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Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRadio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul by Jenna Krajeski, Saad MohseniPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul Author: Jenna Krajeski, Saad Mohseni Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, an...
2024-09-2405 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady by Heath Hardage LeePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon. In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Wat...
2024-08-0605 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAlexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel KousserPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great Author: Rachel Kousser Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the...
2024-07-1605 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIzabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam ZamoyskiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Author: Adam Zamoyski Narrator: Rich Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Rousseau, Joseph II, Marie-Antoinette and Tsar Al...
2024-06-2005 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan SinclairPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre Author: Niigaan Sinclair Narrator: Niigaan Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER. NOMINATED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION. From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, th...
2024-06-0410 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions by Amanda BellowsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions Author: Amanda Bellows Narrator: Leon Nixon, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny. ''Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written.'' —David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ''A con...
2024-06-0405 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMade in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world by Brian GroomPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world Author: Brian Groom Narrator: David Judge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution...
2024-05-2305 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt by Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Narrator: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven in...
2024-05-2103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureParadise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold by Keith ThomsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold Author: Keith Thomson Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city’s treasure, all in a “breezy tale starring an audacious hero" (Wa...
2024-05-2103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAmphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World by Craig FosterPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World Author: Craig Foster Narrator: Craig Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Feel the pulse of the ocean with the audiobook version of Amphibious Soul narrated and crafted by Academy Award winner Craig Foster – featuring calming ocean sounds and original music composed using wild-found instruments from the Great African Seaforest. How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that energizes us when so much of the mo...
2024-05-1405 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBut What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur KohliPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures Author: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Narrator: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “This wonderful book is a compass, a blueprint, a mirror, and a friend. Kohli gives language to what many of us feel but can’t yet articulate.”—Erika L. Sánchez, New York Times bestselling author of I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter “Loving, culturally informed, and holistic... [Kohli] compassionately shares her own sto...
2024-05-0710 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle ParanquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn Author: Estelle Paranque Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an...
2024-05-0205 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBorderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder by Alexander KrissPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder Author: Alexander Kriss Narrator: Max Newland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially untreatable and hopeless. When, as a graduate student, Alex Kriss first began working...
2024-04-3010 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor by Zipora Klein JakobPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Narrator: Robin Siegerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet...
2024-04-2305 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria by Caroline CramptonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria Author: Caroline Crampton Narrator: Caroline Crampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of...
2024-04-2305 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureI Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin PainterPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Author: Nell Irvin Painter Narrator: Nell Irvin Painter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 1 minute Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on...
2024-04-2310 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCommitted: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne ScanlonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen Author: Suzanne Scanlon Narrator: Suzanne Scanlon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental treatmen...
2024-04-1610 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEverest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will CockrellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World Author: Will Cockrell Narrator: Pete Simonelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author). Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or h...
2024-04-1603 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNever Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life by Joseph EpsteinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life Author: Joseph Epstein Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new idea...
2024-04-1603 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health by Rose CartwrightPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health Author: Rose Cartwright Narrator: Rose Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan...
2024-04-1105 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Wide Wide Sea by Hampton SidesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest...
2024-04-1105 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton SidesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Explorat...
2024-04-0910 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGrown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy by Sharon MalonePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy Author: Sharon Malone Narrator: Sharon Malone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A must-read for anyone who cares about their quality of life . . . Dr. Sharon Malone is the first person I turn to for a whole host of issues, especially my health.”—MICHELLE OBAMA A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignor...
2024-04-0910 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines by Amie Archibald-Varley, Sara FungPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines Author: Amie Archibald-Varley, Sara Fung Narrator: Chanté Mccormick, Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the hosts of the hit podcast The Gritty Nurse, stories of the challenges, heartbreak and humour of life on the front line One of the enduring lessons of the pandemic has been the pivotal role that nursing plays in health care—vital work that isn’t widely understood or, sadly, appreciated. Sara Fung...
