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Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir
Every Kind of People: A Journey into the Heart of Care Work by Kathryn Faulke
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Kind of People: A Journey into the Heart of Care Work Author: Kathryn Faulke Narrator: Ayesha Antoine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A luminous, uplifting and deeply moving memoir by a care worker, told through her funny, heartbreaking, sometimes frustrating, and always eye-opening encounters with the often overlooked and marginalised people she cares for. 'Being as close as this to someone is a uniquely precious place to be. It is a place where secrets...
2024-10-24
05 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir
From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir by Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir Author: Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley Narrator: Riley Keough, Julia Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.48 of Total 21 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her d...
2024-10-08
10 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir
The Biggar Picture: My Life in Rugby by Dan Biggar
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Biggar Picture: My Life in Rugby Author: Dan Biggar Narrator: Dan Biggar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Dan Biggar. After fifteen years at the very pinnacle of test rugby, leading the most successful squad in Welsh history, Dan Biggar tells his story. ‘When I reflect on it all, I can say without any doubt that I gave it everything.’ Dan Biggar has never fitted the mould. Throughout his long and decorated career, he has had to c...
2024-09-26
05 min
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The Keelie Hawk: Poems in Scots by Kathleen Jamie
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Keelie Hawk: Poems in Scots Author: Kathleen Jamie Narrator: Kathleen Jamie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Kathleen Jamie. The Keelie Hawk is a landmark collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. For the first time, Kathleen Jamie has brought her astonishing lyric talent to the language of her homeland, with outstanding results. The Keelie Hawk is a deeply resonant collection written in Scots, with each poem accompanied by a translation into...
2024-09-26
05 min
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The Beautiful Dream: A Memoir by Atiba Hutchinson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beautiful Dream: A Memoir Author: Atiba Hutchinson Narrator: Odario Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A captivating read from one of our country’s greatest athletes.” ―Christine Sinclair, former captain of the Canadian Women's National Soccer Team and National Bestselling Author of Playing the Long Game Out of the Toronto suburb of Brampton comes an irresistible story of trials, perseverance, the limelight of international soccer, and—above all—heart. Despite debuting on Canada’s senior national soccer team 20 years...
2024-09-24
10 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir
Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature by Vanessa Chakour
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature Author: Vanessa Chakour Narrator: Vanessa Chakour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Examining the cultural belief that our animal instincts are to be corrected or corralled, nature advocate and rewilding facilitator Vanessa Chakour explores our inner and outer landscapes through the lens of wild animals. How can wolves, misunderstood in myths but vital to ecosystems, teach us to rewrite dangerous stories and respect nature’s wisdom? How do the peaceful coexistence strategies of black bears offer in...
2024-09-24
10 min
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Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman by Stephen Bruno
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman Author: Stephen Bruno Narrator: Stephen Bruno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For fans of books like Waiter Rant, and all those who have always wondered how the other half lives, comes this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud memoir from a New York City doorman with astute ears and a penchant for storytelling As an academically gifted Latino kid growing up in the Bronx, Stephen Bruno’s family had high aspirations for his future. He at...
2024-09-24
05 min
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You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America by Rob Schneider
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, America Author: Rob Schneider Narrator: Rob Schneider Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unfiltered and outrageously funny commentary on the threats to free speech in America from the legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneider’s childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents of mixed-race backgrounds shaped his view of the world: that America affords the greatest opportunity fo...
2024-09-24
03 min
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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Question 7 Author: Richard Flanagan Narrator: Richard Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER • LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS • An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times 'Spectacular. . . A book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers.” —Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island Sometimes...
2024-09-17
10 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir
Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Connie: A Memoir Author: Connie Chung Narrator: Connie Chung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry. Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her fi...
2024-09-17
03 min
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Remember, You Are a Wiley by Maya Wiley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember, You Are a Wiley Author: Maya Wiley Narrator: Maya Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst, professor, civil rights lawyer and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley. Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved ones, Maya Wiley grew up in a household that prioritized activism, hope, and resilience above all else...
2024-09-17
03 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir
Health and Safety: A Breakdown by Emily Witt
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Health and Safety: A Breakdown Author: Emily Witt Narrator: Emily Witt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency'—Emily Gould, The Cut A TIME AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2024 • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new b...
