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Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment
by Percy Wilkinson
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The Voice: Listening for God’s Voice and Finding Your Own : Sandi Patty
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voice: Listening for God’s Voice and Finding Your Own Author: Sandi Patty Narrator: Kathie Gifford, Sandi Patty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: Christian music icon and forty-time Dove award winner Sandi Patty has long astounded listeners with her powerful voice. And yet, off the stage, Sandi struggled to have a voice at all. Journey with Sandi and discover the tools you need to listen for God's voice and find your voice along the way. With a history of sexual abuse, infidelity, divorce, and crises of self-image, Sandi lived much of her life feeling unworthy of love or value. Like so many of us, she coped by living through the voices of others, allowing other people to prescribe her identity. As she performed around the world, Sandi met others just like her who hid their wounds behind quiet smiles and struggled to live with fractured identities. Through deeply intimate stories of her life and the empowering spiritual truths she's learned, Sandi offers readers wisdom to navigate the journey from voicelessness to discovering the voice God has given you, teaching you to: - Embrace your true self - Share your story - Become the person God created you to be Sandi's warm and invitational writing will draw you to the voice of the God who sings over your life, saying you are seen, you are loved, and your voice is worth hearing. With timeless wisdom, The Voice will help you uncover your God-given identity and a voice of your very own. Praise for The Voice: 'I've known Sandi for more than a quarter of a century. I'm one of the millions who have been blessed by her voice and touched by her words of wisdom. Her story is one of grace, hope, and second chances. May it impact all who read it.' --Max Lucado, pastor and New York Times bestselling author 'My favorite kind of spiritual leader is the one who tells the truth and gives others permission to tell the truth. I don't need shiny, polished, or tidy. I need genuine. Sandi, my dear friend, whom I love wholeheartedly, has given us this and more in The Voice.' --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography Author: Eric Idle Narrator: Eric Idle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.79 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python--from the Flying Circus to The Meaning of Life. Now, Eric Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in this entertaining memoir that takes us on an unforgettable journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. Coming of age as a writer and comedian during the Sixties and Seventies, Eric stumbled into the crossroads of the cultural revolution and found himself rubbing shoulders with the likes of George Harrison, David Bowie, and Robin Williams, all of whom became dear lifelong friends. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving other close friends and luminaries such as Mike Nichols, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, and many more, as well as the Pythons themselves, Eric captures a time of tremendous creative output with equal parts hilarity and heart. In Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, named for the song he wrote for Life of Brian (the film which he originally gave the irreverent title Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory) and that has since become the number one song played at funerals in the UK, he shares the highlights of his life and career with the kind of offbeat humor that has delighted audiences for five decades. The year 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Pythons, and Eric is marking the occasion with this hilarious memoir chock full of behind-the-scenes stories from a high-flying life featuring everyone from Princess Leia to Queen Elizabeth.
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On Sunset: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Sunset: A Memoir Author: Kathryn Harrison Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 2, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia, and beyond. Harrison grew up in their fading Tudor mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a kingdom inhabited by gleaming memories from their extraordinary past. Their photos, letters, and souvenirs sparked endless family stories that spanned cultures, dynasties, and continents—until declining finances forced them to sell the house in 1971, and night fell fast. Vivid and poignant, filled with the wisdom of retrospect and the wonder of childhood, On Sunset seeks to recover a foundational time in her life, affirming the power of storytelling and the endurance of memory.
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The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together by Adam Nayman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together Author: Adam Nayman Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 11, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A playfully critical journey through the Coen brothers' filmography From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical, instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. In The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot, as he puts it, 'some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness.' The book combines critical text--biography, close film analysis, and enlightening interviews with key Coen collaborators--with a visual aesthetic that honors the Coens' singular mix of darkness and levity. Featuring film stills, beautiful and evocative illustrations, punchy infographics, and hard insight, this book will be the definitive exploration of the Coen brothers' oeuvre.
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Fashion Climbing: A Memoir by Bill Cunningham
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fashion Climbing: A Memoir Author: Bill Cunningham Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his desires were a source of shame for his family, and after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love. When he arrived in New York, he reveled in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, where he would take note of the styles, new and old, watching how the gowns moved, how the jewels hung, how the hair laid on each head. This was his education, and the birth of the democratic and exuberant taste that he came to be famous for as a photographer for The New York Times. After two style mavens took Bill under their wing, his creativity thrived and he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.--because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--Bill became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Bill's mission was to bring happiness to the world by making women an inspiration to themselves and everyone who saw them. These were halcyon days when fashion was all he ate and drank. When he was broke and hungry he'd stroll past the store windows on Fifth Avenue and feed himself on beautiful things. Fashion Climbing is the story of a young man striving to be the person he was born to be: a true original. But although he was one of the city's most recognized and treasured figures, Bill was also one of its most guarded. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away in his lifetime. He held off on sharing it--and himself--until his passing. Contained inside this audiobook is an education in style, an effervescent tale of a bohemian world as it once was, and a final gift to the readers of one of New York's great characters.
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Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century by Nate Chinen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341655 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century Author: Nate Chinen Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 14, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of jazz’s leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise. “Playing changes,” in jazz parlance, has long referred to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. Playing Changes boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of significant changes—ideological, technological, theoretical, and practical—that jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Nate Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music. He traces the influence of commercialized jazz education and reflects on the implications of a globalized jazz ecology. He unpacks the synergies between jazz and postmillennial hip-hop and R&B, illuminating an emergent rhythm signature for the music. And he shows how a new generation of shape-shifting elders, including Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill, have moved the aesthetic center of the music. Woven throughout the book is a vibrant cast of characters—from the saxophonists Steve Coleman and Kamasi Washington to the pianists Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding—who have exerted an important influence on the scene. This is an adaptive new music for a complex new reality, and Playing Changes is the definitive guide.
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The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven BBC Radio full-cast productions (By Noel Coward)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven BBC Radio full-cast productions Author: Noel Coward Narrator: Harriet Walters, Helena Bonham-Carter, Celia Imrie, Roger Allam, Bill Nighy, Full Cast, Judi Dench, Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 2, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noël Coward’s classic plays – plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diaries Renowned for his wit, style and sophistication, Noël Coward was one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century. His plays, set in the glittering world of high society in which he lived, are much admired and have remained in the popular theatre repertoire to this day. This collection brings together the very best radio adaptations of Coward’s works, encompassing sparkling comedies of manners Private Lives and Hay Fever, farcical ghost story Blithe Spirit, and daring ménage à trois drama Design for Living. Here, too, is his controversial first hit The Vortex; the poignant Still Life (the inspiration for the film Brief Encounter); and the semi-autobiographical Present Laughter. Among the star-studded cast are Helena Bonham-Carter, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Roger Allam, Harriet Walter, Paul Rhys, Stephanie Cole and Paul Scofield. Also included is a BBC World Service profile of Noël Coward, comprising interviews, musical extracts and archive clips; and the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘From His Diaries’, featuring a selection of passages from Coward’s journal read by Simon Cadell.
