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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - بذلة الغوص والفراشة Author: جون دومينيك بوبي Narrator: وائل جروان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: من حيث ينتهي المـُتاح، يبدأ الإبداع، والأنفس الحرّة وإن غدت جثثًا، قادرةٌ على الطيران. درسان عميقان من رواية لم تكلّف نفسها عناء الوعظ والإرشاد، فكلّ ما فعله الكاتب أن أصرّ على الحياة، ولمثل تلك المهمّة يكفي أنف ورئة للتنفّس، وبلعوم لتلقّي الغذاء، ورمش عين يُسرى لباقي الأدوار! نعم برمش العين ذاك أبقى جون دومينيك بوبي على صِلته بالعالم كاملةً مُبتكرًا طريقةً في التواصل هي الترجمة الحيّة لكلمة 'إرادة' أمّا مضمون السرد فذهاب وإياب بين أمسٍ قادرٍ وحاضرٍ كسيحٍ، وبين خارجٍ يُرى، وداخلٍ يَرَى، ولا رابط بين فصل وآخر، أو حكاية وأخرى سوى أنّ كُلاًّ منها قد شغلت حيّزاً من الذاكرة والوجدان، فعند الفقد لا يبقى من فرق بين التافه والمهمّ، لكلٍّ من الاشتهاءٍ نصيب. والرواية ككلّ الأعمال الكُبرى نبش في أسئلة الماهية وثنائيّة الجوهر والعَرَض، حتى وإن توسّلت بالفكاهة القاتمة بل لعلّها ما أفلحت إلّا لذلك، أوَليست روح الكاتب الخُلّبُ هي المعادل الموضوعي للفكاهةِ وخفّتِها الأشبه بالفراشة، وَجسدُه المأزق هو بذلة غوصه الضاغطة والقتامة لونُها واقعاً ومجازاً؟

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - حكايا سعودي في أوروبا Author: عبدالله بن صالح الجمعة Narrator: وليد عجال Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: أثناء سفره المتعدد إلى أوروبا، واجه الكاتب عبدالله الجمعة العديد من المواقف والمغامرات التي وثقها في كتابه هذا. فمن ضياع في غابة في إنجلترا، مروراً برحلة بحرية في بحر البلطيق ومقابلة السلطان عبدالحميد في اليونان، إلى البحث عن صاحبة رسالة منسية في كتاب قديم، وغيرها من الحكايا المتخمة بالمعلومات والطرفة والمشاعر التي تنقل القارئ إلى عوالم أخرى.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - سوار أمي Author: علي بن جابر الفيفي Narrator: علاء حميدان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: يتحدث هذا الكتاب عن الأم وحنانها والأب وحرصه عليك والأخ والصديق وغيرهم. مجموعة من المقالات التي تتحدث عن مواقف حدثت بالفعل للكاتب علي بن جابر الفيفي، تجعلك تعيد النظر في حياتك وفي كل العلاقات حولك. حكمٌ تُستنبَط من الواقع فاستمع الآن

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure Author: Meir Menachem Kaiser Narrator: Meir Menachem Kaiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows  Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.”  A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir Author: Louis Chude-Sokei Narrator: Louis Chude-Sokei Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles—a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is “first son of the first son” of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie’s strict religious household in Jamaica, where he lives with other abandoned children. A visiting African has just fallen to his knees to shake him by the shoulders: “Is this the boy? Is this him?” Chude-Sokei’s immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his traumatized mother, who has her own extraordinary history as the onetime “Jackie O of Biafra,” finally sends for him to come live with her. In Inglewood, Los Angeles, on the eve of gangsta rap and the LA riots, it’s as if he’s fallen to Earth. In this world, anything alien—definitely Chude-Sokei’s secret obsession with science fiction and David Bowie—is a danger, and his yearning to become a Black American gets deeply, sometimes absurdly, complicated. Ultimately, it is a boisterous pan-African family of honorary aunts, uncles, and cousins that becomes his secret society, teaching him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness, but Blacknesses, in his America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs Author: Kenneth R. Rosen Narrator: Ray Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Editor’s Choice One of Newsweek’s Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2021 Named a Bustle Best Book of 2021 An award-winning journalist’s breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails. In the middle of the night, they are vanished. Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control—suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage—are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these “troubled teens” fear it’s their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever. Acclaimed journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out at these programs. He lived it. In Troubled, Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on their own scarred journeys through the programs into adulthood. Based on three years of reporting and more than one hundred interviews with other clients, their parents, psychologists, and health-care professionals, Troubled combines harrowing storytelling with investigative journalism to expose the disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry. Not without hope, Troubled ultimately delivers an emotional, crucial tapestry of coming of age, neglect, exploitation, trauma, and fraught redemption.