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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer Author: Richard Bernstein Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a racially segregated and antisemitic America, young Jolson dreamed of becoming a star, and he did. Thanks to his immense talent and his knack for assimilating into new environments, by the time he reached his twenties he was the most famous and highly paid entertainer in America, making almost $5,000 a week at a time when the average American made $800 a year. Jolson’s public adoration and widespread acceptance as a star marked the beginning of an enriching cultural transformation, a moment when the American mind opened up to ethnic and racial differences, widening the gap of acceptability. And yet Jolson himself, despite being ferociously ambitious and gigantically talented, was crippled by insecurity, often nervous to the point of collapse, prisoner to his many vices. Through Jolson, Bernstein simultaneously breaks open the history and legacy of the cultural sensation The Jazz Singer. Not only was The Jazz Singer the first feature length film with synchronized music and dialogue, but it was also taboo smashing in its content: The Jazz Singer is all about Jews, Orthodox and otherwise. Bernstein expounds on the making of The Jazz Singer, what the film meant then and now, introducing the many individuals involved in its production, including Samson Raphaelson, a young Jewish writer whose short story was the basis for the movie; the four Warner brothers, who made a fortune off it; and George Jessel, Jolson’s rival and the star of Raphaelson's stage adaptation of his short story. In the background emerges a picture of old Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties: cutthroat and greedy yet visionary and progressive. And while The Jazz Singer represented the future in many ways, it also dredged up the worst of the past, including Jolson’s use of blackface, common at the time. At once a tale of the Judaizing of American culture and an acknowledgment of the challenges to come, Only in America is a glistening examination of a man at the center of a watershed moment in the arts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anti Diva: An autobiography Author: Carole Pope Narrator: Carole Pope Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the diva and anti-diva in all of us, and here she offers a no-holds-barred look at her adventures in the music scene – on the concert stage, in the recording studio, and in the bedroom. Known for ushering Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave sound of the 1980s with Rough Trade, she candidly shares her thoughts on AIDS, sexuality and sexual politics, and the new breed of music divas that dominates the charts today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Was You All Along Author: Russ Narrator: Russ Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The self-made musical artist follows his bestseller IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD with this second inspirational book for everyone who’s looking for answers in all the wrong places. It’s a book about self-empowerment, self-awareness, and ultimately self-love. Independent rapper, songwriter, singer, and producer Russ sells out concerts across America and around the globe, collaborating with top artists, such as Snoop Dogg, Joey Bada$$, Ed Sheeran, Rick Ross, Lil Baby, Jadakiss, Bia, and Mozzy to name a few. At twenty-seven, he became a bestselling author with the publication of his debut book, IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD. Now, at thirty-one, Russ returns with a second book even more profound and intimate than his first. Building on his message of self-acceptance, IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG goes deeper into Russ’s heart and soul as it tracks the keys to knowing and loving yourself. The book addresses the question posed by the subtitle—what if you’re the one you’ve been waiting for?—a line from Russ’s first album inspired by his mother’s advice. Success comes from loving and believing in yourself and working hard regardless of obstacles and naysayers. Published in conjunction with his tour of the same name, IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG expands on themes found in Russ’s music and across his albums, and each chapter title takes the name of a track. Russ has always followed his own beat—and shows you how to find your own unique rhythm, offering motivational wisdom on everything from trust, discipline, and letting go to authenticity, joy, and faith. Packed with moving observances, IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG gives fans a rare look into the man behind the music and the challenges he continues to face both personally and as an independent artist. Russ gets deeply personal in these pages, revealing how seeing a therapist helped him understand his relationship with his family and realize that he was so overly focused on helping everyone in his orbit when the person who needed his attention most was himself. Russ uses his immense passion, his experiences, and his love for people to inspire us all. His honesty and straightforwardness will convince even the most reluctant reader that the answer can always be found within. An artist known for his powerful lyrics, Russ uses his songwriting gifts to craft prose that is moving, memorable, and motivational.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dancing on the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling through Hollywood Author: Russ Tamblyn Narrator: Russ Tamblyn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Actor. Artist. Cultural icon. Dancing on the Edge A bold memoir of an extraordinary, singular life lived by one of the world’s most beloved and acclaimed figures: Russ Tamblyn. With more than eighty years as a celebrated artist and actor under his belt, Russ Tamblyn is a cherished figure to name among cinephiles and pop culture fans alike, working with such legendary directors as Robert Wise, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino. He tumbled through his acclaimed starring role in the original West Side Story as an actor and acrobatic dancer, taught Elvis Presley some signature dance moves, and became an unlikely visionary in the counterculture movement of the sixties alongside peers and friends Henry Miller and Dennis Hopper. Russ deftly guides readers through his star-studded life and his search for a deeper, more connected existence: attending school with Elizabeth Taylor, earning an Academy Award nomination for Peyton Place, dropping out of Hollywood at the height of his career to become a fine artist in Topanga Canyon, and forging a lifelong friendship with Neil Young. He shares the painful breakup of a twenty-year marriage and the joy of finding true love and inspiration as a husband, father, and mentor in his own right. Perfect for old and new fans alike, Dancing on the Edge is an intimate and powerful story about the singular life of one of our most gifted storytellers, artists, and stars of the silver screen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ian Fleming: The Complete Man Author: Nicholas Shakespeare Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition to be “the complete man,” and he would strive for the means to achieve this “completeness'”all his life. Only a thriller writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal life and impressive career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction. Exceptionally well connected, and widely travelled, from the United States and Soviet Russia to his beloved Jamaica, Ian had access to the most powerful political figures at a time of profound change. Nicholas Shakespeare is one of the most gifted biographers working today. His talent for uncovering material that casts new light on his subjects is fully evident in this masterful, definitive biography. His unprecedented access to the Fleming archive and his nose for a story make this a fresh and eye-opening picture of the man and his famous creation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl Author: Rebecca Quin Narrator: Rebecca Quin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 18 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller! This “infectious and contagious” (“Stone Cold” Steve Austin) memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch—delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca Quin constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry—roughhousing with the neighborhood kids, hosting secret parties while her parents were away, enrolling in a warehouse wrestling school, nearly breaking her neck and almost kneecapping a WWE star before her own wrestling career even began—and she was always in search of a thrilling escape from the ordinary. Rebecca’s childhood love of wrestling set her on an unlikely path. With few female wrestlers to look to for guidance, Rebecca pursued a wrestling career hoping to change the culture and move it away from the antiquated disrespect so often directed at the elite female athletes who grace the ring. Even as a teenager, she knew that she would stop at nothing to earn a space among the greatest wrestlers of our time and to pave a new path for female fighters. Culled from decades of journal entries, this “endearing debut memoir” (Publishers Weekly) offers a candid depiction of the complex woman behind the character Rebecca Quin plays on TV.