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Fear of Flying: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Erica Jong
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear of Flying: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: Erica Jong Narrator: Kevin Shen, Julianna Jennings, Max Bennett, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Release date: August 2, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The radio premiere of Erica Jong's uninhibited feminist classic about female sexuality. Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for five years. But she has become restless and yearns for men, for solitude, and for the perfect, guiltless, ‘zipless f**k’. Having overcome her fear of flying to travel to a conference in Vienna with Bennett, she meets a charming Englishman called Adrian Goodlove. Can he offer the sexual liberation and fulfilment she's always fantasised about? First published in 1973, this bold and bawdy novel about a young woman's quest for sexual liberation was a controversial best-seller. Warning: Contains strong language from the start. Cast: Isadora Wing.....Julianna Jennings Bennett Wing.....Kevin Shen Adrian Goodlove.....Max Bennett Isadora's mother.....Adie Allen Marty.....Nick Underwood Judy.....Nicola Ferguson Dr Reuben.....Sargon Yelda Dr Happe.....Brian Protheroe Dramatised by Annie Caulfield Directed by Emma Harding
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Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy : Savannah Knoop
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy Author: Savannah Knoop Narrator: Kristen Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT's fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose sister-in-law wrote the books. Girl Boy Girl is the story of how Savannah Knoop led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious existence as a college dropout for a life in which she was embraced by celebrities and artists-Carrie Fisher, Courtney Love, Mary Ellen Mark, Winona Ryder, Asia Argento, Sharon Olds, Gus Van Sant, Mike Pitt, Calvin Klein, and Shirley Manson, to name a few-and traveled the world. Telling her side of the story for the first time, Savannah reveals how being perceived as a boy gave her a sense of confidence and entitlement she never had before. Her love affair with Asia Argento is particularly wrenching, as they embark on an intimate relationship that causes more alienation than closeness. As Savannah and Laura struggle over control of the JT character, Savannah realizes the limits of the game - - and inadvertently finds herself through the adventure of being someone else.
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My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture - Guy Branum
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture Author: Guy Branum Narrator: Guy Branum, Mindy Kaling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 31, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “Smart, fast, clever, and funny (As f*ck!)” (Tiffany Haddish), this collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays by the popular stand-up comedian, alum of Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project, and host of truTV’s Talk Show the Game Show is perfect for fans of the New York Times bestsellers Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. From a young age, Guy Branum always felt as if he were on the outside looking in. From a stiflingly boring farm town, he couldn’t relate to his neighbors. While other boys played outside, he stayed indoors reading Greek mythology. And being gay and overweight, he got used to diminishing himself. But little by little, he started learning from all the sad, strange, lonely outcasts in history who had come before him, and he started to feel hope. In this “singular, genuinely ballsy, and essential” (Billy Eichner) collection of personal essays, Guy talks about finding a sense of belonging at Berkeley—and stirring up controversy in a newspaper column that led to a run‑in with the Secret Service. He recounts the pitfalls of being typecast as the “Sassy Gay Friend,” and how, after taking a wrong turn in life (i.e. law school), he found stand‑up comedy and artistic freedom. He analyzes society’s calculated deprivation of personhood from fat people, and how, though it’s taken him a while to accept who he is, he has learned that with a little patience and a lot of humor, self-acceptance is possible. “Keenly observant and intelligent, Branum’s book not only offers uproarious insights into walking paths less traveled, but also into what self-acceptance means in a world still woefully intolerant of difference” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). My Life as a Goddess is an unforgettable and deeply moving book by one of today’s most endearing and galvanizing voices in comedy.
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Megan Mckenna presents Mouthy - Unfiltered, Uncensored & Honest as Ever: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mouthy - Unfiltered, Uncensored & Honest as Ever: The Sunday Times Bestseller Author: Megan Mckenna Narrator: Megan Mckenna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 26, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A sassy, frank, funny and inspirational autobiography, MOUTHY is the unfiltered, uncensored and unbelievable story of the girl you think you know from shows like TOWIE, There's Something About Megan, Celebrity Big Brother, Ex on the Beach and Britain's Got Talent. This is the story of what really goes on when the cameras stop rolling and the paparazzi have gone home, uncovering the truth behind the headlines - straight from the famous Megan McKenna mouth.
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Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing It: An Education Author: Camas Davis Narrator: Camas Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 24, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Camas was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on. Disillusioned by the decade she had spent as a lifestyle journalist, advising other people how to live their best lives, she had little idea how best to live her own life. She did know one thing: She no longer wanted to write about the genuine article, she wanted to be it. So when a friend told her about Kate Hill, an American woman living in Gascony, France who ran a cooking school and took in strays in exchange for painting fences and making beds, it sounded like just what she needed. She discovered a forgotten credit card that had just enough credit on it to buy a plane ticket and took it as kismet. Upon her arrival, Kate introduced her to the Chapolard brothers, a family of Gascon pig farmers and butchers, who were willing to take Camas under their wing, inviting her to work alongside them in their slaughterhouse and cutting room. In the process, the Chapolards inducted her into their way of life, which prizes pleasure, compassion, community, and authenticity above all else, forcing Camas to question everything she'd believed about life, death, and dinner. So begins Camas Davis's funny, heartfelt, searching memoir of her unexpected journey from knowing magazine editor to humble butcher. It's a story that takes her from an eye-opening stint in rural France where deep artisanal craft and whole-animal gastronomy thrive despite the rise of mass-scale agribusiness, back to a Portland in the throes of a food revolution, where Camas attempts--sometimes successfully, sometimes not--to translate much of this old-world craft and way of life into a new world setting. Along the way, Camas learns what it really means to pursue the real thing and dedicate your life to it.