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jew(ish): A primer, A memoir, A manual, A plea Author: Matt Greene Narrator: Matt Greene Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld. When his son was born to a non-Jewish mother, Matt began to consider the upbringing he’d put behind him—the sense of not belonging, the forbidden foods, the holidays that felt more like punishments. There are more types of Jew than there are bagel fillings, and for every two there are three opinions. But if you’re not a black-hatted frummer, if you’re allergic to groups, if you observe but don’t believe, or you don’t observe at all, does that make you less Jewish? In this wide-ranging series of essays, at turns irreverent, insightful, urgent and iconoclastic, Matt considers what might loosely be termed ‘the modern Jewish experience’, and asks what it means to be anything in a world obsessed with the self and the other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El invitado amargo Author: Luis Cremades, Vicente Molina Foix Narrator: Enrique Alcides, Francesc Góngora Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vicente Molina y Foix Luis Cremades han escrito de un modo singular pero separadamente este libro sin precedentes. En la libertad mutua de rememorar lo que pusieron por escrito mientras se amaban y se traicionaban, los autores reencuentran el territorio común de la palabra para mirarse desde el presente tratando de recuperar con desnuda autenticidad, sin nostalgia, lo que esos espejos contuvieron en su día y han dejado como poso. Y lo han hecho, como ellos mismos señalan irónicamente, siguiendo el patrón del 'folletín' en el sentido original del término: cada capítulo, firmado en alternancia por ambos, se escribía sin previo acuerdo y le llegaba al otro manteniendo la intriga, como en las novelas del siglo XIX. Con la diferencia de que en ese feuilleton en 64 capítulos los dos protagonistas-lectores sabían el final, pero no las sorpresas y revelaciones que su propia historia les podía deparar. La prensa ha dicho sobre ella: 'Emocionante autobiografía a dos voces […] que reconstruye, a partir de una veintena de cartas intercambiadas entre sus protagonistas, la memoria de una historia de amor (y desamor) y de las vidas de quienes se amaron, prolongada a lo largo de 34 años en los que (nos) pasaron muchas cosas. Un libro hermoso y valiente, y en cierto sentido crepuscular, que viene a corroborar que 'todos los hombres y todas las mujeres, en todas las combinaciones posibles de emparejamiento, se aman igual, al menos externamente'' (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, El País). 'Una de las novelas más conmovedoras e inteligentes que he leído en los últimos meses es El invitado amargo, donde Vicente Molina Foix y Luis Cremades reconcilian a dos voces los recuerdos de su relación íntima a principios de los años ochenta' (David Trueba, El País). 'El mejor lado de este libro dual: el desnudamiento de la pasión amorosa y su caída hasta la inquina… El conjunto resulta óptimo… Un libro grande, atractivo y original… Una obra singular y distinta. Con garra' (Luis Antonio de Villena, El Mundo).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past Author: Meave Leakey, Samira Leakey Narrator: Susan Lyons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Extraordinary . . . This inspirational autobiography stands among the finest scientist memoirs." —New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice Meave Leakey’s thrilling, high-stakes memoir—written with her daughter Samira—encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field. In The Sediments of Time, preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early pre-human ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team’s fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors.   Meave’s own personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her children and supporting her renowned paleoanthropologist husband Richard Leakey’s ambitions amidst social and political strife in Kenya. When Richard needs a kidney, Meave provides him with hers, and when he asks her to assume the reins of their field expeditions after he loses both legs in a plane crash, the result of likely sabotage, Meave steps in.    The Sediments of Time is the summation of a lifetime of Meave Leakey’s efforts; it is a compelling picture of our human origins and climate change, as well as a high-stakes story of ambition, struggle, and hope. "A fascinating glimpse into our origins. Meave Leakey is a great storyteller, and she presents new information about the far off time when we emerged from our ape-like ancestors to start the long journey that has led to our becoming the dominant species on Earth. That story, woven into her own journey of research and discovery, gives us a book that is informative and captivating, one that you will not forget." —Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump Author: Peter Strzok Narrator: Peter Strzok Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “This is the book I have been waiting for.”—Rachel Maddow INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  |  The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agents in the United States to lay bare the threat posed by President Trump. “Peter Strzok is the FBI agent who started it all.”—David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia’s election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander in chief had fallen under the sway of America’s adversary in the Kremlin. In Compromised, Strzok draws on lessons from a long career—from his role in the Russian illegals case that inspired The Americans to his service as lead FBI agent on the Mueller investigation—to construct a devastating account of foreign influence at the highest levels of our government. And he grapples with a question that should concern every U.S. citizen: When a president appears to favor personal and Russian interests over those of our nation, has he become a national security threat? Narrated by the author.