2024-04-0205 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline by Christian LewisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Christian Lewis. Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis takes his next steps. Since his time on Hildasay, Chris’ adventure has only gotten wi...
2024-03-2805 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureQueen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History by Anne SomersetPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History Author: Anne Somerset Narrator: Claire Vousden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers, Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs, and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime mini...
2024-03-2805 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by M.G. VassanjiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Author: M.G. Vassanji Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract 'nowhere,' then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades...
2024-03-2610 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGhost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent UnderwoodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley Author: Brent Underwood Narrator: Brent Underwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. “Inspiring and meditative—the story of...
2024-03-1910 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Cornelia GriggsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope Author: Cornelia Griggs Narrator: Cornelia Griggs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “essential work that provides lasting insights and lessons for the individual and society” (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Times bestselling author), a young pediatric surgeon and mother reveals her dramatic, cathartic diary, written as she worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City’s busi...
2024-03-1203 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles SpencerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Private School: A Memoir Author: Charles Spencer Narrator: Charles Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “A tour de force.” —The Washington Post In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his...
2024-03-1203 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRoyal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America by David CharterPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America Author: David Charter Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eise...
2024-03-0510 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah TaffaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence An Oprah Daily ''Best New Book'' and ''Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read'' * A New York Times ''New Book to Read'' * An Esquire ''Best Nonfiction Book'' * A Washington Post ''Book to read this summer'' * An Elle ''Best Book'' * A Zibby Mag ''Most Anticipated...
2024-02-2705 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him by Eric BlehmPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him Author: Eric Blehm Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration from an u...
2024-02-2705 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTrailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World by Jane RobinsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World Author: Jane Robinson Narrator: Jane Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the...
2024-02-2205 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko KakutaniPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider Author: Michiko Kakutani Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. “In this dazzling and brilliant book, Michiko K...
2024-02-2010 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAll in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth ComenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today Author: Elizabeth Comen Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: USA Today Bestseller A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treate...
2024-02-1305 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey RosenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Author: Jeffrey Rosen Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. The Declaration of Independenc...
2024-02-1303 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAre You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House by Dorothy HooblerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House Author: Dorothy Hoobler Narrator: Gibson Frazier, Lisa Larsen, Leon Nixon, Danny Campbell, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An “irresistibly readable” (David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor) collection of love letters by American presidents to their wives—and lovers—revealing an intimate and deeply personal side of our leaders. Our presidents loom so large in history...
2024-02-0603 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJohn Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community by Raymond ArsenaultPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community Author: Raymond Arsenault Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For six decades John Robert Lewis was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into 'good trouble.' In this biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism, his championing of...
2024-01-3030 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWe Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey StonebridgePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass mi...
2024-01-2505 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren BlankfeldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming...
2024-01-2505 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLegacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché BlackstockPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine Author: Uché Blackstock Narrator: Uché Blackstock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH “This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence One of NPR’s 11 Book...
2024-01-2310 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren BlankfeldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Keren Blankfeld, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later. Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each o...
2024-01-2303 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József DebreczeniPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz Author: József Debreczeni Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy Mcmillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been ap...
2024-01-1805 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin BreenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Author: Benjamin Breen Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from...
2024-01-1603 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine by Oren SchneiderPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine Author: Oren Schneider Narrator: Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian town. The rise of fascism and Nazi Germany causes his protected existence to collapse, alongside the illusion of secular Jewish assimilation in...
2024-01-1630 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWe Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey StonebridgePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism “We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt The violent unease of to...
2024-01-1610 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEscape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine HardenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Author: Blaine Harden Narrator: Blaine Harden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed wi...
2024-01-1610 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[Spanish] - Evocación: Mi vida al lado del Che by Aleida MarchPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Evocación: Mi vida al lado del Che Author: Aleida March Narrator: Irene Machado, Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Ernesto Báez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: La viuda del Che Guevara recuerda el gran romance revolucionario trágicamente acortado por el asesinato del Che en Bolivia. Cuando Aleida March primero conoció al Che Guevara, ella era una combatiente de veinte años del interior de Cuba, él era un ya legendario revolucionario y un exuberante líder. Per...
