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Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson by Candy CarsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/250136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson Author: Candy Carson Narrator: Candy Carson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 5, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “The life of a neurosurgeon isn’t an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neurosurgeon’s wife isn’t much easier. But it’s all been worth it. Together, we’ve been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we’ve had each other’...
2016-01-0505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford LarsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero Author: Kate Clifford Larson Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: December 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has be...
2015-12-0103 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Scarlet Sisters: My nanna’s story of secrets and heartache on the banks of the River Thames by Helen BattenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scarlet Sisters: My nanna’s story of secrets and heartache on the banks of the River Thames Author: Helen Batten Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 19, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Oh my goodness – another girl Mrs Swain!’ Clara’s normal iron composure broke and she screamed, ‘No! That’s not the bloody deal!’ And that is how my nanna, Bertha Swain, entered the world. When Helen Batten’s marriage breaks down, she s...
2015-11-1905 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan FranklinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea Author: Jonathan Franklin Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.72 of Total 18 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip...
2015-11-1703 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami by David GoodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami Author: David Good Narrator: David Good Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Rooted in two vastly different cultures, a young man struggles to understand himself, find his place in the world, and reconnect with his mother—and her remote tribe in the deepest jungles of the Amazon rainforest—in this powerful memoir that combines adventure, history, and anthropology. “My Yanomami family called me by nam...
2015-11-0305 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHuckabee: The Authorized Biography by Scott LambPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/246314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Huckabee: The Authorized Biography Author: Scott Lamb Narrator: John Mcmurray, Webb Wilder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Mike Huckabee Story An Intimate Look For the first time, the former governor of Arkansas opens up the vault to friend and biographer W. Scott Lamb (Pujols: More Than the Game, 2011) to tell his life story. In this thoroughly unique biography of one of the most likeable, influential leaders in America, Lamb covers the entire scope of Mike Huckabee’s life an...
2015-11-0303 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCuster's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. StilesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Author: T.J. Stiles Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of...
2015-10-2710 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude BellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247575 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert Author: Gertrude Bell Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Sian Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 yea...
2015-10-2705 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy SchiffPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witches: Salem, 1692 Author: Stacy Schiff Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.09 of Total 11 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly...
2015-10-2703 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMemoirs of the Life of John Quincy Adams by Josiah QuincyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memoirs of the Life of John Quincy Adams Author: Josiah Quincy Narrator: R. Keith Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 15, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This memoir comprises the most important events in the life of a statesman second to none of his contemporaries in laborious and faithful devotion to the service of his country. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was a diplomat, politician, and President of the United States (1825-1829). His party affiliations were Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Whig. He is most...
2015-10-1505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAutobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 by Mark TwainPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The surprising final chapter of a great American life When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and...
2015-10-1503 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSlow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's by Meryl ComerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's Author: Meryl Comer Narrator: Meryl Comer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 13, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction. When Meryl Comer’s husband Harvey Gralnick w...
2015-10-1305 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureKeep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths about Aging by Dick Van DykePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths about Aging Author: Dick Van Dyke Narrator: Dick Van Dyke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 13, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this entertaining and inspirational memoir, Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke shares his secret to staying resilient in old age. Beloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his ninetieth birthday in December 2015. He’s an established legend, having starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Ba...
2015-10-1303 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David JaherPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/243411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Author: David Jaher Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the g...
2015-10-0610 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick ForsythPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/243396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue Author: Frederick Forsyth Narrator: Robert Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shad...
2015-10-0605 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWilkie Collins: A Brief LIfe by Peter AckroydPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wilkie Collins: A Brief LIfe Series: #5 of The Ackroyd’s Brief Lives Series Author: Peter Ackroyd Narrator: Gildart Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A gripping, short biography of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, two early masterpieces of mystery and detection Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely near-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in...
