that followed, to the moment she realized she could no longer reconcile her career with her Christian beliefs, surrendered her life to God, said goodbye to the runway, and dedicated her life to preaching a message of modesty and inner beauty. Along the way Kylie talks about her personal struggles with inadequacy, low self-esteem, and her near-constant quest for approval in a world where you can never be thin enough, pretty enough, or sexy enough. She helps listeners understand that true beauty lies within and that real fulfillment comes from knowing, loving, and serving Christ.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181919Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’m No Angel: From Victoria’s Secret Model to Role Model Author: Kylie Bisutti Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’m No Angel: From Victoria’s Secret Model to Role Model Author: Kylie Bisutti Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 1, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In December 2011, twenty-one-year-old Victoria's Secret model Kylie Bisutti stunned the fashion industry when she chose faith over fame and fortune and made the switch from supermodel to role model. In I'm No Angel, Kylie shares her story—from her early years struggling to make it big in the cut-throat world of modeling, her big break winning the Victoria's Secret Runway Angel competition, and the disillusionment and spiritual warfare that followed, to the moment she realized she could no longer reconcile her career with her Christian beliefs, surrendered her life to God, said goodbye to the runway, and dedicated her life to preaching a message of modesty and inner beauty. Along the way Kylie talks about her personal struggles with inadequacy, low self-esteem, and her near-constant quest for approval in a world where you can never be thin enough, pretty enough, or sexy enough. She helps listeners understand that true beauty lies within and that real fulfillment comes from knowing, loving, and serving Christ.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-daws-butler-collection-by-pedro-pablo-sacristan-carol-hemmingway-shep-menken-herschel-bernardi-charles-dawson-butler-joe-bevilacqua--65327135https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daws Butler Collection Author: Pedro Pablo Sacristán, Carol Hemmingway, Shep Menken, Herschel Bernardi, Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Stan Freberg Narrator: June Foray, Don Messick, Lorie Kellogg, Corey Burton, A Full Cast, Nancy Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From master voice actor Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, comes a rare collection of radio plays, cartoon scripts, and acting tutorials. Daws Butler's Halloween Happening by Daws Butler A new production of the classic radio play, this ghostly story was originally written and performed by Daws Butler. Veteran voice actor Joe Bevilacqua teams up with Lorie Kellogg in this new recording, complete with music and sound effects. Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop In this series, Joe Bevilacqua presents performances of several scripts Butler wrote for his 1975 acting workshops. Rare Daws Butler by Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, Herschel Bemardi, Shep Menken, and Carol Hemmingway Daws Butler voiced many of Stan Freberg's greatest comedy records. Here is a hilarious collection of his never-before-released comedy records. Rare Daws Butler, Volume Two by Daws Butler A follow-up to Rare Daws Butler, this second collection features another hour of Butler's rare comedy recordings. Daws Butler Teaches You Dialects by Daws Butler Voice magician Daws Butler teaches accents and dialects in this radio production. Included in his tutorials are British, Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Brooklyn, Hindu, German, French, and Southern. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie by Daws Butler and Joe Bevilacqua A collection of imaginative cartoon scripts, this series of thirty-five fables were created by Butler in the 1960s. Here his prot├®g├®, Joe Bevilacqua, performs all ninety-seven characters with music and sound effects. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie 2 by Daws Butler and Pedro Pablo Sacrista This second collection of fables features nineteen never-before-released recordings of Daws Butler's stories, as well as two new Uncle Dunkle fables. The Christmas That Almost Never Was by Daws Butler It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole when Santa Claus loses his 'remembery' and only a child who has been good for 365 days can save Christmas! Written and performed by Butler, this children's radio play was recorded in the 1940s.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191408Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daws Butler Collection Author: Pedro Pablo Sacristán, Carol Hemmingway, Shep Menken, Herschel Bernardi, Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Stan...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daws Butler Collection Author: Pedro Pablo Sacristán, Carol Hemmingway, Shep Menken, Herschel Bernardi, Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Stan Freberg Narrator: June Foray, Don Messick, Lorie Kellogg, Corey Burton, A Full Cast, Nancy Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From master voice actor Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, comes a rare collection of radio plays, cartoon scripts, and acting tutorials. Daws Butler's Halloween Happening by Daws Butler A new production of the classic radio play, this ghostly story was originally written and performed by Daws Butler. Veteran voice actor Joe Bevilacqua teams up with Lorie Kellogg in this new recording, complete with music and sound effects. Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop In this series, Joe Bevilacqua presents performances of several scripts Butler wrote for his 1975 acting workshops. Rare Daws Butler by Daws Butler, Stan Freberg, Herschel Bemardi, Shep Menken, and Carol Hemmingway Daws Butler voiced many of Stan Freberg's greatest comedy records. Here is a hilarious collection of his never-before-released comedy records. Rare Daws Butler, Volume Two by Daws Butler A follow-up to Rare Daws Butler, this second collection features another hour of Butler's rare comedy recordings. Daws Butler Teaches You Dialects by Daws Butler Voice magician Daws Butler teaches accents and dialects in this radio production. Included in his tutorials are British, Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Brooklyn, Hindu, German, French, and Southern. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie by Daws Butler and Joe Bevilacqua A collection of imaginative cartoon scripts, this series of thirty-five fables were created by Butler in the 1960s. Here his prot├®g├®, Joe Bevilacqua, performs all ninety-seven characters with music and sound effects. Uncle Dunkle and Donnie 2 by Daws Butler and Pedro Pablo Sacrista This second collection of fables features nineteen never-before-released recordings of Daws Butler's stories, as well as two new Uncle Dunkle fables. The Christmas That Almost Never Was by Daws Butler It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole when Santa Claus loses his 'remembery' and only a child who has been good for 365 days can save Christmas! Written and performed by Butler, this children's radio play was recorded in the 1940s.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-making-of-the-godfather-by-mario-puzo--65327196https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Making of the Godfather Author: Mario Puzo Narrator: Max Casella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication of The Godfather. With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the movie. Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, Peter Bart, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino all make appearances-as does Frank Sinatra, in his famous and disastrous encounter with Puzo. First published in 1972, the essay is now available as an ebook for the first time. A must-have for every Godfather fan! Featuring a foreword by Ed Falco, author of The Family Corleone.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178245Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Making of the Godfather Author: Mario Puzo Narrator: Max Casella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Making of the Godfather Author: Mario Puzo Narrator: Max Casella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication of The Godfather. With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the movie. Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, Peter Bart, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino all make appearances-as does Frank Sinatra, in his famous and disastrous encounter with Puzo. First published in 1972, the essay is now available as an ebook for the first time. A must-have for every Godfather fan! Featuring a foreword by Ed Falco, author of The Family Corleone.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-s-not-funny-that-s-sick-the-national-lampoon-and-the-comedy-insurgents-who-captured-the-mainstream-by-ellin-stein--65327188https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream Author: Ellin Stein Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 24, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The untold story behind a revolution in American comedy Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as Michael O'Donoghue and P. J. O'Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy. Ranging from sophisticated political satire to broad raunchy jokes, the National Lampoon introduced iconoclasm to the mainstream, selling millions of copies to an audience both large and devoted. Its excursions into live shows, records, and radio helped shape the anarchic earthiness of John Belushi, the suave slapstick of Chevy Chase, and the deadpan wit of Bill Murray and brought them together with other talents such as Harold Ramis, Christopher Guest, and Gilda Radner. A new generation of humorists emerged from the crucible of the Lampoon to help create Saturday Night Live and the influential film Animal House, among many other notable comedy landmarks. Journalist Ellin Stein, an observer of the scene since the early 1970s, draws on a wealth of revealing firsthand interviews with the architects and impresarios of this comedy explosion to offer crucial insight into a raucous cultural transformation that still echoes today. Brimming with insider stories and set against the roiling political and cultural landscape of the 1970s, That's Not Funny, That's Sick goes behind the jokes to witness the fights, the parties, the collaborations—and the competition—among this fraternity of the self-consciously disenchanted. Decades later, their brand of subversive humor that provokes, offends, and often illuminates is as relevant and necessary as ever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179688Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream Author: Ellin Stein Narrator: Jim Meskimen...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream Author: Ellin Stein Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 24, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The untold story behind a revolution in American comedy Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as Michael O'Donoghue and P. J. O'Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy. Ranging from sophisticated political satire to broad raunchy jokes, the National Lampoon introduced iconoclasm to the mainstream, selling millions of copies to an audience both large and devoted. Its excursions into live shows, records, and radio helped shape the anarchic earthiness of John Belushi, the suave slapstick of Chevy Chase, and the deadpan wit of Bill Murray and brought them together with other talents such as Harold Ramis, Christopher Guest, and Gilda Radner. A new generation of humorists emerged from the crucible of the Lampoon to help create Saturday Night Live and the influential film Animal House, among many other notable comedy landmarks. Journalist Ellin Stein, an observer of the scene since the early 1970s, draws on a wealth of revealing firsthand interviews with the architects and impresarios of this comedy explosion to offer crucial insight into a raucous cultural transformation that still echoes today. Brimming with insider stories and set against the roiling political and cultural landscape of the 1970s, That's Not Funny, That's Sick goes behind the jokes to witness the fights, the parties, the collaborations—and the competition—among this fraternity of the self-consciously disenchanted. Decades later, their brand of subversive humor that provokes, offends, and often illuminates is as relevant and necessary as ever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kid-stays-in-the-picture-by-robert-evans--65327143https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kid Stays in the Picture Author: Robert Evans Narrator: Robert Evans Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.   With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture is driven by a voice as charming and irresistible as any great novel.   An extraordinary raconteur, Evans spares no one, least of all himself. Filled with starring roles for everyone from Ava Gardner to Marlon Brando to Sharon Stone, The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life is sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing, and self-lacerating in equal measure. This is a must-read for fans of American cinema and classics of the canon, including The Odd Couple, Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177892Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kid Stays in the Picture Author: Robert Evans Narrator: Robert Evans Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kid Stays in the Picture Author: Robert Evans Narrator: Robert Evans Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.   With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture is driven by a voice as charming and irresistible as any great novel.   An extraordinary raconteur, Evans spares no one, least of all himself. Filled with starring roles for everyone from Ava Gardner to Marlon Brando to Sharon Stone, The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life is sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing, and self-lacerating in equal measure. This is a must-read for fans of American cinema and classics of the canon, including The Odd Couple, Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outlaw-waylon-willie-kris-and-the-renegades-of-nashville-by-michael-streissguth--65327140https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville Author: Michael Streissguth Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever. By the late 1960s, Nashville, Tennessee, was firmly established as the center of the booming country music industry and home to what was known as the Nashville Sound, characterized by slick production and adherence to an increasingly overused formula. But the city was changing. Young people from all over the country were streaming into the bohemian West End and colliding with three trailblazing artists who would soon rock the foundations of Nashville's music business. Surrounded by the street vibes of the West End's burgeoning underground scene and the outlaw protest tradition of Nashville's unlikely civil rights leaders and antiwar protestors, Waylon, Willie, and Kris began resisting the unspoken rules of Nashville's music-making machine and instead forged their own creative paths. Their music, personal and not easily categorized, was more in the vein of rock acts like the Allman Brothers and Bob Dylan, and it communi-cated a stark rawness and honesty that would influence artists of all genres for decades to come. Studded with a diverse secondary cast including Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, Billy Joe Shaver, and others, Streissguth's new book brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. Based on extensive research and probing interviews with key players, what emerges is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times and the definitive story of how they changed music in Nashville and everywhere.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177894Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville Author: Michael Streissguth Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville Author: Michael Streissguth Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever. By the late 1960s, Nashville, Tennessee, was firmly established as the center of the booming country music industry and home to what was known as the Nashville Sound, characterized by slick production and adherence to an increasingly overused formula. But the city was changing. Young people from all over the country were streaming into the bohemian West End and colliding with three trailblazing artists who would soon rock the foundations of Nashville's music business. Surrounded by the street vibes of the West End's burgeoning underground scene and the outlaw protest tradition of Nashville's unlikely civil rights leaders and antiwar protestors, Waylon, Willie, and Kris began resisting the unspoken rules of Nashville's music-making machine and instead forged their own creative paths. Their music, personal and not easily categorized, was more in the vein of rock acts like the Allman Brothers and Bob Dylan, and it communi-cated a stark rawness and honesty that would influence artists of all genres for decades to come. Studded with a diverse secondary cast including Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, Billy Joe Shaver, and others, Streissguth's new book brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. Based on extensive research and probing interviews with key players, what emerges is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times and the definitive story of how they changed music in Nashville and everywhere.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/drum-workshop-by-chris-puleston--65327156https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drum Workshop Author: Chris Puleston Narrator: Chris Puleston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 1, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Top drum workshop teacher Chris Puleston invites listeners to participate in their own home drum workshops. This audiobook program, with music by Chris Puleston, incorporates easy exercises and techniques for both beginners and more advanced students.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177421Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drum Workshop Author: Chris Puleston Narrator: Chris Puleston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 1, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drum Workshop Author: Chris Puleston Narrator: Chris Puleston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 1, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Top drum workshop teacher Chris Puleston invites listeners to participate in their own home drum workshops. This audiobook program, with music by Chris Puleston, incorporates easy exercises and techniques for both beginners and more advanced students.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waterlogg-documentary-pack-by-joe-bevilacqua-barbara-bernstein--65327131https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/the-beatles-tapes-rare-interviews-by-george-harrison-paul-mccartney-john-lennon-ringo-starr--65327101https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatles Tapes: Rare Interviews Author: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr Narrator: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 47 minutes Release date: May 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This is an audio album of interviews with each of the four members of The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The wit of the Beatles shines through in these audio vignettes from the 1960s.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200229Wed, 08 May 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatles Tapes: Rare Interviews Author: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr Narrator: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatles Tapes: Rare Interviews Author: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr Narrator: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 47 minutes Release date: May 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This is an audio album of interviews with each of the four members of The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The wit of the Beatles shines through in these audio vignettes from the 1960s.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/anyone-who-had-a-heart-my-life-and-music-by-burt-bacharach--65327168https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/a-curious-man-the-strange-and-brilliant-life-of-robert-believe-it-or-not-ripley-by-neal-thompson--65327158https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley Author: Neal Thompson Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable. As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at age eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his “Believe It or Not” conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it birthed that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making outrageous declarations that somehow always turned out to be true—such as that Charles Lindbergh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that “The Star Spangled Banner” was not the national anthem. Assisted by an exotic harem of female admirers and by ex-banker Norbert Pearlroth, a devoted researcher who spoke eleven languages, Ripley simultaneously embodied the spirit of Peter Pan, the fearlessness of Marco Polo and the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum. In a very real sense, Ripley sought to remake the world’s aesthetic. He demanded respect for those who were labeled “eccentrics” or “freaks”—whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a twenty-eight room mansion stocked with such “oddities” as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in print, radio, and television were tapping into something deep in the American consciousness—a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, dumbest and most weird. Today, that legacy continues and can be seen in reality TV, YouTube, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Jackass, MythBusters and a host of other pop-culture phenomena. In the end Robert L. Ripley changed everything. The supreme irony of his life, which was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual, is that he may have been the most amazing oddity of all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173446Tue, 07 May 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley Author: Neal Thompson Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley Author: Neal Thompson Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable. As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at age eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his “Believe It or Not” conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it birthed that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making outrageous declarations that somehow always turned out to be true—such as that Charles Lindbergh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that “The Star Spangled Banner” was not the national anthem. Assisted by an exotic harem of female admirers and by ex-banker Norbert Pearlroth, a devoted researcher who spoke eleven languages, Ripley simultaneously embodied the spirit of Peter Pan, the fearlessness of Marco Polo and the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum. In a very real sense, Ripley sought to remake the world’s aesthetic. He demanded respect for those who were labeled “eccentrics” or “freaks”—whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a twenty-eight room mansion stocked with such “oddities” as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in print, radio, and television were tapping into something deep in the American consciousness—a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, dumbest and most weird. Today, that legacy continues and can be seen in reality TV, YouTube, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Jackass, MythBusters and a host of other pop-culture phenomena. In the end Robert L. Ripley changed everything. The supreme irony of his life, which was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual, is that he may have been the most amazing oddity of all.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/happy-happy-happy-my-life-and-legacy-as-the-duck-commander-by-phil-robertson--65327126https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander Author: Phil Robertson Narrator: Alan Robertson, Phil Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 40 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business. It isn’t often that a person can live a dream, but Phil Robertson—better known as the Duck Commander—has proven that it is possible with vision, hard work, helping hands, and an unshakable faith in the Almighty. Phil’s is the remarkable story of one man who followed his faith in God and soon after invented a duck call that would begin an incredible journey to the life he had always dreamed of for himself and his family. In the love of his country, his family, and his maker, Phil has finally found the ingredients to the good life he always wanted. In Happy, Happy, Happy, you’ll go beyond the scenes of Duck Dynasty and learn about Phil’s colorful past and the wild road to the blessed life he leads today. Before, Phil’s passion for the outdoors led him down some shady paths, and as a young proprietor of a rough bar, he says, he lived a life of “romping, stomping, and ripping.” But through it all, Phil felt he was a “called” man—called to live off the land, called to leave a career in football for duck hunting, called to create a new kind of duck call, and finally, called to follow God and lead a life of faith. In this eye-opening book, you’ll feel like you’re sitting face-to-face with Phil as he tells his story, and you’ll see that his enthusiasm for duck hunting and the Lord is no act—it is truly who he is.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173804Tue, 07 May 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander Author: Phil Robertson Narrator: Alan Robertson, Phil Robertson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/173804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander Author: Phil Robertson Narrator: Alan Robertson, Phil Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 40 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business. It isn’t often that a person can live a dream, but Phil Robertson—better known as the Duck Commander—has proven that it is possible with vision, hard work, helping hands, and an unshakable faith in the Almighty. Phil’s is the remarkable story of one man who followed his faith in God and soon after invented a duck call that would begin an incredible journey to the life he had always dreamed of for himself and his family. In the love of his country, his family, and his maker, Phil has finally found the ingredients to the good life he always wanted. In Happy, Happy, Happy, you’ll go beyond the scenes of Duck Dynasty and learn about Phil’s colorful past and the wild road to the blessed life he leads today. Before, Phil’s passion for the outdoors led him down some shady paths, and as a young proprietor of a rough bar, he says, he lived a life of “romping, stomping, and ripping.” But through it all, Phil felt he was a “called” man—called to live off the land, called to leave a career in football for duck hunting, called to create a new kind of duck call, and finally, called to follow God and lead a life of faith. In this eye-opening book, you’ll feel like you’re sitting face-to-face with Phil as he tells his story, and you’ll see that his enthusiasm for duck hunting and the Lord is no act—it is truly who he is.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/attempting-normal-by-marc-maron--65327167https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/life-at-the-marmont-the-inside-story-of-hollywood-s-legendary-hotel-of-the-stars-chateau-marmont-by-raymond-sarlot--65327090https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/jenni-rivera-the-incredible-story-of-a-warrior-butterfly-by-leila-cobo--65327092https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly Author: Leila Cobo Narrator: Alma Cuervo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: April 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: LIKE A BLAZING SHOOTING STAR, JENNI RIVERA LIT UP THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, YET THE SKY SWEPT HER AWAY BEFORE HER TIME Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Life of a Warrior Butterfly:    •  Full color photos     •  The complete discography of Jenni Rivera    •  Billboard lists of sales rankings of Jenni's songs    •  Exclusive interviews     •  A complete, entertaining, and objective biography    •  Written by one of the country’s leading experts in Latin music  Jenni Rivera was the top-selling artist within the Regional Mexican music genre. With a weekly radio show, her own reality show, a makeup and clothing line, and her own foundation, she was at the height of her career and life. Everything she had conquered, with blood, sweat, tears, and smiles, hap¬pened, as she said, with God leading her by the hand. However her life, her dreams, and the joy she shared with so many came to a tragic end just before dawn on December 9, 2012. In Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly, Leila Cobo—pianist, TV host, and Executive Director for Latino content and programming at Billboard—brings us Jenni Rivera’s intimate and moving biography, reflecting on the party girl, the elegant woman, the great diva, the friend, the mother, and the grandmother. Discover the humble beginnings of Jenni’s life and career, as well as the emotional and sometimes turbulent moments that defined her persona and spirit. Like a candle blown out before her time, we not only lost the “Unforgettable One,” the “Queen of Queens,” the “Warrior Butterfly,” we also lost a brave woman who fearlessly faced life’s ups and downs to attain the happiness she so fervently wanted for herself and her family. With Jenni’s departure, we celebrate a shining legacy that will forever reverberate within every note of her voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200398Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly Author: Leila Cobo Narrator: Alma Cuervo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly Author: Leila Cobo Narrator: Alma Cuervo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: April 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: LIKE A BLAZING SHOOTING STAR, JENNI RIVERA LIT UP THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, YET THE SKY SWEPT HER AWAY BEFORE HER TIME Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Life of a Warrior Butterfly:    •  Full color photos     •  The complete discography of Jenni Rivera    •  Billboard lists of sales rankings of Jenni's songs    •  Exclusive interviews     •  A complete, entertaining, and objective biography    •  Written by one of the country’s leading experts in Latin music  Jenni Rivera was the top-selling artist within the Regional Mexican music genre. With a weekly radio show, her own reality show, a makeup and clothing line, and her own foundation, she was at the height of her career and life. Everything she had conquered, with blood, sweat, tears, and smiles, hap¬pened, as she said, with God leading her by the hand. However her life, her dreams, and the joy she shared with so many came to a tragic end just before dawn on December 9, 2012. In Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly, Leila Cobo—pianist, TV host, and Executive Director for Latino content and programming at Billboard—brings us Jenni Rivera’s intimate and moving biography, reflecting on the party girl, the elegant woman, the great diva, the friend, the mother, and the grandmother. Discover the humble beginnings of Jenni’s life and career, as well as the emotional and sometimes turbulent moments that defined her persona and spirit. Like a candle blown out before her time, we not only lost the “Unforgettable One,” the “Queen of Queens,” the “Warrior Butterfly,” we also lost a brave woman who fearlessly faced life’s ups and downs to attain the happiness she so fervently wanted for herself and her family. With Jenni’s departure, we celebrate a shining legacy that will forever reverberate within every note of her voice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/songlab-a-songwriting-playbook-for-teens-by-alex-forbes--65327208https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songlab: A Songwriting Playbook for Teens Author: Alex Forbes Narrator: Alex Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Created exclusively with and for teen musicians, this hands-on, step-by-step program uses insight, enthusiasm, and humor to teach teens how to brainstorm ideas, craft effective lyrics, and put those lyrics to music. An award-winning and Billboard-charting songwriter and teacher, Alex Forbes has taught dozens of teens via her Manhattan workshops and coaching sessions how to turn their thoughts and feelings into incisive, evocative songs. Her music has also been heard in feature films and on television shows like MTV's smash teen docudrama, The Hills. Chapter by chapter, Alex goes through the basic elements of the craft, including song form and dynamics, lyrics and melodies, chord construction, and killer hooks. Filled with lots of fun exercises to strengthen your abilities and your confidence, Songlab is the ideal teen's guide to making your songwriting dreams come true! Bonus material available here: http://creativesongwriter.com.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174759Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songlab: A Songwriting Playbook for Teens Author: Alex Forbes Narrator: Alex Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songlab: A Songwriting Playbook for Teens Author: Alex Forbes Narrator: Alex Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 16, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Created exclusively with and for teen musicians, this hands-on, step-by-step program uses insight, enthusiasm, and humor to teach teens how to brainstorm ideas, craft effective lyrics, and put those lyrics to music. An award-winning and Billboard-charting songwriter and teacher, Alex Forbes has taught dozens of teens via her Manhattan workshops and coaching sessions how to turn their thoughts and feelings into incisive, evocative songs. Her music has also been heard in feature films and on television shows like MTV's smash teen docudrama, The Hills. Chapter by chapter, Alex goes through the basic elements of the craft, including song form and dynamics, lyrics and melodies, chord construction, and killer hooks. Filled with lots of fun exercises to strengthen your abilities and your confidence, Songlab is the ideal teen's guide to making your songwriting dreams come true! Bonus material available here: http://creativesongwriter.com.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hillbilly-heart-a-memoir-by-todd-gold-billy-ray-cyrus--65327200https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Heart: A Memoir Author: Todd Gold, Billy Ray Cyrus Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 16, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/171227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Heart: A Memoir Author: Todd Gold, Billy Ray Cyrus 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: Todd Gold, Billy Ray Cyrus Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 16, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment 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--65327160https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/carrie-and-me-a-mother-daughter-love-story-by-carol-burnett--65327153https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/everything-is-perfect-when-you-re-a-liar-by-kelly-oxford--65327157https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/unsinkable-a-memoir-by-dorian-hannaway-debbie-reynolds--65327127https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/let-me-tell-you-something-by-caroline-manzo--65327216https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Tell You Something Author: Caroline Manzo Narrator: Caroline Manzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Red-hot advice from the redhead who doesn't pull any punches Mother, wife, and fan favorite Caroline Manzo has been through it all as one of the original breakout stars of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey. The explosive and addicting reality series has seen some of the craziest moments in Real Housewives history, but Caroline has managed to set herself apart as the levelheaded, fiercely loyal, and down-to-earth member of the cast. Now for the first time, Caroline, who is known for her no-nonsense advice, "tells you something" about what it really takes to juggle three kids and a husband (and still maintain your sanity), all while living in the spotlight. Her wisdom on family, life, and love, and her shockingly honest confessions about beauty, body image, and even plastic surgery, resonate with women of every generation. Equal parts funny, sincere, and revealing, Caroline exposes the sweeter, more reflective side of herself that fans of the show might not always see. Filled with personal stories, family photos, and Caroline's characteristic humor, Let Me Tell You Something gives fans and readers an all-access, behind-the-scenes pass into the lives of this real New Jersey housewife and her family, where honest advice and practical life lessons are served up as only Caroline can. With her contagious, positive attitude and tips for success sprinkled throughout the book, readers will fall in love with their favor- ite housewife all over again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170658Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Tell You Something Author: Caroline Manzo Narrator: Caroline Manzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/170658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Tell You Something Author: Caroline Manzo Narrator: Caroline Manzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Red-hot advice from the redhead who doesn't pull any punches Mother, wife, and fan favorite Caroline Manzo has been through it all as one of the original breakout stars of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey. The explosive and addicting reality series has seen some of the craziest moments in Real Housewives history, but Caroline has managed to set herself apart as the levelheaded, fiercely loyal, and down-to-earth member of the cast. Now for the first time, Caroline, who is known for her no-nonsense advice, "tells you something" about what it really takes to juggle three kids and a husband (and still maintain your sanity), all while living in the spotlight. Her wisdom on family, life, and love, and her shockingly honest confessions about beauty, body image, and even plastic surgery, resonate with women of every generation. Equal parts funny, sincere, and revealing, Caroline exposes the sweeter, more reflective side of herself that fans of the show might not always see. Filled with personal stories, family photos, and Caroline's characteristic humor, Let Me Tell You Something gives fans and readers an all-access, behind-the-scenes pass into the lives of this real New Jersey housewife and her family, where honest advice and practical life lessons are served up as only Caroline can. With her contagious, positive attitude and tips for success sprinkled throughout the book, readers will fall in love with their favor- ite housewife all over again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-moosewood-finding-god-what-happened-when-a-tv-newsman-abandoned-his-career-for-life-on-an-island-by-jack-perkins--65327213https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island Author: Jack Perkins Narrator: Jack Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass.   Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast ofMaine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening.   In the busy years of Jack’s career inLos Angeleshe hadn’t felt the need for God. In their new, quiet, and difficult life, though, he began to rethink everything he thought he knew. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and their marriage, and discovering the rewards of a close-to-nature life, acknowledging that the hand guiding their blessed new lives was the hand of a gracious God who knew them long before they acknowledged him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159378Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island Author: Jack Perkins Narrator: Jack Perkins...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island Author: Jack Perkins Narrator: Jack Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass.   Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast ofMaine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening.   In the busy years of Jack’s career inLos Angeleshe hadn’t felt the need for God. In their new, quiet, and difficult life, though, he began to rethink everything he thought he knew. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and their marriage, and discovering the rewards of a close-to-nature life, acknowledging that the hand guiding their blessed new lives was the hand of a gracious God who knew them long before they acknowledged him.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hopper-a-journey-into-the-american-dream-by-tom-folsom--65327166https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream Author: Tom Folsom Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: James Dean to Hopper "I saw what you did today. Today you were great." Jack Nicholson to Hopper "We're geniuses, you know that? Isn't it great to be a genius?" The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean who longed to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. An enigmatic man from Dodge City, Kansas, on an endless quest to realize the American Dream. Dennis Hopper has been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued by demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, mentor to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T, Dennis Hopper built a career that was a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of American popular culture. Tom Folsom's Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis's many lives. Featuring hundreds of interviews with Hopper's fellow actors, artists, musicians, and residents of Taos, New Mexico (where he spent much of his most manic time), as well as his ex-wives and many other people who knew him, Hopper takes you on an extraordinary—and sometimes troubling—journey. From Dennis's early days with his grandparents on a dusty farm in Kansas, where he watched trains go by on their way to Los Angeles, to his formative time in Hollywood as one of a bright new crop of actors straddling the edge of the studio system, to the rebellious 1960s and the start of the independent film movement, to the drug-addled 1970s and beyond, when Hopper staged one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time—Tom Folsom has crafted a biography as unconventional as Dennis Hopper himself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167062Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream Author: Tom Folsom Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream Author: Tom Folsom Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: James Dean to Hopper "I saw what you did today. Today you were great." Jack Nicholson to Hopper "We're geniuses, you know that? Isn't it great to be a genius?" The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean who longed to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. An enigmatic man from Dodge City, Kansas, on an endless quest to realize the American Dream. Dennis Hopper has been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued by demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, mentor to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T, Dennis Hopper built a career that was a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of American popular culture. Tom Folsom's Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis's many lives. Featuring hundreds of interviews with Hopper's fellow actors, artists, musicians, and residents of Taos, New Mexico (where he spent much of his most manic time), as well as his ex-wives and many other people who knew him, Hopper takes you on an extraordinary—and sometimes troubling—journey. From Dennis's early days with his grandparents on a dusty farm in Kansas, where he watched trains go by on their way to Los Angeles, to his formative time in Hollywood as one of a bright new crop of actors straddling the edge of the studio system, to the rebellious 1960s and the start of the independent film movement, to the drug-addled 1970s and beyond, when Hopper staged one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time—Tom Folsom has crafted a biography as unconventional as Dennis Hopper himself.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rita-moreno-a-memoir-by-rita-moreno--65327118https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/don-t-be-a-donkey-lessons-learned-from-chef-gordon-ramsey-by-chadd-mcarthur--65327198https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167641 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be a Donkey: Lessons Learned from Chef Gordon Ramsey Author: Chadd McArthur Narrator: Chadd McArthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'Don't be a Donkey is a true story about the life and career of Chef Chadd McArthur. It is about the lessons, about both kitchen and life, that he learned while working for Gordon Ramsay. Eighteen hours a day, five days a week... when you work with a great chef and leader that much, his wisdom will rub off on you, and at times traumatize you. The lessons learned will stick with Chef McArthur for the rest of his life, and now, with funny stories and clever insights into working with one of the world's most well-known chefs, he's sharing them in this very audiobook. From having Chef Gordon Ramsay himself fling a ravioli at him, to the integrity with which Ramsay dealt with the death of a colleague, Chef McArthur has a lot to tell about his three years spent working in Ramsay's flagship restaurant in London, sometimes directly under the man himself. Each chapter also includes a recipe, some created wholly by the author,and some influenced by Chef Ramsay's own signature dishes. Enjoy this fresh new take on Gordon Ramsay, and the challenges of a chef who survived Ramsay's kitchen for years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167641Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167641 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be a Donkey: Lessons Learned from Chef Gordon Ramsey Author: Chadd McArthur Narrator: Chadd McArthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167641 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be a Donkey: Lessons Learned from Chef Gordon Ramsey Author: Chadd McArthur Narrator: Chadd McArthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'Don't be a Donkey is a true story about the life and career of Chef Chadd McArthur. It is about the lessons, about both kitchen and life, that he learned while working for Gordon Ramsay. Eighteen hours a day, five days a week... when you work with a great chef and leader that much, his wisdom will rub off on you, and at times traumatize you. The lessons learned will stick with Chef McArthur for the rest of his life, and now, with funny stories and clever insights into working with one of the world's most well-known chefs, he's sharing them in this very audiobook. From having Chef Gordon Ramsay himself fling a ravioli at him, to the integrity with which Ramsay dealt with the death of a colleague, Chef McArthur has a lot to tell about his three years spent working in Ramsay's flagship restaurant in London, sometimes directly under the man himself. Each chapter also includes a recipe, some created wholly by the author,and some influenced by Chef Ramsay's own signature dishes. Enjoy this fresh new take on Gordon Ramsay, and the challenges of a chef who survived Ramsay's kitchen for years.]]>5cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-soundtrack-of-my-life-by-clive-davis--65327169https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soundtrack of My Life Author: Clive Davis Narrator: Clive Davis, Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys. Orphaned in his teens, Davis earned a full scholarship to New York University and another to Harvard Law School. He served as General Counsel of Columbia Records and, in a totally unexpected stroke of fate, became head of the company overnight. More surprisingly, he learned he had “ears,” a rare ability to spot special talent and hit records. Those ears contributed to the success of three companies—Columbia, Arista, and J—where Davis dis­covered and developed more unique artists than anyone in the history of the music industry. What began on the grass at the Monterey Pop Festival with the signing of Janis Joplin has evolved into a lifelong passion and calling, spanning genres, including rock, pop, R&B, country, jazz fusion, and hip-hop. His is the imprimatur that has helped shape contemporary music and, over the years, our popular culture. The Soundtrack of My Life is an essential book for anyone interested in the story of popular music, the fascinating ups and downs of the music business, the alchemy of hits, and the dramatic life of a brilliant leader...and listener. It is a riveting read from beginning to end.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167481Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soundtrack of My Life Author: Clive Davis Narrator: Clive Davis, Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soundtrack of My Life Author: Clive Davis Narrator: Clive Davis, Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys. Orphaned in his teens, Davis earned a full scholarship to New York University and another to Harvard Law School. He served as General Counsel of Columbia Records and, in a totally unexpected stroke of fate, became head of the company overnight. More surprisingly, he learned he had “ears,” a rare ability to spot special talent and hit records. Those ears contributed to the success of three companies—Columbia, Arista, and J—where Davis dis­covered and developed more unique artists than anyone in the history of the music industry. What began on the grass at the Monterey Pop Festival with the signing of Janis Joplin has evolved into a lifelong passion and calling, spanning genres, including rock, pop, R&B, country, jazz fusion, and hip-hop. His is the imprimatur that has helped shape contemporary music and, over the years, our popular culture. The Soundtrack of My Life is an essential book for anyone interested in the story of popular music, the fascinating ups and downs of the music business, the alchemy of hits, and the dramatic life of a brilliant leader...and listener. It is a riveting read from beginning to end.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fresh-off-the-boat-a-memoir-by-eddie-huang--65327211https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir Author: Eddie Huang Narrator: Eddie Huang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 12 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People   “Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times   NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS   Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way, from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese, but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good: skate punks, dealers, hip-hop junkies, and sneaker freaks. This is the story of a Chinese-American kid in a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac blazing his way through America’s deviant subcultures, trying to find himself, ten thousand miles from his legacy and anchored only by his conflicted love for his family and his passion for food. Funny, moving, and stylistically inventive, Fresh Off the Boat is more than a radical reimagining of the immigrant memoir—it’s the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his destiny in the margins.   Praise for Fresh Off the Boat   “Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.”—New York Times Book Review   “Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here. He does everything with style.”—Anthony Bourdain   “Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest.”—Chicago Tribune   “Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.”—Interview   “Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won’t look or sound like anything that’s come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight.”—Bookforum]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158466Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir Author: Eddie Huang Narrator: Eddie Huang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir Author: Eddie Huang Narrator: Eddie Huang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 12 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People   “Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times   NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS   Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way, from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese, but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good: skate punks, dealers, hip-hop junkies, and sneaker freaks. This is the story of a Chinese-American kid in a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac blazing his way through America’s deviant subcultures, trying to find himself, ten thousand miles from his legacy and anchored only by his conflicted love for his family and his passion for food. Funny, moving, and stylistically inventive, Fresh Off the Boat is more than a radical reimagining of the immigrant memoir—it’s the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his destiny in the margins.   Praise for Fresh Off the Boat   “Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.”—New York Times Book Review   “Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here. He does everything with style.”—Anthony Bourdain   “Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest.”—Chicago Tribune   “Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.”—Interview   “Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won’t look or sound like anything that’s come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight.”—Bookforum]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unknown-pleasures-inside-joy-division-by-peter-hook--65327184https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/remembering-whitney-my-story-of-love-loss-and-the-night-the-music-stopped-by-cissy-houston--65327183https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped Author: Cissy Houston Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death — complete with never-before-seen photographs — from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston. Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney’s heart-breaking death. Now, for the first time, she opens up and shares the unbelievable story of her daughter’s life, as well as her own, and addresses Whitney’s brightest and darkest moments. A legendary Grammy Award–winning gospel singer in her own right, Cissy Houston shows how the lessons from her own musical journey helped to shape Whitney’s career — from teaching Whitney to use her voice, to keeping her level-headed throughout her meteoric rise to fame. With candor and respect, she sets the record straight about Whitney, exploring both her turbulent marriage and her misunderstood struggles with drug abuse. Cissy goes behind the tabloid headlines to show fans around the world the true, human side of a strong, successful — yet flawed — musical icon who died much too young.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161935Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped Author: Cissy Houston Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped Author: Cissy Houston Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death — complete with never-before-seen photographs — from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston. Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney’s heart-breaking death. Now, for the first time, she opens up and shares the unbelievable story of her daughter’s life, as well as her own, and addresses Whitney’s brightest and darkest moments. A legendary Grammy Award–winning gospel singer in her own right, Cissy Houston shows how the lessons from her own musical journey helped to shape Whitney’s career — from teaching Whitney to use her voice, to keeping her level-headed throughout her meteoric rise to fame. With candor and respect, she sets the record straight about Whitney, exploring both her turbulent marriage and her misunderstood struggles with drug abuse. Cissy goes behind the tabloid headlines to show fans around the world the true, human side of a strong, successful — yet flawed — musical icon who died much too young.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-soul-of-it-all-my-music-my-life-by-michael-bolton--65327165https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life Author: Michael Bolton Narrator: Michael Bolton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his self-proclaimed 'vagabond vampire' life, but also into the belly of the beast that is the music industry, with its joys, follies, and torments. From a 14 year old kid performing in dive bars in his hometown of New Haven, CT, to struggling to provide for his wife and kids, to finally breaking through with the Soul Provider album, and going on to sell more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide, Bolton has fought for and earned a life most just dream of. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his life, chock-full of all the incredible stories, and the star-studded cast you'd expect, including: Luciano Pavarotti, Paula Abdul, Cher, Bob Dylan, Barbara Streisand, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Bon Jovi, Wynonna Judd, BB King, Patti LaBelle, Carlos Santana, Nicolette Sheridan, Teri Hatcher and others...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158405Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life Author: Michael Bolton Narrator: Michael Bolton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life Author: Michael Bolton Narrator: Michael Bolton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his self-proclaimed 'vagabond vampire' life, but also into the belly of the beast that is the music industry, with its joys, follies, and torments. From a 14 year old kid performing in dive bars in his hometown of New Haven, CT, to struggling to provide for his wife and kids, to finally breaking through with the Soul Provider album, and going on to sell more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide, Bolton has fought for and earned a life most just dream of. THE SOUL OF IT ALL is his life, chock-full of all the incredible stories, and the star-studded cast you'd expect, including: Luciano Pavarotti, Paula Abdul, Cher, Bob Dylan, Barbara Streisand, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Bon Jovi, Wynonna Judd, BB King, Patti LaBelle, Carlos Santana, Nicolette Sheridan, Teri Hatcher and others...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-inventor-and-the-tycoon-a-gilded-age-murder-and-the-birth-of-moving-pictures-by-edward-ball--65327147https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures Author: Edward Ball Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.   One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.     Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161874Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures Author: Edward Ball Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/161874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures Author: Edward Ball Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 22, 2013 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.   One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.     Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-rhoda-by-valerie-harper--65327175https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I, Rhoda Author: Valerie Harper Narrator: Valerie Harper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 2014 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author The heartwarming memoir of beloved television actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on Rhoda. Valerie Harper was an unknown actress when she won the groundbreaking role of Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary Tyler Moore’s lovable and self-deprecating on-screen best friend. Bold and hilarious, the native New Yorker and struggling working girl was unlucky in love and insecure about her weight—in other words, every woman’s best friend. Harper represented a self-reliant new identity for women of the 1970s. She fought for equal rights alongside feminists Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug; and her incredible showbiz journey, which began on Broadway with Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, led her to four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. Harper is upbeat and funny, and her inspiring life story is laced with triumphs and transformative obstacles. This beloved actress’s incredible pluck, indomitable spirit, and warm and generous heart have touched our lives and kept us entertained for decades.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157813Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I, Rhoda Author: Valerie Harper Narrator: Valerie Harper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I, Rhoda Author: Valerie Harper Narrator: Valerie Harper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 2014 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author The heartwarming memoir of beloved television actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on Rhoda. Valerie Harper was an unknown actress when she won the groundbreaking role of Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary Tyler Moore’s lovable and self-deprecating on-screen best friend. Bold and hilarious, the native New Yorker and struggling working girl was unlucky in love and insecure about her weight—in other words, every woman’s best friend. Harper represented a self-reliant new identity for women of the 1970s. She fought for equal rights alongside feminists Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug; and her incredible showbiz journey, which began on Broadway with Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, led her to four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. Harper is upbeat and funny, and her inspiring life story is laced with triumphs and transformative obstacles. This beloved actress’s incredible pluck, indomitable spirit, and warm and generous heart have touched our lives and kept us entertained for decades.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dream-more-celebrate-the-dreamer-in-you-by-dolly-parton--65327059https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You Author: Dolly Parton Narrator: Dolly Parton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The legendary Dolly Parton shares her heartfelt hopes and dreams for everyone. Expanding on the popular commencement speech Dolly Parton gave at the University of Tennessee, Dream More is a deeper and richer exploration of the personal philosophy she has forged over the course of her astonishing career as a singer, songwriter, performer, and philanthropist. Dolly elaborates on the four great hopes she wants us all to embrace: Dream more, Learn more, Care more, and Be more. She offers examples from her own life, from her childhood in the hills of eastern Tennessee to her life as the iconic performer she is today. From one of the legends of our time, Dream More is an honest, funny, and uplifting anthem for all who want to take charge of their lives and forge a future on their own terms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202950Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You Author: Dolly Parton Narrator: Dolly Parton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You Author: Dolly Parton Narrator: Dolly Parton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The legendary Dolly Parton shares her heartfelt hopes and dreams for everyone. Expanding on the popular commencement speech Dolly Parton gave at the University of Tennessee, Dream More is a deeper and richer exploration of the personal philosophy she has forged over the course of her astonishing career as a singer, songwriter, performer, and philanthropist. Dolly elaborates on the four great hopes she wants us all to embrace: Dream more, Learn more, Care more, and Be more. She offers examples from her own life, from her childhood in the hills of eastern Tennessee to her life as the iconic performer she is today. From one of the legends of our time, Dream More is an honest, funny, and uplifting anthem for all who want to take charge of their lives and forge a future on their own terms.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-is-a-gift-the-zen-of-bennett-by-tony-bennett--65327237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett Author: Tony Bennett Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this beautiful and rich New York Times bestselling retrospective, the entertainment icon shares with his fans the life lessons he has learned throughout a career that spanned six decades. Illustrated with Bennett’s own hand-drawn artwork, Life Is a Gift is a work that will captivate, delight, and be cherished by fans and music lovers of all ages. “Writing in the same style as he sings. . . Tony Bennett shares countless tales about showbiz, his famous friends, his family, and his artistic career. . . . [His] tips for happiness, success, and longevity are like music to the ears.” — Publishers Weekly Legendary singer, artist, and performer Tony Bennett was one of the world's most beloved entertainers for more than six decades. From the 78 to the LP to the digital age, Tony did it all. Decade after decade, this artistic icon—who won twenty Grammys, sung for ten presidents, and performed for royalty—refused to compromise his vision or values. Even now, Bennett's popularity grows as new generations discover his timeless songs and incredible voice. In this entertaining and thoughtful memoir, Bennett shares stories of friends and family and the essential lessons they taught him: of the value of hard work and of creating art that continues to inspire; of perseverance and a dedication to excellence; of the necessity of humility, love, respect, and, most important, gratitude. He pays tribute to all the remarkable talents he has had the honor to work with and to learn from, including Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, and others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151715Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett Author: Tony Bennett Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett Author: Tony Bennett Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this beautiful and rich New York Times bestselling retrospective, the entertainment icon shares with his fans the life lessons he has learned throughout a career that spanned six decades. Illustrated with Bennett’s own hand-drawn artwork, Life Is a Gift is a work that will captivate, delight, and be cherished by fans and music lovers of all ages. “Writing in the same style as he sings. . . Tony Bennett shares countless tales about showbiz, his famous friends, his family, and his artistic career. . . . [His] tips for happiness, success, and longevity are like music to the ears.” — Publishers Weekly Legendary singer, artist, and performer Tony Bennett was one of the world's most beloved entertainers for more than six decades. From the 78 to the LP to the digital age, Tony did it all. Decade after decade, this artistic icon—who won twenty Grammys, sung for ten presidents, and performed for royalty—refused to compromise his vision or values. Even now, Bennett's popularity grows as new generations discover his timeless songs and incredible voice. In this entertaining and thoughtful memoir, Bennett shares stories of friends and family and the essential lessons they taught him: of the value of hard work and of creating art that continues to inspire; of perseverance and a dedication to excellence; of the necessity of humility, love, respect, and, most important, gratitude. He pays tribute to all the remarkable talents he has had the honor to work with and to learn from, including Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, and others.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-a-memoir-by-grace-coddington--65327191https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Memoir Author: Grace Coddington Narrator: Grace Coddington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace’s palpable engagement with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine’s most memorable shoots.   With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace now creatively directs the listener through the storied narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace describes her early career as a model, working with such world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s. Here she began creating the fantasy “travelogues” that would become her trademark. In 1988 she joined American Vogue, where her breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a sampling of which appear in this book, have become instant classics.   Grace will introduce listeners to the colorful designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photographers, models, and celebrities with whom Grace has created her signature images. Grace reveals her private world with equal candor—the car accident that almost derailed her modeling career, her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister, Rosemary, her friendship with Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and her thirty-year romance with Didier Malige. Finally, Grace describes her abiding relationship with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by which she has come to define the height of fashion.   Includes a bonus PDF of photos from the book. “If Wintour is the Pope . . . Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve times a year.”—Time]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150961Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Memoir Author: Grace Coddington Narrator: Grace Coddington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: A Memoir Author: Grace Coddington Narrator: Grace Coddington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace’s palpable engagement with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine’s most memorable shoots.   With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace now creatively directs the listener through the storied narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace describes her early career as a model, working with such world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s. Here she began creating the fantasy “travelogues” that would become her trademark. In 1988 she joined American Vogue, where her breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a sampling of which appear in this book, have become instant classics.   Grace will introduce listeners to the colorful designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photographers, models, and celebrities with whom Grace has created her signature images. Grace reveals her private world with equal candor—the car accident that almost derailed her modeling career, her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister, Rosemary, her friendship with Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and her thirty-year romance with Didier Malige. Finally, Grace describes her abiding relationship with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by which she has come to define the height of fashion.   Includes a bonus PDF of photos from the book. “If Wintour is the Pope . . . Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve times a year.”—Time]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/louis-armstrong-s-new-orleans-with-wynton-marsalis-a-joe-bev-musical-sound-portrait-by-joe-bevilacqua--65327239https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis: A Joe Bev Musical Sound Portrait Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music and legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including rare audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary, with Edward R. Murrow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153947Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis: A Joe Bev Musical Sound Portrait Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis: A Joe Bev Musical Sound Portrait Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music and legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including rare audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary, with Edward R. Murrow.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/roll-me-up-and-smoke-me-when-i-die-musings-from-the-road-by-willie-nelson-kinky-friedman--65327193https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road Author: Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman Narrator: Tom Stechschulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom he has acquired over the course of eight decades, along with favorite jokes and insights from family, bandmates, and close friends. Rare family pictures, beautiful artwork created by his son, Micah Nelson, and lyrics to classic songs punctuate these charming and poignant memories. A road journal written in Willie Nelson's inimitable, homespun voice and a fitting tribute to America’s greatest traveling bard, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die—introduced by another favorite son of Texas, Kinky Friedman—is a deeply personal look into the heart and soul of a unique man and one of the greatest artists of our time, a songwriter and performer whose legacy will endure for generations to come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150664Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road Author: Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman Narrator: Tom Stechschulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road Author: Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman Narrator: Tom Stechschulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom he has acquired over the course of eight decades, along with favorite jokes and insights from family, bandmates, and close friends. Rare family pictures, beautiful artwork created by his son, Micah Nelson, and lyrics to classic songs punctuate these charming and poignant memories. A road journal written in Willie Nelson's inimitable, homespun voice and a fitting tribute to America’s greatest traveling bard, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die—introduced by another favorite son of Texas, Kinky Friedman—is a deeply personal look into the heart and soul of a unique man and one of the greatest artists of our time, a songwriter and performer whose legacy will endure for generations to come.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-things-joe-bev-the-best-of-public-radio-by-joe-bevilacqua--65327180https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio A collection of 16 short audio features created for public radio by veteran Award-Winning producer Joe Bevilacqua (AKA Joe Bev). 1. "A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua" - Joe Bevilacqua goes on a search for other people with his name and discovers some uncanny coincidences. 2. "Father's Day" - Joe Bevilacqua recounts how a volatile father's gift led him to another father figure and an eventual career. 3. "Losing a Best Friend" - Joe Bevilacqua chronicles the rise and fall of a longtime friendship. 4. "Lessons from Daws Butler" - Joe Bevilacqua's book passes on cartoon legend's tricks of the trade. 5. "A Tribute to Joe Barbera" - Joe Bevilacqua, Leonard Maltin and Joe Barbera himself talk about the start of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. 6. "Archiving Classic Animated Films and Cartoons" - Joe Bevilacqua reports on how some members of America's animated film industry are building a new digital archive to preserve classic cartoon footage. 7. "The Kerrville Folk Festival" - Joe Bevilacqua reports on one of the longest-running open-air music events in North America. 8. "Threadgill's Turns 70"- Joe Bevilacqua reports on the 70th anniversary of Threadgill's in Austin, Texas, the musical landmark that helped launch the career of many country and rock stars, including Janis Joplin. 9. "Artist Colony Celebrates its Centennial" - Joe Bevilacqua profiles the one hundred year old Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, nestled deep in the forest of Woodstock, N.Y. 10. "Math + Love" - Joe Bevilacqua tracks down his former math professor Ron Reummler to hear how math can explain lost love. 11. "A Valentine From Graham Nash's MAC" - Joe Bevilacqua recounts how on February 12, 1996, an e-mail from rock legend Graham Nash's MAC laptop triggered a series of bizarre coincidences, which led to the meeting of his future wife Lorie Kellogg. 