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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529919 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSDAuthor: Fergal KeaneNarrator: Fergal KeaneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 10 minutesRelease date: November 10, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is darkest, he made a name for reporting with humanity and empathy from places where death and serious injury were not abstractions, and tragedy often just a momentâs bad luck away. But all this time he struggled not to be overwhelmed by another story, his acute âcomplex post-traumatic stress disorderâ, a condition arising from exposure to multiple instances of trauma experienced over a long period. This condition has caused him to suffer a number of mental breakdowns and hospitalisations. Despite this, and countless promises to do otherwise, he has gone back to the wars again and again. Why? In this powerful and intensely personal book, Keane interrogates what it is that draws him to the wars, what keeps him there and offers a reckoning of the damage done. PTSD affects people from all walks of life. Trauma can be found in many places, not just war. Keaneâs book speaks to the struggle of all who are trying to recover from injury, addiction and mental breakdown. It is a survivorâs story drawn from lived experience, told with honesty, courage and an open heart.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523786 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Chasing Wrongs and Rights: A personal journey of fighting for justice around the worldAuthor: Elaine PearsonNarrator: Elaine PearsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 0 minutesRelease date: September 6, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights â from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia â offering an extremely involving personal account of how far weâve come, and how far weâve got to go. Growing up in Perth, Elaine Pearson always dreamt of the wider world. Her British father and Singaporean-Chinese mother meant that her family extended beyond our shores, but it wasnât until later in life that she fully understood how her professional calling might have been influenced by personal history: she learned that her beloved maternal grandmother had been sold to an opera troupe as a child to save the family from starvation. As soon as she could, Elaine followed her interest in womenâs rights and people-trafficking, interviewing sex-workers and victims of trafficking on the streets of Bangkok and Amsterdamâs red light district. Her experiences in Nepal and Nigeria profoundly shaped her understanding of how governments and NGOs need to protect the rights of victims, as well as how poverty, corruption and war drive trafficking in the first place. Elaineâs story takes us on a panoramic survey of human rights across the world â into the UN committee rooms of New York and Geneva, as well as to the front-lines of Sri Lankaâs search for those who disappeared in the countryâs civil war, examining death squad killings on the Philippines island of Mindanao and the detention of asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. And her work on the appalling treatment of prisoners, many of whom are Aboriginal, vividly demonstrates that human rights abuses are something that happens at home as well as out in that wider world. In exploring human rights abuses and governmentsâ failure to address them, Chasing Wrongs and Rights sometimes shows humanity at its worst. Just as often, though, we see people at their best â compassionate, resilient, determined. Deeply informative and inspiring, Elaine Pearsonâs story will leave you understanding how much needs to change, and how individuals can make a difference.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533258 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Portable Anna Julia CooperAuthor: Anna Julia CooperNarrator: Shirley Moody-Turner, Karen Murray, Dominic HoffmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 59 minutesRelease date: August 9, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name A Penguin Classic The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois. The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual, and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African American social and political activism. Recognized as the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history and activism, Cooper (1858-1964) penned one of the most forceful and enduring statements of Black feminist thought to come of out of the nineteenth century. Attention to her work has grown exponentially over the years--her words have been memorialized in the US passport and, in 2009, she was commemorated with a US postal stamp. Cooper's writings on the centrality of Black girls and women to our larger national discourse has proved especially prescient in this moment of Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name, and the recent protests that have shaken the nation. * This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF which contains the Chronology and Suggestions for Further Reading from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511872 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The High Sierra: A Love StoryAuthor: Kim Stanley RobinsonNarrator: Kim Stanley RobinsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 30 minutesRelease date: May 10, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: A âsublimeâ and âradically originalâ exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (âBill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains throughout his lifeâmore than a hundred tripsâand has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra is his lavish celebration of this exceptional place and an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth. Over the course of a vivid and dramatic narrative, Robinson describes the geological forces that shaped the Sierras and the history of its exploration, going back to the indigenous peoples who made it home and whose traces can still be found today. He celebrates the people whose ideas and actions protected the High Sierra for future generations. He describes uniquely beautiful hikes and the trails to be avoided. Robinsonâs own life-altering events, defining relationships, and unforgettable adventures form the narrativeâs spine. And he illuminates the human communion with the wild and with the sublime, including the personal growth that only seems to come from time spent outdoors. The High Sierra is a gorgeous, absorbing immersion in a place, born out of a desire to understand and share one of the greatest rapture-inducing experiences our planet offers. Packed with maps, gear advice, more than 100 breathtaking photos, and much more, it will inspire veteran hikers, casual walkers, and travel readers to prepare for a magnificent adventure.