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Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBecoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Mim Eichler Rivas, Alfredo Quinones-HinojosaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon Author: Mim Eichler Rivas, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Narrator: Henry Levya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life s...
2022-05-0310 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRiverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McgrathPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/349707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Riverman: An American Odyssey Author: Ben Mcgrath Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert ‘Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America's riverbank towns. ‘The peace of mind I found, largely alone, on that white-water mecca convinced me that life was capable of exquisite pleasure and un...
2022-04-0505 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture100 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo EmersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Narrator: Paul Spera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and advocate of social reforms. He was considered one of the great orators of the time, and his enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. As a poet and philosopher...
2022-04-0102 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture100 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza by Baruch SpinozaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza Author: Baruch Spinoza Narrator: Paul Spera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Baruch Spinoza has been called the Prince of Philosophers; Hegel said of him that the alternative was: either Spinoza, or no philosophy at all. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy: he had the courage to criticize...
2022-04-0103 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRoaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history by Holly KytePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history Author: Holly Kyte Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine' when she should be ‘feminine'. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules. Roaring Girls tells the game-c...
2019-11-2805 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGhostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward ParnellPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country Author: Edward Parnell Narrator: Sam Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 17, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare ‘An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and...
2019-10-1705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Contender by William J. MannPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Contender Author: William J. Mann Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 15, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before. The most influential movie actor of his era, Marlon Brando changed the way other actors perceived their craft. His approach w...
2019-10-1505 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePiety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House by Tom LobiancoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House Author: Tom Lobianco Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 24, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access. No journalist has covered Mike Pence for as long or as closely as Tom LoBianco. The seasoned political reporter was at the first campaign rally governor Pence held...
2019-09-2405 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Boy Between Worlds: A Biography by Annejet van der ZijlPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Between Worlds: A Biography Author: Annejet van der Zijl Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII. When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant...
2019-08-0103 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story by Ebony RobertsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story Author: Ebony Roberts Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 9, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man—a poignant story of hope and disappointment that lays bare the toll prison takes not only on those behind bars, but on their families and relationships. Ebony's parents were high school swe...
2019-07-0905 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff GuinnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip Author: Jeff Guinn Narrator: Josh Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 9, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.6 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Flor...
2019-07-0903 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAbout Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by David H. Hackworth, Julie ShermanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Author: David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 40 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Called "everything a twentieth-century war memoir could possibly be" by the New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism. From age fifteen to forty, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army...
2019-07-0203 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita AnandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence Author: Anita Anand Narrator: Anita Anand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 25, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The "compelling [and] vivid" (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the...
2019-06-2503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon GertnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/351099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future Author: Jon Gertner Narrator: Jon Gertner, Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 11, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change "Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers...
2019-06-1110 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOut of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch, Mireya SorianoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Silence: After the Crash Author: Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 11, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy. It's the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It w...
2019-06-1103 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIn the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy DunnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Author: Daisy Dunn Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 30, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review ‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful and wide-ranging' Sarah Bakewell In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the survivor who became a Roman lawyer, se...
2019-05-3005 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon WattsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World Author: Shannon Watts Narrator: Shannon Watts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news broke of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents...
2019-05-2805 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJohn Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. ReynoldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/357103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights Author: David S. Reynolds Narrator: P.J. Ochlan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history. This brilliant biography of Brown (1800—1859) by the prize-winning critic and cultural biographer David S. Reynolds brings to life th...
2019-05-1410 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBecoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay JonesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination Author: Brian Jay Jones Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites because, quite simply, he makes us laugh. The Grinch, the...
2019-05-0710 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFighting for My Life: How to Thrive in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Jamie Tennapel Tyrone, Faan Marwan Noel Sabbagh MdPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting for My Life: How to Thrive in the Shadow of Alzheimer's Author: Jamie Tennapel Tyrone, Faan Marwan Noel Sabbagh Md Narrator: Steven Grimsley, Lisa Larsen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A practical, helpful guide on how to fight back against Alzheimer's disease—with expert medical advice and one woman's inspiring personal journey. Jamie Tyrone was forty-nine years old when she learned by accident through genetic testing that she had a 91% chance of getting Alzheimer's disease. She was shocked, bu...
2019-05-0705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Maya Angelou Autobiographies: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations by Maya AngelouPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maya Angelou Autobiographies: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Indie Gjesdal, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Adjoa Andoh, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and...
2019-05-0205 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah HazardPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359010 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story Author: Leah Hazard Narrator: Leah Hazard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hard Pushed by Leah Hazard. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER You haven't slept for twenty hours, haven't eaten for ten, and you're in charge of twenty heavily pregnant women at midnight. Welcome to the life of a midwife. Life on the NHS front line is tougher...
