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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218255 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Herbie Hancock: PossibilitiesAuthor: Lisa Dickey, Herbie HancockNarrator: Herbie HancockFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 33 minutesRelease date: October 23, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: The warmly welcomed memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on an extraordinary life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator who has spent a lifetime exploring a range of musical genres, and enriching each of them, Hancock has had an enormous influence on acoustic and electric jazz, R&B, funk, and hip-hop. From his beginnings as a child prodigy to his early classic Blue Note recordings; from his work in Miles Davisâs second great quintet to his innovations as the leader of his own groundbreaking sextet; from era-defining classic albums like Head Hunters and River: The Joni Letters to his collaborations with artists like Wayne Shorter and Stevie Wonder, Hancock reveals the methods behind his ever-evolving musical genius. He discusses his influences, his happy marriage, and how his practice of Buddhism has inspired him both creatively and personally. Honest, enlightening, and as electrifyingly vital as its author, this is an invaluable contribution to jazz literature and an intimate, insightful portrait of a creative life.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218422 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Republic of Imagination: America in Three BooksAuthor: Azar NafisiNarrator: Mozhan MarnĂČFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 11 minutesRelease date: October 21, 2014Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in booksâa passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatenedâand just as invaluableâin America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218423 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Mr. Hockey: My StoryAuthor: Gordie HoweNarrator: Don HagenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 58 minutesRelease date: October 14, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: THE DEFINITIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SPORTS LEGEND The NHL may never see anyone like Gordie Howe again. Known as Mr. Hockey, he led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and is the only player to have competed in the league in five different decades. In Mr. Hockey, the man widely recognized as the greatest all-around player the sport has ever seen tells the story of his incredible life... Twenty consecutive seasons among the top five scorers in the NHL. One hundred points after the age of forty. Playing for Team Canada with his two sons. Gordie Howe rewrote the record books. But despite Howeâs unyielding ferocity on the ice, his name has long been a byword for decency, generosity, and honesty off of it. Going back to Howeâs Depression-era roots and following him through his Hall of Fame career, his enduring marriage to his wife, Colleen, and his extraordinary relationship with his children, Mr. Hockey is the definitive account of the gameâs most celebrated legacy, as told by the man himself. FOREWORD BY BOBBY ORR INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218617 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Not My Father's Son: A MemoirAuthor: Alan CummingNarrator: Alan CummingFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 29 minutesRelease date: October 7, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 30Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âEqual parts memoir, whodunnit, and manual for living . . . a beautifully written, honest look at the forces of blood and bone that make us who we are, and how we make ourselves.â --Neil Gaiman In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career. A beloved star of stage, television, and filmââone of the most fun people in show businessâ (Time magazine)âAlan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under the heavy rule of an emotionally and physically abusive fatherâa relationship that tormented him long into adulthood. When television producers in the UK approached him to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show in 2010, Alan enthusiastically agreed. He hoped the show would solve a family mystery involving his maternal grandfather, a celebrated WWII hero who disappeared in the Far East. But as the truth of his family ancestors revealed itself, Alan learned far more than he bargained for about himself, his past, and his own father. With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as a film, television, and theater star. At times suspenseful, deeply moving, and wickedly funny, Not My Fatherâs Son will make readers laugh even as it breaks their hearts.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218420 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap AmericaAuthor: Linda TiradoNarrator: Linda TiradoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 24 minutesRelease date: October 2, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: From the author of the eye-opening and controversial essay on poverty that was read by millions comes the real-life Nickel and Dimed, and Linda Tirado explains what itâs like to be working poor in America, and why poor people make the decisions they do. We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly likeâon all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why âpoor people donât always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.â
