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Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter by Edric Kennedy-Macfoy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter Author: Edric Kennedy-Macfoy Narrator: Edric Kennedy-Macfoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Into the Fire written and read by Edric Kennedy-Macfoy. The incredible true story of life as a London firefighter. What is it really like to be a firefighter? How does it feel to respond to an emergency call, to know that someone's life hangs in the...
2018-09-06
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame by John Guy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame Series: #1 of Penguin Monarchs Author: John Guy Narrator: John Banks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 28, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame by John Guy, read by John Banks. Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most notorious of kings r...
2018-06-28
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England by Tom Holland
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England Series: #2 of Penguin Monarchs Author: Tom Holland Narrator: Roy McMillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 28, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland, read by Roy McMillan. The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island o...
2018-06-28
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life Series: #4 of Penguin Monarchs Author: Mark Kishlansky Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 28, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville. The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account i...
2018-06-28
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me American: A Memoir Author: Abdi Nor Iftin Narrator: Abdi Nor Iftin, Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans...
2018-06-19
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about He
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about Her Father's Impact on Their Lives Author: Kerry Kennedy Narrator: Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Peter Gallagher, Catherine Keener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through conversations with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have...
2018-06-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes Author: Brad Ricca Narrator: David Bendena Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the...
2018-06-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound by Donna Hylton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound Author: Donna Hylton Narrator: Donna Hylton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement. Like so many women before her...
2018-06-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World Author: Christina Rickardsson Narrator: Siiri Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An extraordinary memoir of one woman’s fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life wi...
2018-06-01
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran Author: Masih Alinejad Narrator: Widdi Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil...
2018-05-29
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist Author: Franchesca Ramsey Narrator: Franchesca Ramsey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 22, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sharp and timely exploration of race, online activism, and real communication in the age of social media rants, trolls, and call-out wars, from veteran video blogger and star of MTV's Decoded Franchesca Ramsey. Franchesca Ramsey didn't set out to be an activist. Or a comedian...
2018-05-22
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
In My Hands: Compelling Stories from a Surgeon and His Patients Fighting Cancer by Steven A. Curley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Hands: Compelling Stories from a Surgeon and His Patients Fighting Cancer Author: Steven A. Curley Narrator: Steven A. Curley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 22, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In In My Hands, surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he's learned over 25 years from his cancer patients' unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. As Chief of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Curley has worked with cancer patients for over two decades. While his life's...
2018-05-22
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Narrator: Richard Trinder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 17, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe’ Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable – and wholly true – story of Christophe...
2018-05-17
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Jim Brown: Last Man Standing by Dave Zirin
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jim Brown: Last Man Standing Author: Dave Zirin Narrator: Dave Zirin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A unique biography of Jim Brown—football legend, Hollywood star, and controversial activist—written by acclaimed sports journalist Dave Zirin. Jim Brown is recognized as perhaps the greatest football player to ever live. But his phenomenal nine-year career with the Cleveland Browns is only part of his remarkable story, the opening salvo to a much more sprawling epic...
2018-05-15
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor Author: Yossi Klein Halevi Narrator: Yossi Klein Halevi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes. I call yo...
2018-05-15
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation by Steve Ross
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation Author: Steve Ross Narrator: Ray Flynn, Michael Ross, Robert Blumenfeld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a 'devastating...inspirational' memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two...
2018-05-15
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John Branch
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West Author: John Branch Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping portrait of one western family struggling to hold on to age-old American ways New York Times reporter and bestselling author John Branch takes listeners to the magnificent red soil and rocky arroyos of southern Utah, where the Wright family of Smit...
2018-05-15
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles Author: Gary Krist Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain scrap...
2018-05-15
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock Author: Steven Hyden Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening and frank assessment of the state of classic rock, assessing its past and future, the impact it has had, and what it’s loss would mean to an industry, a culture, and a way of li...
2018-05-08
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story Author: Christie Watson Narrator: Christie Watson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side do...
2018-05-08
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der Zijl
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew Author: Annejet van der Zijl Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller. Two-time Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel names An American Princess as one of her favorite books of the year: “light and gracefully written, it dances through a century of history…” (The Guardian) Born to a pioneering family in Ups...