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Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014 [Written by Emily Herbert]
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Robin Williams: When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014 Author: Emily Herbert Narrator: Marston York Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 158 Ratings of Narrator: 3.61 of Total 18 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: With his twinkling eyes, boundless energy and unrivalled natural wit, Robin Williams was the comedian who brought laughter to a generation.Through roles in cherished films such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Aladdin and Hook, he became the genial face of family comedy. His child-like enthusiasm was infectious, sweeping viewers away. Allied to his lightning-quick improvisation and ability to riff lewdly off any cue thrown at him, Robin was that rare thing - a true comic genius who appealed to adults and children equally.He could also play it straight, and empathetic depth came to him naturally. A poignant performance in Good Will Hunting won him an Academy Award whilst his masterfully chilling turn in psychological thriller Insomnia shocked audiences and hinted at a darker side.What truly caught the imagination, though, was his good-heartedness. Warmth radiated from him on-screen, but he was legendary for his off-screen acts of selfless generosity. Where most Hollywood A-listers demand outrageous pampering in their contract riders, he always insisted that the production company hire a full quota of homeless people to help make his movies.But behind the laughter lay a deeply troubled man, and tragedy would follow. At midday, on 11 August 2014, Robin Williams was pronounced dead at his California home. The verdict was suicide. He had battled depression and addiction for many years and was allegedly beset by financial difficulties.Virginia Blackburn's sensitive and thoughtful biography celebrates his genius and warmth, but also attempts to understand what could have driven such a gentle and gifted man to so tragic an end.
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Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War Author: Penny M. Von Eschen Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and their ideas further than the State Department anticipated. Both in concert and after hours, through political statements and romantic liaisons, these musicians broke through the government's official narrative and gave their audiences an unprecedented vision of the black American experience. In the process, new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—collaborations that fostered greater racial pride and solidarity. Though intended as a color-blind promotion of democracy, this unique Cold War strategy unintentionally demonstrated the essential role of African Americans in U.S. national culture. Through the tales of these tours, Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.
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The Swifty McVay Presents: The Seventh Star: The Autobiography Of Ondré Moore by Swifty Mcvay
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/339669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swifty McVay Presents: The Seventh Star: The Autobiography Of Ondré Moore Author: Swifty Mcvay Narrator: Swifty Mcvay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Seventh Star is a deeply personal, unflinching and unapologetic memoir that sheds light on an intense childhood spent on Detroit's notorious West 7 Mile, the pivotal role that the area's hip hop scene played, and the rise to national prominence Swifty McVay and his peers experienced after the massive mainstream success of the group D12. Ondre Moore, better known by his stage name Swift -- or Swifty McVay -- speaks plainly here, telling the inside story of how the members of D12 met and how their relationships have evolved throughout the years. He describes D12's close connection and initially mixed reaction to a then little-known rapper, Marshall Mathers III, better known as Eminem. But Swifty also details the significant struggles each of them overcame in their personal and professional lives -- including the bleak and brutal deaths of group members Bugz and Proof -- as they rose through the ranks in the demanding world of rap. Finding anchors in sobriety and spirituality, Swifty continues to challenge himself creatively as he releases solo albums and tours today. The Seventh Star is the unique story of an artist finding his voice in America's heartland, succinctly and intimately told by a creative powerhouse in the world of hip hop. The Seventh Star also includes a 7 track EP that reflects on the life of Swifty McVay. The EP has artist features from Obie Trice, MRX SX, Lil David Ruffin, Tristan Lee, and Maestro and production from JustChillBeat, Silent Riot, MRK SX, and Dame Grease. The Seventh Star project was executive produced by LaBront 'LB' Askew.
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Fight Club: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation [Written by Chuck Palahniuk]
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight Club: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: Chuck Palahniuk Narrator: Patrick Kennedy, Elaine Cassidy, Sam Hazeldine, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: First there was the insomnia. Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep. Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything. Then he met Tyler Durden. Then came Fight Club. Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an underground world of violence. Mild mannered product-recall-specialist by day, tortured insomniac by night, our narrator meets Tyler Durden - part-time projectionist, banquet waiter, soap-maker and anarchic genius. Together they create Fight Club. In Fight Club our narrator, and men like him, can escape the monotony of their daily work-dominated, consumer-driven, image-obsessed lives. In Fight Club you can escape who the world thinks you ought to be. Soon there are Fight Clubs in basement bars in towns and cities across the country; men with cuts, bruises, stitches, missing teeth wherever you look, and Tyler Durden has become an urban legend. But when Tyler invents Project Mayhem and things begin to escalate, there's only one thing to do: shut down Fight Club. But have they created a monster they can't control? Chuck Palahniuk's visceral and unflinching cult novel stars Patrick Kennedy, Sam Hazeldine and Elaine Cassidy. Cast: The Narrator...Patrick Kennedy Tyler Durden...Sam Hazeldine Marla Singer... Elaine Cassidy Big Bob...Martin Sherman Doctor/Boss...Nigel Whitmey Recruit One...Danny Mahoney Mechanic...John Schwab Ted...Sam Dale Glenda...Jane Slavin Chloe...Ayesha Antoine Dramatised by Tracey Malone and Ed Whitmore Produced by Heather Larmour
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Audiobook: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John Callahan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot Author: John Callahan Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: In 1972, at the age of 21, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine and made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of 12 (alcohol had played a role in his crash), the accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. After extensive physical therapy, he was eventually able to grasp a pen in his right hand and make rudimentary drawings. By 1978, Callahan had sworn off drinking for good, and begun to draw cartoons. Over the next three decades, until his death in 2010, Callahan would become one of the nation's most beloved—and at times polarizing—cartoonists. His work, which shows off a wacky and sometimes warped sense of humor, pokes fun at social conventions and pushes boundaries. One cartoon features Christ at the cross with a thought bubble reading 'T.G.I.F.' In another, three sheriffs on horseback approach an empty wheelchair in the desert. 'Don't worry,' one sheriff says to another, 'He won't get far on foot.' Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot recounts Callahan's life story, from the harrowing to the hilarious.
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Shut Up and Sing! (The Story of a Tenor) by Amy Albani
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shut Up and Sing! (The Story of a Tenor) Author: Amy Albani Narrator: Kebba Buckley Button Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 27, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Audiobook, "Shut Up and Sing!" (The Story of a Tenor) received a 5-Star Highly Recommended rating from Readers Favorite. (The audiobook includes about twenty singing excerpts.) Paul Veglia is an extremely talented singer with a lovable, somewhat zany personality. His life story is a strange mixture of successes and failures. As a young man, he was offered a contract with the Metropolitan Opera but was too insecure to accept it. He married the love of his life, Monika, daughter of actor Paul Henreid, but it ended in an unhappy divorce. His beautiful singing led him to success in Las Vegas and with the Met touring company. He interacted with many celebrities during his life -- Leonard Bernstein, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Dean Martin, Liberace, Sly Stallone, and others. Though now in his eighties, Paul still entertains people with his singing and with his many fascinating stories. Voice singers, Paul Veglia and Amy Albani Piano, Danny Guerrero Produced at Raven Audiobooks Producer, John Mahoney, Raven Audiobooks The musical excerpts in this book were recently recorded by Paul Veglia, at age 85.