2024-09-17
10 min
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I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America by Don Lemon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America Author: Don Lemon Narrator: Don Lemon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation. Renowned journalist Don Lemon always had a complicated relationship wit...
2024-09-10
03 min
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Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something in the Woods Loves You Author: Jarod K. Anderson Narrator: Jarod K. Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in...
2024-09-10
03 min
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority Author: Anne Anlin Cheng Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays fo...
2024-09-10
10 min
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Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir by Paul Rousseau
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir Author: Paul Rousseau Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A powerful, gut-wrenching tale of pain, suffering, and recovery.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS “Unique and haunting…. A mesmerizing and unforgettable meditation on a stranger-than-fiction tragedy.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW One month before his college graduation, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot in the head by his roommate and best friend. At some point in the course of Paul and Mark’s friendship, Mark acquired—legally and with required permits—five...
2024-09-10
03 min
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Nights Out At Home: Recipes and Stories from 25 years as a restaurant critic by Jay Rayner
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nights Out At Home: Recipes and Stories from 25 years as a restaurant critic Author: Jay Rayner Narrator: Jay Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘For the past twenty-five years, I have been reviewing restaurants across Britain and beyond, from the humblest of diners to the grandest of gastro-palaces. And throughout I’ve been taking the best ideas home with me to create glorious dishes for my own table. Now I get to share those recipes with...
2024-09-05
05 min
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Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs by Emma Smith, Anthony Smith
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs Author: Emma Smith, Anthony Smith Narrator: Paul Paul Tyreman, Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith works tirelessly to change the destiny of street dogs. These animals are abandoned and neglected, and sometimes in danger, until Street Hearts step in to...
2024-09-05
05 min
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Parole: The Fate of Prisoners in My Hands and the High-stakes Risks of Getting it Wrong – As Seen on TV by Rob Mckeon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parole: The Fate of Prisoners in My Hands and the High-stakes Risks of Getting it Wrong – As Seen on TV Author: Rob Mckeon Narrator: Rob Mckeon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Deciding if a prisoner should stay in prison or be released is no mean feat. Enter the fascinating world of the parole board with Rob McKeon of BBC’s Parole. …You don’t know what you don’t know. How can you predict the future when you don’t know what yo...
2024-09-03
03 min
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The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster by Nadhim Zahawi
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster Author: Nadhim Zahawi Narrator: Nadhim Zahawi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘Very few people in parliament can match Nadhim’s childhood experience, his understanding of international affairs, his skills as a businessman and his passion for politics’ Rory Stewart 'From Baghdad to number 11 Downing Street: in any other country it would be fiction. You have to read it to believ...
2024-08-29
05 min
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The Last Para by John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Para Author: John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin A powerful and authentic account of one soldier's war from Tobruk to Arnhem and all points in between. John Humphreys was just a boy soldier in the Royal Engineers when war was declared in 1939. By the war's end he had jumped into Arnhem with the Parachute Regiment to spearhead the attack on the bridge. For days Humphreys and the...
2024-08-29
05 min
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A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell by Joy Neumeyer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell Author: Joy Neumeyer Narrator: Joy Neumeyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this timely memoir, a journalist examines intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe. In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of others who f...
2024-08-20
03 min
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Home is Where We Start: Growing up in the fallout of the Utopian Dream by Susanna Crossman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home is Where We Start: Growing up in the fallout of the Utopian Dream Author: Susanna Crossman Narrator: Susanna Crossman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Guardian book to look out for for 2024 In the turbulent late seventies, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside. They would share their new home with over fifty other residents from all over the...
2024-08-15
05 min
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Another Day, Another Collar: Confessions of a Dog Trainer: From the Author of EASY PEASY PUPPY SQUEEZY by Steve Mann
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Day, Another Collar: Confessions of a Dog Trainer: From the Author of EASY PEASY PUPPY SQUEEZY Author: Steve Mann Narrator: Steve Mann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UK'S NO.1 DOG TRAINING BOOK EASY PEASY PUPPY SQUEEZY* 'Steve is my puppy training prophet and spiritual guide' - ADRIAN CHILES 'Dog training genius' - EMILIA CLARKE From the simple joys of owning his first puppy through to handling security dogs and training owners worldwide, Steve Mann...
