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  • Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout

    Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742480 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A NovelAuthor: Elizabeth StroutNarrator: Kimberly FarrFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 59 minutesRelease date: September 10, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?” It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”

  • Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward

    Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659639 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Let Us Descend: A NovelAuthor: Jesmyn WardNarrator: Jesmyn WardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 12 minutesRelease date: October 24, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more. “Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triumph.” —The Washington Post • “Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.” —People From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub)—comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that’s destined to become a classic. Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours” (NPR). Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this “[s]earing and lyrical…raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet.

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  • The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

    The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667596 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and HealingAuthor: Lara Love HardinNarrator: Lara Love HardinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 59 minutesRelease date: August 1, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: “Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir. No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors’ credit cards. Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She finds that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and Lord of the Flies. Furniture is made from tampon boxes, and Snickers bars are currency. But Lara quickly learns the rules and brings love and healing to her fellow inmates as she climbs the social ladder and acquires the nickname “Mama Love,” showing that jailhouse politics aren’t that different from the PTA meetings she used to attend. When she’s released, she reinvents herself as a ghostwriter. Now, she’s legally co-opting other people’s identities and getting to meet Oprah, meditate with the Dalai Lama, and have dinner with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But the shadow of her past follows her. Shame is a poison worse than heroin—there is no way to detox. Lara must learn how to forgive herself and others, navigate life as a felon on probation, and prove to herself that she is more good than bad, among other essential lessons. The Many Lives of Mama Love is a heartbreaking and tender journey from shame to redemption, despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing we have ever done.

  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

    The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/658958 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Covenant of WaterAuthor: Abraham VergheseNarrator: Abraham VergheseFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 31 hours 16 minutesRelease date: May 2, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.49 of Total 519 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 180Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to humanunderstanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

  • Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Ann Napolitano

    Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Ann Napolitano

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614643 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A NovelAuthor: Ann NapolitanoNarrator: Maura TierneyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 6 minutesRelease date: March 14, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 299 Ratings of Narrator: 4.45 of Total 92Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? “Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life’s highs and lows with aching precision.”—The Washington Post ONE OF THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Vogue, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Post, She Reads, Bookreporter William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos. But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most? An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.

  • Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

    Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643275 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hello BeautifulAuthor: Ann NapolitanoNarrator: Maura TierneyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 6 minutesRelease date: March 13, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 8Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decades Meet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the 'rocket' of the family - she always has a destination in mind and clear plans for how to get there. Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a life for herself other than the expected path of wife and mother. Cecelia and Emmeline, the twins, are the artist and the caregiver. From childhood, the four sisters complete each other, expecting that their family will always be intact. When Julia falls in love with William Walters, a history student and college sports star, she's delighted by the way her plans for adulthood are coming together. A husband, a house, a family. But when darkness from William's past begins to block the light of his future, it is Sylvie, not Julia, who steps in to help. Suddenly, things shift. Dynamics and relationships, priorities and secrets - everything that was once a given no longer is. Rich and vivid, heartbreaking and heart-mending, Hello Beautiful captures the joy, tragedy, trust, and betrayal to ask: what does it mean to be a family? And once shattered, can it be pieced back together? ***Praise for Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano*** 'Wonderful . . . a beautifully written coming-of-age story' Nina Stibbe 'Powerful' New York Times 'Ann Napolitano's writing is astonishing. I'm in awe' Marian Keyes 'Moving and emotional' Anne Tyler 'That rare book that breaks your heart and stitches it back together' Jodi Picoult 'Stunning, life-affirming' Vogue 'Made me think, nod in recognition, care about its characters, and cry, and you can't ask more of a novel than that' Emma Donoghue Š2023 Ann Napolitano (P)2023 Penguin Audio

  • Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

    Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567334 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Demon Copperhead: A NovelAuthor: Barbara KingsolverNarrator: Charlie ThurstonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 3 minutesRelease date: October 18, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 644 Ratings of Narrator: 4.87 of Total 228Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times ''Ten Best Books of the Year'' ''Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick ''May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

