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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health Author: Michael Milken Narrator: Grant Gottschall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future. What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean your teeth, or if a single vaccine could protect you against multiple viruses, or if gene editing could eliminate many birth defects and slow the aging process? Mike Milken believes these, and many other advances, are within reach. Beginning with a description of the 1950s civilization and culture that helped shape Milken's early views, Faster Cures traces the life-extending acceleration of progress in medical research, public health, and clinical treatments over the seven decades since Milken’s childhood—and shows how he helped transform the process of developing disease cures. Among many examples, he recognized the promise of immunology more than twenty-five years ago and provided crucial support for the emergence of immunotherapy as a powerful life-saving treatment. Detailing his unique personal journey from a curious boy with an insatiable thirst for knowledge to his storied careers in finance and health, this book focuses on the events that made Milken what Fortune magazine called “The Man Who Changed Medicine.” The combined influences of social upheaval in the 1960s and family medical crises in the 1970s propelled him to dual quests on Wall Street and in medical research. Known worldwide as a legendary financier, philanthropist, medical research innovator, and public health advocate, Milken tells fascinating anecdotes and explains his inspiring crusade to accelerate cures and treatments so that more people around the world can live longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life Author: Anne Glenconner Narrator: Anne Glenconner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Bracing honesty, rare insight, and more revelations: theNew York Timesbestselling author ofLady in Waiting shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stories from life inside Anne Glenconner’s privileged circle, which though golden didn't always glitter. As she revealed in her memoir, it has been one of stark contrasts—from growing up in the splendor of Holkham Hall to living in a tent in the jungle of Mustique, from traveling the world with Princess Margaret to coping with her wildly unpredictable husband Lord Glenconner. She has also survived the tragic loss of two of her sons and nursed a third son back from a coma.   Now in her ninth decade and at her happiest, she's keen to share everything her unexpected life has taught her—the wise, the hilarious, the poignant, and the illuminating. As a wife, she became a master in the art of keeping the peace, knowing when to pick her battles, when she needed help—and when to take a lover. As a hostess, she acquired great practical skills in throwing marvelous parties and looking after magnificent homes, and, as a lady in waiting, became well versed in diplomacy and etiquette. It was as a mother she learnt the toughest lessons of all, and through them the value of friendship, family, and laughter to get her through the worst moments in life, as well as celebrate the best of them.   Whatever Next? is a treasury of hard-won wisdom, and richly entertaining proof that staying open to every new adventure sets an inspiring example for us all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Enseñar a transgredir: La educación como práctica de la libertad Author: Bell Hooks, Marta Malo (translator) Narrator: Paloma Insa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'La inagotable energía intelectual de bell hooks es sorprendente, radical y amorosa.'—Paulo Freire En Enseñar a transgredir, bell hooks, escritora, maestra e intelectual insurgente, escribe sobre un nuevo tipo de educación, la educación como práctica de la libertad. Enseñar a los estudiantes a 'transgredir' los límites raciales, sexuales y de clase para lograr el regalo de la libertad es, para hooks, el objetivo más importante del maestro. Por ello habla al corazón de la educación actual: ¿cómo podemos repensar las prácticas de enseñanza en la era del multiculturalismo? ¿Qué hacemos con los profesores que no quieren enseñar y los estudiantes que no quieren aprender? ¿Cómo debemos lidiar con el racismo y el sexismo en el aula? Lleno de pasión y política, Enseñar a transgredir combina un conocimiento práctico del aula con una profunda conexión con el mundo de las emociones y los sentimientos. Se trata de un libro inusual sobre profesores y estudiantes, que se atreve a plantear preguntas sobre el eros y la rabia, el dolor y la reconciliación, y el futuro de la enseñanza misma. 'Educar como práctica de la libertad —escribe bell hooks— es una forma de enseñar que cualquiera puede aprender'. 'Una de las mejores descripciones del propósito y la función de la educación y el educador jamás escritas.'—Feminist Bookstore News

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain Author: Paul Preston Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution. It is the previously untold story of how antisemitic beliefs were weaponised to justify and propagate the Franco overthrow of liberal Spain. The Spanish military coup of 1936 was launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers, clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened. However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent ‘Jewish- Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy’. Despite the fact that Spain had only a tiny minority of Jews and Freemasons, Franco and his inner circle were ardent believers in this fabricated conspiracy and spread the notion that the survival of Catholic Spain, as well, of course, of the establishment ’ s economic interests, required the total annihilation of Jews and Freemasons. Architects of Terror is the story of how fake news, mendacity, corruption and nostalgia for lost empire generated violence and hatred. The book presents vivid portraits of the key ideologues who propagated the myth of the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy and of the military figures who implemented the atrocities that it justified. Among the convictions shared by these individuals was their belief in the idea that Freemasonry was responsible for Spain ’ s loss of empire and in the factual veracity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious fiction about the global domination of the Jews. This is a history that reverberates in our own political moment

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk Author: Buddy Levy Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: '...Damron's able narration carries listeners through this arduous journey with a steady tone that lightens at moments of joy and becomes grave at times of deep sadness and loss. While the tale has all of the trappings of a great adventure novel, neither the author nor Damron let listeners forget that the toll here was real, human, and significant.'- Booklist 'Will Damron sweeps listeners onto the Arctic ice with the shipwrecked crew of the Canadian KARLUK.'