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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - أيامي مع كايروكي Author: ولاء كمال Narrator: محمد العربي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 9, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: كتاب أيامى مع كايروكي هو الرؤية الشخصية لمؤلفه ولاء كمال حول رحلته التى استمرت لما يقرب من عام ونصف مع فرقة كايروكي الشهيرة يوثق الكتاب رحلة الفرقة التي امتدت إلى ١٥ عاماً، حيث يستعرض صراعاتهم الإبداعية والفنية وحتى الشخصية للخروج بأعمالهم، إلى جانب تناول العملية الإبداعية والفنية الموسيقية من عدة جوانب بالتفصيل يهدف الكتاب أيضًا إلى طرح كايروكي كنموذج معبر عن ملايين الشباب المصرى الذى ولد ونضج بين ألفيتين، بكل ما مر به أحلام وطموحات وإحباطات، ويناقش موضوعات ذات صلة مثل الهوية، التاريخ، التكنولوجيا، صراع الحضارات والأجيال، ومحاولة البحث عن الصوت المتفرد وسط عالم ملئ بالتغيرات.. الكتاب ليس عن كايروكي فقط، ولكنه عن الفن، الموسيقى، والإبداع . هو أيضاً كتاب عن الصداقة فى مواجهة الإحباط والتحديات، وكتاب عن الهوية و التاريخ. باختصار هذا كتاب عنا جميعًا كجيل يبحث عن صوته المتفرد وسط هذا العالم. نرجو أن تستمعوا بهذه الرحلة التي يأخذكم فيها الكاتب كما استمتعنا نحن برحلتنا معه طوال عامين كاملين

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game Author: Oliver Stone Narrator: Oliver Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 21, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone’s scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award–winning film, Midnight Express. Chasing the Light is a true insider’s look at Hollywood’s years of upheaval in the 1970s and ’80s. Narrated by the author.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Duchess Goldblatt Author: Anonymous, Duchess Goldblatt Narrator: Lyle Lovett, Gabra Zackman, J. Smith-Cameron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Finalist for an Audie Award in Memoir One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles—and that we can, against all odds, get through them." —Lori Gottlieb, New York Times-bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that of the reclusive real-life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air, and that of the magical Duchess Goldblatt herself, a bright light in the darkness of social media. Fans around the world are drawn to Her Grace’s voice, her wit, her life-affirming love for all humanity, and the fun and friendship of the community that’s sprung up around her.   @DuchessGoldblat (81 year-old literary icon, author of An Axe to Grind) brought people together in her name: in bookstores, museums, concerts, and coffee shops, and along the way, brought real friends home—foremost among them, Lyle Lovett.    “The only way to be reliably sure that the hero gets the girl at the end of the story is to be both the hero and the girl yourself.” — Duchess Goldblatt Narrated by Gabra Zackman, with J. Smith Cameron, and Lyle Lovett

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Decades before cannabusiness went mainstream, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia's stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s, this time using Sticky Fingers' distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. Exhilarating, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreaking, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family, taking us through love, loss, and finding home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Sully (Versione italiana) Author: Jeffrey Zaslow, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger Narrator: Dario Maria Dossena Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 15, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 15 gennaio 2009. Il volo nazionale 1549, appena decollato dall'aeroporto LaGuardia di New York, dopo soli sei minuti si scontra con uno stormo di oche selvatiche che danneggia entrambi i motori dell'Airbus A320. A bordo ci sono 150 passeggeri e cinque membri dell'equipaggio. Il Comandante Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, riscontrata la perdita di potenza in entrambi i motori, decide di effettuare un ammaraggio d'emergenza sul fiume Hudson, ad appena un chilometro e mezzo di distanza da Times Square. Le immagini di quella manovra spettacolare e del successivo salvataggio fanno immediatamente il giro del mondo. Ripercorrendo le tappe salienti della propria vita, da quando imparò a volare, solcando i cieli del Texas a bordo di un monomotore agricolo, fino agli anni nell'Aeronautica militare ai comandi dei potenti F-4 Phantom e al successivo passaggio all'aviazione civile, Sully racconta le esperienze che gli hanno permesso di mantenere la lucidità necessaria per affrontare quei momenti drammatici. Perché a dargli il coraggio di prendere quella decisione impossibile, sostiene, sono state le convinzioni e le virtù che ha maturato nel corso di tutta la vita, dalla disciplina al senso del dovere, dalla precisione al rispetto per gli altri, dalla fiducia in se stessi alla capacità di assumersi la responsabilità di coloro che ci sono stati affidati. Una testimonianza di vita che ha ispirato l'omonimo film diretto da Clint Eastwood e interpretato da Tom Hanks nei panni del comandante Sully.