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  • Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney

    Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622882 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to BeAuthor: Timothy P. CarneyNarrator: Timothy P. CarneyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 39 minutesRelease date: March 19, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad? Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother. How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting. Have more kids, have more fun, cancel the travel soccer games, let your kids wander off, and give them deeper sources of meaning than material success. This is an old-fashioned view, but every day the evidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research—both as a reporter and as a dad of six—Carney demonstrates why modern parenting is so misguided. The high standards set for modern American parenting are unrealistic and setting parents—and our kids—up to fail. Researched over three years and written in between rec baseball games and church picnics where nobody was watching the kids, Family Unfriendly is deeply wise, energetically told, and destined to be the most consequential book about parenting in years.

  • The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

    The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622447 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and MurderAuthor: Douglas PrestonNarrator: Will CollyerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 2 minutesRelease date: December 5, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents jaw-dropping true stories of Egyptian burial chambers, prehistoric ruins, pirate treasure, bizarre crimes, and more
 What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island. When he hasn't been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the world’s strangest and most dramatic mysteries. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.

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  • Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

    Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622539 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of ChangeAuthor: Ben AustenNarrator: Brett BarryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 31 minutesRelease date: November 7, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system–through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy “Correction ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside of prison I have ever read.' ―Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: Chicago Review of Books The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichĂ©s—paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time—there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish. Ben Austen’s powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and the parole board that holds their freedom in the balance, Austen’s unflinching storytelling forces us to reckon with some of the most profound questions underlying the country’s values around crime and punishment. What must someone who commits a terrible act do to get a second chance? What does incarceration seek to accomplish? An illuminating work of narrative nonfiction, Correction challenges us to consider for ourselves why and who we punish–and how we might find a way out of an era of mass imprisonment. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

  • The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to Table by Andrew Friedman

    The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to Table by Andrew Friedman

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622880 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to TableAuthor: Andrew FriedmanNarrator: Michael LomonacoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 3 minutesRelease date: October 17, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: “A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story.'' —Wall Street Journal Acclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern farming industry, and food-supply chain. On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It’s an exchange that happens dozens, or hundreds, of times a night—the core transaction that keeps the place churning. In this book, acclaimed chef writer Andrew Friedman slows down time to focus on a single dish at Chicago’s Wherewithall restaurant, following its production and provenances via real-time kitchen and in-the-field reportage, from the moment the order is placed to when the finished dish is delivered to the table. As various components of this one dish are prepared by the kitchen team, Friedman introduces readers to the players responsible for producing it, from the chefs who conceived the dish and manage the kitchen, to the line cooks and sous chefs who carry out the actual cooking, and the dishwashers who keep pace with the dining room. Readers will also meet the producers, farmers, and ranchers, who supply the restaurant, as Friedman visits each stop in the supply chain and profiles the key characters whose expertise and effort play essential roles in making the dish possible—they will walk rows of crops that line Midwestern farms, feel the chill of the cooler where beef dry-ages, harvest grapes at a Michigan winery, ride along with a delivery-truck driver, and hear the immigration sagas prevalent amongst often unseen and unheralded farm and restaurant workers. The Dish is a rollicking ride inside every aspect of a restaurant dish. Both a fascinating window onto our food systems, and a celebration of the unsung heroes of restaurants and the collaborative nature of professional kitchen work, The Dish will ensure that readers never look at any restaurant meal the same way again. ''Masterful. ... Friedman excels at bringing the dining room to boisterous life with vivid, telling details. ... This will sate gastronomes and casual foodies alike.'' — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  • Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul

    Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625399 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70sAuthor: Alan PaulNarrator: Alan PaulFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 45 minutesRelease date: July 25, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: This program is read by the author and contains more than 40 never-before-heard interviews with the band members. New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history. The Allman Brothers Band’s Brothers and Sisters was not only the band’s best-selling album at over seven million copies sold, it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one whose influence continues to be profoundly felt. Celebrating the album’s 50th anniversary, this audiobook delves into the making of the album while also presenting a broader cultural history of the era, based on first-person interviews, historical documents and deep research. Brothers and Sisters traces the making of the template-shaping record alongside the story of how the Allman Brothers came to the rescue of a flailing Jimmy Carter presidential campaign and helped get the former governor of Georgia elected president; how Gregg Allman’s marriage to Cher was an early harbinger of an emerging celebrity media culture; and how the band’s success led to internal fissures. The book also examines the Allman Brothers' relationship with the Grateful Dead—including the most in-depth reporting ever on the Jam at Watkins Glen, the largest rock festival ever—and describes how they inspired bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, helping create the Southern Rock genre. With exclusive access to hundreds of hours of never-before-heard interviews with every major player, including Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman, conducted by ABB archivist, photographer and “Tour Mystic” Kirk West, Brothers and Sisters is an in-depth, honest assessments of the band’s career, history, and highs and lows. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

  • Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes

    Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625930 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden VictimsAuthor: Jennifer VanderbesNarrator: Jennifer VanderbesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 10 minutesRelease date: June 27, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: “A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain A “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular around the world. Touted as a sedative without risks, thalidomide was handed out freely, under the guise of clinical trials, by doctors who believed approval by the Food and Drug Administration was imminent. But in 1960, when the application for thalidomide landed on the desk of FDA medical reviewer Frances Kelsey, she quickly grew suspicious. When she learned that the drug was causing severe birth abnormalities abroad, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents, and journalists fought tirelessly to block its authorization in the United States and stop its sale around the world. Jennifer Vanderbes set out to write about this FDA success story only to discover a sinister truth that had been buried for decades: For more than five years, several American pharmaceutical firms had distributed unmarked thalidomide samples in shoddy clinical trials, reaching tens of thousands of unwitting patients, including hundreds of pregnant women. As Vanderbes examined government and corporate archives, probed court records, and interviewed hundreds of key players, she unearthed an even more stunning find: Scores of Americans had likely been harmed by the drug. Deceived by the pharmaceutical firms, betrayed by doctors, and ignored by the government, most of these Americans had spent their lives unaware that thalidomide had caused their birth defects. Now, for the first time, this shocking episode in American history is brought to light. Wonder Drug gives voice to the unrecognized victims of this epic scandal and exposes the deceptive practices of Big Pharma that continue to endanger lives today.

  • Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli

    Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624487 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American MetropolisAuthor: Mark BinelliNarrator: Matt GodfreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 42 minutesRelease date: June 20, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists―all have been drawn to Detroit’s baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city’s “museum of neglect'―its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie―he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local; from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories; from the organic farming on empty lots to GM’s risky wager on the Volt electric car; from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor’s realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center. Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a longshot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning―what could be the boldest reimagining of a post-industrial city in our new century.

  • The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

    The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624160 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political DisintegrationAuthor: Peter TurchinNarrator: Robin McalpineFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 4 minutesRelease date: June 13, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works. The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War and it is happening now. But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin's models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past. ©2023 Peter Turchin (P)2023 Penguin Audio

  • Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country by Editors Of Texas Monthly

    Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country by Editors Of Texas Monthly

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624941 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the CountryAuthor: Editors Of Texas MonthlyNarrator: Roxanne HernandezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 3 minutesRelease date: June 6, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State—and the nation—over the past half century. With a population of twenty-nine million, Texas has birthed some of America’s most innovative, culture-altering politicians, entertainers, athletes, and activists of the last five decades. In Lone Stars Rising, the editors of Texas Monthly select fifty of the most trailblazing Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State and America today. Organized by decade and featuring essays from the magazine’s legendary roster of contributors, accompanied by drawings and fifty photographs throughout, this collection includes incisive commentary on the stars whose rise from Texas to the world stage has been meteoric, as well as the lesser-known individuals who have been toiling on the sidelines, quietly and intentionally shaping the way we think and talk about the Texas that exists today. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, Lone Stars Rising is the quintessential ode to the Lone Star State in all its complexity. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

  • Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

    Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622328 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in HollywoodAuthor: Maureen RyanNarrator: Samara NaeymiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 54 minutesRelease date: June 6, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‱ LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking exposĂ© that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited. It is never just One Bad Man. Abuse and exploitation of workers is baked into the very foundations of the entertainment industry. To break the cycle and make change that sticks, it’s important to stop looking at headline-making stories as individual events. Instead, one must look closely at the bigger picture, to see how abusers are created, fed, rewarded, allowed to persist, and, with the right tools, how they can be excised. In Burn It Down, veteran reporter Maureen Ryan does just that. She draws on decades of experience to connect the dots and illuminate the deeper forces sustaining Hollywood’s corrosive culture. Fresh reporting sheds light on problematic situations at companies like Lucasfilm and shows like Lost, Saturday Night Live, The Goldbergs, Sleepy Hollow, Curb Your Enthusiasm and more. Interviews with actors and famous creatives like Evan Rachel Wood, Harold Perrineau, Damon Lindelof, and Orlando Jones abound. Ryan dismantles, one by one, the myths that the entertainment industry promotes about itself, which have allowed abusers to thrive and the industry to avoid accountability—myths about Hollywood as a meritocracy, what it takes to be creative, the value of human dignity, and more. Weaving together insights from industry insiders, historical context, and pop-culture analysis, Burn It Down paints a groundbreaking and urgently necessary portrait of what’s gone wrong in the entertainment world—and how we can fix it.

  • CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran Bethencourt, Regis Bethencourt

    CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran Bethencourt, Regis Bethencourt

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625425 to listen full audiobooks.Title: CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the DiasporaAuthor: Kahran Bethencourt, Regis BethencourtNarrator: Mychal-Bella Bowman, Dion GrahamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 7 minutesRelease date: May 23, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: 'Narrators Dion Graham and Mychal-Bella Bowman's grand and lively performances will have young listeners eager to hear every story in this vibrant collection of African and African-American-inspired tales.'—AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography, comes CROWNED, a collection that completely reimagines how we see our favorite and most beloved childhood fairy and folk tales. This collection features classic fairy tales, African and African American folklore, and exciting new classics–brand new stories created by Kahran and Regis. Included in the collection: The Poisoned Apple Asha the Little Cinder Girl The Little Mermaid Sleeping Beauty Hansel and Gretel Little Red Riding Hood Anasi and the Three Trials Aku The Sun Maker How the Zebra Got His Stripes The Legend of Princess Yennenga John Henry, the Steel Driving Man The Cloud Princess And more! This collection is a must-have for children and parents everywhere and is a joyous celebration of Black beauty and imagination. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

  • An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

    An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624938 to listen full audiobooks.Title: An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They CreatedAuthor: Santi Elijah HolleyNarrator: Adam Lazarre-WhiteFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 47 minutesRelease date: May 23, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year ‱ Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ''Magnificent
. A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation.'' – Los Angeles Times The long overdue story of the Shakurs, persistent fighters in the U.S. struggle for racial justice, and one of the most prominent, influential and fiercely creative families in recent history For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Many people are only familiar with Assata Shakur, the popular author and thinker, living for three decades in Cuban exile; or the late rapper Tupac. But the branches of the Shakur family tree extend widely, and the roots reach into the most furtive and hidden depths of the underground. Whether founding one of the most notorious Black Panther chapters in the country, spearheading community-based healthcare, or engaging in armed struggle with systemic oppression, the Shakurs were at the forefront. They have been celebrated, glorified, and mythologized. They have been hailed as heroes, liberators, and freedom fighters. They have been condemned, pursued, imprisoned, exiled, and killed. But the true and complete story of the Shakur family—one of the most famous names in contemporary Black American history—has never been told. An Amerikan Family is a history of the fight for Black liberation in the United States, as experienced and shaped by the Shakurs. It is a story of hope and betrayal, addiction and murder, persecution and revolution. Drawing from hundreds of hours of personal interviews, historical archives, court records, transcripts, and other rare documents, An Amerikan Family tells the complete and often devastating story of Black America’s long struggle for racial justice and the nation’s covert and repressive tactics to defeat that struggle. It is the story of a small but determined community, taking extreme, unconventional, and often perilous measures in the quest for freedom. In short, the story of the Shakurs is the story of America.

  • Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence by Keith Ellison

    Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence by Keith Ellison

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622437 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police ViolenceAuthor: Keith EllisonNarrator: Keith Ellison, Willis WilliamsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 51 minutesRelease date: May 23, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: “An unforgettable reading experience.”―Eric Holder With this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asks the key question: How do we break the wheel of police violence and finally make it stop? The murder of George Floyd sparked global outrage. At the center of the conflict and the controversy, Keith Ellison grappled with the means of bringing justice for Floyd and his family. Now, in this riveting account of the Derek Chauvin trial, Ellison takes the reader down the path his prosecutors took, offering different breakthroughs and revelations for a defining, generational moment of racial reckoning and social justice understanding. Each chapter of BREAK THE WHEEL goes spoke to spoke along the wheel of the system as Ellison examines the roles of prosecutors, defendants, heads of police unions, judges, activists, legislators, politicians, and media figures, each in his attempt to end this chain of violence and replace it with empathy and shared insight. Ellison’s analysis of George Floyd’s life and the rich trial context he provides demonstrates that, while it may seem like an unattainable goal, lasting change and justice can be achieved.

  • Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

    Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625286 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the ManyAuthor: Mona GableNarrator: Cassandra CampbellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 39 minutesRelease date: April 25, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna’s, but Savanna’s body would not be found for days. The horrifying crime sent shock waves far beyond Fargo, North Dakota, where it occurred, and helped expose the sexual and physical violence Native American women and girls have endured since the country’s colonization. With pathos and compassion, Searching for Savanna confronts this history of dehumanization toward Indigenous women and the government’s complicity in the crisis. Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this timely book investigates these injustices and the decades-long struggle by Native American advocates for meaningful change.

  • Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America by Rebecca Grant

    Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America by Rebecca Grant

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622299 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in AmericaAuthor: Rebecca GrantNarrator: Rebecca Grant, Emana Rachelle, Marisa Blake, Dara RosenbergFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 43 minutesRelease date: April 25, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: “An important book...Grant is a good storyteller, subtle and compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review In the tradition of Random Family and Evicted, a gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-the-ground reporting and deep social history of reproductive health that follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and childbirth in today’s America. Journalist Rebecca Grant provides us with a never-before-seen look at the changing landscape of pregnancy and childbirth in America—and the rise of midwifery—told through the eyes of three women who all pass through the doors of the same birth center in Portland, Oregon. There’s Alison, a teacher whose long path to a healthy pregnancy has led her to question a traditional hospital birth; T’Nika, herself born with the help of a midwife and now a nurse hoping to work in Labor & Delivery and improve equality in healthcare; and Jillian, an office manager and aspiring midwife who works at Andaluz Birth Center, excited for a new beginning, but anxious about how bringing a new life into the world might mean the deferral of her own dreams. In remarkable detail and with great compassion, Grant recounts the ups downs, fears, joys, and everyday moments of each woman’s pregnancy and postpartum journey, offering a rare look into their inner lives, perspectives, and choices in real time—and addresses larger issues facing the entire nation, from discrimination in medicine and treatment (both gender and race-based) to fertility, family planning, complicated feelings about motherhood and career, and the stigmas of miscarriage and postpartum blues. “An enlightening and accessible portrait of maternal healthcare in America' (Publishers Weekly, starred) Birth is an inspiring look at one of life’s most profound rites of passage.

  • [Spanish] - La enfermedad y sus metĂĄforas | El sida y sus metĂĄforas by Susan Sontag

    [Spanish] - La enfermedad y sus metáforas | El sida y sus metáforas by Susan Sontag

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  • The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts

    The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622360 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural AmericaAuthor: Monica PottsNarrator: Monica PottsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 40 minutesRelease date: April 18, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of learning as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives - broken marriages, shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for university and fulfilled her dreams. Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Monica discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas. Their life expectancy had steeply declined - the sharpest such fall in a century. She returned to Clinton to report the story, trying to understand the societal factors driving disturbing trends in the rural south. As she reconnects with Darci, she finds that her once talented and ambitious best friend is now a statistic: a single mother of two, addicted to meth and prescription drugs, jobless and nearly homeless. Deeply aware that Darci's fate could have been hers, she retraces the moments of decision and chance in each of their lives that led such similar women toward such different destinies. Why did Monica make it out while Darci became ensnared in a cycle of poverty and opioid abuse? Poignant and unforgettable, The Forgotten Girls is a story of coming of age as the American dream ends - and a new American classic. ©2023 Monica Potts (P)2023 Penguin Audio

  • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed

    The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622361 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Feminist Killjoy HandbookAuthor: Sara AhmedNarrator: Sara AhmedFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 55 minutesRelease date: March 2, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you. The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes misery. But by naming ourselves feminist killjoys, we recover a feminist history, turning it into a source of strength as well as an inspiration. Drawing on her own stories and those of others, especially Black and brown feminists and queer thinkers, Sara Ahmed combines depth of thought with honesty and intimacy. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook unpicks the lies our culture tells us and provides a form of solidarity and companionship that can be returned to over a lifetime. ©2023 Sara Ahmed (P)2023 Penguin Audio

  • Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor

    Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624470 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It CreatedAuthor: Nick TaborNarrator: Chris ButlerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 27 minutesRelease date: February 21, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: An epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the US from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates’ direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it.

  • Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You by Samara Bay

    Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You by Samara Bay

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    Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625927 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With YouAuthor: Samara BayNarrator: Samara BayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 58 minutesRelease date: February 7, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. What does power sound like? Loud? Brash? Masculine? Well, it's time to change that. In this warm and witty manual, foremost Hollywood voice coach Samara Bay offers a compelling approach to asserting your power in all arenas of life. And it's not what you think. Packed with expert tips, easy-to-follow exercises, eye-opening research and anecdotes, Permission to Speak is designed to liberate and inspire even the most tentative of public speakers. Here's the truth: if you're a woman, a person of colour, an immigrant or queer, there's often dissonance between how you speak and how we collectively think powerful people should speak. We're encouraged to chase the standard set by the wealthy white men who've historically been in charge - while trying to 'be authentic' at the same time! It doesn't make sense. PERMISSION TO SPEAK is the solution. Moving deftly from the fundamentals of breath, pitch and tone to the musicality of storytelling, the art of emotion and why exactly you've picked up the habits you have, Samara Bay explodes what we think we know about our voices and how they should sound, and gets to the very heart of what they can be. ©2023 Samara Bay (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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