- AudioFile The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett’s leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré Author: John Le Carré Narrator: Florence Pugh, David Harewood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humour, generosity, and wit--a side of him many readers have not previously seen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun Author: The Countess Of Carnarvon Narrator: The Countess Of Carnarvon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert—the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it—whose country house, Highclere Castle, is the setting of the beloved series Downton Abbey. In November 1922, the world was mesmerized by news of an astonishing historical find in Egypt’s legendary Valley of Kings: the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun. George Herbert, himself a famed amateur Egyptologist and noted antiquities collector, financed the expedition and excavation headed by lead archaeologist Howard Carter, and accompanied him inside this sacred space that had remained untouched for centuries. Inside the tomb, the explorers found King Tut’s sarcophagus and a treasure trove of astonishing artifacts: chariots and model boats, board games and paintings, a coffin made of pure gold. But these objects were more than just beautifully crafted works of art; they shed new light on Tutankhamun world and this fabled period of history, and changed our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians had lived—transforming overnight what had been formed through centuries of history and myth. Drawing on Highclere Castle’s archives, the Countess of Carnarvon pays homage to her ancestor on the 100th anniversary of this extraordinary event. In vivid and dramatic detail, she brings into focus the larger-than-life characters and lustrous settings—as well as those twists of luck and tragedies that shaped Herbert’s life. Across the early 1900s, Highclere saw no less drama than the fictional Downton Abbey, with early tragedies for the Earl and love affairs, as well highs of exorbitant wealth and trials of punishing debt. But above all there was adventure. While Herbert first went to Egypt for his health, this mysterious, romantic land would become a second home; the beloved place where he funneled his attentions over a period of decades, never quite realizing how great the fruits of his labors would prove. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici Author: Estelle Paranque Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A beautifully thorough examination into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as well as the course of history. Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal structures–and yet against all odds, two women rose to power: Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. Much has been written about these shrewd and strategic sovereigns, but though their l legacies have been heavily scrutinized, nothing has been said of their complicated relationship—thirty years of camaraderie, competition, and conflict that forever changed the face of Europe. In Blood, Fire, and Gold, historian Estelle Paranque offers a new way of looking at two of history's most powerful women: through the eyes of the other. Whether engaged in bloody battles or peaceful accords, Elizabeth and Catherine admired the force and resilience of the other, while never forgetting that they were, first and foremost, each other's true rival. This is a story of  love and rivalry, of war and wisdom, and—above all else—of the courage and sacrifice it takes to secure and sustain power as a woman in a male-dominated world. **SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, "10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022"**  **HISTORY TODAY, "BOOKS OF THE YEAR (2022)"**

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic Author: Josiah Osgood Narrator: Ana Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men’s toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war. Deeply researched and compellingly told, Uncommon Wrath is a groundbreaking biography of two men whose hatred for each other destroyed the world they loved.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Author: Leokadia Schmidt Narrator: Rebecca Gibel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the 'Aryan' side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed. Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto. Her memoir brings to life the vilest and most righteous qualities that people are capable of as she depicts the horrific living conditions in the ghetto and her family's harrowing escapes from the Nazi furnaces.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius Author: Nick Hornby Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with a fan’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries—each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time. When Prince’s 1987 record Sign o’ the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs that weren’t on the original— Prince was endlessly prolific, recording 102 songs in 1986 alone. In awe, Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years before Prince began making music. Examining the two artists’ personal tragedies, social statuses, boundless productivity, and other parallels, both humorous and haunting, Hornby shows how these two unlikely men from different centuries “lit up the world.” In the process, he creates a lively, stimulating rumination on the creativity, flamboyance, discipline, and soul it takes to produce great art.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor Author: Steve Kemper Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war. In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister and conspiracies flourished. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planes and tanks.  Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, America’s most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed ambassador to Japan, not only was the country in turmoil, its relationship with America was rapidly deteriorating. For the next decade, Grew attempted to warn American leaders about the risks of Japan’s raging nationalism and rising militarism, while also trying to stabilize Tokyo’s increasingly erratic and volatile foreign policy. From domestic terrorism by Japanese extremists to the global rise of Hitler and the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, the events that unfolded during Grew’s tenure proved to be pivotal for Japan, and for the world. His dispatches from the darkening heart of the Japanese empire would prove prescient—for his time, and for our own.   Drawing on Grew’s diary of his time in Tokyo as well as U.S. embassy correspondence, diplomatic dispatches, and firsthand Japanese accounts, Our Man in Tokyo brings to life a man who risked everything to avert another world war, the country where he staked it all—and the abyss that swallowed it.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood: The Oral History Author: Sam Wasson, Jeanine Basinger Narrator: Marni Penning, Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today.  From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader “listen in” on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera—Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd—to the biggest behind it—Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on screen: musicians, costumers, art directors, cinematographers, writers, sound men, editors, make-up artists, and even script timers, messengers, and publicists. The result is like a conversation among the gods and goddesses of film: lively, funny, insightful, historically accurate and, for the first time, authentically honest in its portrait of Hollywood. It’s the insider’s story.  Legendary film scholar Jeanine Basinger and New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson, both acclaimed storytellers in their own right, have undertaken the monumental task of digesting these tens of thousands of hours of talk and weaving it into a definitive portrait of workaday Hollywood.    