2019-05-0205 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport by Kate StewartPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport Author: Kate Stewart Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The inspiring true story of an indomitable librarian's journey from Nazi Germany to Seattle to Vietnam—all for the love of books. Growing up under Fascist censorship in Nazi Germany, Ruth Rappaport absorbed a forbidden community of ideas in banned books. After fleeing her home in Leipzig at fifteen and losing both parents to the Holocaust, Ruth dr...
2019-05-0103 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search For Home by Michael Brendan DoughertyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son's Search For Home Author: Michael Brendan Dougherty Narrator: Michael Brendan Dougherty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 30, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The perfect gift for parents this Father's Day: a beautiful, gut-wrenching memoir of Irish identity, fatherhood, and what we owe to the past. "A heartbreaking and redemptive book, written with courage and grace." –J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "…a lovely little book." –Ross Dout...
2019-04-3005 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live by Heather B. ArmstrongPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live Author: Heather B. Armstrong Narrator: Heather B. Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 23, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as the third person ever to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a...
2019-04-2303 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny ScottPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father Author: Janny Scott Narrator: Janny Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 16, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR '[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh.'—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part...
2019-04-1605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon by Stephen WestabyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/357014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon Author: Stephen Westaby Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 4, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019 An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession's most eminent figures. Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head trauma sustained during university that gifted him the...
2019-04-0405 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon YoungPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Author: Damon Young Narrator: Damon Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the...
2019-03-2605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureUnbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha BhagwatiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience Author: Anuradha Bhagwati Narrator: Anuradha Bhagwati Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 26, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brimming "with the ebullient Bhagwati's fierce humanism, seething humor, and change-maker righteousness," (Shelf Awareness) a raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist fighting for historic policy reform. After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons grad school in the Ivy League to...
2019-03-2603 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNatalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 1-4: A comical guide to Ancient Greece and Rome by Natalie HaynesPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 1-4: A comical guide to Ancient Greece and Rome Author: Natalie Haynes Narrator: Natalie Haynes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 21, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: All four series of Natalie Haynes' BBC Radio 4 show combining comedy with classicism Writer, broadcaster and recovering comedian Natalie Haynes mixes comedy and conversation to bring the ancient world entertainingly up to date in these four radio series. Each episode...
2019-03-2105 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham AhmadPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pianist of Yarmouk Author: Aeham Ahmad Narrator: Nezar Alderazi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 21, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad, read by Nezar Alderazi. One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends were walking through their war-ravaged city. They entered a once familiar street that had now been turned to rubble - concrete bridges towered over them like...
2019-03-2105 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie DavisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey Author: Margaret Leslie Davis Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 19, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile's hunt, greed and betrayal." – The New York Times Book Review 'An addictive and engaging look at the ‘competitive, catty and slightly angst-ridden' heart of the world of book collecting." - The Houston Chronicle The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its...
2019-03-1910 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Brave Face: Two Cultures, Two Families, and the Iraqi Girl Who Bound Them Together by Barbara Marlowe, Teeba Furat MarlowePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brave Face: Two Cultures, Two Families, and the Iraqi Girl Who Bound Them Together Author: Barbara Marlowe, Teeba Furat Marlowe Narrator: Morgan Fairbanks, Ginny Welsh, Nan Gurley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 12, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The inspirational story of an American woman who moved mountains to secure medical treatments—and eventually a home—for a young Iraqi girl severely burned in a roadside terror attack. This is a story of the astonishing power of self-sacrificial love. On a typical Sunday morning in 2...
2019-03-1205 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLove You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love by Abby MaslinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love Author: Abby Maslin Narrator: Abby Maslin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 12, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered—and they learned to love again. When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it hom...
2019-03-1210 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureUntitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna PasternakPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/354678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor Author: Anna Pasternak Narrator: Laura Kirman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘The best book about the Windsors for decades' Petronella Wyatt The intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. His charisma and glamour ensured him the status of a rock star prince. Yet Edward gave up the British throne, the British Empire and his po...
2019-03-0705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe World I Fell Out Of by Melanie ReidPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/351118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World I Fell Out Of Author: Melanie Reid Narrator: Melanie Reid Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir ‘It's beautiful – full of love and light – and an exploration into not only how, but why we survive, despite everything' Christie Watson, author of The Language of Kindness On Good Friday...
2019-03-0705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob TobiaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story Author: Jacob Tobia Narrator: Jacob Tobia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds.' --The New York Times Book Review A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something...