  • That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters

    That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624520 to listen full audiobooks.Title: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death RowAuthor: Jarvis Jay MastersNarrator: Korey JacksonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 48 minutesRelease date: September 27, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: The New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Pick 2022 That Bird Has My Wings is a moving memoir of a Death Row inmate who discovers Buddhism and becomes an inspirational role model for fellow inmates, guards, and a growing public. ''When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose.'' In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Jay Masters was implicated as an accessory in the murder of a prison guard. A 23-year-old Black man, Jarvis was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. While in the maximum security section of Death Row, using the only instrument available to him—a ball-point pen filler—Masters's astounding memoir is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer. Offering us scenes from his life that are at times poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, painful, funny and uplifting, That Bird Has My Wings tells the story of the author’s childhood with parents addicted to heroin, an abusive foster family, a life of crime and imprisonment, and the eventual embracing of Buddhism. Masters’s story drew the attention of luminaries in the world of American Buddhism, including Pema Chodron, who wrote a story about him for O Magazine and offers a foreword to the book. Thirty-two years after his conviction, Masters is still on Death Row. A growing movement of people believe Masters is innocent, and are actively working within the legal system to free him.

  • Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Leila Mottley

    Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Leila Mottley

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546741 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)Author: Leila MottleyNarrator: Joniece Abbott-PrattFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 48 minutesRelease date: June 7, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 12Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADS Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent—which has more than doubled—and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department. Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.

  • Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

    Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540229 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Finding Me: A MemoirAuthor: Viola DavisNarrator: Viola DavisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 15 minutesRelease date: April 26, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 897 Ratings of Narrator: 4.91 of Total 275Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording! Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year! Narrated by Viola Davis In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you. Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.

  • Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524303 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us WholeAuthor: Susan CainNarrator: Susan CainFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 35 minutesRelease date: April 21, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEGASELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING In this inspiring masterpiece, bestselling author Susan Cain shows the power of 'bittersweetness' - a tendency toward sorrow and longing, an acute awareness of passing time, and a piercing joy when beholding beauty. But what are the powers of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook? she asks. And why has our culture been so blind to its value? Bittersweetness recognizes that light and dark, birth and death - bitter and sweet - are forever paired. As Bittersweet shows, our obsession with happiness is not making us happy, healthy, or whole. It's only by embracing our darker emotions - as well as the light - that we discover our deepest meaning and connection, love and joy. It can change the way we work, the way we create and the way we love - for it is the hidden source of our love stories, moonshots and masterpieces. With over 4 million copies sold worldwide, Susan Cain's Quiet explored the quiet riches of the introverted half of the population. In Bittersweet, Cain employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir. Following a trail of centuries-old artistic and wisdom traditions as well as contemporary psychology and management research, and reflecting on the emotional shifts of recent times, Cain reveals how bittersweetness is the key to leading a full and satisfying life. Using examples ranging from music and cinema to parenting and business, she shows how understanding bittersweetness will allow us to weather life's transitions; yet, until now, its power has been hiding in plain sight. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways. Most of all, it shows us how to transform our personal and collective pain into creativity, transcendence, and connection. Š Susan Cain 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

  • Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

    Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538004 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us WholeAuthor: Susan CainNarrator: Susan CainFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 35 minutesRelease date: April 5, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the fullest. “Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go.”—BRENÉ BROWN, author of Atlas of the Heart “Susan Cain has described and validated my existence once again!”—GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed “The perfect cure for toxic positivity.”—ADAM GRANT, author of Think Again LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Mashable Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of long­ing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute aware­ness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired. If you’ve ever wondered why you like sad music . . . If you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day . . . If you react intensely to music, art, nature, and beauty . . . Then you probably identify with the bitter­sweet state of mind. With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an un­tapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she em­ploys the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, con­nection, and transcendence. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain, whether from a death or breakup, addiction or illness. If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know—or will know—loss and suffering, we can turn toward one another. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways. *Includes a downloadable PDF containing a Bittersweet quiz from the book

  • The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club) by Martha Beck

    The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club) by Martha Beck

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459035 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)Author: Martha BeckNarrator: Maria Shriver, Martha BeckFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 53 minutesRelease date: April 13, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 11Genres: Celebrity Bookclub PicksPublisher's Summary: OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A roadmap on the journey to truth and authenticity… [The Way of Integrity] is filled with aha moments and practical exercises that can guide us as we seek enlightenment.” –Oprah Winfrey Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “integrity”—needed now more than ever in these tumultuous times—is the key to a meaningful and joyful life AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER As Martha Beck says in her book, “Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period.” In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us—people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits—all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante’s classic hero’s journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us. With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but also bring us to a place of genuine happiness.