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509094 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an EmpireAuthor: Julia BairdNarrator: Lucy RaynerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 8 minutesRelease date: May 10, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queenâa Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES âą ESQUIRE âą THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY âVictoria the Queen, Julia Bairdâs exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch.ââThe New York Times Book Review (Editorâs Choice) When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europeâs monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the publicâs expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the landscape, and the British Empire was commanding ever larger tracts of the globe. In a world where women were often powerless, during a century roiling with change, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand. Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. As a girl, she defied her motherâs meddling and an adviserâs bullying, forging an iron will of her own. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped the crown and relished the freedom it brought her. At twenty, she fell passionately in love with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, eventually giving birth to nine children. She loved sex and delighted in power. She was outspoken with her ministers, overstepping conventional boundaries and asserting her opinions. After the death of her adored Albert, she began a controversial, intimate relationship with her servant John Brown. She survived eight assassination attempts over the course of her lifetime. And as science, technology, and democracy were dramatically reshaping the world, Victoria was a symbol of steadfastness and securityâqueen of a quarter of the worldâs population at the height of the British Empireâs reach. Drawing on sources that include fresh revelations about Victoriaâs relationship with John Brown, Julia Baird brings vividly to life the fascinating story of a woman who struggled with so many of the things we do today: balancing work and family, raising children, navigating marital strife, losing parents, combating anxiety and self-doubt, finding an identity, searching for meaning.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532100 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the GreatAuthor: Alex RowsonNarrator: Gavin OsbornFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 1 minuteRelease date: April 14, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: âPopular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished worldâ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great â one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Greatâs story often reads like fiction: son to a snake-loving mother and a battle-scarred father; tutored by Aristotle; a youth from the periphery of the Greek world who took part in his first campaign aged sixteen, becoming king of Macedon at twenty and king of Asia by twenty-five; leading his armies into battle like a Homeric figure. Each generation has peered through the frosted glass of history and come to their own conclusion about Alexander, be it enlightened ruler, military genius, megalomaniac, drunkard or despot. Yet the first two decades of his life have until now been a mystery â a matter of legend and myth. This extraordinary history draws on new discoveries in archaeology to tell the early story of Alexander and his rise â including detail on the tempestuous relationship between Alexanderâs parents, Philip and the Molossian princess Olympias, his education by Aristotle and the strict military training which would serve him so well in later years. And more than ever, it emerges, the story of Alexanderâs reign confronts us with difficult questions that are still relevant today â of the relationship between East and West, the legacy of colonialism and the impacts of authoritarian rule. Drawing together startling modern archaeological discoveries, this book brings Alexanderâs ancient world back into focus. With each fragment of this shattered past, excavated by shovel, pick and trowel, a new history is being written. The forgotten story of young Alexander is being unearthed.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521960 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present DayAuthor: Brian GroomNarrator: Nicholas CammFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 16 minutesRelease date: April 14, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. âEntertainingâ The Times âDefinitiveâ The Mirror âHighly readableâ Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the defining biography of northern England. This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the north â waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the north have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways. At least six Roman emperors ruled from York. The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was Europeâs leading cultural and intellectual centre. Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, deserves to be as famous as Boudica. Neanderthals and Vikings, Central European Jews, African-Caribbeans and South Asians, have all played their part in the making and remaking of the north. Northern writers, activists, artists and comedians are celebrated the world over, from Wordsworth, the Brontes and Gaskell to LS Lowry, Emmeline Pankhurst and Peter Kay. St Oswald and Bede shaped the spiritual and cultural landscapes of Britain and Europe, and the world was revolutionised by the inventions of Richard Arkwright and the Stephensons. The north has exported some of sportâs biggest names and defined the sound of generations, from the Beatles to Britpop. Northerners also shows convincingly how the past echoes down the centuries. The devastation of factory and pit closures in the 1980s, for example, recalled the trauma of William the Conquerorâs Harrying of the North. The book charts how the north-south divide has ebbed and flowed and explores the very real divisions between northerners, such as the rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Finally, Brian Groom explores what northernness means today and the crucial role the north can play in Britainâs future. As new forces threaten the fabric of the UK again, this landmark book could scarcely be more timely.