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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Today's Authors Series: A Discussion between Katherine Kellgren and LA Meyer Author: L.A. Meyer Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Enjoy this fascinating twenty-four minute-long discussion between two artists at the top of their craft—LA Meyer, author and creator of the Bloody Jack series of novels, and narrator extraordinaire Katherine Kellgren, who voices the entire audiobook series. At last count, the Bloody Jack audiobooks have won three Odyssey Honor awards, four Audie Awards, and have made numerous 'Best of' lists.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Today's Authors Series: Ari Weinzweig, Founder of Zingerman's Author: Ari Weinzweig Narrator: Ari Weinzweig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hear from Ari Weinzweig, founder of the Zingerman's wildly successful restaurants and food service companies, discuss its humble beginnings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, its principles on customer service, handling customer complaints, measuring service, and hiring tips.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Today's Authors Series: Author and Entrepreneur Bo Peabody Author: Bo Peabody Narrator: Bo Peabody Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 4, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Listen as Bo Peabody, author of "Lucky or Smart?" and entrepreneur extraordinaire, discuss the businesses he started, how he was able to make them successful, and the place that intelligence, hard work and a little bit of good fortune have in the process. As Bo explains: "My formula for getting lucky in business is reasonably simple: Start a company that fundamentally innovative, morally compelling, and philosophically positive. Create and aura of authenticity around your start-up by carefully crafting your mission and communicating it with charisma and passion. Our company will quickly attract smart, inspired people who will work very hard. Treat all these people fairly. Provide them with a clear action plan and give them the latitude to exercise their creativity. The result: serendipity, luck, success, and, ultimately, money. And the only smart thing about this formula is that I understand that on a day-to-day basis my brain has very little to do with any of it."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices of Poetry - Volume 2 Author: Stephen Spender, Philip Levine, Richard Eberhart, Marianne Moore, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves Narrator: Stephen Spender, Philip Levine, Richard Eberhart, Marianne Moore, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 19, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: Ezra Pound, Old Men With Beautiful Manners; William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree; Robert Graves, A Last Poem; Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver; Richard Eberhart, The Groundhog; Philip Levine, Blasting From Heaven; Marianne Moore, The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing; Stephen Spender, What I Expected; Vachel Lindsay, An Interpolation By Mr. Lindsay.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices of Poetry - Volume 1 Author: Theodore Roethke, Edith Sitwell, Kenneth Patchen, Marilyn Hacker, May Swenson, Archibald Macleish, Ee Cummings, Ted Hughes, J.R.R. Tolkien Narrator: Theodore Roethke, Edith Sitwell, Kenneth Patchen, Marilyn Hacker, May Swenson, Archibald Macleish, Ee Cummings, Ted Hughes, J.R.R. Tolkien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 18, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hoard; ee cummings, Prose Jottings; Archibald Macleish, The Old Man To The Lizard; Ted Hughes, Six Young Men; May Swenson, Naked In Borneo; Marilyn Hacker, The Dark Twin; Kenneth Patchen, 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven; Edith Sitwell, An Old Woman; Theodore Roethke, The Bat.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Writer's Cave: Why Writers What They Do Author: John Lehman Narrator: John Lehman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 26, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Writer's Cave contains a treasure trove of dramatic examples from John Lehman, the founder of Rosebud magazine, on how the creative process works. This program includes an actual meeting with Orson Welles, myths about vampires that may apply to writers, and a strange occurrence that takes place in a humane society after midnight.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How And Why A Poem Works Author: John Lehman Narrator: John Lehman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 30, 2015 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A thought-provoking 51-minute audio presentation for writers, readers, students, teachers, parents...anyone who has ever wondered why a particular poem is their favorite. Includes Stopping By The Woods: Delving beneath the surface of Robert Frost's poetry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great African American Literary Voices Author: Countee Cullen, Sonia Sanchez, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes Narrator: Countee Cullen, Sonia Sanchez, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 19, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Arna Bontemps, Nocturne At Bethesda; Countee Cullen, Heritage; Gwendolyn Brooks, The Vacant Lot; and Sonia Sanchez, Black Magic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60541 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 10 Things I Think I Know For Sure About...Getting Your Writing Published Author: John Lehman Narrator: John Lehman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 22, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 10 Things I Think I Know For Sure About...Getting Your Writing Published is presented by John Lehman, founder of Rosebud magazine. John suggests writers stop thinking in terms of books, articles, poems and stories, and instead start thinking in terms of what benefits readers will receive from reading and buying them. Literary agent Georgia Hughes, formerly an editor from Harper San Francisco, has complemented that this program is, "entertaining, inspiring and extremely helpful for writers of all levels of ability."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club Author: Sonny Barger Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 16, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 59 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 21 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over. Dozens of photos, including many from private collections and from noted photographers, provide visual documentation to this extraordinary tale. Never simply a story about motorcycles, colorful characters, and high-speed thrills, Hell's Angel is the ultimate outlaw's tale of loyalty and betrayal, subcultures and brotherhood, and the real price of freedom.