2018-05-01
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future by Richard M. Cohen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331751 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future Author: Richard M. Cohen Narrator: Meredith Viera, Steven Jay Cohen, Richard M. Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure. Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts...
2018-05-01
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers by Marcia Gay Harden
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers Author: Marcia Gay Harden Narrator: Marcia Gay Harden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this lyrical and deeply moving memoir, one of America’s most revered actresses weaves stories of her adventures and travels with her mother, while reflecting on the beautiful spirit that persists even in the face of her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s dise...
2018-05-01
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by Allison Pataki
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience Author: Allison Pataki Narrator: Allison Pataki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A deeply moving memoir about a couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future. Five months pregnant, on a flight to their 'babymoon,' Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked...
2018-05-01
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marx and Marxism Author: Gregory Claeys Narrator: Michael Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 24, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed as 'the Prophet himself' whose name and writings...
2018-04-24
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times by Max Frankel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times Author: Max Frankel Narrator: Max Frankel Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 24, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness America's role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his extraordinary life as he experienced them...within the context...
2018-04-24
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
American Princess: The Love Story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry by Leslie Carroll
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Princess: The Love Story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Author: Leslie Carroll Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 24, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.54 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A behind-the-scenes look into the life of Meghan Markle and her romance with Prince Harry—a dishy, delightful must-listen filled with exclusive insights for anyone obsessed with the Royal Family. Leslie Carroll’s books on royalty are “an irresistible combination of People Magazine and the History Channe...
2018-04-24
05 min
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Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by Sofija Stefanovic
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331143 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir Author: Sofija Stefanovic Narrator: Sofija Stefanovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 17, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places” (Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestseller author of Furiously Happy) memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering pare...
2018-04-17
03 min
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State Author: Lawrence Wright Narrator: Lawrence Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: April 17, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajecto...
2018-04-17
10 min
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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan: A Hollywood Princess Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: Charles Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 17, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. Women who smash the royal mold have always fascinated the public, from Grace Kelly to Princess Diana. Now acclaimed royal biographer Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, brings us...
2018-04-17
03 min
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown by Penny Junor
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown Author: Penny Junor Narrator: Jenny Funnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall—the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana ''a bit crowded''—esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled as a p...
2018-04-10
05 min
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America Author: Mohammed Al Samawi Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A young man’s moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. Bo...
2018-04-10
05 min
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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Francis I: The Maker of Modern France Author: Leonie Frieda Narrator: Carole Boyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch—Francis I—who turned France into a great nation. Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law, King Francis of France, was th...
2018-04-10
05 min
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy Golds
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots Author: Nancy Goldstone Narrator: Laura Kirman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe. From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth...
2018-04-10
03 min
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The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live by Christian Donlan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live Author: Christian Donlan Narrator: Daniel Weyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 5, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin Audio presents The Unmapped Mind by Christian Donlan, read by Daniel Weyman. 'My daughter took her first steps on the day I was diagnosed - a juxtaposition so perfect, so trite, so filled with the tacky artifice of real life that I am generally too embarrassed to tell anybody about it.' Shortly...
2018-04-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by W. T. Hamilton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting Author: W. T. Hamilton Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 1842, following the doctor’s orders for a change of climate, William Thomas Hamilton found himself accompanying a party of trappers on a yearlong expedition. Heading into the wild, Hamilton would prove himself to be a fast learner, as adept with a firearm as with sign language: this early experience wo...
2018-04-03
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Douglas Century, Andrew Hogan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord Author: Douglas Century, Andrew Hogan Narrator: Andrew Hogan, Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s sensational investigative high-tech thriller—soon to be a major motion picture from Sony—chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug w...
2018-04-03
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism by Martin E.P. Seligman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism Author: Martin E.P. Seligman Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the...
2018-04-03
03 min
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Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation by Marc Dierikx
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation Author: Marc Dierikx Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviator Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family and developed a gift for tinkering...
2018-04-03
03 min
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World Author: Eileen McNamara Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this “revelation” of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family’s most profound political legacy. While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter, Eunice, was hijacking her father’s...