12. "Living Within Your Means as a Choice" - When Joe Bevilacqua lost his job, he made some drastic changes to his lifestyle that turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to him. 13. "The Christmas I Saved Macy's" - The story of how a five year old Joe Bevilacqua stamped out a fire in the ladies lounge of Bamberger's department store in Newark, New Jersey in December of 1964. 14. "A Rockabilly Christmas" - Joe Bevilacqua presents rockabilly pioneer guitarist Ray Campi. 15. "An Old Hollywood Story" - In a two-part story, Joe Bevilacqua reports on an extensive archive of interviews with early Hollywood stars conducted by California schoolteacher and rockabilly pioneer Ray Campi. 16. "An Old Hollywood Story" - Part two of Joe Bevilacqua's story on Ray's Campi's celebrity interviews.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153934Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio Author: Joe Bevilacqua Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio A collection of 16 short audio features created for public radio by veteran Award-Winning producer Joe Bevilacqua (AKA Joe Bev). 1. "A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua" - Joe Bevilacqua goes on a search for other people with his name and discovers some uncanny coincidences. 2. "Father's Day" - Joe Bevilacqua recounts how a volatile father's gift led him to another father figure and an eventual career. 3. "Losing a Best Friend" - Joe Bevilacqua chronicles the rise and fall of a longtime friendship. 4. "Lessons from Daws Butler" - Joe Bevilacqua's book passes on cartoon legend's tricks of the trade. 5. "A Tribute to Joe Barbera" - Joe Bevilacqua, Leonard Maltin and Joe Barbera himself talk about the start of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. 6. "Archiving Classic Animated Films and Cartoons" - Joe Bevilacqua reports on how some members of America's animated film industry are building a new digital archive to preserve classic cartoon footage. 7. "The Kerrville Folk Festival" - Joe Bevilacqua reports on one of the longest-running open-air music events in North America. 8. "Threadgill's Turns 70"- Joe Bevilacqua reports on the 70th anniversary of Threadgill's in Austin, Texas, the musical landmark that helped launch the career of many country and rock stars, including Janis Joplin. 9. "Artist Colony Celebrates its Centennial" - Joe Bevilacqua profiles the one hundred year old Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, nestled deep in the forest of Woodstock, N.Y. 10. "Math + Love" - Joe Bevilacqua tracks down his former math professor Ron Reummler to hear how math can explain lost love. 11. "A Valentine From Graham Nash's MAC" - Joe Bevilacqua recounts how on February 12, 1996, an e-mail from rock legend Graham Nash's MAC laptop triggered a series of bizarre coincidences, which led to the meeting of his future wife Lorie Kellogg. 12. "Living Within Your Means as a Choice" - When Joe Bevilacqua lost his job, he made some drastic changes to his lifestyle that turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to him. 13. "The Christmas I Saved Macy's" - The story of how a five year old Joe Bevilacqua stamped out a fire in the ladies lounge of Bamberger's department store in Newark, New Jersey in December of 1964. 14. "A Rockabilly Christmas" - Joe Bevilacqua presents rockabilly pioneer guitarist Ray Campi. 15. "An Old Hollywood Story" - In a two-part story, Joe Bevilacqua reports on an extensive archive of interviews with early Hollywood stars conducted by California schoolteacher and rockabilly pioneer Ray Campi. 16. "An Old Hollywood Story" - Part two of Joe Bevilacqua's story on Ray's Campi's celebrity interviews.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sinatra-and-me-the-very-good-years-by-tony-consiglio-franz-douskey--65327178https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years Author: Tony Consiglio, Franz Douskey Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty years. One reason Sinatra valued Tony's friendship is that he could be trusted: Sinatra nicknamed him "the Clam" because Tony never spoke to reporters or biographers about the singer. From the early days when Sinatra was trying to establish himself as a singer to the mid-1960s, Tony worked with Sinatra and was there to share in the highs and lows of Sinatra's life and career. Tony was with Sinatra during his "bobby-soxer" megastar days in the 1940s, and he remained loyal to Sinatra during the lean years of the early 1950s, when "the Voice" was struggling with a crumbling singing and acting career—as well as his tumultuous marriage to Ava Gardner. Tony also had a front row seat to Sinatra's comeback in the 1950s, starting with his Academy Award–winning role in From Here to Eternity and a string of now-classic hit recordings. Tony's friendship with Sinatra allowed him to rub elbows with the Hollywood elite, including Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Kim Novak, Ava Gardner, and many others. It also brought him close to the political world of the early 1960s, when Sinatra campaigned for John F. Kennedy and then helped plan the Kennedy inauguration. Tony was even at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts, when the election results came in. Sinatra and Me will shed new light on the real Frank Sinatra—from the man who knew him better than anyone.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153391Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years Author: Tony Consiglio, Franz Douskey Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153391 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years Author: Tony Consiglio, Franz Douskey Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 13, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over sixty years. One reason Sinatra valued Tony's friendship is that he could be trusted: Sinatra nicknamed him "the Clam" because Tony never spoke to reporters or biographers about the singer. From the early days when Sinatra was trying to establish himself as a singer to the mid-1960s, Tony worked with Sinatra and was there to share in the highs and lows of Sinatra's life and career. Tony was with Sinatra during his "bobby-soxer" megastar days in the 1940s, and he remained loyal to Sinatra during the lean years of the early 1950s, when "the Voice" was struggling with a crumbling singing and acting career—as well as his tumultuous marriage to Ava Gardner. Tony also had a front row seat to Sinatra's comeback in the 1950s, starting with his Academy Award–winning role in From Here to Eternity and a string of now-classic hit recordings. Tony's friendship with Sinatra allowed him to rub elbows with the Hollywood elite, including Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Kim Novak, Ava Gardner, and many others. It also brought him close to the political world of the early 1960s, when Sinatra campaigned for John F. Kennedy and then helped plan the Kennedy inauguration. Tony was even at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts, when the election results came in. Sinatra and Me will shed new light on the real Frank Sinatra—from the man who knew him better than anyone.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-i-slept-my-way-to-the-middle-secrets-and-stories-from-stage-screen-and-interwebs-by-kevin-pollak--65327232https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs Author: Kevin Pollak Narrator: Kevin Pollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin. Named one of Comedy Central’s Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, he’s a killer impressionist—Falk, Shatner, Walken, Nicholson—a versatile actor with one of the most respected filmographies around, and an Internet pioneer. He’s done it all, and now he’s ready to spill the beans.Ballsy, hilarious, and revealing, How I Slept My Way to the Middle winningly combines never-before-heard stories featuring A-list entertainers with fan favorites and Kevin’s own thoughts about how he made it. He turned down his first invitation to do stand-up on The Tonight Show because he knew that he’d make a bigger splash if he sat on the couch next to Johnny. That huge risk—which paid off in spades—was just the beginning. Find out how he brought John Belushi to his knees, tortured Paul Reiser (twice), bamboozled Larry King, stole Alan Arkin’s soul, almost killed Warren Beatty, and sucked face with Robert De Niro’s girlfriend. Now a new media entrepreneur, Kevin is laughing proof that if you follow your gut and believe in yourself, you can do anything you want—except have a rational conversation with Rip Torn, who’s an evil, paranoid $#!%.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148139Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs Author: Kevin Pollak Narrator: Kevin Pollak Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs Author: Kevin Pollak Narrator: Kevin Pollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin. Named one of Comedy Central’s Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, he’s a killer impressionist—Falk, Shatner, Walken, Nicholson—a versatile actor with one of the most respected filmographies around, and an Internet pioneer. He’s done it all, and now he’s ready to spill the beans.Ballsy, hilarious, and revealing, How I Slept My Way to the Middle winningly combines never-before-heard stories featuring A-list entertainers with fan favorites and Kevin’s own thoughts about how he made it. He turned down his first invitation to do stand-up on The Tonight Show because he knew that he’d make a bigger splash if he sat on the couch next to Johnny. That huge risk—which paid off in spades—was just the beginning. Find out how he brought John Belushi to his knees, tortured Paul Reiser (twice), bamboozled Larry King, stole Alan Arkin’s soul, almost killed Warren Beatty, and sucked face with Robert De Niro’s girlfriend. Now a new media entrepreneur, Kevin is laughing proof that if you follow your gut and believe in yourself, you can do anything you want—except have a rational conversation with Rip Torn, who’s an evil, paranoid $#!%.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/diary-of-a-stage-mother-s-daughter-by-melissa-francis--65327225https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter Author: Melissa Francis Narrator: Cris Dukehart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the world’s most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. Despite her age, she was already a veteran actress, living a charmed life, moving from one Hollywood set to the next. But behind the scenes, her success was fueled by the pride, pressure, and sometimes grinding cruelty of her stage mother. While Melissa thrived under pressure, her older sister — who had tried her hand at acting and shrank from the limelight — was often ignored by their mother in a shadow of neglect and disappointment. Tiffany could do nothing to please her mother, but it wasn’t until after Melissa had graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics, found love, and married that Tiffany’s personal problems culminated in a life-and-death crisis. When Melissa realized the role her mother continued to play in her sister’s downward spiral, she resolved to end the manic, abusive cycle once and for all. Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter is a fascinating account of life as a child star in the 1980s, and also a disquieting tale of a family under the care of a highly neurotic, dangerously competitive “tiger mother.” But perhaps most importantly, now that Melissa has two sons of her own, it’s a meditation on motherhood. She asks the questions so many of us ask ourselves: how hard should you push a child to succeed, and at what point does your help turn into harm?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150269Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter Author: Melissa Francis Narrator: Cris Dukehart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter Author: Melissa Francis Narrator: Cris Dukehart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the world’s most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. Despite her age, she was already a veteran actress, living a charmed life, moving from one Hollywood set to the next. But behind the scenes, her success was fueled by the pride, pressure, and sometimes grinding cruelty of her stage mother. While Melissa thrived under pressure, her older sister — who had tried her hand at acting and shrank from the limelight — was often ignored by their mother in a shadow of neglect and disappointment. Tiffany could do nothing to please her mother, but it wasn’t until after Melissa had graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics, found love, and married that Tiffany’s personal problems culminated in a life-and-death crisis. When Melissa realized the role her mother continued to play in her sister’s downward spiral, she resolved to end the manic, abusive cycle once and for all. Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter is a fascinating account of life as a child star in the 1980s, and also a disquieting tale of a family under the care of a highly neurotic, dangerously competitive “tiger mother.” But perhaps most importantly, now that Melissa has two sons of her own, it’s a meditation on motherhood. She asks the questions so many of us ask ourselves: how hard should you push a child to succeed, and at what point does your help turn into harm?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/untouchable-the-strange-life-and-tragic-death-of-michael-jackson-by-randall-sullivan--65327209https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson Author: Randall Sullivan Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”—Los Angeles Times “A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.”—People “A tale of family, fame, lost childhood, and startling accusations never heard before.”—ABC Nightline Delivering exclusive information and a compelling psychological portrait, Untouchable is the story of Michael Jackson from his boy idol childhood to the final four-year odyssey of his tumultuous adult life. Beginning with his last departure from Neverland, Sullivan captures Jackson’s final years shuttling around the world, and plans to recapture his wealth and reputation with a comeback album and planned series of fifty mega-concerts. Sullivan delves deep into Jackson’s past, depicting a man both naive and deeply cunning, a devoted father whose parenting decisions created international outcry, a shrewd businessman whose failures nearly brought down a megacorporation, and an inveterate narcissist who desperately wanted a quiet, normal life. Sullivan has never-before-reported information about Jackson’s business dealings, the pedophilia allegations that besmirched his reputation, and the fate of his billion-dollar-plus estate, and exclusive access to inner-circle figures including Jackson’s former attorneys and managers. Untouchable is a remarkable portrait of the man who still reigns as King of Pop. “Randall Sullivan more than tells the story of Michael Jackson—he relives it. . . . Sullivan leaves few stones unturned.”—The Daily Beast]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154314Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson Author: Randall Sullivan Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson Author: Randall Sullivan Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “The first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”—Los Angeles Times “A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.”—People “A tale of family, fame, lost childhood, and startling accusations never heard before.”—ABC Nightline Delivering exclusive information and a compelling psychological portrait, Untouchable is the story of Michael Jackson from his boy idol childhood to the final four-year odyssey of his tumultuous adult life. Beginning with his last departure from Neverland, Sullivan captures Jackson’s final years shuttling around the world, and plans to recapture his wealth and reputation with a comeback album and planned series of fifty mega-concerts. Sullivan delves deep into Jackson’s past, depicting a man both naive and deeply cunning, a devoted father whose parenting decisions created international outcry, a shrewd businessman whose failures nearly brought down a megacorporation, and an inveterate narcissist who desperately wanted a quiet, normal life. Sullivan has never-before-reported information about Jackson’s business dealings, the pedophilia allegations that besmirched his reputation, and the fate of his billion-dollar-plus estate, and exclusive access to inner-circle figures including Jackson’s former attorneys and managers. Untouchable is a remarkable portrait of the man who still reigns as King of Pop. “Randall Sullivan more than tells the story of Michael Jackson—he relives it. . . . Sullivan leaves few stones unturned.”—The Daily Beast]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kitchen-round-table-by-marja-samsom--65327227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitchen Round Table Author: Marja Samsom Narrator: Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and ultimately inspired generation upon generation of home cooks. We'll learn how complicated recipes are translated for those of us who don't dice and julienne in our sleep, but we'll also hear about memorable gourmet feats and culinary fireworks, and unforgettable meals. All the while, Kitchen Round Table never strays far from home, with intimate and loving details of recipes passed down through families and new recipes introduced to successive generations. After a long day at work, what do these renowned cooks prepare at home? It is at home that some of the best food is created. With frugal sensibilities, these gourmet greats tells us some of their favorite dishes created on a budget and entice you to explore your own. Hosted by Marja Samsom, owner of the iconic Kitchen Club restaurant, a downtown New York City destination for twenty years, Marja prepares for us one of her loved family recipes as a dessert for this delicious audio feast.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151949Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitchen Round Table Author: Marja Samsom Narrator: Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitchen Round Table Author: Marja Samsom Narrator: Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and ultimately inspired generation upon generation of home cooks. We'll learn how complicated recipes are translated for those of us who don't dice and julienne in our sleep, but we'll also hear about memorable gourmet feats and culinary fireworks, and unforgettable meals. All the while, Kitchen Round Table never strays far from home, with intimate and loving details of recipes passed down through families and new recipes introduced to successive generations. After a long day at work, what do these renowned cooks prepare at home? It is at home that some of the best food is created. With frugal sensibilities, these gourmet greats tells us some of their favorite dishes created on a budget and entice you to explore your own. Hosted by Marja Samsom, owner of the iconic Kitchen Club restaurant, a downtown New York City destination for twenty years, Marja prepares for us one of her loved family recipes as a dessert for this delicious audio feast.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/write-songs-right-now-by-alex-forbes--65327210https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Write Songs Right Now Author: Alex Forbes Narrator: Alex Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs—an approach that has been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music. Whether you've written one song or one hundred, this audiobook will show you how to take your songwriting to new levels. Each chapter lays out the basics of a different element of songwriting, including song form, lyrics, melodies, chord construction, song dynamics, and the essential ingredients of a killer hook. There are lots of fun exercises to strengthen your songwriting muscles and increase your confidence. Alex also encourages up-and-coming writers to participate in songwriting communities locally and online, and makes a strong case for collaborating as a way to generate even better material.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152191Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Write Songs Right Now Author: Alex Forbes Narrator: Alex Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Write Songs Right Now Author: Alex Forbes Narrator: Alex Forbes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs—an approach that has been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for ideas, crafting effective lyrics, and putting those lyrics to music. Whether you've written one song or one hundred, this audiobook will show you how to take your songwriting to new levels. Each chapter lays out the basics of a different element of songwriting, including song form, lyrics, melodies, chord construction, song dynamics, and the essential ingredients of a killer hook. There are lots of fun exercises to strengthen your songwriting muscles and increase your confidence. Alex also encourages up-and-coming writers to participate in songwriting communities locally and online, and makes a strong case for collaborating as a way to generate even better material.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/careless-love-the-unmaking-of-elvis-presley-by-peter-guralnick--65327206https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley Author: Peter Guralnick Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hailed as 'a masterwork' by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as 'a triumph of biographical art.' This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context. Elvis' changes during these years form a tragic mystery that Careless Love unlocks for the first time. This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, Careless Love is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149294Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley Author: Peter Guralnick Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/149294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley Author: Peter Guralnick Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hailed as 'a masterwork' by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as 'a triumph of biographical art.' This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context. Elvis' changes during these years form a tragic mystery that Careless Love unlocks for the first time. This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, Careless Love is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-train-to-memphis-the-rise-of-elvis-presley-by-peter-guralnick--65327203https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Author: Peter Guralnick Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated. A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award 'Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others.' --Bob Dylan From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ('That's All Right,' 'Mystery Train'), and the early RCA hits ('Heartbreak Hotel,' 'Hound Dog,' 'Don't Be Cruel'). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. The book closes on that somber and poignant note. Last Train to Memphis takes us deep inside Elvis' life, exploring his lifelong passion for music of every sort (from blues and gospel to Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza), his compelling affection for his family, and his intimate relationships with girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends. It shows us the loneliness, the trustfulness, the voracious appetite for experience, and above all the unshakable, almost mystical faith that Elvis had in himself and his music. Drawing frequently on Elvis' own words and on the recollections of those closest to him, the book offers an emotional, complex portrait of young Elvis Presley with a depth and dimension that for the first time allow his extraordinary accomplishments to ring true. Peter Guralnick has given us a previously unseen world, a rich panoply of people and events that illuminate an achievement, a place, and a time as never revealed before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150228Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Author: Peter Guralnick Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Author: Peter Guralnick Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated. A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award 'Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others.' --Bob Dylan From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ('That's All Right,' 'Mystery Train'), and the early RCA hits ('Heartbreak Hotel,' 'Hound Dog,' 'Don't Be Cruel'). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. The book closes on that somber and poignant note. Last Train to Memphis takes us deep inside Elvis' life, exploring his lifelong passion for music of every sort (from blues and gospel to Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza), his compelling affection for his family, and his intimate relationships with girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends. It shows us the loneliness, the trustfulness, the voracious appetite for experience, and above all the unshakable, almost mystical faith that Elvis had in himself and his music. Drawing frequently on Elvis' own words and on the recollections of those closest to him, the book offers an emotional, complex portrait of young Elvis Presley with a depth and dimension that for the first time allow his extraordinary accomplishments to ring true. Peter Guralnick has given us a previously unseen world, a rich panoply of people and events that illuminate an achievement, a place, and a time as never revealed before.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alfred-hitchcock-and-the-making-of-psycho-by-stephen-rebello--65327174https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Author: Stephen Rebello Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Here is a gripping, behind-the-scenes look inside the classic suspense shocker Psycho—and the creative genius who revolutionized filmmaking. First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it. Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of Hollywood's most iconic films, from the story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for the character of Norman Bates, to Hitchcock's groundbreaking achievements in cinematography, sound, editing, and promotion. Packed with captivating insights from the film's stars, writers, and crew members, this book is a riveting and definitive history of a signature Hitchcock cinematic masterpiece.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151716Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Author: Stephen Rebello Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Author: Stephen Rebello Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Here is a gripping, behind-the-scenes look inside the classic suspense shocker Psycho—and the creative genius who revolutionized filmmaking. First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it. Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of Hollywood's most iconic films, from the story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for the character of Norman Bates, to Hitchcock's groundbreaking achievements in cinematography, sound, editing, and promotion. Packed with captivating insights from the film's stars, writers, and crew members, this book is a riveting and definitive history of a signature Hitchcock cinematic masterpiece.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bruce-by-peter-ames-carlin--65327204https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruce Author: Peter Ames Carlin Narrator: Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 30, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people” (The New York Times). In Bruce, acclaimed music writer Peter Ames Carlin presents a startlingly intimate and vivid portrait of a rock icon. For more than four decades, Bruce Springsteen has reflected the heart and soul of America with a career that includes twenty Grammy Awards, more than 120 million albums sold, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. Peter Ames Carlin masterfully encompasses the breadth of Springsteen’s astonishing career and explores the inner workings of a man who managed to redefine generations of music. A must read for fans, Bruce is a meticulously researched, compulsively readable biography of a man laden with family tragedy, a tremendous dedication to his artistry, and an all-consuming passion for fame and influence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148000Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruce Author: Peter Ames Carlin Narrator: Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 30, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruce Author: Peter Ames Carlin Narrator: Bobby Cannavale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 30, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people” (The New York Times). In Bruce, acclaimed music writer Peter Ames Carlin presents a startlingly intimate and vivid portrait of a rock icon. For more than four decades, Bruce Springsteen has reflected the heart and soul of America with a career that includes twenty Grammy Awards, more than 120 million albums sold, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. Peter Ames Carlin masterfully encompasses the breadth of Springsteen’s astonishing career and explores the inner workings of a man who managed to redefine generations of music. A must read for fans, Bruce is a meticulously researched, compulsively readable biography of a man laden with family tragedy, a tremendous dedication to his artistry, and an all-consuming passion for fame and influence.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rod-the-autobiography-by-rod-stewart--65327236https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rod: The Autobiography Author: Rod Stewart Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 23, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.   With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer for the trailblazing rock and roll bands The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces, and as a solo artist, the author of such beloved songs as 'Maggie May,' 'Tonight’s the Night,' 'Hot Legs,' 'Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?,' 'Young Turks,' 'Forever Young,' and 'You Wear It Well.'  Now after more than five decades in the spotlight, he is finally ready to take a candid and romping look back at his life both on and off the stage. From his humble British roots to his hell-raising years on tour with his bandmates, not forgetting his great loves (including three marriages and eight children) and decades touring the world, Rod delivers a riveting ride through one of rock's most remarkable lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150600Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rod: The Autobiography Author: Rod Stewart Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rod: The Autobiography Author: Rod Stewart Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 23, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.   With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer for the trailblazing rock and roll bands The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces, and as a solo artist, the author of such beloved songs as 'Maggie May,' 'Tonight’s the Night,' 'Hot Legs,' 'Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?,' 'Young Turks,' 'Forever Young,' and 'You Wear It Well.'  Now after more than five decades in the spotlight, he is finally ready to take a candid and romping look back at his life both on and off the stage. From his humble British roots to his hell-raising years on tour with his bandmates, not forgetting his great loves (including three marriages and eight children) and decades touring the world, Rod delivers a riveting ride through one of rock's most remarkable lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/total-recall-my-unbelievably-true-life-story-by-arnold-schwarzenegger--65327207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger Narrator: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 95 Ratings of Narrator: 4.68 of Total 34 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. He was born in a year of famine, in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. Within twenty years, he was the world’s biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family. Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world. He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions. With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146981Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger Narrator: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger Narrator: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen Lang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 95 Ratings of Narrator: 4.68 of Total 34 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life. The greatest immigrant success story of our time. His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. He was born in a year of famine, in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age of twenty-one, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr. Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. Within twenty years, he was the world’s biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family. Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world. He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions. With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wait-album-by-npr--65327128https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wait Album Author: Npr Narrator: Carl Kasell, Peter Sagal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: August 28, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Each week, more than three million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s news. In the popular “Not My Job” segment, a celebrity guest must answer three questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. The topic seems random but is thoughtfully skewed.   Because Henry Winkler played Fonzie on Happy Days, host Peter Sagal asks him about Ponzi schemes. For indie rock singer Neko Case, the questions are about Necco Wafers. Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. holds the record for most consecutive games played; the Wait Wait team pitches him stumpers about sports’ real streakers—those without clothes. Jane Goodall, who studies wild chimpanzees, is met with questions about actor Nicolas Cage. And so on. Twisted and tricky, it’s all in good fun for panelists, celebrities, and especially the audience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198281Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wait Album Author: Npr Narrator: Carl Kasell, Peter Sagal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: August 28, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wait Album Author: Npr Narrator: Carl Kasell, Peter Sagal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: August 28, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Each week, more than three million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s news. In the popular “Not My Job” segment, a celebrity guest must answer three questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. The topic seems random but is thoughtfully skewed.   Because Henry Winkler played Fonzie on Happy Days, host Peter Sagal asks him about Ponzi schemes. For indie rock singer Neko Case, the questions are about Necco Wafers. Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. holds the record for most consecutive games played; the Wait Wait team pitches him stumpers about sports’ real streakers—those without clothes. Jane Goodall, who studies wild chimpanzees, is met with questions about actor Nicolas Cage. And so on. Twisted and tricky, it’s all in good fun for panelists, celebrities, and especially the audience.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/caveat-emptor-the-secret-life-of-an-american-art-forger-by-ken-perenyi--65327176https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger Author: Ken Perenyi Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 1, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The true story of America's greatest art forger! Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked 'exempt from public disclosure.' Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this audiobook, Caveat Emptor, is that artist Ken Perenyi's confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175476Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger Author: Ken Perenyi Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger Author: Ken Perenyi Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 1, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The true story of America's greatest art forger! Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence collected. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked 'exempt from public disclosure.' Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this audiobook, Caveat Emptor, is that artist Ken Perenyi's confession. It is the story, in detail, of how he pulled it all off. Unlike other forgers, Perenyi produced no paper trail, no fake provenance whatsoever; he let the paintings speak for themselves. And that they did, routinely mesmerizing the experts in mere seconds.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-whitney-i-knew-by-tim-willard-bebe-winans--65327142https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192840 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whitney I Knew Author: Tim Willard, Bebe Winans Narrator: Bebe Winans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Here is the Whitney only family would know... Somewhere outside the glare of the concert spotlights... behind the tawdry entertainment news headlines... beyond the crush of the scandal-seeking paparazzi... lies the truth about Whitney Houston. And few individuals are better qualified to show us that complicated, funny, generous, troubled, extremely loyal Whitney than the friend she called "brother," Bebe Winans. With obvious affection, yet remarkable transparency, Winans opens a window into their 28 years of friendship and family closeness to offer a view of the Whitney only a handful of people knew - the Whitney beyond The Voice. The entertainment press incessantly told us what Whitney did. Now, thanks to this tender, honest account, we understand what she thought and felt. Winans' audio book is a beautifully honest portrait of this astonishingly gifted woman, offering tremendous inspiration and a deeper understanding of human nature and God's grace.