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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Crashing the PartySubtitle: An American Reporter in ChinaAuthor: Scott SavittNarrator: James ChenFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 43 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-19-17Publisher: Audible StudiosRatings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek Magazine. The city's first nightclubs open; rock 'n' roll promises democracy. Promoted to foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times then United Press International, Scott finds himself drawn into China's political heart.Later, at 25 years old, Scott is the youngest accredited foreign correspondent in China with an intimate knowledge of Beijing's backstreets. But as the seven-week occupation of Tiananmen Square ends in bloodshed on June 4, 1989, his greatest asset is his flame-red 500 cc. Honda motorcycle - giving Scott the freedom to witness first-hand what the Chinese government still denies ever took place. After Tiananmen, Scott founds the first independent English-language newspaper in China, Beijing Scene. He knows that it's only a matter of time before the authorities move in, and sure enough, in 2000 he's arrested, flung into solitary confinement and, after a month in jail, deported.Scott Savitt's memoir turns this complex political-historical subject into an extraordinary adventure story.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Get Fit, Get HappyAuthor: Harry JuddNarrator: Harry JuddFormat: UnabridgedLength: 2 hrs and 55 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-19-17Publisher: CoronetRatings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Get Fit, Get Happy isn't about just transforming the way you look. It's about transforming the way you feel.Harry Judd is a member of the hugely successful bands McFly and McBusted, who have headlined Hyde Park and notched up 19 hit singles - of which seven went to number one - and two number-one albums. He is a much-loved former Strictly Come Dancing champion and has been crowned the nation's favourite ever winner of the show. And yet in spite of this success, there have been times when Harry has been prone to anxiety and other mental health issues. He's not alone.Today, anxiety, depression and eating disorders affect more of us than ever before, and we are all looking for ways to adapt, cope and survive the pressures of daily life. The one thing that Harry has turned to time and time again to redress the balance in his life is fitness. Now, using a combination of exercise and dance, Harry makes the mood-boosting benefits of fitness accessible for everyone. Young or old, male or female, small or large, tall, short, thin, fat or somewhere in the middle: anyone will be inspired by Get Fit, Get Happy.Without any need for expensive kit or lots of time, Harry's approach is fun, fast and free. Part memoir in which Harry tells the life lessons that he has learned and part richly researched fitness plan to get you feeling more positive, Get Fit, Get Happy is a fitness revolution to help people find a little more happiness in their lives.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the fully illustrated Get Fit, Get Happy Fitness Plan PDF will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Book of Forgotten AuthorsAuthor: Christopher FowlerNarrator: Christopher FowlerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 38 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-05-17Publisher: riverrunGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner, no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye.These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites, including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world.This is a book about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and entertaining guide.Critic Reviews:"Joyous...fascinating." (Cathy Rentzenbrink)"I love it! A real gem." (Joanne Harris)"Will have the inevitable effect of sending readers in search of these intriguing lost names." (Barry Forshaw)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: John GrishamSubtitle: A BiographyAuthor: Daniel HarrisonNarrator: Mark RossmanFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-29-17Publisher: Daniel HarrisonRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:John Grisham is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in Mississippi from January 1984 to September 1990.His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. As of 2012, his books have sold over 275 million copies worldwide. A Galaxy British Book Awards winner, Grisham is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing.Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which "continues the story of attorney Mitchell McDeere and his family 10 years after the events of the film and novel." Eight of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, and A Time to Kill.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Birds Art LifeSubtitle: A Year of ObservationAuthor: Kyo MaclearNarrator: Laurel LefkowFormat: UnabridgedLength: 4 hrs and 48 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-13-17Publisher: Penguin Random House CanadaGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life - a field guide to things small and significant.For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of these artists took time away from their work to become observers of natural phenomena. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a local Toronto musician with an equally captivating side passion - he had recently lost his heart to birds. Curious about what prompted this young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature, Kyo decides to follow him for a year and find out.A distilled, crystal-like companion to H Is for Hawk, this memoir celebrates the particular madness of loving and chasing after birds in a big city. Intimate and philosophical, moving with ease between the granular and the grand view, it celebrates the creative and liberating effects of keeping your eyes and ears wide open and explores what happens when you apply the core lessons of birding to other aspects of life. In one sense this is a book about disconnection - how our passions can buckle under the demands and emotions of daily life - and about reconnection: how the act of seeking passion and beauty in small ways can lead us to discover our most satisfying life. On a deeper level, it takes up the questions of how we are shaped and nurtured by our parallel passions and how we might come to cherish not only the world's pristine natural places but also the blemished urban spaces where most of us live.Birds Art Life follows two artists on a yearlong adventure that is at once a meditation on the nature of creativity and a quest for a good and meaningful life.Critic Reviews:"A wondrous little book about 'being a little lost'." (The New York Times)"An incandescent exploration of beauty, inspiration, art, family, and freedom that seems to leave no topic out of its binocular scope." (Toronto Star)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 101 Amazing Facts About Ed SheeranAuthor: Jack Goldstein, Frankie TaylorNarrator: Kent HarrisFormat: UnabridgedLength: 19 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 08-17-17Publisher: Andrews UK LimitedGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Are you the world's biggest Ed Sheeran fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about one of the most talented singer-songwriters of a generation?In this excellent audiobook, Kent Harris tells us everything about Ed, from how he got started in the music industry, to his tattoos, collaborations with other artists and much more. Whether you're a brand new fan or someone who's been following Ed Sheeran for years, you're sure to enjoy these 101 amazing facts.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American LegendsSubtitle: The Life of Gregory PeckAuthor: Charles River EditorsNarrator: Scott ClemFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 2 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-03-17Publisher: Charles River EditorsRatings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:"Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important." Gregory PeckA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.At the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute ranked Gregory Peck 12th in its list of best actors, and it's not hard to see why. In addition to being one of the most popular actors in Hollywood for three decades, Peck won an Academy Award for Best Actor playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and he was also nominated several other times. Even when he wasn't being nominated for his performances, he appeared in some of the most acclaimed movies of the century, including How the West Was Won and Roman Holiday.Peck was a household name across America, but far from resting on his laurels, he poured just as much energy into humanitarian causes, though he didn't think much of it, saying, "I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in." Nonetheless, Peck's work as a humanitarian led to him being awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson in 1969, when he was still near the height of his career. He championed several causes over the years, most of them liberal ones like gun control and gay rights. Always outspoken, he even lent his name and voice to politically charged commercials, including the notorious fight to stop Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Peck continued his work into the 21st century, and in 2011, several years after he died, he was commemorated with a postage stamp.American Legends: The Life of Gregory Peck profiles the life and career of one of America's greatest actors. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Gregory Peck like never before, in no time at all.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Bulletins from DallasSubtitle: Reporting the JFK AssassinationAuthor: Bill SandersonNarrator: James FosterFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 46 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-23-17Publisher: Brilliance AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story.Thanks to one reporter's skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at President Kennedy's motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite was the first to tell America about the assassination. But when Cronkite broke the news on TV, he read from one of Smith's dispatches. At Parkland Hospital, Smith saw President Kennedy's blood-soaked body in the back of his limousine before the emergency room attendants arrived. Two hours later, he was one of three journalists to witness President Johnson's swearing-in aboard Air Force One. Smith rightly won a Pulitzer Prize for the vivid story he wrote for the next day's morning newspapers.Smith's scoop is journalism legend. But the full story of how he pulled off the most amazing reportorial coup has never been told. As the top White House reporter of his time, Smith was a bona fide celebrity and even a regular on late-night TV. But he has never been the subject of a biography.With access to a trove of Smith's personal letters and papers and through interviews with Smith's family and colleagues, veteran news reporter Bill Sanderson will crack open the legend. Bulletins from Dallas tells for the first time how Smith beat his competition on the story, and shows how the biggest scoop of his career foreshadowed his personal downfall.