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/146891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The John Lennon Letters Author: John Lennon Narrator: Yoko Ono, Christopher Eccleston, Hunter Davies, Allan Corduner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 9, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of 'Help!', 'Come Together', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Imagine', and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius. This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dangerous Animals Club Author: Stephen Tobolowsky Narrator: Stephen Tobolowsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 25, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Comedy Publisher's Summary: From legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky, comes a collection of memoiristic pieces about life, love, acting, and adventure, told with a beguiling voice and an uncommon talent for storytelling. The Dangerous Animals Club by Stephen Tobolowsky is a series of stories that form a non-linear autobiography. Each story stands on its own, and yet there are larger interconnecting narratives that weave together from the book's beginning to end. The stories have heroics and embarrassments, riotous humor and pathos, characters that range from Bubbles the Pigmy Hippo to Stephen's unforgettable mother, and scenes that include coke-fueled parties, Hollywood sets, French trains, and hospital rooms. Told in a vivid, honest, and wondrous voice, Tobolowsky manages to render the majestic out of the seemingly mundane, profundity from the patently absurd, and grace from tragedy. This book marks the debut of a massively talented storyteller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mother Was Nuts: A Memoir Author: Penny Marshall Narrator: Penny Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 18, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don’t know is her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywood’s star-studded sets, offering up some hilarious detours along the way. My Mother Was Nuts is an intimate backstage pass to Penny’s personal life, her breakout role on The Odd Couple, her exploits with Cindy Williams and John Belushi, and her travels across Europe with Art Garfunkel on the back of a motorcycle. We see Penny get married. And divorced. And married again (the second time to Rob Reiner). We meet a young Carrie Fisher, whose close friendship with Penny has spanned decades. And we see Penny at work with Tom Hanks, Mark Wahlberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert De Niro, and Whitney Houston. Throughout it all, from her childhood spent tap dancing in the Bronx, to her rise as the star of Laverne & Shirley, Penny lived by simple rules: “try hard, help your friends, don’t get too crazy, and have fun.” With humor and heart, My Mother Was Nuts reveals there’s no one else quite like Penny Marshall.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child Author: Bob Spitz Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station.  And yet, that’s exactly what Julia Child did.  The warble-voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule-breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. Now, in Bob Spitz’s definitive, wonderfully affectionate biography, the Julia we know and love comes vividly — and surprisingly — to life.  In Dearie, Spitz employs the same skill he brought to his best-selling, critically acclaimed book The Beatles, providing a clear-eyed portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential Americans of our time — a woman known to all, yet known by only a few. At its heart, Dearie is a story about a woman’s search for her own unique expression.  Julia Child was a directionless, gawky young woman who ran off halfway around the world to join a spy agency during World War II.  She eventually settled in Paris, where she learned to cook and collaborated on the writing of what would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a book that changed the food culture of America.   She was already fifty when The French Chef went on the air —  at a time in our history when women weren’t making those leaps.  Julia became the first educational TV star, virtually launching PBS as we know it today; her marriage to Paul Child formed a decades-long love story that was romantic, touching, and quite extraordinary. A fearless, ambitious, supremely confident woman, Julia took on all the pretensions that embellished tony French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, paving the way for everything that has happened since in American cooking, from TV dinners and Big Macs to sea urchin foam and the Food Channel.  Julia Child’s story, however, is more than the tale of a talented woman and her sumptuous craft.  It is also a saga of America’s coming of age and growing sophistication, from the Depression Era to the turbulent sixties and the excesses of the eighties to the greening of the American kitchen.  Julia had an effect on and was equally affected by the baby boom, the sexual revolution, and the start of the women’s liberation movement. On the centenary of her birth, Julia finally gets the biography she richly deserves.  An in-depth, intimate narrative, full of fresh information and insights, Dearie is an entertaining, all-out adventure story of one of our most fascinating and beloved figures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/135104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World Author: Simon Callow Narrator: Simon Callow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. 'It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography for Dickens newcomers and a wonderful read for all.'—Library Journal   Dickens was one of the first true celebrity authors. Thousands of fans in Britain and America eagerly awaited each new installment of his stories and flocked to see him on his legendary speaking tours. Not only did he create an incredible cast of characters on the page, but he was also a dazzling mimic and storyteller, and he wrote, stage-managed, and acted in plays for the public. Throughout his life, from his childhood performances in pubs to his legendarily powerful reading tours, Dickens was fanatical about the stage. Callow reveals Dickens’s genius on and off the page and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literature.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/132443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist Author: Kirk Douglas Narrator: Michael Douglas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Kirk Douglas, Hollywood royalty and bestselling author of The Ragman’s Son and My Stroke of Luck, comes the candid story of the making of Spartacus, the blockbuster film that broke the blacklist One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Taco Bell Material Author: Adam Carolla Narrator: Adam Carolla Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 12, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In his second book, Adam Carolla—author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster—reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today. Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his slacker friends to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. He tackled rants in his first book, and now he tells his best stories and debuts some never-before-heard tales as well.  Organized by the myriad “dumps” Carolla called home as a child—through the flophouse apartments he rented in his twenties, up to the homes he personally renovated after achieving success in Hollywood—the anecdotes here follow Adam’s journey and the hilarious pitfalls along the way. Adam Carolla started broke and blue collar and has now been on the Hollywood scene for over fifteen years. Yet he never lost his underdog demeanor.  