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192840Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192840 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whitney I Knew Author: Tim Willard, Bebe Winans Narrator: Bebe Winans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192840 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whitney I Knew Author: Tim Willard, Bebe Winans Narrator: Bebe Winans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Here is the Whitney only family would know... Somewhere outside the glare of the concert spotlights... behind the tawdry entertainment news headlines... beyond the crush of the scandal-seeking paparazzi... lies the truth about Whitney Houston. And few individuals are better qualified to show us that complicated, funny, generous, troubled, extremely loyal Whitney than the friend she called "brother," Bebe Winans. With obvious affection, yet remarkable transparency, Winans opens a window into their 28 years of friendship and family closeness to offer a view of the Whitney only a handful of people knew - the Whitney beyond The Voice. The entertainment press incessantly told us what Whitney did. Now, thanks to this tender, honest account, we understand what she thought and felt. Winans' audio book is a beautifully honest portrait of this astonishingly gifted woman, offering tremendous inspiration and a deeper understanding of human nature and God's grace.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/behind-the-scenes-in-the-lincoln-white-house-by-elizabeth-keckley--65327179https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House Author: Elizabeth Keckley Narrator: Bobbie Frohman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 9, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A former slave who became a successful dressmaker with her own business, became the dresser, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during Abraham Lincoln's presidential adminstration. Behind the Scenes tells the story of the rise of Elizabeth Keckley from abused slave to independent business woman to friend of the First Lady of the Land during the Civil War. Table of Contents Preface Chapter I. Where I was Born Chapter II. Girlhood and its Sorrows Chapter III. How I Gained My Freedom Chapter IV. In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis Chapter V. My Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln Chapter VI. Willie Lincoln's Death-bed Chapter VII. Washington in 1862-3 Chapter VIII. Candid Opinions Chapter IX. Behind the Scenes Chapter X. The Second Inauguration Chapter XI. The Assassination of President Lincoln Chapter XII. Mrs. Lincoln Leaves the White House Chapter XIII. The Origin of the Rivalry between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln Chapter XIV. Old Friends Chapter XV. The Secret History of Mrs. Lincoln's Wardrobe in New York Appendix--Letters from Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Keckley AUTHOR Elizabeth Keckley Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907) was a slave for more than 40 years and became a reknown seamstress, activist and author. The daughter of a house slave and her master, Keckley was taught to read and write, which was illegal and a rare priviledge. But her status did not protect her from a life of work that began at four years old and included severe abuse from her master's wife. After purchasing her freedom as an adult, Keckley moved to Washington DC and her sewing talents soon garnered an impressive clientele of affluent legislators. Keckley's reknown brought her to the attention of Mary Todd Lincoln, and they immediately formed a strong bond. Keckley met Mary Todd Lincoln on the day of Abraham's first inauguration and spent the next 6 years as the personal dressmaker and dresser for the First Lady. They remained close after the Lincolns left Washington. In an unfortunate attempt to help the nearly destitute former first lady, Keckley published her memoirs detailing the private lives of her owners and later the Lincolns. The immediate reaction to Behind the Scenes was catastrophic for Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln felt betrayed and attacked and refused to speak to her, her elite dressmaking clientele left her and critics everywhere exorciated Keckley for her ""honesty"". Keckley never fully recovered from the scandal and died alone and destitute. "]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174990Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House Author: Elizabeth Keckley Narrator: Bobbie Frohman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House Author: Elizabeth Keckley Narrator: Bobbie Frohman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 9, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A former slave who became a successful dressmaker with her own business, became the dresser, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during Abraham Lincoln's presidential adminstration. Behind the Scenes tells the story of the rise of Elizabeth Keckley from abused slave to independent business woman to friend of the First Lady of the Land during the Civil War. Table of Contents Preface Chapter I. Where I was Born Chapter II. Girlhood and its Sorrows Chapter III. How I Gained My Freedom Chapter IV. In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis Chapter V. My Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln Chapter VI. Willie Lincoln's Death-bed Chapter VII. Washington in 1862-3 Chapter VIII. Candid Opinions Chapter IX. Behind the Scenes Chapter X. The Second Inauguration Chapter XI. The Assassination of President Lincoln Chapter XII. Mrs. Lincoln Leaves the White House Chapter XIII. The Origin of the Rivalry between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln Chapter XIV. Old Friends Chapter XV. The Secret History of Mrs. Lincoln's Wardrobe in New York Appendix--Letters from Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Keckley AUTHOR Elizabeth Keckley Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907) was a slave for more than 40 years and became a reknown seamstress, activist and author. The daughter of a house slave and her master, Keckley was taught to read and write, which was illegal and a rare priviledge. But her status did not protect her from a life of work that began at four years old and included severe abuse from her master's wife. After purchasing her freedom as an adult, Keckley moved to Washington DC and her sewing talents soon garnered an impressive clientele of affluent legislators. Keckley's reknown brought her to the attention of Mary Todd Lincoln, and they immediately formed a strong bond. Keckley met Mary Todd Lincoln on the day of Abraham's first inauguration and spent the next 6 years as the personal dressmaker and dresser for the First Lady. They remained close after the Lincolns left Washington. In an unfortunate attempt to help the nearly destitute former first lady, Keckley published her memoirs detailing the private lives of her owners and later the Lincolns. The immediate reaction to Behind the Scenes was catastrophic for Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln felt betrayed and attacked and refused to speak to her, her elite dressmaking clientele left her and critics everywhere exorciated Keckley for her ""honesty"". Keckley never fully recovered from the scandal and died alone and destitute. "]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/most-talkative-stories-from-the-front-lines-of-pop-culture-by-andy-cohen--65327164https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture Author: Andy Cohen Narrator: Andy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television show From a young age, Andy Cohen knew two things: He was gay, and he loved television. Now presiding over Bravo's reality-TV empire, he started out as an overly talkative pop-culture obsessive, devoted to Charlie's Angels and All My Children—and to his mother, who received daily letters from him while he was at summer camp, usually reminding her to tape the soaps. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that everyone didn't know that Andy was gay; still, he remained in the closet until college. Finally out, he embarked on making a career out of his passion for television. The journey begins with Andy interviewing his all-time idol Susan Lucci for his college newspaper and ends with him in a job where he has a hand in creating today's celebrity icons. In the witty, no-holds-barred style of his show Watch What Happens: Live, Cohen tells tales of absurd network-news mishaps, hilarious encounters with the heroines of his youth, and the real stories behind the Real Housewives. Dishy, funny, and full of heart, Most Talkative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of television, from a fan who grew up watching the screen and is now inside the TV, both making shows and hosting his own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183626Tue, 08 May 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture Author: Andy Cohen Narrator: Andy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture Author: Andy Cohen Narrator: Andy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 8, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television show From a young age, Andy Cohen knew two things: He was gay, and he loved television. Now presiding over Bravo's reality-TV empire, he started out as an overly talkative pop-culture obsessive, devoted to Charlie's Angels and All My Children—and to his mother, who received daily letters from him while he was at summer camp, usually reminding her to tape the soaps. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that everyone didn't know that Andy was gay; still, he remained in the closet until college. Finally out, he embarked on making a career out of his passion for television. The journey begins with Andy interviewing his all-time idol Susan Lucci for his college newspaper and ends with him in a job where he has a hand in creating today's celebrity icons. In the witty, no-holds-barred style of his show Watch What Happens: Live, Cohen tells tales of absurd network-news mishaps, hilarious encounters with the heroines of his youth, and the real stories behind the Real Housewives. Dishy, funny, and full of heart, Most Talkative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of television, from a fan who grew up watching the screen and is now inside the TV, both making shows and hosting his own.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/girl-walks-into-a-bar-comedy-calamities-dating-disasters-and-a-midlife-miracle-by-rachel-dratch--65327110https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle Author: Rachel Dratch Narrator: Rachel Dratch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as "Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians." Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog- sitting, learning Spanish-and dating. After all, what did a forty- something single woman living in New York have to lose? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John. Handsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and moved to New York to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word. Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch's time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar... is a refreshing version of the "happily ever after" story that proves female comics-like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are truly having their moment.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195245Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle Author: Rachel Dratch Narrator: Rachel Dratch Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle Author: Rachel Dratch Narrator: Rachel Dratch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 26, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as "Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians." Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog- sitting, learning Spanish-and dating. After all, what did a forty- something single woman living in New York have to lose? Resigned to childlessness but still hoping for romance, Dratch was out for drinks with a friend when she met John. Handsome and funny, after only six months of dating long-distance, he became the inadvertent father of her wholly unplanned, undreamed-of child, and moved to New York to be a dad. With riotous humor, Dratch recounts breaking the news to her bewildered parents, the awe of her single friends, and the awkwardness of a baby-care class where the instructor kept tossing out the f-word. Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch's time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar... is a refreshing version of the "happily ever after" story that proves female comics-like bestsellers Tina Fey and Chelsea Handler-are truly having their moment.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/guitar-zero-the-new-musician-and-the-science-of-learning-by-gary-marcus--65327046https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning Author: Gary Marcus Narrator: Gary Marcus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 19, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or can anyone reinvent him-or herself at any time? On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Gary Marcus, an internationally renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, becomes his own guinea pig to look at how human beings become musical- and how anyone of any age can master something new. Guitar Zero traces his journey, what he learned, and how you can learn, too. In addition to being a groundbreaking look at the origins and allure of music, Marcus's journey is also an empowering tale of the mind's plasticity. In a quest that takes him from Suzuki classes to guitar gods, Marcus investigates the most effective ways to train your brain and body to learn to play an instrument. How can you make your practice more deliberate and effective? How can you find the best music teacher for you or your child? Does talent really exist? Or is hard work all you need? Guitar Zero stands the science of music on its head, debunking the popular theory of an innate musical instinct and many other commonly held fallacies. At the same time, it raises new questions about the science of human pleasure and brings new insight into humankind's most basic question: what counts as a life well lived? Does one have to become the next Jimi Hendrix to make a passionate pursuit worthwhile? Or can the journey itself bring the brain lasting satisfaction? For those who have ever set out to learn a musical instrument-or wishes that they could- Guitar Zero is an inspiring and fascinating look at music, learning, and the pursuit of a well-lived life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202887Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning Author: Gary Marcus Narrator: Gary Marcus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning Author: Gary Marcus Narrator: Gary Marcus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 19, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or can anyone reinvent him-or herself at any time? On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Gary Marcus, an internationally renowned scientist with no discernible musical talent, becomes his own guinea pig to look at how human beings become musical- and how anyone of any age can master something new. Guitar Zero traces his journey, what he learned, and how you can learn, too. In addition to being a groundbreaking look at the origins and allure of music, Marcus's journey is also an empowering tale of the mind's plasticity. In a quest that takes him from Suzuki classes to guitar gods, Marcus investigates the most effective ways to train your brain and body to learn to play an instrument. How can you make your practice more deliberate and effective? How can you find the best music teacher for you or your child? Does talent really exist? Or is hard work all you need? Guitar Zero stands the science of music on its head, debunking the popular theory of an innate musical instinct and many other commonly held fallacies. At the same time, it raises new questions about the science of human pleasure and brings new insight into humankind's most basic question: what counts as a life well lived? Does one have to become the next Jimi Hendrix to make a passionate pursuit worthwhile? Or can the journey itself bring the brain lasting satisfaction? For those who have ever set out to learn a musical instrument-or wishes that they could- Guitar Zero is an inspiring and fascinating look at music, learning, and the pursuit of a well-lived life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-got-this-how-i-changed-my-ways-and-lost-what-weighed-me-down-by-jennifer-hudson--65327058https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down Author: Jennifer Hudson Narrator: Shanelle Gabriel, Jennifer Hudson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 10, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A personal and inspirational memoir from Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, focused on her amazing transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, Jennifer Hudson wowed the world with her powerful voice in American Idol's third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in Dreamgirls that won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But before we knew her as an American Idol standout, Jennifer was singing in her church choir in the Southside of Chicago. This uplifting memoir tells the story of Jennifer's meteoric rise from American Idol to Dreamgirls to her amazing weight loss on the megablockbuster Weight Watchers diet plan. With the Weight Watchers brand endorsing her, Jennifer gives her fans tips for embracing a healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight and reclaim their bodies. Full of stories from her American Idol days, her experience acting in Dreamgirls, and how her son inspired her to want to live healthfully, this book is a gift for her millions of fans and an inspiration for anyone struggling with weight issues.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201584Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down Author: Jennifer Hudson Narrator: Shanelle Gabriel, Jennifer Hudson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down Author: Jennifer Hudson Narrator: Shanelle Gabriel, Jennifer Hudson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 10, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A personal and inspirational memoir from Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, focused on her amazing transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds. Soulful and sultry, Jennifer Hudson wowed the world with her powerful voice in American Idol's third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in Dreamgirls that won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But before we knew her as an American Idol standout, Jennifer was singing in her church choir in the Southside of Chicago. This uplifting memoir tells the story of Jennifer's meteoric rise from American Idol to Dreamgirls to her amazing weight loss on the megablockbuster Weight Watchers diet plan. With the Weight Watchers brand endorsing her, Jennifer gives her fans tips for embracing a healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight and reclaim their bodies. Full of stories from her American Idol days, her experience acting in Dreamgirls, and how her son inspired her to want to live healthfully, this book is a gift for her millions of fans and an inspiration for anyone struggling with weight issues.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/true-strength-my-journey-from-hercules-to-mere-mortal-and-how-nearly-dying-saved-my-life-by-kevin-sorbo--65327152https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/shatner-rules-your-key-to-understanding-the-shatnerverse-and-the-world-atlarge-by-william-shatner--65327054https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World atLarge Author: William Shatner Narrator: William Shatner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You love William Shatner. You admire his many and varied talents. You appreciate his creativity and willingness to take risks. You want to learn his master negotiation techniques. You wish you could hang out with him. Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner. And now...you can (almost).This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill's illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque. Because let's face it...Shatner does rule, doesn't he?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203064Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World atLarge Author: William Shatner Narrator: William Shatner Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World atLarge Author: William Shatner Narrator: William Shatner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You love William Shatner. You admire his many and varied talents. You appreciate his creativity and willingness to take risks. You want to learn his master negotiation techniques. You wish you could hang out with him. Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner. And now...you can (almost).This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill's illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque. Because let's face it...Shatner does rule, doesn't he?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nerd-do-well-a-small-boy-s-journey-to-becoming-a-big-kid-by-simon-pegg--65327055https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid Author: Simon Pegg Narrator: Simon Pegg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 9, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Abridged, 5 hoursRead by the author The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, the star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek the movie.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202952Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid Author: Simon Pegg Narrator: Simon Pegg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid Author: Simon Pegg Narrator: Simon Pegg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 9, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Abridged, 5 hoursRead by the author The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, the star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek the movie.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/transition-the-story-of-how-i-became-a-man-by-chaz-bono--65327141https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/rubber-balls-and-liquor-by-gilbert-gottfried--65327233https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/147032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rubber Balls and Liquor Author: Gilbert Gottfried Narrator: Gilbert Gottfried Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the early 1970s, as our nation's youth railed against every conceivable societal norm, a funny-looking teenage Jew started turning up at open mike nights in various New York City comedy clubs. Surprisingly, he didn't suck. That funny-looking teenage Jew is now the even funnier-looking middle-aged comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who despite his transparent shortcomings has managed to carve out a hardly-respectable career—and a reputation for shock and awe unrivaled outside the Bush administration. With this scathingly funny audiobook of rants and musings, Gottfried sullies an entirely new medium with his dysfunctional worldview. 'One of the most touching, eye-opening historical accounts—one day I may even read it.' —Howie Mandel 'This is definitely the loudest book I have ever read. It changed my life. After reading it I decided to go through transgender surgery.' —Bob Saget 'Truly the funniest book ever, by one of the funniest guys on the planet!' —Paul Shaffer, musical director, Late Show with David Letterman]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/147032Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/147032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rubber Balls and Liquor Author: Gilbert Gottfried Narrator: Gilbert Gottfried Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/147032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rubber Balls and Liquor Author: Gilbert Gottfried Narrator: Gilbert Gottfried Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 26, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the early 1970s, as our nation's youth railed against every conceivable societal norm, a funny-looking teenage Jew started turning up at open mike nights in various New York City comedy clubs. Surprisingly, he didn't suck. That funny-looking teenage Jew is now the even funnier-looking middle-aged comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who despite his transparent shortcomings has managed to carve out a hardly-respectable career—and a reputation for shock and awe unrivaled outside the Bush administration. With this scathingly funny audiobook of rants and musings, Gottfried sullies an entirely new medium with his dysfunctional worldview. 'One of the most touching, eye-opening historical accounts—one day I may even read it.' —Howie Mandel 'This is definitely the loudest book I have ever read. It changed my life. After reading it I decided to go through transgender surgery.' —Bob Saget 'Truly the funniest book ever, by one of the funniest guys on the planet!' —Paul Shaffer, musical director, Late Show with David Letterman]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/known-and-unknown-a-memoir-by-donald-rumsfeld--65327047https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Known and Unknown: A Memoir Author: Donald Rumsfeld Narrator: Donald Rumsfeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history. Rumsfeld addresses the challenges and controversies of his illustrious career, from the unseating of the entrenched House Republican leader in 1965, to helping the Ford administration steer the country away from Watergate and Vietnam, to the war in Iraq, to confronting abuse at Abu Ghraib. Along the way, he offers his plainspoken, first-hand views and often humorous and surprising anecdotes about some of the world's best-known figures, ranging from Elvis Presley to George W. Bush. Both a fascinating narrative and an unprecedented glimpse into history,Known and Unknown captures the legacy of one of the most influential men in public service.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203015Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Known and Unknown: A Memoir Author: Donald Rumsfeld Narrator: Donald Rumsfeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 12 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Known and Unknown: A Memoir Author: Donald Rumsfeld Narrator: Donald Rumsfeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history. Rumsfeld addresses the challenges and controversies of his illustrious career, from the unseating of the entrenched House Republican leader in 1965, to helping the Ford administration steer the country away from Watergate and Vietnam, to the war in Iraq, to confronting abuse at Abu Ghraib. Along the way, he offers his plainspoken, first-hand views and often humorous and surprising anecdotes about some of the world's best-known figures, ranging from Elvis Presley to George W. Bush. Both a fascinating narrative and an unprecedented glimpse into history,Known and Unknown captures the legacy of one of the most influential men in public service.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/show-biz-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327139https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Show Biz Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200530Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Show Biz Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Show Biz Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stan-kenton-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327136https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stan Kenton Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200540Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stan Kenton Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stan Kenton Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/connie-mack-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327130https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Connie Mack Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200558Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Connie Mack Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Connie Mack Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/h-l-mencken-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327120https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.L. Mencken Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200567Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.L. Mencken Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: H.L. Mencken Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/john-l-lewis-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327119https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John L Lewis Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200543Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John L Lewis Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John L Lewis Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sigmond-romburg-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327116https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sigmond Romburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Biographies in Sound - Sigmond Romburg]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200525Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sigmond Romburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sigmond Romburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Biographies in Sound - Sigmond Romburg]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carl-sandburg-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327113https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carl Sandburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200533Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carl Sandburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carl Sandburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-actor-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327109https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Actor Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200534Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Actor Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Actor Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arturo-toscanini-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327107https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arturo Toscanini Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200586Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arturo Toscanini Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arturo Toscanini Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/biography-in-rhythm-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327105https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Biography In Rhythm Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200544Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Biography In Rhythm Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Biography In Rhythm Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grantland-rice-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327104https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grantland Rice Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200554Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grantland Rice Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grantland Rice Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frank-lloyd-wright-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327103https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200569Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gertrude-lawrence-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327102https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gertrude Lawrence Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200532Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gertrude Lawrence Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gertrude Lawrence Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thomas-wolfe-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327099https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Wolfe Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200564Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Wolfe Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Wolfe Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grandma-moses-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327097https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grandma Moses Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200572Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grandma Moses Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grandma Moses Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sinclair-lewis-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327095https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinclair Lewis Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200559Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinclair Lewis Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinclair Lewis Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/george-bernard-shaw-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327091https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George Bernard Shaw Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200568Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George Bernard Shaw Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George Bernard Shaw Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ticket-to-the-moon-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327087https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ticket to the Moon Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200581Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ticket to the Moon Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ticket to the Moon Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fred-allen-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327086https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fred Allen Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200583Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fred Allen Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fred Allen Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ethel-barrymore-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327085https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ethel Barrymore Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200536Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ethel Barrymore Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ethel Barrymore Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/salute-to-radio-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327083https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Salute To Radio Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200561Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Salute To Radio Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Salute To Radio Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-portrait-of-fred-allen-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327082https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of Fred Allen Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200562Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of Fred Allen Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of Fred Allen Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mary-martin-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327080https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Martin Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200577Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Martin Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Martin Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fiorello-laquardia-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327079https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiorello Laquardia Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200584Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiorello Laquardia Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiorello Laquardia Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fiorello-laguardia-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327078https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiorello Laguardia Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200565Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiorello Laguardia Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiorello Laguardia Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/knute-rockne-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327074https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knute Rockne Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200573Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knute Rockne Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knute Rockne Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carl-sandburg-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327073https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carl Sandburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200593Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carl Sandburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carl Sandburg Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thornton-wilder-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327072https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thornton Wilder Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200588Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thornton Wilder Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thornton Wilder Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alexander-wollcott-the-town-crier-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327063https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander Wollcott the Town Crier Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200578Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander Wollcott the Town Crier Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander Wollcott the Town Crier Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/george-m-cohan-by-joseph-o-meyer--65327053https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George M Cohan Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200590Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George M Cohan Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George M Cohan Author: Joseph O. Meyer Narrator: Various Participants Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of the first shows was on the life of Winston Churchill that featured sound clips of his friends and enemies produced by Joseph O. Meyers. It was such a success that Meyers was requested to produce more shows on other famous people that included, W.C. Fields, Babe Ruth, Red Allen and more. Each Biography In Sound show introduces the life story of a well-known historical figure. It includes a fine mixture of anecdotes, interviews, critical reviews, and sound clips of the subject's voice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-war-for-late-night-when-leno-went-early-and-television-went-crazy-by-bill-carter--65327068https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy Author: Bill Carter Narrator: Sean Kenin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 4, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. Leno's show, panned by critics, dragged down the ratings-and the profits-of NBC's affiliates, while ratings for Conan's new Tonight show plummeted to the lowest levels in history. Conan's collapse, meanwhile, opened an unexpected door of opportunity for rival David Letterman. What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. In The War for Late Night, New York Times reporter Bill Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season as all of its players- performers, producers, agents, and network executives-maneuvered to find footing amid the shifting tectonic plates of television culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201236Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy Author: Bill Carter Narrator: Sean Kenin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy Author: Bill Carter Narrator: Sean Kenin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 4, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. Leno's show, panned by critics, dragged down the ratings-and the profits-of NBC's affiliates, while ratings for Conan's new Tonight show plummeted to the lowest levels in history. Conan's collapse, meanwhile, opened an unexpected door of opportunity for rival David Letterman. What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. In The War for Late Night, New York Times reporter Bill Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season as all of its players- performers, producers, agents, and network executives-maneuvered to find footing amid the shifting tectonic plates of television culture.