2024-01-1610 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIsaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey by Katherine C. MooneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey Author: Katherine C. Mooney Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first...
2024-01-1630 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEndless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth by Keiron PimPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth Author: Keiron Pim Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the twentieth-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age. Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in...
2023-12-2630 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMachiavelli on War by Christopher LynchPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli on War Author: Christopher Lynch Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: December 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli works, the substance of his thoughts, and his own activity as...
2023-12-1530 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureInto Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. WallancePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia Author: Gregory J. Wallance Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan...
2023-12-0530 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Walker in the City by Alfred KazinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Walker in the City Author: Alfred Kazin Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A literary icon's 'singular and beautiful' memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker). A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we tr...
2023-11-2830 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy March Through Hell: A Young Girl's Terrifying Journey to Survival by Halina KleinerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My March Through Hell: A Young Girl's Terrifying Journey to Survival Author: Halina Kleiner Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night. Confronted by a...
2023-11-2830 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Final Year of Anne Boleyn by Natalie GrueningerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman. The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore...
2023-11-2830 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin by Danny FingerothPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin Author: Danny Fingeroth Narrator: Danny Fingeroth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Os...
2023-11-2103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration by The Explorers ClubPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration Author: The Explorers Club Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some...
2023-11-1410 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJournal of a Black Queer Nurse by Britney DanielsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journal of a Black Queer Nurse Author: Britney Daniels Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19. Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day...
2023-11-1430 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOverlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World by Amisha PadnaniPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha Padnani, January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unreported in the newspaper—including new, never-before-published content Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries—for heads of state, celebrities, scientists, and athletes...
2023-11-1410 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America by Jack NisbetPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America Author: Jack Nisbet Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet recreates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history an...
2023-11-1430 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLiving the Beatles Legend: On the Road with the Fab Four – The Mal Evans Story by Kenneth WomackPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: On the Road with the Fab Four – The Mal Evans Story Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: **MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year** The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friend A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm ‘Mal’ Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles’ inner circle. Serving as their long-time roadie, personal assistant and protector, he was a sometime lyricist...
2023-11-1405 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA New Universal Dream: My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity by Steve FarrellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A New Universal Dream: My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity Author: Steve Farrell Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the 1990s, Steve Farrell cofounded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that were featured in the INC500 and spanned the United States and Europe. A New Universal Dream is the inspiring story of Steve's journey from the pursuit of wealth and traditional ideas of success toward a...
2023-10-3130 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime by NichoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Author: Nicholas L. Syrett Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York C...
2023-10-3103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRasputin by Raphael TerraPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rasputin Author: Raphael Terra Narrator: Raphael Terra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). It was a time of spiritualism. A world full of myth, mystery and mysticism. The people were open to the possibilities of life after death, supernatural powers and magic. Into this world stepped a fascinating wizard of the mind and his name was Rasputin. Great powers to heal the sick, to save the wretched, prophesy the future...
2023-10-3103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePrincess Diana by Liam DalePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Explore the captivating life of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, through "Princess Diana: The True Story of the Life and Time of Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales". If you're curious about Princess Diana but don't have the time to dive into extensive biographies, let The History Journals take you on an hour-by-hour historical journey of her remarkable life. While fairy tales promise happily-ever-afters, real...
2023-10-3103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMarty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend by Jeffrey S. GurockPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry...
2023-10-3130 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMary Queen of Scots by Liam DalePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Delve into the captivating life and times of Mary Stuart of Scotland in "Mary Queen of Scots: The True Story of the Life & Time of Mary Stuart of Scotland." Among the few women in history who have endured the trials of time, the ill-fated tale of Mary Queen of Scots continues to captivate and intrigue. This 16th-century figure's story is one of enduring interest...