He’s still connected to the working class guy he once was, and delivers a raw and edgy, fish-out-of-water take on the world he lives in (but mostly disagrees with), telling all the stories, no matter who he offends—family, friends or the famous.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gorilla Beach Author: Nicole 'snooki' Polizzi Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author and America’s favorite guidette, Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi's latest novel set on the famed and fun-filled Jersey Shore! Jersey Shore’s breakout star Snooki became a New York Times bestseller with her debut novel, A Shore Thing. Now she’s back for more in this fun follow-up novel. In Gorilla Beach, Gia and Bella return to Seaside Heights for another sexy summer on the beach, in search of tans, good times, and of course, gorilla juiceheads.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Feature Author: Terence Stamp Narrator: Terence Stamp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this second installment of Terence Stamp's captivating memoirs, Stamp takes us right into the heart of the swinging '60s. From his Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd to his coming of age under the direction of the legendary Federico Fellini, the "marmalade skies" are the limit. With beautiful women and beautiful people from London to California, Stamp captures the spirit of the decade. He was the face, the man to be seen with. And then the decade ended, along with his romance to famous model Jean Shrimpton. While the Beatles play their last concert on the rooftop of the Apple building in Mayfair, Stamp, unemployed and broken-hearted, boards a plane for a solo pilgrimage to India.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stamp Album Author: Terence Stamp Narrator: Terence Stamp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this charming memoir, Terence Stamp speaks with affection and humor about a London East End childhood that began when the first bombs were dropped over Bow Cemetery at the start of the Battle Of Britain. Recalling his days in grammar school, when his teacher told him, "You would make a good manager of Woolworth's," and his father, a tugboat captain, said, "People like us don't do things like that (acting)." Winning a scholarship to the Weber Douglas Acting Academy before living in a mews house with Michael Caine while the two scraped for money, rationed food and shared clothes for auditions. Until the screen test for the lead role in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd, an event that, for Terence Stamp, changed everything.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Both of Us: My Life with Farrah Author: Kent Carroll, Ryan O'Neal, Jodee Blanco Narrator: Ryan O'Neal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: RYAN O’NEAL AND FARRAH FAWCETT. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has captivated fans and media alike for more than three decades. Fans of each other from afar, Ryan and Farrah met through her husband, Lee Majors, and fell passionately in love. Soon, however, reality threatened their happiness and they struggled with some serious matters, including the disintegration of Farrah’s marriage; Ryan’s troubled relationship with his daughter, Tatum, and son, Griffin; mismatched career trajectories; and raising their young son, Redmond—all leading Ryan and Farrah to an inevitable split in 1997. Ryan fought to create a life on his own but never stopped longing for Farrah. Older and wiser, he and Farrah found their way back to each other and were excited to start a new life together. But their bliss was cut short when Farrah was diagnosed with cancer and passed away just three years later. Ryan’s deep love for Farrah and his devotion to preserving her memory are evident in Both of Us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV Author: T. R. Pearson, Warren Littlefield Narrator: Bob Balaban Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all fall apart. Warren Littlefield was the NBC President of Entertainment who oversaw the Peacock Network’s rise from also-ran to a division that generated a billion dollars in profits.  In this fast-paced and exceptionally entertaining oral history, Littlefield and NBC luminaries including Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Kelsey Grammer, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Julianna Marguiles, Anthony Edwards, Noah Wylie, Debra Messing, Jack Welch, Jimmy Burrows, Helen Hunt, and Dick Wolf vividly recapture the incredible era of Must See TV. From 1993 through 1998, NBC exploded every conventional notion of what a broadcast network could accomplish with the greatest prime-time line-up in television history. On Thursday nights, a cavalcade of groundbreaking comedies and dramas streamed into homes, attracting a staggering 75 million viewers and generating more revenue than all other six nights of programming combined. The road to success, however, was a rocky one. How do you turn a show like Seinfeld, one of the lowest testing pilots of all time, into a hit when the network overlords are constantly warring, or worse, drowning in a bottle of vodka?    Top of the Rock is an addictively readable account of the risky business decisions, creative passion, and leaps of faith that made Must See TV possible. Chock full of delicious behind-the-scenes anecdotes that run the gamut from hilarious casting and programming ploys to petty jealousies and drug interventions, you’re in for a juicy, unputdownable read.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/126719 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Extraordinary Ordinary Life Author: Sissy Spacek Narrator: Sissy Spacek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and absorbing grace and grit from her remarkable parents, who taught her that she could do anything. She also learned fearlessness in the wake of a family tragedy, the grief propelling her 'like rocket fuel' to follow her dreams of becoming a performer. With a keen sense of humor and a big-hearted voice, she describes how she arrived in New York City one star-struck summer as a seventeen-year-old carrying a suitcase and two guitars; and how she built a career that has spanned four decades with films such as Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, 3 Women, and The Help. She details working with some of the great directors of our time, including Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, David Lynch, and Brian De Palma-who thought of her as a no-talent set decorator until he cast her as the lead in Carrie. She also reveals why, at the height of her fame, she and her family moved away from Los Angeles to a farm in rural Virginia. Whether she's describing the terrors and joys of raising two talented, independent daughters, taking readers behind the scenes on Oscar night, or meditating on the thrill of watching a pair of otters frolicking in her pond, Sissy Spacek's memoir is poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, plainspoken and utterly honest. My Extraordinary Ordinary Life is about what matters most: the exquisite worth of ordinary things, the simple pleasures of home and family, and the honest job of being right with the world. 'If I get hit by a truck tomorrow,' she writes, 'I want to know I've returned my neighbor's cake pan.