2018-04-03
03 min
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A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate by Natasha Simone Alexenko
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate Author: Natasha Simone Alexenko Narrator: Natasha Simone Alexenko Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspiring true story of love, hope, and victory—and of one woman who was determined to make a difference in the wake of a crime. On August 6, 1993, twenty-year-old Natasha Alexenko was assaulted at gunpoint. After nearly a decade, her backlogged rape kit was finally tested and her rapist, who roamed free for ten years, was brought to justice. On...
2018-04-03
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought by Lily Bailey
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought Author: Lily Bailey Narrator: Lily Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery. By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey...
2018-04-03
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story by Cecile Richards
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story Author: Cecile Richards Narrator: Cecile Richards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood for more than a decade, daughter of the late Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and “the heroine of the resistance” (Vogue), comes “an enthralling memoir” (Booklist, starred review) filled wit...
2018-04-03
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between by Daniela Lamas
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328866 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between Author: Daniela Lamas Narrator: Daniela Lamas, Susannah Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To...
2018-03-27
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Gift: Ten spiritual lessons for the modern world from my Grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi by Arun Gandhi
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gift: Ten spiritual lessons for the modern world from my Grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi Author: Arun Gandhi Narrator: Arun Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: March 22, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Gift written and read by Arun Gandhi. 'Anger is good. It is an energy that compels us to define what is right and wrong' - Mahatma Gandhi, to his grandson, Arun The moving, often irreverent, story of Arun's years growing up...
2018-03-22
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Rebel King: The Making of a Monarch by Tom Bower
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel King: The Making of a Monarch Author: Tom Bower Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 22, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Best-selling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch – King Charles III King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to the throne. Despite his hard work and genuine concern for the disadvantaged, King Charles III has struggled in the past to overcome hi...
2018-03-22
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor by Lone Frank
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor Author: Lone Frank Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulation The technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath in the 1950s and '60s has been described as among the most controversial experiments in US history. His work was alleged...
2018-03-20
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Harry: Life, Loss, and Love by Katie Nicholl
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harry: Life, Loss, and Love Author: Katie Nicholl Narrator: Charlotte Parry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The most intimate and informative portrait yet of Prince Harry, from royal expert Katie Nicholl, author of the bestselling William and Harry and Kate. From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded toddler, Prince Harry has captured the hearts of royal enthusiasts around the world. In Harry, Britain's leading expert on...
2018-03-20
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld by Serge Klarsfeld, Beate Klarsfeld
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld Author: Serge Klarsfeld, Beate Klarsfeld Narrator: Raphael Corkhill, Marisa Calin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: *Winner of the 2018 National Book Award* In this dual audiobook memoir, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy...
2018-03-20
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
John Bunyan by Kevin Belmonte
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Bunyan Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: Kevin Belmonte Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience. The author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books in English literature, had lit...
2018-03-20
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents Author: Jimmy O. Yang Narrator: Mike Judge, Jimmy O. Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood. 'I turned down a job in finance to pursue a...
2018-03-13
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration Author: Edward J. Larson Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration—set at the wo...
2018-03-13
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria Author: Alia Malek Narrator: Alia Malek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the...
2018-03-13
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Author: Sarah McBride Narrator: Sarah McBride Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender member of Congress in U.S. history “The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equ...
2018-03-06
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History Author: Aida Edemariam Narrator: Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 1, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans Featuring exclusive archive recordings from the author and her grandmother. A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiop...
2018-03-01
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind Author: Michael Massing Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history—Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther—whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought. “A masterly work. Massing...
2018-02-27
05 min
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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. Author: Beverly Bond Narrator: Beverly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world. Fueled by the insights of women of diverse backgrounds, including Michelle Obama, Angela...
2018-02-27
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
White like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing by Gail Lukasik
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing Author: Gail Lukasik Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a q...
2018-02-27
03 min
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Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Author: Gordon Corera Narrator: William Hope Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 22, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. ‘This is an amazing story’ Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' – a secret Britis...