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography Author: Brendan Greaves Narrator: Brendan Greaves, Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.    “People tell me it’s country music,” Terry Allen has joked, “and I ask, ‘Which country?’” For nearly sixty years, Allen’s inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing boundaries between disciplines and audiences by conjuring indelible stories out of the howling West Texas wind.   In Truckload of Art, author Brendan Greaves exhaustively traces the influences that shaped Allen’s extraordinary life, from his childhood in Lubbock, Texas, spent ringside and sidestage at the wrestling matches and concerts his father promoted, to his formative art-school years in incendiary 1960s Los Angeles, and through subsequent decades doggedly pursuing his uncompromising artistic vision. With humor and critical acumen, Greaves deftly recounts how Allen built a career and cult following with pioneering independent records like Lubbock (on everything) (1979)—widely considered an archetype of alternative country—and multiyear, multimedia bodies of richly narrative, interconnected art and theatrical works, including JUAREZ (ongoing since 1968), hailed as among the most significant statements in the history of American vernacular music and conceptual art.   Drawing on hundreds of revealing interviews with Allen himself, his family members, and his many notable friends, colleagues, and collaborators—from musicians like David Byrne and Kurt Vile to artists such as Bruce Nauman and Kiki Smith—and informed by unprecedented access to the artist’s home, studio, journals, and archives, Greaves offers a poetic, deeply personal portrait of arguably the most singularly multivalent storyteller of the American West.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon Author: Lyn Slater Narrator: Lyn Slater Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024 A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose of self-acceptance, they found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and take major risks at any stage of their life. Youth is not the only time we can be experimental. How to Be Old tells the ten-year story of Lyn’s sixties, the sometimes-glamorous, sometimes-turbulent decade of Accidental Icon. This memoir is about the hopeful and future-oriented process of reinvention. It shows readers that while you can’t control everything, what you can control is the way you think about your age and the creative ways you respond to the changes in your mind and body as they happen. Rather than trying to meet standards of youth and beauty as a measure of successful aging, Lyn promotes a more inclusive and empowering standard to judge our older selves by. In this paradigm-shifting memoir, Lyn exemplifies that even with its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning in your life and can be the best and most invigorating of all of life’s phases, full of rebellion and reinvention, connection and creativity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury Author: Geraldine Deruiter Narrator: Geraldine Deruiter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. “With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe—for cinnamon rolls, of all things. Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe, and she happened to make food journalism history along with it. Her subsequent essay, with its scathing commentary about the pervasiveness of misogyny in the food world, would be read millions of times, lauded by industry luminaries from Martha Stewart to New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, and would land DeRuiter in the middle of a media firestorm. She found herself on the receiving end of dozens of threats when all she wanted to do was make something to eat (and, okay fine, maybe take down the patriarchy). In If You Can’t Take the Heat, DeRuiter shares stories about her shockingly true, painfully funny (and sometimes just painful) adventures in gastronomy. We’ll learn how she finally got a grip on her debilitating anxiety by emergency meal–planning for the apocalypse. (“You are probably deeply worried that in times of desperation I would eat your pets. And yes, I absolutely would.”) Or how she learned to embrace her hanger. (“Because women can be a lot of things, but we can’t be angry. Or president, apparently.”) And how she inadvertently caused another international incident with a negative restaurant review. (She made it on to the homepage of The New York Times’s website! And she got more death threats!) Deliciously insightful and bitingly clever, If You Can’t Take the Heat is a fresh look at food and feminism from one of the culinary world’s sharpest voices.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring Author: Brad Gooch Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “It’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway Johnny Walker Red poster. Brad Gooch takes us deep into Keith Haring’s imagination while somehow managing to fix the aura and energy of the 1980s New York art scene to the page. A keen-eyed, beautifully written biography, atmospheric, exuberant, and as radiant as they come.”—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Revolutionary: Sam Adams A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring. Keith Haring was one of the most emblematic artists of the 1980s, a figure described by his contemporaries as “a prophet in his life, his person, and his work.” Part of an iconic cultural crowd that included Andy Warhol, Madonna, and Basquiat, Haring broke down the barriers between high art and popular culture, creating work that was accessible for all and using it as a means to provoke and inspire radical social change. Haring died of AIDS in 1990. To this day, his influence on our culture remains incontrovertible, and his glamorous, tragically short life has a unique aura of mystery and power. Brad Gooch, noted biographer of Flannery O’Connor and Frank O’Hara, was granted access to Haring’s extensive archive. He has written a biography that will become the authoritative work on the artist. Based on interviews with those who knew Haring best and drawing from the rich archival history, Brad Gooch sets out to capture the magic of Keith Haring: a visionary and timeless icon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool Author: James Kaplan Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The national bestseller! “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue The myth of the ’60s depends on the 1950s being the “before times” of conformity, segregation, straightness—The Lonely Crowd and The Organization Man. This all carries some truth, but it does nothing to explain how, in 1959, America’s great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity, thanks to a number of Black geniuses so legendary they go by one name—Monk, Mingus, Rollins, Coltrane, and, above all, Miles. Nineteen fifty-nine saw Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, and more come together to record what is widely considered the greatest jazz album of all time, and certainly the bestselling: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is James Kaplan’s magnificent account of the paths of the three giants to the mountaintop of 1959 and beyond. It’s a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the towns that gave jazz its home, from New Orleans and New York to Kansas City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and LA. It’s an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. It’s a book about the great forebears of this golden age, particularly Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and the disrupters, like Ornette Coleman, who would take the music down truly new paths. And it’s about why the world of jazz most people know is a museum to this never-replicated period. But above all, 3 Shades of Blue is a book about three very different men—their struggles, their choices, their tragedies, their greatness. Bill Evans had a gruesome downward spiral; John Coltrane took the mystic’s path into a space far away from mainstream concerns. Miles had three or four sea changes in him before the end. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan’s hands, an American odyssey with no direction home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is as big as America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes Author: Chantha Nguon Narrator: Clara Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.  Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family members, until all are gone. Shave down childhood dreams for approximately two decades, until only subsistence remains.   In Slow Noodles, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone—her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends—everything but the memories of her mother’s kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart in the 1970s, killing millions of her compatriots. Nguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this emotional and poignant but also lyrical and magical memoir that includes over 20 recipes for Khmer dishes like chicken lime soup, banh sung noodles, pâté de foie, curries, spring rolls, and stir-fries. For Nguon, recreating these dishes becomes an act of resistance, of reclaiming her place in the world, of upholding the values the Khmer Rouge sought to destroy, and of honoring the memory of her beloved mother. From her idyllic early years in Battambang to hiding as a young girl in Phnom Penh as the country purges ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family, from her escape to Saigon to the deaths of mother and sister there, from the poverty and devastation she experiences in a war-ravaged Vietnam to her decision to flee the country. We follow Chantha on a harrowing river crossing into Thailand—part of the exodus that gave rise to the name “boat people”—and her decades in a refugee camp there, until finally, denied passage to the West, she returns to a forever changed Cambodia. Nguon survives by cooking in a brothel, serving drinks in a nightclub, making and selling street food, becoming a suture-nurse treating refugees abused by Thai authorities, and weaving silk. Through it all, Nguon relies on her mother’s “slow noodles” approach to healing and to cooking, one that prioritizes time and care over expediency. Haunting and evocative, Slow Noodles is a testament to the power of culinary heritage to spark the rebirth of a young woman’s hopes for a beautiful life.   “I’ve never read a book that made me weep, wince, laugh out loud, and rejoice like Slow Noodles. In Chantha Nguon’s harrowing, wise, and fiercely feminist memoir, cooking is a language—of love, remembrance, and rebellion—and stories are nourishment."   —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year Author: Paul Alexander Narrator: Maya Days Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon “A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion.” —Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop—a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching—limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Muse: Cicely Tyson and Me: A Relationship Forged in Fashion Author: B Michael Narrator: B Michael, Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Friendship, love and a beautiful sense of togetherness sew together this gem of a book. B Michael...presents to us a portrait of a woman who was a rare gift to fashion and culture.” —EDWARD ENNINFUL, OBE, Editor-in-Chief, British Vogue & European Editorial Director, Vogue A poignant and glorious photographic memoir that pays homage to the lifelong friendship between the legendary Cicely Tyson and acclaimed fashion designer B Michael, who worked with her to make her gorgeous through her last bow. What greater act of friendship is there than making someone dear look and feel their most beautiful and powerful? That was the priceless gift acclaimed designer B Michael gave to one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses, Cicely Tyson over the course of their close, decades-long relationship. In this glorious memoir, B Michael recalls the bond they shared and what it was like to dress the Queen of Hollywood for all the extraordinary events of her life. In 2005, B was summoned to create a suitable wardrobe for Ms. Tyson for a high-octane weekend hosted by Oprah Winfrey. That first successful interaction led to a nearly twenty-year-long personal and professional collaboration that defined the Hollywood star’s personal aesthetic and showcased her impeccable personality and style. B was with Ms. Tyson for the most glamorous times—the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, White House functions, glittering galas, high-profile funerals—as well as the tenderest days. Their circle included a who’s who of Black celebrities, including Sidney Poitier, Barack Obama, Common, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz, Viola Davis, Oprah, Tyler Perry, Valerie Simpson, Phylicia Rashad, and many more, most of whom are featured in personal and paparazzi photographs in these pages. Throughout their time together, B and Cicely enjoyed shocking the fashionistas, shattering inane rules limiting what a woman of a certain age should wear, devoted themselves to changing the world for the better through philanthropic efforts, laughed, cried, and inspired and celebrated each other’s excellence. In this stunning book, B shares every aspect of their time together—from the drama of a good sleeve to how to be the best friend possible to those we love. Whether you’re a fan of pop culture, couture, Hollywood, B, or Cicely Tyson, Muse is a reminder that we all have the power to be showstoppers in our own lives. Includes written contributions from Lenny Kravitz, Bridget Foley, Susan Fales Hill, and Valerie Simpson.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure Author: Simon Price Narrator: Ffion Aynsley, Nathaniel Priestley, Reanne Farley, Simon Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 33 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A complete and truly unique biography of Robert Smith and company, The Cure, chronicling their 40+ year history with hundreds of entries in A to Z fashion.  Definitive and deeply researched, Curepedia will surprise and inform fans everywhere as they await The Cure's highly anticipated next album release. The Cure remain, 40 plus years into their career, one of the biggest rock bands in the world. With 12 studio albums, tours that pack stadiums all over the world—including their recent sold out series across North America in Spring/Summer 2023—they were the first alternative band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2019 by Trent Reznor. Their influence is heard in bands as wide ranging as Twilight Sad to Interpol to My Chemical Romance.  Amidst the record-setting Shows of a Lost World Tour winding down, acclaimed music journalist Simon Price has crafted a first of its kind history of this band that will satisfy legion of fans eagerly awaiting The Cure’s new album. Curepedia is a career-spanning and in-depth biography of Robert Smith and company, chronicling their 40 plus year history with hundreds of entries organized in an A-to-Z fashion.  Presented in a two-color format, with four-color endpapers designed by long-time Cure collaborator Andy Vella, Curepedia is a full-scale look at the long list of members, current and past, unknown facts, tours, descriptions of every album, song, films, as well as entries on the image of the band, their influence, their style, and their enduring legacy. This beautifully packaged book, celebrating one of the most enduring and beloved rock bands, Curepedia will be the perfect introduction for new fans, and a must-have for the obsessive as well.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everywhere An Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years In Hollywood Author: David Mamet Narrator: Jim Frangione Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful” (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evans, and Sue Mengers. Over the next forty years, Mamet wrote dozens of scripts, was fired off dozens of movies, and directed eleven himself. In Everywhere an Oink Oink, he revels of the taut and gag-filled professionalism of the film set. He depicts the ever-fickle studios and producers who piece by piece eat the artists alive. And he ponders the art of filmmaking and the genius of those who made our finest movies. With the bravado and flair of Mamet’s best theatrical work, this memoir describes a world gone by, some of our most beloved film stars with their hair down, and how it all got washed away by digital media and the woke brigade. The book is illustrated throughout with three-dozen of Mamet’s pungent cartoons and caricatures. Everywhere an Oink Oink is “nothing but wicked jokes, angry broadsides, and pointed gossip: in other words, the ideal Hollywood book” (The Wall Street Journal).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground Author: Dylan Jones Narrator: Robert G. Slade, Dylan Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this definitive oral history celebrates not only the impact of The Velvet Underground but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century.   Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen—whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s—The Velvet Underground represents ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang around a psychedelic rock and roll band—a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol’s Factory—The Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up. They never smiled in photographs, wore sunglasses indoors, and invented the archetype that would be copied by everyone from Sid Vicious to Bobby Gillespie. They were avant-garde nihilists, writing about drug abuse, prostitution, paranoia, and sado-masochistic sex at a time when the rest of the world was singing about peace and love. In that sense they invented punk and then some. It could even be argued that they invented modern New York. Drawing on interviews and material relating to all major players, from Lou Reed, John Cale, Mo Tucker, Andy Warhol, Jon Savage, Nico, David Bowie, Mary Harron, and many more, award-winning journalist Dylan Jones breaks down the band’s whirlwind of subversion and, in a narrative rich in drama and detail, proves why The Velvets remain the original kings and queens of edge.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas Author: Mark Seal, James Patterson Narrator: Phil Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through “lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City" (Kirkus). “Wild and wonderful…The magic of Sin City doesn’t just happen. Patterson and Seal tell its secrets in beautifully presented snippets that often overlap not just surprisingly, but charmingly too.” —Telegraph (UK)   - Las Vegas is on Luxury Standard Time: every clock in the airport is a Rolex. - No dream is too big, no wish is too small—the VIP hosts in Vegas fulfill guests’ every (legal) desire. - Jackpots hit when least expected. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has days to find a man who unknowingly won over $200,000 at the slots. - “I love love”: the inventor of the Elvis impersonator wedding and the drive-thru wedding has performed hundreds of marriages—and believes in them all. - Glamorous yogis take a helicopter across the desert to the Valley of Fire, where they perform sun salutations to the glory of Las Vegas. - A gambling VIP “whale” loses $1 million at the casinos, yet still leaves saying, "Had a great time. I'll be back." ​ ​In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are Author: Tariq Trotter Narrator: Tariq Trotter, Rhett Samuel Price, Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of hip-hop’s greatest MCs, unpacking his harrowing, remarkable journey in his own words, with enough insights for two lifetimes.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning songwriter, producer, director, and creator of In the Heights and Hamilton   From one of our generation’s most powerful artists and incisive storytellers comes a brilliantly crafted work about the art—and war—of becoming who we are. A ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR upcycle verb up·cy·cle ˈəp-ˌsī-kəl : to recycle (something) in such a way that the resulting product is of a higher value than the original item : to create an object of greater value from (a discarded object of lesser value) Today Tariq Trotter—better known as Black Thought—is the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots and one of the most exhilaratingly skillful and profound rappers our culture has ever produced. But his story begins with a tragedy: as a child, Trotter burned down his family’s home. The years that follow are the story of a life snatched from the flames, forged in fire. In The Upcycled Self, Trotter doesn’t only narrate a riveting and moving portrait of the artist as a young man, he gives readers a courageous model of what it means to live an examined life. In vivid vignettes, he tells the dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him—with community, friends, art, and family—each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma, and loss. And beyond offering the compellingly poetic account of one artist’s creative and emotional origins, Trotter explores the vital questions we all have to confront about our formative years: How can we see the story of our own young lives clearly? How do we use that story to understand who we’ve become? How do we forgive the people who loved and hurt us? How do we rediscover and honor our first dreams? And, finally, what do we take forward, what do we pass on, what do we leave behind? This is the beautifully bluesy story of a boy genius’s coming-of-age that illuminates the redemptive power of the upcycle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Purple Rising: Celebrating 40 Years of the Magic, Power, and Artistry of The Color Purple Author: Lise Funderburg Narrator: Karise Yansen, Amir Abdullah, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Ramón De Ocampo, Daniel Henning, Janina Edwards, Kevin R. Free, Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of Oprah’s Favorite Things of 2023 Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece The Color Purple—as well as the acclaimed 1985 film from Steven Spielberg, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, and the all-new film adaptation with this gorgeously designed exploration of the novel’s enduring legacy, featuring contributions from Alice Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Colman Domingo, Fantasia Barrino, Danny Glover, and more. Since its publication in 1982, The Color Purple has resonated with generations of readers across the globe. The novel catapulted author Alice Walker to international fame, brought Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg acting acclaim in the 1985 film adaptation, and inspired theatrical productions around the world, including the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical. This cultural touchstone—which so profoundly touches on race, family, survival, spirituality, sisterhood, and love in all forms—continues to beget new iterations, most recently a feature film. Now, an in-depth exploration celebrates The Color Purple’s ever-expanding legacy as never before: Purple Rising features oral histories and fresh anecdotes based on more than fifty original interviews, as well as vibrant, never-before-seen images. It reveals the crucial real-life experiences that inspired the novel, and the transcendent humanity of its themes that continue to connect with audiences, each new adaptation speaking to the changing times and cultural contexts. Creators, actors, producers, activists, cultural critics, and well-known fans comment on the power of Walker’s story and how it has affected their lives and artistic choices, including Whoopi Goldberg, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Halle Bailey, Blitz Bazawule, Jon Batiste, H.E.R., Salamishah Tillet, Ricky Dillard, Gabrielle Union, and many more. An insightful and vivid celebration of an enduring classic, Purple Rising is the ultimate gift for fans of all ages and a true celebration of Black joy, storytelling, and achievement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676897 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storyteller: Expanded: ...Because There's More to the Story Author: Dave Grohl Narrator: Dave Grohl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety’s Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible’s Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 * 2 Million Copies Sold Worldwide The Remastered Edition…Because There’s Always More to the Story Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller created a sensation when it was initially published, becoming a global bestseller and thrilling fans and critics alike. Readers came to the book for Dave’s heartfelt voice, his love of family and music, and the energy that pours from every page. Dave’s is an extraordinary life made of up ordinary moments, and he tells stories just like he writes songs—from his soul. Whether recounting his time as kid in Toughskins in the Virginia suburbs, as a skinny teenager drumming his heart out for punk band Scream, living through the explosion and implosion of Nirvana, or hustling all the way around the world to escort his daughters to the Father/Daughter dance (only to be ignored as soon as his girls found their friends) The Storyteller is just like its author, as real as it gets. To show his appreciation for his fans, and to celebrate his love of writing, this edition offers a wide variety of extra content, including: An essay on how Dave approaches creativity (Here’s a hint: you don’t have to think outside of the box. Just ignore it.) A series of prompts to jump start your creativity The story of when Dave first met Paul McCartney A collection of Dave’s curated playlists, giving a glimpse into some of the music he loves  The Storyteller has challenged what a music memoir can be. With this edition, the legacy continues.