2015-10-0603 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureChoosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours by Robin Gaby Fisher, Kaitlin Roig-DeBellisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/243407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours Author: Robin Gaby Fisher, Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis Narrator: Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: '[S]tirring...a bold, inspiring and ultimately hopeful book.' --Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and author of the New York Times bestseller Thrive Kaitlin Roig-Debellis is the first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of f...
2015-10-0605 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford LarsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter Author: Kate Clifford Larson Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.91 of Total 11 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And ye...
2015-10-0603 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJonas Salk: A Life by Charlotte DeCroes JacobsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jonas Salk: A Life Author: Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The authoritative account of one of the twentieth century’s most important—and controversial—scientists When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon—a knight i...
2015-10-0603 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNarrative of the Life Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick DouglasPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Author: Frederick Douglas Narrator: Raymond Hearn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 1, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom. It is a story that shocked the world with its first-hand account of the horrors of slavery. The book was an incredible success. It sold over thirty thousand copies and was...
2015-10-0103 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIn This Together: My Story by Ann RomneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In This Together: My Story Author: Ann Romney Narrator: Ann Romney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 29, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life. Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed with multiple...
2015-09-2905 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBrave Companions by David McCulloughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/243301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave Companions Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 29, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 65 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who...
2015-09-2903 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSt. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate by Karen ArmstrongPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate Author: Karen Armstrong Narrator: Karen Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 22, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout...
2015-09-2203 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureShowdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil HaygoodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America Author: Wil Haygood Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact...
2015-09-1510 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Life of General Robert E. Lee by John Esten CookePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of General Robert E. Lee Author: John Esten Cooke Narrator: Joseph B. Kearns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." -Robert E. Lee With the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous general in American history is Robert E. Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870), despite the fact he led the Confederate Army...
2015-09-1505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMichael Faraday by J.H. GladstonePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Michael Faraday Author: J.H. Gladstone Narrator: Daniel Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At the beginning of this century, in the neighbourhood of Manchester Square, London, there was an inquisitive boy running about, playing at marbles, and minding his baby-sister. He lived in Jacob's Well Mews, close by, and was learning the three R's at a common day-school. Few passers-by would have noticed him, and none certainly would have imagined that this...
2015-09-1505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken by Rod Dreher, Wendell PiercePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Author: Rod Dreher, Wendell Pierce Narrator: Wendell Pierce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 8, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many o...
2015-09-0805 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSuffragette: My Own Story by Emmeline PankhurstPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/243406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Suffragette: My Own Story Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 8, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The gripping memoir of the leader of the British suffragette movement who was named by Time as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century With insight and great wit, Emmeline’s autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women’s right t...
2015-09-0810 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGenghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy by Frank McLynnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/244682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy Author: Frank McLynn Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 80 Ratings of Narrator: 4.21 of Total 14 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most...
2015-09-0103 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDe Profundis by Oscar WildePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: De Profundis Author: Oscar Wilde Narrator: Merlin Holland, Simon Russell Beale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 7, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde's moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet's imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him towards a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with beautiful passages, De Profundis is a profound and...
2015-08-0703 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin WoodardPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down Author: Colin Woodard Narrator: Lewis Grenville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of...
2015-08-0103 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThis Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir by Judy BrownPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir Author: Judy Brown Narrator: Sarah Rose Humphrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the...
2015-07-2803 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSmokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters by Jason A. Ramos, Julian SmithPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/237321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters Author: Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith Narrator: Ned Vaughn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER 'A fascinating look' (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature’s blazes. Forest and wildland fi...
2015-07-1405 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy GoldstonePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom Author: Nancy Goldstone Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 23, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story...
2015-06-2303 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAudobiography: The Story of My Life & Work by Booker T. WashingtonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Audobiography: The Story of My Life & Work Author: Booker T. Washington Narrator: Stan Jenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was one of the most influential African American leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington moved to West Virginia after the Civil War, where he learned to read while working in a coal mine. After several years of part-time schooling...