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/128236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rare Stamps: Reflections on Living, Breathing, & Acting Author: Terence Stamp Narrator: Terence Stamp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 24, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Rare Stamps offers a revealing insight into the life of an actor and the making of a man. Beginning with an Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd in 1962, Terence Stamp was called "the most beautiful man alive", only to be discarded at the end of the decade with the words, "we're looking for a younger Terence Stamp." Soul searching, he traveled alone through India, staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel while studying above a public lavatory with a chain smoking guru, only to wind up back in London and broke by 1984.Stamp's has been a journey rich with characters and adventure, and nothing has gone to waste. Whether dining in Paris with Orson Wells; working with Marlon Brando; being directed by Steven Soderberg; or acting beside Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, and Matt Damon, Stamp has become an unbiased observer of his own life and the lessons gleaned from it. He writes about an actor's intuition, confronting fear, developing the voice, learning the words, and surrendering to the moment in order to achieve the nearly mystical "first take" in a style that is both personal and captivating. But perhaps the real beauty of Rare Stamps is that, time after time, he returns to a theme that has become his mantra for life, "Everything you need is in this moment."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Author: Ted Orland, David Bayles Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 23, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 47 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there? These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development—and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary. Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing free will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul Author: Mark Bego Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul documents the beloved singing star’s rocky personal life and internationally acclaimed show business career. An in-depth and frank examination of Aretha, this definitive biography traces her career from her beginnings as a twelve-year-old member of a church choir in the early 1950s, recording her first album at the age of fourteen, a major recording contract at eighteen, and stardom in her twenties, right up through her headline-grabbing 2010 health scare, to her triumphant return: singing to her cheering Detroit hometown fans in summer 2011.This New York Times bestselling author’s detailed research includes interviews with the most important people in Aretha’s life, including record producers Jerry Wexler, Clyde Otis, and Clive Davis, her first husband, several of Franklin’s singing star contemporaries, and a rare one-on-one session with Aretha herself.Bego’s portrayal of the singing sensation is done with clarity and neutrality. A no-holds-barred look at her roller coaster life, it takes her from two teenage pregnancies and an abusive first marriage, to drinking problems, battles with her weight, the murder of her father, and tabloid wars. This critically acclaimed, freshly updated biography will give readers a clear understanding of what makes Aretha Franklin the “Queen of Soul.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cary Grant: A Class Apart Author: Graham McCann Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 28, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For two moviegoing generations, Cary Grant was class—an effortless embodiment of gentlemanly grace and humor. But Cary Grant’s greatest achievement was in creating himself and the irresistible character he became. In this savvy, fascinating portrait, McCann tracks the transformation of a life and looks closely at the sources of Cary Grant’s charms, which did not come easily. Generously filled with anecdotes about fellow actors and directors, a realistic portrait of a complicated man emerges. And although Grant was criticized for remaining in Hollywood during World War II, it now seems that he may have worked as a special agent for British Intelligence: in 1947, Grant was awarded the King’s Medal for Service in the Cause for Freedom, an honor that was not made public at the time. One of classic Hollywood’s definitive leading men, Cary Grant was named one of the greatest male stars of all time by the American Film Institute. This biography yields a new appreciation of his work and his persona, which was at once familiar, yet always enigmatic, even to those who knew him best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/125358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods Author: Hank Haney Narrator: Hank Haney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: The Big Miss is Hank Haney’s candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of the very few people allowed behind the curtain. He was with Tiger 110 days a year, spoke to him over 200 days a year, and stayed at his home up to 30 days a year, observing him in nearly every circumstance: at tournaments, on the practice range, over meals, with his wife, Elin, and relaxing with friends.   The relationship between the two men began in March 2004 when Hank received a call from Tiger in which the golf champion asked him to be his coach. It was a call that would change both men’s lives.   Tiger—only 28 at the time—was by then already an icon, judged by the sporting press as not only one of the best golfers ever, but possibly the best athlete ever. Already he was among the world’s highest paid celebrities. There was an air of mystery surrounding him, an aura of invincibility. Unique among athletes, Tiger seemed to be able to shrug off any level of pressure and find a way to win.   But Tiger was always looking to improve, and he wanted Hank’s help.   What Hank soon came to appreciate was that Tiger was one of the most complicated individuals he’d ever met, let alone coached. Although Hank had worked with hundreds of elite golfers and was not easily impressed, there were days watching Tiger on the range when Hank couldn’t believe what he was witnessing. On those days, it was impossible to imagine another human playing golf so perfectly.   And yet Tiger is human—and Hank’s expert eye was adept at spotting where Tiger’s perfection ended and an opportunity for improvement existed. Always haunting Tiger was his fear of “the big miss”—the wildly inaccurate golf shot that can ruin an otherwise solid round—and it was because that type of blunder was sometimes part of Tiger’s game that Hank carefully redesigned his swing mechanics.   Hank’s most formidable coaching challenge, though, would be solving the riddle of Tiger’s personality. Wary of the emotional distractions that might diminish his game and put him further from his goals, Tiger had developed a variety of tactics to keep people from getting too close, and not even Hank—or Tiger’s family and friends, for that matter—was spared “the treatment.”   