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle Author: Philip Norman Narrator: David Holt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation—a rare and “absorbing biography” (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unparalleled access to inside sources. Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions in this “keen and lovely tribute” (Booklist, starred review). Compared to songwriting luminaries John Lennon and Paul McCartney he was considered a minor talent, yet he composed such masterpieces as “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Here Comes the Sun,” and his solo debut album All Things Must Pass appears on many lists of the 100 best rock albums ever. Modern music critics place him in the pantheon of sixties guitar gods alongside Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, and Jimmy Page. Harrison railed against the material world yet wrote the first pop song complaining about income tax. He spent years lovingly restoring his Friar Park estate as a spiritual journey, but quickly mortgaged the property to help rescue a film project that would be widely banned as sacrilegious, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Harrison could be fiercely jealous, but not only did he stay friends with Eric Clapton when Clapton fell in love with Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, the two men grew even closer after Clapton walked away with her. Unprecedented in scope and filled with numerous color photos, this rich biography captures George Harrison at his most multi-faceted: devoted friend, loyal son, master guitar player, brilliant songwriter, cocaine addict, serial philanderer, global philanthropist, student of Indian mysticism, self-deprecating comedian, and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/674867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts: A BBC Radio 4 Collection Series: Part of In Our Time Author: Melvyn Bragg Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 12, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artists Radio 4's In Our Time has established itself at the pinnacle of essential conversation on a wide range of subjects from science, history, philosophy and the arts. The programme, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2023, is presented by Melvyn Bragg with contributors from the diverse worlds of academia. Opening with four contextual episodes - The Artist, Imagination, The Muses, and Architecture and Power - this thematic anthology contains 25 programmes on the history of visual art. Included are artistic styles and movements, from Avant Garde to Bohemianism, and great cultural figures such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Katsushika Hokusai, Frida Kahlo, Michelangelo and William Morris. Also featured are episodes on Baroque, Bauhaus and Surrealism, as well as such iconic artworks as Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, Munch's The Scream and Picasso's Guernica. How did the artist become a special kind of human being? Why is architecture such a powerful form of expression? These, and many other topics, are discussed in this release. Whether you're an arts student or simply want to broaden your horizons, this enlightening and entertaining compilation will provoke thoughts and debate long after you have finished listening to it. Production credits Presented by Melvyn Bragg Produced by Natalia Fernandez, John Goudie, Thomas Morris, Luke Mulhall and Simon Tillotson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: Part I: Context The Artist 28 March 2002 Imagination 28 November 2002 The Muses 19 May 2016 Architecture and Power 31 October 2002 Part II: Styles and Movements Cave Art 24 September 2020 Vitruvius and De Architectura 15 March 2012 The Baroque Movement 20 November 2008 Bohemianism 9 October 2003 The Decadent Movement 18 November 2021 Bauhaus 10 November 2022 Surrealism 15 November 2001 The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century 25 February 1999 Part III: Visual Artists Albrecht Dürer 12 November 2020 Holbein at the Tudor Court 15 October 2015 Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists 27 May 2010 Hokusai 30 March 2017 Berthe Morisot 13 October 2022 Frida Kahlo 9 July 2015 William Morris 5 July 2018 Part IV: Art and Architecture The Lindisfarne Gospels 20 February 2003 Judith beheading Holofernes 14 February 2019 Angkor Wat 23 June 2022 The Sistene Chapel 31 March 2022 The School of Athens 26 March 2009 Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent 15 January 2015 Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People 20 October 2011 The Fighting Temeraire 10 November 2016 Munch and The Scream 18 March 2010 Picasso's Guernica 2 November 2017 © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion Author: Sowmya Krishnamurthy Narrator: Angel Pean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This “first comprehensive anthology of the marriage between hip-hop and luxury fashion” (The Cut) draws on exclusive interviews to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years. Fashion Killa is a classic tale of a modern renaissance; of an exclusionary industry gate-crashed by innovators; of impresarios—Sean “Diddy” Combs, Dapper Dan, Virgil Abloh—hoisting hip-hop from the streets to the stratosphere; of supernovas—Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, and Kimora Lee Simmons—allying with kingmakers—Anna Wintour, Donatella Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren; of traditionalist fashion houses—Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Saint Laurent—transformed into temples of rap gods. Journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy explores the connections between the DIY hip-hop scene and the exclusive upper-echelons of high fashion. She discusses the sociopolitical forces that defined fashion and tracks the influence of music and streetwear on the most exclusive (and exclusionary) luxury brands. “An essential book about US culture” (Booklist, starred review), Fashion Killa commemorates the contributions of hip-hop to music, fashion, and our society at large.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Masters: Curated Audio Excerpts: Historic recordings with Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen Author: Jann S. Wenner Narrator: Mick Jagger, Bono, Pete Townshend, Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: During fifty years of publishing the “Bible of Rock and Roll,” Jann Wenner recorded a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. From the hubris and pissed-off attitude of Pete Townshend, to the volcano that was John Lennon after the breakup of the Beatles, to Bono, using music to speak to God, these interviews reveal the beating hearts of six creative giants. Including a never-before-heard interview with Bruce Springsteen, The Masters intimately profiles the extraordinary musicians who dominated rock and roll, from London and California to New York and L.A.. This is a fly-on-the wall listening experience, cultural masterpiece, and must-have recording, bringing you closer to the artists who changed history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leslie F*cking Jones Author: Leslie Jones Narrator: Leslie Jones, Chris Rock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an ‘Earphones Award’, saying: “No listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows, joys and sorrows of her full life.” Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I’m talking about my childhood growing up in the South, my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn’t get murdered, what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels, that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL, and yeah, I’ll tell you all about Ghostbusters and the nudes and Supermarket Sweep and The Daily Show . . . I’m sharing it all in these pages. It’s not easy being a woman in comedy, especially when you’re a tall-*ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted, and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. (Cue the Law & Order theme.)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story is the first, full-length, objective biography of Moore's entire life and career, from her birth in 1936 until the day she left this world on January 25, 2017. No previously published biography or book about Moore dares to discuss as honestly and as thoroughly her personal and professional life, exploring her triumphs as well as her struggles before, during, and after the countless TV productions, feature films, stage plays, and personal appearances that spanned her career. In covering the gamut of Moore's personal and professional life, this book features all-new commentary culled from exclusive interviews with many of her costars over the years, including Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, and Joyce Bulifant (from the Mary Tyler Moore Show); Larry Matthews (little Ritchie Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show); Carol Channing (Moore's costar from the 1967 feature film, Thoroughly Modern Millie), and many others. Mary delivers pertinent insights and unique behind-the-scenes perspectives and recollections of the multi-talented performer/humanitarian that Mary Tyler Moore was and will always remain in the eyes of millions of her fans the world over.