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Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD by Fergal KeanePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD Author: Fergal Keane Narrator: Fergal Keane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is...2022-11-1005 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureChasing Wrongs and Rights: A personal journey of fighting for justice around the world by Elaine PearsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Wrongs and Rights: A personal journey of fighting for justice around the world Author: Elaine Pearson Narrator: Elaine Pearson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve got to go. ...2022-09-0603 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Portable Anna Julia Cooper by Anna Julia CooperPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Portable Anna Julia Cooper Author: Anna Julia Cooper Narrator: Shirley Moody-Turner, Karen Murray, Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name A Penguin Classic The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice...2022-08-0910 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley RobinsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The High Sierra: A Love Story Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Narrator: Kim Stanley Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (—Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encoun...2022-05-1003 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureVictoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia BairdPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire Author: Julia Baird Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. NAMED ON...2022-05-1010 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNortherners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by Brian GroomPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day Author: Brian Groom Narrator: Nicholas Camm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. ‘Entertaining’ The Times ‘Definitive’ The Mirror ‘Highly readable’ Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the defining biography of northern England. This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the...2022-04-1405 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex RowsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great Author: Alex Rowson Narrator: Gavin Osborn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great’s story often re...2022-04-1405 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLeft on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir by Delia EphronPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir Author: Delia Ephron Narrator: Delia Ephron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to...2022-04-1203 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureParadise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'brienPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe Author: Keith O'brien Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, an...2022-04-1210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India by Jyoti ThottamPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India Author: Jyoti Thottam Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains.'—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses wh...2022-04-1210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice WalkerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Author: Alice Walker Narrator: Aunjanue Ellis, Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women...2022-04-1203 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRiverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McgrathPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Riverman: An American Odyssey Author: Ben Mcgrath Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks...2022-04-0510 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge by Matt Damon, Gary WhitePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge Author: Matt Damon, Gary White Narrator: Gary White, Matt Damon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water...2022-03-2910 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation by Erin GruwellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation Author: Erin Gruwell Narrator: Derrick E. Hardin, Jade Wheeler, Marisha Tapera, Giordan Diaz, Kyla Garcia, Erin Gruwell, Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writers—authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary—who write supportive and powerful letters in response. Over twenty years ago, the students in fi...2022-03-2910 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThis Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life by Stefanie GreenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life Author: Stefanie Green Narrator: Stefanie Green Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore and fulfill their end of life choices is “written with sensitivity, grace, and candor...not to be missed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medi...2022-03-2903 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTruly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen GallowayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century Author: Stephen Galloway Narrator: Molly Parker Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided...2022-03-2203 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas FisherPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER Author: Thomas Fisher Narrator: Thomas Fisher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind “Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are, especially when they go...2022-03-2210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John MarkoffPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand Author: John Markoff Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture—the story behind so many other stories Stewart Brand has long been famous if...2022-03-2210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz by Maya Lee, Magda HellingerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz Author: Maya Lee, Magda Hellinger Narrator: Zoe Carides, Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife. In March 1...2022-03-1503 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAn Autobiography by Angela Y. DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Autobiography Author: Angela Y. Davis Narrator: Angela Y. Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 10, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for a new audience inspired and galvanised...2022-03-1005 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard JacobsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524613 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings Author: Howard Jacobson Narrator: Howard Jacobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the...2022-03-0305 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'RourkePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness Author: Meghan O'Rourke Narrator: Meghan O'Rourke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. R...2022-03-0110 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank BruniPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found Author: Frank Bruni Narrator: Frank Bruni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes “a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope” (Booklist, starred review). One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blur...2022-03-0103 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo by Garrett HongoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo Author: Garrett Hongo Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired w...2022-02-2210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London by Catherine OstlerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/516528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London Author: Catherine Ostler Narrator: Catherine Ostler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover the adventurous life of the stylish and scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston—a woman whose infamous trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence. “Bridgerton fans take note: For sheer incident and drama, Chudleigh’s story rivals any episode of the popular Regency-era Netflix series. And it’s all true” (The Washington...2022-02-2203 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIn Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen RappaportPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon Author: Helen Rappaport Narrator: Helen Rappaport Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 17, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that explores her remarkable achievements and unique status as an icon of the 19th century, but also corrects some of th...2022-02-1703 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLife, Death and Biscuits by Anthea AllenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life, Death and Biscuits Author: Anthea Allen Narrator: Anthea Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 17, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen's writing is raw, honest and full of love for those she cares for.' Susanna Reid An extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest...2022-02-1703 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBlack American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream by Tiffanie DraytonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream Author: Tiffanie Drayton Narrator: Tiffanie Drayton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Named 'most anticipated' book of February by Marie Claire, Essence, and A.V. Club '…extraordinary and representative.'—NPR 'Drayton explores the ramifications of racism that span generations, global white supremacy, and the pitfalls of American culture.'—Shondaland After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to...2022-02-1510 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCost of Living: Essays by Emily MaloneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cost of Living: Essays Author: Emily Maloney Narrator: Emily Maloney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman’s experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed. What does it cost to li...2022-02-0805 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America by Willard Sterne RandallPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525634 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America Author: Willard Sterne Randall Narrator: Steve Hendrickson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives...2022-02-0810 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Tenth Nerve: A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him by Chris HoneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tenth Nerve: A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him Author: Chris Honey Narrator: Chris Honey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Riveting and dramatic, The Tenth Nerve offers a rare window into the world of a pre-eminent neurosurgeon and the seven exceptional patients that made him a better person. “The scalpel can only go so deep, and technical skill can only take one so far.” In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vanc...2022-02-0810 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Fifties: An Underground History by James R. GainesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fifties: An Underground History Author: James R. Gaines Narrator: James Fouhey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines. An “enchanting, beautifully written book about heroes and the dark times to whi...2022-02-0803 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSolving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose by Mark ShrimePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose Author: Mark Shrime Narrator: Mark Shrime Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Mercy Ships surgeon Dr. Mark G. Shrime comes an inspiring memoir about finding the answer to life's biggest question—"Why?"—and about following that answer through remarkable, unlikely places on the road to fulfillment, purpose, and joy. SOLVING FOR WHY chronicles one man's journey to find the answer to the...2022-01-2503 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial by Mike Anderson, Neil HansonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial Author: Mike Anderson, Neil Hanson Narrator: Luke Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus? can the full story be told. The Ticket Collec...2022-01-2003 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind by Ant MiddletonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind Author: Ant Middleton Narrator: Ant Middleton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the multiple Sunday Times bestselling author that will explain the principles behind maintaining a healthy mind and body. The mind and body are often talked about as separate entities, but it’s only when they work in harmony with on...2022-01-1305 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 by Chips ChannonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 Author: Chips Channon Narrator: Tom Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 48 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, thro...2021-12-0905 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMaking Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton by Joe MoshenskaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton Author: Joe Moshenska Narrator: Joe Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring. In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Mosh...2021-12-0703 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFace the Music: A Memoir by Patricia Beard, Peter DuchinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/508697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Face the Music: A Memoir Author: Patricia Beard, Peter Duchin Narrator: Peter Duchin, Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this poignant memoir, the internationally celebrated bandleader reflects on family, illness, grief, and a bygone era of glamour, contemplating not just his career but the history of midcentury music and