Discover Top Full Audiobooks 2025 in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nero, life of a roman emperor Author: Suetonius Narrator: Jonathan Waite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers. The emperor Nero's reign is one weird tale of sexual depravity and extravagant sadism. He was a gifted musician, and is said to have given great concerts of which attendance was compulsory; women were said to have given birth during the performance, and men were driven to fake death to escape. Nero kicked his pregnant wife to death and then had a young boy castrated to replace her as his spouse; then, during the great fire of Rome, he is said to have played the lyre to emphasize the beauty of the destruction. His eccentricities are a continuation of the tradition of his predecessors, only more perverted; Suetonius' account portray a strange man in strange times. - -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caligula, life of a roman emperor Author: Suetonius Narrator: Jonathan Waite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 42 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers. The emperor Caligula was one of the strangest and cruelest rulers that ever lived, and most of what is known about his reign comes from Suetonius. The first six months of his reign appear to have been moderate and successful; but after that, he fell into a spiral of sadism, sexual perversity, and plain insanity that made him one of the most hated tyrants of all time. His biography gathers many extravagant anecdotes, from naming his horse consul to calling people to his palace in the middle of the night just to play a strange game of fright with them. He was eventually assassinated, but not before many strange omens predicted the event, according to Suetonius. - -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice Author: Benjamin Gilmer Narrator: Benjamin Gilmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time “A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir, grippingly told . . . I was drawn in by every part of it.”—Atul Gawande, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library Fresh out of medical residency, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer joined a rural North Carolina clinic only to find that its previous doctor shared his last name. Dr. Vince Gilmer was loved and respected by the community—right up until he strangled his ailing father and then returned to the clinic for a regular week of work. Vince’s eventual arrest for murder shocked his patients. How could their beloved doctor be capable of such violence? The deeper Benjamin looked into Vince’s case, the more he became obsessed with discovering what pushed a good man toward darkness.    When Benjamin visited Vince in prison, he met a man who appeared to be fighting his own mind, constantly twitching and veering into nonsensical tangents. Sentenced to life in prison, Vince had been branded a cold-blooded killer and a “malingerer”—a person who fakes an illness. But it was obvious to Benjamin that Vince needed help. Alongside This American Life journalist Sarah Koenig, Benjamin resolved to understand what had happened to his predecessor. Time and again, the pair came up against a prison system that cared little about the mental health of its inmates—despite more than a third of them suffering from mental illness. The Other Dr. Gilmer takes readers on a riveting and heart-wrenching journey through our shared human fallibility, made worse by a prison system that is failing our most vulnerable citizens. With deep compassion and an even deeper sense of justice, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer delves into the mystery of what could make a caring doctor commit a brutal murder. And in the process, his powerful story asks us to answer a profound question: In a country with the highest incarceration rates in the world, what would it look like if we prioritized healing rather than punishment?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Everest - Himmel, Hölle, Himalaja Author: Reinhold Messner Narrator: Reinhold Messner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die Bergsteigerlegende über den höchsten aller BergeReinhold Messner bestieg als erster Mensch alle Achttausender. In seinem Vortrag erzählt er, wie er den höchsten von ihnen bezwang: den Mount Everest. Er gibt auch einen geschichtlichen Einblick in die ersten Versuche, den Everest zu besteigen. Außerdem berichtet er von Todesangst am Berg in 8.000 Metern Höhe, Begegnungen mit Einheimischen und von der Legende des Yeti.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wettlauf zum Pol Author: Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen Narrator: Klaus Spürkel, Hubertus Gertzen Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 15 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Scott und Amundsen: der Kampf im ewigen EisRobert Falcon Scott war bereits zu seiner Forschungsreise in Richtung Antarktis aufgebrochen, als der Abenteurer Roald Amundsen ihm in einem Telegramm überraschend mitteilte, dass auch er eine Expedition unternehmen werde, um als erster Mensch den südlichsten Punkt der Erde zu erreichen. Das vielleicht dramatischste Rennen der Weltgeschichte hatte begonnen. Denn schon bald sollte sich aus dem Duell der Pioniere ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit und den antarktischen Winter entwickeln. In dieser spannenden Lesung ausgewählter Passagen aus Scotts Tagebuch und Amundsens Reisebericht werden die Geschehnisse für den Hörer noch einmal lebendig.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Pilgerfahrt nach Medina und Mekka Author: Richard Francis Burton Narrator: Gerd Wameling Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Zwei legendäre Städte und eine verbotene ReiseSir Richard Burton gibt sich 1853 bei seiner Ankunft in Kairo als britischer Untertan afghanischer Herkunft aus, um das Land als Europäer inkognito erforschen zu können. Er arbeitet zunächst als Arzt und beschäftigt sich intensiv mit den kulturellen Sitten und den religiösen und orthodoxen Regeln des Landes als Vorbereitung seiner bevorstehenden großen Reise. Am 25. Juli erreicht Burton Medina, das er erkundet und ausführlich beschreibt. Nicht zuletzt Dank seines Freundes und treuen Begleiters Muhammad Al-Basyuni gelingt es Burton das Innere zahlreicher Heiligtümer zu betreten und alle Riten der Hadsch zu vollziehen.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die letzte Reise des Kapitän Cook Author: Heinrich Zimmermann Narrator: Herbert Schäfer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 18 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ein historischer Reisebericht über die Seefahrerlegende James CookEigentlich ist es einfachen Matrosen im 18. Jahrhundert untersagt, während einer Schiffsreise ihre Erlebnisse schriftlich festzuhalten. Doch Heinrich Zimmermann widersetzt sich und schmuggelt eine Schiefertafel mit an Bord. Auf dieser hält er die Abenteuer fest, die er mit dem berühmten Kapitän James Cook im Pazifischen Ozean erlebt. Er berichtet von fremdartigen Kulturen, freizügigen Frauenzimmern, angsteinflößenden Menschenfressern und nicht zuletzt von dem heimtückischen Mord an einem der bedeutendsten Entdecker der Welt, Kapitän James Cook.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oscar Wilde: A Life Author: Matthew Sturgis Narrator: John Pirkis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde.' —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man 'to his times, and to the facts,' giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, 'already noticeable everywhere' . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ('the blackmailer's charter'); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage Author: Drew Magary Narrator: Eileen Noonan, Sean Kinen, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Brittany Pressley, Drew Magary, Soneela Nankani, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury—from the acclaimed author of The Hike “Drew Magary has produced a remarkable account of his journey, one that is filled with terror, tenderness, beauty, and grace.”—David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Drew Magary, fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist, is known for his acerbic takes and his surprisingly nuanced chronicling of his own life. But in The Night the Lights Went Out, he finds himself far out of his depths. On the night of the 2018 Deadspin Awards, he suffered a mysterious fall that caused him to smash his head so hard on a cement floor that he cracked his skull in three places and suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage. For two weeks, he remained in a coma. The world was gone to him, and him to it. In his long recovery from his injury, including understanding what his family and friends went through as he lay there dying, coming to terms with his now permanent disabilities, and trying to find some lesson in this cosmic accident, he leaned on the one sure thing that he knows and that didn't leave him—his writing. Drew takes a deep dive into what it meant to be a bystander to his own death and figuring out who this new Drew is: a Drew that doesn't walk as well, doesn't taste or smell or see or hear as well, and a Drew that is often failing as a husband and a father as he bounces between grumpiness, irritability, and existential fury. But what's a good comeback story without heartbreak? Eager to get back what he lost, Drew experiences an awakening of a whole other kind in this incredibly funny, medically illuminating, and heartfelt memoir.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo confieso Author: Fernando Rueda, Mikel Lejarza Narrator: Jordi Filbà Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Mikel Lejarza ha guardado silencio sobre su vida hasta este momento. Ahora ha decidido desvelar en primera persona en el libro Yo confieso todo lo que ha hecho y todo por lo que ha pasado. Ha escrito, con la ayuda del periodista Fernando Rueda, unas memorias duras, sinceras, en las que por primera vez cuenta todo lo que ha sido su vida, sin olvidarse de los momentos amargos, de su éxitos e, incluso, de aquellas actuaciones de las que no está especialmente satisfecho. Yo confieso es un libro humano en el que Mikel ha querido que Mamen, su mujer, confidente y compañera en algunas de sus misiones, aporte su visión personal sobre los hechos, recordando los momentos vividos en una relación complicada, como no podía ser otra que la vivida por una mujer que ha compartido 40 años con el agente más antiguo que tienen los servicios secretos españoles. - Mikel Lejarza nació en Villaró (Vizcaya). En 1974 fue captado por el servicio secreto para infiltrarse en ETA con el alias mítico de El Lobo y consiguió asestar a la organización el mayor golpe de su historia. Después estuvo quince años jugándose la vida en misiones de alto riesgo contra el terrorismo dentro y fuera de España. En los últimos veinticinco años, ha entrado en el espionaje en otros mundos: los medios de comunicación, el mundo empresarial, el independentismo, el narcotráfico o el mundo económico. Fernando Rueda es el máximo especialista español en asuntos de espionaje. Como periodista ha trabajado en prensa, radio, televisión y diarios digitales, dedicándose desde sus inicios al periodismo de investigación. Es el responsable de la sección 'Materia reservada 2.0' en el programa La rosa de los vientos de Onda Cero. Premio Ejército de Periodismo a la mejor labor informativa en 1984, es profesor en el Centro Universitario Villanueva. Sus libros de no ficción sobre espionaje rompieron los tabúes de la censura: La Casa, La Casa II, Espías, KA: licencia para matar, Operaciones secretas, Las alcantarillas del poder... Como novelista ha escrito diversas obras, las más recientes son El regreso de El Lobo y El dosier del rey. Yo confieso, su último libro escrito con Mikel Lejarza, ha sido un best seller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Robert E. Lee: A Life Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. 'An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts.' —New York Times Book Review   Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant Author: Brad Ricca Narrator: Stephanie Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Who knew that RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was based on real events? This audiobook, expertly performed by Stephanie Willis, is a must for anyone who enjoyed the Harrison Ford movie and wants to know what really happened in 1908, when a British expedition searched for the Ark of the Covenant, alleged to have 'mystical' powers.' –AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Review True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This audiobook tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called “most beautiful woman in the world,” headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adventure and mystery has almost been completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling of this group’s adventures– in the space between fact and faith, science and romance. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters Author: Nancy Goldstone Narrator: Emma Newman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, and perhaps the most famous princess in history.   Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of brilliant courts from Vienna to Versailles, embracing the exotic lure of Naples and Sicily, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow, and glory.   Each of these women’s lives was packed with passion and heart-stopping suspense. Maria Theresa inherited her father’s thrones at the age of twenty-three and was immediately attacked on all sides by foreign powers confident that a woman would to be too weak to defend herself. Maria Christina, a gifted artist who alone among her sisters succeeded in marrying for love, would face the same dangers that destroyed the monarchy in France. Resourceful Maria Carolina would usher in the golden age of Naples only to face the deadly whirlwind of Napoleon. And, finally, Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen whose stylish excesses and captivating notoriety have masked the truth about her husband and herself for two hundred and fifty years.   Vividly written and deeply researched, In the Shadow of the Empress is the riveting story of four exceptional women who changed the course of history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Listen: How to find the words for tender conversations Author: Kathryn Mannix Narrator: Kathryn Mannix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Relationships & Intimacy Publisher's Summary: ‘Powerful, humane and wise’ JULIA SAMUEL ‘Everyone should read it’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Beautiful … This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it’ PHILIPPA PERRY Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding. From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better – more honestly, more confidently and without regret. A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone’s dementia. A careers advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives. There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another. Why do we so often come away from those times feeling like we could have done more, or should have been braver in the face of discomfort? Why do we skirt the conversations that might matter most? By bringing together stories with a lifetime’s experience working in medicine and the newest psychology, Mannix offers lessons for how we can better speak our mind and help when others need to. Kathryn Mannix’s ‘With the End in Mind’ was a Sunday Times bestseller the weeks ending 6 January 2018, 13 January 2018 and 3 February 2018.