2023-10-3103 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning With Racial Injustice by Carol MenakerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning With Racial Injustice Author: Carol Menaker Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to...
2023-10-3130 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBy the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families by R.H. ThomsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families Author: R.H. Thomson Narrator: R.H. Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations. Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the...
2023-10-3110 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Tourist: What happens on tour stays on tour … until now! by Phil TufnellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tourist: What happens on tour stays on tour … until now! Author: Phil Tufnell Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 What Goes on Tour, Stays on Tour…Until Now! As a cricketer, broadcaster and celebrity jungle-dweller, Phil Tufnell has travelled the world far and wide. From the great cricket tours of Australia and South Africa to his equally memorable jaunts to Benidorm and Blackpool, Phil has spent much of his life livi...
2023-10-2605 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJan Morris: Life From Both Sides by Paul ClementsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides Author: Paul Clements Narrator: Graham Mack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humor, and had earned her a passionate readership around the world. Born James Humphry Morris in 1926, a childhood spent amidst Oxford's Gothic beauty and military...
2023-10-2430 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man by Peter K. AnderssonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man Author: Peter K. Andersson Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another figure—a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head. This is William or 'Will' Somer, the king's fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry's spirits and spent many hours with him. Was Somer an 'artificial fool,' a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of th...
2023-10-2430 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhen My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation by Tara Sidhoo FraserPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation Author: Tara Sidhoo Fraser Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia...
2023-10-2430 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Wild Mandrake: A Memoir by Jason JobinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Mandrake: A Memoir Author: Jason Jobin Narrator: Alex Mortensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation—these persist, but they aren't the milestones of his li...
2023-10-1730 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFirst to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous by Salah BachirPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous Author: Salah Bachir Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most famous and creative people in recent times. Salah Bachir’s enco...
2023-10-1710 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFor the Boys: The True Account of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army by N.C.R. DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the Boys: The True Account of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army Author: N.C.R. Davis Narrator: Dara Rosenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load, but this time one of the admissions is a 19-year-old...
2023-10-0730 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate FullagarPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled Author: Kate Fullagar Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Australian History Shortlisted for the 2024 NSW History Award, Australian History Prize and NSW Co...
2023-10-0303 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhere the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam ShoaltsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic Author: Adam Shoalts Narrator: Adam Shoalts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migr...
2023-10-0310 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD by Matilda BoseleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD Author: Matilda Boseley Narrator: Matilda Boseley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future. Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked...
2023-10-0303 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRunning from the Mirror: A Memoir by Howard ShulmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running from the Mirror: A Memoir Author: Howard Shulman Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As quickly as his face disappeared, so did his mother and father. Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who...
2023-09-2630 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. WilliamsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Author: Brian H. Williams Narrator: Brian H. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his...
2023-09-2603 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBetty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor by Rachel ShteirPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As...
2023-09-2630 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[German] - So weit das Licht reicht: Die Kreaturen der Tiefsee und was sie mir über das Leben erzählen by Sabrina ImblerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So weit das Licht reicht: Die Kreaturen der Tiefsee und was sie mir über das Leben erzählen Author: Sabrina Imbler Narrator: Katja Bürkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'So weit das Licht reicht' ist Naturbuch, poetisches Memoir und Coming-of-Age-Geschichte in einem – ein faszinierender Tauchgang von der Oberfläche bis zum Meeresgrund. Nicht zuletzt ist es ein Plädoyer für neue Sichtweisen auf unsere Welt und die erstaunlichen Kreaturen, die sie beherbergt. Eine besondere Faszination geht von d...
2023-09-2003 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCrusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker by Judith L. PearsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the “Americ...