Toward the end of Tiger and Hank’s time together, the champion’s laser-like focus began to blur and he became less willing to put in punishing hours practicing—a disappointment to Hank, who saw in Tiger’s behavior signs that his pupil had developed a conflicted relationship with the game. Hints that Tiger hungered to reinvent himself were present in his bizarre infatuation with elite military training, and—in a development Hank didn’t see coming—in the scandal that would make headlines in late 2009. It all added up to a big miss that Hank, try as he might, couldn’t save Tiger from.   There’s never been a book about Tiger Woods that is as intimate and revealing—or one so wise about what it takes to coach a superstar athlete.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor Author: Caroline Stoessinger Narrator: Linda Korn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism.   Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She had seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the way coming into contact with some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time. As a child in Prague, she spent weekends and holidays in the company of Franz Kafka (whom she knew as “Uncle Franz”), and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke were friendly with her mother. When Alice moved to Israel after the war, Golda Meir attended her house concerts, as did Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Isaac Stern. Until the end of her life Alice, who lived in London, practiced piano for hours every day.    Despite her imprisonment in Theresienstadt and the murders of her mother, husband, and friends by the Nazis, and much later the premature death of her son, Alice was victorious in her ability to live a life without bitterness. She credited music as the key to her survival, as well as her ability to acknowledge the humanity in each person, even her enemies. A Century of Wisdom is the remarkable and inspiring story of one woman’s lifelong determination—in the face of some of the worst evils known to man—to find goodness in life. It is a testament to the bonds of friendship, the power of music, and the importance of leading a life of material simplicity, intellectual curiosity, and never-ending optimism. Praise for A Century of Wisdom   “An instruction manual for a life well lived.”—The Wall Street Journal   “As if her 108 years of experience alone were not enough to coax you, there is the overarching fact that draws people to Herz-Sommer’s story: She survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and is believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor.”—The Washington Post   “I have rarely read a Holocaust survivor’s memoir as enriching and meaningful. Get Caroline Stoessinger’s book, A Century of Wisdom, telling Alice Herz-Sommer’s tale of her struggles and triumphs. You will feel rewarded.”—Elie Wiesel   “A Century of Wisdom is a stately and elegant book about an artist who found deliverance in her passion for music. Caroline Stoessinger writes with a special purity, as though she were arranging pearls on a string of silk.”—Pat Conroy   “As one of millions who fell in love on YouTube with Alice Herz-Sommer, a 108-year-old Holocaust survivor who plays the piano and greets each day with no hint of bitterness, I’m grateful to Caroline Stoessinger for writing a book that explains this mystery. You will be inspired by the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, who lives to teach us.”—Gloria Steinem   “I walked on the cobblestones in Prague for thirty years wondering who might have walked on them before me: Kafka, Freud, Mahler. It feels like a miracle to have encountered, in Caroline Stoessinger’s wonderful book, Alice Herz-Sommer, who walked with them all—with a heart full of music.”—Peter Sis “A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.”—Itzhak Perlman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/130427 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever Author: Will Hermes Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: January 19, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Punk rock and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists—in the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the city’s infrastructure was collapsing; but rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire is the first book to tell the full story of the era’s music scenes and the phenomenal and surprising ways they intersected. From New Year’s Day 1973 to New Year’s Eve 1977, the book moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the Lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGB and the Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation. As they remade the music, the musicians at the center of the book invented themselves: Willie Colón and the Fania All-Stars renting Yankee Stadium to take salsa to the masses, New Jersey locals Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith claiming the jungle land of Manhattan as their own, Grandmaster Flash transforming the turntable into a musical instrument, and David Byrne and Talking Heads proving that rock music “ain’t no foolin’ around.” Will Hermes was there—venturing from his native Queens to the small, dark rooms where the revolution was taking place—and in Love Goes to Buildings on Fire he captures the creativity, drive, and full-out lust for life of the great New York musicians of those years, who knew that the music they were making would change the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121242 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World Author: Richard Rhodes Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 29, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today. Only a writer of Richard Rhodes’s caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II; she brought with her not only her theatrical talent but also a gift for technical innovation. An introduction to Antheil at a Hollywood dinner table culminated in a U.S. patent for a jam- proof radio guidance system for torpedoes—the unlikely duo’s gift to the U.S. war effort. What other book brings together 1920s Paris, player pianos, Nazi weaponry, and digital wireless into one satisfying whole? In its juxtaposition of Hollywood glamour with the reality of a brutal war, Hedy’s Folly is a riveting book about unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Got This Way Author: Regis Philbin Narrator: Regis Philbin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a beloved morning-show host (Live with Regis and Kelly), a nighttime game-show host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and also as a fixture on national and local late-night talk shows. The irrepressible “Reege” has regaled television audiences with his stories for more than half a century, but he’s saved the most hilarious, surprising, heartfelt, and inspiring tales for How I Got This Way. Both a fascinating show business memoir and a delightful primer for living the good life rolled into one, How I Got This Way is Reege being Reege, just the way we love him, as he shares the secrets to success and happiness that he has learned from his innumerable celebrity encounters, his close, personal friendships, and, of course,  his relationship with his loving wife and family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Michael: An Ordinary Friendship with an Extraordinary Man Author: Frank Cascio Narrator: Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Frank Cascio was a close friend of tragic superstar Michael Jackson for more than twenty-five years. In My Friend Michael, Cascio offers a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the Michael Jackson he knew. Filled with never-before-told stories and intimate details, My Friend Michael is the most candid, moving, and provocative portrait of the “King of Pop” to date—a fair and loving portrait of a true American pop music icon and of a remarkable friendship that endured through triumph and struggle, scandal and controversy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Then Again Author: Diane Keaton Narrator: Diane Keaton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue   ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times The Independent • Bookreporter The Sunday Business Post Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.   