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words Author: Dale Bredesen Narrator: Kimberly Farr, Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: First person stories of patients who recovered from Alzheimer's Disease--and how they did it. It has been said that everyone knows a cancer survivor, but no one has met an Alzheimer's survivor – until now. In his first two books, Dr. Dale Bredesen outlined the revolutionary treatments that are changing what had previously seemed like the inevitable outcome of cognitive decline and dementia.  And in these moving narratives, you can hear directly from the first survivors of Alzheimer’s themselves--their own amazing stories of hope told in their own words.   These first person accounts honestly detail the fear, struggle, and ultimate victory of each patient's journey. They vividly describe what it is like to have Alzheimer's. They also drill down on how each of these patients made the program work for them--the challenges, the workarounds, the encouraging results that are so motivating. Dr. Bredesen includes commentary following each story to help point readers to the tips and tricks that might help them as well. Dr. Bredesen's patients have not just survived; they have thrived to rediscover fulfilling lives, rewarding relationships, and meaningful work. This book will give unprecedented hope to patients and their families.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Author: Akash Kapur Narrator: Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant* A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism. It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world—Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright. So how do John and Diane end up dying two decades later, on the same day, on a cracked concrete floor in a thatch hut by a remote canyon? This is the mystery Akash Kapur sets out to solve in Better to Have Gone, and it carries deep personal resonance: Diane and John were the parents of Akash’s wife, Auralice. Akash and Auralice grew up in Auroville; like the rest of their community, they never really understood those deaths. In 2004, Akash and Auralice return to Auroville from New York, where they have been living with John’s family. As they reestablish themselves in the community, along with their two sons, they must confront the ghosts of those distant deaths. Slowly, they come to understand how the tragic individual fates of John and Diane intersected with the collective history of their town. “A riveting account of human aspiration and folly taken to extremes” (The Boston Globe), Better to Have Gone probes the underexplored yet universal idea of utopia and portrays in vivid detail the daily life of one such community. Richly atmospheric and filled with remarkable characters, spread across time and continents, this is narrative writing of the highest order—a “gripping…compelling…[and] heartbreaking story, deeply researched and lucidly told” (The New York Times Book Review).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body Author: Savala Nolan Narrator: Savala Nolan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat. Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan’s mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mother’s encouragement, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been both fat and painfully thin throughout her life. She has experienced both the discomfort of generational poverty and the ease of wealth and privilege. It is these liminal spaces—of race, class, and body type—that the essays in Don’t Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society’s most intractable points of tension. The twelve essays that comprise this collection are rich with “gorgeous prose” (Nadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks) and are as humorous and as full of Nolan’s appetites as they are of anxiety. The result is lyrical and magnetic. In “On Dating White Guys While Me,” Nolan realizes her early romantic pursuits of rich, preppy white guys weren’t about preference but about self-erasure. In the titular essay “Don’t Let it Get You Down,” we traverse the cyclical richness and sorrow of being Black in America as Black children face police brutality, “large Black females” encounter unique stigma, and Black men carry the weight of other people’s fear. In “Bad Education,” we see how women learn to internalize rage and accept violence to participate in our own culture. And in “To Wit and Also,” we meet Filliss, Grace, and Peggy, the enslaved women owned by Nolan’s white ancestors, reckoning with the knowledge that America’s original sin lives intimately within our present stories. Over and over again, Nolan reminds us that our true identities are often most authentically lived not in the black and white, but in the grey of the in-between. Perfect for fans of Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, Don’t Let It Get You Down delivers a “deeply personal insight” (Layla F. Saad, New York Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy) on race, class, bodies, and gender in America today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet Author: Sylvain Tesson Narrator: David Pittu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A journey in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planet Adventurer Sylvain Tesson has led a restless life, riding across Central Asia on horseback, freeclimbing the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, and traversing the Himalayas by foot. But while recovering from an accident that left him in a coma, and nursing his wounds from a lost love, he found himself domesticated, his lust for life draining with each moment spent staring at a screen. An expedition to the mountains of Tibet, in search of the famously elusive snow leopard, presented itself as a cure. For the chance to glimpse this near mythical beast, Tesson and his companions must wait for hours without making a sound or a movement, enduring the thin air and brutal cold. Their vigil becomes an act of faith--many have pursued the snow leopard for years without seeing it--and as they keep their watch, Tesson comes to embrace the virtues of patience and silence. His faith is rewarded when the snow leopard, the spirit of the mountain, reveals itself: an embodiment of what we have surrendered in our contemporary lives. And the simple act of waiting proves to be an antidote to the frenzy of our times. A celebration of the power and grace of the wild, and a requiem for the world's vanishing places, The Art of Patience is a revelatory account of the communion between nature and the human heart. Sylvain Tesson has written a new masterpiece on the relationship between man and beast in prose as sublime as the wilderness that inspired it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice Author: Vanessa Zoltan Narrator: Vanessa Zoltan, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.”—John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed     A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel--and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us. Our favorite books keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Informed by the reading practices of medieval monks and rabbinic scholars from her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores topics ranging from the trauma she has inherited as the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors to finding hope, meaning, and even magic in our deeply fractured times. Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards. Whether you're an avowed 'Eyrehead' or simply a curious reader looking for a richer connection with the written word, this deeply felt and inspiring book will light the way to a more intimate appreciation for whatever books you love to read.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power Author: Marc J. Seifer Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 29, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 66 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'In a few years hence, it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible to the destructive action and range of which there is virtually no limit. Any city at any distance whatsoever from the enemy can be destroyed by him and no power on Earth can stop him from doing so.'—Nikola Tesla, circa 1925 Drawing on forty years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies. One of the world's leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer offers new insight into the brilliant scientist's particle beam weapon (aka the 'Death Ray') and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures—including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Tesla's role in the origins of Star Wars technology and his dynamic theory of gravity, to the real purpose behind the iconic tower at Wardenclyffe, this is an eye-opening account of Tesla's projects, passions, and ambitions—and an illuminating, important study of one of history's most intriguing figures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era Author: Darnella Davis Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in Indian Territory and Oklahoma written from the perspective of a tribal person and a freedman. The histories of these families, along with the starkly different federal policies that molded their destinies, offer a powerful corrective to the historical narrative. From the Allotment Period to the present, their claims of racial identity and land in Oklahoma reveal inequalities that still fester more than one hundred years later. Davis offers a provocative opportunity to unpack our current racial discourse and ask ourselves, 'Who are 'we' really?'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society Author: Anna Neima Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 10, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Neima’s book, impeccably researched and beautifully written, will be an inspiration for anyone looking to an alternative future today.' - Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats and The Great Level 'Deeply interesting and a pleasure to read, The Utopians illuminates the history of “social dreaming” at a time when it has never been more needed.' - Alison Light, author of A Radical Romance, Common People and Mrs. Woolf and the Servants The Utopians is the remarkable story of six experimental communities – Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America – that sprang up in the aftermath of the First World War. Each was led by charismatic figures who dreamed of a new way of living. Rabindranath Tagore, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, Mushanokoji Saneatsu, G. I. Gurdjieff, Eberhard and Emmy Arnold and Gerald Heard all struggled to turn ambitious ideals into reality. They – and their fellow communards – left their jobs, their homes and their social circles. They faced mockery and persecution, penury, hunger and discomfort, and their own doubts about whether their efforts to change society would ever make a difference. Anna Neima’s absorbing and vivid account of these collectives, from creation to collapse, reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles and unchecked idealism. They were dramatic, fractious places where high ideals collided with the need to feed the chickens, clean the toilets, bring up squabbling children and grow the grain for the daily bread. These communities were small in scale and dismissed in their time. Yet, a century later, their influence still resonates in realms as disparate as progressive education, environmentalism, medical research and mindfulness training. They provided, and continue to provide, a rich store of inspiration for those who aspire to improve the world. Without them, the post-war world would have been a poorer place.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ugly Cry: A Memoir Author: Danielle Henderson Narrator: Danielle Henderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “They say comedy equals tragedy plus time: This very funny account of an often miserable childhood is proof.” --People “What a strong, funny, heartbreaking memoir, with a voice that is completely its own (written by a woman who very much seems to be completely her own, as well.) I loved it.”--Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love   An uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and redefining what it means to be family “If you fight that motherf**ker and you don’t win, you’re going to come home and fight me.” Not the advice you’d normally expect from your grandmother—but Danielle Henderson would be the first to tell you her childhood was anything but conventional. Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who chose her drug-addicted, abusive boyfriend, Danielle was raised by grandparents who thought their child-rearing days had ended in the 1960s. She grew up Black, weird, and overwhelmingly uncool in a mostly white neighborhood in upstate New York, which created its own identity crises. Under the eye-rolling, foul-mouthed, loving tutelage of her uncompromising grandmother—and the horror movies she obsessively watched—Danielle grew into a tall, awkward, Sassy-loving teenager who wore black eyeliner as lipstick and was struggling with the aftermath of her mother’s choices. But she also learned that she had the strength and smarts to save herself, her grandmother gifting her a faith in her own capabilities that the world would not have most Black girls possess. With humor, wit, and deep insight, Danielle shares how she grew up and grew wise—and the lessons she’s carried from those days to these. In the process, she upends our conventional understanding of family and redefines its boundaries to include the millions of people who share her story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/483755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner Author: Liz Hauck Narrator: Liz Hauck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review) tender and vivid memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community, and a moving account of one woman’s attempt to answer the essential question Who are we to one another? “Your heart will be altered by this book.”—Gregory Boyle, S.J., New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart   Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn’t know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off her father’s long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners. “The kids picked the menus, I bought the groceries,” Liz writes, “and we cooked and ate dinner together for two hours a week for nearly three years. Sometimes improvisation in kitchens is disastrous. But sometimes, a combination of elements produces something spectacularly unexpected. I think that’s why, when we don’t know what else to do, we feed our neighbors.”   Capturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, this is a sharply observed story about the ways we behave when we are hungry and the conversations that happen at the intersections of flavor and memory, vulnerability and strength, grief and connection. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SHE READS