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Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled -- Lynn S. Zubernis, Travis Langley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/339666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled Author: Lynn S. Zubernis, Travis Langley Narrator: Joe Hempel, Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Following the adventures of two brothers who investigate deeply strange and paranormal mysteries in their never-ending road trip, the TV show Supernatural has many fans eager to better understand the psychology behind the series' themes and characters. Featuring cast & crew interviews, this collection examines issues at the heart and soul of Supernatural's heroes and foes (fans, too): ●The role grief and trauma play in the protagonists' lives. ●The importance of music to the narrative. ●What motivates someone to hunt monsters and why we want to believe in magic. ●How angels relate to humanity and what that has to do with real intergroup conflict. ●How people can cope with tragedy, loss, addiction, and fear to become heroes who do the right thing. ●The dynamics of fandom: how fans relate to the narrative, characters, and actors, and continue to engage with series through fanfic, social media, and other practices.
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Movie Nightcap: The Reserve Collection, Vol. 3 by Abe Saffer, Nate Fisher
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/337108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Movie Nightcap: The Reserve Collection, Vol. 3 Series: #3 of The Reserve Collection Author: Abe Saffer, Nate Fisher Narrator: Jill Tighe, Abe Saffer, Nate Fisher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the ongoing podcast Movie Nightcap comes the Reserve Collection, a series of exclusive episodes featuring hosts Jill Tighe, Abe Saffer, and Nate Fisher. Each episode is a journey of discovery, fueled by beer. The hosts are joined by special guests and the conversations span from well-thought-out critiques to the most arbitrary and inane criticisms. As the night goes on, there is no telling where the discussion will go. We hope you enjoy this collection the same way you would an evening sitting around with a few beers and good friends. Join us for this most original podcast about friends, drinking beer and talking movies. *Warning: Hosts may become inebriated throughout the course of this podcast* Episode 1: Beer Tasting and Movie Topics, Round 3 Episode 2: Franchise Flight: Alien Episode 3: Battlefield Earth Commentary Track Episode 4: Gun to Your Head, Round 3 Episode 5: Fight Choreography with Danny Cackley
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Beyond the Beats: Rock & Roll’s Greatest Drummers Speak! by Jake Brown
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/341913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Beats: Rock & Roll’s Greatest Drummers Speak! Author: Jake Brown Narrator: Various Entertainers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: When Rolling Stone Magazine publishes its List of the Greatest Drummers of All Time, and a book’s entire Table of Contents is included, you know you’re onto something truly great. “BEYOND THE BEATS: Rock & Roll’s Greatest Drummers Speak!” hits with the loudest bang as the FIRST definitive book of its kind. A book BY drummers FOR drummers, featuring exclusive, chapter-length interviews with Rock & Metal’s most popular players of the past 40 years, this Rock & Roll Royalty includes TOMMY LEE of MOTLEY CRUE, LARS ULRICH of METALLICA, JOEY KRAMER of AEROSMITH, JIMMY CHAMBERLIN of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, TICO TORRES of BON JOVI, CHAD SMITH of THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, TAYLOR HAWKINS of THE FOO FIGHTERS, STEPHEN PERKINS of JANE’S ADDICTION, DOUG ‘COSMO’ CLIFFORD of CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, STEVE SMITH of JOURNEY, KENNY ARONOFF of JOHN MELLENCAMP/JOHN FOGERTY, and MATT SORUM of GUNS N ROSES/VELVET REVOLVER. For rock and metal drummers of any generation, this is their holy grail, featuring the stories behind literally hundreds of their favorite beats, from popular Classic Rock Radio hits like “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith, “Down on the Corner” by Creedence Clearwater Revival,” and “Living on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi to “Hurts So Good” by John Mellencamp and “Don’t Stop Believin’' by Journey, and for the heavier metal fans, everything from Metallica’s Greatest Hits, from “Master of Puppets” to “One” and “Enter Sandman,” Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart” or Guns N Roses’ “You Could Be Mine,” or “Give it Away” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Three Days” by Jane’s Addiction, “Times Like These” by the Foo Fighters or “Today,” “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” or “I am One” by Smashing Pumpkins and hundreds of other hits across every generation and sub-genre of Rock & Roll were created from behind the kit.
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I Will Be Complete: A Memoir by Glen David Gold
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Will Be Complete: A Memoir Author: Glen David Gold Narrator: Glen David Gold Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 26, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. “Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But when his father’s fortune disappeared and his parents divorced, Gold fell out of his well-curated Southern California life. He was now growing up by the side of his increasingly erratic mother, among con men and get-rich schemes in ‘70s San Francisco. Gold brings all his gifts as a novelist to a kaleidoscope of his most formative experiences: his salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale; the start of his writing career; and his estrangement from his mother, who moved in with her soul mate, a man who threatened to kill her. By turns heartbreaking and disarmingly funny, I Will Be Complete is one son’s journey, a series of love stories layered into a search for autonomy, and, ultimately, a way of letting go.
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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip (By Joel Selvin)
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip Author: Joel Selvin Narrator: John Glouchevitch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995 The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him after his sudden death in 1995. So long defined by Garcia's artistic vision, the surviving 'Core Four' were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions that would lead the iconic band into utter disarray for the next twenty years. Acclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia's death, and in this book, he offers a never-before-explored insider account of the ebbs and flows that occurred in the decades that followed. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia's passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band's fiftieth anniversary-finally allowing for a proper, and joyous, sendoff of the group revered by so many.