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533238 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to IndiaAuthor: Jyoti ThottamNarrator: Laura JenningsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 21 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: 'Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains.'âAbraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottamâs mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Biharâan impoverished and isolated state in northern India that had been one of the bloodiest regions of Partitionâin order to train to be a nurse under the tutelage of the determined and resourceful Appalachian nuns who ran Nazareth Hospital. Like Thottamâs motherâs journey, the hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to everyone who walked through its doors, regardless of caste or religion. Fascinated by her motherâs story, Thottam set out to discover the full story of Nazareth Hospital, which had been established in 1947 by six nuns from Kentucky. With no knowledge of Hindi, and the awareness that they would likely never see their families again, the sisters had traveled to the small town of Mokama determined to live up to the pioneer spirit of their order, founded in the rough hills of the Kentucky frontier. A year later, they opened the doors of the hospital; soon they began taking in young Indian women as nursing students, offering them an opportunity that would change their lives. One of those women, of course, was Thottamâs mother. In Sisters of Mokama, Thottam draws upon twenty yearsâ worth of research to tell this inspiring story for the first time. She brings to life the hopes, struggles, and accomplishments of these ordinary womenâboth American and Indianâwho succeeded against the odds during the tumult and trauma of the years after World War II and Partition. Pain and loss were everywhere for the women of that time, but the collapse of the old orders provided the women of Nazareth Hospital with an openingâa chance to create for themselves lives that would never have been possible otherwise.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532083 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental CatastropheAuthor: Keith O'brienNarrator: Eileen StevensFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 6 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of Americaâs most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. In the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didnât take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly-sweet smell of chemicals. In this propulsive work of narrative reportage, Keith OâBrien uncovers how Lois Gibbs and Luella Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood. The school and playground had been built atop an old canalâthe Love Canal, it was called. The cityâs largest employer, Hooker Chemical, had quietly filled this canal with 20,000 tons of toxic waste in the 1940s and 1950s. This waste was now leaching to the surface, causing a public health crisis the likes of which America had never seen beforeâand sparking new and specific fears. Luella Kenny believed the chemicals were making her son sick. OâBrien braids together the previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemicalâs deeds; the local newspaperman, scientist, and congressional staffer who tried to help; the city and state officials who didnât; and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference to save their families and their children. They would take their fight all the way to the top, winning support from the E.P.A. and the White House, even President Jimmy Carter himself, and by the time it was over, they would capture the American imagination. Sweeping and electrifying, Paradise Falls brings to life a defining story from our past, laying bare how the dauntless efforts of a few women helped to spark the modern environmental movement as we know it today. Cover images: Courtesy of the University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531146 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice WalkerAuthor: Alice WalkerNarrator: Aunjanue Ellis, Janina EdwardsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 22 hours 28 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: From National Book Award and Pulitzer PrizeÂâwinning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walkerâs fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and womenâs activist, and intellectual. For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feeling as a woman, a writer, an African American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Womenâs Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple; winning the Pulizter Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; and burying her mother. A powerful blend of Walkerâs personal life with political events, this ârevelation, a road map, and a gift to us allâ (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage) offers rare insight into a literary legend.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511900 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A MemoirAuthor: Delia EphronNarrator: Delia EphronFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 39 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. Sheâd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerryâs death, she decided to make one small change in her lifeâshe shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533033 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Riverman: An American OdysseyAuthor: Ben McgrathNarrator: Adam VernerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 36 minutesRelease date: April 5, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 3Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: âThis quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauerâs Into the Wild.