2024-08-15
05 min
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million Author: Tanya Smith Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions—who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shar...
2024-08-13
03 min
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Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* “This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and O...
2024-08-13
03 min
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Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery Author: Theodore H. Schwartz Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's talented hands, the mos...
2024-08-13
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Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist Author: Jane Rosenberg Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From America’s top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career “A mesmerizing look at this rarest of professions…”–Bookpage STARRED review "Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down.”—Publishers Weekly STARRED review "Rosenberg’s fascinating debut offers a front row seat to some of the most high-profile criminal cases of the last four decades."...
2024-08-13
05 min
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You're Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies by Desiree Akhavan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies Author: Desiree Akhavan Narrator: Desiree Akhavan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and a better haircut. “Hilariously raw, relatable, and—dare I even say—sexy.”—Jessi Klein When it comes to shame, Desiree Akhavan knows what she’s talking about—whether it’s winning the title of the U...
2024-08-13
10 min
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by David J. Morris
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Author: David J. Morris Narrator: Alex Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and ’90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States’ “global war on terror,” PTSD afflicts as many a...
2024-08-06
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Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice by Ala Stanford
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice Author: Ala Stanford Narrator: Ala Stanford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium shares her “inspiring story of overcoming mind-numbing obstacles” (Will Smith), highlighting the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were...
2024-08-06
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Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood by Jay Ellis
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood Author: Jay Ellis Narrator: Jay Ellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jay Ellis, star of HBO’s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget—part Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, part Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—in this hilarious, vulnerable memoir. “So funny, poignant, and personal. I loved this and you will, too.”—Mindy Kaling, author of Wh...
2024-07-30
10 min
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The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards Author: Jessica Waite Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “You will stay up all night reading this gem” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author) about a widow whose life is turned upside down when she uncovers the truth about her late husband. A lyrical, witty, and deeply moving memoir of betrayal and forgiveness. While mourning her husband’s sudden death, Jessica Waite discovered shocking secrets that u...
2024-07-30
03 min
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Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feh: A Memoir Author: Shalom Auslander Narrator: Shalom Auslander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New Yo...
2024-07-23
10 min
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Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism by Pierre Novellie
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism Author: Pierre Novellie Narrator: Pierre Novellie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 18, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Outstanding, I want to press it into the hands of every newly diagnosed person' Fern Brady 'Like a Martian's guide to living on Earth. Funny, enlightening and gobsmacking' Frank Skinner 'A hilarious, crystal-clear guide to autism' Phil Wang Why were the other kids at school obsessed with...
2024-07-18
05 min
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Perfect Bound: A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me by Lindsay Nicholson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perfect Bound: A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me Author: Lindsay Nicholson Narrator: Leda Hodgson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable memoir and manifesto for living, from the woman who redefined magazines for the 21st century ‘Truly compelling.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘Breathtaking … I loved it.’ Fern Britton ‘Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.’ Alastair Campbell 'Gripping’ Observer ‘Brave and raw’ Daily Mail Having suffered the unimaginable loss of her first husband and child, Lindsay Nicholson rewrites her story to become Britain’s mos...
2024-07-18
05 min
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays by Jon Fosse
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays Author: Jon Fosse Narrator: Kåre Conradi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing o...
2024-07-16
03 min
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The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game by Georgia Cloepfil
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game Author: Georgia Cloepfil Narrator: Georgia Cloepfil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An illuminating perspective on the life of an athlete and the pursuit of excellence outside the spotlight. Georgia Cloepfil played professional soccer for six years, on six teams, in six countries. In those years, the sport became more than a game—it was an immersive yet transient way of life. In South Korea, she lived and practiced in an is...
2024-07-16
10 min
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Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl Author: Hyeseung Song Narrator: Hyeseung Song Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a “scorchingly honest…hugely evocative memoir” (Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H Is for Hawk) about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth. A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the ca...
2024-07-16
03 min
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fi: A Memoir of My Son Author: Alexandra Fuller Narrator: Alexandra Fuller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober an...
2024-07-11
05 min
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Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even by Nicole Treska
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even Author: Nicole Treska Narrator: Nicole Treska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “touching memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) that “brilliantly blends a history of Boston and its surrounding areas with the history of a fascinating—and at times functional—family” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts) as one girl discovers how to break free from the criminal underworld that surrounds her. Nicole Treska was born to a family...
