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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner Author: Donna Francart Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: DEATH, FEAR, LOVE, EMOTIONS, SPIRITS Step inside the mind of Donna Francart, a former deputy coroner, as she describes to you her years of medicolegal death investigations. What began as her personal diary written to herself, her way of debriefing, began to form a heartbeat of it's own. She has allowed her innermost thoughts to be shared, with you, Of the fears, tears, and anger she battled with, along the way and the profound lessons she learned, not only from the dead but also from the living. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade Author: Gary Goodman Narrator: Tristan Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store's new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region's most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become an American Author: Wajahat Ali Narrator: Wajahat Ali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?While living the American Dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties (“Become a doctor!”). He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants. That is, he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced Communists as America’s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y.Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal stories with astute insights into national security, immigration, and pop culture. In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive, and delicious America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always Remember Your Name: ‘Heartbreaking and utterly uplifting’ Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Author: Andra Bucci, Tatiana Bucci Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful and intensely moving true-life account from two sisters who were among the very few children to survive Auschwitz. On 28 March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death. By the time Auschwitz was liberated, 230,000 children had been murdered, and the sisters were among only 70 child survivors. Throughout their ordeal in the camp and the liberation of Auschwitz, their long journey from Poland to Czechoslovakia and finally to Lingfield House in Britain, they hung on to their promise to their mother to 'always remember your name'. They never forgot they were Tati and Andra Bucci, and it was this connection to their heritage that brought them miraculously back to their parents, years later and many countries away. The sisters overcame their trauma to live long lives, bearing witness as survivors of the Holocaust. Always Remember Your Name is an unforgettable story of the power of sisterhood, and of how a mother's love triumphed over impossible odds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sin filias ni fobias: Memorias de un fiscal incómodo Author: Santiago Nieto Narrator: Rubén Hernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La historia más indignante que pueda imaginarse: un fiscal vapuleado por hacer su trabajo. En 2015, Santiago Nieto recibió un encargo claro: investigar los delitos electorales. Pero cuando lo hizo a profundidad, la maquinaria gubernamental lo embistió brutalmente. En este documento histórico, el extitular de la Fiscalía Especializada para la Atención de Delitos Electorales explica, con todo detalle, quiénes se incomodaron con su labor, por qué lo acosaron y los casos que desataron la persecución: Odebrecht, Estado de México, Veracruz, Chiapas... En Sin filias ni fobias, Santiago Nieto evidencia la lógica y lapodredumbre que, hasta ahora, ha campeado en buena parte de las instituciones mexicanas... y que ahora a él le toca combatir.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Секреты. Рассказы Author: наталия мещанинова Narrator: наталия мещанинова Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Секреты. Рассказы» — сборник откровенных и яростных автобиографических рассказов Наталии Мещаниновой. О жестоком и хрупком времени детства, о страхе и бесстрашии, о любви и личностном становлении Мещанинова рассказывает с присущим ей драматургическим мастерством и не теряя вкуса к абсурдной иронии. Сборник вошел в длинный список премии «Национальный бестселлер» 2018 года. Исполняет автор! Внимание! Фонограмма содержит нецензурную брань

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Stories from Langley: Another Glimpse inside the CIA Author: Edward F. Mickolus Narrator: Steve Menasche, Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Who knew the CIA needed librarians? More Stories from Langley reveals the lesser-known operations of one of the most mysterious government agencies in the United States. Edward Mickolus is back with more stories to answer the question, 'What does a career in the CIA look like?' Advice and anecdotes from both current and former CIA officers provide a look at the side of intelligence operations that is often left out of the movies. What was it like working for the CIA during 9/11? Do only spies get to travel? More Stories from Langley has physicists getting recruited to 'the agency' during the Cold War, foreign-language majors getting lucky chances, and quests to 'learn by living' turning into sweaty-palmed calls to the U.S. embassy after being detained by Russian intelligence officers. The world only needs so many suave super spies. More Stories from Langley shows how important academics, retired soldiers, and bilingual nannies can be in preserving the security of our nation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey Author: Eleanor Reissa Narrator: Eleanor Reissa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March while she had spent the war years suffering in Uzbekistan. Thirty years later, Eleanor—a theatre artist who has been on the forefront of keeping Yiddish alive—finally had the letters translated. The particulars of those letters send her off on an unimaginable adventure into the past, forever changing her and anyone who reads this book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today Author: Valerie Bertinelli Narrator: Valerie Bertinelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on life at sixty and beyond. Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli’s life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on One Day at a Time and punishing herself in order to fit into the unachievable Hollywood mold. She struggled to make her marriage to Eddie Van Halen — the true love of her life — work, despite all the rifts the rock-star lifestyle created between them. She then watched her son follow in his father’s footsteps, right up onto the stage of Van Halen concerts, and begin his own music career. And like so many women, she cared for her parents as their health declined and saw the roles of parent and child reverse. Through mourning the loss of her parents, discovering more about her family’s past, and realizing how short life really is when she and her son lost Eddie, Valerie finally said, “Enough already!” to a lifelong battle with the scale and found a new path forward to joy and connection. Despite hardships and the pressures of the media industry to be something she’s not, Valerie is, at last, accepting herself: she knows who she is, has discovered her self-worth, and has learned how to prioritize her health and happiness over her weight. With an intimate look into her insecurities, heartbreaks, losses, triumphs, and revelations, Enough Already is the story of Valerie’s sometimes humorous, sometimes raw, but always honest journey to love herself and find joy in the everyday, in family, and in the food and memories we share. “This thoughtful, bighearted book is sure to be a hit with Bertinelli fans and those with an appetite for stories of hard-won self-acceptance. A warmly intimate memoir.”  – Kirkus Reviews   “In a series of brutally frank essays, Bertinelli looks back on the emotional struggles and triumphs of her life. By turns raw and inspiring, this contains a little bit of wisdom for everyone.”  – Publishers Weekly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El mal oscuro Author: Giuseppe Berto Narrator: Adrián Ogazón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Publicado por primera vez en 1964, en pleno auge neorrealista, El mal oscuro fue inmediatamente percibido por el público y la crítica como un libro a contracorriente. Ganador de los prestigiosos premios Campiello y Viareggio, es la historia personal de una depresión y, en un sentido más amplio, el espejo de una contemporaneidad carcomida por la neurosis. Berto la escribió en dos meses, y de ese trabajo febril surgió un texto monumental que ahonda sus raíces literarias en autores como Svevo y Gadda, aun marcando un punto de inflexión respecto a la tradición literaria de la que bebe: El mal oscuro no solo describe una patología mental, sino que la interpreta, la encarna, la convierte de forma plástica en palabras. Su lenguaje es la manifestación misma de la enfermedad, «la epifanía tragicómica de la oscuridad»; su estilo, un caleidoscópico flujo de consciencia que urde una confesión tan bien articulada como la de san Agustín o como la de Montaigne, por poner otros ilustres ejemplos de literatura introspectiva. Con extraordinaria maestría, Berto hila en estas páginas una prosa atrevida y vanguardista de la que se sirve para destripar un mal tan antiguo como la humanidad misma: el miedo a vivir. En este miedo, en su miedo, el autor se sumerge para sacar a la superficie el espíritu de una época histórica (la posguerra con su caduco boom económico), el alma enferma de una ciudad (la Roma de La dolce vita) y las mezquinas contradicciones de una condición social (la burguesía provinciana).