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Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTurner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner by Franny MoylePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274378 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner Author: Franny Moyle Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting f...
2016-10-2505 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman MailerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery Author: Norman Mailer Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes gla...
2016-10-2503 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAlfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter AckroydPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life Author: Peter Ackroyd Narrator: Gildart Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 25, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Alfred Hitchock, the master of suspense. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables...
2016-10-2505 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCrazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. AmbrosePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 18, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Terr...
2016-10-1805 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Long and Winding Road by Alan JohnsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long and Winding Road Author: Alan Johnson Narrator: Alan Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain. This third volume tells of Alan’s early political skirmishes as a trades union leader, where his negotiating skills and charis...
2016-10-1305 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in HistoryPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History Author: Larry Brilliant Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and...
2016-10-1105 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan QuinnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady Author: Susan Quinn Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history In 1932, as her hu...
2016-09-2705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science by Sarah GrayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science Author: Sarah Gray Narrator: Sarah Gray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A donor mother’s powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research. When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with an...
2016-09-2705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body by Ken BakerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body Author: Ken Baker Narrator: Ken Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Now a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone. On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at...
2016-09-2705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureIrena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. MazzeoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In 1...
2016-09-2703 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Life and Adventures of Kit Carson by Dewitt C. PetersPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson Author: Dewitt C. Peters Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide - an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literature, but most was pure fiction. This work is the authorized biography, much of it in his own words. It was first published right around the time of...
2016-09-2205 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSouth! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest ShackletonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 Author: Ernest Shackleton Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 3.82 of Total 11 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic, to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. It set out from London on 1 August 1914, and reached the Weddell Sea on January 10, 1915, where...
2016-09-2205 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA on of the Middle Border by Hamlin GarlandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A on of the Middle Border Author: Hamlin Garland Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.95 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 3.14 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human...
2016-09-2205 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAlexander Hamilton's Guide to Life by Jeff WilserPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life Author: Jeff Wilser Narrator: Johnathan McClain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An entertaining look at the life and wisdom of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, long before becoming the subject of the runaway Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical. Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under the world’s spotlight—and we need him now more tha...
2016-09-2010 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Life with Earth, Wind & Fire by Herb Powell, Maurice WhitePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire Author: Herb Powell, Maurice White Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword b...
2016-09-1305 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Rasputin File by Edvard RadzinskyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rasputin File Author: Edvard Radzinsky Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the...
2016-09-1310 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive by Julissa ArcePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive Author: Julissa Arce Narrator: Julissa Arce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A National Bestseller! What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? JULISSA...
2016-09-1303 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureShakespeare Identified by J. Thomas LooneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shakespeare Identified Author: J. Thomas Looney Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists must doubtless appear to many as a glaring act of over- boldness; whilst to pretend to have actually solved this most momentous of literary puzzles will seem to...
2016-09-0705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Idiot (Part 01 and 02) by Fyodor DostoyevskyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Narrator: Martin Geeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 104 Ratings of Narrator: 3.97 of Total 37 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes...
2016-09-0705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan TurgenevPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sportsman's Sketches Author: Ivan Turgenev Narrator: Tovarisch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 7, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: ??????? ????????; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother's estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the...
2016-09-0705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 by Agnes StricklandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 Author: Agnes Strickland Narrator: Ann Boulais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066. Although by today's standards, it is not seen as...
2016-09-0705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureQueen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne SomersetPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion Author: Anne Somerset Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she su...
2016-09-0610 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult by Jerald WalkerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult Author: Jerald Walker Narrator: C.S. Treadway Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds...
2016-09-0610 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHis Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph LelyveldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt Author: Joseph Lelyveld Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book • A prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax. 'A gri...
2016-09-0610 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTrue Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy by Kati MartonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy Author: Kati Marton Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Kati Marton’s True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism….A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history” (Washington Independent Review of Books). True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American who spied fo...
2016-09-0603 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker UllrichPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 Author: Volker Ullrich Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A major new biography—an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil. For all the literature about Adolf Hitler there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a we...