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd Author: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behind-the-scenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies. That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twenty-one and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York, Sarah secretly aided and abetted her husband, fighting alongside him against his accusers. More remarkable still was that Sarah not only survived the tragedy wrought by her infamous husband’s deeds, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New York’s most prominent citizens. Marshaling in newly discovered primary-source documents from archives in London, New York and Boston, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reconstructs the extraordinary life of Sarah Kidd, uncovering a rare example of the kind of life that pirate wives lived during the Golden Age of Piracy. A compelling tale of love, treasure, motherhood and survival, this landmark work of narrative nonfiction weaves together the personal and the epic in a sweeping historical story of romance and adventure. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camilla: From Outcast to Queen Consort Author: Angela Levin Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A compelling new biography of Camilla, Queen Consort, that reveals how she transformed her role and established herself as one of the key members of the royal family. For many years, Camilla was portrayed in a poor light, blamed by the public for the break-up of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Initially, the Queen refused to see or speak to her, but, after the death of Prince Philip, the Duchess became one of the Queen's closest companions. Her confidence in Camilla and the transformation she saw in Prince Charles since their wedding resulted in her choosing the first day of her Platinum Jubilee year to tell the world that she wanted Camilla to be Queen Consort not the demeaning Princess Consort suggested in 2005   Angela Levin uncovers Camilla’s rocky journey to be accepted by the royal family and how she coped with the brutal portrayal of her in Netflix's The Crown. The public have witnessed her tremendous contribution to help those in need, especially during Covid. Levin has talked to many of the Duchess’s long-term friends, her staff and executives from the numerous charities of which Camilla is patron. She reveals why Camilla concentrates on previously taboo subjects, such as domestic violence and rape. Most of all, Levin tells the story of how Camilla has changed from a fun-loving young woman to one of the senior royals’ hardest workers. She has retained her mischievous sense of humour, becoming a role model for older women and an inspiration for younger ones. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is both an extraordinary love story and a fascinating portrait of an increasingly confident Queen Consort. It is an essential read for anyone wanting a greater insight into the royal family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Author: Gareth Russell Narrator: Fiona Hampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’ During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations and dry-as-a-Martini delivery style as she was for being a member of the Royal Family. She was also famed for her fondness for ‘drinky-poos’ – usually a gin and Dubonnet or three. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 biographical vignettes – one for each year of her long, remarkable life, including her coming-of-age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law, the truth about her tragic nieces and her relationship with her two daughters over half a century of widowhood. The book is a skimming-stone biography – the story of a life without the boring bits – and a travel guide to a world that no longer exists. Stepping into the Queen Mother’s rarefied universe is a little like falling through the looking glass. The book rightly celebrates her sense of humour but also explores her enmities and feuds, including the truth about her behaviour towards Wallis Simpson, Nerissa Bowes-Lyon and Diana, Princess of Wales. For fans of The Crown and featuring new revelations, never before published, and colourful anecdotes about the woman the high society photographer Cecil Beaton once described as ‘a marshmallow made on a welding machine’, Do Let’s Have Another Drink is a delightful celebration of one of the most consistently popular members of the Royal Family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Essential Dick Gregory Author: Dick Gregory Narrator: Afrika K. Kenjyatta, Andre Gaines, Christian Gregory, Joe Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Narrated by Audie, Emmy, and NAACP® Image Award-winning actor, Joe Morton, and joined by Christian Gregory and Afrika K. Kenjyatta.  A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner, Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies. A true renaissance man, Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory was one of the pioneering satirists of his generation, a reformer and brilliant spokesperson for the downtrodden and forgotten who dedicated his life to speaking unadulterated truth—and to improving ordinary lives. A revered human rights and environmental activist, fearsome and uncompromising social critic, lauded bestselling author, and beloved nutrition guru, Gregory aimed not only to educate souls, but to liberate them. His words shaped a generation and remain vital for our own turbulent times, offering wisdom to enlighten and inspire a new activist age. This carefully curated anthology of selected writings reflects and celebrates Dick Gregory’s wisdom and his vision. Divided into three sections—Body, Mind, and Spirit—it includes previously unavailable transcriptions and excerpts taken from his sixteen books, fifteen albums and audio compilations, and more than 1,200 hours of archival video, including lectures, interviews, and comedic performances. It is a breathtaking tour through the life of one of America’s most prophetic and relevant cultural icons. The Essential Dick Gregory is a pointillistic portrait of a man who gave up a lucrative entertainment career to fight injustice on the front line of battle—leading protests and hunger strikes to end the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa; supporting civil rights, feminism, and Native Americans,; and addressing hunger, poverty, and police brutality. This compelling volume will challenge your beliefs, allow you to see life in unexpected ways, and dare you to make the world a better place. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World Author: Hannah Lucinda Smith, Zarifa Ghafari Narrator: Ariana Delawari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights. I am one of the lucky ones. I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any progress that was made for women over the past twenty years being brutally reversed. Every day, I yearn for my motherland. Now it is my duty to make sure that the world knows what is happening to women there, and what we must do to change things for them. Zarifa Ghafari was three years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was seven when American airstrikes began. She was twenty-six when she became mayor - the only female mayor in the country - of Maidan Wardak, Kabul. An extremist mob barred her from her office; her male staff walked out in protest; assassins tried to kill her six times. Finally, they killed their father. Ghafari stood her ground. She ended corruption in the province, promoted peace and tried to lift up women, despite constant fear for herself and her family. When the Taliban took Kabul in 2021, Ghafari had to flee, narrowly escaping the country on one of the last flights out of Kabul  and finding refuge in Germany.  