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-yo-by-ricky-martin--65327056https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo Author: Ricky Martin Narrator: Tony Chiroldes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 2, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: El artista Ricky Martin quien ha vendido mas de 60 millones de albumes en todo el mundo habla por primera vez sobre su infancia, sus comienzos musicales en el grupo Menudo, su busqueda de identidad durante el fenomeno de 'Livin La Vida Loca', la aceptacion de su sexualidad, las relaciones en las que descubrio el amor y las decisiones que cambiaron su vida como el convertirse en padre y su dedicacion por ayudar a los ninos des privilegiados en todo el mundo. Yo es un libro intimo de memorias sobre la trayectoria espiritual de uno de los artistas mas reconocidos de nuestra epoca.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202888Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo Author: Ricky Martin Narrator: Tony Chiroldes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 2, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo Author: Ricky Martin Narrator: Tony Chiroldes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 2, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: El artista Ricky Martin quien ha vendido mas de 60 millones de albumes en todo el mundo habla por primera vez sobre su infancia, sus comienzos musicales en el grupo Menudo, su busqueda de identidad durante el fenomeno de 'Livin La Vida Loca', la aceptacion de su sexualidad, las relaciones en las que descubrio el amor y las decisiones que cambiaron su vida como el convertirse en padre y su dedicacion por ayudar a los ninos des privilegiados en todo el mundo. Yo es un libro intimo de memorias sobre la trayectoria espiritual de uno de los artistas mas reconocidos de nuestra epoca.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/me-by-ricky-martin--65327052https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Me Author: Ricky Martin Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 2, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling memoir-now available as an enhanced paperback edition with a new Introduction and never-before- seen photos! In this New York Times bestseller, international superstar Ricky Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, opens up for the first time about memories of his early childhood, experiences in the famed boy band Menudo, struggles with his identity during the Livin' la Vida Loca phenomenon, reflections on coming to terms with his sexuality, relationships that allowed him to embrace love, and life-changing decisions like devoting himself to helping children around the world, and becoming a father. Me is an intimate memoir about the very liberating and spiritual journey of one of the most iconic pop-stars of our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202889Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Me Author: Ricky Martin Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 2, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Me Author: Ricky Martin Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 2, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling memoir-now available as an enhanced paperback edition with a new Introduction and never-before- seen photos! In this New York Times bestseller, international superstar Ricky Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, opens up for the first time about memories of his early childhood, experiences in the famed boy band Menudo, struggles with his identity during the Livin' la Vida Loca phenomenon, reflections on coming to terms with his sexuality, relationships that allowed him to embrace love, and life-changing decisions like devoting himself to helping children around the world, and becoming a father. Me is an intimate memoir about the very liberating and spiritual journey of one of the most iconic pop-stars of our time.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/npr-the-first-forty-years-by-npr--65327145https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NPR: The First Forty Years Author: NPR Narrator: Various Readers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NPR was created in 1970, three years after Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Signing the act into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “We in America have an appetite for excellence . . . we want most of all to enrich man’s spirit.” Today NPR produces and distributes programming that reaches more than 26 million listeners weekly. More than 900 stations nationwide broadcast NPR programming. From the turmoil of the Vietnam era to a delightful visit with the riotously funny Dame Edna Everage, join hosts Susan Stamberg (1970s), Noah Adams (1980s), Renee Montagne (1990s), and Guy Raz (2000s) for an unforgettable journey through the first forty years of NPR. This commemorative collection overflows with thought-provoking commentaries, award-winning journalism and humor from the public radio programs that have become an essential part of our lives: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Tell Me More, Fresh Air and much more. FEATURING: - David Sedaris - Chris Rock - Dame Edna - Terry Gross - Little Richard - Red Barber - Ira Glass - Car Talk’s Tom and Ray Magliozzi And many more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198818Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NPR: The First Forty Years Author: NPR Narrator: Various Readers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 20, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NPR: The First Forty Years Author: NPR Narrator: Various Readers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NPR was created in 1970, three years after Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Signing the act into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “We in America have an appetite for excellence . . . we want most of all to enrich man’s spirit.” Today NPR produces and distributes programming that reaches more than 26 million listeners weekly. More than 900 stations nationwide broadcast NPR programming. From the turmoil of the Vietnam era to a delightful visit with the riotously funny Dame Edna Everage, join hosts Susan Stamberg (1970s), Noah Adams (1980s), Renee Montagne (1990s), and Guy Raz (2000s) for an unforgettable journey through the first forty years of NPR. This commemorative collection overflows with thought-provoking commentaries, award-winning journalism and humor from the public radio programs that have become an essential part of our lives: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Tell Me More, Fresh Air and much more. FEATURING: - David Sedaris - Chris Rock - Dame Edna - Terry Gross - Little Richard - Red Barber - Ira Glass - Car Talk’s Tom and Ray Magliozzi And many more.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/late-late-at-night-by-rick-springfield--65327192https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Late, Late at Night Author: Rick Springfield Narrator: Rick Springfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller! Grammy Award-winning icon Rick Springfield shares the startling story of his rise and fall and rise again in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression. In a searingly candid memoir which he authored himself, Grammy Award–winning pop icon Rick Springfield pulls back the curtain on his image as a bright, shiny, happy performer to share the startling story of his rise and fall and rise in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression. In the 1980s, singer-songwriter and actor Rick Springfield seemed to have it all: a megahit single in “Jessie’s Girl,” sold-out concert tours, follow-up hits that sold more than seventeen million albums and became the pop soundtrack for an entire generation, and twelve million daily viewers who avidly tuned in to General Hospital to swoon over his portrayal of the handsome Dr. Noah Drake. Yet lurking behind his success as a pop star and soap opera heartthrob and his unstoppable drive was a moody, somber, and dark soul, one filled with depression and insecurity. In Late, Late at Night, the memoir his millions of fans have been waiting for, Rick takes readers inside the highs and lows of his extraordinary life. By turns winningly funny and heartbreakingly sad, every page resonates with Rick’s witty, wry, self-deprecating, brutally honest voice. On one level, he reveals the inside story of his ride to the top of the entertainment world. On a second, deeper level, he recounts with unsparing candor the forces that have driven his life, including his longtime battle with depression and thoughts of suicide, the shattering death of his father, and his decision to drop out at the absolute peak of fame. Having finally found a more stable equilibrium, Rick’s story is ultimately a positive one, deeply informed by his passion for creative expression through his music, a deep love of his wife of twenty-six years and their two sons, and his life-long quest for spiritual peace.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150836Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Late, Late at Night Author: Rick Springfield Narrator: Rick Springfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Late, Late at Night Author: Rick Springfield Narrator: Rick Springfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller! Grammy Award-winning icon Rick Springfield shares the startling story of his rise and fall and rise again in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression. In a searingly candid memoir which he authored himself, Grammy Award–winning pop icon Rick Springfield pulls back the curtain on his image as a bright, shiny, happy performer to share the startling story of his rise and fall and rise in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression. In the 1980s, singer-songwriter and actor Rick Springfield seemed to have it all: a megahit single in “Jessie’s Girl,” sold-out concert tours, follow-up hits that sold more than seventeen million albums and became the pop soundtrack for an entire generation, and twelve million daily viewers who avidly tuned in to General Hospital to swoon over his portrayal of the handsome Dr. Noah Drake. Yet lurking behind his success as a pop star and soap opera heartthrob and his unstoppable drive was a moody, somber, and dark soul, one filled with depression and insecurity. In Late, Late at Night, the memoir his millions of fans have been waiting for, Rick takes readers inside the highs and lows of his extraordinary life. By turns winningly funny and heartbreakingly sad, every page resonates with Rick’s witty, wry, self-deprecating, brutally honest voice. On one level, he reveals the inside story of his ride to the top of the entertainment world. On a second, deeper level, he recounts with unsparing candor the forces that have driven his life, including his longtime battle with depression and thoughts of suicide, the shattering death of his father, and his decision to drop out at the absolute peak of fame. Having finally found a more stable equilibrium, Rick’s story is ultimately a positive one, deeply informed by his passion for creative expression through his music, a deep love of his wife of twenty-six years and their two sons, and his life-long quest for spiritual peace.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stories-behind-the-greatest-hits-of-christmas-uncover-the-secrets-and-history-of-beloved-holiday-classics-by-ace-collins--65327205https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/156015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas: Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics Author: Ace Collins Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 5, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Much like The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs Of Christmas, The Stories Behind The Great Traditions of Christmas and More Stories Behind The Best Loved Songs of Christmas this new Collins Christmas book will fill a void in the book world. With a look at these secular classics, people who love the music of the season will finally have a source that gives the stories behind the creation of these wonderful songs, the way they found their way into the hands of those who made them famous and the reason they climb the charts.The Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas is really a guide or a map that connects Christmas past with Christmas present. It will be a time machine that connect the past to the present and makes the experience of hearing Christmas classics even more special. Completed with thoughts of those who penned these classics, along with the artists, such as Brenda Lee, who made them famous, this will be a book that is sure to generate fan interest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/156015Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/156015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas: Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics Author: Ace Collins Narrator: Paul Boehmer...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/156015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas: Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics Author: Ace Collins Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 5, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Much like The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs Of Christmas, The Stories Behind The Great Traditions of Christmas and More Stories Behind The Best Loved Songs of Christmas this new Collins Christmas book will fill a void in the book world. With a look at these secular classics, people who love the music of the season will finally have a source that gives the stories behind the creation of these wonderful songs, the way they found their way into the hands of those who made them famous and the reason they climb the charts.The Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas is really a guide or a map that connects Christmas past with Christmas present. It will be a time machine that connect the past to the present and makes the experience of hearing Christmas classics even more special. Completed with thoughts of those who penned these classics, along with the artists, such as Brenda Lee, who made them famous, this will be a book that is sure to generate fan interest.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-very-best-of-bob-and-ray-legends-of-comedy-by-ray-goulding-bob-elliott--65327111https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Very Best of Bob and Ray: Legends of Comedy Author: Ray Goulding, Bob Elliott Narrator: Ray Goulding, Bob Elliott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 28, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Before Bob & Ray, comedians told jokes. After Bob & Ray, they told stories. When they first got together in 1946 on WHDH-AM Boston, no one guessed that their subtle, intelligent, deadpan brand of humor would revolutionize the comedic landscape. With a gift for an improvisation and a keen understanding of the absurd, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding created a universe of wonderful characters and rewrote the rules for what’s funny. Consider any important comedy star since—Bob Newhart, Garrison Keillor, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson, George Carlin, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld—and you can hear the debt to Bob & Ray. This collection honors the two and only with selections from their early years (1950s, ’60s, and ’70s) and public radio years (’80s), their 1984 Carnegie Hall performances, and previously unreleased archival recordings.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198825Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Very Best of Bob and Ray: Legends of Comedy Author: Ray Goulding, Bob Elliott Narrator: Ray Goulding, Bob Elliott Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Very Best of Bob and Ray: Legends of Comedy Author: Ray Goulding, Bob Elliott Narrator: Ray Goulding, Bob Elliott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 28, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Before Bob & Ray, comedians told jokes. After Bob & Ray, they told stories. When they first got together in 1946 on WHDH-AM Boston, no one guessed that their subtle, intelligent, deadpan brand of humor would revolutionize the comedic landscape. With a gift for an improvisation and a keen understanding of the absurd, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding created a universe of wonderful characters and rewrote the rules for what’s funny. Consider any important comedy star since—Bob Newhart, Garrison Keillor, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson, George Carlin, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld—and you can hear the debt to Bob & Ray. This collection honors the two and only with selections from their early years (1950s, ’60s, and ’70s) and public radio years (’80s), their 1984 Carnegie Hall performances, and previously unreleased archival recordings.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fresh-air-just-for-laughs-by-terry-gross--65327146https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Air: Just For Laughs Author: Terry Gross Narrator: Terry Gross, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed. She puts her guests at ease, which makes for rewarding listening. Insights abound and the humor is unstoppable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198826Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Air: Just For Laughs Author: Terry Gross Narrator: Terry Gross, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Air: Just For Laughs Author: Terry Gross Narrator: Terry Gross, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Terry Gross brings out the best in the greatest minds on the planet—including the funny ones. Drawn from her long-running, award-winning public radio show, this new collection features in-depth interviews with the bright, shining wits of our time. One of the nation’s leading interviewers, Gross is incisive, respectful, and always well-informed. She puts her guests at ease, which makes for rewarding listening. Insights abound and the humor is unstoppable.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/composed-a-memoir-by-rosanne-cash--65327081https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Composed: A Memoir Author: Rosanne Cash Narrator: Rosanne Cash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country legend Johnny Cash, and of her relationships with her mother and her famous stepmother, June Carter Cash. In her account of her development as an artist she shares memories of a hilarious stint as a twenty-year-old working for Columbia Records in London, recording her own first album on a German label, working her way to success, her marriage to Rodney Crowell, a union that made them Nashville's premier couple, her relationship with the country music establishment, taking a new direction in her music and leaving Nashville to move to New York. As well as motherhood, dealing with the deaths of her parents, in part through music, the process of songwriting, and the fulfillment she has found with her current husband and musical collaborator, John Leventhal.Cash has written an unconventional and compelling memoir that, in the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time, is a series of linked pieces that combine to form a luminous and brilliant whole.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201238Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Composed: A Memoir Author: Rosanne Cash Narrator: Rosanne Cash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 10, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Composed: A Memoir Author: Rosanne Cash Narrator: Rosanne Cash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 10, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country legend Johnny Cash, and of her relationships with her mother and her famous stepmother, June Carter Cash. In her account of her development as an artist she shares memories of a hilarious stint as a twenty-year-old working for Columbia Records in London, recording her own first album on a German label, working her way to success, her marriage to Rodney Crowell, a union that made them Nashville's premier couple, her relationship with the country music establishment, taking a new direction in her music and leaving Nashville to move to New York. As well as motherhood, dealing with the deaths of her parents, in part through music, the process of songwriting, and the fulfillment she has found with her current husband and musical collaborator, John Leventhal.Cash has written an unconventional and compelling memoir that, in the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time, is a series of linked pieces that combine to form a luminous and brilliant whole.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/talking-to-girls-about-duran-duran-one-young-man-s-quest-for-true-love-and-a-cooler-haircut-by-rob-sheffield--65327045https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Scott Sheppard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory.'No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield.'So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix Tape, Sheffield's paean to a lost love via its soundtrack. Now, in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, Sheffield shares the soundtrack to his eighties adolescence.When he turned 13 in 1980, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music and himself, and in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran we get a glimpse into his transformation from pasty, geeky 'hermit boy' into a young man with his first girlfriend, his first apartment, and a sense of the world. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies; the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads; and, like any all-American boy, this one was searching for true love and maybe a cooler haircut. It all here: Inept flirtations. Dumb crushes. Deplorable fashion choices. Members Only jackets. Girls, every last one of whom seems to be madly in love with the bassist of Duran Duran.Sheffield's coming-of-age story is one that we all know, with a playlist that any child of the eighties or anyone who just loves music will sing along with. These songs-and Sheffield's writing-will remind readers of that first kiss, that first car, and the moments that shaped their lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203068Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Scott Sheppard Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Scott Sheppard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 15, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory.'No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield.'So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix Tape, Sheffield's paean to a lost love via its soundtrack. Now, in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, Sheffield shares the soundtrack to his eighties adolescence.When he turned 13 in 1980, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music and himself, and in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran we get a glimpse into his transformation from pasty, geeky 'hermit boy' into a young man with his first girlfriend, his first apartment, and a sense of the world. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies; the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads; and, like any all-American boy, this one was searching for true love and maybe a cooler haircut. It all here: Inept flirtations. Dumb crushes. Deplorable fashion choices. Members Only jackets. Girls, every last one of whom seems to be madly in love with the bassist of Duran Duran.Sheffield's coming-of-age story is one that we all know, with a playlist that any child of the eighties or anyone who just loves music will sing along with. These songs-and Sheffield's writing-will remind readers of that first kiss, that first car, and the moments that shaped their lives.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/noble-ways-by-roy-noble--65327112https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noble Ways Author: Roy Noble Narrator: Roy Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Known throughout Wales for his gentle self-deprecating sense of humour and brilliant TV and radio broadcasts, BBC presenter Roy Noble guides us through the "lay-bys" of his life; his warm, loving fifties Brynaman childhood; his college and teaching days; and his ultimate success in that most difficult of careers - showbusiness. A beautiful and entertaining depiction of the life of a truly extraordinary and much loved Welshman who has enriched the daily lives of millions. We meet his family and friends, the ordinary and the rich and famous. We rejoice at his triumphs, laugh at his blunders and cry at his unflinchingly honest depiction of personal tragedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175814Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noble Ways Author: Roy Noble Narrator: Roy Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Noble Ways Author: Roy Noble Narrator: Roy Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Known throughout Wales for his gentle self-deprecating sense of humour and brilliant TV and radio broadcasts, BBC presenter Roy Noble guides us through the "lay-bys" of his life; his warm, loving fifties Brynaman childhood; his college and teaching days; and his ultimate success in that most difficult of careers - showbusiness. A beautiful and entertaining depiction of the life of a truly extraordinary and much loved Welshman who has enriched the daily lives of millions. We meet his family and friends, the ordinary and the rich and famous. We rejoice at his triumphs, laugh at his blunders and cry at his unflinchingly honest depiction of personal tragedy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turn-your-radio-on-the-stories-behind-gospel-music-s-all-time-greatest-songs-by-ace-collins--65327190https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turn Your Radio On: The Stories Behind Gospel Music's All-Time Greatest Songs Author: Ace Collins Narrator: Eric Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 2, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Turn Your Radio On tells the fascinating stories behind gospel music's most unforgettable songs, including 'Amazing Grace,' 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic,' 'He Touched Me,' 'I'll Fly Away,' 'Were You There?' and many more. These are the songs that have shaped our faith and brought us joy. You'll find out: What famous song traces back to a sailor's desperate prayer, What Bill Gaither tune was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1969 -- and won a Grammy, What song was born during a carriage ride through Washington, D.C., at the onset of the Civil War. Turn Your radio On is an inspiring journey through the songs that are part of the roots of our faith today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154839Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turn Your Radio On: The Stories Behind Gospel Music's All-Time Greatest Songs Author: Ace Collins Narrator: Eric Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turn Your Radio On: The Stories Behind Gospel Music's All-Time Greatest Songs Author: Ace Collins Narrator: Eric Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 2, 2010 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Turn Your Radio On tells the fascinating stories behind gospel music's most unforgettable songs, including 'Amazing Grace,' 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic,' 'He Touched Me,' 'I'll Fly Away,' 'Were You There?' and many more. These are the songs that have shaped our faith and brought us joy. You'll find out: What famous song traces back to a sailor's desperate prayer, What Bill Gaither tune was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1969 -- and won a Grammy, What song was born during a carriage ride through Washington, D.C., at the onset of the Civil War. Turn Your radio On is an inspiring journey through the songs that are part of the roots of our faith today.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wait-wait-don-t-tell-me-famous-people-who-returned-our-calls-celebrity-highlights-from-the-oddly-informative-news-quiz-by-npr--65327114https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz Author: NPR Narrator: Carl Kasell, Peter Sagal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 1, 2009 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular “Not My Job” segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show. Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s dumbest news against some of the best and brightest—panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (“Ask Amy”), Atlantic Monthly journalist P.J. O’Rourke, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, and other know-it-alls. Always a high point of the show, “Not My Job” features a celebrity guest who must answer questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. Guests must also contend with not-so-helpful interjections from host Peter Sagal and the panelists, with hilarious results. Comedians Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) and Denis Leary (Rescue Me), actors Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Carrie Fisher, musicians Mavis Staples and Moby, Southern cook and restaurateur Paula Deen, and high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Man on Wire) are just a few of the stars who find themselves under the heat of the Not My Job spotlight.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199145Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz Author: NPR Narrator: Carl...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz Author: NPR Narrator: Carl Kasell, Peter Sagal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 1, 2009 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular “Not My Job” segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show. Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s dumbest news against some of the best and brightest—panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and radio anomaly Tom Bodett, syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson (“Ask Amy”), Atlantic Monthly journalist P.J. O’Rourke, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, and other know-it-alls. Always a high point of the show, “Not My Job” features a celebrity guest who must answer questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise. Guests must also contend with not-so-helpful interjections from host Peter Sagal and the panelists, with hilarious results. Comedians Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) and Denis Leary (Rescue Me), actors Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Carrie Fisher, musicians Mavis Staples and Moby, Southern cook and restaurateur Paula Deen, and high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Man on Wire) are just a few of the stars who find themselves under the heat of the Not My Job spotlight.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-family-of-mine-what-it-was-like-growing-up-gotti-by-victoria-gotti--65327186https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti Author: Victoria Gotti Narrator: Victoria Gotti Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 29, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti Dynasty—Told by Their Most Famous Daughter Victoria Gotti never intended to reveal the inside story of the Gotti household—the day-to-day life of a family that has sparked scandalous rumors and sensational headlines for decades. But with the pressing need to finally set the record straight came the realization that only she can do so, once and for all. Daughter to the late John Gotti, sister to John A. “Junior” Gotti and three other siblings, single mother to three sons with whom she shared reality television stardom on Growing Up Gotti, an outspoken columnist and bestselling author, Victoria Gotti delivers a candid, colorful, and brutally honest family portrait that reads like a confidential file, filled with deeply personal reflections, bombshell revelations, and stunning insider secrets. The explosive memoir that captures the Gottis as they are—unvarnished, raw, and real—This Family of Mine is the essential chronicle in the ultimate American family saga.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151662Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti Author: Victoria Gotti Narrator: Victoria Gotti Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti Author: Victoria Gotti Narrator: Victoria Gotti Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 29, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti Dynasty—Told by Their Most Famous Daughter Victoria Gotti never intended to reveal the inside story of the Gotti household—the day-to-day life of a family that has sparked scandalous rumors and sensational headlines for decades. But with the pressing need to finally set the record straight came the realization that only she can do so, once and for all. Daughter to the late John Gotti, sister to John A. “Junior” Gotti and three other siblings, single mother to three sons with whom she shared reality television stardom on Growing Up Gotti, an outspoken columnist and bestselling author, Victoria Gotti delivers a candid, colorful, and brutally honest family portrait that reads like a confidential file, filled with deeply personal reflections, bombshell revelations, and stunning insider secrets. The explosive memoir that captures the Gottis as they are—unvarnished, raw, and real—This Family of Mine is the essential chronicle in the ultimate American family saga.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dude-abides-the-gospel-according-to-the-coen-brothers-by-cathleen-falsani--65327221https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers Author: Cathleen Falsani Narrator: Allen Secher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye. Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani is the perfect guide for Coen fans, inviting them to take a deeper look at the popular films, from their debut Blood Simple to the recent Burn After Reading and all the strange and wonderful films in between. Falsani looks at the deeper meanings that can be mined from each quirky and enduring Coen film, including such cult favorites as Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men. With a journalist's keen analysis, she unpacks the theological, mythological, ethical, and philosophical content. Readers will discover that the critically acclaimed Coen brothers speak to eternal questions with darkly intelligent humor. Coen fans, churched and unchurched of all faiths or none, will find in this book a spirited, thoughtful conversation with a good friend (who happens to be a film buff). Readers will appreciate this examination of the intersection of popular culture and spirituality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155451Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers Author: Cathleen Falsani Narrator: Allen Secher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers Author: Cathleen Falsani Narrator: Allen Secher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye. Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani is the perfect guide for Coen fans, inviting them to take a deeper look at the popular films, from their debut Blood Simple to the recent Burn After Reading and all the strange and wonderful films in between. Falsani looks at the deeper meanings that can be mined from each quirky and enduring Coen film, including such cult favorites as Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and No Country for Old Men. With a journalist's keen analysis, she unpacks the theological, mythological, ethical, and philosophical content. Readers will discover that the critically acclaimed Coen brothers speak to eternal questions with darkly intelligent humor. Coen fans, churched and unchurched of all faiths or none, will find in this book a spirited, thoughtful conversation with a good friend (who happens to be a film buff). Readers will appreciate this examination of the intersection of popular culture and spirituality.