So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.   More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shockaholic Author: Carrie Fisher Narrator: Carrie Fisher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it’s like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty. Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that locked Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Shockaholic is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher’s life. Covering a broad range of topics—from never-before-heard tales of Hollywood gossip to outrageous moments of celebrity desperation; from alcoholism to illegal drug use; from the familial relationships of Hollywood royalty to scandalous run-ins with noteworthy politicians; from shock therapy to talk therapy—Carrie Fisher gives an intimate portrait of herself, and she’s one of the most indelible and powerful forces in culture at large today. Just as she has said of playing Princess Leia—“It isn’t all sweetness and light sabers”—Fisher takes readers on a no-holds-barred narrative adventure, both laugh-out-loud funny and poignant.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/103196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr Luby's Fear Of Heaven: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation Author: John Clifford Mortimer Narrator: Marsha Fitzalan, Flaminia Cinque, Donnla Hughes, Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Stephen Critchlow, Jeremy Irons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When Lewis Luby (Jeremy Irons) comes to, late at night in an Italian hospital, he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe of God. Surely there has been some mistake: Luby, who has never for one moment believed in the immortality of the soul, cannot possibly be in heaven! John Mortimer had the idea for 'Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven' when he first visited the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in Siena and saw patients lying in beds under ceilings decorated with 15th-Century frescoes depicting Heaven and Hell. The play was first produced for BBC Radio 3 in 1976, with John Gielgud in the title role. Later that year it was presented on stage as part of a double bill 'Heaven and Hell', with Denholm Elliot as Luby. This BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' production, starring Jeremy Irons as the protagonist, was first broadcast 31 December 2008 and repeated 15 February 2011. Stephen Critchlow, Marsha Fitzalan, Chris Pavlo, Donnla Hughes, Dan Starkey and Flaminia Cinque also feature amongst the cast.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kris Jenner . . . And All Things Kardashian Author: Kris Jenner Narrator: Marcia Strassman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.08 of Total 13 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From everybody’s favorite “momager” of E!’s hit reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians comes a relatable, brutally honest memoir of Kris Jenner’s never-before told story of the savvy businesswoman behind the Kardashian empire. You think you know her...Now read the stories even her famous children haven’t heard in this gripping and inspirational New York Times bestseller from the superstar matriarch of one of the biggest celebrity empires of our time. On Keeping Up with the Kardashians, we’ve watched Kris Jenner do it all. She runs a household, manages her children’s blockbuster careers, produces four television shows featuring her larger-than-life family, and still finds time to tweet to her fans. In this thoughtful, candid, and no-nonsense memoir, Kris opens up about the parts of her life that aren’t always in the spotlight: her marriage to Robert Kardashian, the late father of her four oldest children; her husband Olympic champion Bruce Jenner’s pivotal role in ending the Kardashians’s messy divorce so they could all move forward as a family; her close relationships with Nicole Brown Simpson and O. J. Simpson and her insider knowledge about the murder, its aftermath, and the infamous trial; and even her controversial decision to make her charming family into an international brand. If you think your life is chaotic, try keeping up with Kris Jenner.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) Author: Mindy Kaling Narrator: Brenda Withers, B. J. Novak, Michael Schur, Mindy Kaling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 414 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 55 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  In this hilarious instant classic, the creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood. “[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps . . . the next Nora Ephron.”—The New York Times   Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”    Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!   With several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? proves that Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.   Praise for Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? “Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?”—Glamour “Who wouldn’t want to hang out with Mindy Kaling? . . . [Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] is like a mash note to comedy nerds.”—Time Out New York “Very funny.”—Boston Globe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life Author: Jerry West, Jonathan Coleman Narrator: Ryan West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 19, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: He is one of basketball's towering figures: 'Mr. Clutch,' who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring 'Showtime' to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day. Now, for the first time, the legendary Jerry West tells his story-from his tough childhood in West Virginia, to his unbelievable college success at West Virginia University, his 40-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and his relationships with NBA legends like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant. Unsparing in its self-assessment and honesty, West by West is far more than a sports memoir: it is a profound confession and a magnificent inspiration.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music Author: Judy Collins Narrator: Judy Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 18, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.   Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation’s sound track.       