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine Author: Arlo Parks Narrator: Arlo Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning debut book of poetry and a world-building companion to her sophomore album My Soft Machine. “Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you but here I am, doing it. I am proud to show you this personal lens that life shimmers through. This book is no longer mine. It is yours.”—Arlo Parks The Magic Border is the debut book from the Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize winning musician and poet Arlo Parks. This remarkable collection features Arlo’s handpicked original poems in addition to the complete lyrics to her critically lauded sophomore album My Soft Machine. A deeply personal literary tapestry, The Magic Border beautifully showcases the full breadth of Arlo’s singular artistry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Face the Music: My Story Author: Alfie Boe Narrator: Alfie Boe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 7, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The intimate and uplifting memoir from one of Britain's most loved singers - this is Alfie, off stage. Bringing his characteristic sense of cheeky humour to the page, in this heartfelt book Alfie describes for the first time the highs and lows of over a decade singing and performing across the world. From personal dinners with Queen Elizabeth II and following in the steps of King of Rock 'n' Roll Elvis in Vegas to mischievous antics with Michael Ball, Alfie's book takes us backstage to witness his brilliant career memories. But this book is also a heartfelt insight to Alfie's unmasked truth for the first time ever. His unflinching honesty reveals not only the success stories, but also the pressures and how, through challenging times, he learned more about himself than he ever thought possible. Laying bare the events that have shaped Alfie into the performer he is today, Face the Music demonstrates to us all that it's not our mistakes that define us - but instead, how we choose to come back from them. ©2023 Alfie Boe (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV's Social Circuitry Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato, Eric Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Grand Prize Winner Los Angeles Book Festival Ever wonder what the people who bring us our TV entertainment are thinking? Television and pop culture historian and author Herbie J Pilato has, and now takes listeners on a provocative and entertaining look into the agenda behind TV shows and the resulting trends. Even when it seemed television programming was primarily mindless, there was serious thought behind what audiences were presented. The networks, after all, believe in giving the people what they want, even when the people should have known better. We've spent years of our lives in front of the tube; isn't it about time we found out what makes that tube tick? Retro Active Television will enlighten you.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rags and Bones: An Exploration of The Band Author: Jeff Sellars, Kevin C. Neece Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957–1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon Helm) eventually rose to fame in the sixties as backing musicians for Bob Dylan. This collaboration with Dylan presented the group with a chance to expand musically and strike out on their own. The Band's fusion of rock, country, soul, and blues music—all tinged with a southern flavor and musical adventurousness—created a unique soundscape. The combined use of multiple instruments, complex song structures, and poetic lyrics required attentive listening and a sophisticated interpretive framework. It is no surprise, then, that they soon grew to be one of the biggest bands of their era. In Rags and Bones: An Exploration of The Band, scholars and musicians take a broad, multidisciplinary approach to The Band and their music, allowing for examination through sociological, historical, political, religious, technological, cultural, and philosophical means. Each contributor approaches The Band from their field of interest, offering a wide range of investigations into The Band's music and influence. Commercially successful and critically lauded, The Band created a paradoxically mythic and hauntingly realistic lyrical landscape for their songs—and their musicianship enlarged this detailed landscape.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Schoenberg: Why He Matters Author: Harvey Sachs Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account, the acclaimed biographer of Toscanini finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth century's most influential composers and teachers. Sachs shows how Schoenberg, a thorny character who composed thorny works, raged against the 'Procrustean bed' of tradition. Defying his critics—among them the Nazis, who described his music as 'degenerate'—he constantly battled the anti-Semitism that eventually precipitated his flight from Europe to Los Angeles. Yet Schoenberg, synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Hiro: The Adventures of Benihana’s Rocky Aoki and How He Built a Legacy Author: Jack Mccallum Narrator: David Lee Huynh, Steve Aoki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'Traveling the world with my father, watching him interact with people, famous and ordinary, observing up close his balls-out sense of adventure, and having a larger-than-life personality to live up to had a profound effect on me and the formation of my character.' —From the foreword by Steve Aoki, Grammy-nominated producer and Billboard award-winning DJ Hiroaki 'Rocky' Aoki was a man who succeeded in everything he pursued. From wrestling, ballooning, underwater exploration, and car and boat racing to founding Benihana, Rocky's passion for life infected all around him and accelerated the exchange of Japanese culture and cuisine with America. Rocky's rags to riches story, from dishwasher and busboy to owner of a multi-million-dollar restaurant empire, is an American dream realized unlike any other. Running and expanding the business would be all-consuming for most people, but Rocky would not be deterred. His determination for the business rivaled the drive he demonstrated in his other interests, some of which almost killed him. American Hiro by Jack McCallum, who had full access to Rocky Aoki and those in his enterprises, provides the only full inside account of one of the most famous symbols of cultural assimilation and capitalistic zeal in modern United States history—a champion in business, sports, and life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shake Some Action: My life in music (and other stuff) Author: Stuart Coupe Narrator: Stuart Coupe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has experienced the giddy highs and crushing lows of a life lived in the creative fast lane. Shake Some Action is your backstage pass to his remarkable story, from starting his first magazine at the age of fourteen to hoovering heroic amounts of cocaine before interviewing Boy Dylan (who asked him where he got his drugs from). From getting garbage bags full of fan (and hate) mail as the music critic for the teen magazine phenomenon Dolly to managing the Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly - he has been at the centre of Australian cultural life for over four decades. This is a book about fandom. About excitement. About some very bad behaviour. About writing. About talking. About being driven. About loving music and words and trying to explain that love to others - and having a myriad of adventures and encounters in the process. This is the wild life and times of the a man who has never anything by halves. Get ready to kick out the jams!