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Room to Dream by David Lynch, Kristine McKenna
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Room to Dream Author: David Lynch, Kristine McKenna Narrator: Kristine McKenna, David Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family — adapted by David Lynch from the print book especially for this audio program In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition. Lynch’s lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened. Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists. With insights into . . . Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lost Highway The Straight Story Mulholland Drive INLAND EMPIRE Twin Peaks: The Return Adapted For Audio
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family by Emily Jane Fox
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/339544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born Trump: Inside America's First Family Author: Emily Jane Fox Narrator: Emily Jane Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 19, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.08 of Total 13 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking what makes him tick. Born Trump is Fox’s dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at Trump’s five children (and equally powerful son-in-law, Jared Kushner), exploring their lives, their roles in the campaign and administration, and their dramatic and often fraught relationships with their father and with one another. Reexamining the tabloid-soaked events that shaped their lives in startling new detail, Born Trump is full of surprising insights, previously untold stories, and delicious tidbits about their childhoods (ridiculously privileged and painful, in equal measure) and the extraordinary power they now wield. As a version of this new kind of American royalty they wish to be, they are ensconced not in palaces but in Trump Tower and the White House. Even before Trump’s oldest child, Don Jr., was born, Donald told friends that he wanted at least five kids—to make sure there was a greater probability one would turn out just like him. His vision didn’t pan out exactly as he’d imagined, but Trump’s children each inherited some of his essential traits—as one source says, “collectively, they make the whole.” Ivanka is a media-savvy, hyperskilled messenger with her father’s self-promotional ease but without the brash. Don Jr. has the most contentious relationship with his father yet seems prone to endlessly repeat his mistakes. Eric embraced the family’s real estate business but has, in surprising ways, charted a more independent course than his siblings. While Tiffany grew up mostly separate from her father, she inherited Trump’s perspective as an outsider—his unique combination of assurance and insecurity. And there is Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, whose own family drama and personal ambition is a crucial thread in this saga. Come for the vision of Trump as a father—a portrait of the president at his kindest and cruelest. Stay for the revelatory gossip, including the truth about the firings of Christie and Manafort, the inside scoop on Donald’s three marriages, why Ivanka and Jared are “bashert,” and how this family of real estate tycoons have become the most powerful people in the world.
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Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein Author: Jamie Bernstein Narrator: Jamie Bernstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 12, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The intimate memoir of Leonard Bernstein and his family, that helped inspire the new movie Maestro The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and the life of every party, Leonard Bernstein was an enormous celebrity during one of the headiest periods of American cultural life, as well as the most protean musician in twentieth century America. But to his eldest daughter, Jamie, he was above all the man in the scratchy brown bathrobe who smelled of cigarettes; the jokester and compulsive teacher who enthused about Beethoven and the Beatles; the insomniac whose 4 a.m. composing breaks involved spooning baby food out of the jar. He taught his daughter to love the world in all its beauty and complexity. In public and private, Lenny was larger than life. In Famous Father Girl, Bernstein mines the emotional depths of her childhood and invites us into her family’s private world. A fantastic set of characters populates the Bernsteins’ lives, including: the Kennedys, Mike Nichols, John Lennon, Richard Avedon, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, and Betty (Lauren) Bacall. An intoxicating tale, Famous Father Girl is an intimate meditation on a complex and sometimes troubled man, the family he raised, and the music he composed that became the soundtrack to their entwined lives. Deeply moving and often hilarious, Bernstein’s beautifully written memoir is a great American story about one of the greatest Americans of the modern age.
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The Geraldo Show: A Memoir by Geraldo Rivera
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Geraldo Show: A Memoir Author: Geraldo Rivera Narrator: Geraldo Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 12, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In public life for half a century, my image and reputation have had more ups and downs than the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island. I have been called savior and sinner, fool and wise man, crusader and exploiter, hot head and dope. I am routinely scorned, admired, beloved, and belittled. The opinions are usually based on when they tuned in. Were you around for my early days as a crusading local newsman? Did you waste an evening inside Al Capone's empty vault? Were you watching when the bombs dropped in Afghanistan or Iraq, or did you tune into the raucous talk show when my nose got broken in the best television studio brawl ever caught on tape? Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and my employment by the conservative rabble-rousers of Fox News, and, more recently, with the coming of the Age of Trump, my professional life has been even more difficult to define. How could a sincerely progressive native-born Jew Rican New Yorker like me ever work for an outfit better suited to the vibes of Orange County, California, the Dixie, Appalachia, or the Mountain West? How could I not condemn and obstruct a wrecking ball like Donald Trump? Over five decades, I have met most of the era's good and bad guys, from Ronald Reagan to Charles Manson, Fidel Castro to Yasser Arafat, and Muhammad Ali to John Lennon. Two figure heavily in this book, both longtime friends. Roger Ailes is the disgraced yet undeniably brilliant creator of Fox News. Donald Trump, once a flamboyant playboy, billionaire businessman, is now 45th President of the United States. Now at the vigorous twilight of my career, I have nothing left to prove, and time has both enlightened and humbled me. In this book, I speak frankly about my failures and successes, my humiliations and triumphs. Throughout my career, I've done my best to provide you with groundbreaking journalism and great entertainment. In this book, I've tried to provide both . . . and a few life lessons, as well. Sincerely, Geraldo Rivera
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Getting On: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Alan Bennett
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting On: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Margaret Courtenay, Keith Barron, Ian Targett, Emily Richard, Pauline Letts, Charles Simpson, Susan Sheridan, David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: June 7, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of one of the earliest plays by Alan Bennett The 1970s are a time of change, but Labour MP George Oliver feels stuck in one place: distrusting the ‘mawkish mentality’ of the young and fearing the encroaching life of the middle-aged, with little to look forward to but the imminent end of a not-very-interesting road. Ten years into his second marriage, he is world-weary and dissatisfied with his social position and the public he deals with on a regular basis (‘He’s a socialist, but he doesn’t like people’ observes his wife Polly). In his self-absorption, he cannot see that his wife is having an affair, his mother-in-law is dying and his friends and neighbours regard him as a joke. With his trademark wry observational humour, Alan Bennett renders his plight at once poignant and comic. This bittersweet drama won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of 1971, and was described by the Sunday Times as ‘a small jewel of bewilderment and regret’. Keith Barron stars as George in this radio adaptation, with a supporting cast including David Rintoul, Emily Richard and Margaret Courtenay.
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The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes -- Rick Bass
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes Author: Rick Bass Narrator: Rick Bass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this 'rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute' (New York Times Book Review). From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point -- in his midfifties, with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house -- Bass strikes out on a journey of thanksgiving. His aim: to make a memorable meal for each of his mentors, to express his gratitude for the way they have shaped not only his writing but his life. The result, an odyssey to some of America's most iconic writers, is also a record of self-transformation as Bass seeks to recapture the fire that drove him as a young man. Along the way we join in escapades involving smuggled contraband, an exploding grill, a trail of blood through Heathrow airport, an episode of dog-watching with Amy Hempel in Central Park, and a near run-in with plague-ridden prairie dogs on the way to see Lorrie Moore, as well as heartwarming and bittersweet final meals with the late Peter Matthiessen, John Berger, and Denis Johnson. Poignant, funny, and wistful, The Traveling Feast is a guide to living well and an unforgettable adventure that nourishes and renews the spirit.