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218103 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White MotherAuthor: James McBrideNarrator: Jd Jackson, Susan DenakerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 46 minutesRelease date: September 25, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 27Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared 'light-skinned' woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in 'orchestrated chaos' with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. 'Mommy,' a fiercely protective woman with 'dark eyes full of pep and fire,' herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusionâand reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. 'God is the color of water,' Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through collegeâand most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218544 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected NonfictionAuthor: Terry PratchettNarrator: Michael Fenton StevensFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 9 minutesRelease date: September 23, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day. Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non fiction writing, both serious and surreal: from musings on mushrooms to what it means to be a writer (and why banana daiquiris are so important); from memories of Granny Pratchett to speculation about Gandalf's love life, and passionate defences of the causes dear to him. With all the humour and humanity that have made his novels so enduringly popular, this collection brings Pratchett out from behind the scenes of the Discworld to speak for himself -- man and boy, bibliophile and computer geek, champion of hats, orangutans and Dignity in Dying. Snuff was the bestselling adult hardcover novel of 2011. A Blink of the Screen, Terry's short fiction collection, was also one of the bestselling hardcovers of 2012.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218547 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Yellow World: How Fighting for My Life Taught Me How to LiveAuthor: Albert EspinosaNarrator: Todd HaberkornFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 26 minutesRelease date: September 16, 2014Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: A sensational memoir with all the emotional power of The Fault in Our Stars, The Yellow World is the story of cancer and survival that has moved and inspired readers around the world. My heroes donât wear red capes. They wear red bands. Albert Espinosa never wanted to write a book about cancerâso he didnât. Instead, he shares his most touching, funny, tragic, and happy memories in the hopes that others, healthy and sick alike, can draw the same strength and vitality from them. At thirteen, Espinosa was diagnosed with cancer, and he spent the next ten years in and out of hospitals, undergoing one daunting procedure after another, starting with the amputation of his left leg. After going on to lose a lung and half of his liver, he was finally declared cancer-free. Only then did he realize that the one thing sadder than dying is not knowing how to live. In this rich and rewarding book, Espinosa takes us into what he calls âthe yellow world,â a place where fear loses its meaning; where strangers become, for a moment, your greatest allies; and where the lessons you learn will nourish you for the rest of your life. U.K. praise for The Yellow World âWith its uplifting message and simple philosophy, [The Yellow World] has the makings of a spiritual classic.ââThe Sunday Times â[An] energetic rush of a book . . . that shines with comedy and grace.ââThe Independent âHeartwarming . . . the book everyoneâs talking about.ââMail on Sunday
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218599 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Forgetting to Be Afraid: A MemoirAuthor: Wendy DavisNarrator: Hillary HuberFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 34 minutesRelease date: September 9, 2014Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir by one of the countryâs brightest new political stars and hero to womenâs rights supporters everywhere In June of 2013, Texas state senator Wendy Davis became an overnight political sensation when she singlehandedly filibustered Governor Rick Perryâs sweeping anti-abortion bill. Her personal story is just as remarkable. The daughter of a single mother, Davis, at age 19, was on her way to becoming a single mother herself. She was living with her own young daughter in a trailer park while working two jobs and struggling to make ends meet. Still, she managed to attend and graduate from Texas Christian University and Harvard Law School, be elected to the Fort Worth City Council and the Texas Senate, and, in 2014, became the most serious Democrat in two decades to make a run for governor. Refreshing and forthright, Forgetting to Be Afraid is a deeply moving testament to the enduring power of the American Dream.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218587 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Terrorist's Son: A Story of ChoiceAuthor: Zak EbrahimNarrator: Zak EbrahimFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 2 hours 24 minutesRelease date: September 9, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist fatherâthe man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to âRemember El-Sayyid Nosair.