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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice Author: Cheryl Love, Bobby Love Narrator: Harvey Reaves, Cheri Vandenheuvel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York. Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to know from Bobby, in front of his shocked wife and children: “What is your name? No, what’s your real name?” Bobby’s thirty-eight-year secret was out. As a Black child in the Jim Crow South, Bobby found himself in legal trouble before his 14th birthday. Sparked by the desperation he felt in the face of limited options and the pull of the streets, Bobby became a master thief. He soon found himself facing a thirty-year prison sentence. But Bobby was smarter than his jailers. He escaped, fled to New York, changed his name, and started a new life as “Bobby Love.” During that time, he worked multiple jobs to support his wife and their growing family, coached Little League, attended church, took his kids to Disneyland, and led an otherwise normal life. Then it all came crashing down. With the drama of a jailbreak story and the incredible tension of a life lived in hiding, The Redemption of Bobby Love is an unbelievable but true account of building a life from scratch, the pain of festering secrets in marriage, and the unbreakable bonds of faith and love that keep a family together.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flim-Flam Man: The Memoir That Inspired Flag Day Author: Jennifer Vogel Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The major motion picture Flag Day starring Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn is based on this father-daughter story of a charming criminal—told by the daughter who loved him. One frosty winter morning in 1995, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counterfeiting nearly $20 million in US currency—the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents—and then had been released pending trial. Though Jennifer hadn’t spoken to her father in more than four years, the police suspected he might turn up at her Minneapolis apartment. She examined the shadows outside her building, and thought she spotted him at the grocery store and the bus stop. He had simply vanished. Framed around the six months her father eluded authorities, Jennifer’s memoir documents the police chase—stakeouts, lie-detector tests, even a segment on Unsolved Mysteries—and vividly chronicles her tumultuous childhood while examining her father’s legacy. A lifelong criminal who robbed banks, burned down buildings, scammed investors, and even plotted murder, John Vogel was also a hapless dreamer who wrote a novel, baked lemon meringue pies, and took his ten-year-old daughter to see Rocky in an empty theater on Christmas Eve. When it came time to pass his counterfeit bills, he spent them at Wal-Mart for political reasons. Culling from memories, photo albums, public documents, and interviews with the handful of people who knew the real John Vogel, this is an intimate and intensely moving psychological portrait of a charismatic, larger-than-life figure—as told by the daughter who nearly followed in his footsteps.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Worth Living: From Lithuania to Boston. My Journey of Building Resilience Author: Luba Sakharuk Narrator: Emily Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Tough times don’t last, tough people do.”—Robert Schuller We all have challenges in life. Life doesn’t ask us for permission, and often, without any warning, it throws a situation at us that at the time, we aren’t even sure we can endure. Some of these challenges define us, some try to break us, but all of them give us valuable lessons if we take the time to learn them. We can’t control what may come our way. However, we can control the choices we make and the actions we take. This book is one woman’s journey of finding her courage to go on when she was truly tested, and how she was able to overcome many challenges that could’ve broken her. It is a story of resilience, self-reflection, and an unshakable desire to live a Life Worth Living. In this must-listen book, Luba Sakharuk explores how she was able to see different perspectives while reflecting on her life and choosing not to blame or judge, but to be kind and give back. This has allowed her to live a life with passion and purpose. All of this makes it a Life Worth Living.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peel Me a Lotus Author: Charmian Clift Narrator: Josie Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1954 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post- war London for Greece. Moving first to the tiny island of Kalymnos they then settled on Hydra and stayed for almost a decade. They bought a picturesque, dilapidated house and Charmian grappled with the chaos of domestic life, the arrival of a third child and the clash of cultures. On Hydra they became the centre of an informal bohemian community of artists and writers which later included Leonard Cohen. A travel writing classic, available for the first time in 20 years. With a new introduction by Polly Samson this is the companion volume to Mermaid Singing. - Charmian Clift was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1923. She became a journalist on the Melbourne Argus after World War II and in 1947 married novelist and journalist George Johnston. Early in their marriage they collaborated on three novels: the prizewinning High Valley, The Big Chariot and the Sponge Divers. Then in 1954, having lived in London for a few years, they took their family to live in the Greek Islands. During the period Charmian wrote two accounts of their life there, Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus, and two novels, Honour’s Mimic and Walk to the Paradise Gardens. In 1964 the family returned to Australia and Charmian began a weekly newspaper column which quickly gained her a wide and devoted readership. She died in 1969. Polly Samson is an author, lyricist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her most recent novel, the bestselling A Theatre for Dreamers, features Charmian Clift as one of the central characters