2019-03-0510 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWe Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom PhelanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood Author: Tom Phelan Narrator: Gerard Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Tayl...
2019-03-0503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcee who became the Duchess of Windsor by Anna PasternakPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcee who became the Duchess of Windsor Author: Anna Pasternak Narrator: Laura Kirman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this "unputdownable…lively and detailed" (The Times, London) biography, discover a woman wronged by history with new information re...
2019-03-0503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTen Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry StraussPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356613 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine Author: Barry Strauss Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 94 Ratings of Narrator: 4.27 of Total 11 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of t...
2019-03-0503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-MillerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan Author: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller Narrator: Lameece Issaq Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival—and of a committed and desperate family uprooted and divided by the violent, changing landscape of Afghanistan in the early 1980s. Before the Soviet invasion of 1980, Enjeela Ahmadi remembers her home—Kabul, Afghanistan—as peaceful, prosperous, and filled with people from all walks of life. But af...
2019-03-0103 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDevices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate HubbardPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England Author: Kate Hubbard Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick—next to Queen Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in sixteenth-century England. Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business, Bess of Hardwick rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most...
2019-02-2605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSavage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) by Boris FishmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) Author: Boris Fishman Narrator: Boris Fishman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love—and an epic meal—Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Sava...
2019-02-2605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Art of Leaving: A Memoir by Ayelet TsabariPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Leaving: A Memoir Author: Ayelet Tsabari Narrator: Ayelet Tsabari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 19, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS...
2019-02-1910 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureReaching Beyond Boundaries: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Achieving Everything You've Ever Imagined by Kraig Becker, Don MannPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reaching Beyond Boundaries: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Achieving Everything You've Ever Imagined Author: Kraig Becker, Don Mann Narrator: Don Mann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 19, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For the last decade, decorated Navy SEAL, accomplished athlete, and bestselling author Don Mann has been traveling across the country giving motivational talks and in the process inspiring hundreds with the secrets behind his awe-inspiring achievements. In Reaching beyond Boundaries, Mann brings his much sought-after wisdom to...
2019-02-1903 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTogether: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap by Judy GoldmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap Author: Judy Goldman Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 12, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regain their 'normal' life. When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the waist...
2019-02-1210 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureParkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave CullenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parkland: Birth of a Movement Author: Dave Cullen Narrator: Dave Cullen, Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 12, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller ''A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. It succeeds as an in-depth report about the "generational campaign" in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy, a bi-partisan movement advocating serious gu...
2019-02-1205 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Pianist from Syria: A Memoir by Aeham AhmadPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir Author: Aeham Ahmad Narrator: Nezar Alderazi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 12, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This astonishing true story presents an "affecting viewpoint on life in Syria before and in the midst of extreme violence" (Booklist), offering a deeply personal and unique perspective on one of the most devastating refugee crises of this century. Aeham Ahmad was born a second-generation refugee—the son of a blind violinist and carpenter who recognized Aeham's talent and taught him how to...
2019-02-1203 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureLara The Runaway Cat: One cat's journey to discover home is where the heart is by Dion LeonardPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lara The Runaway Cat: One cat's journey to discover home is where the heart is Author: Dion Leonard Narrator: Candida Gubbins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 7, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pup who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life. Lara doesn't realise how good she has it in...
2019-02-0705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel by Benjamin WardhaughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Narrator: Jim Barclay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a...
2019-02-0705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/354677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Author: William Kamkwamba Narrator: Chike Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 7, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR – AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees. This is his story of how he found a way to make a difference, how he bought ligh...
2019-02-0705 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-WilliamsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After Author: Julie Yip-Williams Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller, Joshua Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an...
2019-02-0510 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNo Beast So Fierce: The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist by Dane HuckelbridgePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Beast So Fierce: The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist Author: Dane Huckelbridge Narrator: Corey Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision course...
2019-02-0505 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy DronfieldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Author: Jeremy Dronfield Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 24, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.49 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent...
2019-01-2405 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith HallPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life Author: Edith Hall Narrator: Sian Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 15, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since...
2019-01-1510 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani ShapiroPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Author: Dani Shapiro Narrator: Dani Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 15, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 99 Ratings of Narrator: 4.28 of Total 18 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR according to Elle, Real Simple, and Kirkus Reviews "Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family." —People M...
2019-01-1510 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Soong Sisters by Emily HahnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soong Sisters Author: Emily Hahn Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 18, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong Sisters: Eling, Chingling, and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars...