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gospel of the Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels Author: Michael Hann, The Hold Steady Narrator: Haley Taylor, David Kissinger, Lane Hakel, Kim Bretton, Pat Grimes, David Bendena, Pete Cross, Qarie Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: On January 22, 2003, four men stepped onto a stage in Brooklyn and did something no one else was doing at that time, in that place. They played rock 'n' roll: old-fashioned rock 'n' roll with skyscraping riffs and sloppy solos, topped with extraordinary lyrics about an out-of-focus America, blurred by pills and powders, of crime and fear and desperation and redemption. Twenty years later, The Hold Steady are one of America's most beloved rock bands, famed for live shows that turn unbelievers into converts and for a catalog filled with some of the most exciting yet poetic music of the twenty-first century. To mark those twenty years, The Hold Steady tell their full story. An oral history, based on interviews with everyone who has played in the band, and those who have worked with them over the course of their career, The Gospel of the Hold Steady addresses all the triumphs and setbacks of The Hold Steady's career in the band's own words?from high times to near deaths, from the brink of splitting to their current renaissance. The Gospel of The Hold Steady is completed by essays about America's greatest bar band by writers Rob Sheffield, Laura Barton, Isaac Fitzgerald, and Michael Hann, as well as the thoughts and memories of The Unified Scene?the fans who have helped define the band's identity over the years. This is a book for anyone who understands that the magic of rock 'n' roll happens on a stage in a small room with voices raised from the crowd.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kerry Katona: Whole Again: Love, Life and Me Author: Kerry Katona Narrator: Kerry Katona Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: As one of the most recognisable faces in showbiz today, Kerry Katona has seen more than her fair share of ups and downs played out in public. Once labelled ‘the nation's sweetheart,' the Atomic Kitten singer rose from foster care to international stardom but her fall from grace in a haze of drink and drugs was just as dramatic, as she saw her picture-perfect marriage crumble and her career slump. Yet despite all that, it is in the last decade that Kerry has faced up to her biggest personal challenges. Her marriage to third husband George Kay was to test her to the absolute limit. Stuck in an abusive relationship she felt powerless to leave, the cycle of despair was only ended when George died aged just 39 in 2019, found in a hotel room eating a sock filled with cocaine. This is a harrowing, brutally honest life story yet, at its heart, ultimately an uplifting tale of hope, strength and survival. With the support of her now-fiancé Ryan and her children, Kerry has had to show sheer grit and determination to get her life and career back on track despite the darkest of circumstances. After years of desperately trying to find her way, she has finally started to feel – in the words of her most famous song – Whole Again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682917 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart Author: Scott G. Shea Narrator: Michael Butler Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as 'California Dreamin',' the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, and 'Mama Cass' Elliot became standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success. Shea gives a definitive account of the group's short time together, from their hitmaking approach with legendary producer Lou Adler to John's unique songwriting to tours and friendships with other musicians riding the folk-rock wave. He explores the emotional vicissitudes that came with being in the Mamas & the Papas, from Cass's unrequited love for Denny, his affair with Michelle, and the ebb and flow of dysfunction in John and Michelle's marriage. And he explains how it all came to a crashing end with John's brainchild, the Monterey Pop Festival, which should have launched the group even further into the musical stratosphere, but only served to be their undoing. All the Leaves Are Brown is a layered, revelatory tale of overnight stardom and its many pitfalls.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death Author: Laura Cumming Narrator: Laura Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction * Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt memoir” (The Washington Post) in this fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century. “Exquisite.” —Simon Schama, The Guardian As a brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming has explored the importance of art in life and can give us a perspective on the time and place in which the artist worked. Now, through the lens of one dramatic event in 17th-century Holland, Cumming “has fashioned a book that combines memoir, art criticism, and history to illuminating effect” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1654, the Thunderclap—an enormous explosion at a gunpowder store—devasted the city of Delft, killing hundreds of people, including the extraordinary painter Carel Fabritius, and injuring thousands more. Framing the story around the life of Fabritius, Cumming illuminates this extraordinary moment in art history while also writing about her own father, a painter. Like Dutch art, the story gradually links country, city, town, street, house, interior—all the way to the bird on its perch, the blue and white tile, the smallest seed in a loaf of bread. The impact of a painting and how it can enter our thoughts, influence our view and understanding of the world is the heart of this book. Cumming has brought her unique eye to her most compelling subject yet. Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this is “a glorious tribute to the two men who showed her the truth of the notion that paintings offer ‘a land in themselves, a society, a place to be’” (The Economist).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Zeitreisende: Zwischen Gestern und Morgen Author: Ute Lemper Narrator: Stella Lemper-Tabatsky, Ute Lemper, Marylu Poolman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: UTE LEMPER – Sängerin, Schauspielerin, Tänzerin, Künstlerin – Zu ihrem 60sten Geburtstag erlaubt die Grande Dame des Chansons einen überraschenden persönlichen Einblick in ihr Leben vor und hinter dem Vorhang. Ute Lemper erzählt lebendig von den Anfängen ihres Berufes, ihren großen und kleinen Erfolgen, ihren vielen aufregenden Projekten ihrer langen Karriere im ständigen Konflikt mit ihrer wichtigsten Rolle als Mutter von vier Kindern. Sie berichtet von den wichtigen künstlerischen Begegnungen in ihrem Leben und reflektiert die parallelen zeitgeschichtlichen Ereignisse der sich rapide wandelnden Welt – die literarische Zeitreise einer außergewöhnlichen Frau, ein beeindruckendes Dokument unserer Zeitgeschichte. Im Epilog kommt auch ihre Tochter Stella Lemper-Tabatsky zu Wort. Die deutsche Version des Epilogs liest Marylu Poolman.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Goldene Hände: oder der Masseur Author: Urs Remond Narrator: Urs Remond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 3, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Inspiriert von seinen turbulente Tagen als Tantra-Masseur, hat Urs Remond mit feinem, manchmal ironischem, mitunter in bestem Sinne englisch anmutenden Humor eine skurrile und durchaus sinnliche Komödie verfasst, die einen, ohne sich über diese durchaus spannende Thematik lustig zu machen (ganz im Gegenteil!), nicht nur aufs Beste unterhält, sondern immer mal wieder laut auflachen lässt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697350 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Windmagie: Rückkehr des Windes Series: #2 of Windmagie Author: Anna Holden Narrator: Anke Scherer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 30, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: SARAHS REISE MIT DEM WIND GEHT WEITER … Sarah ist glücklich an Toms Seite. Das Leben im Sicheren Haus gefällt ihr genauso gut wie die Arbeit an Grumpys Schätzen. Noch weiß sie nicht viel über diese Welt voller Magie. Tom weicht ihren Fragen aus und hütet seine eigenen Geheimnisse gut. Sie werden bald zu einem großen Problem, das das Ende ihrer Liebe bedeuten könnte. Ein altes Gemälde in den Katakomben des Sicheren Hauses wirft neue Fragen auf. Die Frau auf dem Bild sieht ihrer verschollenen Mutter zum Verwechseln ähnlich. Fast zur selben Zeit taucht eine mysteriöse Unbekannte auf, von der Sarah fortan verfolgt wird. Und dann gibt es noch Christopher Cohn. Er macht Sarah fast so viel Angst wie der Jäger, der noch immer hinter ihr her ist. Bald weiß sie nicht mehr, wem sie trauen kann. Selbst Tom scheint nicht der zu sein, in den sie sich einst verliebt hat …