Zarifa is an astonishing memoir that offers an unparalleled perspective of the last two decades in Afghanistan. Written with honesty, pain and ultimately, hope, Ghafari describes the work she did, the women she still tries to help as they live under Taliban rule and her vision for how grassroots activism can change their lives and the lives of women everywhere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover Author: Graham Boynton Narrator: Graham Boynton, Chris Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Preface and epilogue read by the author. Graham Boynton's Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life icon who pushed the boundaries of art and scandalized international high society with his high-profile affairs. He was the original 20th century “enfant terrible” with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he was by instinct an adventurer, and the more dangerous the escapade, the better: whether he was hunting big game in Africa, ingesting epic quantities of drugs, or pursuing the most beautiful women in the world. Among his friends were Jackie Onassis, Andy Warhol, and Francis Bacon. When Peter Beard died in 2020 after mysteriously disappearing from his Montauk home, he remained an enigma to even his closest friends. Journalist and author Graham Boynton was a friend for more than 30 years, spending time with Beard at his bush camp in Africa, in London, and at his Long Island home. From hundreds of Boynton’s interviews with Beard’s closest friends, former lovers, and fellow artists comes this intimate portrait of a man Sir Mick Jagger called “a visionary.” A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great Novels Author: Dk Narrator: Walles Hamonde Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels. From medieval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the self, Great Novels explores the finest novels from around the world and through time. Tilt at windmills with Don Quixote, experience heartbreak with Tolstoy, discover the society in which Jane Austen lived, and delve into the complex rites of passage experienced by characters in modern novels. Find out what inspired writers to create their masterpieces, what their aims were, and how they set about writing them. Organised chronologically and covering the whole range of literary styles, Great Novels takes you into the pages of the world's seminal novels, ranging from the entertaining adventures of Cervantes' errant knight through classics such as Great Expectations and Madame Bovary, to modern novels such as To the Lighthouse, The Outsider, Beloved, and Wolf Hall. Stunning images of the original manuscripts, first editions, and authors are complemented by extracts and quotations, while illustrated features set the novels in their literary and historical context. Essential for everyone who loves books, Great Novels provides a fascinating overview of how the genre has developed through the ages and celebrates the perennial, life-affirming pleasures of reading.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - EINE NEUE WELT. Kontakt mit den Besuchern Author: Whitley Strieber Narrator: Michael J. Diekmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: EINE NEUE WELT ENTSTEHT. Können wir sie ertragen? Den Anfang machten »Die Besucher«, der größte Bestseller über die Begegnung mit Außerirdischen und Wesen aus einer anderen Dimension, den die Welt jemals gesehen hatte. Jetzt kehrt Whitley Strieber mit neuen Erkenntnissen zurück – und sie haben die Macht, die Welt zu verändern! 33 Jahre sind verstrichen, und viele Menschen hatten inzwischen mit den »Besuchern« Kontakt, doch die meisten von uns kennen sie nur durch Dokumentationen und Berichte. Das kann sich jetzt ändern. Es liegt an uns. Sie wollen sich uns anschließen. Sie brauchen uns. Aber noch wichtiger ist, dass wir sie brauchen – ihre Weisheit und ihre Einsicht in die Gefährdung unserer Welt und ihr Wissen, wie wir unsere eigene Zukunft sichern können. WAGEN WIR ES, IHNEN DIE TÜR ZU ÖFFNEN? Whitley Strieber zählt zu den ungewöhnlichsten Schriftstellern unserer Zeit. Berühmt machten ihn die Filmfassungen seiner Romane »The Day After Tomorrow«, »Hunters«, »Wolfen« und »Begierde«. In »Eine Neue Welt« schildert er seine aktuellen Begegnungen und Erkenntnisse seit dem Buch »Die Besucher«, verfilmt mit Christopher Walken, in dem er seine Entführung durch Aliens offenlegte. Trackliste: 1. Vorspann • 2. Widmungen • 3. Vorbemerkung des Autors • 4. Einführung von Jeffrey J. Kripal • 5. Kapitel 1: Das Geheimnis beginnt • 6. Kapitel 2: Ein dringender Ruf • 7. Kapitel 3: Warum bestimmte Menschen? • 8. Kapitel 4: Das Implantat-Geheimnis • 9. Kapitel 5: Der Asphodeliengrund • 10. Kapitel 6: Die Nachthunde • 11. Kapitel 7: Die Rückkehr der Besucher • 12. Kapitel 8: Der Mann aus dem Paradies • 13. Kapitel 9: Geteilte Leben • 14. Kapitel 10: Dunkle Wahrheiten und Licht • 15. Kapitel 11: Die »UFO-Spende« und eine Warnung • 16. Kapitel 12: Ist irgendetwas davon real? • 17. Kapitel 13: Es ist an der Zeit • 18. Danksagung • 19. Über den Autor • 20. Impressum

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Two Souls: Midwives in Ethiopia Author: Indie Mcdowell Narrator: Yasmin Mwanza, Jennifer Ness Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 2016, English midwife Indie joined the staff at Attat Hospital in south-western Ethiopia, where Atsede led the midwifery services. It was a meeting that would change their lives. Their close professional relationship, and deep personal friendship, led to them opening a birth centre serving the Gurage women and families of Cheha Woreda, bringing compassionate midwifery care into the heart of traditional communities. Through the two midwives' eyes, as they recount stories from the women they have cared for over the years, we experience the lives of the Gurage people in rich detail. From one night shift which saw Atsede attend 16 births, and 17 babies born, to the day there was a donkey mysteriously tied up inside the hospital. By way of undiagnosed birth defects, the ramifications of female circumcision, obstetric emergencies, and long hours of ordinary, extraordinary births, what shines through is a deep and abiding love for the women in their care, and respect for each other and the colleagues they work alongside.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life Author: Alice Wong Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong.   Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy. * This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing photographs, illustrations and a crossword puzzle from the printed book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575052 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Ride: A Memoir of I.V. Drips and Rocket Ships Author: Hayley Arceneaux Narrator: Hayley Arceneaux Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The youngest American to ever orbit the earth—cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux—shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen. “A potent reminder to all of us that nothing on earth—or in the heavens, for that matter—can keep us from becoming commanders of our own destiny.”—Marlo Thomas, actor, author, and national outreach director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD In this boldly optimistic debut memoir, Hayley Arceneaux details how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to grab hold of a life greater than she’d ever imagined. With her signature upbeat messaging, Arceneaux recounts her odyssey, from her cancer diagnosis at age ten and the yearlong treatment that inspired her goal of working with pediatric cancer patients, to living through her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis, to getting her lifelong dream job at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a physician assistant. She was sure she’d finally attained the life she wanted, and then the amazing and unimaginable happened: She was invited to go to space as a St. Jude ambassador. Throughout the book, Arceneaux encourages readers to fight for the life they want, saying, You have to hold on, because you don’t know what great thing can come and change your life. Take the chance and you will feel, and learn, and grow, and become even more you. Following your dreams can take you to dreams you didn’t know you had. Arceneaux’s uplifting story is the inspiration we all need today. She offers wisdom and