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scab VendorSubtitle: Confessions of a Tattoo ArtistAuthor: Jonathan ShawNarrator: Carol Monda, Jonathan ShawFormat: UnabridgedLength: 17 hrs and 27 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-16-17Publisher: Audible StudiosRatings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Jonathan Shaw's Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is a surreal, multigenerational roller-coaster ride through the underbelly of modern culture, charting the course of a life measured by extremes and all the people, places, and events that shaped that life into a survivor's tale of epic proportions. In it, Shaw takes the listener deep, not only into the recesses of his extraordinary mind and adventures but also into the strange and magical process of memoir-writing itself.If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then, as Shaw's friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, much of this book would have to be lived before it could be written. In that sense, Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is much more than a fascinating chronicle of a popular outlaw artist's creative evolution. It is a multicolored, cinematic, modern-day Odyssey, written in blood, ink, and tears - a kaleidoscopic, visionary road map to the journey of the human soul.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: VoltaireSubtitle: A BiographyAuthor: Alexander HallNarrator: 5395 Media LLCFormat: UnabridgedLength: 18 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 03-27-17Publisher: Alexander HallRatings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: CelesteSubtitle: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling WriterAuthor: Roland PerryNarrator: Deidre RubensteinFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-25-17Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:The true story of the Countess Céleste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman.Courtesan, countess, best-selling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time....Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Céleste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian dance halls, where, it is said, she invented the cancan. Then, as an equestrienne at the Paris hippodrome, her daring feats on horseback thrilled the crowds. However, it was as the city's most celebrated courtesan that the young Parisian found genuine fame and fortune. Strikingly beautiful and charismatic, her lovers included famous novelists, artists and composers, not least Georges Bizet, who, many believe, based his free and fearless Carmen on Céleste.But when Céleste married the Count de Chabrillan, a prominent member of the French aristocracy, Parisian society was scandalised. And when the pair turned up in far off Australia, where the count served as the first French consul, Melbourne society was scandalised in turn. Later a best-selling memoirist, novelist, playwright and librettist, the remarkable Countess Céleste de Chabrillan was, indeed, a woman far ahead of her time.Critic Reviews:"A ripper...very well written.' (The Age) "It has great pace and excitement...taut and extremely well written." (The Guardian) "Altogether an exciting story." (The New York Times)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Sting in the TaleAuthor: James BerrymanNarrator: Ian FisherFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 22 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-15-16Publisher: Mirage PublishingRatings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Imagine Sting grabbing at one of the Beatles' hair in a desperate attempt to get a piece of one of them! (It really happened!)A Sting in the Tale is the sort of book to listen to if you appreciate humor. However, if you are need of a humor transplant then, perhaps, this is not the book for you. This fully authorized memoir of Sting and Jim Berryman's time together is, indeed, a hilariously, eye-wateringly funny listen. Just imagine a P.G. Wodehouse book, and substitute Jeeves and Bertie Wooster with Sting and Jim and you'll have the right picture! The author is included in most of the stories, this interaction sees Jim Berryman as the stooge to Sting's alter-ego, his real self.Not a kiss and tell book by no means but not a suck up and kiss book either , the frankly hilarious minutes cover stories of misadventure that takes an episodic approach to presenting a decidedly more down-to-earth view of Sting than we've heard or seen elsewhere.Sting and his best pal Jim Berryman are caught in various true-life situations that happened to them from when they first went to school together right up until Sting became one of the most successful superstars in rock history! Despite the gap between wealth and happiness, Jim and Sting have remained best friends to this day.It was at Sting's prompting that Jim penned this biography, which tracks their friendship through thick and thin from the school playing fields to their days as trainee warehousemen. This oblique look at his friendship with Sting will hold your attention through the short, succinct, and often very funny chapters of this book.Although there's always been a sense of mystery around Sting, this book will soon have you laughing your socks off at how the-boy-who-would-be-Sting reveals, through his friendship with the author, a side to the singer that has never been seen before.Every chapter, all 41 of them, has something to make you laugh.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Travels With a Donkey in the CevennesAuthor: Robert Louis StevensonNarrator: Flo GibsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 3 hrs and 10 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-08-16Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, LLCRatings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:In this autobiographical narrative, the author sleeps under the stars, views the beautiful French countryside, and mingles with its local populace - all with a donkey as his chief companion.