2016-09-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World by Rebecca Paley, Nadia LopezPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World Author: Rebecca Paley, Nadia Lopez Narrator: Nadia Lopez, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “The story of Mott Hall Bridges Academy is the story of American education. Nadia Lopez . . . must be a principal, a mentor, and sometimes a mother. I hope that you’re as impressed by her dedication to these kids as I...
2016-08-3005 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGreat Expectations (Version 2) by Charles DickensPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great Expectations (Version 2) Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Peter John Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 145 Ratings of Narrator: 4.46 of Total 50 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of "Pip" from his childhood, through often painful experiences, to adulthood. It charts his progress as he moves from the Kent marshes - his social status radically changed having gained an unknown benefactor - to busy commercial London. The...
2016-08-2605 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon by John BrantPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon Author: John Brant Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: August 16, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity. “Julius can’t remember who first...
2016-08-1610 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. GrantPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/271085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Author: Ulysses S. Grant Narrator: Jim Clevenger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 35 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.31 of Total 13 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. There must be many...
2016-08-1005 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke DittrichPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Author: Luke Dittrich Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless purs...
2016-08-0910 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureKierkegaard: A Single Life by Stephen BackhousePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kierkegaard: A Single Life Author: Stephen Backhouse Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of nineteenth century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern Christianity, and influenced people as...
2016-08-0905 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureExecuting the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World by PhD Lori ClunePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World Author: PhD Lori Clune Narrator: Kathleen Mary Carthy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 28, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the ""crime of the century."" Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper editorials, and protests in countries around the world. Nevertheless, the Rosenbergs...
2016-07-2805 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTrials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann HamiltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman Author: Mary Mann Hamilton Narrator: Barbara Benjamin Creel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South. Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi...
2016-07-1203 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOut Of Auschwitz by Stanley GoleniewskiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out Of Auschwitz Author: Stanley Goleniewski Narrator: Stanley Goleniewski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The purpose of my book is to share with you and the word the tragic events which I witnessed and lived through. My experience constitutes and an unusual testimony which should not be forgotten but studied by future generations, to learn the ultimate truth about Auschwitz. I write this book to tell about my experience and what I witnessed...
2016-07-0905 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWelcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair BravermanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North Author: Blair Braverman Narrator: Blair Braverman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North. Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home...
2016-07-0505 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFounding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Joseph J. EllisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/267118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Author: Joseph J. Ellis Narrator: Bob Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.74 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and...
2016-07-0510 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureKick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula ByrnePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth Author: Paula Byrne Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Paula Byrne brings J.F.K.’s adored little sister, Kick, back to life.” —Vanity Fair From celebrated biographer Paula Byrne, the remarkable life of the vivacious, unconventional—and nearly forgotten—young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love. Encouraged to be “winners” from a young age, Rose an...
2016-07-0505 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Hospital Always Wins: A Memoir by Issa IbrahimPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/268823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hospital Always Wins: A Memoir Author: Issa Ibrahim Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Issa Ibrahim’s memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years. Raised in an idyllic creative environment, mom and dad cultivating his talent, Issa watches his family’s desc...
2016-07-0503 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCatullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy DunnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet Author: Daisy Dunn Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible, appealing look at one of histo...
2016-07-0505 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches From Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin TrillinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches From Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America Author: Calvin Trillin Narrator: Calvin Trillin, Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of...
2016-06-2810 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureCompany Commander by Charles B. MacDonaldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Company Commander Author: Charles B. MacDonald Narrator: Tristan Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As a newly commissioned captain of a veteran US Army regiment, MacDonald’s first combat experience was war at its most hellish―the Battle of the Bulge. In this plainspoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald’s side, sharing in all of combat’s misery, terror, and drama. How this green commande...
2016-06-2803 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpaddenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown Author: Lezley McSpadden Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history. “I wasn’t there when Mike...
2016-06-2103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CulturePhotographs of My Father by Paul SpikePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Photographs of My Father Author: Paul Spike Narrator: Paul Spike, MacLeod Andrews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 21, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike had organized American churches to support the passage of both the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and to organize in Mississippi. An important white leader in the black civil rights struggle, he helped the LBJ White House pass legislation and write crucial civil rights speeches. In the midst...