2015-06-1505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton by William MarvelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton Series: #1 of Civil War America Author: William Marvel Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 9, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Sta...
2015-06-0930 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureStalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary SullivanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Author: Rosemary Sullivan Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 2, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography PEN Literary Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Notable Book Boston Globe Best Book of the Year The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography...
2015-06-0205 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Gr ab by Steve InskeepPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/232032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Gr ab Author: Steve Inskeep Narrator: Steve Inskeep Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 19, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its c...
2015-05-1905 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHealthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better by Billie Fitzpatrick, Wendy SuzukiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better Author: Billie Fitzpatrick, Wendy Suzuki Narrator: Wendy Suzuki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 19, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into fo...
2015-05-1905 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Marx He Knew by John SpargoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marx He Knew Author: John Spargo Narrator: Larry Earnhart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Release date: May 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist, whose influence was felt throughout Europe. The Marx He Knew by John Spargo is an exceptional summary of the life, work and family of Karl Marx. The life of Marx is told through the eyes of a dear friend and contributor to the workers movement, Hans...
2015-05-1505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes by Jorge Posada, Gary BrozekPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/232022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes Author: Jorge Posada, Gary Brozek Narrator: Lorenzo Irizarry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 12, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The legendary New York Yankee catcher tells the incredible story of his personal journey, offering an unexpected, behind-the-plate view of his career, his past, and the father-son bond that fueled his love of the game. For seventeen seasons, the name Jorge Posada was synonymous with New York Yankees baseball. A fixture behind home...
2015-05-1205 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,LitePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England Author: Elliot Engel, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost Narrator: Kevin Mccarthy, Gregory Hines, Melissa Manchester, Joel Grey, Efrem Zimbalist, Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell, Jean Smart, David Warner, Michael Tucker, Christopher Cazenove, Elliott Gould, Roscoe Lee Browne, Stephen Fry, Alfre Woodard, Simon Vance, Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hour...
2015-05-1203 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureReagan: The Life by H. W. BrandsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reagan: The Life Author: H. W. Brands Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 12, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 1.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys...
2015-05-1210 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhatever...Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves by Maria BelloPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever...Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves Author: Maria Bello Narrator: Maria Bello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery, and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation. Actress and activist Maria Bello made waves with her essay, “Coming Out as a Modern Family,” in the New York Times popu...
2015-04-2805 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOn the Move: A Life by Oliver SacksPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/232028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Move: A Life Author: Oliver Sacks Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infu...
2015-04-2810 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Author: Benjamin Franklin Narrator: Qarie Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written. From his early years in Boston and Philadelphia to the publication of his Poor Richard's Almanac to the American Revolution and beyond, Franklin's autobiography is a...
2015-04-2803 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLincoln’s Billy by Tom LeClairPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln’s Billy Author: Tom LeClair Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 15, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law partner William “Billy” Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln’s Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon’s deathbed autobiography and the “real life” of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and “rasslin’” Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred...
2015-04-1503 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMinisters at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet by Jonathan SchneerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet Author: Jonathan Schneer Narrator: Matthew Brenher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the king reluctantly appointed prime minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill’s reputation as one of the gr...
2015-04-1403 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Journey with Maya by Tavis SmileyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journey with Maya Author: Tavis Smiley Narrator: Tavis Smiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music, love, purpose, and -- more than anything -- courage...
2015-04-0703 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt McCarthyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year Author: Matt McCarthy Narrator: Matt McCarthy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, bringing readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence. In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who co...
2015-04-0710 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureConfucius: And the World He Created by Michael SchumanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confucius: And the World He Created Author: Michael Schuman Narrator: Steven Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius’s influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Co...
2015-04-0103 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWater to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les StandifordPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles Author: Les Standiford Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 31, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 190...