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Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis Author: Violet Ramis Stiel Narrator: Seth Rogen, Violet Ramis Stiel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the daughter of comedy legend Harold Ramis (and featuring a Foreword by Seth Rogen) comes a hilarious and heartwarming account of his life, work, and legacy. Most of us know Harold Ramis as the writer, director, and actor who brought warmth and humor to the big screen in classics like Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, National Lampoon's Vacation, and Groundhog Day. To his daughter, Violet, he was best known as an amazing father, confidant, and friend. In Ghostbuster's Daughter, Violet reflects on the life and legacy of her father, providing readers with an extraordinarily candid and insightful look into the man who helped shape modern American comedy. Funny, endearing, and vulnerable, Ghostbuster's Daughter takes readers into the private life of the American comedy icon, from his humble roots in Chicago and ascension into Hollywood stardom to his personal philosophies on life, love, and filmmaking. While the book offers a comprehensive history of her father's career, Ghostbuster's Daughter also provides a profound homage to their special father-daughter relationship. Violet weaves anecdotes about her father's unique and devoted parenting style among stories of her own unconventional upbringing, creating a vivid and dynamic portrait of the man behind the movies. A distinctly offbeat memoir as well as a charming family story for the ages, Ghostbuster's Daughter is an intimate look at one of America's preeminent comedy filmmakers.
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Take You Wherever You Go by Kenny Leon
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take You Wherever You Go Author: Kenny Leon Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Tony Award-winning director and recipient of the prestigious Mr. Abbott Award, Kenny Leon, comes a powerful memoir of the lessons he has learned on his incredible life journey. When Kenny Leon's grandmother told him to 'take you wherever you go,' she could hardly have anticipated that he would establish himself as one of Broadway's most exciting and acclaimed directors. But through years of hard work, Kenny would migrate from a small wooden house in rural Florida to the Tony Awards' stage, where he would win Best Direction of a Play for his 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun. In Take You Wherever You Go, Leon reflects on the pillars of wisdom he learned every step of the way from the most important people in his life--from his grandmother's sagacious and encouraging motivations to the steady hand of his mother to the deep artistic and social influence of iconic American playwright August Wilson. Take You Wherever You Go is a poignant, ruminative, and inspirational memoir that empowers you to be true to yourself as you navigate your own path.
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Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bruce Lee: A Life Author: Matthew Polly Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon. Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery. Polly breaks down the myths surrounding Bruce Lee and argues that, contrary to popular belief, he was an ambitious actor who was obsessed with the martial arts—not a kung-fu guru who just so happened to make a couple of movies. This is an honest, revealing look at an impressive yet imperfect man whose personal story was even more entertaining and inspiring than any fictional role he played onscreen.
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My Teenage Dream Ended : Farrah Abraham
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/337104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Teenage Dream Ended Author: Farrah Abraham Narrator: Farrah Abraham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: May 24, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: “I got off the phone and I tried to calm down, but my mind was racing. Derek was the father of the baby I was carrying inside me. He was my first love, my only true love. We hadn’t spoken in more than two months, but crazily I had still hoped we had a future together—me, him, and our baby, as one happy family. It’s every teenage girl’s dream, isn’t it? You meet a boy, you fall in love, and then one day you have a family and grow old together, happily ever after.” Fans of MTV’s critically acclaimed hit series, Teen Mom, have followed Farrah Abraham’s tumultuous life as a single teen mother. Her fiery, relentless spirit, and her unwavering commitment to getting the best out of life for herself and her daughter Sophia in spite of all the drama constantly surrounding her have made her a beloved star and media sensation. Now, in this unflinching, at times heartbreaking, memoir, Farrah reveals the difficult truth about the life that hasn’t been seen on television. Farrah Abraham was one of the original girls featured in MTV’s 16 & Pregnant, but is most recognized as one of the stars of MTV’s hit show, Teen Mom. She has been featured in Seventeen Magazine and Us Weekly, among many others, and is frequently documented and discussed in online entertainment blogs. This is her first book. Farrah Abraham's life has been front-and-center in the entertainment industry for years. Beginning with her debut on the hit series 16 and Pregnant, the young starlet has had her ups and downs splashed in the media. But there is a whole new side to every coin and Farrah's commitment to getting the most out of life for her and her daughter Sophia has made her more than a television icon. The brunette beauty's behind-the-scenes memoir is an expressive and emotional rollercoaster that will leave you commending her strength and dedication to her daughter. Read the debut book that launched Farrah Abraham into the literary world and won her a spot on the New York Times bestseller list.
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David Scott Kastan's On Color
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Color Author: David Scott Kastan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 22, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s ubiquity, we don’t know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least-understood aspects of everyday experience. Kastan and Farthing, a scholar and a painter, investigate color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, political, and scientific. In ten wide-ranging chapters, each devoted to a different color, they examine the various ways colors have shaped and continue to shape our social and moral imaginations. Each individual color becomes the focal point for a consideration of one of the extraordinary ways in which color appears and matters in our lives. This is a remarkably smart, entertaining, and fascinating guide to an elusive topic. Ranging from Homer to Picasso to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our world.
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Writing For Beginners: A Step-by-Step To Do List Guide For Writing An Outstanding Fiction Novel With Proven Easy Steps by Helena Smith
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writing For Beginners: A Step-by-Step To Do List Guide For Writing An Outstanding Fiction Novel With Proven Easy Steps Author: Helena Smith Narrator: Matt Montanez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 21, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: If you've only just begun to develop your writing talent you'll find invaluable guidance on writing for beginners right here in this audiobook. Today only, get this audio bestseller for a special price. Whether you want to write an intense crime novel, a fantasy adventure or a tragic romance, this audiobook can help equip you with all the literary tools needed to start writing your own fiction. Get your copy today! Take action today and buy this audiobook now at a special price!
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Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime Author: Dan Hancox Narrator: Ash Hunter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 17, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is currently playing Hamilton in the West End production of the musical. The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate-radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre. Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UK’s most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. Hip-hop royalty will fawn over them, billion dollar brands will queue up to beg for their endorsements and through their determined DIY ethics they’ll turn the music industry's logic on its head. But getting there won’t be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. National radio stations and live music venues will ban them. There will be riots, fighting in the streets, even murder. And the inner-city landscape that shaped them will be changed beyond all recognition. Drawn from over a decade of in depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, in this extraordinary book the UK’s best grime journalist Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime.