lessons in courage to anyone fighting against the odds. And through it all, she reveals how resilience and faith can help us grab hold of the life we’ve always wanted and live it to the fullest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion's Size-Inclusivity Revolution Author: Gianluca Russo Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Plus-size fashion revolutionizes the way women view themselves and their bodies. By honoring our progress so far, The Power of Plus launches the next stage of the plus-size fashion movement. Exclusivity runs within the foundation of fashion. While calls for diversity have intensified recently, long-held attitudes are only beginning to change. But through social media, plus-size people have been able to create strong communities that show them to be confident, strong, and beautiful. Plus-size fashionistas have been writing their own narrative for the past two decades, creating a market all on their own that is now worth more than $21 billion dollars. The Power of Plus features interviews with trailblazers such as Tess Holliday, Hunter McGrady, Gabi Gregg, and more, as it follows the evolution of plus-size fashion from its start on small blogs to its current boom, examines the way this market has changed women’s relationships with their bodies, and predicts how plus-size fashion is integral to the future success of the industry. Plus-size fashion is not a PR stunt. It is a culture-changing market created by and for the women and men who have always deserved to feel stylish but never had the visibility to be … until now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diana, William, and Harry Author: Chris Mooney, James Patterson Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Instant New York Times Bestseller! “She was the best mother in the world,” said Princes William and Harry at Diana’s 10-year memorial. “Entertaining and persuasive,” (Publishers Weekly) this is the first big book about the private Diana, the mother of two princes. “Royal fans will devour this well-paced biography that gives new insight into the House of Windsor. You’ll tear through it by sundown and walk away thinking about the Princess of Wales and her two sons with new perspective .” –Men’s Journal   From the moments William and Harry are born into the House of Windsor, they become their young mother’s whole world.    I’ve got two very healthy, strong boys. I realize how incredibly lucky I am, Diana reminds herself every morning. But even the Princess of Wales questions, Am I a good mother?     Diana’s faced with a seemingly impossible challenge: one son destined to be King of England and another determined to find his own way.  She teaches them to honor royal tradition, even while daring to break it.    “Sometimes I’d like a time machine…” Diana says as William and Harry grow up, never imagining they’d have less than a lifetime together. Even after she’s gone, her sons follow their mother’s lead—and her heart. As the years pass and William and Harry grow into adulthood and form families of their own, they carry on Diana’s name, her likeness, and her incomparable spirit.   “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history with novelistic style” (People) in this deeply personal and revealing biography of the world’s most storied family, from the world’s #1 bestselling author.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Máximas y reflexiones de un renacentista sagaz Author: Francesco Guicciardini, Manuel Manzano (translator) Narrator: Eduardo Robles Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 10, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Rescatamos los pensamientos que Francesco Guicciardini, el gran padre de la historiografía moderna, escribió bajo el título de Ricordi. Estas notas aforísticas, que fue reuniendo en distintos momentos de su vida y en diversos períodos de su actividad como diplomático, permanecieron inéditas hasta 1857. Vecino de Maquiavelo, catorce años mayor que él, en la República de Florencia, su pragmatismo sujeto a las circunstancias del momento lo oponían en cierto modo al autor de El príncipe. Las ideas de Guicciardini, impregnadas de realismo, ofrecen enseñanzas útiles para hacer frente a los asuntos públicos y privados, y su escepticismo, ironía e incredulidad frente a cualquier explicación que no tenga en cuenta las complejidades del contexto mantienen toda su frescura y su vigencia cinco siglos después.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charles Before Diana: A King in the Making Series: Part of Royal House of Windsor Author: Helen Cathcart Narrator: Lorna Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles has been heir to the British throne since he was three years old. In this lively and illuminating account, royal biographer Helen Cathcart charts the first thirty years of Prince Charles's life, from his birth at Buckingham Palace in 1948 and rugby-playing schooldays at Gordonstoun, through his undergraduate years cycling to lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequent military career in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. Cathcart reveals a young man of many interests—actor, polo player, cellist, helicopter pilot, and conservationist—and takes the listener behind the scenes of notable events in the Prince's life, including his investiture as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969 and move to Chevening in 1974, before giving insight into his romantic relationships prior to his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer. Drawing on an extraordinary fund of private material, Charles Before Diana is an intimate portrait of the man behind the Prince—a man with an endearing sense of comedy and a conscientious devotion to duty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers Author: Adam Parkinson, Lee Parkinson Narrator: Adam Parkinson, Lee Parkinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Preorder the new Mr Ps book 'How to Survive the School Year' – out 29/08/24 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The side-splittingly hilarious and heart-warming book from your favourite teacher duo and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast) Remember the distant days of lockdown and those futile attempts to homeschool distracted, disinterested kids? Parents rejoiced to send them back to school, while teachers prepared to face them all again … Five. Days. A. Week! Coming out the other side of the pandemic years, podcast sensations Lee and Adam Parkinson – aka the Two Mr Ps – bring you the most hilarious, ridiculous anecdotes from inside our primary schools. Join in on the classroom antics as they share the unexpected pitfalls of online teaching, all the reasons you need a strong stomach to take on Early Years and why not every household item makes a suitable Harry Potter wand …