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Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Titolo: Pablo Neruda: Il poeta dell'amore e dell'impegno civileAutore: Francesco De VitoNarratore: Francesca Di ModugnoFormato: UnabridgedDurata: 1 hr and 42 minsLingua: ItalianoData di pubblicazione: 11-17-16Editore: Area 51 ShortCategoria: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansRiepilogo Editore:Pablo Neruda è il poeta dell'amore e dell'impegno civile, uno dei più importanti letterati di lingua spagnola. Il poeta che "intingeva la penna nel sangue, invece che nell'inchiostro", ha vinto il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura e altri riconoscimenti internazionali, numerosi paesi e istituzioni lo hanno ricoperto di onori. In questo ritratto parleremo di lui al presente, perché la sua vita è da tempo leggenda e la sua poesia è eterna. Neruda è un personaggio estremamente complesso e sfuggente e insieme tenace e determinato, fedele fino in fondo alla sua passione e missione: la poesia. Conosceremo la sua famiglia e l'ambiente in cui è cresciuto. Lo seguiremo durante gli anni della formazione, tra libri, amori, amici, speranze, delusioni. Gusteremo le sue prime soddisfazioni, quelle poesie apprezzate da tutti, tranne dalla persona a cui le avrebbe dedicate volentieri. Vedremo il giovane poeta lasciare il Cile e tornarvi diverse volte, scoprire nuove realtà, arricchire il proprio mondo interiore e, di conseguenza, la propria arte. Poeta prolifico, Neruda cerca di dare spazio a tutte le esperienze vissute. E in questo ritratto daremo spesso spazio alle sue intense parole, ai suoi magnifici versi, soprattutto quando racconteremo gli ultimi, vertiginosi venti anni della sua vita.©2016 Area51 Publishing (P)2016 Area51 Publishing
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Just Getting StartedAuthor: Tony Bennett, Scott SimonNarrator: Joe BarrettFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 13 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-15-16Publisher: HarperAudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:At 90, musician and singer Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, including albums, concerts, and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring artist has written his second book. In 2012's Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons he has learned over the years. Now, in Just Getting Started, he pays homage to the remarkable people who inspired those lessons.In his warm and inviting voice, Tony talks about who and what have enriched his own life, including Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cole Porter, Amy Winehouse, Fred Astaire, Lady Gaga, members of his family, significant places; and more. Just Getting Started chronicles the relationship Tony has enjoyed with each one of these legends, entertainers, humanitarians, and loved ones and reveals how the lessons and values they imparted have invaluably shaped his life.As enchanting and unforgettable as his music, Just Getting Started is a beautiful compilation of reflections every Bennett fan will treasure and a perfect introduction for those just getting to know this remarkable star and humanitarian.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Face the MusicSubtitle: My Improbable Trip to Saturn (or Close Enough) with Sun RaAuthor: Michael LowenthalNarrator: Jeremy ArthurFormat: UnabridgedLength: 51 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-15-16Publisher: Audible StudiosRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:In 1990, the avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra arrived at Dartmouth to collaborate with the school's jazz band, where Michael Lowenthal - an anxious, 20-year-old senior - played trumpet. As rehearsals got underway and two musical worlds collided, Lowenthal struggled with the improvisation that Sun Ra's sparse, yet spiritual, melodies demanded. In this essay, Lowenthal recounts his "otherworldly" experience with the famous jazz star who claimed to be from Saturn.Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and The Paternity Test. His short stories have appeared in Tin House, the Southern Review, and the Kenyon Review, and his nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, the Washington Post, Out, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the MacDowell Colony, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lowenthal has taught creative writing at Boston College and Hampshire College, and as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Leipzig University. Since 2003 he has been a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University.Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Helene HanffSubtitle: A LifeAuthor: Helene Hanff, Stephen R. PastoreNarrator: Joan GrantFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 23 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-09-16Publisher: Grand Oak Rare Books IncRatings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:This is a biography of Helene Hanff, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road by a leading authority on her life and works. Pastore was a long-time friend and neighbor of Hanff and had access to her books, letters and relatives and friends. A biographer often faces difficult choices. Some choose to report only verifiable facts; others elaborate based on rumor, gossip, letters and sometimes mere guessing in an effort to liven up what used to be called a nonfiction genre but which is now referred to as creative nonfiction.Most biographers have the luxury of a dead subject; no one to complain, to explain, to elucidate, to obfuscate. I had a dear friend who was very much alive and very much a friend. I could have chosen to ignore her wishes about respecting her privacy and publish away. Or I could have chosen to respect her wishes even though I knew I would not publish anything until after her death. I chose the latter and I relied on her version of her life, omitting material she did not want made public and including material I had no way of verifying but which originated with her. Much of what is known about her is the result of sometimes outlandish guesswork circulated on the Internet (one of the most unreliable sources of information ever conceived by the mind of man.) Some sites have Helene as a lesbian; others as the mistress of a New York City politician. Some have her as a personal friend based on a visit with her in the lobby of her building; others claim intimate knowledge of her communist leanings based on Frank Doel's alleged friendship with a "Soviet spy". I feel it is the biographer's function to present as much truth as possible, to respect sources and to verify what can be verified.