2016-06-2110 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie LivingstonePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home Author: Natalie Livingstone Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family...
2016-06-1410 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWe Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel by Bernard Edward Powers Jr., Marjory Wentworth, Herb FrazierPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel Author: Bernard Edward Powers Jr., Marjory Wentworth, Herb Frazier Narrator: Barry Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider denominational...
2016-06-1403 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFinding Fish: A Memoir by Mim E. Rivas, Antwone Q. FisherPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Fish: A Memoir Author: Mim E. Rivas, Antwone Q. Fisher Narrator: Thomas Anthony Penny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he...
2016-06-1405 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDouble Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China by Eddie HuangPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China Author: Eddie Huang Narrator: Eddie Huang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 31, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the st...
2016-05-3110 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHow to Make White People Laugh by Negin FarsadPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Make White People Laugh Author: Negin Farsad Narrator: Negin Farsad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary The Muslims are Coming! comes a memoir in essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post-9/11 world and the power of comedy to combat racism. Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world...
2016-05-2403 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureElizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John GuyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years Author: John Guy Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: COSTA AWARD FINALIST ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding “A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.” –Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height...
2016-05-2403 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots by David FisherPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots Series: Part of Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies Author: David Fisher Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 80 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 13 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against e...
2016-05-2405 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureElizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John GuyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years Author: John Guy Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 19, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before. History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and...
2016-05-1905 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love by Melissa Fay GreenePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love Author: Melissa Fay Greene Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease...
2016-05-1705 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1849 by Sidney BlumenthalPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1849 Author: Sidney Blumenthal Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor). From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. I...
2016-05-1003 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me by Ally HilfigerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me Author: Ally Hilfiger Narrator: Ally Hilfiger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong...
2016-05-1003 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag MontefiorePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Narrator: Simon Russell Beale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some...
2016-05-0310 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureJungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the MPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya Author: William Carlsen Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America re...
2016-04-2605 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureGame of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher AndersenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne Author: Christopher Andersen Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and Kate Middleton—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Son, These Few Precious Da...
2016-04-1903 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWaking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby IrvingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race Author: Debby Irving Narrator: Debby Irving Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 60 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 14 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Debby Irving is an emerging voice in the national racial justice community. Combining her organization development skills, classroom teaching experience, and understanding of systemic racism, Irving educates and consults with individuals and organizations seeking to create racial equity at both the personal and institutional level. Irving...
2016-04-1905 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra RobbinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital Author: Alexandra Robbins Narrator: Alexandra Robbins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Nursing is more than a career; it's a calling, and one of the most important fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects...
2016-04-1903 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureChasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour by Richard ZacksPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Author: Richard Zacks Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humor Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation’s worst inv...
2016-04-1910 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEnter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman by Brooke HauserPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman Author: Brooke Hauser Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 19, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Engaging…. Nimble-footed…. Amusing….Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s…[to] situate her life in the context of its times.”— New York Times Book Review This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor’s rise to power as both a cultural icon and...
2016-04-1905 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureKick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter by Barbara LeamingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter Author: Barbara Leaming Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father’s acknowledged “favorite of all the children” and her brother Jack’s “psychological twin.” She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming and somehow not quite like anyone else...
2016-04-1205 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTrue Reagan: What Made Ronald Reagan Great and Why It Matters by James RosebushPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/261034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Reagan: What Made Ronald Reagan Great and Why It Matters Author: James Rosebush Narrator: James Rosebush Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: WHAT MADE RONALD REAGAN TICK? What was the secret to his greatness, the source of his influence, the key to his character, the strength behind his leadership? And why does it matter to the nation today? Just the mention of his name still evokes deep admiration and affection among Americans of...
2016-04-1203 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Duchess by Amanda ForemanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Duchess Author: Amanda Foreman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen...
2016-04-1210 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family by Leanda De LislePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family Author: Leanda De Lisle Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 98 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 29 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Tudors are England’s most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle’s gripping new history reveals, they are a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, befo...
2016-04-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick DouglassPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Bondage and My Freedom Author: Frederick Douglass Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography. it was written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as...