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family Author: Dk Narrator: Carol Jarvis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 3, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A dazzling account of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family. A magnificent tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and a celebration of the British royal family. This audiobook is a stunning guide to the world's most famous royals, from the Queen's Norman predecessors to her great-grandchildren. It features events such as the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and profiles on key people such as Princess Diana and Prince Harry. This new edition is revised to include the most recent events and milestones, such as the retirement of the Duke of Edinburgh, the birth of Charlotte, Louis, Archie, and other new family members, Harry and Meghan's wedding, and their decision to step back as senior members of the royal family. This audiobook examines the Queen's life in detail from her childhood to today, but also goes back through more than 1,000 years of history to tell the story of the House of Windsor and the entire succession of kings and queens of England and Scotland. This is the perfect book for fans of the Queen and royal family, fans of the Netflix series The Crown, or anyone interested in the history of the British monarchy. © 2021 Dorling Kindersley © 2021 DK Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World Author: Nathan Gorenstein Narrator: Michael David Axtell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and holds a crucial place in world history. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning—a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West—was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict. He invented the design used in virtually all modern pistols, created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns, and conceived the machine guns that proved decisive not just in World Wars I and II but nearly every major military action since. Yet few in America knew his name until he was into his sixties. Now, author Nathan Gorenstein brings firearms inventor John Moses Browning to vivid life in this riveting and revealing biography. Embodying the tradition of self-made, self-educated geniuses (like Lincoln and Edison), Browning was able to think in three dimensions (he never used blueprints) and his gifted mind produced everything from the famous Winchester “30-30” hunting rifle to the awesomely effective machine guns used by every American aircraft and infantry unit in World War II. The British credited Browning’s guns with helping to win the Battle of Britain. His inventions illustrate both the good and bad of weapons. Sweeping, lively, and brilliantly told, this fascinating book that “gun collectors and historians of armaments will cherish” (Kirkus Reviews) introduces a little-known legend whose impact on history ranks with that of the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497485 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holocaust Holiday: One Family's Descent into Genocide Memory Author: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 18, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this alternately humorous and horrifying memoir, a Jewish father drags his reluctant children around Europe on a hard-charging tour of Holocaust sites and memorials in order to impress on them the profound evil of Hitler’s war against the Jews and the importance of combatting genocide. In 2017, renowned author and celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach decided to take his family on a European holiday. But instead of seeing the sights of London or Paris, he took his reluctant—and at times complaining—children on a harrowing journey though Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw, and many other sites associated with Hitler’s genocidal war against the Jews. His purpose was to impress upon them the full horror of the Holocaust so they would know and remember it deep in their bones. In the process, he and his children learn a great deal about the scope and nature of the European genocide and the continuing effects of global hatred and anti-Semitism. The resulting memoir is an utterly unique blend of travelogue, memoir, and history—alternately fascinating, terrifying, frustrating, humorous, and tragic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built Author: Tamika D. Mallory Narrator: Tamika D. Mallory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) in this searing indictment of America’s historical, deadly, and continuing assault on Black and brown lives. Drawn from a lifetime of frontline culture-shifting advocacy, organizing, and fighting for equal justice, State of Emergency makes Mallory’s demand for change and shares the keys to effective activism both for those new to and long-committed to the defense of Black lives. From Minneapolis to Louisville, to Portland, Kenosha, and Washington, DC, America’s reckoning with its unmet promises on race and class is at a boiling point not seen since the 1960s. While conversations around pathways to progress take place on social media and cable TV, history tells us that meaningful change only comes with radical legislation and boots-on-the-ground activism. Here, Mallory shares her unique personal experience building coalitions, speaking truth to power, and winning over hearts and minds in the struggle for shared prosperity and safety. Forward-looking, steeped in history, and rich with stories from life on the margins of American life, State of Emergency effortlessly gives us the tools we “need to fight injustice and find a pathway towards true freedom” (Marie Claire).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Windsor Diaries: My Childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Narrator: Alice Mcmillan, Sandra Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard—who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom—provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family. Like so many others in Great Britain, young Alathea Fitzalan Howard’s life was turned upside down by the start of the Second World War. Sent to stay with her grandfather at the historic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Alathea found the affection she so craved through her close friendship with the two princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and their parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, her neighbors at nearby Windsor Castle. Together, the girls enjoyed parties, cinema evenings, picnics, and more, all recorded in honest and captivating detail in Alathea’s diary, which she kept as a constant source of comfort. Day by day, from ages sixteen to twenty-two, she recorded the intimate details of her life with the Royal Family and the anxieties of wartime Britain. Now, published for the first time, these unique diaries unveil a candid and vivid portrait of the British Royal Family and of Princess Elizabeth in particular, the warm, quiet young girl who was already on her journey to her ultimate destiny: the Crown.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Women of the Pandemic: Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19 Author: Lauren Mckeon Narrator: Katie Ryerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 27, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women's leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together. Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through the world's defining crises. That all changed with COVID-19. In Canada, women's presence in the response to the pandemic has been notable. Women are our nurses, doctors, PSWs. Our cashiers, long-haulers, cooks. In Canada, women are leading the fast-paced search for a vaccine. They are leading our provinces and territories. At home, they are leading families through self-isolation, often bearing the responsibility for their physical and emotional health. They are figuring out what working from home looks like, and many of them are doing it while homeschooling their kids. Women crafted the blueprint for kindness during the pandemic, from sewing masks to kicking off international mutual-aid networks. And, perhaps not surprisingly, women have also suffered some of the biggest losses, bearing the brunt of our economic skydive.      Through intimate portraits of Canadian women in diverse situations and fields, Women of the Pandemic is a gripping narrative record of the early months of COVID-19, a clear-eyed look at women's struggles, which highlights their creativity, perseverance, and resilience as they charted a new path forward during impossible times. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy Author: John F. Wasik Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Lincoln's view of the right to fulfill one's economic destiny was at the core of his governing philosophy—but he knew no one could climb that ladder without strong federal support. Some of his most enduring policies came to him before the Civil War: visions of a country linked by railroads running ocean to ocean, canals turning small towns into bustling cities, public works bridging farmers to market. Author John F. Wasik tracks Lincoln from his time in the 1830s as a young Illinois state legislator pushing for internal improvements; through his work as a lawyer representing the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1840s; to his presidential fight for the Transcontinental Railroad; and his support of land-grant colleges that educated a nation. These brick-and-mortar developments were essential to how the nation could lift citizens above poverty and its isolating origins. Lincolnomics revives the disremembered history of how Lincoln paved the way for Eisenhower's interstate highways and FDR's social amenities. With an afterword addressing the failure of American infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Lincoln's policies provide a guide to the future, Lincolnomics makes the case for the man nicknamed 'The Rail Splitter' as the Presidency's greatest builder.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life Author: Linda K. Olson Narrator: Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation Publisher's Summary: Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives—and Linda's body. When Linda saw Dave for the first time after losing her right arm and both of her legs, she told him she would understand if he left. His response: 'I didn't marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it, I can do it.' In order to protect their loved ones, they decided to hide the truth about what really happened on those train tracks, and they kept their secret for thirty-five years. As a triple amputee, Linda learned to walk with prostheses and change diapers and insert IVs with one hand. She finished her residency while pregnant and living on her own. And she and Dave went on to pursue their dream careers, raise two children, and travel the world. Inspiring and deeply moving, Gone asks listeners to find not only courage but also laughter in the unexpected challenges we all face. The day of the accident, no one envied Linda and Dave. Today, many do.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Code Red Fallujah: A Doctor's Memoir at War Author: Donnelly Wilkes MD Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Airstrikes rain down, Gatling guns pound, and snipers lurk in the distance—welcome to the combat aid station of a young doctor embedded with the heavily weaponized First Marines Division as the Battle of Fallujah boils over. On the night of April 4th, 2004, First Marine Expeditionary Forces launch a major assault on the city of Fallujah. US Navy Lieutenant Donnelly Wilkes's battalion leads the assault into Fallujah as he is positioned with Navy corpsmen and marines at the tactical highway intersection called 'The Cloverleaf.' Rarely have US military physicians been so close to combat in a major conflict as they were in the chaotic, embattled streets of Fallujah—Code Red Fallujah will take you there. Sharing the harrowing entries from his field diary, Wilkes becomes the first-ever Navy physician to recount the sights and sounds of one of the most violent events of the entire Iraq War. In heart-pounding detail, he divulges his struggles to save wounded warriors amidst rockets landing close enough to knock him off his feet. When Wilkes—fresh out of medical school—is suddenly thrust into this war zone, his skills, his faith, and his ability to endure are all put to the test. Code Red Fallujah is the firsthand narrative of Wilkes's role in the Battle of Fallujah, scintillating combat trauma, and the spiritual challenges that pierced his journey.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die Author: Steven Nadler Narrator: Christopher Douyard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for 'abominable heresies' and 'monstrous deeds,' the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious across Europe for his views on God, the Bible, and miracles, as well as for his uncompromising defense of free thought. Yet the radicalism of Spinoza's views has long obscured that his primary reason for turning to philosophy was to answer one of humanity's most urgent questions: How can we lead a good life and enjoy happiness in a world without a providential God? In Think Least of Death, Steven Nadler connects Spinoza's ideas with his life and times to offer a compelling account of how the philosopher can provide a guide to living one's best life. In the Ethics, Spinoza presents his vision of the ideal human being, the 'free person' who, motivated by reason, lives a life of joy devoted to what is most important—improving oneself and others. Untroubled by passions such as hate, greed, and envy, free people treat others with benevolence, justice, and charity. Focusing on the rewards of goodness, they enjoy the pleasures of this world, but in moderation. 'The free person thinks least of all of death,' Spinoza writes, 'and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doctors Get Cancer Too: A Doctor's Diary of Life and Recovery From Cancer Author: Philippa Kaye Narrator: Philippa Kaye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 18, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'It's cancer.' Dr Philippa Kaye was 39 years old when she heard those dreaded words. The diagnosis of bowel cancer would change her life and mean crossing the divide from being a doctor to being a patient. She soon discovered that her years of training and experience had not prepared her for the realities of actually living with cancer. Doctors Get Cancer Too tells Dr Kaye's moving story of being on both sides of the desk, and shares the insights she gained not only through the diagnosis and treatment but in surviving and thriving through cancer and beyond. Filled with practical advice, this book aims to make patients and their loved ones feel better understood, more prepared and less alone, and to provide solace for anyone navigating their way through hard times.