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/npr-favorite-driveway-moments-radio-stories-that-won-t-let-you-go-by-npr--65327098https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NPR Favorite Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go Author: NPR Narrator: Ensemble Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hosts and listeners select their favorite stories from the National Public Radio archives, celebrating life, love, hope—and cookies. Every NPR listener has had at least one “driveway moment” and probably more. You’re so captivated by a story on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, News & Notes, or another NPR program that you stay in the car to hear it through—even if you've arrived at your own driveway. This eclectic collection gathers all-time favorites, including some suggested by listeners themselves. These literate, intelligent, profoundly touching stories are worth hearing over and over again, and now you don’t have to stay in your car.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199149Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NPR Favorite Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go Author: NPR Narrator: Ensemble Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NPR Favorite Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go Author: NPR Narrator: Ensemble Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hosts and listeners select their favorite stories from the National Public Radio archives, celebrating life, love, hope—and cookies. Every NPR listener has had at least one “driveway moment” and probably more. You’re so captivated by a story on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, News & Notes, or another NPR program that you stay in the car to hear it through—even if you've arrived at your own driveway. This eclectic collection gathers all-time favorites, including some suggested by listeners themselves. These literate, intelligent, profoundly touching stories are worth hearing over and over again, and now you don’t have to stay in your car.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/born-round-the-secret-history-of-a-full-time-eater-by-frank-bruni--65327088https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater Author: Frank Bruni Narrator: Frank Bruni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend and enemy both, his jitters focused primarily on whether he'd finally made some sense of that relationship. A captivating story of his unpredictable journalistic odyssey as well as his lifelong love-hate affair with food, Born Round will speak to everyone who's ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband. ']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201215Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater Author: Frank Bruni Narrator: Frank Bruni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater Author: Frank Bruni Narrator: Frank Bruni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend and enemy both, his jitters focused primarily on whether he'd finally made some sense of that relationship. A captivating story of his unpredictable journalistic odyssey as well as his lifelong love-hate affair with food, Born Round will speak to everyone who's ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband. ']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/joe-marilyn-a-memory-of-love-by-roger-kahn--65327214https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love Author: Roger Kahn Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was America’s blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didn’t work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage. Joe & Marilyn is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the field, but vulnerable and intensely human off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, “She doesn’t need a husband. She needs salvation.” After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead finding a poised and graying man—'a little shy, like me'—impeccably tailored and financially secure. When they married in 1954, reporters called them “Mr. and Mrs. America.” But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He wanted a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine months. In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart friend. But even he could not rescue her. In the end all that was left for him was to plan her funeral. He barred some of Hollywood’s most famous names. Why? 'Because they killed her,' he told a friend.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148060Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love Author: Roger Kahn Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love Author: Roger Kahn Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 15, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was America’s blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didn’t work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage. Joe & Marilyn is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the field, but vulnerable and intensely human off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, “She doesn’t need a husband. She needs salvation.” After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead finding a poised and graying man—'a little shy, like me'—impeccably tailored and financially secure. When they married in 1954, reporters called them “Mr. and Mrs. America.” But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He wanted a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine months. In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart friend. But even he could not rescue her. In the end all that was left for him was to plan her funeral. He barred some of Hollywood’s most famous names. Why? 'Because they killed her,' he told a friend.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/body-with-soul-slash-sugar-cut-cholesterol-and-get-a-jump-on-your-best-health-ever-by-randy-jackson--65327049https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body with Soul: Slash Sugar, Cut Cholesterol, and Get a Jump on Your Best Health Ever Author: Randy Jackson Narrator: Randy Jackson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 2, 2008 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201785Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body with Soul: Slash Sugar, Cut Cholesterol, and Get a Jump on Your Best Health Ever Author: Randy Jackson Narrator: Randy Jackson Format: Abridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body with Soul: Slash Sugar, Cut Cholesterol, and Get a Jump on Your Best Health Ever Author: Randy Jackson Narrator: Randy Jackson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 2, 2008 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-world-in-six-songs-how-the-musical-brain-created-human-nature-by-daniel-j-levitin--65327070https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Author: Daniel J. Levitin Narrator: Daniel J. Levitin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 19, 2008 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times)   Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.   Dr. Levitin identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species.   Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202652Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Author: Daniel J. Levitin Narrator: Daniel J. Levitin Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Author: Daniel J. Levitin Narrator: Daniel J. Levitin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 19, 2008 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times)   Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.   Dr. Levitin identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species.   Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tom-cruise-an-unauthorized-biography-by-andrew-morton--65327132https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: John Hinch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 2006 Forbes magazine ranked Tom Cruise as the most powerful celebrity in the world. With three Golden Globe awards, three Academy Award nominations, and 27 films with an average box office gross of nearly $100 million, People Magazine's choice for the 'Sexest Man Alive' in 1990 is unquestionably one of the biggest movie stars of our time. He has also become one of the most controversial, for his outspoken championship of Scientology, for his criticism of Brooke Shields for turning to the 'Nazi science' of psychiatry for help with postpartum depression, and for the time in 2005 when he jumped on Oprah Winfrey's couch proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes. But for all the headlines and the rumors swirling around him, the real Tom Cruise has remained surprisingly hidden—until now. For two years, acclaimed investigative journalist Andrew Morton has been uncovering the true story of Tom Cruise—from his days as bullied 'little Tommy Mapother,' to his early stardom, to his romances and his increasingly public involvement in the world of Scientology. With new sources and exclusive interviews, Morton brings us never-seen photos and never-heard revelations about the private, sometimes shocking world of Tom Cruise.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191440Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: John Hinch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: John Hinch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 2006 Forbes magazine ranked Tom Cruise as the most powerful celebrity in the world. With three Golden Globe awards, three Academy Award nominations, and 27 films with an average box office gross of nearly $100 million, People Magazine's choice for the 'Sexest Man Alive' in 1990 is unquestionably one of the biggest movie stars of our time. He has also become one of the most controversial, for his outspoken championship of Scientology, for his criticism of Brooke Shields for turning to the 'Nazi science' of psychiatry for help with postpartum depression, and for the time in 2005 when he jumped on Oprah Winfrey's couch proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes. But for all the headlines and the rumors swirling around him, the real Tom Cruise has remained surprisingly hidden—until now. For two years, acclaimed investigative journalist Andrew Morton has been uncovering the true story of Tom Cruise—from his days as bullied 'little Tommy Mapother,' to his early stardom, to his romances and his increasingly public involvement in the world of Scientology. With new sources and exclusive interviews, Morton brings us never-seen photos and never-heard revelations about the private, sometimes shocking world of Tom Cruise.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sharper-your-knife-the-less-you-cry-love-laughter-and-tears-at-the-world-s-most-famous-cooking-school-by-kathleen-flinn--65327075https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School Author: Kathleen Flinn Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Read Kathleen Flinn's posts on the Penguin Blog. This is the funny and inspiring account of Kathleen Flinn’s struggle in a stew of hot-tempered chefs, competitive classmates, her own “wretchedly inadequate” French, and the basics of French cuisine. Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old middle manager trapped on the corporate ladder—until her boss eliminated her job. So she cashed in her savings and moved to Paris to pursue her lifelong dream of attending the venerable Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. Fans of Julie & Julia and the late Julia Child will be richly rewarded by this vibrant tale of self-discovery, transformation, and ultimately love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201436Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School Author: Kathleen Flinn Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School Author: Kathleen Flinn Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Read Kathleen Flinn's posts on the Penguin Blog. This is the funny and inspiring account of Kathleen Flinn’s struggle in a stew of hot-tempered chefs, competitive classmates, her own “wretchedly inadequate” French, and the basics of French cuisine. Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old middle manager trapped on the corporate ladder—until her boss eliminated her job. So she cashed in her savings and moved to Paris to pursue her lifelong dream of attending the venerable Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. Fans of Julie & Julia and the late Julia Child will be richly rewarded by this vibrant tale of self-discovery, transformation, and ultimately love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-starbucks-saved-my-life-a-son-of-privilege-learns-to-live-like-everyone-else-by-michael-gates-gill--65327048https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else Author: Michael Gates Gill Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 20, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water. But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person. Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and, thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201466Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else Author: Michael Gates Gill Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else Author: Michael Gates Gill Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 20, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water. But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person. Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and, thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/do-you-12-laws-to-access-the-power-in-you-to-achieve-happiness-and-success-by-russell-simmons-chris-morrow--65327051https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success Author: Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow Narrator: Black Ice Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Since rising out of the New York City streets over 25 years ago, Russell Simmons has helped create such groundbreaking ventures as Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam. Russell might have helped introduce hip-hop to the world, but he credits his success to his belief in a strong set of principles—or laws. In 12 straightforward steps, Russell reveals a path that can be followed by anyone struggling to realize their dreams. Russell’s laws stem from the belief that it’s impossible to receive any sort of lasting success from the world without giving something of lasting value to the world first. Blending business insight, universal spiritual truths, and an inspired sense of purpose, Do You! crosses the lines of age, race, and background, with wisdom that will lift you up and motivate you to pursue your vision.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203088Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success Author: Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow Narrator: Black Ice Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success Author: Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow Narrator: Black Ice Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 24, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Since rising out of the New York City streets over 25 years ago, Russell Simmons has helped create such groundbreaking ventures as Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam. Russell might have helped introduce hip-hop to the world, but he credits his success to his belief in a strong set of principles—or laws. In 12 straightforward steps, Russell reveals a path that can be followed by anyone struggling to realize their dreams. Russell’s laws stem from the belief that it’s impossible to receive any sort of lasting success from the world without giving something of lasting value to the world first. Blending business insight, universal spiritual truths, and an inspired sense of purpose, Do You! crosses the lines of age, race, and background, with wisdom that will lift you up and motivate you to pursue your vision.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-is-a-mix-tape-life-and-loss-one-song-at-a-time-by-rob-sheffield--65327229https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 2, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman   Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head—the one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life.   Praise for Love is a Mixtape   “A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic.”—Entertainment Weekly   “The finest lines ever written about rock ‘n’ roll . . . Like that song on the radio, every word of Rob’s book is true. Love is a mix tape.”—Rolling Stone   “Many of us use pop culture as a mirror of our emotional lives, but Sheffield happily walks right through the looking glass.”—Los Angeles Times   “Sheffield writes with such aching remembering, you feel like you are invading his privacy . . . and it’s the truth of those details that make this memoir so touching.”—Newsweek]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157627Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 2, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman   Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head—the one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life.   Praise for Love is a Mixtape   “A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic.”—Entertainment Weekly   “The finest lines ever written about rock ‘n’ roll . . . Like that song on the radio, every word of Rob’s book is true. Love is a mix tape.”—Rolling Stone   “Many of us use pop culture as a mirror of our emotional lives, but Sheffield happily walks right through the looking glass.”—Los Angeles Times   “Sheffield writes with such aching remembering, you feel like you are invading his privacy . . . and it’s the truth of those details that make this memoir so touching.”—Newsweek]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/catching-the-big-fish-meditation-consciousness-and-creativity-by-david-lynch--65327061https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity Author: David Lynch Narrator: David Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48 minutes Release date: December 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this 'unexpected delight,'* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. —from Catching the Big Fish]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202871Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity Author: David Lynch Narrator: David Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity Author: David Lynch Narrator: David Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48 minutes Release date: December 28, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this 'unexpected delight,'* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. —from Catching the Big Fish]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walt-disney-the-triumph-of-the-american-imagination-by-neal-gabler--65327226https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination Author: Neal Gabler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 33 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and USA Today Biography of the Year]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157983Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination Author: Neal Gabler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 33 hours 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination Author: Neal Gabler Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 33 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and USA Today Biography of the Year]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lessons-in-becoming-myself-by-ellen-burstyn--65327076https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons in Becoming Myself Author: Ellen Burstyn Narrator: Ellen Burstyn Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 24, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee. By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just as many name changes and spiritual paths. Theater legend Moss Hart called her 'a natural' but Ellen Burstyn was still trying to discover who she was. This is the graceful story of a personal and professional quest, a life-long journey-by turns triumphant and terrifying, tragic and funny, thoughtful and illuminating.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201221Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons in Becoming Myself Author: Ellen Burstyn Narrator: Ellen Burstyn Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons in Becoming Myself Author: Ellen Burstyn Narrator: Ellen Burstyn Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 24, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee. By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just as many name changes and spiritual paths. Theater legend Moss Hart called her 'a natural' but Ellen Burstyn was still trying to discover who she was. This is the graceful story of a personal and professional quest, a life-long journey-by turns triumphant and terrifying, tragic and funny, thoughtful and illuminating.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/enchantment-the-life-of-audrey-hepburn-by-donald-spoto--65327177https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Author: Donald Spoto Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 19, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: While her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace, this poignant, funny and deeply moving biography, reveals the private Audrey Hepburn and invites readers to fall in love with her all over again.   Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. But despite her international fame and her tireless efforts on behalf of UNICEF, Audrey was also known for her intense privacy. With unprecedented access to studio archives, friends and colleagues who knew and loved Audrey, bestselling author Donald Spoto provides an intimate and moving account of this beautiful, elusive and talented woman. Tracing her astonishing rise to stardom, from her harrowing childhood in Nazi-controlled Holland during World War II to her years as a struggling ballet dancer in London and her Tony Award–winning Broadway debut in Gigi, Spoto illuminates the origins of Audrey’s tenacious spirit and fiercely passionate nature. She would go on to star in some of the most popular movies of the twentieth century, including Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, The Nun’s Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. A friend and inspiration to renowned designer Hubert de Givenchy, Audrey also emerged as a fashion icon and her influence on women’s fashion virtually unparalleled to this day. Behind the glamorous public persona, Audrey was a different and deeper person and a woman who craved love and affection. Donald Spoto offers remarkable insights into her professional and personal relationships with her two husbands, and with celebrities such as Gregory Peck, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Robert Anderson, Cary Grant, Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney and Ben Gazzara. The turbulent romances of her youth, her profound sympathy for the plight of hungry children, and the thrills and terrors of motherhood prepared Audrey for the final chapter in her life, as she devoted herself entirely to the charity efforts of an organization that had once come to her rescue at the end of the war: UNICEF.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159494Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Author: Donald Spoto Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Author: Donald Spoto Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 19, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: While her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace, this poignant, funny and deeply moving biography, reveals the private Audrey Hepburn and invites readers to fall in love with her all over again.   Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. But despite her international fame and her tireless efforts on behalf of UNICEF, Audrey was also known for her intense privacy. With unprecedented access to studio archives, friends and colleagues who knew and loved Audrey, bestselling author Donald Spoto provides an intimate and moving account of this beautiful, elusive and talented woman. Tracing her astonishing rise to stardom, from her harrowing childhood in Nazi-controlled Holland during World War II to her years as a struggling ballet dancer in London and her Tony Award–winning Broadway debut in Gigi, Spoto illuminates the origins of Audrey’s tenacious spirit and fiercely passionate nature. She would go on to star in some of the most popular movies of the twentieth century, including Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, The Nun’s Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. A friend and inspiration to renowned designer Hubert de Givenchy, Audrey also emerged as a fashion icon and her influence on women’s fashion virtually unparalleled to this day. Behind the glamorous public persona, Audrey was a different and deeper person and a woman who craved love and affection. Donald Spoto offers remarkable insights into her professional and personal relationships with her two husbands, and with celebrities such as Gregory Peck, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Robert Anderson, Cary Grant, Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney and Ben Gazzara. The turbulent romances of her youth, her profound sympathy for the plight of hungry children, and the thrills and terrors of motherhood prepared Audrey for the final chapter in her life, as she devoted herself entirely to the charity efforts of an organization that had once come to her rescue at the end of the war: UNICEF.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-interrupted-the-unfinished-monologue-by-spalding-gray--65327150https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue Author: Spalding Gray Narrator: Sam Shepard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 30, 2006 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004. Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001, which fractured his skull and crushed his hip. It sent Gray into a deep and unremitting depression. But the fact that Spalding had begun performing a new piece in October of last year gave his friends and family reason to hope that he was emerging from his despair. The monologue recounts the story of the accident and Gray's hospitalization in Ireland with gallows humor: 'The following day I slipped into a depression and I didn't know whether to tell the Irish about it, whether they would acknowledge this depression. I mean, does a fish know it's swimming in water? It's indigenous to the rainy culture.' The last time Gray performed his work-in-progress 'Life Interrupted' at PS 122, he also read a short story called 'The Anniversary,' about the afternoon he spent with young Theo at the Carousel in Central Park on the tenth anniversary of the day he met his wife, Kathie Russo. Like the unfinished monologue, this piece is also much darker than Gray's early work. The third piece in this collection is a very short, remarkably poignant letter Spalding wrote about the terrorist attacks of September 11, titled 'Dear New York City.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191535Tue, 30 May 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue Author: Spalding Gray Narrator: Sam Shepard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue Author: Spalding Gray Narrator: Sam Shepard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 30, 2006 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Life Interrupted was the monologue that Spalding Gray was working on when he died in the early winter of 2004. Famous for his often manic and always humorous monologues, Gray was, by the late 1990's, in a happy marriage living in Long Island, doing yoga every day. But his life became unhinged after a devastating car accident in Ireland in 2001, which fractured his skull and crushed his hip. It sent Gray into a deep and unremitting depression. But the fact that Spalding had begun performing a new piece in October of last year gave his friends and family reason to hope that he was emerging from his despair. The monologue recounts the story of the accident and Gray's hospitalization in Ireland with gallows humor: 'The following day I slipped into a depression and I didn't know whether to tell the Irish about it, whether they would acknowledge this depression. I mean, does a fish know it's swimming in water? It's indigenous to the rainy culture.' The last time Gray performed his work-in-progress 'Life Interrupted' at PS 122, he also read a short story called 'The Anniversary,' about the afternoon he spent with young Theo at the Carousel in Central Park on the tenth anniversary of the day he met his wife, Kathie Russo. Like the unfinished monologue, this piece is also much darker than Gray's early work. The third piece in this collection is a very short, remarkably poignant letter Spalding wrote about the terrorist attacks of September 11, titled 'Dear New York City.']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tao-of-willie-a-guide-to-the-happiness-in-your-heart-by-turk-pipkin-willie-nelson--65327060https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart Author: Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 9, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 26 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own voice?the gentle but unmistakably honest sound that has made him an American icon. Now the master of harmonization has created a guide to finding harmony in everyday life. Featuring vignettes from each chapter of his seventy-plus years (along with plenty of his favorite jokes), The Tao of Willie captures his views on money, love, war, religion, cowboys, and other essential Willie topics.Loosely based on the principles of the Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Cheng, which Willie has admired and followed for much of his adult life, this inspiring and entertaining collection of ?Willie wisdom? takes us from his roadhouse days, when he united redneck rockers with straitlaced country music fans, to the mega-sized benefit concerts and environmentalism that define his boundless heart. In the spirit of his fellow Texan Harvey Penick?s Little Red Book, Willie?s timeless insights sparkle with clarity: It?s like having a one-on-one conversation with the sage himself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202936Tue, 09 May 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart Author: Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart Author: Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 9, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 26 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own voice?the gentle but unmistakably honest sound that has made him an American icon. Now the master of harmonization has created a guide to finding harmony in everyday life. Featuring vignettes from each chapter of his seventy-plus years (along with plenty of his favorite jokes), The Tao of Willie captures his views on money, love, war, religion, cowboys, and other essential Willie topics.Loosely based on the principles of the Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Cheng, which Willie has admired and followed for much of his adult life, this inspiring and entertaining collection of ?Willie wisdom? takes us from his roadhouse days, when he united redneck rockers with straitlaced country music fans, to the mega-sized benefit concerts and environmentalism that define his boundless heart. In the spirit of his fellow Texan Harvey Penick?s Little Red Book, Willie?s timeless insights sparkle with clarity: It?s like having a one-on-one conversation with the sage himself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/desperate-networks-by-bill-carter--65327201https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Desperate Networks Author: Bill Carter Narrator: Dean Olsher Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 2, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such a cutthroat business. In a time of sweeping media change, the four major networks struggle for the attention of American viewers increasingly distracted by cable, video games, and the Internet. Behind boardroom doors, tempers flare in the search for hit shows, which often get on the air purely by accident. The fierce competition creates a pressure-cooker environment where anything can happen . . . NBC’s fall from grace—Once the undisputed king of prime time, NBC plunged from first place to last place in the ratings in the course of a single season. What will be the price of that collapse—and who will pay it? CBS’s slow and steady race to the top—Unlike NBC, CBS, under the leadership of CEO, Leslie Moonves, engineered one of the most spectacular turnarounds in television history. But in this ruthless world, you’re only as good as last week’s ratings . . . . ABC’s surprising resurrection—Lost and Desperate Housewives—have brought ABC the kind of success it could only dream of in the past. So why don’t the executives responsible for those hits work there any more? The End of the News As We Know It—In a stunningly short period of time, all three of the major network news anchors—Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings—signed off, leaving executives scrambling for a way to keep network news relevant in an era of 24/7 information. Crazy Like Fox—They’re outrageous, unconventional, and occasionally off-putting, but more and more people are watching Fox shows. Most of all they keep watching American Idol. How did Simon Cowell snooker himself into a huge payday? Stay tuned . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160060Tue, 02 May 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Desperate Networks Author: Bill Carter Narrator: Dean Olsher Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 2, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Desperate Networks Author: Bill Carter Narrator: Dean Olsher Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 2, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such a cutthroat business. In a time of sweeping media change, the four major networks struggle for the attention of American viewers increasingly distracted by cable, video games, and the Internet. Behind boardroom doors, tempers flare in the search for hit shows, which often get on the air purely by accident. The fierce competition creates a pressure-cooker environment where anything can happen . . . NBC’s fall from grace—Once the undisputed king of prime time, NBC plunged from first place to last place in the ratings in the course of a single season. What will be the price of that collapse—and who will pay it? CBS’s slow and steady race to the top—Unlike NBC, CBS, under the leadership of CEO, Leslie Moonves, engineered one of the most spectacular turnarounds in television history. But in this ruthless world, you’re only as good as last week’s ratings . . . . ABC’s surprising resurrection—Lost and Desperate Housewives—have brought ABC the kind of success it could only dream of in the past. So why don’t the executives responsible for those hits work there any more? The End of the News As We Know It—In a stunningly short period of time, all three of the major network news anchors—Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings—signed off, leaving executives scrambling for a way to keep network news relevant in an era of 24/7 information. Crazy Like Fox—They’re outrageous, unconventional, and occasionally off-putting, but more and more people are watching Fox shows. Most of all they keep watching American Idol. How did Simon Cowell snooker himself into a huge payday? Stay tuned . . .]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-michael-jackson-by-margo-jefferson--65327218https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Michael Jackson Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Andrea Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson’s rise and fall? In On Michael Jackson—an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis—Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a “What Is It”? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the “chitlin’ circuit” inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson’s celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become “Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,” while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson’s presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160214Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Michael Jackson Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Andrea Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Michael Jackson Author: Margo Jefferson Narrator: Andrea Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson’s rise and fall? In On Michael Jackson—an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis—Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a “What Is It”? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the “chitlin’ circuit” inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson’s celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become “Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,” while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson’s presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-judgment-of-paris-the-revolutionary-decade-that-gave-the-world-impressionism-by-ross-king--65327148https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism Author: Ross King Narrator: Tristan Layton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas, would at times resemble a battlefield; and, as Ross King reveals, Impressionism would reorder both history and culture as it resonated around the world. The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions—the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874—set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. A tale of many artists, it revolves around the lives of two, described as 'the two poles of art'—Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel lives, illuminated by their legendary supporters and critics—Zola, Delacroix, Courbet, Baudelaire, Whistler, Monet, Hugo, Degas, and many more—Ross King shows that their contest was not just about Art, it was about competing visions of a rapidly changing world. With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191557Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism Author: Ross King Narrator: Tristan Layton Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism Author: Ross King Narrator: Tristan Layton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas, would at times resemble a battlefield; and, as Ross King reveals, Impressionism would reorder both history and culture as it resonated around the world. The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions—the scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874—set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. A tale of many artists, it revolves around the lives of two, described as 'the two poles of art'—Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel lives, illuminated by their legendary supporters and critics—Zola, Delacroix, Courbet, Baudelaire, Whistler, Monet, Hugo, Degas, and many more—Ross King shows that their contest was not just about Art, it was about competing visions of a rapidly changing world. With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-beatles-the-biography-by-bob-spitz--65327228https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatles: The Biography Author: Bob Spitz Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, Abridged Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now. The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents, Bob Spitz's The Beatles is the biography fans have been waiting for. Never before has a biography of musicians been so immersive and textured. We are there in the McCartney living room when Paul and John learn to write songs together; backstage the night Ringo takes over on drums; in seedy German strip clubs where George lies about his age so the band can perform; and at the Ed Sullivan Show as America discovers the joy and the madness. From Shea to San Francisco, through the London night, on to India, through marmalade skies, across the universe-all the way to a rooftop concert and one last moment of laughter and music. It is all here, the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, the magic never again to be repeated. Bob Spitz's masterpiece is, at long last, the biography the Beatles deserve.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151823Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatles: The Biography Author: Bob Spitz Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatles: The Biography Author: Bob Spitz Narrator: Alfred Molina Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, Abridged Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now. The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents, Bob Spitz's The Beatles is the biography fans have been waiting for. Never before has a biography of musicians been so immersive and textured. We are there in the McCartney living room when Paul and John learn to write songs together; backstage the night Ringo takes over on drums; in seedy German strip clubs where George lies about his age so the band can perform; and at the Ed Sullivan Show as America discovers the joy and the madness. From Shea to San Francisco, through the London night, on to India, through marmalade skies, across the universe-all the way to a rooftop concert and one last moment of laughter and music. It is all here, the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, the magic never again to be repeated. Bob Spitz's masterpiece is, at long last, the biography the Beatles deserve.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dean-and-me-a-love-story-by-jerry-lewis--65327197https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/warren-beatty-a-private-man-by-suzanne-finstad--65327173https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Warren Beatty: A Private Man Author: Suzanne Finstad Narrator: Suzanne Finstad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the Grass. When he started acting, Beatty kept secret the fact that actress Shirley MacLaine, already a star, was his older sister. Over time, he has cultivated a mystique, giving few interviews and instructing others not to talk about him. Until now. Through years of groundbreaking research, lauded biographer Suzanne Finstad gained unprecedented access to Beatty’s family, close friends, and film colleagues, including such luminaries in the arts and politics as Jane Fonda, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Caron, Robert Towne, Mike Nichols, and Senators John McCain, George McGovern, and Gary Hart. Weaving hundreds of these candid interviews, photographs from private albums, personal letters, diaries, and the previously unpublished papers of the late Natalie Wood and mentors such as directors Elia Kazan and George Stevens, playwrights Clifford Odets and William Inge, and agent Charles Feldman, Warren Beatty unveils the real Beatty—a complex, sensitive visionary torn between the “fairly puritanical, football-playing boy” from Virginia and his Hollywood playboy image. Finstad paints a rich, fascinating portrait of the secretive film legend, taking us back to the “unrealized genius” parents who molded arguably the most famous brother and sister in Hollywood history, tracing the family influences and events in Beatty’s past that directly inspired McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Ishtar, Dick Tracy, Bugsy, Love Affair, and Bulworth, and led to his political activism, culminating in a near-bid for the White House. Finstad constructs the definitive, myth-shattering account of Beatty’s evolution from Hollywood’s enfant terrible to producer of the revolutionary Bonnie and Clyde, launching him as the premier actor/director/writer/producer of his generation, the only person to twice earn Oscar nominations in all five major categories. Here also is the truth about Beatty the lover, setting the record straight on his storied relationships with such iconic actresses and beauties as Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Michelle Phillips, Diane Keaton, Isabelle Adjani, and Madonna. Finstad’s astute insights illuminate Beatty’s private struggle to attain happiness, his complicated bond with his sister, Shirley, and the deeper reasons why, at fifty-four, the archetypal bachelor married actress Annette Bening. Stunningly researched, engrossing, and exquisitely detailed, Warren Beatty: A Private Man gives us a new understanding of the enigmatic, fiercely intelligent star who embodies the American dream.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160339Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Warren Beatty: A Private Man Author: Suzanne Finstad Narrator: Suzanne Finstad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Warren Beatty: A Private Man Author: Suzanne Finstad Narrator: Suzanne Finstad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the earnestly handsome all-American boy in Splendor in the Grass. When he started acting, Beatty kept secret the fact that actress Shirley MacLaine, already a star, was his older sister. Over time, he has cultivated a mystique, giving few interviews and instructing others not to talk about him. Until now. Through years of groundbreaking research, lauded biographer Suzanne Finstad gained unprecedented access to Beatty’s family, close friends, and film colleagues, including such luminaries in the arts and politics as Jane Fonda, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Caron, Robert Towne, Mike Nichols, and Senators John McCain, George McGovern, and Gary Hart. Weaving hundreds of these candid interviews, photographs from private albums, personal letters, diaries, and the previously unpublished papers of the late Natalie Wood and mentors such as directors Elia Kazan and George Stevens, playwrights Clifford Odets and William Inge, and agent Charles Feldman, Warren Beatty unveils the real Beatty—a complex, sensitive visionary torn between the “fairly puritanical, football-playing boy” from Virginia and his Hollywood playboy image. Finstad paints a rich, fascinating portrait of the secretive film legend, taking us back to the “unrealized genius” parents who molded arguably the most famous brother and sister in Hollywood history, tracing the family influences and events in Beatty’s past that directly inspired McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Ishtar, Dick Tracy, Bugsy, Love Affair, and Bulworth, and led to his political activism, culminating in a near-bid for the White House. Finstad constructs the definitive, myth-shattering account of Beatty’s evolution from Hollywood’s enfant terrible to producer of the revolutionary Bonnie and Clyde, launching him as the premier actor/director/writer/producer of his generation, the only person to twice earn Oscar nominations in all five major categories. Here also is the truth about Beatty the lover, setting the record straight on his storied relationships with such iconic actresses and beauties as Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Michelle Phillips, Diane Keaton, Isabelle Adjani, and Madonna. Finstad’s astute insights illuminate Beatty’s private struggle to attain happiness, his complicated bond with his sister, Shirley, and the deeper reasons why, at fifty-four, the archetypal bachelor married actress Annette Bening. Stunningly researched, engrossing, and exquisitely detailed, Warren Beatty: A Private Man gives us a new understanding of the enigmatic, fiercely intelligent star who embodies the American dream.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/john-by-cynthia-lennon--65327172https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Author: Cynthia Lennon Narrator: Julian Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Extraordinary Story of a Man, a Legend and a Marriage When she was eighteen years old, a girl named Cynthia Powell met a boy named John Lennon and they fell in love. Their ten-year relationship coincided with the start of the Beatles phenomenon—from Liverpool’s dockside clubs to the dizzying worldwide fame that followed. And Cynthia Lennon, John’s first wife, was an integral part of the swirl of events that are now an indelible part of the history of rock and roll. In John, Cynthia recalls those times with the loving honesty of an insider, offering new and fascinating insights into the life of John Lennon and the early days of the Beatles. And with the perspective only years can provide she also tells the compelling story of her marriage to a man who was to become a music legend, a cultural hero and a defining figure of the twentieth century. Cynthia has seldom talked in any detail about her marriage and the painful events that followed John’s tragic assassination in 1980. Now she candidly reveals the good and the bad, the loving and the cruel sides of John. She tells of the breakdown of their marriage and the beginning of his relationship with Yoko Ono in more detail than has ever been disclosed before and documents the difficulties estrangement from John—and his subsequent death—brought for herself and their son, Julian. In John, Cynthia Lennon has created a vivid portrait of the 1960s, the Beatles and the man she never stopped loving. The time has come when I feel ready to tell the truth about John and me, our years together and the years since his death. There is so much that I have never said, so many incidents I have never spoken of and so many feelings I have never expressed: great love on one hand; pain, torment and humiliation on the other. Only I know what really happened between us, why we stayed together, why we parted and the price I have paid for being John’s wife. I want to tell the real story of the real John—the infuriating, lovable, sometimes cruel, funny, talented and needy man who made such an impact on the world. —From the Introduction]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160358Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Author: Cynthia Lennon Narrator: Julian Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Author: Cynthia Lennon Narrator: Julian Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Extraordinary Story of a Man, a Legend and a Marriage When she was eighteen years old, a girl named Cynthia Powell met a boy named John Lennon and they fell in love. Their ten-year relationship coincided with the start of the Beatles phenomenon—from Liverpool’s dockside clubs to the dizzying worldwide fame that followed. And Cynthia Lennon, John’s first wife, was an integral part of the swirl of events that are now an indelible part of the history of rock and roll. In John, Cynthia recalls those times with the loving honesty of an insider, offering new and fascinating insights into the life of John Lennon and the early days of the Beatles. And with the perspective only years can provide she also tells the compelling story of her marriage to a man who was to become a music legend, a cultural hero and a defining figure of the twentieth century. Cynthia has seldom talked in any detail about her marriage and the painful events that followed John’s tragic assassination in 1980. Now she candidly reveals the good and the bad, the loving and the cruel sides of John. She tells of the breakdown of their marriage and the beginning of his relationship with Yoko Ono in more detail than has ever been disclosed before and documents the difficulties estrangement from John—and his subsequent death—brought for herself and their son, Julian. In John, Cynthia Lennon has created a vivid portrait of the 1960s, the Beatles and the man she never stopped loving. The time has come when I feel ready to tell the truth about John and me, our years together and the years since his death. There is so much that I have never said, so many incidents I have never spoken of and so many feelings I have never expressed: great love on one hand; pain, torment and humiliation on the other. Only I know what really happened between us, why we stayed together, why we parted and the price I have paid for being John’s wife. I want to tell the real story of the real John—the infuriating, lovable, sometimes cruel, funny, talented and needy man who made such an impact on the world. —From the Introduction]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-have-your-dog-stuffed-and-other-things-i-ve-learned-by-alan-alda--65327234https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned Author: Alan Alda Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 13, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. “My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six,” begins Alda’s irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show-business ups and downs. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in Alda’s life, events that would make him what he is–if only he could survive them. From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist’s shop with a hideous expression on his face, and he learns that death can’t be undone, to the decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father, both personally and professionally, Alda learns the hard way that change, uncertainty, and transformation are what life is made of, and true happiness is found in embracing them. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345086Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned Author: Alan Alda Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned Author: Alan Alda Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 13, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. “My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six,” begins Alda’s irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. Yet Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show-business ups and downs. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only just begun to grow. It is the story of turning points in Alda’s life, events that would make him what he is–if only he could survive them. From the moment as a boy when his dead dog is returned from the taxidermist’s shop with a hideous expression on his face, and he learns that death can’t be undone, to the decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father, both personally and professionally, Alda learns the hard way that change, uncertainty, and transformation are what life is made of, and true happiness is found in embracing them. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, filled with curiosity about nature, good humor, and honesty, is the crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence and laughter than any Alda has ever played on the stage or screen.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-pieces-to-weight-once-upon-a-time-in-southside-queens-by-50-cent--65327231https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens Author: 50 Cent Narrator: J.D. Williams Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the New York Times bestseller From Pieces to Weight, rap mogul 50 Cent, a.k.a. Curtis Jackson, lifts the veil on his complicated life, from the murder of his mother when he was twelve, to hustling on the streets; from the assassination attempt that nearly finished him to his meteoric rise to the top of hip hop royalty. This violent and introspective memoir reveals not only 50 Cent's story but also the story of a generation of youth faced with hard choices and very few options. It is a tale of sacrifice, transformation, and redemption, but also one of hope, determination, and the power of self. Told in 50's unique voice, the narrative drips with the raw insight, street wisdom, and his struggle to survive at all costs—and behold the riches of the American Dream.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150765Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens Author: 50 Cent Narrator: J.D. Williams Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens Author: 50 Cent Narrator: J.D. Williams Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the New York Times bestseller From Pieces to Weight, rap mogul 50 Cent, a.k.a. Curtis Jackson, lifts the veil on his complicated life, from the murder of his mother when he was twelve, to hustling on the streets; from the assassination attempt that nearly finished him to his meteoric rise to the top of hip hop royalty. This violent and introspective memoir reveals not only 50 Cent's story but also the story of a generation of youth faced with hard choices and very few options. It is a tale of sacrifice, transformation, and redemption, but also one of hope, determination, and the power of self. Told in 50's unique voice, the narrative drips with the raw insight, street wisdom, and his struggle to survive at all costs—and behold the riches of the American Dream.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sinatra-the-life-by-robbyn-swan-anthony-summers--65327222https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinatra: The Life Author: Robbyn Swan, Anthony Summers Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 31, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled relationships with U.S. presidents. Exclusive breakthroughs include the discovery of how the Mafia connection began--in a remote Sicilian village--and moving interviews with his lovers. Never-before-published conversations with Ava Gardner get to the core of the tragic passion that dominated his life, came close to destroying him, and made his best work heartbreakingly personal. Sinatra delivers the full life story of a complex, flawed genius.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157872Tue, 31 May 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinatra: The Life Author: Robbyn Swan, Anthony Summers Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 23 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sinatra: The Life Author: Robbyn Swan, Anthony Summers Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 31, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled relationships with U.S. presidents. Exclusive breakthroughs include the discovery of how the Mafia connection began--in a remote Sicilian village--and moving interviews with his lovers. Never-before-published conversations with Ava Gardner get to the core of the tragic passion that dominated his life, came close to destroying him, and made his best work heartbreakingly personal. Sinatra delivers the full life story of a complex, flawed genius.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ponzi-s-scheme-the-true-story-of-a-financial-legend-by-mitchell-zuckoff--65327202https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 8, 2005 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance. It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form and raked in millions at his office in downtown Boston. Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing true story of the irresistible scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history–and uttered the first roar of the Roaring Twenties. Ponzi may have been a charlatan, but he was also a wonderfully likable man. His intentions were noble, his manners impeccable, his sales pitch enchanting. Born to a genteel Italian family, he immigrated to the United States with big dreams but no money. Only after he became hopelessly enamored of a stenographer named Rose Gnecco and persuaded her to marry him did Ponzi light on the means to make his dreams come true. His true motive was not greed but love. With rich narrative skill, Mitchell Zuckoff conjures up the feverish atmosphere of Boston during the weeks when Ponzi’s bubble grew bigger and bigger. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was taking in more than $2 million a week. And then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post. In Zuckoff's hands, Ponzi is no mere swindler; instead he is appealing and magnetic, a colorful and poignant figure, someone who struggled his whole life to attain great wealth and who sincerely believed–to the very end–that he could have made good on his investment promises if only he’d had enough time. Ponzi is a classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, and the unexpectedly moving story of a man who–for a fleeting, illusory moment–attained it all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159594Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 8, 2005 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance. It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form and raked in millions at his office in downtown Boston. Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing true story of the irresistible scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history–and uttered the first roar of the Roaring Twenties. Ponzi may have been a charlatan, but he was also a wonderfully likable man. His intentions were noble, his manners impeccable, his sales pitch enchanting. Born to a genteel Italian family, he immigrated to the United States with big dreams but no money. Only after he became hopelessly enamored of a stenographer named Rose Gnecco and persuaded her to marry him did Ponzi light on the means to make his dreams come true. His true motive was not greed but love. With rich narrative skill, Mitchell Zuckoff conjures up the feverish atmosphere of Boston during the weeks when Ponzi’s bubble grew bigger and bigger. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was taking in more than $2 million a week. And then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post. In Zuckoff's hands, Ponzi is no mere swindler; instead he is appealing and magnetic, a colorful and poignant figure, someone who struggled his whole life to attain great wealth and who sincerely believed–to the very end–that he could have made good on his investment promises if only he’d had enough time. Ponzi is a classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, and the unexpectedly moving story of a man who–for a fleeting, illusory moment–attained it all.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-goldie-a-lotus-grows-in-the-mud-by-goldie-hawn--65327121https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud Author: Goldie Hawn Narrator: Goldie Hawn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 10, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father’s spontaneity; her mother’s courage; and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in 1960s New York City, the phenomenon of TV’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, her Oscar-winning debut in Cactus Flower and Hollywood stardom. She writes intimately about the challenges of love, anger and fear, and the importance of compassion and integrity. She speaks openly about her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children; her faith, her curiosity for that which she doesn’t yet know, and her thirst for knowledge. Most of all, it is a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199309Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud Author: Goldie Hawn Narrator: Goldie Hawn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud Author: Goldie Hawn Narrator: Goldie Hawn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 10, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 43 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father’s spontaneity; her mother’s courage; and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in 1960s New York City, the phenomenon of TV’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, her Oscar-winning debut in Cactus Flower and Hollywood stardom. She writes intimately about the challenges of love, anger and fear, and the importance of compassion and integrity. She speaks openly about her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children; her faith, her curiosity for that which she doesn’t yet know, and her thirst for knowledge. Most of all, it is a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/learning-to-sing-hearing-the-music-in-your-life-by-allison-glock-clay-aiken--65327162https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/toast-the-story-of-a-boy-s-hunger-by-nigel-slater--65327044https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger Author: Nigel Slater Narrator: Nigel Slater Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 7, 2004 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits—we are transported…His mother is a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that would prove fatal. His father is a honey-and-crumpets man with an unpredictable temper. When he is widowed, Nigel's father takes on a housekeeper with social aspirations and a talent in the kitchen and the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his affections. As he slowly loses, Nigel finds a new outlet for his culinary gifts and we witness the birth of a lifelong passion for food. Nigel's likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses, form a fascinating backdrop to this exceptionally moving memoir of childhood, adolescence, and sexual awakening. With a new preface and glossary for American readers, this British bestseller and national award winner is sure to delight foodies and memoir enthusiasts on this side of the pond. Possessed of the subtlety and wit of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and the disarming frankness of Anthony Bourdain's page-turning Kitchen Confidential, Toast is a treat to be savored.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203090Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger Author: Nigel Slater Narrator: Nigel Slater Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger Author: Nigel Slater Narrator: Nigel Slater Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 7, 2004 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits—we are transported…His mother is a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that would prove fatal. His father is a honey-and-crumpets man with an unpredictable temper. When he is widowed, Nigel's father takes on a housekeeper with social aspirations and a talent in the kitchen and the following years become a heartbreaking cooking contest for his affections. As he slowly loses, Nigel finds a new outlet for his culinary gifts and we witness the birth of a lifelong passion for food. Nigel's likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses, form a fascinating backdrop to this exceptionally moving memoir of childhood, adolescence, and sexual awakening. With a new preface and glossary for American readers, this British bestseller and national award winner is sure to delight foodies and memoir enthusiasts on this side of the pond. Possessed of the subtlety and wit of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and the disarming frankness of Anthony Bourdain's page-turning Kitchen Confidential, Toast is a treat to be savored.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gasping-for-airtime-two-years-in-the-trenches-at-saturday-night-live-by-jay-mohr--65327154https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191751 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live Author: Jay Mohr Narrator: Jay Mohr Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 1, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of feverishly keeping pace with his talented cohorts, outmaneuvering the notorious vices that claimed the lives of other cast members, and struggling at all costs for the holy grail of late-night show business: airtime. In Gasping for Airtime, Jay offers an intimate account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live. He dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers and David Spade). Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this audio will appeal to both fans of Jay Mohr and to devotees of Saturday Night Live.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191751Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191751 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live Author: Jay Mohr Narrator: Jay Mohr Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191751 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live Author: Jay Mohr Narrator: Jay Mohr Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 1, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of feverishly keeping pace with his talented cohorts, outmaneuvering the notorious vices that claimed the lives of other cast members, and struggling at all costs for the holy grail of late-night show business: airtime. In Gasping for Airtime, Jay offers an intimate account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live. He dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers and David Spade). Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this audio will appeal to both fans of Jay Mohr and to devotees of Saturday Night Live.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whatever-you-say-i-am-the-life-and-times-of-eminem-by-anthony-bozza--65327220https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem Author: Anthony Bozza Narrator: Josh Hamilton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 21, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: does eminem matter? On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into heavy rotation on MTV. Who could have predicted that in a mere two years, Eminem would become the most reviled and controversial hip-hop figure ever? Or that twelve months after that, Eminem would sit firmly at the pinnacle of American celebrity, a Grammy winner many times over and the recipient of an Oscar. did eminem change or did america finally figure him out? Whatever You Say I Am attempts to answer this question and many more. Since their first meeting, Bozza has been given a level of access to Eminem that no other journalist has enjoyed. In Whatever You Say I Am, original, never-before-published text from Bozza’s interviews with Eminem are combined with the insight of numerous hip-hop figures, music critics, journalists, and members of the Eminem camp to look behind the mask of this enigmatic celebrity. With an eye toward Eminem’s place in American popular culture, Bozza creates a thoughtful portrait of one of the most successful artists of our time. This is so much more than a biography of a thoroughly well-documented life. It is a close-up look at a conflicted figure who has somehow spoken to the heart of America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160452Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem Author: Anthony Bozza Narrator: Josh Hamilton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem Author: Anthony Bozza Narrator: Josh Hamilton Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 21, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: does eminem matter? On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into heavy rotation on MTV. Who could have predicted that in a mere two years, Eminem would become the most reviled and controversial hip-hop figure ever? Or that twelve months after that, Eminem would sit firmly at the pinnacle of American celebrity, a Grammy winner many times over and the recipient of an Oscar. did eminem change or did america finally figure him out? Whatever You Say I Am attempts to answer this question and many more. Since their first meeting, Bozza has been given a level of access to Eminem that no other journalist has enjoyed. In Whatever You Say I Am, original, never-before-published text from Bozza’s interviews with Eminem are combined with the insight of numerous hip-hop figures, music critics, journalists, and members of the Eminem camp to look behind the mask of this enigmatic celebrity. With an eye toward Eminem’s place in American popular culture, Bozza creates a thoughtful portrait of one of the most successful artists of our time. This is so much more than a biography of a thoroughly well-documented life. It is a close-up look at a conflicted figure who has somehow spoken to the heart of America.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-life-after-the-white-house-by-barbara-bush--65327230https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reflections: Life After the White House Author: Barbara Bush Narrator: Barbara Bush Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 20, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “There is a myth in the United States—you’ve heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States...” —Barbara Bush Not since Abigail Adams has one woman been both the wife and mother of presidents. Barbara Bush’s prominent place in American history is matched only by her extraordinary popularity: Republicans and Democrats alike appreciate her wit, her compassion, and her devotion to her family. Dignified, loyal, and unpretentious, the former First Lady defied skeptics to become one of the most admired first ladies in history—and she remains a beloved public figure today. In this inspiring follow-up to her number-one bestselling memoir, Mrs. Bush covers the momentous eight years between President George H. W. Bush’s leaving office and President George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration. Reflections comprises Mrs. Bush’s diary entries, travelogues, family photographs, even secret recipes. She discusses her experiences in the White House, on the campaign trail, and in the public eye, as well as her own views about such controversial issues as her husband’s resignation from the NRA, the caning of an American student in Singapore, and—in her candid epilogue—her family’s reactions to September 11, 2001. Throughout, the extraordinary amount of love and pride Mrs. Bush feels for her husband, five children, and fourteen grandchildren is always clear. Reflections will delight Barbara Bush's millions of admirers with her touching anecdotes and personal revelations from the past decade of a full and fascinating life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151629Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reflections: Life After the White House Author: Barbara Bush Narrator: Barbara Bush Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reflections: Life After the White House Author: Barbara Bush Narrator: Barbara Bush Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 20, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “There is a myth in the United States—you’ve heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States...” —Barbara Bush Not since Abigail Adams has one woman been both the wife and mother of presidents. Barbara Bush’s prominent place in American history is matched only by her extraordinary popularity: Republicans and Democrats alike appreciate her wit, her compassion, and her devotion to her family. Dignified, loyal, and unpretentious, the former First Lady defied skeptics to become one of the most admired first ladies in history—and she remains a beloved public figure today. In this inspiring follow-up to her number-one bestselling memoir, Mrs. Bush covers the momentous eight years between President George H. W. Bush’s leaving office and President George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration. Reflections comprises Mrs. Bush’s diary entries, travelogues, family photographs, even secret recipes. She discusses her experiences in the White House, on the campaign trail, and in the public eye, as well as her own views about such controversial issues as her husband’s resignation from the NRA, the caning of an American student in Singapore, and—in her candid epilogue—her family’s reactions to September 11, 2001. Throughout, the extraordinary amount of love and pride Mrs. Bush feels for her husband, five children, and fourteen grandchildren is always clear. Reflections will delight Barbara Bush's millions of admirers with her touching anecdotes and personal revelations from the past decade of a full and fascinating life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cosmopolitan-a-bartender-s-life-by-toby-cecchini--65327149https://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: Arts & Entertainment 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 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease 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: Arts & Entertainment 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/out-on-a-leash-exploring-the-nature-of-reality-and-love-by-shirley-maclaine--65327182https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 2003 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From internationally bestselling author, beloved actress, and “one-of-a-kind wit” (Vanity Fair) Shirley MacLaine comes a brilliant, fun-loving, and inspiring story of unconditional love. Shirley MacLaine found perfect love—in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that was Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of absolute love, Terry succeeded in doing what no one before her ever had: slowing Shirley’s nomadic lifestyle and leading her home. Some of Shirley’s greatest pleasures included being with Terry on her New Mexico ranch or on a New York street, romping on the beach together, or sharing a long plane ride to a new location for making a film. With Terry by her side, Shirley was able to see the world in new ways she never thought possible. In this utterly charming book, told in both Shirley and Terry’s voices, Shirley explores how her beloved Terry provided a window for exploring the true nature of love and how to truly and fully live in the moment. Updated with a brand new ending, the book relates in deeply moving language Terry’s last days, and the joy Shirley felt when her bond with Terry proved unbreakable and Terry contacts her from the other side. A unique, witty, and ultimately wise memoir by one of the truly remarkable women of our time, Out on a Leash is the perfect gift for dog lovers and spiritual seekers everywhere.