â âThe New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American riversâand then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book âcontains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable charactersâ (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532756 to listen full audiobooks.Title: This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of LifeAuthor: Stefanie GreenNarrator: Stefanie GreenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 22 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore and fulfill their end of life choices is âwritten with sensitivity, grace, and candor...not to be missedâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes the extraordinary people she meets and the unusual circumstances she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of these powerful interactions. Deeply authentic and powerfully emotional, This Is Assisted Dying contextualizes the myriad personal, professional, and practical issues surrounding assisted dying by bringing readers into the room with Dr. Green, sharing the voices of her patients, her colleagues, and her own narrative. As our population confronts issues of wellness, integrity, agency, community, and how to live a connected, meaningful life, this progressive and compassionate book by a physician at the forefront of medically assisted dying offers comfort and potential relief. âA humane, clear-eyed view of how and why one can leave the world by choiceâ (Kirkus Reviews), This Is Assisted Dying will change the way people think about their options, and ultimately is less about death than about how we wish to live.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530526 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next GenerationAuthor: Erin GruwellNarrator: Derrick E. Hardin, Jade Wheeler, Marisha Tapera, Giordan Diaz, Kyla Garcia, Erin Gruwell, Peter GanimFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 25 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writersâauthors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diaryâwho write supportive and powerful letters in response. Over twenty years ago, the students in first-year teacher Erin Gruwellâs high school class in Long Beach, California, were labeled âunteachableââbut she saw past that. Instead of treating them as scores on a test, she understood that each of them had a unique story to tell. Inspired by books like Anne Frankâs diary, her students began writing their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the Freedom Writers. Together, they co-authored The Freedom Writers Diary, which launched a movement that remains incredibly relevant and impactful today. Their stories speak to young people who feel as if those around them do not care about their lives, their feelings, and their struggles. They want to be heard; they want to be seen. In Dear Freedom Writer, the next generation of Freedom Writers shares its struggles with abuse, racism, discrimination, poverty, mental health, imposed borders, LGBTQIA+ identity, and police violence. Each story is answered with a letter of advice from an original Freedom Writer. With empathy and honesty, they address these young people not with the platitudes of a politician or a celebrity, but with the pragmatic advice of people who have dealt with these same issues and come out on the other side. Through its eye-opening and inspiring stories, Dear Freedom Writer paints an unflinchingly honest portrait of todayâs youth and offers a powerful message of perseverance, understanding, and hope.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525599 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest ChallengeAuthor: Matt Damon, Gary WhiteNarrator: Gary White, Matt DamonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 44 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with waterâand think nothing of it. But around the world, more than three-quarters of a billion people canât do any of thatâbecause they have no clean water source near their homes. And 1.7 billion donât have access to a toilet. This crisis affects a third of the people on the planet. It keeps kids out of school and women out of work. It traps people in extreme poverty. It spreads disease. Itâs also solvable. That conviction is what brought together movie actor Matt Damon and water expert and engineer Gary White. They spent years getting the answer wrong, then halfway right, then almost right. Over time, they and their organization, Water.org, have found an approach that works. Working with partners across East Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, theyâve helped over 40 million people access water and/or sanitation. In The Worth of Water, Gary and Matt take us along on the journeyâtelling stories as they uncover insights, try out new ideas, and travel between the communities they serve and the halls of power where decisions get made. With humor and humility, they illuminate the challenges of launching a brand-new model with extremely high stakes: better health and greater prosperity for people allover the world. The Worth of Water invites us to become a part of this effortâto match hope with resources, to empower families and communities, and to end the global water crisis for good. All the authorsâ proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Water.org.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528951 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart BrandAuthor: John MarkoffNarrator: Dennis BoutsikarisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 13 minutesRelease date: March 22, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary cultureâthe story behind so many other stories Stewart Brand has long been famous if you know who he is, but for many people outside the counterculture, early computing, or the environmental movement, he is perhaps best known for his famous mantra âStay Hungry. Stay Foolish.