Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Psychic told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela Author: Jane Christmas Narrator: Jane Christmas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Impulse is intuition on Crack. If Intuition is the prudent angel who carefully directs your spirit, then Impulse is its mischief-making twin. The "imp in impulse." And thus begins Jane Christmas's second book chronicling a walk a very long walk taken to celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life. From a chance encounter, Jane Christmas is inspired to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a goal she mentioned in a CBC radio interview. That casual mention insipired others, too, and Christmas finds herself "leader" of 14 women who have all signed on to hike the Camino with her. Before leaving, a psychic warns her of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man. Udaunted, Christmas soldiers on. In vivid, irreverant style, she recounts the joys and struggles she encountered on this challenging pilgrimage - her battles with loneliness, group dynamics, and exhaustion, and more. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim is one trip neither the author or listener will forget.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever Author: Rory Feek Narrator: Rory Feek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: February 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory. By inviting so many into the final months of Joey’s life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple way they chose to live; and how they loved each other every step of the way. But there is far more to the story. “My life is very ordinary,” says Rory. “On the surface, it is not very special. If you looked at it, day to day, it wouldn’t seem like much. But when you look at it in a bigger context—as part of a larger story—you start to see the magic that is on the pages of the book that is my life. And the more you look, the more you see. Or, at least, I do.” In this vulnerable book, he takes us for the first time into his own challenging life story and what it was like growing up in rural America with little money and even less family stability. This is the story of a man searching for meaning and security in a world that offered neither. And it’s the story of a man who finally gives it all to a power higher than himself and soon meets a young woman who will change his heart forever. In This Life I Live, Rory Feek helps us not only to connect more fully to his and Joey’s story but also to our own journeys. He shows what can happen when we are fully open in life’s key moments, whether when meeting our life companion or tackling an unexpected tragedy. He also gives never-before-revealed details on their life together and what he calls “the long goodbye,” the blessing of being able to know that life is going to end and taking advantage of it. Rory shows how we are all actually there already and how we can learn to live that way every day. A gifted man from nowhere and everywhere in search of something to believe in. A young woman from the Midwest with an angelic voice and deep roots that just needed a place to be planted. This is their story. Two hearts that found each other and touched millions of other hearts along the way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North Author: Hunter Davies Narrator: Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun. In an excellent social memoir from one of the UK's premier columnists over the past five decades, Hunter Davies captures this period beautifully. His memoir of growing up in post-war North of England from 1945 onwards, amid the immense damage wrought by the Second World War, and the dreariness of life on rationing, very little luxuries and an archaic educational system, should be one that will resonate with thousands of readers across Britain. In the same vein as Robert Douglas's Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood and Alan Johnson's This Boy, Hunter's memories of a hard life laced with glorious moments of colour and emotion will certainly strike a vein with his generation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Olive Witch Author: Abeer Y. Hoque Narrator: Abeer Y. Hoque Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the 1970s, Nigeria is flush with oil money, building new universities, and hanging on to old colonial habits. Abeer Hoque is a Bangladeshi girl growing up in a small sunlit town, where the red clay earth, corporal punishment and running games are facts of life. At thirteen she moves with her family to suburban Pittsburgh and finds herself surrounded by clouded skies and high schoolers who speak in movie quotes and pop culture slang. Finding her place as a young woman in America proves more difficult than she can imagine. Disassociated from her parents, and laid low by academic pressure and spiralling depression, she is committed to a psychiatric ward in Philadelphia. When she moves to Bangladesh on her own, it proves to be yet another beginning for someone who is only just getting used to being an outsider - wherever she is. Arresting and beautifully written, with poems and weather conditions framing each chapter, Olive Witch is an intimate memoir about taking the long way home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey Author: Bret Witter, Troylyn Ball Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Troylyn Bell and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Nearing fifty, Troy thought her chance at adventure had passed. But in this booming little Appalachian Mountain city of hippies, farmers, artisans, and retirees, she unexpectedly discovered a support network and something she’d never had in twenty-five years of providing round-the-clock care for her special needs boys: the freedom to pursue her own dreams. She struck up a friendship with a legendary eighty-year-old raconteur from the mountains, met his friends, and soon found herself in a rickety country shack with an ingeniously inventive retired farmer trying to create the best recipe ever for traditional mountain moonshine. But when the real estate bubble burst and the collapse of her husband Charlie’s new venture in Asheville left them deeply in debt, Troy realized her ten-year business plan for Troy & Sons Platinum Whiskey wasn’t enough. If she was going to save her family—and she was definitely going to save her family—she needed to become the most successful woman in the legal whiskey business. And she needed to do it fast, before the bank took her house, her business, and everything she’d worked so hard to achieve. Full of eccentric characters and charming locations—from a ''haunted'' cabin in the mountains to the last farm in the world to grow heritage Crooked Creek corn—Pure Heart is a charming story of a woman who set out to find a purpose in the most unexpected of places, and ended up finding happiness, contentment, and a community of love and respect.