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Save my Children: An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero Author: Edwin Stepp, Leon Kleiner Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate. A notoriously cruel anti-Semite hunting for Jews. Why did this murderer risk his own life to save these children? An eleven-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make their hometown of Tluste Judenrein. Their luck seems to have run out when the Germans order to liquidate their work camp. Unexpected help comes from Timush, a man known for his terrible deeds against the Jews. After hearing their mother shout to him in a desperate plea, 'Save my children!' as she is marched to her execution, Timush amazingly risks his own life to make sure they survive. Save my Children is the true story of the transformation of a man once filled with hate and violence who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the people he once sought to kill. A unique story inspiring hope that hatred can be overcome.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Give You My Heart: A True Story of Courage and Survival Author: Wendy Holden Narrator: Helen Langford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An unlikely friendship between two couples leads to one of the most remarkable acts of selfless sacrifice when the Nazis invade their country. A teenage girl, guilty only of being Jewish, is saved from the fate that awaits her family and hidden by her parents' Catholic friends—who pay the ultimate price for their bravery. So much was risked and so much lost but the legacy of their courage and trust lives on through the surviving generations. Now, at last, their story can be told . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shmuel's Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father Author: Jason Sommer Narrator: Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A moving memoir of a son's relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer's father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. As father and son travel from the town of Jay's birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason's father has told all his life come alive. So too do Jason's own memories of the way his father's past complicated and impacted Jason's own inner life. Shmuel's Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son's complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild Author: Nate Schweber Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The untold story of the extraordinary fight to defend American wilderness from McCarthyism, and the radical couple who led the charge—and inspired a future of conservation In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives. Bernard and Avis built a broad grassroots coalition to sound the alarm—from Julia and Paul Child to Ansel Adams, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alfred Knopf, Adlai Stevenson, and Wallace Stegner—while the very pillars of American democracy, embodied in free and public access to Western lands, hung in the balance. Their dramatic crusade would earn them censorship and blacklisting by Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, and Roy Cohn, and it even cost Bernard his life. In This America of Ours, award-winning journalist Nate Schweber uncovers the forgotten story of a progressive alliance that altered the course of twentieth-century history and saved American wilderness—and our country’s most fundamental ideals—from ruin. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great Author: Matt Waters Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in the 330s BCE. Much of the empire's territory was conquered by its founder, Cyrus the Great, who reigned from 559-530 BCE. Cyrus became a legend in his own lifetime, and his career inspired keen interest from Persia's unruly neighbors to the west, the ancient Greeks. The idealized portrait of Cyrus by the Greek Xenophon had a profound impact on ancient, medieval, and early modern debates about rulership. King of the World provides an authoritative and accessible account of Cyrus the Great's life, career, and legacy. While Greek sources remain central to any narrative about Cyrus, a wealth of primary evidence is found in the ancient Near East, including documentary, archaeological, art historical, and biblical material. Matt Waters draws from all of these sources while consistently contextualizing them in order to provide a cohesive understanding of Cyrus the Great. This overview addresses issues of interpretation and reconciles limited material, while the narrative keeps Cyrus the Great's compelling career at the forefront.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen Herself Series: Part of Royal House of Windsor Author: Helen Cathcart Narrator: Lorna Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Royal biographer Helen Cathcart's fascinatingly intimate account charts Elizabeth's extraordinary life, from her birth and early years growing up in the royal palaces—sleeping in the dungeons of Windsor Castle during the air raids of the Blitz—through to her marriage to Prince Philip in 1947, and their life together as new parents. The death of Elizabeth's beloved father, King George VI, in 1952 saw her life change forever when at the age of twenty-five she became Queen. Cathcart vividly brings to life many of the key events during the first thirty years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, including her spectacular Coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953 and subsequent six-month grand tour of the Commonwealth, as well as Her Majesty's first televised Christmas broadcast in 1957. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including family letters, royal journals, and personal recollections, The Queen Herself is an exceptionally detailed biography of a loving daughter, wife and mother, as well as an iconic and celebrated national figurehead devoted to a life of service. The Queen Herself offers a fascinating insight into Her Majesty The Queen's remarkable life and reign.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Author: Eric Metaxas Narrator: John Behrens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, a man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a young pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer become one of the first to speak out against Hitler. In this compelling book, you will learn about: - Bonhoeffer’s life as a double agent who joined the plot to assassinate the Führer, - His story of courage and determination to do the will of God - Facts about Adolf Hitler and their plan to exterminate the Jewish population   Bonhoeffer was hanged in Flossenberg concentration camp at age thirty-nine. Since his death, Bonhoeffer has grown to be one of the most fascinating, complex figures of the twentieth century. Bonhoeffer brings you face-to-face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfully—even to the point of death. It is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil. Accompanying photos are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery Author: Myron L. Rolle Narrator: Charles Ray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: You don't have to change your life overnight--instead, you can make small changes that leave a lasting impact. In The 2% Way, discover the simple, revolutionary practice behind the against-the-odds success story of Dr. Myron L. Rolle. Dr. Rolle has led a remarkable life: from earning a scholarship to a prestigious private high school to becoming a top-rated recruit at Florida State University; from winning the Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford to playing football in the NFL and then becoming a neurosurgery resident at Harvard. In this inspiring book, Dr. Rolle tells the story of his incredible journey, revealing how a strong work ethic, deep faith, and the family values instilled by his Bahamian immigrant parents set the stage for the transformative life philosophy that enabled him to overcome adversity, defy expectations, and create a life of meaning and purpose. Whether you're struggling with your own obstacles, looking to improve yourself, searching for your purpose and identity, or seeking inspiration, Dr. Rolle's story will give you the encouragement and tools you need to: - Make incremental improvements that lead to long-lasting results - Build a life full of purpose and meaning - Tackle life with the assurance that you're moving in the right direction The 2% Way will change the way you think about self-improvement, proving that you have the power to make strides toward the life you've always dreamed of.