nightlife—and the enormously important role that the bandstand played in his life. The internationally-famous bandleader Peter Duchin's six decades of performing hav...2021-12-0710 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[German] - Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen by Edmund de WaalPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/500094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen Author: Edmund de Waal Narrator: Hanns Zischler Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ein Ehepaar versucht einen Witz zu erzählen – und schon steht die Scheidung ins Haus. Kein Wunder, wenn man Kurt Tucholskys spöttischer Einschätzung glauben darf: In der Ehe pflegt ge-wöhnlich immer einer der Dumme zu sein. Nur wenn zwei Dumme heiraten – das kann mitunter gut gehen. Diese und andere bissighumorvolle Texte interpretiert Frank Arnold grandios. Lachen garantiert. Inhalt...2021-12-0103 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew RobertsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532089 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III Author: Andrew Roberts Narrator: Philip Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will...2021-11-0910 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGeorge V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane RidleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George V: Never a Dull Moment Author: Jane Ridley Narrator: Joanna David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary -- the Queen's grandparents and the creators of the modern monarchy The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot, and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it. The flamboyance and hedonism of his father, Edward VII, defined an era whose...2021-11-0405 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMadam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby ApplegatePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/505655 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age Author: Debby Applegate Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Pr...2021-11-0210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNever Give Up: A Life of Adventure, The Autobiography by Bear GryllsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Give Up: A Life of Adventure, The Autobiography Author: Bear Grylls Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Bear Grylls Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary new autobiography from adventurer Bear Grylls. In Never Give Up, global adventurer, Chief Scout and TV presenter Bear Grylls immerses readers in some truly remarkable adventures. As Bear shares personal stories from his toughest expeditions, this inspiring autobiography captures the exhilarating reality behind some...2021-10-2805 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross DouthatPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery Author: Ross Douthat Narrator: Ross Douthat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffer...2021-10-2610 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSorry Not Sorry by Alyssa MilanoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sorry Not Sorry Author: Alyssa Milano Narrator: Alyssa Milano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alyssa Milano’s sharply observed, uproarious, and deeply intimate ode to the life she has lived and the issues that matter most. Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, delivers here a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays are unvarnished and elegant, funny and...2021-10-2610 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward DolnickPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone Author: Edward Dolnick Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The fast-paced and “engrossing account” (The New York Times Book Review) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents—the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is one of the m...2021-10-1903 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureER Nurses: True stories from the frontline by James PattersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ER Nurses: True stories from the frontline Author: James Patterson Narrator: Sterling Sulieman, Mela Lee, Kiff Vandenheuvel, Betsy Foldes Meiman, Christine Lakin, Will Collyer, Erin Bennett, Roxana Ortega, Rick Zieff, Tracey Leigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this extraordinary work of non-fiction, we hear the unforgettable stories of everyday heroes who look after our families, our friends and ourselves in the most challenging circumstances imaginable. When we're...2021-10-1405 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThose We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home by Mondiant DogonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home Author: Mondiant Dogon Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus • A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection • Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing A stunning and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man wh...2021-10-1210 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureE.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes by Matt Eversmann, James PattersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes Author: Matt Eversmann, James Patterson Narrator: Sterling Sulieman, Mela Lee, Kiff Vandenheuvel, Betsy Foldes Meiman, Christine Lakin, Will Collyer, Erin Bennett, Roxana Ortega, Rick Zieff, Tracey Leigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.06 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsun...2021-10-1103 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGeorge III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew RobertsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch Author: Andrew Roberts Narrator: Philip Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 7, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (WEH Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of England's most disastrous kings' (JH Plumb, twentieth...2021-10-0705 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSmile: The Story of a Face by Sarah RuhlPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smile: The Story of a Face Author: Sarah Ruhl Narrator: Sarah Ruhl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: * A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post’s Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence * From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and playwright, this “captivating, insightful memoir” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is “a beautiful meditation on identity and how we see ours...2021-10-0503 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam ShoaltsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend Author: Adam Shoalts Narrator: Adam Shoalts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed up by dark spruce woods...2021-10-0510 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBenjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant (Spiritual Lives) by D.G. HartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant (Spiritual Lives) Author: D.G. Hart Narrator: David Cochran Heath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called 'providence'), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most prominent leaders, a world recognized scientist, and the United States' leading diplomat during the...2021-09-2830 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRevolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Donald CritchlowPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny Author: Donald Critchlow Narrator: Chris Lutkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced. Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to...2021-09-2803 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by David Remnick, Jelani CobbPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker Author: David Remnick, Jelani Cobb Narrator: JD Jackson, January LaVoy, Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 1 minute Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A collection of the New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca We...2021-09-2805 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePermanent Astonishment: Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky by Tomson HighwayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Author: Tomson Highway Narrator: Jimmy Blais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in...2021-09-2810 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureUnreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse WentePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance Author: Jesse Wente Narrator: Jesse Wente Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction SHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book Award A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very po...2021-09-2110 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFree as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation by Ruth R. WissePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation Author: Ruth R. Wisse Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Jewish child born into the worst of times in Europe grows up during the best of times in North America—only to recognize that it could be moving back in the opposite direction.First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ru...2021-09-2105 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCompeting with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait by Nick DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait Author: Nick Davis Narrator: Nick Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both. One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All Abou...2021-09-1410 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy AdlingtonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Author: Lucy Adlington Narrator: Lucy Adlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of t...2021-09-1405 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEvery Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU by Wes ElyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU Author: Wes Ely Narrator: Wes Ely, Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner of a Christopher Award—now with a discussion guide “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books like this one, is that the ICU experience can be changed for the better” (The Washington Post) for both patients and their families. You will learn how in this t...2021-09-0703 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLetter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life by Suzanne KovenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life Author: Suzanne Koven Narrator: Suzanne Koven Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with 'imposter syndrome'—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a 'real' doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around th...2021-09-0730 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureReturn: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From by Kamal Al-SolayleePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From Author: Kamal Al-Solaylee Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Globe and Mail, Hill Times and CBC Best Book of the Year Have you ever wondered what it would be like to return to your roots? Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the...2021-09-0705 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWomen in the War by Lucy FisherPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Women in the War Author: Lucy Fisher Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 2, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘An important contribution to our recent history’ ANDREW MARR ‘Absorbing and important’ JOAN BAKEWELL ‘One of my favourite reads of 2021’ GARETH RUSSELL Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain's 'Greatest Generation'. Whether flying Spitfires to the frontline, aiding code breaking at Bletchley Park, plotting the Battle of the Atlantic or working with...2021-09-0205 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGas Man by Colin BlackPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gas Man Author: Colin Black Narrator: Colin Black Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 2, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… That’s about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin – and that’s all most people know about what I do. But what happens between you conking out and waking up? And what does the anaesthetist have to do with it all? Do they just sit around playing sudoku while the rest of the team do all the hard work? And why ar...2021-09-0205 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory by Roxane Van IperenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory Author: Roxane Van Iperen Narrator: Susan Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 31, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust. Eight months af...2021-08-3105 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureExodus, Revisited: My Unorthodox Journey to Berlin by Deborah FeldmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exodus, Revisited: My Unorthodox Journey to Berlin Author: Deborah Feldman Narrator: Gilli Messer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 31, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series)—now updated with more than 50 percent new material—the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world. In 2009, at the age...2021-08-3110 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard BeardPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England Author: Richard Beard Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The number #1 bestseller about the world that shaped Boris Johnson. In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were David Cameron and Boris Johnson. In those days a private boys' boarding school...2021-08-2605 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLife in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-MullerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing Author: Clayton Thomas-Muller