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice Author: Keke Palmer Narrator: Keke Palmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.92 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A sometimes serious, often hilarious, and always inspiring guide that encourages young women to live a life full of ownership, confidence, and freedom from singer and popular Scream Queens and Grease Live! actress Keke Palmer, delightfully illustrated in four color with Keke’s favorite inspirational quotes, journal entries, and memes. As a successful singer, actress, and talk show host, Keke has always used her huge social media following as a platform for real talk about the issues that matter to her generation, and now she is speaking out candidly and for the first time about the secrets, struggles, and practices that have guided her to succeed. On the surface, it may appear that Keke has it made, but under the success, she has grappled with the same issues all young women wrestle with—identity, pressure, self-worth, love, sexuality, heartbreak, and family. With this in mind, she created I Don’t Belong To You—an inspirational guide that encourages young women to change their mindset and live with more freedom, confidence, and love as they navigate the rough terrain of the twenty-first century. Full of revealing stories from Keke’s personal and professional life, this book tackles twelve topics—sexuality, race, anxiety, success, bullying, and body image to name a few—with refreshing honesty. Within each chapter is a personal interview with one of the many people that have inspired and motivated her, including Serena Williams, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Lee Daniels; quotes, texts, song lyrics, and funny memes that have inspired her; and practices that can help you stay on a path of always growing, moving forward. With a voice of empathy, tough love, and determination, Keke speaks about the challenges and triumphs she has experienced on her journey to finding her own voice and creating a beautiful life. I Don’t Belong To You is the motivation you need to move past pain and fear to lead a life full of creativity, spirituality, passion, and unlimited success.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery Author: Steph Jagger Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests her body and soul, in this transformative memoir, full of heart and courage, that speaks to the adventurousness in all of us. Steph Jagger had always been a force of nature. Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she saw for women growing up, she emulated the men in her life—chasing success, climbing the corporate ladder, ticking the boxes, playing by the rules of a masculine ideal. She was accomplished. She was living ''The Dream.'' But it wasn't her dream. Then the universe caught her attention with a sign: Raise Restraining Device. Steph had seen this ski lift sign on countless occasions in the past, but the familiar words suddenly became a personal call to shake off the life she had built in a search for something different, something more. Steph soon decided to walk away from the success and security she had worked long and hard to obtain. She quit her job, took a second mortgage on her house, sold everything except her ski equipment and her laptop, and bought a bundle of plane tickets. For the next year, she followed winter across North and South America, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand—and up and down the mountains of nine countries—on a mission to ski four million vertical feet in a year. What hiking was for Cheryl Strayed, skiing became for Steph: a crucible in which to crack open her life and get to the very center of herself. But she would have to break herself down—first physically, then emotionally—before she could start to rebuild. And it was through this journey that she came to understand how to be a woman, how to love, and how to live authentically. Electrifying, heartfelt, and full of humor, Unbound is Steph’s story—an odyssey of courage and self-discovery that, like Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, will inspire readers to remove their own restraining devices and pursue the life they are meant to lead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder Author: Claudia Rowe Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us. ''Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you’re honest, as honest as any reporter. . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn’t it?''—Kendall Francois In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight women—and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims’ rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil. Reaching out after Francois was arrested, Rowe and the serial killer began a dizzying four-year conversation about cruelty, compassion, and control; an unusual and provocative relationship that would eventually lead her to the abyss, forcing her to clearly see herself and her own past—and why she was drawn to danger.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Versailles Christmas-Tide Author: Mary Stuart Boyd Narrator: David Wales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david wales

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being Author: Henning Mankell Narrator: Sean Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met, but wish I had. I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years. It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life. And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282935 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave Author: Isaac Mason Narrator: Lynne Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 45 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures on his experiences and was later encouraged to publish them in book form. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation Author: Kyo Maclear Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 3, 2017 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn’t seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady, the slow accumulations of knowledge, and the lulls that leave room for contemplation. A distilled, crystal-like companion to H is for Hawk, Birds Art Life celebrates the particular madness of chasing after birds in the urban environment and explores what happens when the core lessons of birding are applied to other aspects of art and life. Moving with ease between the granular and the grand, peering into the inner landscape as much as the outer one, this is a deeply personal year-long inquiry into big themes: love, waiting, regrets, endings. If Birds Art Life was sprung from Maclear’s sense of disconnection, her passions faltering under the strain of daily existence, this book is ultimately about the value of reconnection—and how the act of seeking engagement and beauty in small ways can lead us to discover our most satisfying and meaningful lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons of Redemption: A Story of Drugs, Guns, Violence, and Prison Author: Kevin Shird Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lessons of Redemption is the memoir of Kevin Shird, a former drug dealer from Baltimore who now is a leading advocate against violence, drug dealing, and social inequality. The book is an extraordinary account of how one young man turned his life around after years of involvement in serious crime and drug dealing. Shird tells of shootings, murder, drug dealing, and his life behind bars in a federal prison. Shocking, fascinating, and frightening, Lessons of Redemption is a raw, uncensored look into a way of life that has destroyed many urban communities in America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Books for Living: Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and Embracing Life Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Jeff Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality? For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world, with all its noise and distractions. In each chapter, he discusses a particular book—what brought him to it (or vice versa), the people in his life he associates with it, and how it became a part of his understanding of himself in the world.  