2018-12-1803 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureToxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead by Lydia DenworthPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead Author: Lydia Denworth Narrator: Kellie Fitzgerald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 18, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: They didn't start out as environmental warriors. Clair Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of the Earth. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city children. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they met a common enemy: lead. It was literally everywhere-in gasoline and paint, of course, but also in water pipes...
2018-12-1810 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAdam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters by Jesse NormanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters Author: Jesse Norman Narrator: Jesse Norman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 29, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Adam Smith written and read by Jesse Norman. Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the...
2018-11-2905 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAnnapurna: A Woman's Place by Arlene BlumPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Annapurna: A Woman's Place Author: Arlene Blum Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalayas to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world's tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here tells their dramatic story: the logistical problems, storms, and hazardous ice climbing; the conf...
2018-11-2003 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAdventures for a Lifetime by Ed StaffordPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adventures for a Lifetime Author: Ed Stafford Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspiring selection of hand-picked adventures, chosen and narrated by Ed Stafford. For those who don't mind a bit of discomfort in order to experience the wilder side of our amazing planet. Open your mind and reboot your soul with these unforgettable adventures. - Get a taste of total freedom as you soar like an eagle over mountains...
2018-11-1505 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePatriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna BeerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh Author: Anna Beer Narrator: Marian Hussey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 13, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible, and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness. How could a man once the...
2018-11-1303 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus by David BennettPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus Author: David Bennett Narrator: David Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: David Bennett came out to his parents as gay when he was fourteen and entered Sydney's active gay community a few years later. In A War of Loves, he shares his growing desire as a gay rights activist to see justice for LGBTQI people...
2018-11-1305 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureChurchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew RobertsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill: Walking with Destiny Author: Andrew Roberts Narrator: Stephen Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 50 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 118 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 21 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of 2018 One of The Economist's Best Books of 2018 One of The New York Times's Notable Books of 2018 "Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man w...
2018-11-0605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time by Rob ScheerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time Author: Rob Scheer Narrator: Rob Scheer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children. Rob Scheer...
2018-11-0603 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBehind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household by Adrian TinniswoodPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household Author: Adrian Tinniswood Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An 'enchanting' upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Wall Street Journal). Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had...
2018-11-0603 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook by Meaghan Wilson AnastasiosPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook Author: Meaghan Wilson Anastasios Narrator: Alan King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich...
2018-11-0105 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureI Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue PrideauxPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche Author: Sue Prideaux Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But...
2018-10-3010 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MaccullochPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life Author: Diarmaid Macculloch Narrator: David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn 'This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have been awaiting for four hundred years.' --Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall...
2018-10-3005 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe White Darkness by David GrannPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Darkness Author: David Grann Narrator: Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the...
2018-10-3010 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDefying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe by Dave WilliamsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe Author: Dave Williams Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
2018-10-3003 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureQueen Unseen by Peter HincePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Unseen Author: Peter Hince Narrator: Peter Hince, Rupert Holliday Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 68 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the globe and being there as they perform at some of the best and biggest music venues in the world. Peter Hince didn't have to imagine: for more than a decade, he lived a life that other people...
2018-10-3003 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDefying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe by Dave WilliamsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/356282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe Author: Dave Williams Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspirational, uplifting, and life-affirming memoir about passion, resilience, and living life to the fullest, from Dr. Dave Williams, one of Canada's most accomplished astronauts. I had dreamt about becoming an astronaut from the time I watched Alan Shepard launch on the first American sub-orbital flight on May 5, 1961. Eleven days before my seventh birthday, I committed to a...
2018-10-3003 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII by Sarah HelmPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII Author: Sarah Helm Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 23, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain's premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job w...
2018-10-2305 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureUp: My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest by Ben Fogle, Marina FoglePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up: My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest Author: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle Narrator: Ben Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 18, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen hundreds of times in photographs and films but never in real life...
2018-10-1805 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Mind Unraveled: A Memoir by Kurt EichenwaldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir Author: Kurt Eichenwald Narrator: Carl Moor, Allen Naarden, Scott Thornton, Franz Paasche, Sam Eichenwald, Adam Eichenwald, Theresa Eichenwald, Ryan Eichenwald, Joe Ochman, Ann Marie Lee, Kimberly Farr, Staci Snell, Kurt Eichenwald, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy—how, through personal resilience and the support of loved ones, heovercame medical incompetence and...
2018-10-1605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCatherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie FriedaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France Author: Leonie Frieda Narrator: Sarah Le Fevre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen—second season premiering July 12th! "A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and...
2018-10-1605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTitans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World by Simon Sebag MontefiorePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Narrator: Steve West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history. These titans of history—encompassing queens, empress...