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Constellations: Reflections from Life Author: Sinéad Gleeson Narrator: Sinéad Gleeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 24, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 Irish bestseller and winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards, winner of the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, named Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Observer, Image, Irish Times, New Statesman, and Irish Independent, Sinéad Gleeson’s essays chronicle—in crystalline, tender, powerful prose—life in a body as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds. ''I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.'' We treat the body as an afterthought, until it no longer can be. Until the pain or the pleasure is too great. Sinéad Gleeson’s life has been marked by terrible illness, including leukemia and debilitating arthritis. As a child, she bathed in the springs of Lourdes, ever hopeful that her body would cooperate, ever looking forward to the day when she could take her body for granted. But just as she turns inward to explore her own pain, and then the marvel of recovery, and then the arrival of her greatest joys—falling in love, becoming a mother—she turns her gaze outward. She delves into history, art, literature, and music, plotting the intimate experience of life in a women’s body across a wide-ranging map. From Nick Cave to Taylor Swift, Botticelli to Frida Kahlo, Louisa May Alcott to Lucy Grealy, Constellations is an investigation into the different ways of seeing, both uniquely personal and universal in its resonances. In the tradition of some of our finest life writers, Gleeson explores—in her own spirited, generous voice—the fierceness of being alive. She has written “a book [that] every woman should read” (Eimear McBride).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son Author: Hilary Liftin, Magdalena Newman Narrator: Matt Gumley, Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 14, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder For Magda Newman, normal was a goal—she wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments of childhood that are often taken for granted. But Nathaniel’s severe Treacher Collins syndrome—a craniofacial condition—meant that other concerns came first. Could he eat without the aid of a gastrointestinal tube? Could he hear? Would he ever be able to breathe effortlessly?   In this moving memoir, Newman, with the help of her son, tells the story of raising Nathaniel, from the shock she and her husband faced when he was born, to the inspiration of Nathaniel’s own strength and quirky humor. All this while also facing both non-Hodgkins and Hodgkins lymphoma diagnoses of her own. This uplifting story of a family tackling complex and terrifying circumstances with love and resilience is a true testament to Magda and her family, and to families everywhere who quietly but courageously persist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dad's Maybe Book Author: Tim O'brien Narrator: Tim O'brien Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 14, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Best-selling author Tim O’Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons. A moving audio edition of Tim O’Brien’s poignant memoir, read by the author“We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period.”   In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O’Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed “Love, Dad.” Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.   O’Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father’s soul-saving love for his sons.   The result is Dad’s Maybe Book, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader’s heart with joy and recognition.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici Author: Elizabeth Lev Narrator: Edita Brychta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 3, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince. In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines Caterina's extraordinary life and accomplishments. Raised in the court of Milan and wed at age ten to the pope’s corrupt nephew, Caterina was ensnared in Italy’s political intrigues early in life. After turbulent years in Rome’s papal court, she moved to the Romagnol province of Forlì. Following her husband’s assassination, she ruled Italy’s crossroads with iron will, martial strength, political savvy—and an icon’s fashion sense. In finally losing her lands to the Borgia family, she put up a resistance that inspired all of Europe and set the stage for her progeny—including Cosimo de Medici—to follow her example to greatness. A rich evocationof the Renaissance, The Tigress of Forlì reveals Caterina Riario Sforza as a brilliant and fearless ruler and a tragic but unbowed figure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madness: A Bipolar Life Author: Marya Hornbacher Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 3, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author of Wasted, Marya Hornbacher's astonishing New York Times best-selling memoir from the belly of bipolar disorder. Marya Hornbacher tells the story that until recently she had no idea was hers to tell: that of her life with Type I ultra-rapid-cycle bipolar disorder, the most severe form of bipolar disease. In Madness, Hornbacher relates that bipolar can spawn eating disorders, substance abuse, promiscuity, and self-mutilation, and that for too long these symptoms have masked, for many of the three million people in America with bipolar, their underlying illness. Hornbacher’s fiercely self-aware portrait of bipolar, starting as early as age four, will surely powerfully change the current debate over whether bipolar can begin in childhood. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to counteract violently careening mood swings. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage—where bipolar always beckons—is at the center of this brave and heart-stopping memoir.