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151524Wed, 01 Oct 2003 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 2003 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From internationally bestselling author, beloved actress, and “one-of-a-kind wit” (Vanity Fair) Shirley MacLaine comes a brilliant, fun-loving, and inspiring story of unconditional love. Shirley MacLaine found perfect love—in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that was Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of absolute love, Terry succeeded in doing what no one before her ever had: slowing Shirley’s nomadic lifestyle and leading her home. Some of Shirley’s greatest pleasures included being with Terry on her New Mexico ranch or on a New York street, romping on the beach together, or sharing a long plane ride to a new location for making a film. With Terry by her side, Shirley was able to see the world in new ways she never thought possible. In this utterly charming book, told in both Shirley and Terry’s voices, Shirley explores how her beloved Terry provided a window for exploring the true nature of love and how to truly and fully live in the moment. Updated with a brand new ending, the book relates in deeply moving language Terry’s last days, and the joy Shirley felt when her bond with Terry proved unbreakable and Terry contacts her from the other side. A unique, witty, and ultimately wise memoir by one of the truly remarkable women of our time, Out on a Leash is the perfect gift for dog lovers and spiritual seekers everywhere.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-goomba-s-guide-to-life-by-charles-fleming-steven-r-schirripa--65327217https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Goomba's Guide to Life Author: Charles Fleming, Steven R. Schirripa Narrator: Steven R. Schirripa Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 23, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Attention would-be paesans: Can’t distinguish “gabagool” from “pasta fazool”? Not sure how to properly accessorize your track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase “go to the mattresses” make you sleepy? Now Steven R. Schirripa, The Sopranos’ own Bobby Bacala, exposes the inner mysteries of this unique Italian-American hybrid in A Goomba’s Guide to Life so that anyone can walk, talk, and live like a guy “from the neighborhood.” Über-goomba Steve Schirripa shows how being a goomba made him what he is today, offering lessons learned on his own journey from Bensonhurst to Vegas, and to his current gig as Bobby Bacala on one of TV’s most popular shows. Along the way, he shares secrets that will help you get in touch with your own inner goomba. You’ll learn what music to enjoy (Sinatra, yes; Snoop Dogg, no), what movies to watch (Raging Bull, yes; Titanic, never), which sports to follow (baseball is good; golf and tennis, fuhgeddaboudit), and even tips on goomba etiquette. Ever wonder how a real goomba gets the best seat in the house? (Hint: It involves tipping, jewelry, and intimidation.) Schirripa even includes goomba do’s and don’ts (never, ever criticize a goomba’s mother or her gravy; always wear more jewelry than you think you need). With knockout photographs of Schirripa and his compares, and insider information on how to think goomba, speak goomba, cook and eat goomba, and even how to behave at goomba weddings and funerals, A Goomba’s Guide to Life will show any wiseguy wannabe how to sing like a Soprano.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160692Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Goomba's Guide to Life Author: Charles Fleming, Steven R. Schirripa Narrator: Steven R. Schirripa Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Goomba's Guide to Life Author: Charles Fleming, Steven R. Schirripa Narrator: Steven R. Schirripa Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 23, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Attention would-be paesans: Can’t distinguish “gabagool” from “pasta fazool”? Not sure how to properly accessorize your track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase “go to the mattresses” make you sleepy? Now Steven R. Schirripa, The Sopranos’ own Bobby Bacala, exposes the inner mysteries of this unique Italian-American hybrid in A Goomba’s Guide to Life so that anyone can walk, talk, and live like a guy “from the neighborhood.” Über-goomba Steve Schirripa shows how being a goomba made him what he is today, offering lessons learned on his own journey from Bensonhurst to Vegas, and to his current gig as Bobby Bacala on one of TV’s most popular shows. Along the way, he shares secrets that will help you get in touch with your own inner goomba. You’ll learn what music to enjoy (Sinatra, yes; Snoop Dogg, no), what movies to watch (Raging Bull, yes; Titanic, never), which sports to follow (baseball is good; golf and tennis, fuhgeddaboudit), and even tips on goomba etiquette. Ever wonder how a real goomba gets the best seat in the house? (Hint: It involves tipping, jewelry, and intimidation.) Schirripa even includes goomba do’s and don’ts (never, ever criticize a goomba’s mother or her gravy; always wear more jewelry than you think you need). With knockout photographs of Schirripa and his compares, and insider information on how to think goomba, speak goomba, cook and eat goomba, and even how to behave at goomba weddings and funerals, A Goomba’s Guide to Life will show any wiseguy wannabe how to sing like a Soprano.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blind-faith-the-miraculous-journey-of-lula-hardaway-stevie-wonder-s-mother-by-dennis-love-stacy-brown--65327224https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother Author: Dennis Love, Stacy Brown Narrator: Viola Davis Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hardship, sacrifice, determination and ultimate triumph make up Blind Faith, the frank and compelling biography of Lula Hardaway, mother of superstar musician and singer Stevie Wonder. A motherless child born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, Lula was passed from relative to relative, unwanted and unloved. As a teenager she was sent to Chicago where she married a much older man who abused her and forced her to work as a prostitute. Determined to build a better life for her children, she eventually made her escape to Detroit. Although Stevland Judkins was blind virtually from birth, Lula noticed that this little boy impressed everyone with his outgoing personality, his intelligence, charm, and his incredible musical talent. Berry Gordy dubbed the boy Little Stevie Wonder and launched him into musical history when he signed Stevie to his Motown label. When Innervisions won a Grammy award for Album of the Year in 1973, Stevie Wonder refused to accept the award unless Lula walked with him to the podium where he proclaimed, 'her strength has led us to this place.' Indeed, it was Lula's drive and her willingness to sacrifice the now for the future that saw them through. Blind Faith is not only the story of the birth of a superstar, but a stirring testament to a mother's love]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150463Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother Author: Dennis Love, Stacy Brown Narrator: Viola Davis Format: Abridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother Author: Dennis Love, Stacy Brown Narrator: Viola Davis Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hardship, sacrifice, determination and ultimate triumph make up Blind Faith, the frank and compelling biography of Lula Hardaway, mother of superstar musician and singer Stevie Wonder. A motherless child born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, Lula was passed from relative to relative, unwanted and unloved. As a teenager she was sent to Chicago where she married a much older man who abused her and forced her to work as a prostitute. Determined to build a better life for her children, she eventually made her escape to Detroit. Although Stevland Judkins was blind virtually from birth, Lula noticed that this little boy impressed everyone with his outgoing personality, his intelligence, charm, and his incredible musical talent. Berry Gordy dubbed the boy Little Stevie Wonder and launched him into musical history when he signed Stevie to his Motown label. When Innervisions won a Grammy award for Album of the Year in 1973, Stevie Wonder refused to accept the award unless Lula walked with him to the podium where he proclaimed, 'her strength has led us to this place.' Indeed, it was Lula's drive and her willingness to sacrifice the now for the future that saw them through. Blind Faith is not only the story of the birth of a superstar, but a stirring testament to a mother's love]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hollywood-hulk-hogan-by-hulk-hogan--65327195https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Hulk Hogan Author: Hulk Hogan Narrator: Hulk Hogan Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You think you know Hollywood Hulk Hogan™? Brother, you don't know squat about me. Yeah, I'm the towering red-and-yellow warrior who revolutionized the wrestling business, the larger-than-life superhero who transformed an entire country into a horde of Hulkamaniacs™. I'm the guy who spit blood and breathed fire to help create an empire called World Wrestling Entertainment™. But it wasn't always like that. Once I was a fat kid named Terry Bollea watching legends like Dusty Rhodes and Superstar Billy Graham, never dreaming I'd be a professional wrestler myself one day. Find out what makes me cry like a baby and what makes my blood boil. Then tell me you know the man called Hollywood Hulk Hogan™. Join the Babe Ruth of wrestling on a gritty, no-holds-barred odyssey from his start in the barbaric wrestling arenas of the seventies through the humiliation of his involvement in federal steroid-abuse trials to the achievement of his greatest triumph yet. Along the way, lock up with the likes of Mr. T, Ted Turner, The Rock®...and of course, Vince McMahon™, head of World Wrestling Entertainment™.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151201Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Hulk Hogan Author: Hulk Hogan Narrator: Hulk Hogan Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2002...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Hulk Hogan Author: Hulk Hogan Narrator: Hulk Hogan Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: You think you know Hollywood Hulk Hogan™? Brother, you don't know squat about me. Yeah, I'm the towering red-and-yellow warrior who revolutionized the wrestling business, the larger-than-life superhero who transformed an entire country into a horde of Hulkamaniacs™. I'm the guy who spit blood and breathed fire to help create an empire called World Wrestling Entertainment™. But it wasn't always like that. Once I was a fat kid named Terry Bollea watching legends like Dusty Rhodes and Superstar Billy Graham, never dreaming I'd be a professional wrestler myself one day. Find out what makes me cry like a baby and what makes my blood boil. Then tell me you know the man called Hollywood Hulk Hogan™. Join the Babe Ruth of wrestling on a gritty, no-holds-barred odyssey from his start in the barbaric wrestling arenas of the seventies through the humiliation of his involvement in federal steroid-abuse trials to the achievement of his greatest triumph yet. Along the way, lock up with the likes of Mr. T, Ted Turner, The Rock®...and of course, Vince McMahon™, head of World Wrestling Entertainment™.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-definitive-biography-of-p-d-q-bach-by-peter-schickele--65327071https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach Author: Peter Schickele Narrator: Peter Schickele Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: October 22, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201874Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach Author: Peter Schickele Narrator: Peter Schickele Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach Author: Peter Schickele Narrator: Peter Schickele Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: October 22, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reagan-in-his-own-voice-by-martin-anderson-annelise-anderson-kiron-k-skinner--65327212https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reagan In His Own Voice Author: Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, Kiron K. Skinner Narrator: Various Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Reagan In His Own Voice features Ronald Reagan's radio addresses from the late 1970s. Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, they are introduced by George Shultz and feature additional introductions by Nancy Reagan, Richard V. Allen, Judge William Clark, Michael Deaver, Peter Hannaford, Edwin Meese III and Harry O'Connor. From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself. This program represents the opening of a major archive of pre-presidential material from the Reagan Library and the Hoover Institution Archives. These addresses transform our image of Ronald Reagan, and enhance and revise our understanding of the late 1970s -- a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the cold war, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. These radio programs demonstrate that Reagan had carefully considered nearly every issue he would face as president. Reagan's radio broadcasts will change his reputation even among his closest allies and friends. Here, in his own voice, Reagan the thinker is finally fully revealed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151214Thu, 01 Nov 2001 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reagan In His Own Voice Author: Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, Kiron K. Skinner Narrator: Various Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reagan In His Own Voice Author: Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, Kiron K. Skinner Narrator: Various Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2001 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Reagan In His Own Voice features Ronald Reagan's radio addresses from the late 1970s. Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, they are introduced by George Shultz and feature additional introductions by Nancy Reagan, Richard V. Allen, Judge William Clark, Michael Deaver, Peter Hannaford, Edwin Meese III and Harry O'Connor. From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself. This program represents the opening of a major archive of pre-presidential material from the Reagan Library and the Hoover Institution Archives. These addresses transform our image of Ronald Reagan, and enhance and revise our understanding of the late 1970s -- a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the cold war, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. These radio programs demonstrate that Reagan had carefully considered nearly every issue he would face as president. Reagan's radio broadcasts will change his reputation even among his closest allies and friends. Here, in his own voice, Reagan the thinker is finally fully revealed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/joe-dimaggio-the-hero-s-life-the-heros-life-by-richard-ben-cramer--65327215https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life: The Heros Life Author: Richard Ben Cramer Narrator: Richard Ben Cramer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the hard-knuckled thirties, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty. As World War II loomed, Joltin' Joe launched a fifty-six game hitting streak -- and the nation literally sang his name. In the age of postwar ease and plenty, he became Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance and class -- marrying Marilyn Monroe, the most beautiful girl in America. In 1962, when he lost that girl for good, Joe was everyman embarking on a decade of national bereavement. Joe DiMaggio was a mirror of our best self, but he was also the loneliest hero we ever had. A nation of fans would give him anything, but what he wanted most was to hide the life he chose. In this groundbreaking biography, Richard Ben Cramer presents a stunning, often shocking portrait of the hero nobody knew. It is a story that sweeps through the twentieth century, bringing to light America's national game, movie stars, mobsters, as well as the birth -- and the price -- of modern national celebrity. This is the story Joe DiMaggio never wanted to tell. It is the story of his grace and greed, his dignity, pride and his hidden shame.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151266Sun, 01 Oct 2000 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life: The Heros Life Author: Richard Ben Cramer Narrator: Richard Ben Cramer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life: The Heros Life Author: Richard Ben Cramer Narrator: Richard Ben Cramer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the hard-knuckled thirties, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty. As World War II loomed, Joltin' Joe launched a fifty-six game hitting streak -- and the nation literally sang his name. In the age of postwar ease and plenty, he became Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance and class -- marrying Marilyn Monroe, the most beautiful girl in America. In 1962, when he lost that girl for good, Joe was everyman embarking on a decade of national bereavement. Joe DiMaggio was a mirror of our best self, but he was also the loneliest hero we ever had. A nation of fans would give him anything, but what he wanted most was to hide the life he chose. In this groundbreaking biography, Richard Ben Cramer presents a stunning, often shocking portrait of the hero nobody knew. It is a story that sweeps through the twentieth century, bringing to light America's national game, movie stars, mobsters, as well as the birth -- and the price -- of modern national celebrity. This is the story Joe DiMaggio never wanted to tell. It is the story of his grace and greed, his dignity, pride and his hidden shame.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/natural-blonde-a-memoir-by-liz-smith--65327171https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Natural Blonde: A Memoir Author: Liz Smith Narrator: Liz Smith Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 19, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and does it with the kind of style and warmth that has made her one of the most widely read columnists in history. Liz Smith wasn't always famous, and in Natural Blonde she revals how a young woman from rural Texas came to New York hell-bent on making something of her life. From her salad days as a small-time reporter and proofreader to her triumphs at the Daily News, Newsday, New York Post and her 1995 Emmy for reporting, Liz tells what it is really like to be seen and heard by millions of people every day. One of the most quoted people of our time, she offers a rare, private peek into the real person behind the witty quips and media coverage. Certainly one of the most eagerly anticipated autobiographies in years, Natural Blonde will give Liz Smith readers the item they've been waiting for--the ultimate inside scoop from the "Grande Dame of Dish."]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160869Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Natural Blonde: A Memoir Author: Liz Smith Narrator: Liz Smith Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 19, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Natural Blonde: A Memoir Author: Liz Smith Narrator: Liz Smith Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 19, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and does it with the kind of style and warmth that has made her one of the most widely read columnists in history. Liz Smith wasn't always famous, and in Natural Blonde she revals how a young woman from rural Texas came to New York hell-bent on making something of her life. From her salad days as a small-time reporter and proofreader to her triumphs at the Daily News, Newsday, New York Post and her 1995 Emmy for reporting, Liz tells what it is really like to be seen and heard by millions of people every day. One of the most quoted people of our time, she offers a rare, private peek into the real person behind the witty quips and media coverage. Certainly one of the most eagerly anticipated autobiographies in years, Natural Blonde will give Liz Smith readers the item they've been waiting for--the ultimate inside scoop from the "Grande Dame of Dish."]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/howard-hughes-the-untold-story-by-pat-h-broeske-peter-harry-brown--65327170https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Howard Hughes: The Untold Story Author: Pat H. Broeske, Peter Harry Brown Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 13, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment 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 onto 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/160945Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Howard Hughes: The Untold Story Author: Pat H. Broeske, Peter Harry Brown Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Howard Hughes: The Untold Story Author: Pat H. Broeske, Peter Harry Brown Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 13, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment 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 onto 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.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-camino-a-journey-of-the-spirit-by-shirley-maclaine--65327235https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet. The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout history, countless pilgrims have taken up the trail. It is an ancient -- and allegedly enchanted -- pilgrimage. People from St. Francis of Assisi to Dante and Chaucer have taken the journey -- a nearly 500-mile trek across highways, mountains, cities and fields. For Shirley, the Camino was both an intense spiritual and physical challenge. For a woman in her sixth decade completing such a grueling trip on foot in thirty days at twenty miles per day was remarkable. But even more astounding was her spiritual route: back thousands of years, through past lives to the very origin of the universe. With rich insight, humility, and grace, The Camino promises listeners the journey of a thousand lifetimes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153555Mon, 01 May 2000 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet. The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout history, countless pilgrims have taken up the trail. It is an ancient -- and allegedly enchanted -- pilgrimage. People from St. Francis of Assisi to Dante and Chaucer have taken the journey -- a nearly 500-mile trek across highways, mountains, cities and fields. For Shirley, the Camino was both an intense spiritual and physical challenge. For a woman in her sixth decade completing such a grueling trip on foot in thirty days at twenty miles per day was remarkable. But even more astounding was her spiritual route: back thousands of years, through past lives to the very origin of the universe. With rich insight, humility, and grace, The Camino promises listeners the journey of a thousand lifetimes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/zero-hour-6-wife-of-the-red-haired-man-by-unknown--65327062https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero Hour 6: Wife of the Red-Haired Man Series: #6 of Zero Hour Author: unknown Narrator: Patty Duke, John Astin, Rod Serling, Howard Duff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: November 1, 1999 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “Wife of the Red-Haired Man” and starring Patty Duke, John Astin, Howard Duff, Harold Gould, and Benny Ruben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201926Mon, 01 Nov 1999 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero Hour 6: Wife of the Red-Haired Man Series: #6 of Zero Hour Author: unknown Narrator: Patty Duke, John Astin, Rod Serling, Howard Duff Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero Hour 6: Wife of the Red-Haired Man Series: #6 of Zero Hour Author: unknown Narrator: Patty Duke, John Astin, Rod Serling, Howard Duff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: November 1, 1999 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “Wife of the Red-Haired Man” and starring Patty Duke, John Astin, Howard Duff, Harold Gould, and Benny Ruben.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-think-i-m-outta-here-a-memoir-of-all-my-families-by-carroll-o-connor--65327187https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families Author: Carroll O'Connor Narrator: Caroll O'connor Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 1, 1998 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: It is the genius of actor Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him with his most unforgettable creation, Archie Bunker. But O'Connor has lived the kind of rich, momentous life that Archie would never have imagined. Now, O'Connor speaks eloquently and intimately about his great triumphs and terrible tragedies -- and a career that has been immortalized in television history. Growing up in Depression-era New York, Carroll O'Connor made his way armed with quick wit, mischievous bent of mind, and engaging Irish charm. From his rough-and-tumble days in the merchant marine during World War II, he moved on to salad days in Dublin. There he found his true calling in the theatre, and married his wife, Nancy...a fifty-year success story that's still going strong. O'Connor was soon invited to Hollywood. His unique perspective on the creation of All in the Family -- and his certainty at the start that it was destined for ratings disaster -- reveals television history in the making. But Hollywood was also the source of O'Connor's most painful memory: the cocaine addiction and suicide of his son, Hugh. As a grieving father, O'Connor was forced to assume the most poignant and powerful role of his life, and he speaks honestly here about both his loss and his efforts to educate others about the horror of drug abuse. Candid and insightful, spirited and funny, this is the story of all the families Carroll O'Connor has been able to call his own. And in a career graced with landmark achievements, I Think I'm Outta Here stands as one of the most moving and memorable of all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151256Sun, 01 Mar 1998 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families Author: Carroll O'Connor Narrator: Caroll O'connor Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families Author: Carroll O'Connor Narrator: Caroll O'connor Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 1, 1998 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: It is the genius of actor Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him with his most unforgettable creation, Archie Bunker. But O'Connor has lived the kind of rich, momentous life that Archie would never have imagined. Now, O'Connor speaks eloquently and intimately about his great triumphs and terrible tragedies -- and a career that has been immortalized in television history. Growing up in Depression-era New York, Carroll O'Connor made his way armed with quick wit, mischievous bent of mind, and engaging Irish charm. From his rough-and-tumble days in the merchant marine during World War II, he moved on to salad days in Dublin. There he found his true calling in the theatre, and married his wife, Nancy...a fifty-year success story that's still going strong. O'Connor was soon invited to Hollywood. His unique perspective on the creation of All in the Family -- and his certainty at the start that it was destined for ratings disaster -- reveals television history in the making. But Hollywood was also the source of O'Connor's most painful memory: the cocaine addiction and suicide of his son, Hugh. As a grieving father, O'Connor was forced to assume the most poignant and powerful role of his life, and he speaks honestly here about both his loss and his efforts to educate others about the horror of drug abuse. Candid and insightful, spirited and funny, this is the story of all the families Carroll O'Connor has been able to call his own. And in a career graced with landmark achievements, I Think I'm Outta Here stands as one of the most moving and memorable of all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dr-katz-s-therapy-sessions-by-jonathan-katz--65327199https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. Katz's Therapy Sessions Author: Jonathan Katz Narrator: Jonathan Katz Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the producers of the runaway Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central animated TV series 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist' comes DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS-a hiply hilarious compilation of Dr. Katz's funniest sessions with his all-star cast of 'patients.' Based on Comedy Central's hit phenomenon 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,' DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS lets us listen in on the hilarious sessions between the wry, downtrodden Dr. Katz (comedian/actor Jonathan Katz) and his roster of patients, whose voices are provided by such popular comedians as Gary Shandling, Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Anthony Clark, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Leifer, and more. Therapy has never been this funny! A truly witty audio program, DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS will bring therapeutic laughter to all who listen!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150653Fri, 01 Nov 1996 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. Katz's Therapy Sessions Author: Jonathan Katz Narrator: Jonathan Katz Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. Katz's Therapy Sessions Author: Jonathan Katz Narrator: Jonathan Katz Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the producers of the runaway Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central animated TV series 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist' comes DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS-a hiply hilarious compilation of Dr. Katz's funniest sessions with his all-star cast of 'patients.' Based on Comedy Central's hit phenomenon 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,' DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS lets us listen in on the hilarious sessions between the wry, downtrodden Dr. Katz (comedian/actor Jonathan Katz) and his roster of patients, whose voices are provided by such popular comedians as Gary Shandling, Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Anthony Clark, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Leifer, and more. Therapy has never been this funny! A truly witty audio program, DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS will bring therapeutic laughter to all who listen!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hiding-my-candy-by-the-lady-chablis--65327219https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiding My Candy Author: The Lady Chablis Narrator: The Lady Chablis Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: August 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable life story of the fabulous drag queen from the bestselling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Lady Chablis, the outrageously charming drag queen made famous in John Berendt's bestselling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, takes us on an unforgettable tour of Savannah in her amazing story—a triumphant life filled with passion, humor, flair, and resourcefulness beyond the imaginings of mere mortals. Born Benjamin Edward Knox in Quincy, Florida, in 1957, Brenda Dale Knox (The Lady Chablis) always knew she was different: a girl with 'candy.' 'I never blamed the Lord 'cause I knew that he musta wanted me this way.' She's lived as the Grand Empress of Scrapin' to Get By, she's beat up bad-mouthed bouncers, known love sweet and tender, mean and rough, legal, and outlawed...and she survived, honey, she flourished! Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply touching, and just as entertaining as The Lady Chablis in person, Hiding My Candy is one dessert you'll find absolutely irresistible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151194Thu, 01 Aug 1996 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiding My Candy Author: The Lady Chablis Narrator: The Lady Chablis Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: August 1, 1996...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiding My Candy Author: The Lady Chablis Narrator: The Lady Chablis Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: August 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable life story of the fabulous drag queen from the bestselling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Lady Chablis, the outrageously charming drag queen made famous in John Berendt's bestselling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, takes us on an unforgettable tour of Savannah in her amazing story—a triumphant life filled with passion, humor, flair, and resourcefulness beyond the imaginings of mere mortals. Born Benjamin Edward Knox in Quincy, Florida, in 1957, Brenda Dale Knox (The Lady Chablis) always knew she was different: a girl with 'candy.' 'I never blamed the Lord 'cause I knew that he musta wanted me this way.' She's lived as the Grand Empress of Scrapin' to Get By, she's beat up bad-mouthed bouncers, known love sweet and tender, mean and rough, legal, and outlawed...and she survived, honey, she flourished! Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply touching, and just as entertaining as The Lady Chablis in person, Hiding My Candy is one dessert you'll find absolutely irresistible.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trying-to-get-to-heaven-opinions-of-a-tennessee-talker-by-dixie-carter--65327163https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker Author: Dixie Carter Narrator: Dixie Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Dixie Carter has an opinion on just about everything--from the inside scoop on plastic surgery to the importance of etiquette and grooming, from the value of the family to the courage to be yourself. Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker is one long conversation that you never want to end.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154281Mon, 01 Jan 1996 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker Author: Dixie Carter Narrator: Dixie Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker Author: Dixie Carter Narrator: Dixie Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Dixie Carter has an opinion on just about everything--from the inside scoop on plastic surgery to the importance of etiquette and grooming, from the value of the family to the courage to be yourself. Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker is one long conversation that you never want to end.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/barbara-bush-a-memoir-by-barbara-bush--65327194https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbara Bush: A Memoir Author: Barbara Bush Narrator: Barbara Bush Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The classic #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, celebrating the life and legacy of First Lady Barbara Bush—updated with new forewords from her five children, including reflections from George W. and Jeb, as featured on A&E’s Biography. Barbara Bush endures as one of America’s most popular First Ladies. She has won worldwide acclaim for her wit, compassion, and candor as both a presidential wife and mother. In this fascinating memoir, Mrs. Bush offers a heartfelt portrait of her life in and out of the White House, from her small-town schoolgirl days in Rye, New York, to her fateful union with George H.W. Bush, to her role as First Lady of the United States. Here, she writes candidly about her early years with George Bush in West Texas and the tragic death of their young daughter, Pauline. She also discusses the world of Washington politics and the famous figures she’s met, as well as the disappointment of the 1992 presidential campaign—and the mixed blessing of regaining her private life, including her role as the nation’s leading literacy champion. Filled with entertaining anecdotes, thirty-two pages of personal photographs, and a healthy dose of introspection, this memoir is “a book of good grace and humor—written in a style that, like the author herself, is straightforward, unembellished, generous, good-hearted, and wise…A pleasure” (The Washington Times).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150441Sat, 01 Oct 1994 07:36:08 +0000Russell HanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbara Bush: A Memoir Author: Barbara Bush Narrator: Barbara Bush Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 1994...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbara Bush: A Memoir Author: Barbara Bush Narrator: Barbara Bush Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The classic #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, celebrating the life and legacy of First Lady Barbara Bush—updated with new forewords from her five children, including reflections from George W. and Jeb, as featured on A&E’s Biography. Barbara Bush endures as one of America’s most popular First Ladies. She has won worldwide acclaim for her wit, compassion, and candor as both a presidential wife and mother. In this fascinating memoir, Mrs. Bush offers a heartfelt portrait of her life in and out of the White House, from her small-town schoolgirl days in Rye, New York, to her fateful union with George H.W. Bush, to her role as First Lady of the United States. Here, she writes candidly about her early years with George Bush in West Texas and the tragic death of their young daughter, Pauline. She also discusses the world of Washington politics and the famous figures she’s met, as well as the disappointment of the 1992 presidential campaign—and the mixed blessing of regaining her private life, including her role as the nation’s leading literacy champion. Filled with entertaining anecdotes, thirty-two pages of personal photographs, and a healthy dose of introspection, this memoir is “a book of good grace and humor—written in a style that, like the author herself, is straightforward, unembellished, generous, good-hearted, and wise…A pleasure” (The Washington Times).]]>185cleanfull