2015-03-3105 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEffie: A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse by Merryn WilliamsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Effie: A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse Author: Merryn Williams Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Victorian scandals don't come much more intimate and revealing than a wife seeking an annulment from her famous husband because their marriage has not been consummated. When Effie Ruskin sought escape from her desperately unhappy life with art critic John Ruskin, she shattered the Victorian illusion of the perfect marriage. That she could then dare to hope...
2015-03-2410 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePhenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World by Leigh Ann HenionPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World Author: Leigh Ann Henion Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: One woman reclaims her sense of wonder by seeking out the globe’s most incredible natural phenomena Heartfelt and awe inspiring, Leigh Ann Henion’s Phenomenal is a moving tale of physical grandeur and emotional transformation, a journey around the world that ultimately explores the depths of the human heart. A jo...
2015-03-2405 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGirl in the Dark: A Memoir by Anna LyndseyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl in the Dark: A Memoir Author: Anna Lyndsey Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light developed into a seve...
2015-03-0310 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Life of William Apess, Pequot by Philip F. GuraPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of William Apess, Pequot Author: Philip F. Gura Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 2, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess' fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by abuse, Apess soldiered with American troops during the War of 1812, converted to Methodism, and rose to fame as a lecturer...
2015-03-0203 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLife on the Mississippi by Mark TwainPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/232151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on the Mississippi Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Life on the Mississippi, the great American humorist Mark Twain recounts his journeys on the mighty Mississippi river. Covering the beginnings of his career as steamboat pilot, Twain entertains us with his wit, anecdotes and wild stories of the myriad characters and adventures he encounters. From a brief history of the Mississippi...
2015-02-2805 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLetters From Hawaii by Mark TwainPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters From Hawaii Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Robin Field Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 28, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Letters from Hawaii contains a collection of letters Mark Twain wrote for a newspaper publication. From a long, turbulent journey to the island, to his encounters with the islanders and the myriad englishmen who have taken up residence on the island. These letters are sure to be an entertaining and well written account of...
2015-02-2805 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHe Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him by Eve Claxton, Mimi BairdPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him Author: Eve Claxton, Mimi Baird Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd, Paul Boehmer, Jane Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2015 A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into...
2015-02-1710 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa RaePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl Author: Issa Rae Narrator: Issa Rae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 157 Ratings of Narrator: 4.92 of Total 26 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The “brilliantly wry” (Lena Dunham) and “lovably awkward” (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO’s Insecure. In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae—“a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne” (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously o...
2015-02-1003 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGotti's Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia by George AnastasiaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gotti's Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia Author: George Anastasia Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.89 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 9 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster—“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)—comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the...
2015-01-2705 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation by Rena PedersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation Author: Rena Pederson Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's 'woman of destiny' and one of the most admired voices for freedom in the world today, comes alive through this brilliant rendering of Burma's tumultuous history. Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson...
2015-01-1503 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story by Ashok RajamaniPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story Author: Ashok Rajamani Narrator: Ashok Rajamani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 9, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to be reborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past, reclaiming a life, and coping with the societal prejudice inflicted on those with traumatic injury. With humor, spirit, and insight, he describes the catastrophic event (his brain exploded just before...
2015-01-0903 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCrucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—the War They Fought, the Peace They Forged by William C. DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—the War They Fought, the Peace They Forged Author: William C. Davis Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A dual biography of two iconic leaders: how they fought a bloody, brutal war then forged a lasting peace that fundamentally changed our nation They met in person only four times, yet these two men determined the outcome of...
2015-01-0603 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. MorrisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Author: Charles R. Morris Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as...
2014-12-1603 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Bit of Brontës, a Dollop of Dickinson, an Offering of Austen: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 2; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of TwaiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bit of Brontës, a Dollop of Dickinson, an Offering of Austen: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 2; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain, Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England Author: Elliot Engel Narrator: Daphne Zuniga, Wanda Mccaddon, Cheryl Ladd, Nancy Kwan, Melissa Manchester, Carolyn Seymour, Glenda Jackson, Juliet Mills, Gabrielle De Cuir, Jean Smart, Stephanie Beacham, Frederick Davidson, Jill Eikenberry, Amy Irving, Alfre Woodard, Meryl Streep, Joan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Genres: Histo...