These books span centuries and genres (from classic works of adult and children’s literature to contemporary thrillers and even cookbooks), and each one relates to the questions and concerns we all share. Throughout, Schwalbe focuses on the way certain books can help us honor those we’ve loved and lost, and also figure out how to live each day more fully. Rich with stories and recommendations, Books for Living is a treasure for everyone who loves books and loves to hear the answer to the question: “What are you reading?”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Guy Like Me Author: John Scott Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: December 27, 2016 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: From the NHL’s most unexpected All-Star MVP comes a sports memoir unlike any other. Hilarious, candid, and reflective, A Guy Like Me recounts the heartwarming story of John Scott: an average joe who became a sports icon overnight. Known as a willing-and-able fighter and bruiser in the league, John Scott was a surprising and tongue-and-cheek nominee for the 2016 NHL All-Star Game. He’d been in the league for over eight NHL seasons, playing for teams such as the Wild, Blackhawks, Rangers, Sabres, and the Sharks. Scott’s best attribute as an NHL player was dropping his gloves—never the best player, he did become the most feared fighter in the NHL, racking up extensive penalty minutes. In order to prevent him from playing in the game, his current team—the Phoenix Coyotes—traded Scott to the Montreal Canadiens, who demoted him to the AHL team in an attempt to disqualify him from playing in the All-Star Game. Fans were outraged and Scott was devastated. He’d been downgraded in his job—forced to relocate while his wife was pregnant with twin girls. But the fans wouldn’t back down and insisted the NHL let Scott play in the game. What followed was an inspiring and unforgettable Cinderella story. Detailing his life growing up and with plenty of his signature humor, A Guy Like Me is a moving, witty, and remarkable memoir that you won’t be able to put down.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death Author: Franz Von Dingelstedt Narrator: Claudia Salto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his friends, and some information about why he isn't the rich man we'd expect him to be. This book was prepared and completed within two days by the volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders to mark their 15th anniversary with the 50,000th published book at Project Gutenberg. ( Claudia Salto)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Latin Quarter Author: Frank Berkeley Smith Narrator: Bill Boerst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 14, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. "Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des Fourneaux," I continued. Cabby's face broke out into a smile. "Ah, oui, oui, le Quartier Latin." And it was at the end of this crooked street, through a lane that led into a half court flanked by a row of studio buildings, and up one pair of dingy waxed steps, that I found a door bearing the name of the author of the following pages--his visiting card impaled on a tack. He was in his shirt-sleeves--the thermometer stood at 90° outside--working at his desk, surrounded by half-finished sketches and manuscript. The man himself I had met before--I had known him for years, in fact--but the surroundings were new to me. So too were his methods of work. Nowadays when a man would write of the Siege of Peking or the relief of some South African town with the unpronounceable name, his habit is to rent a room on an up-town avenue, move in an inkstand and pad, and a collection of illustrated papers and encyclopedias. This writer on the rue Falguière chose a different plan. He would come back year after year, and study his subject and compile his impressions of the Quarter in the very atmosphere of the place itself; within a stone's throw of the Luxembourg Gardens and the Panthéon; near the cafés and the Bullier; next door, if you please, to the public laundry where his washerwoman pays a few sous for the privilege of pounding his clothes into holes. It all seemed very real to me, as I sat beside him and watched him at work. The method delighted me. I have similar ideas myself about the value of his kind of study in out-door sketching, compared with the labored work of the studio, and I have most positive opinions regarding the quality which comes of it. If then the pages which here follow have in them any of the true inwardness of the life they are meant to portray, it is due, I feel sure, as much to the attitude of the author toward his subject, as much to his ability to seize, retain, and express these instantaneous impressions, these flash pictures caught on the spot, as to any other merit which they may possess. Nothing can be made really _real_ without it. F. HOPKINSON SMITH. Paris, August, 1901. (from Introduction) - Summary by F. Hopkinson Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride Over Pity Author: Kailyn Lowry Narrator: Renee Chambliss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Relationships & Intimacy Publisher's Summary: Fans of MTV's Teen Mom have watched Kailyn Lowry grow from a vulnerable, pregnant teen into a fiercely independent young mother. Through it all Kailyn has faced challenges with her head held high and her spirit intact. In a moving effort to finally put the past behind her, Kailyn shares her troubled, often painful story and reveals the dark secrets she has so closely guarded. Guided by the single principle of helping other young girls like her, she takes the reader behind the scenes, writing candidly about her struggle to provide a safe home for her son, breaking her silence on the question of her sexuality, and sharing the traumatic sexual experiences that have left her deeply scarred.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir Author: Lisa F. Smith Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 68 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Mental Health & Psychology Publisher's Summary: Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in New York City when alcoholism and drug addiction took over her life. What was once a way she escaped her insecurity and negativity as a teenager became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith’s formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city’s clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach, the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So, Anyway... Author: John Cleese Narrator: John Cleese Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 49 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “John Cleese’s memoir is just about everything one would expect of its author—smart, thoughtful, provocative and above all funny. . . . A picture, if you will, of the artist as a young man.”