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou Author: Seth Kantner Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic caribou herd, and the larger Arctic region. This story has global relevance as it takes place in one of the largest remaining intact wilderness ecosystems on the planet, ground zero for climate change in the US. This compelling and complex tale revolves around the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction—a story that requires a fearless writer with an honest voice and an open heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Breaks Author: Julietta Singh Narrator: Julietta Singh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths. The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary US discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces—climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism—inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York Author: Marc J. Straus Narrator: Scott Wallace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s June 1953, and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother’s car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva. His parents haven’t said why they’re transferring—the family isn’t religious. So all Marc knows is he’ll have to protect his brother. Stephen’s a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marc’s a street fighter who knows how to wall off the pain. So begins One-Legged Mongoose, Marc Straus’ vivid, compelling, you-are-there memoir of two years in the life of a precocious, scrappy Jewish kid carrying a dark secret as he embarks on the journey to young manhood in 1950s New York. When school starts, Marc begins commuting four hours daily to a different world, where kids are smart like him and fight with words instead of fists, and a caring principal takes the troubled truant under his wing. Marc works at his dad's textile store on Sundays, learning about honor and hard work from his immigrant father. At home, he faces his volatile mother. Straus encounters Anti-Semitism in public school, in the community, and even in the Boy Scouts. And it’s the Scouts that lend the book its title—a nod to a campfire story about a half-man, half-mongoose predator that’s almost the height of a full-grown man, and that Straus and the other boys of Troop 300 are tasked with locating. But, as Straus explains, “I was willing to face it. I know all about monsters.” Marc starts rethinking his risk-taking way of life, often sidelined by injuries to his eye, polio, and a near-fatal hit-and-run. A voracious reader, he looks to books for insights—What would Santiago do?—and comes to accept that he’s not invulnerable. Life will wound him, but the rest is up to him. An unflinching look at child abuse and one boy’s ability to rise above it, One-Legged Mongoose reminds us of the bonds between siblings and the power of family secrets.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blindsided: Essays from the Only Black Woman in the Room Author: Dawn Downey Narrator: Mark Theis, Dawn Downey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We strive for authenticity, but expediency often demands we suppress our true feelings. Dawn Downey struggles to find her genuine self, as she navigates her white surroundings. She wages an internal war, her intuition recognizing bigotry and her intellect wanting—needing—to deny it. At the end of any given day, she is angry. She is weary. She despairs. “You get to hopeless by sinking,” she tells us. “I sank through dreamlike images of shackles, chains, branding irons, whips, ropes, nightsticks, burning crosses, and fire hoses. Bloodhounds on my trail, police dogs at my throat. I crashed through all the places that are supposed to be safe: school yards, lunch counters, courthouses, and church basements. From nigger to nigra to colored to negro to black to african-american and back again. Strange fruit. Centuries-old images absorbed from textbooks. Civil rights marches flickering across the family television. Labels, passed down from one generation to the next, labels meant to hold me apart, the other.” When a family member transforms a racist artifact, the act of redemption explodes her self-concept. She re-examines old beliefs, and on the other side of hopeless, discovers her Black power. Downey prompts us to consider how we find our authentic selves in the heart of our discomfort.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571067 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - عن التعب Author: بيتر هاندكه Narrator: أحمد زين Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 14 minutes Release date: August 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: وكأنه تنبأ بما ستعانيه البشر ية من متاعب كونيه ستضطر في النهاية إلى الهزيمة أمامها. الكاتب الحاصل على جائزة نوبل للأداب 'بيتر هاندكه' يكتب سيرته الشخصية مع التعب. كيف يصنفه؟ وكيف يتعايش معه؟ وكيف يتجاوزه؟ استمع إلى كتاب 'عن التعب' فقط وحصريًا على كتاب صوتي

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - عن يوم ناجح Author: بيتر هاندكه Narrator: أحمد زين Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 50 minutes Release date: August 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: من شهد من قبل يومًا ناجحًا؟ وما الفرق بين اليوم الناجح واليوم الجميل؟ بهذه الأسئلة بدأ بيتر هاندكه كتابه، ثم يبدأ سرد تجربته الشخصية مع النجاح. لكي تتعرف على هذه التأملات والمحطات الفاصلة في حياة الكاتب الحائز على جائزة نوبل، استمع إلى كتاب 'عن يوم ناجح' فقط وحصريًا على كتاب صوتي