2014-12-1603 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya MDPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 Author: Michihiko Hachiya MD Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 26, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling...
2014-11-2630 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePlain Beautiful: The Life of Peggy Ann Garner by Sandra GrabmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plain Beautiful: The Life of Peggy Ann Garner Author: Sandra Grabman Narrator: Sandra Grabman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Peggy Ann Garner first won the hearts of Americans everywhere with her performance as the title character in the 1943 film adaptation of Jane Eyre. Twelve-year-old Peggy Ann then gave an Oscar-winning performance in the 1945 film A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, going on to appear in many other films over the course of her career...
2014-11-2503 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTesla by Margaret CheneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tesla Author: Margaret Cheney Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.42 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and inventors. In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his...
2014-11-1803 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMeasure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents’ Tailor; A Memoir by Martin GreenfieldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents’ Tailor; A Memoir Author: Martin Greenfield Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his whole, incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration ca...
2014-11-1003 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNapoleon: A Life by Andrew RobertsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Napoleon: A Life Author: Andrew Roberts Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 126 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 28 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar...
2014-11-0405 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHow I became a Secret Agent by Dr. A. K. GravesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I became a Secret Agent Author: Dr. A. K. Graves Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 30, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The mysterious man known as Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves was a double agent working for the German secret service and MI5 before the start of the first world war. In 1912 he was arrested in Scotland and imprisoned. But after 8 months he was mysteriously released and shortly afterwards appeared in New York, where he caused a sensation by publishing his memoirs...
2014-10-3003 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCharlie Chaplin: A Brief Life by Peter AckroydPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life Series: #6 of The Ackroyd’s Brief Lives Series Author: Peter Ackroyd Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends, perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work. He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the mos...
2014-10-2803 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJoan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn HarrisonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured Author: Kathryn Harrison Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose 'voices' moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer...
2014-10-2810 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIsabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin DowneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isabella: The Warrior Queen Author: Kirstin Downey Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 28, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history Born at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively...
2014-10-2810 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOn His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton SmithPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller Author: Richard Norton Smith Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 40 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 21, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BOOKLIST, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • From acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller—one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. Fourteen years in the m...
2014-10-2110 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor RooseveltPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Author: Eleanor Roosevelt Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 21, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 126 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 36 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of...
2014-10-2103 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJ.M.W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Lives by Peter AckroydPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: J.M.W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Lives Author: Peter Ackroyd Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 21, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a barber, and his mother came from a family of London butchers. “His speech was...
2014-10-2110 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara CooneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218541 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Author: Kara Cooney Narrator: Kara Cooney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut—the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne—was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s famil...
2014-10-1410 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePlease, Mister Postman by Alan JohnsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please, Mister Postman Author: Alan Johnson Narrator: Alan Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 9, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A fascinating piece of social history' - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local community...
2014-10-0905 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEmbattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War by James McPhersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War Author: James McPherson Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy “The best concise book we have on the subject… McPherson is… our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era.” —The New York Times Book Review ...
2014-10-0705 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom ReissPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo Author: Tom Reiss Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Who was the real Count of Monte Cristo? In this extraordinary biography, Tom Reiss traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father. Born in St Dominigue...
2014-10-0205 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard by Kara TippettsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard Author: Kara Tippetts Narrator: Patty Fogarty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 1, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finding grace in the everyday… Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer. In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and...
2014-10-0105 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. GwynnePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson Author: S. C. Gwynne Narrator: Cotter Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.61 of Total 114 Ratings of Narrator: 4.93 of Total 43 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in t...
2014-09-3003 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBridePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Author: James McBride Narrator: Jd Jackson, Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 27 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared 'light-skinned' woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve...