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness Author: Jack El-Hai Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, MD, who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Support: Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis Author: Jim Down Narrator: Jim Down Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AN OBSERVER PICK FOR NONFICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2021 'Deeply affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and, ultimately, uplifts with its vein of deep humanity' Philippe Sands One of the doctors with the most hands-on experience of Covid in the country' Edward Docx, New Statesman A powerful, moving account of an intensive care doctor's life on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence. But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the events of spring 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic descended. In Life Support, he tells the extraordinary month-by-month story of how as the nation came to a standstill, he and his colleagues donned PPE, received an unprecedented influx of patients, transformed their hospital and took on the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS. The pandemic raised difficult questions for Jim: how do you fight a new disease? How do you go home at night to your wife and young children when you've spent all day around highly infectious patients? How do you tell a mother that her healthy young son has died, only days after falling ill? With warmth, honesty and humour, this book is a gripping, moving testament to the everyday heroism of the NHS staff in a global crisis, and an unforgettable insight into what was really happening in the wards as we clapped on our doorsteps. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World Author: Jayne Zanglein Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong. In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that 'women are not adapted to exploration,' and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn't know a thing about either . . . The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers—an organization of adventurous female world explorers—and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the high seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and literature. Follow in the footsteps of these rebellious women as they travel the globe in search of new species, widen the understanding of hidden cultures, and break records in spades. For these women dared to go where no woman—or man—had gone before, achieving the unthinkable and breaking through barriers to allow future generations to carry on their important and inspiring work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465613 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice Author: Bruce Levine Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies—including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies—would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans—rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party—and America—towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders’ estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a “vital” (The Guardian), “compelling” (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope Author: Fred Guttenberg Narrator: William Sarris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 23, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Fred Guttenberg loved watching Mr. Rogers with his daughter and son when they were little. Their favorite wisdom was: In the midst of tragedy and catastrophe, find the helpers. 'Always look for the helpers. There will always be helpers. Because if you look for the helpers, you'll know there's hope.' —Fred Rogers, 1999. Life changed forever on Valentine's Day 2018. Thirty-four people were shot at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Jaime Guttenberg, a fourteen-year-old with a huge heart, was the second to last victim. That she and so many of her fellow students were struck down in cold blood galvanized many to action, including Jaime's father, Fred, who has become an activist dedicated to passing common sense gun safety legislation. This book is not about gun safety or Parkland. Instead, it tells the story of Fred Guttenberg's journey since Jaime's death and how he has been able to get through the worst of times thanks to the kindness and compassion of others. Good things happen to good people at the hands of other good people—and the world is filled with them. They include everyone from amazing gun violence survivors Fred has met around the country to former VP Joe Biden, who spent time talking to him about finding mission and purpose in learning to grieve.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unfinished Author: Priyanka Chopra Jonas Narrator: Priyanka Chopra Jonas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognisable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism, and activism. 'I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two Indias, and, just as much, of East and West.' Unfinished takes readers from Priyanka's childhood in India, where she was raised by her grandparents and her parents-two army doctors committed not only to their children but to their careers and to philanthropy-before being sent away to boarding school at an early age; through her formative teenage years in the U.S. living with extended family in the Midwest (Cedar Rapids and Indianapolis), Queens, and suburban Boston, where she endured bouts of racism; to her return to India, where she unexpectedly won the national and global beauty pageants (Miss India and Miss World) that launched her acting career. Readers looking for a glimpse into what it takes to succeed in the massive Indian film industry will find it here, and they'll also find an honest account of the challenges Priyanka faced navigating her career, both in India and Hollywood. The result is a book that is warm, funny, sassy, inspiring, bold, and rebellious. Just like Priyanka herself. From her dual-continent twenty-year-long career as an actor and producer to her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, from losing her beloved father to cancer to marrying Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Jonas's story will inspire a generation around the world to gather their courage, embrace their ambition, and commit to the hard work of following their dreams. © Priyanka Chopra Jonas 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diana Chronicles Author: Tina Brown Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 11, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. More than twenty years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she 'the people's princess,' who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? The Diana Chronicles parts the curtains on Diana's troubled time in the mysterious world of the Windsors, as she breaks out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect. Knowing Diana personally, Tina Brown understands her world, understands its players and has-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. Meet the formidable female cast and get to know the society they inhabit, as you never have before. © Tina Brown 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Author: Carole Boyce Davies Narrator: L. Malaika Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her political critique and activism. Claudia Cumberbatch Jones was born in Trinidad. In 1924, she moved to New York, where she lived for the next thirty years. She was active in the Communist Party from her early twenties onward. A talented writer and speaker, she traveled throughout the United States lecturing and