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The Creative Path: A View from the Studio on the Making of Art : Carolyn Schlam
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Creative Path: A View from the Studio on the Making of Art Author: Carolyn Schlam Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Creative Path is an inquiry into the creative process from philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and practical points of view. In this welcoming work on the creative process, Carolyn Schlam encourages the listener to embark upon his or her own journey of discovery, identity, and wonder through art. The author started her career in art under the tutelage of master teacher Norman Raeben in the Carnegie Hall Studios in New York. Raeben's students included Bob Dylan, who said of him: 'He put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt.' Chapters discuss the meaning of inspiration, intention, talent, authenticity, and many other aspects of art creation. Included in The Creative Path are: six lectures by Norman Raeben with commentary by the author; exercises designed to strengthen listeners' creative muscles; analysis of aesthetic criteria; reflections on the artist's role in society; and a discussion of the mindset required to make art a life path. A celebration of creativity, this inspirational book examines why we make art. Though it makes primary reference to visual art, The Creative Path will resonate with all creative practitioners, whatever their chosen discipline.
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Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Records by Bob Suren
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Records Author: Bob Suren Narrator: Bob Suren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records he loves and reissue them, open a record store, start a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of young musicians, and befriend all manner of punk luminaries along the way. Slowly his life’s pursuit pushes him to the point of personal ruination and, ultimately, redemption.
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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family by Robert F. Kennedy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family Author: Robert F. Kennedy Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. This powerful book combines the best aspects of memoir and political history. The third child of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of JFK takes us on a journey through his life, including watershed moments in the history of our nation. These pages come vividly to life with intimate stories of RFK Jr.’s own experiences, not just with historical events and the movers who shaped them, but also with his mother and father, his own struggles with addiction, and the ways he eventually made peace with both his Kennedy legacy and his own demons. The result is a book that is remarkably stirring and relevant, providing both insight and hope for all Americans at a time when they are needed like never before.
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Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paul Simon: The Life Author: Robert Hilburn Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn. For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history. Songs like “The Sound of Silence,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Still Crazy After All These Years,” and “Graceland” have moved beyond the sales charts and into our cultural consciousness. But Simon is a deeply private person who has resisted speaking to us outside of his music. He has said he will not write an autobiography or memoir, and he has refused to talk to previous biographers. Finally, Simon has opened up—for more than one hundred hours of interviews—to Robert Hilburn, whose biography of Johnny Cash was named by Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times as one of her ten favorite books of 2013. The result is a landmark book that will take its place as the defining biography of one of America’s greatest artists. It begins in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, where, raised by a bandleader father and schoolteacher mother, Simon grew up with the twin passions of baseball and music. The latter took over at age twelve when he and schoolboy chum Art Garfunkel became infatuated with the alluring harmonies of doo-wop. Together, they became international icons, and then Simon went on to even greater artistic heights on his own. But beneath the surface of his storied five-decade career is a roller coaster of tumultuous personal and professional ups and downs. From his remarkable early success with Garfunkel to their painfully acrimonious split; from his massive early hits as a solo artist to the wrenching commercial failures of One-Trick Pony and Hearts and Bones; from the historic comeback success of Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints to the star-crossed foray into theater with The Capeman and a late-career creative resurgence—his is a musical life unlike any other. Over the past three years, Hilburn has conducted in-depth interviews with scores of Paul Simon’s friends, family, colleagues, and others—including ex-wives Carrie Fisher and Peggy Harper, who spoke for the first time—and even penetrated the inner circle of Simon’s long-reclusive muse, Kathy Chitty. The result is a deeply human account of the challenges and sacrifices of a life in music at the highest level. In the process, Hilburn documents Simon’s search for artistry and his constant struggle to protect that artistry against distractions—fame, marriage, divorce, drugs, record company interference, rejection, and insecurity—that have derailed so many great pop figures. Paul Simon is an intimate and inspiring narrative that helps us finally understand Paul Simon the person and the artist. “With train-wreck moments and tender interludes alike, it delivers a sharply detailed Kodachrome of a brilliant musician” (Kirkus Reviews).
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The Animated Marx Brothers by Matthew Hahn
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Animated Marx Brothers Author: Matthew Hahn Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: To many people, the Marx Brothers always seemed cartoonish. Small wonder that film animators plucked their personas from their first appearances in The Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930) and caricatured them in countless animated appearances in theatrical cartoons. Their animated likenesses have since been wisecracking in television cartoons, direct-to-video movies, fan films, commercials, flip books, avatars, emoji, a slot machine, and two TV pilots so rare they were once thought not to exist. At last, Marx Brothers fans can rejoice. Matthew Hahn’s search for every animated appearance of a Marx brother has trailed longer than Groucho’s coattails. His discoveries include the backstories of the studios, moviemakers, and stars, rare test drawings from the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, abandoned projects, connections, coincidences, and apocrypha. Through the reels of Silly Symphonies, Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies, to their comic clashes with Heckle & Jeckle, Oswald Rabbit, Krazy Kat, Pooch the Pup, Buddy, Cubby, Willie Whopper, Flip the Frog, and Popeye, journey back through the most detailed analyses ever compiled of animated Marx Brothers appearances. The author also draws from appearances in You Bet Your Life (1950), Quick Draw McGraw (1959), The Simpsons (1989), Tiny Toon Adventures (1990), and Animaniacs (1993), among many others. Featured contributions include Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Walter Lantz, Rudold Ising, Hugh Harman, Shamus Culhane, Joe Grant, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, T. Hee, Robert McKimson, Bob Godfre, Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Michael Maltese, Daws Butler, Dayton Allen, Pat Harrington Jr., Frank Felker, Frank Ferrante, Dan Castellanata, Laurel & Hardy, Joe E. Brown, Greta Garbo, Frank Nelson, and Jerry Colonna.
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Hot Flush: Motherhood, the Menopause and Me [Written by Michelle Heaton]
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/337537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hot Flush: Motherhood, the Menopause and Me Author: Michelle Heaton Narrator: Michelle Heaton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 3, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: At the age of thirty-three, Michelle Heaton, singer, TV presenter, star of the hit ITV show The Real Full Monty, mother and wife underwent a double mastectomy and hysterectomy to reduce the risk of cancer caused by the BRCA gene mutation. The journey that Michelle's body embarked upon following the surgeries led her into the menopause in her mid-thirties.In Hot Flush, Michelle traces her path from pop stardom with Liberty X through her burgeoning television career and how she came to discover the truth about the gene mutation and its consequences for her. Though her story is undoubtedly unique, what's not is her understanding of living and dealing with the menopause as a hardworking mother and wife, and it is this wisdom that she wants to share with other women - over 13 million women in the UK - estimated to be experiencing the menopause.Candid and honest, Hot Flush details Michelle's struggles with dealing with the menopause in her own head as well as in her marriage, family life and the work place. She details the emotional and physical challenges she has faced - the explosive moods, the hot flushes and the mourning of the loss of a woman's sex appeal. Along the way, she offers real help and advice on how to stay healthy in mind and body.Inspiring, raw and unfailingly honest, Hot Flush is a candid approach to introducing your body to its next chapter.