Narrator: Clayton Thomas-Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: *FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and ga...2021-08-2410 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhere Beauty Survived: A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia by George Elliott ClarkePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Beauty Survived: A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia Author: George Elliott Clarke Narrator: George Elliott Clarke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a hi...2021-08-2410 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureChurchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey WheatcroftPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy Author: Geoffrey Wheatcroft Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A critical but fair political biography of Churchill that zooms in on crucial moments in his life and career that help us understand the man in his many contradictions. While in A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country', he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambition would...2021-08-1905 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula ByrnePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/516045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead Author: Paula Byrne Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, “Brideshead Revisited”. Evelyn Waugh was already famous when “Brideshead Revisited” was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he ad...2021-08-1905 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTraitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 4 TV DOCUMENTARY by Andrew LowniePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/515723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 4 TV DOCUMENTARY Author: Andrew Lownie Narrator: Andrew Lownie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021 'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week' 'Briskly written and compulsively readable...' - A.N...2021-08-1905 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePut A Wet Paper Towel on It: The Weird and Wonderful World of Primary Schools by Lee Parkinson, Adam ParkinsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Put A Wet Paper Towel on It: The Weird and Wonderful World of Primary Schools Author: Lee Parkinson, Adam Parkinson Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Preorder the new Mr Ps book 'How to Survive the School Year' – out 29/08/24 THE SENSATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A heart-warming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK education podcast, Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast). ‘'Education’s answer to Adam Kay … Lee and...2021-08-1905 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFrom Prison Cells to PhD: It is Never Too Late to Do Good by Stanley AndrissePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Prison Cells to PhD: It is Never Too Late to Do Good Author: Stanley Andrisse Narrator: Stanley Andrisse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A captivating story detailing how resilience and inner strength can be combined to overcome mountainous barriers to reach one’s full potential. Growing up in Ferguson, Missouri, Stanley Andrisse began making poor decisions at a very young age. He started selling dope and was ar...2021-08-1705 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLove Letters from the Front: A BBC Radio dramatisation of a true love story by Phyllis Kelly, Eric ApplebyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Letters from the Front: A BBC Radio dramatisation of a true love story Author: Phyllis Kelly, Eric Appleby Narrator: Ruairí Tohill, Roisin Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 12, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A landmark drama series telling the compelling real-life WW1 love story of English soldier Eric Appleby and his Irish sweetheart Phyllis Kelly Eric Appleby was an engineering student from Liverpool, who joined the Royal Field Artillery when war began in 1914. Posted to Athlone, he met and fell in love with s...2021-08-1205 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureResolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World by Ban Ki-MoonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World Author: Ban Ki-Moon Narrator: David Shih Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. The six-year-old boy fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how...2021-08-1030 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBlack White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca WalkerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Author: Rebecca Walker Narrator: Rebecca Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after...2021-08-1010 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureQueen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Spiritual Lives) by Michael Ledger-LomasPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Spiritual Lives) Author: Michael Ledger-Lomas Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life—from her accession to her marriage and her successive bereavements—enlarged how she defined and lived her faith. Drawing on a systematic read...2021-08-1030 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull & The Resistance of the Free Lakotas by Robert M. UtleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull & The Resistance of the Free Lakotas Author: Robert M. Utley Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux's historical territories th...2021-08-1030 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Wild Idea by Jonathan FranklinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wild Idea Author: Jonathan Franklin Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: WHY WOULD A SAN FRANCISCO ENTREPRENEUR SELL HIS COMPANY, FLY TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, INVEST MILLIONS RESTORING PARADISE, THEN FIGHT LIKE HELL TO GIVE IT ALL AWAY? In 1991, Doug Tompkins left his luxury life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south to a shack in Patagonia that his friends nicknamed Hobbit House. Mo...2021-08-1005 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey CanadaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence Author: Geoffrey Canada Narrator: Bill Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner. Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appea...2021-08-1010 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives by Sebastian FaulksPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives Author: Sebastian Faulks Narrator: James Wilby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of...2021-08-0505 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOur Story by Reginald Kray, Ronald KrayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Story Author: Reginald Kray, Ronald Kray Narrator: Fred Dinenage, David John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 5, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: London's most notorious gangsters, in their own words . . . The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by David Bailey and even interviewed for television, they became celebrities in their own right and...2021-08-0505 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHoly Land: A Suburban Memoir by D.J. WaldiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir Author: D.J. Waldie Narrator: Rich Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In 'quick, translucent prose' (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a prototypical post-World War II suburb. Laid out in 316 sections as carefully measured as a grid of tract houses, Holy Land is by turns touching...2021-08-0305 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said SalhPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert Author: Shugri Said Salh Narrator: Waceke Wambaa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A remarkable and inspiring true story that "stuns with raw beauty" about one woman's resilience, her courageous journey to America, and her family's lost way of life. Winner of the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, Multicultural & Indigenous Category Born in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at...2021-08-0303 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer by Liz LermanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer Author: Liz Lerman Narrator: Liz Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has been described by the Washington Post as 'the...2021-08-0305 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas GevePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival Author: Thomas Geve Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald and recorded his experiences through words and color drawings. In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he w...2021-07-2705 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A. BasbanesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work—the soul—of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whos...2021-07-2730 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[Spanish] - Antiguas pero modernas by Mar AbadPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Antiguas pero modernas Author: Mar Abad Narrator: Lola Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 24, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: La historia tiene una memoria muy corta. Todo se nos queda antiguo demasiado rápido. O rescatamos hoy a las mujeres pioneras del periodismo español o las perdemos para siempre. Rosario de Acuña, librepensadora decimonónica y azote de todas las esclavitudes; Carmen de Burgos, la primera corresponsal de guerra y feroz luchadora por la conquista del derecho al divorcio y al s...2021-07-2403 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by John GuyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction Author: John Guy Narrator: Mary Sarah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction. Looking at all aspects of the period, from beginning to end, he considers Tudor politics, religion, and economics, as...2021-07-2030 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Life of the Author: Shakespeare by Anna BeerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of the Author: Shakespeare Author: Anna Beer Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering listeners a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about...2021-07-2030 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls by Steven RinellaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls Author: Steven Rinella Narrator: The Contributors, Steven Rinella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 165 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 45 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Gather around for campfire stories with the MeatEater crew as they share sixteen harrowing true tales of survival, grit, and misfortune in the great outdoors—an immersive audio experience from the host of the long-running Netflix series and top-ranked wilderness podcast. In Campfire Stories: Close Calls, Steven Rinella invites seasoned hunters, a...2021-07-2010 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBlood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe by Robert BartlettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe Author: Robert Bartlett Narrator: Jonathan Cowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family—a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to th...2021-07-1330 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMachiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition by Quentin SkinnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition Author: Quentin Skinner Narrator: Hannibal Hills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has since become a byword for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli's adult life, from his time as Second Chancellor of the Florentine republic, during which...2021-07-1330 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAll Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacdonaldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Author: Michael Patrick Macdonald Narrator: Michael Patrick Macdonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child...2021-07-1310 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina YasherePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cack-Handed: A Memoir Author: Gina Yashere Narrator: Gina Yashere Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfil the dreams of her grandmother Patience. The powerful first wife of a wealthy...2021-07-0805 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDrums in the Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right by Joe MulhallPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drums in the Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right Author: Joe Mulhall Narrator: Finlay Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 8, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A terrifying and timely look at the spread of far-right movements across the globe Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk, he has investigated hate groups. He infiltrated a US white supremacist militia, set up a fake Ku Klux Klan branch, has been on...2021-07-0803 min
Discover Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim ParksPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna Author: Tim Parks Narrator: Roger May Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands...2021-07-0630 min
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic FantasyProphecy Be Damned by Patricia Lucas WhitePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prophecy Be Damned Series: #1 of The Tales of the Penitent Trilogy Author: Patricia Lucas White Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Epic Fantasy Publisher's Summary: Long ago, the youngest of the gods fell into the clutches of an ambitious mortal, a vain usurper who almost destroyed the world. The Elderkin, the old gods, imprisoned the mortal in the heart of a mountain and took away the young god’s beauty, name, and tears. Then they fled the earth, leaving man godless. But...2006-01-0103 min