organizing. In the early 1950s, she wrote a well-known column, 'Half the World,' for the Daily Worker. As the US government intensified its efforts to prosecute communists, Jones was arrested several times. She served nearly a year in a US prison before being deported and given asylum by Great Britain in 1955. Looking at the contents of the FBI file on Jones, Boyce Davies contrasts Jones's own narration of her life with the federal government's. Left of Karl Marx establishes Jones as a significant figure within Caribbean intellectual traditions, black US feminism, and the history of communism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine Author: Bob Blaisdell Narrator: Gemma Dawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways. Readers often assume that Tolstoy, a nobleman-turned-mystic would write himself into the principled Levin. But in truth, it is within Anna that the consciousness and energy flows with the same depth and complexities as Tolstoy. Her fateful suicide is the road that Tolstoy nearly traveled himself. At once a nuanced biography and portrait of the last decades of the Russian empire and artful literary examination, Creating Anna Karenina will enthrall the thousands of readers whose lives have become deeper and clearer after experiencing this hallmark of world literature.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los inmortales Author: Hugo Burel Narrator: Pablo Robles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 57 minutes Release date: January 25, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: En Los Inmortales, Hugo Burel se entrega al juego ficticio de hacer coincidir a dos personalidades claves para el Uruguay histórico y el presente: José Batlle y Ordoñez, que fuera presidente de la república en dos ocasiones, y el caudillo del partido nacional de Uruguay, Aparicio Saravia. Gracias a la prosa casi poética de Hugo Burel, la conversación de estos dos titanes trasciende el aspecto meramente político para hundir sus raíces en los pozos más hondos y significativos del alma. Este audiolibro está narrado en español neutral. - Hugo Burel es un escritor nacido en Uruguay en 1951. Con casi treinta novelas publicadas, compagina su faceta literaria con su trabajo como publicista y profesor. Sus obras, que se mueven entre el género de intriga y que profundizan en buena medida en la psicología de sus personajes, le han valido numerosos premios. Entre otros, ha ganado el Premio Lengua de Trapo o el Bartolomé Hidalgo, galardones que le han valido ser parte integrante de la Academia de las Letras de Uruguay.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/466836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bravest Voices: A Memoir of Two Sisters' Heroism During the Nazi Era Author: Ida Cook Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This timeless memoir documents two sisters’ bravery leading up to WWII—a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity’s darkest hours. Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable jobs—Ida as a budding romance novelist and Louise as a civil service typist. But in 1923, a chance hearing of an aria from Madame Butterfly sparked a passion for opera in the sisters that led to the formation of friendships with some of Europe’s leading singers and their network, many of them Jewish. As the Nazis rose to power, Ida and Louise began working with the opera world’s insiders to save members of the community from persecution and death. Through ingenuity, thrift and bottomless goodwill, the sisters eluded the suspicion of the Nazis and helped secure safe passage for dozens of refugees. No one would have predicted such daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook—but that underestimation is exactly how they were able to save lives. First published in 1950, Ida’s memoir of the adventures she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital and entertaining as the woman who wrote it, and is a moving testament to the extraordinary acts of courage by two everyday heroes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation Author: Christopher Zyda Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It all begins in early 1984, when Chris, a twenty-one-year-old UCLA English literature major, risks ostracism when he comes out of the closet to his fraternity brothers just as the AIDS pandemic is beginning to explode in gay communities across the United States. Soon afterward, Chris meets and falls in love with Stephen, a graduate of Yale University and Law School, and the two of them build a life together as their friends start to fall sick and die from the spreading storm of AIDS. Stephen begins showing symptoms of AIDS in early 1986, and Chris faces a difficult choice as he is certain that he, too, eventually will be stricken by the disease. He abandons his writing career and attends the UCLA business school so that he can earn enough money to pay for healthcare during Stephen's illness. The Storm is filled with heart, optimism, and love, interspersed with Los Angeles history, gay and lesbian history, AIDS history, and the backdrop of the 1980s and 1990s. It is an unflinching and, at times, raw memoir of perseverance, integrity, forgiveness, the power of love, spiritual growth, Carpe Diem, dreams, and, most of all: survival and ultimate triumph.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos Author: Steven Heighton Narrator: Michael Braun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: January 12, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. Hearrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother’s native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY—ajerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the touriststhat had been its lifeblood, Heighton—alongside the exhausted locals and underequipped international aid workers—found himself thrown into emergency rolesfor which he was woefully unqualified. From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a gripping firsthand account of the crisis andan engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486737 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Muir: The Scotsman Who Saved America's Wild Places Author: Mary Colwell Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: John Muir is regarded as the 'father of America's national parks' and is a towering figure in the history of that country's involvement with ecology. Born into a harsh home in Dunbar, Scotland he would often escape to revel in the birds and wildlife of the area. When his father suddenly uprooted the family and moved to the United States, the oppression he associated with his childhood continued - and so did his involvement with the natural world. Despite the difficulty of his formative years Muir grew up to be a man of great joy - first an inventor and then an explorer, he found his haven in the mountains of Sierra Nevada. He was a fascinating character: on the one hand a recluse, who sought solitude, and on the other a passionate activist, determined to save the places he loved. A strong believer in both God and the essential goodness of humanity, he was the founder and first president of the Sierra Club. This wonderful memoir pays tribute to a giant of ecology and is essential reading for lovers of natural history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Author: Sojourner Truth Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, she overcame obstacles to become a leading abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Published originally in 1850 and later updated, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth was dictated by Sojourner Truth to her neighbor, Olive Gilbert.