—The Washington Post   The legendary writer and performer of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame takes readers on a grand tour of his ascent in the entertainment world   John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, Cleese recalls his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town, his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), and the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown. Cleese was just days away from graduating Cambridge and setting off on a law career when he was visited by two BBC executives, who offered him a job writing comedy for radio. That fateful moment—and a near-simultaneous offer to take his university humor revue to London’s famed West End—propelled him down a different path, cutting his teeth writing for stars like David Frost and Peter Sellers, and eventually joining the five other Pythons to pioneer a new kind of comedy that prized invention, silliness, and absurdity. Along the way, he found his first true love with the actress Connie Booth and transformed himself from a reluctant performer to a world class actor and back again.   Twisting and turning through surprising stories and hilarious digressions—with some brief pauses along the way that comprise a fascinating primer on what’s funny and why—this story of a young man’s journey to the pinnacle of comedy is a masterly performance by a master performer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember the Bra Lady Author: Krissa Palmer Narrator: Krissa Palmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Krissa Palmer celebrates, in her book of essays, being an imperfect parent of three sons. She learns to listen to her own heart and trust that she won’t ruin their lives completely, leaving them with a future of years on a therapist’s couch. Finding her faith and what it means to love unconditionally are part of her journey. And in raising her sons, she heals past hurts from her own childhood. Krissa is determined to not raise “male chauvinist pigs” in our patriarchal society of men who think—in any way, shape, or form—that they are superior to women. Ultimately, Krissa learns just as much from her sons as she had to teach them. Here she shares the wisdom gleaned from being a parent who can admit her own foibles and apologize when she’s wrong.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ruined Author: Ruth Everhart Narrator: Pamela Almand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “It happened on a Sunday night, even though I’d been a good girl and gone to church that morning.” One brisk November evening during her senior year at a small midwestern Christian college, two armed intruders broke into the house Ruth Everhart shared with her roommates, held all five girls hostage, and took turns raping them at gunpoint. Reeling with fear, insecurity, and guilt, Ruth believed she was ruined, both physically and in the eyes of God. In the days and weeks that followed, Ruth struggled to come to grips with not only what happened that night but why. The same questions raced through her mind in an unrelenting loop―questions that would continue to haunt her for years to come: Why me? Where was God? Why did God allow this to happen? What am I being punished for? Told with candor and unflinching honesty, Ruined is an extraordinary emotional and spiritual journey that begins with an unspeakable act of violence but ends with tremendous healing and profound spiritual insights about faith, forgiveness, and the will of God.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boyhood Author: Leo Tolstoy Narrator: Bill Boerst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War Author: Perry A. Ulander Narrator: Alan Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A Vietnam War veteran paints a searing portrait of his one-year tour of duty as an Army draftee, shedding light on the emotional and physical casualties of war  In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences that shatter his core beliefs, Ulander also captures the camaraderie and humor of his platoon, the hostility between “lifers” and draftees, the physical hardships of reconnaissance missions, and the unrelenting apprehension underlying everyday life. Ultimately, he describes the surrendering of social norms and accepted identities that allows him to glimpse a previously unimagined realm of heightened awareness.   Written after a lifetime of reflection on the nature of war and the effect of violence and domination on the minds and spirits of those forced to practice it, Walking Point offers a powerful narrative for readers with an interest in the effects of war and violence, American involvement in Vietnam, PTSD, and how trauma can be a catalyst for spiritual transformation. Giving voice to profound insights gained through extreme adversity, Ulander movingly captures the depth of trust and commitment among a group of unwitting warriors who struggle to stay alive and sane in unchartered territory.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef Author: Leonardo Lucarelli Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen.   In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part of the landscape. In reality, the restaurant industry is as tough, cutthroat, and unforgiving as anywhere else in the world--sometimes even colluding with the shady world of organized crime. The powerful voice of Leonardo Lucarelli takes us through the underbelly of Italy's restaurant world. Lucarelli is a professional chef who for almost two decades has been roaming Italy opening restaurants, training underpaid, sometimes hopelessly incompetent sous-chefs, courting waitresses, working long hours, riding high on drugs, and cursing a culinary passion he inherited as a teenager from his hippie father. In his debut, Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef, Lucarelli teaches us that even among rogues and misfits, there is a moral code in the kitchen that must, above all

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stand Tall: Fighting for My Life, Inside and Outside the Ring Author: Dewey Bozella Narrator: Sean Crisden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit—a stirring tale of courage, strength, faith, and perseverance. In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella was wrongfully accused of murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old resident of Poughkeepsie, New York. Sentenced to twenty years to life in prison, Bozella fiercely maintained his innocence throughout his ordeal at Sing Sing, and even refused the prosecutor’s offer of instant freedom in exchange for admission of guilt. But in 2009, more than a quarter century later, Dewey Bozella would reclaim his identity and his humanity when his conviction was vacated. In this powerful memoir, Bozella tells his harrowing and amazing story—interweaving his time in prison with stories of a childhood marked by violence and pain. He shares the joys of marrying the love of his life from behind bars, becoming a champion boxer, and earning his education; the agony of being denied parole four times, and living in a cellblock with his brother’s murderer and, eventually, the killer whose thumbprint was found in Emma Crapser’s apartment. Yet the fighter in Bozella never gave up. He would become a free man thanks to his undying faith, stalwart persistence, the aid of the Innocence Project, and Wilmer Hale, the Park Avenue law firm whose young pro bono attorney doggedly worked toward his release when all hope seemed lost. Today, Bozella considers himself blessed. Stand Tall is a testament to optimism and love. It is the compelling story of a man who fought against inequity and hardship and, against all odds, came out on top.