2018-02-22
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women by Tania Romanov
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women Author: Tania Romanov Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 21, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story of exile, emigration and immigration and how native language can be a powerful touchstone for the sense of home. The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women"Katarina, Zora, and...
2018-02-21
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times Author: Joel Richard Paul Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of Unlikely Allies and Indivisible comes the remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and t...
2018-02-20
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy by Andrew Morton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: Molly Parker Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. 'You have...
2018-02-13
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru by Susan Shumsky
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru Author: Susan Shumsky Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Susan Shumsky is a successful author in the New Age/Spirituality field, writing books on meditation, intuition, prayer, auras, chakras, and the like. But in the 1970s, she was one of only a handful of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s personal attendants and administrators, in India, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Following the teachings of Maharishi displaced Su...
2018-02-13
03 min
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border Author: Francisco Cantú Narrator: Francisco Cantú Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 3.25 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, 'A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the an...
2018-02-06
10 min
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Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue by Danielle Ofri
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue Author: Danielle Ofri Narrator: Ann M. Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both...
2018-02-06
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Cookie Cure: A Mother–Daughter Memoir of Cookies and Cancer by Susan Stachler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cookie Cure: A Mother–Daughter Memoir of Cookies and Cancer Author: Susan Stachler Narrator: Amy Tallmadge, Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give up When twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by déjà vu. The same illness that took her sister’s life was threatening to take her daughter’s too. Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged to help Susan through the worst of...
2018-02-06
03 min
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The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream by Bryan Mealer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream Author: Bryan Mealer Narrator: Bryan Mealer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author 'Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy.' — Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of The Big Reach and Barbarians at the Gate A brilliant audiobook saga of family, fortune, faith in Texas, where blood is bond and oil is king… In 1892, Brya...
2018-02-06
05 min
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved Author: Kate Bowler Narrator: Kate Bowler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.79 of Total 47 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Pau...
2018-02-06
10 min
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A Prairie Girl's Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder by STEPHEN W. HINES
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Prairie Girl's Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder Author: STEPHEN W. HINES Narrator: Stephen Mendel, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first in-depth look at the spiritual path of legendary storyteller Laura Ingalls Wilder. With her extraordinary God-given pluck, the creator of the epic Little House series survived the harshness of frontier life—from the heartbreak of sudden crop losses to murderous storms to unrelenting loneliness. Yet in every season, Laura found strength through her...
2018-02-06
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery, and Ruin in the City of Gold by Stephen G. Bloom
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery, and Ruin in the City of Gold Author: Stephen G. Bloom Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills. For the women who followed...
2018-02-06
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Serial Killers Encyclopedia: The Book Of The World's Worst Murderers In History by Martin G. Welsh
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serial Killers Encyclopedia: The Book Of The World's Worst Murderers In History Author: Martin G. Welsh Narrator: John Hays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "When I killed people I had a desire. This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern...I have no desire to be part of society. Society is not my concern."...
2018-02-03
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Monk of Mokha Author: Dave Eggers Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven sib...
2018-01-30
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander the Great Author: Jacob Abbott Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries growing up including having Aristotle as his private tutor. After his father was assassinated, he took over the throne and...
2018-01-30
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Author: Morgan Jerkins Narrator: Morgan Jerkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a...
2018-01-30
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America Author: Catherine Kerrison Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Ma...
2018-01-30
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
BRAVE by Rose McGowan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324588 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BRAVE Author: Rose McGowan Narrator: Rose McGowan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same.' -Rose McGowan A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto – A voice for generations Rose McGowan was born in one cult and ca...
2018-01-30
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Hospital by Barbara O'Hare
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323065 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hospital Author: Barbara O'Hare Narrator: Charlie Sanderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Barbara was 12 when she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital, Aston Hall, in 1971. From a troubled home, she'd hoped she would find sanctuary there. But during her stay, Barbara was systematically drugged and abused by its head physician, Dr Kenneth Milner. Somehow, eventually, she started to campaign for answers. This is a shocking account of...
2018-01-25
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain Author: Richard Davenport-Hines Narrator: Richard Trinder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and...