2014-09-2505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff HobbsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Author: Jeff Hobbs Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 16 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: *Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times best...
2014-09-2303 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFrederick: A Story of Boundless Hope by Amy Parker, Frederick NdabaramiyePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frederick: A Story of Boundless Hope Author: Amy Parker, Frederick Ndabaramiye Narrator: Barry Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: September 23, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “My God won’t let me do that.” These seven words of boundless hope would irreversibly change the life of the teenage boy who spoke them. On April 7, 1994 the life of Frederick Ndabaramiye and his family changed forever as the Rwandan genocide erupted in their homeland. When Frederick faced those same genocidaires a few years later, he noted the machete that h...
2014-09-2303 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePrince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son by Penny JunorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son Author: Penny Junor Narrator: Penny Junor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 9, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful life. After losing his mother at 12 years old, he spent his teenage...
2014-09-0903 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'keefe AptowiczPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine Author: Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his too...
2014-09-0405 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDaring: My Passages: A Memoir by Gail SheehyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daring: My Passages: A Memoir Author: Gail Sheehy Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. Candid...
2014-09-0205 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love by Nuala Calvi, Duncan BarrettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love Author: Nuala Calvi, Duncan Barrett Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 2, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany’s, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience—the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make a new life with...
2014-09-0205 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[Spanish] - Caligola. L’Imperatore folle [Caligola. The Emperor crowds] by Marienrica CaravitaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Caligola. L’Imperatore folle [Caligola. The Emperor crowds] Author: Marienrica Caravita Narrator: Lorenzo Visi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Le fonti antiche hanno tramandato la sua stravaganza, eccentricità e depravazione, facendo giungere fino ai nostri giorni l’immagine di un despota completamente folle. Caligola incarna l’emblema del sovrano assoluto al quale è concesso tutto: beveva perle sciolte nel vino e mangiava pietanze ricoperte d’oro, elesse console il suo cavallo, si faceva ado...
2014-08-2505 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGood Morning, Mr Mandela: A Memoir by Zelda la GrangePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Morning, Mr Mandela: A Memoir Author: Zelda la Grange Narrator: Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 15, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world by Mr. Mandela's side, havi...
2014-07-1503 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSecret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia by Michael FarquharPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia Author: Michael Farquhar Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 8, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washin...
2014-07-0810 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePriscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas ShakespearePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France Author: Nicholas Shakespeare Narrator: Nicholas Shakespeare Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 3, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of...
2014-07-0305 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureStrange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles MarshPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Author: Charles Marsh Narrator: Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 13, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon. The scion of a grand family...
2014-06-1303 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAdolf Hitler by John TolandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adolf Hitler Author: John Toland Narrator: Geoffrey Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 44 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 15, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 9 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is 'the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read' (Newsweek). Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the...
2014-05-1503 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureClouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael KordaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee Author: Michael Korda Narrator: Jack Garrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller ''Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale.'' —Boston Globe Michael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Ro...
2014-05-1305 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOtis and the Tornado by Loren LongPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Otis and the Tornado Series: #2 of Otis Author: Loren Long Narrator: Chris Sorensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 9, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A recipient of two Golden Kite Awards for excellence in children's literature, Loren Long is the New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of the delightful Otis series. Otis the faithful farm tractor is frolicking in the meadow with his animal friends when an approaching tornado darkens the sky and threatens the farm. Rousing the animals for another game of follow-the-leader, O...
2014-05-0903 min
Get Best Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMiss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla KaplanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/210147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Author: Carla Kaplan Narrator: Liisa Ivary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 15, 2014 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: New York City in the Jazz Age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown, an unprecedented explosion in black music, literature, dance, and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of this African-American awakening has been widely explored, one chapter remains untold: the story of a group of women collectively dubbed "Miss Anne."...
2014-04-1505 min