â For Zak Ebrahim, a childhood amongst terrorism was all he knew. After his fatherâs incarceration, his family moved often, and as the perpetual new kid in class, he faced constant teasing and exclusion. Yet, though his radicalized father and uncles modeled fanatical beliefs, to Ebrahim something never felt right. To the shy, awkward boy, something about the hateful feelings just felt unnatural. In this book, Ebrahim dispels the myth that terrorism is a foregone conclusion for people trained to hate. Based on his own remarkable journey, he shows that hate is always a choiceâbut so is tolerance. Though Ebrahim was subjected to a violent, intolerant ideology throughout his childhood, he did not become radicalized. Ebrahim argues that people conditioned to be terrorists are actually well positioned to combat terrorism, because of their ability to bring seemingly incompatible ideologies together in conversation and advocate in the fight for peace. Ebrahim argues that everyone, regardless of their upbringing or circumstances, can learn to tap into their inherent empathy and embrace tolerance over hatred. His original, urgent message is fresh, groundbreaking, and essential to the current discussion about terrorism.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218072 to listen full audiobooks.Title: World OrderAuthor: Henry KissingerNarrator: Nicholas HormannFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 8 minutesRelease date: September 9, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: âDazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.â âWalter Isaacson, Time 'An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues.' âKirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern eraâadvising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decadesâKissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. There has never been a true âworld order,â Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the worldâs sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracyâa conviction that has guided its policies ever since. Now international affairs take place on a global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension. Grounded in Kissingerâs deep study of history and his experience as national security advisor and secretary of state, World Order guides readers through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon administrationâs negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reaganâs tense debates with Soviet Premier Gorbachev in ReykjavĂk. He offers compelling insights into the future of U.S.âChina relations and the evolution of the European Union, and he examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear negotiations with Iran through the Westâs response to the Arab Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine, World Order anchors Kissingerâs historical analysis in the decisive events of our time. Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with geopolitical prognostication, World Order is a unique work that could come only from a lifelong policy maker and diplomat. Kissinger is also the author of On China.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218488 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One BlackAuthor: Chris TomlinsonNarrator: David DrummondFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 50 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: Journalist Chris Tomlinson grew up hearing stories about his family's abandoned cotton plantation in Falls County, Texas. Most of the tales lionized his white ancestors for pioneering along the Brazos River. His grandfather often said the family's slaves loved them so much that they also took Tomlinson as their last name. LaDainian Tomlinson, football great and former running back for the San Diego Chargers, spent part of his childhood playing on the same land that his black ancestors had worked as slaves. As a child, LaDainian believed that the Hill was named after his family. Not until he was old enough to read a historical plaque did he realize that the Hill was named for his ancestorâs slaveholders. A masterpiece of authentic American history, Tomlinson Hill traces the true and very revealing story of these two families. From the beginning in 1854âwhen the first Tomlinson, a white woman, arrivedâto 2007, when the last Tomlinson, LaDainian's father, left, the book unflinchingly explores the history of race and bigotry in Texas. Along the way, it also manages to disclose a great many untruths that are latent in the unsettling and complex story of America.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217693 to listen full audiobooks.Title: I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a TwistAuthor: Rebecca Paley, Betty HalbreichNarrator: Jane CurtinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 39 minutesRelease date: September 4, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: A classic tale of personal transformation amid a stunning backdrop of old world glamour and current high style, Betty Halbreich moves from a trapped woman to a ferociously independent icon Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheimâs repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women off the street. She has helped many find their true selves through clothes, frank advice, and her own brand of wisdom. She is trusted by the most discriminating personsâincluding Hollywoodâs top stylistsâto tell them what looks best. But Halbreichâs personal transformation from a cosseted young girl to a fearless truth teller is the greatest makeover of her career. A Chicago native, Halbreich moved to Manhattan at twenty after marrying the dashing Sonny Halbreich, a true character right out of Damon Runyon who liked the nightlife of New York in the fifties. On the surface, they were a great match, but looks can be deceiving; an unfaithful Sonny was emotionally distant while Halbreich became increasingly anguished. After two decades, the fraying marriage finally came undone. Bereft without Sonny and her identity as his wife, she attempted suicide. After she began the frightening process of reclaiming herself and started therapy, Halbreich was offered a lifeline in the form of a job at the legendary luxury store Bergdorf Goodman. Soon, she was asked to run the storeâs first personal shopping service. It was a perfect fit. Meticulous, impeccable, hardworking, elegant, andâmost of allâdelightfully funny, Halbreich has never been afraid to tell it to her clients straight. She wonât sell something just to sell it. If an outfit or shoe or purse is too expensive, sheâll dissuade you from buying it. As Halbreich says, âThere are two things nobody wants to face: their closet and their mirror.