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 18 and Life on Skid Row Author: Sebastian Bach Narrator: Sebastian Bach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 21 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records both as the lead singer of Skid Row and as a solo artist. He is particularly known for the hit singles I Remember You, Youth Gone Wild, & 18 & Life, and the albums Skid Row and Slave To The Grind, which became the first ever hard rock album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and landed him on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Bach then went on to become the first rock star to grace the Broadway stage, with starring roles in Jekyll & Hyde, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also appeared for seven seasons on the hit television show The Gilmore Girls. In his memoir, Bach recounts lurid tales of excess and debauchery as he toured the world with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Soundgarden, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails and Guns N’ Roses. Filled with backstage photos from his own personal collection, 18 And Life on Skid Row is the story of hitting it big at a young age, and of a band that broke up in its prime. It is the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams, only to lose his family, and then his home. It is a story of perseverance, of wine, women and song and a man who has made his life on the road and always will. 18 And Life On Skid Row is not your ordinary rock memoir, because Sebastian Bach is not your ordinary rock star.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy Author: Frances Alice Forbes Narrator: Pattymarie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a figure of pristine brilliance, courage and integrity and his persecutors as conniving villains. But to those who appreciate what was at stake in the controversy, Athanasius is indeed a God-sent hero. This is an informative, if quaint, introduction to a fascinating figure in history. (Summary by Pattymarie)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society Author: Shane Dunphy Narrator: Shane Dunphy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: December 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Boy They Tried to Hide is the startling, true account of how truth is sometimes stranger than fiction ... Shane Dunphy was working as a resource teacher in a rural town when he was approached by the mother of one of his pupils, seeking help. She is worried for her troubled young son, who has been found leaving the house late at night to go deep into the woods near their home. He has spoken of meetings with a friend, Thomas, but no one else has seen him or knows who he is. As Shane tries to discover what's going on, a sexual predator he helped bring to justice years before reappears. The man is looking to settle a score, and has picked someone close to Shane as his next victim. In The Boy They Tried to Hide, Shane Dunphy revisits cases he encountered during his time as a child protection worker and journalist and, in doing so, once again discovers that leaving the past behind is harder than it seems.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half Author: Jacob A. Riis Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 59 minutes Release date: December 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: These stories have come to me from many sources-some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here. I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and I, are partners, that I wish them to make their appeal to the neighbor who lives but around the corner and does not know it.(Summary from the Preface by Jacob A. Riis)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters on an Elk Hunt Author: LibriVox Volunteers Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burntfork Wyoming ranch in 1909-1913. The letters are written to her elderly friend, Mrs. Coney, in Denver. In the present collection of letters, Elinore describes a lively excursion on horseback and wagon into the Wyoming wilderness during July-October 1914. Her traveling companions are her husband "Mr. Stewart," their three oldest children, and kind-hearted, opinionated neighbor Mrs. O'Shaughnessy. Mr. Haynes (organizer of the hunt) and his friend, Mr. Struble (the cheerful big man of the party) lead the group, and are also joined by physician Dr. Teschall, "a moving-picture man" Mr. Harkrudder, Professor Glenholdt seeking "the tip-end bone of the tail of a brontosaurus" and his students ("two geological fellows" who "talk of nothing but strata and formation"). Also joining the group is Mr. Murry with his tiresome accordion. Although some hunting is accomplished on the trip, the overarching focus of Elinore's letters is on descriptions of awe-inspiring Wyoming scenery and the interesting people she encounters. With her familiar wit and wisdom, Elinore also writes of tragedies and romances she observes during her trip -- that is, whenever Elinore's effort to observe is not thwarted by "the good mon" Mr. Stewart. In one letter Elinore complains to Mrs. Coney that "Mr. Stewart is the queerest man: instead of letting me enjoy the tableau [the reunion of two long-lost lovers], he solemnly drove on, saying he would not want any one gawking at him if he were the happy man. Anyway, he couldn't urge Chub [the horse] fast enough to prevent my seeing and hearing what I've told you." By the time the adventurers are homeward bound with their supply of elk meat, Elinore is homesick for her youngest child, Junior, at home with his grandmother; Mrs. O'Shaughnessy has taken in two young orphans; and quiet, young Mr. Haynes complains good-naturedly about having to travel along with a rolling nursery. Elinore's letters capture an interesting transition point in history. People traveled by horse and wagon, there were cowboys and cattle stampedes, and medical care was rustic. At the same time, automobiles and modern medicine, archeology and motion picture making were entering the scene and war was commencing in Europe. (Note to more sensitive readers: Elk hunting is described in Chapters 7 and 8.) (Summary by Lynne Carroll)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moranifesto Author: Caitlin Moran Narrator: Joanna Neary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book. When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favorite pieces for her new book, she realized that they all shared a common theme—the same old problems and the same old ass-hats. Then she thought of the word ‘Moranifesto’, and she knew what she had to do… Introducing every piece and weaving her writing together into a brilliant, seamless narrative—just as she did in Moranthology—Caitlin combines the best of her recent columns with lots of new writing unique to this book as she offers a characteristically fun and witty look at the news, celebrity culture, and society. Featuring strong and important pieces on poverty, the media, and class, Moranifesto also focuses on how socially engaged we’ve become as a society. And of course, Caitlin is never afraid to address the big issues, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and duffel coats. Who else but Caitlin Moran—a true modern Renaissance woman—could deal with topics as pressing and diverse as the beauty of musicals, affordable housing, Daft Punk, and why the Internet is like a drunken toddler? Covering everything from Hillary Clinton to UTIs, Caitlin’s manifesto is an engaging and mischievous rallying call for our times.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) Author: Lauren Graham Narrator: Lauren Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 257 Ratings of Narrator: 4.99 of Total 71 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”). In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her. Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”). Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can. Includes a PDF of Photos from the Book