2024-07-09
03 min
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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Author: Peter Hessler Narrator: Peter Hessler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan Province to instruct students from the ne...
2024-07-09
10 min
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The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within by Cory Richards
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within Author: Cory Richards Narrator: Cory Richards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights. “An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Becoming Nicole “In order to escape madne...
2024-07-09
10 min
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The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of War Author: Oleksandr Mykhed Narrator: Greg Kolpakchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘We were so happy and didn’t know it…’ A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with his wife and his dog. His parents have bought an apartment nearby. On weekends they go out for brunch, cook and see friends. Life is good; it is normal. Then the invaders come. Language of War is about what happens when your wor...
2024-07-04
05 min
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Guitar by Earl Slick, Jeff Slate
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guitar Author: Earl Slick, Jeff Slate Narrator: Earl Slick, Nathan Osgood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A rollicking rock 'n' roll memoir of the last 50 years of rock history, from David Bowie's longest serving lead guitarist and legendary sideman, Earl Slick. He's played with everyone from John Lennon to the New York Dolls - and he's got the stories to prove it. Earl Slick was barely out of his teens when David Bowie hired him...
2024-07-04
05 min
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Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York by Guy Trebay
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York Author: Guy Trebay Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s. “In his beautiful memoir, Do Something, Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vani...
2024-06-25
10 min
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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738474 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew Author: Avi Shlaim Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished. Why so? One explanation speaks of the timeless clash between Arab...
2024-06-25
30 min
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Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir by Sara Glass
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir Author: Sara Glass Narrator: Sara Glass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A searing testament to the strength in claiming one’s destiny.” —The Washington Post A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young woman’s desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community. Growing up in the Hasidi...
2024-06-11
03 min
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir Author: Griffin Dunne Narrator: Griffin Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The instant New York Times bestseller! “Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times “Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story.' —Washington Post 'Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.” —Los Angeles Times “What a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family r...
2024-06-11
10 min
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Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses by Jimmie James
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses Author: Jimmie James Narrator: Jimmie James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination,” (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man’s quest to become the first person to play each of America’s 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the...
2024-06-11
03 min
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Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consent: A Memoir Author: Jill Ciment Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo. “Few writers can tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in e...
2024-06-11
10 min
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Going Fast and Fixing Things: True Stories from the World's Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado by Rich Benoit
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Fast and Fixing Things: True Stories from the World's Most Popular DIY Repair Expert and Car Aficionado Author: Rich Benoit Narrator: Rich Benoit, Hayden Daviau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An entertaining and inspirational memoir by the world’s most popular DIY expert and car aficionado, revealing how Rich Benoit went from buying a left-for-dead Tesla to becoming a successful entrepreneur. People are fascinated by Tesla: the cars, the stock price, and especially its headline-grabbing CEO. Rich Benoit was the...
2024-06-11
03 min
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The Heart of the Woods by Wyl Menmuir
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of the Woods Author: Wyl Menmuir Narrator: Wyl Menmuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Just as a parent leaves a legacy to their child, a tree leaves a legacy to its surroundings. A deep and explorative companion piece to the Roger Deakin Award-winning The Draw of The Sea. Throughout history, trees have determined the tools we use, the boats we build, the stories we tell about the world and ourselves, the songs we sing, and some of our...
2024-06-06
03 min
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I've Tried Being Nice: (Among Other Things): Essays by Ann Leary
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I've Tried Being Nice: (Among Other Things): Essays Author: Ann Leary Narrator: Ann Leary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser. Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Lear...
2024-06-04
03 min
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Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community Author: Alyssa Huynh Narrator: Alyssa Huynh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book burns with an urgency and clarion call to action.' Alice Pung, author of One Hundred Days This is a book for anyone who...
2024-06-04
03 min
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12 Trips in 12 Months: Make Your Own Solo Travel Magic by Jen Ruiz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/726270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 12 Trips in 12 Months: Make Your Own Solo Travel Magic Author: Jen Ruiz Narrator: Jen Ruiz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A LibraryReads pick for Notable Nonfiction One of Book Riot’s 10 Best New Nonfiction Books for Adults Bestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be—and empowering others to do the same. The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz decided to c...