â She helps women do both, every day.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218005 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's FiancĂ©e and Last Love Finally Tells Her StoryAuthor: Ginger AldenNarrator: Ginger AldenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 16 minutesRelease date: September 2, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger Aldenâs life; after all, she was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. But she had no idea that she would play a part in that enduring legacyâas Elvis Presleyâs fiancĂ©e and his last great love. For more than three decades Ginger has held the truth of their relationship close to her heart. Now she shares her unique story. In her own words, Ginger details their whirlwind romanceâfrom first kiss to his stunning proposal of marriage. And for the very first time, she talks about the devastating end of it all and the fifty thousand mourners and reporters who descended on Graceland in 1977, exposing Ginger to the reality of living in the spotlight of a short yet immortal life. Above it all, Ginger rescues Elvis from the hearsay, rumors, and tabloid speculations of his final year by shedding a frank yet personal light on a very public legend. From a unique and intimate perspective, she reveals the manâcomplicated, romantic, fallible, and humanâbehind the myth, a superstar worshipped by millions and loved by Ginger Alden.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217940 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Daring: My Passages: A MemoirAuthor: Gail SheehyNarrator: Bernadette DunneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 58 minutesRelease date: September 2, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoirâa chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking âgirlâ journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egyptâs president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel. Always on the cutting edge of social issues, Gail Sheehy reveals the obstacles and opportunities encountered when she dared to blaze a trail in a âmanâs world.â Daring is also a beguiling love story of Sheehyâs tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker, the charismatic creator of New York magazine. As well, Sheehy recounts her audacious pursuit and intimate portraits of many twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush, and the world-altering attraction between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sheehy reflects on desire, ambition, and wanting it allâcareer, love, children, friends, social significanceâand lays bare her major life passages: false starts and surprise successes, the shock of failures and inner crises; betrayal in a first marriage; life as a single mother; flings of an ardent, liberated young woman; her adoption of a second daughter from a refugee camp; marriage to the love of her life and their ensuing years of happiness, even in the shadow of illness. Now stronger than ever, Sheehy speaks from hard-won experience to todayâs young women. Her fascinating, no-holds-barred story is a testament to guts, resilience, smarts, and daring, and offers a bold perspective on all of lifeâs passages.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218359 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Eight Twenty Eight: When Love Didn't Give UpAuthor: Larissa Murphy, Ian MurphyNarrator: Erin SpencerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 21 minutesRelease date: August 28, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: What if that thing you really feared happened? Would the joy you hold pop? Or would you experience love and joy deeper than you can imagine? They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he started looking for a ring. They dreamed about life together, a life of beauty and joy, raising babies and laughing with friends and growing old. They did not imagine a car accident. They did not imagine his brain injury. They did not dream about the need for constant care and a wheelchair and fear that food might choke him. And they could not have imagined how persistent love would be. Theirs and God's. Ian and Larissa Murphy tell their story of love in Eight Twenty Eight. Except, it's not just their love story. Really, it's yours as well. Read and gain a picture of love that will challenge all you think you know about what is true and what persists.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218111 to listen full audiobooks.Title: True Courage: A Trilogy of True-Life Survival of POWs from Vietnam, World War II, and CambodiaSeries: Part of The Made for Success SeriesAuthor: BĆ«n Yom, Gerald Coffee, Kelly EstesNarrator: Dan Mcgowan, Bill ChandlerFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 36 minutesRelease date: August 15, 2014Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: Full of action-packed experiences from world conflicts, this collection of war storiesâsome true, some notâtells tales of POWs surviving in Vietnam, World War II, and Cambodia. These stories of grit and strength put you in the middle of the action and will leave you with a respect for true war heroes. Beyond Survival is a journey into the invincible human spirit that unites heart and mind in a compelling and unforgettable