â Steve Jobsâs endorsement of these words as his code to live by is fitting; Brand has played many roles, but one of the most important is as a model for how to live. The contradictions are striking: A blond-haired WASP with a modest family inheritance, Brand went to Exeter and Stanford and was an army veteran, but in California in the 1960s he became an artist and a photographer in the thick of the LSD revolution. While tripping on acid on the roof of his building, he envisioned how valuable it would be for humans to see a photograph of the planet they shared from space, an image that in the end landed on the cover of his Whole Earth Catalog, the defining publication of the counterculture. He married a Native American woman and was committed to protecting indigenous culture, which connected to a broader environmentalist mission that has been a through line of his life. At the same time, he has outraged purists because of his pragmatic embrace of useful technologies, including nuclear power, in the fight against climate change. The famous tagline promise of his catalog was âAccess to Toolsâ; with rare exceptions he rejected politics for a focus on direct power. It was no wonder, then, that he was early to the promise of the computer revolution and helped define it for the wider world. Brand's life can be hard to fit onto one screen. John Markoff, also a great chronicler of tech culture, has done something extraordinary in unfolding the rich, twisting story of Brandâs life against its proper landscape. As Markoff makes marvelously clear, the streams of individualism, respect for science, environmentalism, and Eastern and indigenous thought that flow through Brandâs entire life form a powerful gestalt, a California state of mind that has a hegemonic power to this day. His way of thinking embraces a true planetary consciousness that may be the best hope we humans collectively have.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525649 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ERAuthor: Thomas FisherNarrator: Thomas FisherFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 50 minutesRelease date: March 22, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind âGripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are, especially when they go wrong.ââThe New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care. Bleeding: three minutes. Untreated wound that becomes life-threatening: three minutes. Kidney failure: three minutes. He examines his patients inside and out, touches their bodies, comforts and consoles them, and holds their hands on what is often the worst day of their lives. Like them, he grew up on the South Side; this is his community and he grinds day in and day out to heal them. Through twenty years of clinical practice, time as a White House fellow, and work as a healthcare entrepreneur, Dr. Fisher has seen firsthand how our countryâs healthcare system can reflect the worst of society: treating the poor as expendable in order to provide top-notch care to a few. In The Emergency, Fisher brings us through his shift, as he works with limited time and resources to treat incoming patients. And when he goes home, he remains haunted by what he sees throughout his day. The brutal wait times, the disconnect between hospital executives and policymakers and the people they're supposed to serve, and the inaccessible solutions that could help his patients. To cope with the relentless onslaught exacerbated by the pandemic, Fisher begins writing letters to patients and colleaguesâletters he will never sendâexplaining it all to them as best he can. As fast-paced as an ER shift, The Emergency has all the elements that make doctorsâ stories so compellingâthe high stakes, the fascinating science and practice of medicine, the deep and fraught interactions between patients and doctors, the persistent contemplation of mortality. And, with the rare dual perspective of somebody who also has his hands deep in policy work, Fisher connects these human stories to the sometimes-cruel machinery of care. Beautifully written, vulnerable and deeply empathetic, The Emergency is a call for reform that offers a fresh vision of health care as a foundation of social justice.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511912 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the CenturyAuthor: Stephen GallowayNarrator: Molly Parker MyersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 18 minutesRelease date: March 22, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided to a friend, he was the man she was going to marry. There was just one problem: she was already marriedâand so was he. TRULY, MADLY is the biography of a marriage, a love affair that still captivates millions, even decades after both actors' deaths. Vivien and Larry were two of the first truly global celebrities â their fame fueled by the explosive growth of tabloids and television, which helped and hurt them in equal measure. They seemed to have it all and yet, in their own minds, they were doomed, blighted by her long-undiagnosed mental-illness, which transformed their relationship from the stuff of dreams into a living nightmare. Through new research, including exclusive access to previously unpublished correspondence and interviews with their friends and family, author Stephen Galloway takes readers on a bewitching journey. He brilliantly studies their tempestuous liaison, one that took place against the backdrop of two world wars, the Golden Age of Hollywood and the upheavals of the 1960s â as they struggled with love, loss and the ultimate agony of their parting.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506112 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in AuschwitzAuthor: Maya Lee, Magda HellingerNarrator: Zoe Carides, Kristin AthertonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 47 minutesRelease date: March 15, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: The âthought-provokingâŠmust-readâ (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindnessâin the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officerâs Wife. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS and risking execution. Through her inner strength and shrewd survival instincts, she was able to rise above the horror and cruelty of the camps and build pivotal relationships with the women under her watch, and even some of Auschwitzâs most notorious Nazi senior officers. Based on Magdaâs personal account and completed by her daughterâs extensive research, this is âan unputdownable account of resilience and the power of compassionâ (Booklist) in the face of indescribable evil.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526381 to listen full audiobooks.Title: An AutobiographyAuthor: Angela Y. DavisNarrator: Angela Y. DavisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 29 minutesRelease date: March 10, 2022Genres: History & CulturePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for a new audience inspired and galvanised by her ongoing activism and her extraordinary example. In the book, she describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Told with warmth, brilliance, humour, and conviction, it is an unforgettable account of a life committed to radical change. © Angela Y. Davis 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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