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ein Fleck im Meer Author: John Aldridge, Anthony Sosinski Narrator: Erich Wittenberg, Frank Stieren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Wie weit würde man für seinen besten Freund gehen? Diese Frage muss sich Anthony Sosinski stellen, als er bemerkt, dass sein Freund und Kollege, John Aldrige, sich nicht mehr auf dem gemeinsamen Boot befindet. Aldrige ist über Bord gegangen und kämpft gegen die Wellen, sich selbst und um das blanke Überleben. Eine Geschichte über Freundschaft, Hoffnung und den Willen zu Leben. -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen and Prince Philip: The Early Years Series: Part of Royal House of Windsor Author: Helen Cathcart Narrator: Jayne Entwistle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip enjoyed seventy-three years of happy married life together—the longest marriage of any royal British couple in history. But how did they meet? What did their families think of their burgeoning relationship? What obstacles did the young couple face before and after their marriage? And how did a childhood friendship grow into the love story of the century? In The Queen and Prince Philip royal biographer Helen Cathcart superbly reconstructs the early years of Elizabeth and Philip's relationship, tracing their growing affection from the summer of 1939, when 'Lilibet' was a teenager and Philip a dashing navy cadet, through their wartime courtship and magnificent wedding in 1947 at Westminster Abbey. She narrates their adjustment to new parenthood in Clarence House and how, shortly afterwards, both their lives changed forever when Elizabeth ascended the throne as Queen in 1952 and Philip became Prince Consort. Set against a revealing background of family and wider social events, this is the first full story of their early years together as husband and wife documented from family letters, royal journals, and the personal recollections of those close to the royal couple. The Queen and Prince Philip takes us behind the scenes of one of the most romantic royal love stories of all time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Princesses of King Edward Longshanks Author: Kelcey Wilson-Lee Narrator: Christine Rendel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters—Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth—ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages. Edward's daughters were of course expected to cement alliances and secure lands and territory by making great dynastic marriages, or endow religious houses with royal favor. But they also skillfully managed enormous households, navigated choppy diplomatic waters, and promoted their family's cause throughout Europe—and had the courage to defy their royal father. They might never wear the crown in their own right, but they were utterly confident of their crucial role in the spectacle of medieval kingship. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, Daughters of Chivalry offers a rich portrait of these formidable women, seeing them—at long last—shine from out of the shadows, revealing what it was to be a princess in the Age of Chivalry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews Author: Michael Good Narrator: James Romick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto—including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often? After five years of research—interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years, following every lead he could, Good was able to uncover the amazing tale of one man's remarkable courage. And in April 2005, Karl Plagge joined Oskar Schindler and 380 other Germans as 'Righteous among Nations,' honored by the State of Israel for protecting and saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust. This expanded edition features a new epilogue on the impact of the discovery of Karl Plagge—especially the story of eighty-three-year-old Alfons von Deschwanden, who, after fifty years of silence, came forward as a veteran of Plagge's unit. His testimony is now part of this growing witness to truth. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzling investigation into Magellan's life, his character and his ill-fated voyage. He shows that Magellan did not attempt – much less accomplish – a journey around the globe, and that in his own lifetime, the explorer was abhorred as a traitor, reviled as a tyrant and dismissed as a failure. He probes the passions and tensions that drove Magellan to adventure and drew him to disaster: the pride that became arrogance, daring that became recklessness, determination that became ruthlessness, romanticism that became irresponsibility, and superficial piety that became, in adversity, irrational exaltation. And as the real Magellan emerges, so to do his real ambitions, focused less on circumnavigating the world or cornering the global spice market than on exploiting Filipino gold. Offering up a stranger, darker and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been glorified for half a millennium, Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero. 'Scintillating and compelling, and told with all of Felipe Fernández Armesto's habitual verve and wit, it is at the same time a sobering insight into how we have come to conceive our own increasingly globalized world.' Anthony Pagden, author of Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West 'Straits is a triumph of biographical writing. With his characteristic vigor and panache, Felipe Fernández-Armesto circumnavigates Magellan's life and times with a clearer object in mind and far greater success than ever imagined for this subject. He shows us not only the skills and bravado but also the intrigues, the self-deception, and even the insanity that animated Magellan's quest.' Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World 'By pulling apart the usually willfully misread sources in their original languages with a detective's eye for contradiction and inconsistency, Straits unravels a yarn of unmitigated failure punctuated by hubris, meanness, and crafty power grabs. The Ferdinand Magellan who emerges from these freshly disinterred sources is no hero but rather a ruthless gentleman of fortune who died to tell the tale.'--Kris Lane, author of Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577824 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Löwenland: Mein Leben für Afrikas letzte Wildnis Author: Valentin Grüner Narrator: Sebastian Waldemer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Valentin Grüner lebt den Traum vieler Menschen: Mit Anfang 20 gab er seine Heimat, den Bodensee, für ein Leben als Wildhüter und Naturschützer in Afrika auf und zog in die Wüste Kalahari in Botswana. Als er vor neun Jahren ein verlassenes Löwenjunges fand, änderte sich alles: Die kleine Sirga bestimmte fortan seinen Alltag, wuchs heran, lernte auf Streifzügen, mit Valentin zu jagen und sich selbst zu versorgen. Nur durch Willenskraft, Kreativität und Durchhaltevermögen schaffte es Valentin, für Sirga ein Reservat in der afrikanischen Wildnis zu errichten. Nun streift Sirga unter Valentins wachsamem Blick durch ihr eigenes Gelände. In seinem Buch erzählt Valentin Grüner von seiner abenteuerlichen Geschichte – und der Freundschaft zu der Löwin Sirga.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism Author: Maude Barlow Narrator: Barbara Saxberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "Canada's best-known voice of dissent." - CBC "It's time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world." - CNN In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water justice. From each of these she draws her lessons of hope, emphasizing that effective activism is not really about the goal, rather it is about building a movement and finding like-minded people to carry the load with you. Barlow knows firsthand how hard fighting for change can be. But she also knows that change does happen and that hope is the essential ingredient.