2018-10-1605 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. BlightPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Author: David W. Blight Narrator: Prentice Onayemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 113 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 17 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: * Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History * "Extraordinary…a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of...
2018-10-1603 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHeavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heavy: An American Memoir Author: Kiese Laymon Narrator: Kiese Laymon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 59 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 16 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: *Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York...
2018-10-1603 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRead & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya TolokonnikovaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism Author: Nadya Tolokonnikova Narrator: Rebecca Gibel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance. The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creative activist, professional protestor, brazen feminist, shocking visual artist, and force to be reckoned with. Her...
2018-10-0905 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOn the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb by Hans FlorinePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb Author: Hans Florine Narrator: Hans Florine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Hans Florine is a big-wall climbing legend in his own time. He holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that's considered the Everest of the rock-climbing world. Ascending the Nose takes most climbers anywhere from twelve to ninety-six hours. Florine...
2018-10-0903 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHitch-22: A Memoir: Booktrack Edition by Christopher HitchensPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitch-22: A Memoir: Booktrack Edition Author: Christopher Hitchens Narrator: Christopher Hitchens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Hitch-22: A Memoir: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against...
2018-10-0903 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate WilliamsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots Author: Kate Williams Narrator: Emma Cunniffe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 1 minute Release date: October 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Rival Queens by Kate Williams, read by Emma Cunniffe. 'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily Telegraph A Times History Book of the Year Mary and Elizabeth: cousins, rivals, queens. They allied and fought and...
2018-10-0401 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureChurchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew RobertsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill: Walking with Destiny Author: Andrew Roberts Narrator: Stephen Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 50 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 14 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on...
2018-10-0405 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World by Scott HarrisonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World Author: Scott Harrison Narrator: Scott Harrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in...
2018-10-0205 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGo Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself by Susan PurvisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/357113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself Author: Susan Purvis Narrator: Susan Purvis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 2, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way. Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about avalanches that bury people without warning, sh...
2018-10-0203 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSouthern Discomfort: A Memoir by Tena ClarkPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Southern Discomfort: A Memoir Author: Tena Clark Narrator: Tena Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "Southern Discomfort is a raw, thought-provoking examination of privilege, racism, sexism, the masks we wear to conform to society's expectations, and the journey toward authentic identity." —Read with Us: Caste, An Oprah's Book Club Discussion Guide For fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a "raw and deeply honest" (Publishers We...
2018-10-0203 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Dream Called Home: A Memoir by Reyna GrandePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dream Called Home: A Memoir Author: Reyna Grande Narrator: Yareli Arizmendi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true." —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina un...
2018-10-0203 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBlue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon by Michael J. Collins MDPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/354925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon Author: Michael J. Collins MD Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 28, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in...
2018-09-2830 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MaccullochPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Cromwell: A Life Author: Diarmaid Macculloch Narrator: David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him...
2018-09-2710 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah BlumPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Author: Deborah Blum Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United S...
2018-09-2510 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam KashnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee Author: Sam Kashner Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else—Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—from the authors of Furious Love. When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sist...
2018-09-2505 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond by Jim WhittakerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond Author: Jim Whittaker Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In May of 1963, Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into world history by becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest. More than fifty years later, he is still regarded as a seminal figure in North American mountaineering, as well as an astute businessman who helped create the outdoor recreation industry. A Life...
2018-09-2503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy GoldstonePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily Author: Nancy Goldstone Narrator: Christine Lakin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial -- and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. On March 15, 1348, twenty-two-year-old Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for the murder of her husband before the Pope and his court...
2018-09-2503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMiles and Me by Quincy TroupePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miles and Me Author: Quincy Troupe Narrator: Richard Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Quincy Troupe's account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistically and personally. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography, Troupe-one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s-had exceptional access...
2018-09-2503 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIn My Life: A Music Memoir by Alan JohnsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Life: A Music Memoir Author: Alan Johnson Narrator: Alan Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 20, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of In My Life, written and read by Alan Johnson. From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s, to going out to work as a postman humming 'Watching the Detectives...
2018-09-2001 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureUnnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 by Richard ShepherPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 Author: Richard Shepherd Narrator: Richard Shepherd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 67 Ratings of Narrator: 4.74 of Total 19 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin. 'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak...
2018-09-2005 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureRising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli SaslowPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist Author: Eli Saslow Narrator: Eli Saslow, Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 18, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, this is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another. "Rising Out of Hatred proclaims if t...
2018-09-1805 min
Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureYoung Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity by Nick BunkerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity Author: Nick Bunker Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 18, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the...
2018-09-1805 min