experience. Drawing from his seven years as a POW, Captain Gerald Coffee provides timeless lessons that apply to the physical, emotional, and ethical challenges of everyday life. Without inflaming the wounds inflicted by America's involvement in Vietnam, Beyond Survival explores an issue at the heart of every free society: the willingness of ordinary individuals to maintain a passion for freedom so compelling that adversity strengthens rather than weakens personal resolve in the worst of circumstances. Through Coffee's story you will discover the universal principles of survival and triumph that empower anyone to overcome adversity. The Cost of Courage is a work of military fiction based on the true story of two brothers who served in separate campaigns of World War II. After being shot down over Berlin, one brother is forced to endure both mental and physical torture as a POW at Stalag Luft III. As a defiant soul, he gains the respect of his comrades by making life difficult for his captors. However, things change after an ill-fated trip to solitary, where it is revealed by another airman that his brother has died in the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. Devastated, he struggles with the will to survive while reminiscing about his brother. Tomorrow I'm Dead is BâŒÂœn Yom's story of his capture by the Khmer Rouge at the age of fourteenâand the unmatched suffering, courage, and heroism that ensued. After three years as a killing-field slave, seventeen-year-old BâŒÂœn Yom escaped from the Khmer Rouge and became a freedom fighter. Using his wisdom, courage, and infinite compassion, BâŒÂœn rescued thousands of Cambodian people and soon became the Cambodian Freedom Fighters' greatest soldier. Tomorrow I'm Dead is the only known firsthand account of the freedom fighters' heroic liberation of slaves from the Khmer Rouge killing fields.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/217646 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Storytellerâs NashvilleAuthor: Tom T. HallNarrator: Peter CooperFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 32 minutesRelease date: August 12, 2014Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: The legendary country music songwriter known as the Storyteller delivers the genre's most bracing, hilarious, and unique memoir, bringing to life long-gone characters from Nashville's streets and barrooms and detailing his one-of-a-kind journey in music. This expanded edition of Hall's original 1979 book includes never-before-heard poems and vignettesâread by the authorâand new chapters that bring us up to date with Hall as he sits with President Carter, caps his recording career, quits drinking, ponders his legacy, examines the creative process, and retires from the music industry. 'If you want to retire, go ahead,' he says. 'Life will still present innumerable occasions for you to go out and make an ass of yourself.'
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/214352 to listen full audiobooks.Title: In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat OpotAuthor: Gail GutradtNarrator: Lorna RaverFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 7 minutesRelease date: August 12, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one womanâs volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodiaâa book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Childrenâs Community. Begun with just fifty dollars in the pocket of Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodiaâs verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new familyâa place that Gutradt calls âa workshop for souls.â Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place, and of one womanâs transformation in trying to help them. With wry perceptiveness and stunning humanity and humor, this courageous, surprising, and evocative memoir etches the people of Wat Opot forever on your heart.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213584 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper LeeAuthor: Marja MillsNarrator: Amy Lynn StewartFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 11 minutesRelease date: July 15, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1Genres: MemoirsPublisher's Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novelâs celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has lived with her sister, Alice, for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a long conversationâand a great friendship. In 2004, with the Leesâ blessing, Mills moved into the house next door to the sisters. She spent the next eighteen months there, sharing coffee at McDonalds and trips to the Laundromat with Nelle, feeding the ducks and going out for catfish supper with the sisters, and exploring all over lower Alabama with the Leesâ inner circle of friends. Nelle shared her love of history, literature, and the Southern way of life with Mills, as well as her keen sense of how journalism should be practiced. As the sisters decided to let Mills tell their story, Nelle helped make sure she was getting the storyâand the Southâright. Alice, the keeper of the Lee family history, shared the stories of their family. The Mockingbird Next Door is the story of Millsâs friendship with the Lee sisters. It is a testament to the great intelligence, sharp wit, and tremendous storytelling power of these two women, especially that of Nelle. Mills was given a rare opportunity to know Nelle Harper Lee, to be part of the Leesâ life in Alabama, and to hear them reflect on their upbringing, their corner of the Deep South, how To Kill a Mockingbird affected their lives, and why Nelle Harper Lee chose to never write another novel. Jacket photograph: Leo Fuchs / The Leo Fuchs Archives
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