2024-06-04
03 min
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The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors by Banning Lyon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors Author: Banning Lyon Narrator: Banning Lyon, Maria Shriver, Jonathan Eig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Bracing, brilliant, and fury-inducing.... a survival story like no other. With positively outstanding storytelling, this is a book that cannot be put down.' —Booklist, starred review AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER One of Booklist’s Best Memoirs of 2024 Banning Lyon was an average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He enjoy...
2024-06-04
10 min
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Cast, Catch, Release: Finding Serenity and Purpose through Fly Fishing by Marina Gibson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cast, Catch, Release: Finding Serenity and Purpose through Fly Fishing Author: Marina Gibson Narrator: Marina Gibson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, a lyrical memoir and “engaging, endearing, deeply felt” (David Coggins) ode to the art of fly fishing and how it can shape a life—by renowned female angler and conservationist Marina Gibson. As her twenty-first birthday approached, Marina Gibson received a unique gift suggestion from her p...
2024-06-04
03 min
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Ambition Monster: A Memoir by Jennifer Romolini
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ambition Monster: A Memoir Author: Jennifer Romolini Narrator: Jennifer Romolini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “intimate, intensely resonant memoir about workaholism, unresolved trauma, and the ‘addictive nature of ambition’” (Harper’s Bazaar), this is an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of Drinking: A Love Story and Uncanny Valley. After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book wel...
2024-06-04
03 min
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I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it by Alex Noble
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it Author: Alex Noble Narrator: Alex Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no matter what it throws at us. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of...
2024-06-04
03 min
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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century Author: Simon Kuper Narrator: Tim Frances Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little. When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his American wife th...
2024-06-04
03 min
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Which Way Is Up?: Finding Heart in the Hardest of Times by Susan Gillis Chapman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Which Way Is Up?: Finding Heart in the Hardest of Times Author: Susan Gillis Chapman Narrator: Dina Pearlman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and courage—from a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis. Using personal examples from her own recent bardo crisis—undergoing cancer treatment during the pandemic—and offering contemplative prompts for inner-reflection and a meditation practice in each chapter, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Susan Chapma...
2024-06-04
30 min
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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Question 7 Author: Richard Flanagan Narrator: Richard Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this...
2024-05-30
05 min
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The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness by Will Millard, Ken Smith
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness Author: Will Millard, Ken Smith Narrator: Dean Williamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off to a rocky beginning, but I started to see Treig in a different way. There was something about this land that told me just to hold on a while longer. It might've been just a whisper at the time...
2024-05-28
05 min
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You Deserve Good Gelato: Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You by Kacie Rose
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Deserve Good Gelato: Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You Author: Kacie Rose Narrator: Kacie Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this funny and honest feel-good memoir, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad. In 2021, Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy – and she never lo...
2024-05-28
05 min
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One Ukrainian Summer: A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR by Viv Groskop
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Ukrainian Summer: A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR Author: Viv Groskop Narrator: Viv Groskop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A memoir that captivates and delights. Fabulous' - Nina Stibbe Autumn 1993. The former USSR. Viv is about to turn 21 and is on a study year abroad, supposedly immersed in the language, history and politics of a world that has just ceased to exist: the Soviet Union. Instead, she finds herself immersed in...
2024-05-23
05 min
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Nefarious: A life in crime – my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and other faces by Ronnie Field
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nefarious: A life in crime – my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and other faces Author: Ronnie Field Narrator: Moray Treadwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a Kray brother. First prisoner in the notorious Belmarsh Unit … Welcome to Ronnie Field's world. From his abusive childhood, his inevitable journey into crime and his...
2024-05-23
05 min
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife Author: Sebastian Junger Narrator: Sebastian Junger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES 'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIAN A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection...
2024-05-21
05 min
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Where Two Worlds Touch: An Outsider's Memoir in England by River Faire
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/732630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Two Worlds Touch: An Outsider's Memoir in England Author: River Faire Narrator: River Faire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After the fairy tale of Happily Ever After ends in heartbreak, what then? From multi-award-winning author River Faire comes an inspiring account of second chances, healing, inexplicable magic, and following the soul's compass. River, an alternative healer and Paris-trained chef--a decidedly reluctant mystic-returns to England from America to help his ex-partner, back from the brink of death. Stepping into a...