Sweet Judy Blue Eyes invites the reader into the parties that peppered Laurel Canyon and into the recording studio so we see how cuts evolved take after take, while it sets an array of amazing musical talent against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent decades of twentieth-century America.      Beautifully written, richly textured, and sharply insightful, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is an unforgettable chronicle of the folk renaissance in America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor Author: Ozzy Osbourne Narrator: Frank Skinner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly. The 'Full Ozzy Genome' contained variants that scientists had never before encountered and the findings were presented at the prestigious TEDMED Conference in San Diego-making headlines around the world. The procedure was in part sponsored by The Sunday Times of London, which had already caused an international fururoe by appointing Ozzy Osbourne its star health advice columnist. The newpaper argued that Ozzy's mutliple near-death experiences, 40-year history of drug abuse, and extreme hypocondria qualified him more than any other for the job. The column was an overnight hit, being quickly picked up by Rolling Stone to give it a global audience of millions. In Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy, Ozzy answers reader's questions with his outrageous wit and surprising wisdom, digging deep into his past to tell the memoir-style survival stories never published before-and offer guidance that no sane human being should follow. Part humor, part memoir, and part bad advice, Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy will include some of the best material from his published columns, answers to celebrities' medical questions, charts, sidebars, and more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Song: A Memoir Author: Michael Shnayerson, Harry Belafonte Narrator: Harry Belafonte, Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the inspiring triumphs.   Belafonte grew up, poverty-ridden, in Harlem and Jamaica. His mother was a complex woman—caring but withdrawn, eternally angry and rarely satisfied. His father was distant and physically abusive. It was not an easy life, but it instilled in young Harry the hard-nosed toughness of the city and the resilient spirit of the Caribbean lifestyle. It also gave him the drive to make good and channel his anger into actions that were positive and life-affirming. His journey led to the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he encountered an onslaught of racism but also fell in love with the woman he eventually married. After the war he moved back to Harlem, where he drifted between odd jobs until he saw his first stage play—and found the life he wanted to lead. Theater opened up a whole new world, one that was artistic and political and made him realize that not only did he have a need to express himself, he had a lot to express.   He began as an actor—and has always thought of himself as such—but was quickly spotted in a musical, began a tentative nightclub career, and soon was on a meteoric rise to become one of the world’s most popular singers. Belafonte was never content to simply be an entertainer, however. Even at enormous personal cost, he could not shy away from activism. At first it was a question of personal dignity: breaking down racial barriers that had never been broken before, achieving an enduring popularity with both white and black audiences. Then his activism broadened to a lifelong, passionate involvement at the heart of the civil rights movement and countless other political and social causes. The sections on the rise of the civil rights movement are perhaps the most moving in the book: his close friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr.; his role as a conduit between Dr. King and the Kennedys; his up-close involvement with the demonstrations and awareness of the hatred and potential violence around him; his devastation at Dr. King’s death and his continuing fight for what he believes is right.   But My Song is far more than the history of a movement. It is a very personal look at the people in that movement and the world in which Belafonte has long moved. He has befriended many beloved and important figures in both entertainment and politics—Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sidney Poitier, John F. Kennedy, Marlon Brando, Robert Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Tony Bennett, Bill Clinton—and writes about them with the same exceptional candor with which he reveals himself on every page. This is a book that pulls no punches, and turns both a loving and critical eye on our country’s cultural past.   As both an artist and an activist, Belafonte has touched countless lives. With My Song, he has found yet another way to entertain and inspire us. It is an electrifying memoir from a remarkable man.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drama: An Actor's Education Author: John Lithgow Narrator: John Lithgow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: ''A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances.'' —Steve Martin Emmy Award-winner John Lithgow presents a charming, witty, and revealing memoir about his family, his work, and his life in Drama—an intimate story of insights and inspirational reflections from one of America’s most beloved actors. Lithgow pays tribute to his father, his greatest influence, and relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors including Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse, Liv Ullmann, Meryl Streep, and Brian De Palma. A compelling reflection on the trials, triumphs, and changes across his long career, Lithgow’s Drama illuminates the inner life of a celebrated talent, and points the way forward for anyone aspiring to greatness in their own life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend Author: Susan Orlean Narrator: Susan Orlean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 27, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Susan Orlean—acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book—Rin Tin Tin is “an unforgettable book about the mutual devotion between one man and one dog” (The Wall Street Journal). He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to international movie-star dog who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, Rin Tin Tin is a love story and 'a masterpiece' (Chicago Tribune) that is also a quintessentially American story of reinvention, a captivating exploration of our spiritual bond with animals, and a stirring meditation on mortality and immortality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102300 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Tiger's Wedding - my childhood in exile Author: Isla Blair Narrator: Isla Blair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 24, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The actress Isla Blair's extraordinary, moving and uplifting story of her childhood in India and her separation from her parents. Born in Bangalore India, during the fading days of the Raj, Isla grew up on a tea plantation managed by her father. She spent her early years in the lush, verdant hills of Kerala with her much loved older sister Fiona, secure in the love and affection of her parents and her adored "Ayah". This warm, spice-scented idyll was abruptly ended when, obliged by tradition and entirely believing they were doing the best for their daughters, her parents sent Isla and her sister "home" to boarding school. She was not quite six years old. But "home" was cold, gloomy, post-war austerity Scotland – a land of liberty bodices, chilblains, icy mornings and dank, drizzly days; an alien land where for several years she nursed an astonishing secret – of which only Fiona was aware. Isla Blair writes lyrically of her beloved India, stoically of term times in spartan English boarding schools and holidays with grandparents and with great humour and vivacity of the time after school when she became one of the youngest students at RADA, training alongside Anthony Hopkins and others and throwing herself fully into life in London in the swinging '60s.