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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Skinny Author: Jonathan Wells Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn’t feel as if my body was really mine.” At fourteen-years-old, Jonathan Wells weighed just 67 pounds, igniting a scrutinizing persecution of his body that followed him into adulthood.As a boy in preparatory day school in upstate New York in the 1970s, Wells’s teacher abuses and humiliates him for his size, forcing Wells, for the first time, to question his right to take up space in the world. Wells’s father, reading his weight as a clear deficit of masculinity, and perhaps sexuality, creates a workout regimen meant to bulk him up. When that doesn’t help, he has Wells seen by a slew of specialists, all claiming he is in perfect health, and yet the problem cannot be denied: he is simply too skinny.Wells’s complicated relationship with his charming but elusive mother does not help matters. As the eldest son, he is privy to the struggles of a fraying marriage in which he, however slight, plays a divisive role. Wells is sent to boarding school in Switzerland, where his size continues to generate controversy, from the merely rude to the violently abusive. And yet, even as he manages to establish an identity of his own, one which must invariably contend with gender norms and conventions, his father’s obsession with his size follows him to Europe, threatening to destroy the space he has painstakingly won for himself.As he grows into an adult, combatting the intrusive liberties others take with his body, Jonathan must define masculinity for himself, ultimately coming to terms with the damage of a father’s love.The critically acclaimed poet and author of the collection Debris, Jonathan Wells gives us a thoughtful, candid, and powerful memoir about the universal exploration of adolescence and self-image, the frailty of masculinity, and all the places we seek comfort in a world trying to redefine us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration Author: Rachael Cerrotti Narrator: Rachael Cerrotti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 17, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.06 of Total 16 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasn’t a secret. Hana spoke about her history publicly and regularly. But, Rachael wanted to document it as only a granddaughter could. So, that’s what they did: Hana talked and Rachael wrote. Upon Hana’s passing in 2010, Rachael discovered an incredible archive of her life. There were preserved albums and hundreds of photographs dating back to the 1920s. There were letters waiting to be translated, journals, diaries, deportation and immigration papers as well as creative writings from various stages of Hana’s life. Rachael digitized and organized it all, plucking it from the past and placing it into her present. Then, she began retracing her grandmother’s story, following her through Central Europe, Scandinavia, and across the United States. She tracked down the descendants of those who helped save her grandmother’s life during the war. Rachael went in pursuit of her grandmother’s memory to explore how the retelling of family stories becomes the history itself. We Share the Same Sky weaves together the stories of these two young women—Hana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, whose insatiable curiosity to touch the past guides her into the lives of countless strangers, bringing her love and tragic loss. Throughout the course of her twenties, Hana’s history becomes a guidebook for Rachael in how to live a life empowered by grief.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation Author: Eric Garcia Narrator: Eric Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language.” With a reporter’s eye and an insider’s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it’s like to be autistic across America. Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media’s coverage of it; the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow portrayals of autistic people as white men working in Silicon Valley. His own life as an autistic person didn’t look anything like that. He is Latino, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and works as a journalist covering politics in Washington D.C. Garcia realized he needed to put into writing what so many autistic people have been saying for years; autism is a part of their identity, they don’t need to be fixed.  In We’re Not Broken, Garcia uses his own life as a springboard to discuss the social and policy gaps that exist in supporting those on the spectrum. From education to healthcare, he explores how autistic people wrestle with systems that were not built with them in mind. At the same time, he shares the experiences of all types of autistic people, from those with higher support needs, to autistic people of color, to those in the LGBTQ community. In doing so, Garcia gives his community a platform to articulate their own needs, rather than having others speak for them, which has been the standard for far too long.  Read by the Author.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training Author: Adam Stern Narrator: Adam Stern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Grey’s Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist’s charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and initially intimidating classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities around the nation. Faculty raved about the group as though the residency program had won the lottery, nicknaming them “The Golden Class,” but would Stern ever prove that he belonged? In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned while studying the human condition, and ultimately, the value of connection. The narrative focuses on these residents, their growth as doctors, and the life choices they make as they try to survive their grueling four-year residency. Rich with drama, insight, and emotion, Stern shares engrossing stories of life on the psychiatric wards, as well as the group’s experiences as they grapple with impostor syndrome and learn about love and loss. Most importantly, as they study how to help distressed patients in search of a better life, they discover the meaning of failure and the preciousness of success.  