2024-05-17
03 min
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Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA by Jassa Ahluwalia
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA Author: Jassa Ahluwalia Narrator: Jassa Ahluwalia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR BEST NARRATOR AT THE PRESTIGIOUS AUDIO PRODUCTION AWARDS. 'This guy has better Punjabi than both of us and he's only half Punjabi.' Only. Half. I stared at those words. The intent behind the comment was in no way malicious, but it hurt. I felt diminished. I felt like I was being...
2024-05-16
05 min
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Every Contact Leaves a Trace: My Life as a Crime Scene Investigator by Jo Ward
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Contact Leaves a Trace: My Life as a Crime Scene Investigator Author: Jo Ward Narrator: Sarah Thom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Enter the fascinating world of crime scene investigation with this chilling memoir from a senior investigator. For most people, dead bodies are horrifying. They are the physical representation of everything we’re afraid of – our own mortality, the unknown, the inevitability, and lack of dignity of the end. But for Jo Ward, a dead body is absolutely fasci...
2024-05-16
03 min
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The Prison Officer by Gen Glaister
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prison Officer Author: Gen Glaister Narrator: Rebecca Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. THE PRISON OFFICER. CHALLENGES EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT PEOPLE IN PRISON. Life as a prison officer was Gen's calling. But when she took her first job in a men’s prison at only 23, she was thrown in at the deep end. How did she find her place amongst gangsters, killers and traffickers? How would she navigate a mental health sy...
2024-05-09
05 min
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The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss by Nicola Nuttall
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721171 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss Author: Nicola Nuttall Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiring, life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her incredible daughter Laura When Nicola Nuttall was told that her 18-year-old daughter Laura had only 12 months to live, following a diagnosis of the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, she couldn’t begin to process her emotions. It was her greatest fear co...
2024-05-09
05 min
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs Author: Johann Hari Narrator: Johann Hari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodi...
2024-05-07
10 min
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Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms by Shaunie Henderson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms Author: Shaunie Henderson Narrator: Shaunie Henderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shaunie Henderson—wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wives—opens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today’s world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by your own terms in this i...
2024-05-07
03 min
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The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning Author: A.J. Jacobs Narrator: A.J. Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document? “I don’t know h...
2024-05-07
10 min
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Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me Author: Whoopi Goldberg Narrator: Whoopi Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 27 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. If it weren’t for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children th...
2024-05-07
03 min
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Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk Author: Dominic Gordon Narrator: Kyle Walmsley, Dominic Gordon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels...
2024-04-30
10 min
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The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom by Nasser Abu Srour
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom Author: Nasser Abu Srour Narrator: Nezar Alderazi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and did Nasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank...
2024-04-30
05 min
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The Sign of Jonas by Thomas Merton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sign of Jonas Author: Thomas Merton Narrator: Tom Mcelroy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton's life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
2024-04-23
30 min
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Show Up: Mindset, Motivation and Creating Your Dream Life by Tammy Hembrow
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Show Up: Mindset, Motivation and Creating Your Dream Life Author: Tammy Hembrow Narrator: Tammy Hembrow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Whatever dreams you may have, if you want them enough, and you show up and back yourself, you can create the life you want. It’s completely up to you.’ Discover the accessible tools and tips that fitness and fashion entrepreneur Tammy Hembrow has used to build success and happiness in all the key areas of lif...
2024-04-18
05 min
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Salman Rushdie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at...
2024-04-16
10 min
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Salman Rushdie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art...
2024-04-16
05 min
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Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith by Beth Holloway
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith Author: Beth Holloway Narrator: Beth Holloway, Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee, had vanished without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Four years later, Beth Holloway steps forward to tell the story of her daughter's disappearance and her own harrowing ordeal—and her never-ending belief in th...
2024-04-16
05 min
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Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen Tworkov
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America Author: Helen Tworkov Narrator: Helen Tworkov Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set...
2024-04-16
03 min
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Forever Max: The lasting adventures of the world's most loved dog by Kerry Irving
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Max: The lasting adventures of the world's most loved dog Author: Kerry Irving Narrator: Marston York Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ***The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller*** The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life of Max the Miracle dog A dog can be more than just a best friend. Sometimes they can be our hero. Shortly after a traumatic car accident, Kerry Irving met Max, a Springer Spaniel who completely changed his life. But Max didn’t stop there. Fo...