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond Author: Florence Henderson Narrator: Florence Henderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned. Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Itself: A Memoir Author: Roger Ebert Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'The best thing Mr. Ebert has ever written.' - Janet Maslin, New York Times 'To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.' Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades. In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions; his struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and his spiritual beliefs. He writes about his years at the Sun-Times, his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne and Martin Scorsese. This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell. Filled with the same deep insight, dry wit, and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished, this is more than a memoir -- it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy Accidents Author: Jane Lynch Narrator: Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1974, a fourteen-year-old girl in Dolton, Illinois, had a dream. A dream to become an actress, like her idols Ron Howard and Vicki Lawrence. But it was a long way from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, and it didn’t help that she’d recently dropped out of the school play, The Ugly Duckling. Or that the Hollywood casting directors she wrote to replied that “professional training was a requirement.” But the funny thing is, it all came true. Through a series of happy accidents, Jane Lynch created an improbable—and hilarious—path to success. In those early years, despite her dreams, she was also consumed with anxiety, feeling out of place in both her body and her family. To deal with her worries about her sexuality, she escaped in positive ways—such as joining a high school chorus not unlike the one in Glee—but also found destructive outlets. She started drinking almost every night her freshman year of high school and developed a mean and judgmental streak that turned her into a real-life Sue Sylvester. Then, at thirty-one, she started to get her life together. She was finally able to embrace her sexuality, come out to her parents, and quit drinking for good. Soon after, a Frosted Flakes commercial and a chance meeting in a coffee shop led to a role in the Christopher Guest movie Best in Show, which helped her get cast in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Similar coincidences and chance meetings led to roles in movies starring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and even Meryl Streep in 2009’s Julie & Julia. Then, of course, came the two lucky accidents that truly changed her life. Getting lost in a hotel led to an introduction to her future wife, Lara. Then, a series she’d signed up for abruptly got canceled, making it possible for her to take the role of Sue Sylvester in Glee, which made her a megastar. Today, Jane Lynch has finally found the contentment she thought she’d never have. Part comic memoir and part inspirational narrative, this is a book equally for the rabid Glee fan and for anyone who needs a new perspective on life, love, and success. WITH A FOREWORD BY CAROL BURNETT Excerpt from Happy Accidents: If I could go back in time and talk to my twenty-year-old self, the first thing I would say is: “Lose the perm.” Secondly I would say: “Relax. Really. Just relax. Don’t sweat it.” I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t anxious and fearful that the parade would pass me by. And I was sure there was someone or something outside of myself with all the answers. I had a driving, anxiety-filled ambition. I wanted to be a working actor so badly. I wanted to belong and feel like I was valued and seen. Well, now I am a working actor, and I guarantee you it’s not because I suffered or worried over it. As I look back, the road to where I am today has been a series of happy accidents I was either smart or stupid enough to take advantage of. I thought I had to have a plan, a strategy. Turns out I just had to be ready and willing to take chances, look at what’s right in front of me, and put my heart into everything I do. All that anxiety and fear didn’t help, nor did it fuel anything useful. My final piece of advice to twenty-year-old me: Be easy on your sweet self. And don’t drink Miller Lite tall boys in the morning.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes Author: Jermaine Jackson Narrator: Jermaine Jackson Jr. Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This sophisticated, no-holds-barred biography of Michael Jackson by his brother Jermaine is filled with keen insight, rich anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes detail. Older than Michael by four years, Jermaine knows the real Michael as only a brother can. In this raw, honest, and poignant account, he reveals Michael the private person, not Michael “the King of Pop.” From their shared childhood and the Jackson 5 years through Michael’s phenomenal solo career, his loves, his suffering, and his tragic end, Jermaine doesn’t flinch from tackling the tough issues: the torrid press, the scandals, the allegations, the court cases, the internal politics, the ill-fated This Is It tour, and the disturbing developments in the days leading up to Michael’s death. But where previous works have presented only thin versions of a media construct, Jermaine provides a rare glimpse into the complex heart, mind, and soul of a brilliant but sometimes troubled entertainer. As a witness to history on the inside, Jermaine is the only person qualified to deliver the real Michael and reveal what made him tick: his private opinions and unseen emotions through the most headline-making episodes of his life. His hope is to foster a true and final understanding of Michael: who he was, what he was, and what shaped him.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124655 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Yabba Dabba Doo: The Alan Reed Story Author: Alan Reed Narrator: Alan Reed, Joe Bevilacqua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 12, 2011 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: "The autobiography of the voice of Fred Flintstone is brought to life by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and Alan Reed Jr., featuring rare interviews with Alan Reed himself, an interview with Joe Barbera and clips from Reed's radio, TV and film career, including ""The Fred Allen Show,"" ""The Shadow,"" ""The Life of Riley,"" ""Life with Luigi,"" ""Duffy's Tavern,"" ""The Postman Always Rings Twice,"" ""Viva Zapata,"" and ""Breakfast at Tiffani's,"" and ""The Flintstones"".