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Listen to The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12: The BBC Radio 4 comedy series by John Lloyd
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12: The BBC Radio 4 comedy series Author: John Lloyd Narrator: Romesh Ranganathan, Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, John Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Join Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside that doesn’t make you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go ‘Hmm’. Fortunately, helping to fill its almost vacant plinths is a gathering of the world’s most original minds. The guests bearing donations to the museum in this collection include Howard Goodall, Corey Taylor, Vic Reeves, Ross Noble, George Monbiot, Lucy Porter, Deborah Frances-White, Stephen K Amos, Konnie Huq, Rory Bremner and Phil Jupitus.
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Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV by Lucas Mann
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV Author: Lucas Mann Narrator: Lucas Mann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes 'a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement” (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein—fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating—Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching 'real' people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life.
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row by Lance Richardson
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row Author: Lance Richardson Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men’s fashion—and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere apartment above a café catering to truck drivers, both boys seemed destined to lead rather humble lives in post-war London—Tommy as a civil servant, David as a darkroom technician. Yet the strength of their imagination (plus a little help from their friends) transformed them instead into unlikely protagonists of a swinging cultural revolution. In 1969, at the age of twenty-six, Tommy opened an unusual new boutique on the “golden mile” of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row. While shocking a haughty establishment resistant to change, “Nutters of Savile Row” became an immediate sensation among the young, rich, and beautiful, beguiling everyone from Bianca Jagger to the Beatles—who immortalized Tommy’s designs on the album cover of Abbey Road. Meanwhile, David’s innate talent with a camera vaulted him across the Atlantic to New York City, where he found himself in a parallel constellation of stars (Yoko Ono, Elton John) who enjoyed his dry wit almost as much as his photography. House of Nutter tells the stunning true story of two gay men who influenced some of the most iconic styles and pop images of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy people—and taking advantage of unparalleled access to never-before-seen pictures, letters, sketches, and diaries—journalist Lance Richardson presents a dual portrait of brothers improvising their way through five decades of extraordinary events, their personal struggles playing out against vivid backdrops of the Blitz, an obscenity trial, the birth of disco, and the devastation of the AIDS crisis. A propulsive, deftly plotted narrative filled with surprising details and near-operatic twists, House of Nutter takes readers on a wild ride into the minds and times of two brilliant dreamers.
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101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 1 by Jack Goldstein
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 1 Author: Jack Goldstein Narrator: Jason Zenobia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 26, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Which Star Wars actor hated the film so much that he said the dialogue was 'a load of old rubbish'? How many days did it take for The Hunger Games to become Lionsgate's biggest ever grossing film? What cost more to make - the 1997 film Titanic or the ship itself? And what colour are Dorothy's slippers in the book? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Jason Zenobia talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the movies, including sections covering filming problems, money issues, cameo appearances, props and more. So if you want to find out all the secrets from behind the scenes of well-known - and some not-so-well-known movies, this is the perfect audiobook for you!
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101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 2 by Jack Goldstein
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 2 Author: Jack Goldstein Narrator: Jason Zenobia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 26, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: For how many of his James Bond film appearances did Sean Connery wear a wig? What are the Wookie costumes in Star Wars made from? How did Rocky earn enough money to open up a pet shop in the original script for the first film in the series? And how many times are the words 'Elm Street' spoken in the first Nightmare on Elm Street film? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Jason Zenobia talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the movies, including sections covering original endings, props, costumes, James Bond and much more. So if you want to find out all the secrets from behind the scenes of well-known - and some not-so-well-known movies, this is the perfect audiobook for you!
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Thinking Sideways: A BBC Celebration of Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinking Sideways: A BBC Celebration of Spike Milligan Author: Spike Milligan Narrator: Spike Milligan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 26, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A centenary collection of the best BBC Radio programmes about the legendary Spike Milligan – including brand new documentary Spike Milligan: Inside Out Named for Spike’s explanation of his sense of humour – ‘I’m Irish – we think sideways’ – this BBC radio anthology, published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, provides unique insight into his genius. Spike Milligan: Inside Out sees Milligan admirer Michael Palin and Spike’s daughter, Jane, chat through some of Spike’s many audio recordings. Also included in this compilation is a wealth of archive material, much of it from 2012’s The Spike Show: Milligan Remembered, presented by Spike’s agent and friend Norma Farnes. In Milligan Chota Sahib, Spike recalls the excitement of his early life in India. Denis Norden pays tribute to his friend in Vivat Milligna: A Twenty-One Goon Salute, while In the Psychiatrist’s Chair: Spike Milligan finds Spike telling Professor Anthony Clare about the profound impact of shellshock on his mental health. Plus, we hear Spike’s favourite Goon Show episode, Fear of Wages, some magical poemand Spike Milligan: The Serious Poet, an award-winning documentary in which Spike’s three daughters discuss how their father’s serious poetry reflected his life and personality.
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101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 3 by Jack Goldstein
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 3 Author: Jack Goldstein Narrator: Jason Zenobia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 26, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Which object will you find somewhere in every single scene of Fight club? Which movie was filmed under the alias Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination? Why did the directors of The Shawshank Redemption have to find a maggot that had died of natural causes? And which main Disney character has the least number of spoken lines in their film? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Jason Zenobia talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the movies, including sections covering everything from the academy awards to stunts, Harry Potter and more! So whether you're a long-time movie buff or simply love a bit of trivia, then this is the audiobook for you!
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What Would Dolly Do?: How to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World by Lauren Marino
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Would Dolly Do?: How to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World Author: Lauren Marino Narrator: Therese Plummer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 24, 2018 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A spirited homage to Dolly Parton that captures the unique humor, no-nonsense wisdom, flash, and sass of one of America's most iconic stars. One of twelve children raised in a shack in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Dolly Parton grew to become an international superstar famous for classic songs such as 'Jolene,' '9 to 5,' 'The Coat of Many Colors,' and 'I Will Always Love You.' She is a reflection of the American dream, a role model for the ages, and a mentor to a whole new generation of entertainers. There is much to be learned from her unique brand, her big heart and spirituality, her grit and work ethic. This lively, illustrated book--part biography, part inspiration, part words of wisdom and life lessons--highlights the very best of the 'Dolly Mama,' from her quotable Dollyisms, unrelenting positivity, and powerful spirituality, to her belief in the human ability to overcome adversity. Drawing on Dolly's two autobiographies, cookbooks and songs; as well as artifacts; books by her family members; biographies; and decades worth of television, print interviews and performances, What Would Dolly Do? shows you how to tap into your Inner Dolly with confidence, faith, and humor.
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