2023-09-1903 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[German] - Wäre schön blöd, nicht an Wunder zu glauben: Die Geschichte einer Frau, die mehrfach schwer erkrankte und trotzdem die Hoffnung nPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wäre schön blöd, nicht an Wunder zu glauben: Die Geschichte einer Frau, die mehrfach schwer erkrankte und trotzdem die Hoffnung nie aufgab Author: Simone Heintze, Julia Fiedler Narrator: Theresa Theis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ich starre zum Himmel, balle meine Faust in der Hosentasche und würde vor Frust am liebsten laut schreien. So hatte ich das nicht geplant! Nein, so hatte ich das überhaupt gar nicht geplant! Was hier gerade mit meinem Leben...
2023-09-1903 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Body Is Distant: A Memoir by Paige MaylottPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Body Is Distant: A Memoir Author: Paige Maylott Narrator: Paige Maylott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is s...
2023-09-1905 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMove Like Water: My Story of the Sea by Hannah StowePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea Author: Hannah Stowe Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight ― to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the...
2023-09-1910 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTroublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming by Lisa CornwellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming Author: Lisa Cornwell Narrator: Lisa Cornwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lisa Cornwell never shied away from standing up to bullies. When she was a freshman in college, she saw a man hit a woman in the face with a closed fist while a paralyzed crowd stood by and watched. Seconds later, she took matters into her own hands—with a...
2023-09-1930 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center by Martin PeretzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center Author: Martin Peretz Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From 1974 to 2012, during his years as publisher and editor-in-chief of the New Republic, Martin Peretz was a familiar presence on the political scene. In its time under his leadership, the magazine was always fresh, erudite, contrarian, and brave. Anyone interested in finding out the most distinctive expert takes on the issues that mattered—whether they be domestic or international, cu...
2023-09-1930 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePlato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin WaterfieldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy Author: Robin Waterfield Narrator: Tristam Summers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's...
2023-09-1230 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance by Sasha ColbyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance Author: Sasha Colby Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Irina Nikifortchuk was nineteen years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the...
2023-09-1230 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePassionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte GrayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt Author: Charlotte Gray Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become th...
2023-09-1203 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhat We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry by Stephanie SaldañaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry Author: Stephanie Saldaña Narrator: Raquel Beattie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been l...
2023-09-1230 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIbn Sina: A Very Short Introduction by Peter AdamsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ibn Sina: A Very Short Introduction Author: Peter Adamson Narrator: David Stifel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sina's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations...
2023-09-1230 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[Spanish] - Mi hermana, mi reina by Wendy J DunnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi hermana, mi reina Author: Wendy J Dunn Narrator: Paloma Martinez-Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: María de Salinas, dama y fiel amiga de Catalina de Aragón, esposa de Enrique VIII, está en sus últimas horas. Ha compartido toda una vida con su desventurada reina y prima y, con ella, el destierro en un país, Inglaterra, lejos de la Castilla que la vio nacer. Hace tres años que la vio morir y ahora, demasi...
2023-09-1105 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNot the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army by Rachael HanelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Author: Rachael Hanel Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor's daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a...
2023-09-0530 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOn being 'the bad guy' by Dr. Bernadette BowenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On being 'the bad guy' Author: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 2, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been around people, yet still felt alone? Dr. bird has too. Within the first variant of their envirusmental series, they revealed thirty years of their late-in-life realized secrets. In this second volume, they, literally and figuratively, Zoom in on the last four 'unprecedented' ones. This includes them cutting-the-shit about how, half-way through their PhD, COVID-19 hit. And how...
2023-09-0205 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRoyal Robbins: The American Climber by David SmartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Robbins: The American Climber Author: David Smart Narrator: Brian P. Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing fo...
2023-09-0130 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Name is Philippa: A memoir of a life lived in two genders by Philippa RyderPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Philippa: A memoir of a life lived in two genders Author: Philippa Ryder Narrator: Jackie Meloche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 'My Name is Philippa,' prepare to be moved by a powerful story of love, transformation, and resilience. Katherine E. Zappone explains, This is primarily a love story. Philippa Ryder's journey to embracing her true self as a transgender woman has left an indelible mark on Irish culture. Growing up as a boy in...
2023-09-0103 min