Stern’s growth as a doctor, and as a man, have readers rooting for him and his patients, and ultimately find their own hearts fuller for having taken this journey with him.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Houses (Unabridged) Author: Angela Thirkell Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 17, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream' In this beautifully nostalgic memoir, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up. Focusing first on 'The Grange', where her grandfather, the celebrated painted Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces about her parents' home in Kensington Square and the Burne-Jones' seaside retreat, where Angela's cousin, Rudyard Kipling, lived across the green. A tale of forbidden explorations, Punch and Judy shows, and adventures in the garden, Three Houses is beautifully evocative of the innocent quality of childhood. From the busy literary centre of London to the English coast, this stunning memoir is both reminiscent of the golden days of youth and an interesting vision of a writer and the early influences that informed her later work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris Author: Alexander Lobrano Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson’s, tells how he became one of Paris’s most influential food critics   Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it’s his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: “you must understand the intentions of the cook.” At the city’s brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano’s “little black book,” an insider’s guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rememberings Author: Sinéad O'connor Narrator: Sinéad O'connor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.77 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 18 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song.   Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By the time she was twenty, she was world famous—living a rock star life out loud. From her trademark shaved head to her 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she tore up Pope John Paul II’s photograph, Sinéad has fascinated and outraged millions.  In Rememberings, O’Connor recounts her painful tale of growing up in Dublin in a dysfunctional, abusive household. Inspired by a brother’s Bob Dylan records, she escaped into music. She relates her early forays with local Irish bands; we see Sinéad completing her first album while eight months pregnant, hanging with Rastas in the East Village, and soaring to unimaginable popularity with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2U.”   Intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and told in a singular form true to her unconventional career, Sinéad’s memoir is a remarkable chronicle of an enduring and influential artist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - متهشم Author: عبدالله الطريفي Narrator: سالم بشير Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Release date: May 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: متهشم رجل لم تضحك له الدنيا وما أعجبها حين تجرأت تلك الزنبقة وسرقت قلبه ، حتى عاقبتها الدنيا لتجاوزها فسرقته منها . وتركته يهيم مرة أخرى في وحدته ، بين مرضاه واللون الرمادي ، وغيمة الأبخرة والصحيفة الممزقة وفنجان القهوة ، والذكريات الجميلة ، ونذر الوفاء لمن أحب استمع إلى رواية متهشم للكاتب عبد الله الطريفي فقط وحصريًأ على كتاب صوتي

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - هنا جدة Author: كريم هشام Narrator: طارق عبيد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: وبينما أنا في هذه الحالةِ منَ الانهيارِ لم أجدْ أمامي سوى متنفَّسي الوحيدِ وهو 'الفيسبوك'، فكتبتُ عمَّا أمرُّ به، ووجدتُ تفاعلاً كبيراً، حتى رأى ما كتبتُه أحدُ أصدقائي من الممثلينَ المشهورينَ، فاتصلَ بي وعرَضَ عليَّ أن يحجِزَ لي تذكِرةَ سفرٍ ذهابًا وعودةً لأرى ابنتي، وقالَ حرفياً: 'انت ازاي تبقى بنتك بتتولد وانت مش معاها، اتفضل ابعتلي باسبورك حالاً وهحجزلك وتنزل مصر حالاً'، كان هذا موقفاً عظيماً ونبيلاً، إلا أن الظروفَ لم تسمحْ بأن أسافرَ نظرًا لأمورٍ تتعلقُ بالجوازاتِ وما إلى ذلك. على كلِّ حالٍ مرتْ هذه الأيامُ، وبعدَ ثلاثةِ أشهرٍ رأيتُ ابنتي لأولِ مرةٍ، احتضنتُها وقبلتُها بقلبٍ يعتصرُهُ الحنينُ والشوقُ. سلسلة قصص واقعية عن الهجرة - إنتاج أصلي من كتاب صوتي

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir Author: Brian Broome Narrator: Yona Harvey, Brian Broome, Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 18, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE • WINNER OF A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK • STONEWALL HONOR BOOK • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AMAZON AND APPLE BOOKS • TODAY SUMMER READING LIST PICK • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK • PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF SUMMER PICK A raw, poetic, coming-of-age “masterwork” (The New York Times) Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt, young psyche, usually to uproarious and devastating effect. A no-nonsense mother and broken father play crucial roles in our misfit’s origin story. But it is Brian’s voice in the retelling that shows the true depth of vulnerability for young Black boys that is often quietly near to bursting at the seams. Cleverly framed around Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool,” the iconic and loving ode to Black boyhood, Punch Me Up to the Gods is at once playful, poignant, and wholly original. Broome’s writing brims with swagger and sensitivity, bringing an exquisite and fresh voice to ongoing cultural conversations about Blackness in America.