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching '80s Movies Author: Jason Diamond Narrator: Roger Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 29, 2016 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For all fans of John Hughes and his hit films such as National Lampoon’s Vacation, Sixteen Candles, and Home Alone, comes Jason Diamond’s hilarious memoir of growing up obsessed with the iconic filmmaker’s movies—a preoccupation that eventually convinces Diamond he should write Hughes’ biography and travel to New York City on a quest that is as funny as it is hopeless. For as long as Jason Diamond can remember, he’s been infatuated with John Hughes’ movies. From the outrageous, raunchy antics in National Lampoon’s Vacation to the teenage angst in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink to the insanely clever and unforgettable Home Alone, Jason could not get enough of Hughes’ films. And so the seed was planted in his mind that it should fall to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn’t matter to Jason that he had no qualifications, training, background, platform, or direction. Thus went the years-long, delusional, earnest, and assiduous quest to reach his goal. But no book came out of these years, and no book will. What he did get was a story that fills the pages of this unconventional, hilarious memoir. In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. He moved to New York to become a writer. He started to write a book he had no business writing. In the meantime, he brewed coffee and guarded cupcake cafes. All the while, he watched John Hughes movies religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through. And the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or, at least, a really, really good story. In other words, this is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream, one part big failure, one part John Hughes movies, one part Chicago, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!” part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When We Rise: My Life in the Movement Author: Cleve Jones Narrator: Cleve Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 29, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation's most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk's encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in "the movement." When Milk was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor's progressive mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious, When We Rise is Jones' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing, sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve's passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and and violence alike. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life. Lambda Literary Award Winner The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! "You could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants--maybe heroes--but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy."--Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inspiration In My Shoes Author: Diana Patton Narrator: Diana Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Inspiration in My Shoes is a riveting read that proves no barrier is too high, no obstacle is too great, and that inspiration comes in many surprising forms. Diana's story is exemplary of both the struggles young women face and how those struggles can be transformed into triumphs. With her mother's encouragement, her faith in God, and a resilient spirit, Diana overcomes unthinkable tragedy before molding her experience into an opportunity to connect with others. Though Diana's childhood was riddled with dysfunction, she's decided to take her mess and make it her message.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Princess Diarist Author: Carrie Fisher Narrator: Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 172 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 33 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2018 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word Album The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.   *PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016  *New York Times Bestseller * When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford.  With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes.  Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler Author: Mike Freeman Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League—the life and times of pro football’s first bad boy, famed Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler. Ken ''The Snake'' Stabler was the embodiment of the original Men in Black—the freewheeling, hard-hitting Oakland Raiders. The league’s first swashbuckling pass thrower, the mythical southpaw Southerner famous for come-from-behind drives late in the game, Stabler led the Raiders to their first Super Bowl championship in 1977. In an era dominated by gentleman quarterbacks like Roger Staubach and Bob Griese, this 1974 NFL MVP, four-time Pro-bowler, and Super Bowl champion was an iconoclast who partied as hard as he played and lived life unapologetically on his own—not the NFL’s—terms. Though Stabler’s legacy is larger-than-life, there has never before been an exclusive account of him, until now. Snake goes deep under the surface of Stabler’s persona to reveal a man who, despite his penchant for partying and debauchery, was committed to winning and being the best player he could be. From his college days playing for Bear Bryant at Alabama to his years with the Raiders under coach John Madden, his broadcasting career to his death in 2015 and the revelation that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as C.T.E., Snake probes the myriad facets of Stabler’s life on and off the field to tell his complete story, and explores how his legacy and the culture and times that pivotally shaped it, continues to impact football today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Cheering Stops: An NFL Wife’s Story of Concussions, Loss, and the Faith that Saw Her Through Author: Cyndy Feasel Narrator: Michelle Lasley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Former NFL wife Cyndy Feasel tells the tragic story of her family’s journey into chaos and darkness resulting from the damage her husband suffered due to football-related concussions and head trauma—and the faith that saved her. “If I’d only known what I loved the most would end up killing me and taking away everything I loved, I would have never done it.” – Grant Feasel Grant Feasel spent ten years in the NFL, playing 117 games as a center and a long snapper mostly for the Seattle Seahawks. The skull-battering, jaw-shaking collisions he absorbed during those years ultimately destroyed his marriage and fractured his family. Grant died on July 15, 2012, at the age of 52, the victim of alcohol abuse and a degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Cyndy Feasel watched their life together become a living hell as alcohol became Grant’s medication for a disease rooted in the scores of concussions he suffered on the football field. Helmet-to-helmet collisions opened the door to CTE and transformed him from a sunny, strong, and loving man into a dark shadow of his former self. In this raw and emotional memoir that takes a closer look at the destruction wrought by a game millions love, Cyndy describes in painful and excruciating detail what can happen to an NFL player and his family when the stadium empties and the lights go down. A powerful tale of warning for football moms and NFL wives everywhere, After the Cheering Stops is also a story of the hard-won hope found in God’s presence when everything else falls apart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film Author: Alexandra Zapruder Narrator: Alexandra Zapruder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world. Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November 22, 1963 that this single spontaneous decision would change his family's life for generations to come. Originally intended as a home movie of President Kennedy's motorcade, Zapruder's film of the JFK assassination is now shown in every American history class, included in Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit questions, and referenced in novels and films. It is the most famous example of citizen journalism, a precursor to the iconic images of our time, such as the Challenger explosion, the Rodney King beating, and the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. But few know the complicated legacy of the film itself. Now Abraham's granddaughter, Alexandra Zapruder, is ready to tell the complete story for the first time. With the help of the Zapruder family's exclusive records, memories, and documents, Zapruder tracks the film's torturous journey through history, all while American society undergoes its own transformation, and a new media-driven consumer culture challenges traditional ideas of privacy, ownership, journalism, and knowledge. Part biography, part family history, and part historical narrative, Zapruder demonstrates how one man's unwitting moment in the spotlight shifted the way politics, culture, and media intersect, bringing about the larger social questions that define our age.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scrappy Little Nobody Author: Anna Kendrick Narrator: Anna Kendrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 807 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 146 Genres: Comedy Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and “10 percent defiant.” At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations. With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she’s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can—from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating experiments” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual “man-child.” Enter Anna’s world and follow her rise from “scrappy little nobody” to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page—with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses Author: Robert J. Wagner Narrator: Robert J. Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner’s memoir of the great women movie stars he has known.   In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming a beloved star in both media. During that time he became acquainted, both professionally and socially, with the remarkable women who were the greatest screen personalities of their day. I Loved Her in the Movies is his intimate and revealing account of the charisma of these women on film, why they became stars, and how their specific emotional and dramatic chemistries affected the choices they made as actresses as well as the choices they made as women.   Among Wagner’s subjects are Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson, Norma Shearer, Loretta Young, Joan Blondell, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Dorothy Lamour, Debra Paget, Jean Peters, Linda Darnell, Betty Hutton, Raquel Welch, Glenn Close, and the two actresses whom he ultimately married, Natalie Wood and Jill St. John. In addition to offering perceptive commentary on these women, Wagner also examines topics such as the strange alchemy of the camera—how it can transform the attractive into the stunning, and vice versa—and how the introduction of color brought a new erotic charge to movies, one that enabled these actresses to become aggressively sexual beings in a way that that black and white films had only hinted at.   Like Wagner’s two previous bestsellers, I Loved Her in the Movies is a privileged look behind the scenes at some of the most well-known women in show business as well as an insightful look at the sexual and romantic attraction that created their magic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout Author: Laura Jane Grace Narrator: Laura Jane Grace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ONE OF BILLBOARD'S '100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME': The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self. It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. Gabel formed Against Me! and rocketed the band from its scrappy beginnings-banging on a drum kit made of pickle buckets-to a major-label powerhouse that critics have called this generation's The Clash. Since its inception in 1997, Against Me! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive. With every notch the four-piece climbed in their career, they gained new fans while infuriating their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving door of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them 'sellouts' and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn. But underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied Gabel-a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics. Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, Gabel was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May of 2012 did a Rolling Stone profile finally reveal it: Gabel is a transsexual, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace. Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept. More than a typical music memoir about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-although it certainly has plenty of that-Tranny is an inside look at one of the most remarkable stories in the history of rock.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Getting Started Author: Tony Bennett, Scott Simon Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song. He excites me when I watch him. . . . He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.” — Frank Sinatra “As breezy and meaningful as one of his trademark songs as readers learn about the man by the company he kept and the heroes he worships. Bennett’s ethereal still lifes and landscape paintings adorn this simple yet profound and gracious homage.”— Booklist Tony Bennett was one of our most vibrant musicians ever to grace the stage. In his previous book, Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons he had learned over the years. In Just Getting Started, he pays homage to the remarkable people who inspired those lessons. In his warm and inviting voice, Tony talks about who and what have enriched his own life, including Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cole Porter, Amy Winehouse, Fred Astaire, Lady Gaga, members of his family, significant places, and more. Just Getting Started chronicles the relationship Tony enjoyed with each one of these legends, entertainers, humanitarians, and loved ones, and reveals how the lessons and values they imparted have invaluably shaped his life. As enchanting and unforgettable as his music, Just Getting Started is a beautiful compilation of reflections every Bennett fan will treasure, and a perfect introduction for those just getting to know this remarkable star and humanitarian.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves Author: Kat Kinsman Narrator: Kat Kinsman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman. Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep because your brain won’t stop recycling thoughts? Unable to make a decision because you're too afraid you’ll make the wrong one? You’re not alone. In Hi, Anxiety, beloved food writer, editor, and commentator Kat Kinsman expands on the high profile pieces she wrote for CNN.com about depression, and its wicked cousin, anxiety. Taking us back to her adolescence, when she was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, Kat speaks eloquently with pathos and humor about her skin picking, hand flapping, “nervousness” that made her the recipient of many a harsh taunt. With her mother also gripped by depression and health issues throughout her life, Kat came to live in a constant state of unease—that she would fail, that she would never find love . . . that she would end up just like her mother. Now, as a successful media personality, Kat still battles anxiety every day. That anxiety manifests in strange, and deeply personal ways. But as she found when she started to write about her struggles, Kat is not alone in feeling like the simple act of leaving the house, or getting a haircut can be crippling. And though periodic medication, counseling, a successful career and a happy marriage have brought her relief, the illness, because that is what anxiety is, remains. Exploring how millions are affected anxiety, Hi, Anxiety is a clarion call for everyone—but especially women—struggling with this condition. Though she is a strong advocate for seeking medical intervention, Kinsman implores those suffering to come out of the shadows—to talk about their battle openly and honestly. With humor, bravery, and writing that brings bestsellers like Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson to mind, Hi, Anxiety tackles a difficult subject with amazing grace.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clothing of Books: An Essay Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis Author: Catrine Clay Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung’s complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement. Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the twentieth century dictated that a woman of Emma’s stature—one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland—travel to Paris to ''finish'' her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father’s wealthy business colleagues, Emma’s conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung. The son of a penniless pastor working as an assistant physician in an insane asylum, Jung dazzled Emma with his intelligence, confidence, and good looks. More important, he offered her freedom from the confines of a traditional haute-bourgeois life. But Emma did not know that Jung’s charisma masked a dark interior—fostered by a strange, isolated childhood and the sexual abuse he’d suffered as a boy—as well as a compulsive philandering that would threaten their marriage. Using letters, family interviews, and rich, never-before-published archival material, Catrine Clay illuminates the Jungs’ unorthodox marriage and explores how it shaped—and was shaped by—the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis. Most important, Clay reveals how Carl Jung could never have achieved what he did without Emma supporting him through his private torments. The Emma that emerges in the pages of Labyrinths is a strong, brilliant woman, who, with her husband’s encouragement, becomes a successful analyst in her own right.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: AFTER: The Battle Has Just Begun Author: RJ Belle Narrator: Betsy Baker, PJ Ochlan, Dan Lawson, David Stifel, Alex Hyde-White, Susan Hanfield, R. C. Bray, Amy Rubinate, Jeffrey Kafer, Eric Martin, Gary Sinise, Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstances. This book isn't about war or politics - it is about figuring out what it takes to move forward AFTER the war. I wrote this book to raise awareness of what our warriors need most when they return, what the government does and doesn't provide and why there is a high demand for private non-profits to fill the gaps. Make no mistake - we are in this period of recovery and rehabilitation for decades to come. It also introduces the non-profit organization Warrior Foundation~Freedom Station which has taken on the task of helping our combat-injured men and women make the daunting transition from military to civilian life. In this much-needed labor of love, it's not about the war - Its about the warrior. 100% of the authors proceeds benefit Warrior Foundation~Freedom Station.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Your Face Author: Chris DeRose Narrator: Rick Pasqualone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Your Face is Chris’s story in his own words; it’s not simply an eyewitness account of social activism, but the experience of a man living on the front lines. It is the intense, sometimes funny, story of how one man learned about injustice, cared enough to get involved, started taking direct action, and ultimately made a difference in the world. Chris DeRose was a Hollywood actor, a cop, a private investigator, a pilot, a reporter, and an unofficial “big brother” to a couple dozen tough street kids before he decided to dedicate his life to exposing and fighting against all forms of animal exploitation. As the leader of Last Chance for Animals, he has busted pet-theft rings and spoken out against the folly and injustice of animal experimentation. He has been shot, jailed, and called a terrorist for his actions on behalf of animals.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278272 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tippi: A Memoir Author: Tippi Hedren Narrator: Tippi Hedren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood—the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie—tells her story, including never-before-revealed experiences on the set of some of the biggest cult films of all time. For decades, Tippi Hedren’s luminous beauty radiated from the silver screen, enchanting moviegoers and cementing her position among Hollywood’s elite—beauty and star power that continue to endure. For too long Hedren’s story has been told by others through whispered gossip and tabloid headlines. Now, Hedren sets the record straight, recalling how a young and virtuous Lutheran girl from small-town Minnesota became a worldwide legend—as one of the most famous Hitchcock girls, as an unwavering animal activist, and as the matriarch of a powerful Hollywood dynasty that includes her movie star daughter Melanie Griffith, and rising star Dakota Johnson, her granddaughter. For the first time, Hedren digs deep into her complicated relationship with the man who discovered her talent, director Alfred Hitchcock, the benefactor who would become a repulsive and controlling director who contractually controlled her every move. She speaks openly about the dark pain she endured working with him on their most famous collaborations, The Birds and Marnie, and finding the courage she needed to break away. Hedren’s incandescent spirit shines through as she talks about working with the great Charlie Chaplin, sharing the screen with some of the most esteemed actors in Hollywood, her experiences on some of the most intriguing and troubling film sets—including filming Roar, one of the most dangerous movies ever made—and the struggles of being a single mother—balancing her dedication to her work and her devotion to her daughter—and her commitment to helping animals. Tippi is a rare and fascinating look at a private woman’s remarkable life no celebrity aficionado can miss.