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El roedor: Andrés Roemer, retrato de un depredador Author: Heidi Putscher Basave Narrator: Patricia Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un libro en el que una de las víctimas de Andres Roemer recopila todas las agresiones que ese empresario ha perpetrado y las contextualiza con otros escándalos en los que el también conductor ha perpetrado. En esta obra, una de las víctimas de Andrés Roemer recopila buena parte de las agresiones sexuales que ese comunicador perpetró a lo largo de los años, y las contextualiza con otros escándalos en los que ha estado envuelto. Este libro reconstruye los principales pasajes de la vida de Roemer, académico, conductor y promotor de sí mismo acusado de más de 60 ataques sexuales, desde acoso hasta violación. Además de recopilar los casos de los que se tiene más información pública, la autora cuenta también su propia historia, en la que sufrió acoso cuando ella hacía su servicio social. El roedor, igualmente, hace un repaso de los escándalos no sexuales de Roemer: su terrible gestión en el consulado de San Francisco, su aún peor paso por la representación de México ante la UNESCO —cuando aceptó abstenerse en una votación por presiones de Israel— y el negocio que usó para cometer sus tropelías: la Ciudad de las Ideas. Se cuenta su despilfarro en París, cuando ordenó mudar su automóvil y su piano de un continente a otro. La obra, finalmente, contiene una amplia cronología de hechos, un cuento que la autora escribió cuando empezaba a procesar el aluvión de señalamientos contra su acosador, una abundante hemerografía y dos documentos que evidencian la mala gestión de Roemer cuando estuvo en la UNESCO.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Child of the Forest: Based on the Life Story of Charlene Perlmutter Schiff Author: Jack L. Grossman, James Buchanan Narrator: Liza Senaca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Escaping the Horochów ghetto was just the beginning for twelve-year-old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and running and hiding for her life, Musia sought refuge in the forest for two years while Holocaust death camps loomed nearby. Child of the Forest is based on the true story and tribulations of Shulamit "Musia" Perlmutter, born in 1929 to Simcha and Fruma Perlmutter, and stands as a memorial to her extraordinary courage.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Author: Lady Colin Campbell Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana.Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the 'most successful queen since Cleopatra.' Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about 'her legendary charm.' Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most often remembered from her later years as the smiling granny with the pastel hats. When she died in 2002, just short of her 102nd birthday, she was praised for a long life well lived.But there was another side to her story. For the first time, Lady Colin Campbell shows us that the untold life of the Queen Mother is far more fascinating and moving than the official version that has been peddled ever since she became royal in 1923. With unparalleled sources - including members of the Royal Family, aristocrats, and friends and relatives of Elizabeth herself, this mesmerizing account takes us inside the real and sometimes astonishing world of the royal family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Limit bin nur ich: Wie ich als erster Mensch die Welt im Triathlon umrundete. Author: Jonas Deichmann Narrator: Jonas Deichmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 16, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Einmal um die Erde in den Triathlon-Disziplinen Schwimmen, Laufen und Radfahren. Ganz auf sich allein gestellt macht Jonas Deichmann das unmögliche möglich. Während die Welt im Lockdown verharrt, umrundet er sie in 14 Monaten voller Grenzerfahrungen und Momente größten Glücks. Deichmann schwimmt durch die Adria, fährt mit dem Fahrrad 20 000 Kilometer bis nach Wladiwostok und durchläuft Mexiko in 120 Marathons. Begleitet von Menschen, jung und alt, die sich ihm spontan anschließen, um für ein paar Kilometer Teil seines Abenteuers zu werden. Am Ende steht eine unglaubliche Geschichte von Mut, Zweifel und Motivation, von der magischen Kraft von Schokoriegeln und von der Grenzenlosigkeit unserer Welt. »Wenn heute zu mir jemand sagt, das hat noch keiner gemacht, du wirst scheitern, dann sage ich: Ja, super, dann kann ich der Erste sein.« Jonas Deichmann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo Author: Shirley Blancke Narrator: Ryan Paige, Aura Paige Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: • Shows how to relate to and receive help from the elements, reconnect with nature to access abundance and joy, connect with plants, animals, water, air, and fire • Explores don Alberto’s upbringing in a family of yachaks, his initiation, and his personal work to fulfill the Andean prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor • Includes reflections and essays from several of don Alberto’s students and others who have worked with him, including Itzhak Beery and John Perkins Recognized as a master yachak, don Alberto Taxo was a celebrated spiritual elder, shaman, and healer of the pre-Inca Atik (Kichwa) people from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. He shared ancient Andean shamanic wisdom and practices in the United States for more than 20 years--his personal quest to fulfill the Andean prophecy that the Eagle and the Condor will fly together in the same sky in harmony. Written with don Alberto’s permission and as further fulfillment of the Eagle-Condor prophecy, this book shares don Alberto’s teachings and his simple approaches for building a reciprocal relationship with nature, centered on Sumak Kausay, the way of joy and abundance. As a yachak, a shaman of the elements, don Alberto showed how to relate to and receive help from nature. When we are connected with nature on an emotional and spiritual level it creates joy that is deeply healing and can be accessed during life’s difficulties. The book discusses traditional Ecuadorian shamanic beliefs and practices, including Andean Inca cosmology; how to connect with plants, animals, air, fire, and water in sacred springs, the ocean, or your shower; and Inca concepts like Pacha, the space-time era in which we live that is now transitioning to a new one of connection and love after 500 years. The book explores don Alberto’s upbringing in a family of yachaks, his initiation, and his assumption of the role of shaman for his community. It also includes reflections and essays from don Alberto’s students and others who have worked with him, including shamanic teachers Itzhak Beery and John Perkins, showing how he influenced their lives and awakened them to the path of Sumak Kausay, Abundant Life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - إنه بن لادن: كل شيء عنه بلسان زوجته وابنه Author: جين ساسون Narrator: منار مراد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 11, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: كتاب تجد فيه السيرة الكاملة لأسامة بن لادن كما رواها ابنه عمر وزوجته نجوى ودوَّنتها جين ساسون صديقتهما الموثوقة. يعرِّفنا بحياته الشخصية وأسراره الدفينة، من خلال أقرب الناس إليه. يدخل إلى عمق تفكير أسامة بن لادن ومخطّطاته، مانحاً القارئ قدرة استقراء وتوقّع تحرّكات بن لادن المستقبلية.يتابع نشاطاته السياسية والعسكرية وانطلاق حركته الجهادية. يتناول تمركزه في أفغانستان ومغادرتها وعودته إلى السعودية وارتباطه الملتبس بأحداث 11 أيلول/سبتمبر، كما يرصد تحركاته المعلنة والسرية وإقامته الاختيارية والقسرية في مختلف المدن والكهوف! يطرح شبكة علاقاته وتعرُّضه للمخاطر ومحاولات الاغتيال التي استهدفته وأفراد أسرته. يتحدَّث عن حياته الزوجية مع جميع زوجاته. يفصّل علاقته بأبنائه الذين كان يطلب إليهم القيام بعمليات انتحارية والذين حرمهم العلم والطعام! كتاب يذهب إلى أبعد من ذلك مؤرِّخاً للقاعدة ولأسامة بن لادن شخصيًّا ويحدِّد مصير أفراد عائلته. استمع الآن.