2018-01-25
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Sea is Only Knee Deep - Volume 2 by Paulina Zelitsky, Paul Weinzweig
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sea is Only Knee Deep - Volume 2 Author: Paulina Zelitsky, Paul Weinzweig Narrator: Paulina Zelitsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 23, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A literate and beautifully written account of a Jewish girl growing up in Stalin's Russia and Castro's Cuba. Her creative approach to the problems of survival and achievement under rigid dictatorships is an example of women's determination and achievement, if and when they take themselves seriously and pursue their objectives with conviction. Paulina's personal crisis came after a...
2018-01-23
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica Author: Laurie Gwen Shapiro Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a...
2018-01-16
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London by J.M. Maloney
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London Author: J.M. Maloney Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 11, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Sisters of Battle Road by J. M. Maloney, read by Annie Aldington. In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the...
2018-01-11
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Waco: A Survivor's Story by Leon Whiteson, David Thibodeau
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waco: A Survivor's Story Author: Leon Whiteson, David Thibodeau Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch -- Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau. Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived...
2018-01-02
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement -- and How I Got Out by Christian Picciolini
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement -- and How I Got Out Author: Christian Picciolini Narrator: Joan Jett, Christian Picciolini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an...
2017-12-26
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Your Life In My Hands - a junior doctor's story by Rachel Clarke
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Your Life In My Hands - a junior doctor's story Author: Rachel Clarke Narrator: Cassie Layton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: December 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: These are the extraordinary realities of the NHS frontline. From the historic junior doctor strikes to the 'humanitarian crisis' declared by the Red Cross, the overstretched health service is on the precipice. This is a powerful polemic on its systematic degradation, and a letter of optimism to that same health service and...
2017-12-21
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap by Gerrick D. Kennedy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap Author: Gerrick D. Kennedy Narrator: Guy Lockard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Experience the stunning rise, fall, and legacy of N.W.A. and how they put their stamp on pop culture, black culture, and hip-hop music forever in this “incredibly vivid look at one of music’s most iconic groups” (Associated Press...
2017-12-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical Author: Jacqueline Jones Narrator: Nylsa Smallwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket 'martyr' Albert Parsons-Lucy...
2017-12-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
To Sir, With Love by E. R. Braithwaite
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/312615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Sir, With Love Author: E. R. Braithwaite Narrator: Ben Onwukwe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with...
2017-12-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One. by Ginger Zee
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One. Author: Ginger Zee Narrator: Ginger Zee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range from misguided...
2017-12-05
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder Author: Arthur Herman Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and...
2017-11-28
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for Ame
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America Author: Don Lattin Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Genera...
2017-11-28
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Believing by Sandra Brown
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Believing Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Sandra Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sandra Brown revisits two pivotal Christmases from her own past in this heartfelt and intimate essay. One needn't be familiar with Brown's previous works to be deeply moved by this personal reflection on the meaning of family, faith, celebration, and generosity: but fans will find it a unique and special insight into the New York Times...
2017-11-21
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Ascent by Chris Bonington
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ascent Author: Chris Bonington Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet' The Times 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance' The Sunday Times Chris Bonington is Britain’s best-known climber, having spent a lifetime among the world’s highest and wildest mountains. In the 1960s, he made the first British ascent of the north...
2017-11-09
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lekfow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from...
2017-11-07
10 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi Author: Thomas Weber Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who...
2017-11-07
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach Author: Matthew Dennison Narrator: Clare Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 2, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Caroline is credited with hastening the Enlightenment to Britain through her spon...
2017-11-02
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda De Lisle
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr Author: Leanda De Lisle Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life. Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself. Split between loyalty to...
2017-10-31
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 19, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shape...
2017-10-19
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir Author: Amy Tan Narrator: Amy Tan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her ex...
2017-10-17
05 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth by Sacha Batthyany
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth Author: Sacha Batthyany Narrator: Christopher Oxford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War II One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders mingled. The...
2017-10-10
03 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture
The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution by Thomas Fleming
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution Author: Thomas Fleming Narrator: Michael Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sweeping and insightful grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US Army Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. Following the victory...
2017-10-10
03 min