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 5 Steps to Winning Your Auditions! Author: Anthony Stream Narrator: Angelina Vaughn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 30, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the highly competitive world of acting, auditions are the gateway to a successful career. The ability to make a lasting impression in those fleeting, yet critical moments can mean the difference between landing the role of a lifetime or being left in the waiting room, hoping for the phone to ring.? Mastering the art of auditioning, be they in-person, via self-tapes, or live on Zoom is a vital skill every acto?r must acquire. This guide is designed to help with practical advice, insightful s?trategies, and actionable steps to empower actors to turn each audition into a stepping stone towards success.?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America Series: Part of Cultural Biographies Author: Stephanie Stein Crease Narrator: James Fouhey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: William Henry 'Chick' Webb (1905–39) was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the 'Savoy King,' who reigned at Harlem's world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Along with the likes of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Cab Calloway, Webb helped create the popular dance and music culture, known as Swing, that swept the United States during and after the Great Depression and left an indelible impact on American culture. Having moved to Harlem from Baltimore during the Harlem Renaissance, Webb's creativity, charisma, and persistence enabled him to navigate the harsh realities of racism and show business, lifting not only himself to stardom but also bringing other future legends—namely vocalist extraordinaire Ella Fitzgerald and R&B trailblazer Louis Jordan—along with him. In this first comprehensive biography of Webb, author Stephanie Stein Crease traces his story in full, showing how his skills and innovations as a bandleader helped catalyze the music of the Swing Era and the growing big band industry, allowing Webb to become one of the most influential musicians in jazz history. Crease explores Webb's personal and professional struggles as he rose to the top of the increasingly competitive world of big band jazz.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World Author: Steven M. Nadler Narrator: Paul Heitsch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the listener into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about what portraiture can do and what a painting should look like. Hals was a member of the great trifecta of Dutch Baroque painters alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, and he was the portraitist of choice for entrepreneurs, merchants, professionals, theologians, intellectuals, militiamen, and even his fellow artists in the Dutch Golden Age. His works, with their visible brush strokes and bold execution, lacked the fine detail and smooth finish common among his peers, and some dismissed his works as sloppy. But for others, they were fresh and exciting, filled with a sense of the sitter's animated presence captured with energy and immediacy. Steven Nadler gives us the first full-length biography of Hals in many years and offers a view into seventeenth-century Haarlem and this culturally rich era of the Dutch Republic. He tells the story not only of Hals's life, but also of the artistic, social, political, and religious worlds in which he lived and worked.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Piano by Ear: Pop and Standards Box Set 9 Series: Part of The Piano by Ear Series Author: Bill Brown Narrator: Bill Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this Piano by Ear box set you will find several advanced and intermediate level piano solos based on standard hits from the 70’s through the 90’s as well as a few theme’s from movies and TV series. This set contains over fourteen hours of high-quality piano instruction by a world-class teacher, taught entirely “By Ear!” Lessons include: “Fly” (Late Beginner/Early Intermediate)“Colour My World” (Early Intermediate)“Sudden Inspiration” (Intermediate Solo)“Lake Erie Rainfall” (Intermediate)“Mandy” (Early Intermediate Solo)“Butterfly Waltz” (Late Beginner)“Music Box Dancer” (Late Beginner)“The Prayer” (Advanced)“The Greatest Love of All” (Advanced)“Arthur’s Theme” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“Anne’s Theme” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)“Colors of the Wind” (Late Intermediate/Early Advanced)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Author Phillip Depoy & Friends Perform the Grimm’s Tale Author: Phillip Depoy Narrator: Lee Nowell, Phillip Depoy, Chris Kayser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hear a live performance of novelist Phillip DePoy, accompanied by Lee Nowell (girls) and Chris Kayser (Rumpled Man), performing "The Rumpled Man," an Appalachian original retelling of a Grimm's tale with a very surprising ending, and including songs and traditional music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If / When Author: Diana Arnold Narrator: Diana Arnold Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 26, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: IF / WHEN is a poetry album that highlights New York City and all its unpredictable moments of the divine. Diana Arnold's audiobook is as funny as it is moving - as magical as it is challenging. Using a voice that evokes equal parts humor and heartache with original music composed and performed by Ryan Manchester, you can enjoy this poetry collection as it's meant to be heard - narrated by the poet herself!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The meditation Top Of The World Author: Max Topoff Narrator: Max Topoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 21, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Today, I invite you to go to the Top of the World and meet your true identity. You’ll remember and like our journey today, that’s for sure. Because the Top of the World is the place where every pilgrim yearns to get to. This is the exact place where we feel at our best, like we’re back home again. This is the place where all our dreams are fulfilled and our wishes come true. This exact place is a Holy Grail of all our existence. This visualization will help you to see the thing which may be your destination; to feel the unity of soul, heart and mind; to feel your true identity… This visualization will help you see exactly what may be your purpose; feel the unity of the soul, heart and mind; feel your true self… Enjoy listening.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Hollywood: The Originals: Volume 2 Author: Andrew Goldman Narrator: Andrew Goldman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Old Hollywood / The Originals: Volume 2 The legend Newsweek once dubbed “Superflack,” Bobby Zarem (1936–2021) knew all of Hollywood’s secrets and was not afraid to share them all. Even if you don’t believe all his dish, you’ll never look at the movie business the same. In light of Peter Bogdanovich’s 2022 death, The Originals releases a never-before-heard 2019 interview in which the Oscar-nominated director narrates his own story. Candid, shocking, and often hilarious, Bogdanovich shares tales of the mistakes that bedeviled his career. Legend and icon Sherry Lansing reminds us exactly what it took to become the first woman to be head of production of a studio, as she was at 20th Century Fox, and the first to become overall boss of a studio when she landed atop Paramount in 1992. Agree with Observer critic Rex Reed that 2022 was “the worst year in history for Oscars”? If so, have we got an eyebrow-singeing hour for you. Reed reignites feuds with both the living and the dead. Our episode guarantee: no listener will emerge unoffended. Minds will be blown by this episode with Toni Basil, a true show business Zelig. Sure, we all remember Basil’s 1981 hit “Mickey.” But it turns out this might be the least interesting part of her long career as a dancer, singer, and choreographer. Joe Eszterhas details his run as the most famous and lavishly paid screenwriter in the world. He hit with Flashdance, broke records with Basic Instinct, and ran aground with Showgirls. Eszterhas has amazing dish about Robert Evans, Steven Spielberg, and Marlon Brando. You may or may not recognize his name, but you definitely know the pictures by, as he liked to call himself, “Paparazzo Extraordinaire” Ron Galella (1931–2022). He was however best known for his decades-long pursuit of Jackie O, which resulted in his most famous photo, shot in 1971, “Windblown Jackie.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Downhome Sound: Diversity and Politics in Americana Music Author: Mandi Bates Bailey Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: American roots music, also known as Americana music, can be challenging to categorize, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores the messages, artists, community, and appeal of this seemingly disparate musical collective. To understand the art form's intended meanings and typical audiences, she analyzes lyrics and interviews Americana artists, journalists, and festival organizers to uncover a desire for inclusion and diversity. Bailey also conducts an experiment to assess listener reception relative to more commercial forms of music. The result is an in-depth study of the political and cultural influence of Americana and its implications for social justice.