2016-04-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureTradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof,the World’s Most Beloved MusicalPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof,the World’s Most Beloved Musical Author: Barbara Isenberg Narrator: Adam Grupper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 15, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has constantly been onstage somewhere, including five Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original pr...
2016-03-1510 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWriting My Wrongs: Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka SenghorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison Author: Shaka Senghor Narrator: Shaka Senghor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit...
2016-03-0810 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Boiling River by Andrés RuzoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boiling River Series: Part of Ted Books Author: Andrés Ruzo Narrator: Andrés Ruzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 16, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon—where rivers boil and legends come to life. When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils...
2016-02-1603 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHeroines of Mercy Street by Pamela D. TolerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heroines of Mercy Street Author: Pamela D. Toler Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 16, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street. Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves...
2016-02-1603 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFree Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction by Peter GrinspoonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction Author: Peter Grinspoon Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery. Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a gorgeous wife; a...
2016-02-1603 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School by Ed BolandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School Author: Ed Boland Narrator: Ed Boland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 9, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland 'smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students' (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of...
2016-02-0903 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWhat Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography by Alan LightPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography Author: Alan Light Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 9, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. From music journalist and former Spin and Vibe editor-in-chief Alan Light comes a bi...
2016-02-0910 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOne Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur BrownePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York Author: Arthur Browne Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 2, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer. When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he ha...
2016-02-0210 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Imagination Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Mozhan Marno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 28, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager...
2016-01-2805 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureSubversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine FoslPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South Author: Catherine Fosl Narrator: Sara Morsey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 26, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Anne McCarty Braden (1924–2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement’s staunchest white allies. In 1954 she was charged with sedition by McCarthyist politicians who played on fears of communism to preserve southern segregation. Though Braden remained controversial―even within the civil rights movement―in 1963 she became one of only...
2016-01-2603 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureColeshanger: A humorous recollection of English village life at the turn of the last century. by Thomas CorfieldPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coleshanger: A humorous recollection of English village life at the turn of the last century. Author: Thomas Corfield Narrator: Thomas Corfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 25, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherwise they think that they'll be turned into baboons and apes. They also worship the flea.” Written in 1952, Coleshanger is a humorous, whimsical and charming recount of English village life in th...
2016-01-2503 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureAlexander Hamilton by Charles Arthur ConantPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252067 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander Hamilton Author: Charles Arthur Conant Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Founding father Alexander Hamilton led a passionate and meaningful life. Nicknamed Little Lion for his short stature and bold ideas, Hamilton played an integral role in the founding of America's union after the Revolutionary War, as well the drafting and executing of America's Constitution. His life, chronicled in Charles Arthur Conant's biography of him...
2016-01-1203 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOur Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons by Sheila McCauley Keys, Eddie B. AllenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons Author: Sheila McCauley Keys, Eddie B. Allen Narrator: Robin Ray Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 10, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this most intimate portrait yet of a great American hero, 'the lady who wouldn't give up her seat on the bus,' the family of Rosa Parks describes the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother figure to them as...
2016-01-1005 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin HazzardPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back Author: Kevin Hazzard Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 12 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A former paramedic’s 'thrilling, captivating' (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something wa...
2016-01-0503 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World by GulwPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World Author: Gulwali Passarlay Narrator: Assaf Cohen, Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 5, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West—that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time. “To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was...
2016-01-0505 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMen and Rubber, The Story of Business by Harvey S. FirestonePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men and Rubber, The Story of Business Author: Harvey S. Firestone Narrator: Merelyn Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This work tells the tale of Harvey S. Firestone, the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of his rise to fame and wealth and the ideals behind his success. Firestone's philosophy is that a business that exists without a reason is due for an early death. If you...
2016-01-0303 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Pirates Own Book by Charles EllmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirates Own Book Author: Charles Ellms Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy Life in the South by Jacob StroyerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in the South Author: Jacob Stroyer Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 82 Ratings of Narrator: 3.41 of Total 27 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from his early childhood on the planation up to his involvement in Confederacy's war effort and eventually his experience of becoming a free man.