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: ShakespeareAuthor: Alexander KennedyNarrator: Jim D JohnstonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 2 hrs and 20 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-18-16Publisher: Fritzen Publishing LLCGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:Shakespeare did more than any person to shape the English language, coining more than 1,000 words and writing a host of poems and plays considered the finest of their genres. Yet the documentary records of his life is surprisingly scanty; literary historians know more about the lives of ancient Greek tragedians like Aeschylus and Sophocles than they do about Britain's greatest writer.In this compact, highly listenable biography, Alexander Kennedy separates truth from fiction, history from myth in the life of this enigmatic genius. Was Shakespeare gay or bisexual? Who were the recipients of his celebrated sonnets? Did another author write some or all of his plays? How could a single man's work so thoroughly reshape our language, our literature, and our world? The answers lie within."To be, or not to be, that is the question." (William Shakespeare)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Soul SerenadeSubtitle: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through VinylAuthor: Rashod OllisonNarrator: C. S. TreadwayFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 35 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-04-16Publisher: Beacon PressGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music.Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on 45s in smoky rooms.Steeped in the sounds, the smells, and the salty language of rural Arkansas in the 1980s, Soul Serenade is the memoir of a pop music critic whose love for soul music was fostered by his father, Raymond. Drafted into the Vietnam War as a teenager, Raymond returned a changed man, "dead on the inside". After his parents' volatile marriage ended in divorce, Rashod was haunted by the memory of his itinerant father and his mama's long forgotten "sunshine smile". For six-year-old Rashod, his father's record collection - the music of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, and others - provided solace, coherence, and escape.Moving nine times during his childhood, Rashod constantly adjusted to new schools and homes with his two sisters, Dusa and Reagan, and his mother, Dianne. Resilient and tough while also being distant and punitive, she worked multiple jobs, striving "to make ends wave at each other if they couldn't meet". He spent time with his acerbic mother's mother, Mama Teacake, and her family's living-out-loud ways, which clashed with his father's family - religious, discreet, and appropriate - where Rashod gravitated to Big Mama and Paw Paw, his father's parents.Becoming aware of his same-sex attraction, Rashod felt further isolated and alone but was encouraged by mentors in the community who fostered his intelligence and talent. He became transformed through discovering the writing of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, and other literary greats, and these books, along with the soulful sounds of the 1970s and '80s, enabled him to thrive in spite of the instability and harshness of his childhood.In textured and evocative language, and peppered with unexpected humor, Soul Serenade is an original and captivating coming-of-age story set to an original beat.Critic Reviews:"An elegiac look at a childhood marked by violence, dysfunction, poverty, sorrow - and plenty of good music." (Kirkus Reviews)"Gifted memoirist Ollison uses the authentic language of home, profane and poetic, to vividly describe a childhood lived in a state of impermanence." (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and CivilisationAuthor: James StourtonNarrator: Jot DaviesFormat: UnabridgedLength: 21 hrs and 24 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-22-16Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers LimitedRatings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansPublisher's Summary:The biography of the popular British author, broadcaster and highly influential art historian who, in 1969, achieved international acclaim as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series Civilisation.Kenneth Clark was the grandest figure in the arts in Britain in the 20th century. Museum director, patron, pioneer of television, cultural panjandrum, he effortlessly dominated the art world for over half a century. Clark belonged to that stratum of society that used to be called "the top people" and was befriended by both the Queen Mother and Winston Churchill. His closest friendships, however, were amongst writers and artists, men such as John Betjeman, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and John Piper. A singular youth and then a trusted patrician, no voice has exercised so much power and influence over the arts in Britain.Telling this story of one of the great 20th-century lives, James Stourton's biography is a comprehensive view of the arts during the 20th century.Critic Reviews:"A treasure...best of all are the author's personal asides on builders and those who inspired them." (The Economist) "Stourton writes elegantly and absorbingly." (The Times) "A fascinating and witty tour." (The Economist) "Deceptively simple. Idiosyncratic and amusing, he makes you see everything in a new light." (Tablet)
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