2024-04-11
05 min
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The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us by Chimene Suleyman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us Author: Chimene Suleyman Narrator: Chimene Suleyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “[Suleyman’s] narration brings a palpably chilling authority to a story she shouldn’t have to tell.” — Vulture A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny. In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would...
2024-04-10
05 min
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Fi: A Memoir by Alexandra Fuller
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fi: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Fuller Narrator: Alexandra Fuller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child “Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexandra Fuller’s open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her...
2024-04-09
05 min
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Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Rebecca Wellington
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption Author: Rebecca Wellington Narrator: April Doty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely—and deeply researched—account amplifies previously marginalized voices and exposes the social and racial biases embedded in the Unit...
2024-04-09
30 min
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A House Restored: The Tragedies and Triumphs of Saving a New England Colonial by Lee Mccolgan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House Restored: The Tragedies and Triumphs of Saving a New England Colonial Author: Lee Mccolgan Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shop Class as Soulcraft meets A Place of My Own in this lyrical meditation of a woodworker steadfastly repairing a historic home. Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and...
2024-04-09
10 min
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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World Author: Kai Cheng Thom Narrator: Nicky Endres Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending...
2024-04-09
30 min
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Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond Author: John Lyons Narrator: Peter Houghton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate account of the Israel-Palestine conflict and beyond, from one of Australia's most experienced foreign correspondents. Now updated with a foreword by Stan Grant and a new author's note. 'Lyons knows if you stand with the suffering, you're closer to the truth' Stan Grant, award-winning journalist and bestselling author 'A penetrating analysis of power with empathy...
2024-04-03
05 min
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Run For Your Life: The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets by Sue Williams
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Run For Your Life: The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets Author: Sue Williams Narrator: Sue Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick m...
2024-04-02
03 min
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Gold from Iron: A Humble Beginning, Olympic Dreams, and the Power in Getting Back Up by Nick Baumgartner
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gold from Iron: A Humble Beginning, Olympic Dreams, and the Power in Getting Back Up Author: Nick Baumgartner Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A daring and improbable story of Olympic gold from blue-collar origins Every summer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Nick Baumgartner went to work pouring concrete, taking on the harsh physical conditions of the construction trade to support his professional snowboarding dreams come winter. To...
2024-04-02
03 min
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Growing with Grace: A journey into self-discovery, wellbeing and the art of living consciously by Simone Callahan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/726820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing with Grace: A journey into self-discovery, wellbeing and the art of living consciously Author: Simone Callahan Narrator: Simone Callahan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Simone Callahan’s wellness journey was instrumental to her healing process when her marriage ended. Now, she’s determined to guide and support others in their search for inner peace during difficult times. In Growing with Grace, Simone explores the power of self-care, resilience, bravery and positivity. She also shar...
2024-04-02
03 min
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Loved It All: A Memory of Life Author: Lydia Millet Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet’s first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of wh...
2024-04-02
03 min
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Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss by Stacey Heale
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss Author: Stacey Heale Narrator: Stacey Heale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN ON LORRAINE AND FEATURED IN THE TIMES 'Stacey Heale ... has such a muscular take on grief, and her ideas around how we live with profound loss are truly original.' Clover Stroud When Stacey Heale's husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter's first birthday, everything changed. She...
2024-03-28
05 min
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Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution by Joan Gelfand
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution Author: Joan Gelfand Narrator: Sandy Rustin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Berkeley, 1972: a hotbed of creativity where painters, filmmakers, musicians, and writers inspire a young poet.Second-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and the workplace.On election day, Joan Gelfand casts her vote for George McGovern and boards a plane...
2024-03-26
05 min
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Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?: An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire by Blair S. Wa
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?: An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire Author: Blair S. Walker, Loida Lewis Narrator: Loida Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If Crazy Rich Asians and a Greek tragedy had a literary offspring, it would be the spitting image of Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? The true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? begins...
2024-03-26
30 min
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Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood by Mary Alice Hostetter
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood Author: Mary Alice Hostetter Narrator: Mary Helen Gallucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter's journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Although endowed with a personality 'prone toward questioning and challenging,' the young Mary Alice at first wants nothing more than to be a good girl, to do her share, and—alongside her eleven siblings—to work her...
2024-03-26
30 min