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell StimpsonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Child's Book of American Biography Author: Mary Stoyell Stimpson Narrator: Laura Victoria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. (from...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6 by Agnes StricklandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 6 Author: Agnes Strickland Narrator: Ann Boulais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066. Although by today's standards, it is not seen as...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMy First Summer in the Sierra by John MuirPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My First Summer in the Sierra Author: John Muir Narrator: Adrian Praetzellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 152 Ratings of Narrator: 4.36 of Total 55 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California's Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics of the smallest "insect people" amazed him as much as stunted thousand-year old Juniper trees growing...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureHero Tales from American History by Theodore RooseveltPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero Tales from American History Author: Theodore Roosevelt Narrator: David Leeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.25 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Its purpose ... is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are essential to the well-being of a masterful race the...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture[German] - Fünfzig Jahre Museumsarbeit by Wilhelm Von BodePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fünfzig Jahre Museumsarbeit Author: Wilhelm Von Bode Narrator: Dirk Weber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Wilhelm von Bode war ein bedeutender deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Museumsfachmann und gilt als der Mitbegründer des modernen Museumswesens. Bode war eine der zentralen Persönlichkeiten in der deutschen Kultur des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. 1904 gründete er das Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (heute Bode-Museum) auf der Museumsinsel in Berlin, war dort Generaldirektor der staatlichen Kunstsammlungen und schuf grundlegende Arbeiten zur Geschichte der de...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBriefe aus dem Gefängnis by Rosa LuxemburgPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Briefe aus dem Gefängnis Author: Rosa Luxemburg Narrator: Hokuspokus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Rosa Luxemburg war eine bedeutende Vertreterin der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung und des proletarischen Internationalismus. Sie gehörte zu den Gründungsmitgliedern der KPD, deren Programm sie hauptsächlich verfasste. Während des ersten Weltkriegs verbrachte Rosa Luxemburg drei Jahre und vier Monate im Gefängnis, ein Jahr im Berliner Weibergefängnis (Barnimstraße), dann zwei Jahre und vier Monate in Berlin, Wronke und Breslau. Während d...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2 by Agnes StricklandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2 Author: Agnes Strickland Narrator: Ann Boulais Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066. Although by today's standards, it is not seen as...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEdison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis DyerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edison, His Life and Inventions Author: Frank Lewis Dyer Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.49 of Total 41 Ratings of Narrator: 2.25 of Total 12 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureDaniel Boone by John Stevens Cabot AbbottPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daniel Boone Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott Narrator: Allyson Hester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 3.68 of Total 19 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone as well as the achievements he made in furthering European...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius TranquillusPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Author: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's personal secretary. On the Life of the Caesars concentrates on the acts and personalities...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureEighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady StantonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Elizabeth begins her memoirs with this quotation, "Social science affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization", and dedicates this book to "Susan B. Anthony, my steadfast friend for half a century." (Summary by Becky Miller)
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureMarco Polo by John MacPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/253020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marco Polo Author: John Mac Narrator: Philippe Spiteri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Voici le récit des aventures de Marco Polo, ce personnage de légende, parti de Venise à 17 ans pour un long voyage périlleux de 24 années à la rencontre des peuples et pays d'Orient, d'Inde et d'Asie. Nous allons parcourir le monde, de l'Empire Ottoman à la Chine, en passant par les déserts et les mers d'Asie, l'Inde et la Perse, les steppes de l'Asie Centrale et l'ile...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWoman on the American Frontier by William Worthington FowlerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Woman on the American Frontier Author: William Worthington Fowler Narrator: Bridget Gaige Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children, and much more. This book is full of mini-biographies of women in many places, and many ages- each chapter telling about a different subject. (Summary by Stav Nisser)
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureWild Life on the Rockies by Enos A. MillsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Life on the Rockies Author: Enos A. Mills Narrator: Laura Caldwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the mountains of the West. I have made...
2016-01-0103 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureOscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions by Frank HarrisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions Author: Frank Harris Narrator: Martin Geeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.69 of Total 90 Ratings of Narrator: 4.1 of Total 21 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts produced by later generations.
2016-01-0103 min