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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Without Stopping Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Tom Zahner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir Author: Jann S. Wenner Narrator: Jann S. Wenner, Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.” His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond. The age of rock and roll in an era of consequence, what will be considered one of the great watersheds in modern history. Wenner writes with the clarity of a journalist and an essayist. He takes us into the life and work of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. He was instrumental in the careers of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Leibovitz. His journey took him to the Oval Office with his legendary interviews with Bill Clinton and Barak Obama, leaders to whom Rolling Stone gave its historic, full-throated backing. From Jerry Garcia to the Dalai Lama, Aretha Franklin to Greta Thunberg, the people Wenner chose to be seen and heard in the pages of Rolling Stone tried to change American culture, values, and morality. Like a Rolling Stone is a beautifully written portrait of one man’s life, and the life of his generation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life's Work: A Memoir Author: David Milch Narrator: Michael Harney, David Milch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. Life’s Work is a profound memoir from a brilliant mind taking stock as Alzheimer’s loosens his hold on his own past. “This is David Milch’s farewell, and it will rock you.”—Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today, Kirkus Reviews “I’m on a boat sailing to some island where I don’t know anybody. A boat someone is operating and we aren’t in touch.” So begins David Milch’s urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch’s life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace. Betting on racehorses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law School only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the most lauded television series of all time, made a family, and pursued sobriety, then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him. Like Milch’s best screenwriting, Life’s Work explores how chance encounters, self-deception, and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living. It is both a master class on Milch’s unique creative process, and a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, in what may be his final dispatch to us all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You've Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected Author: Cynt Marshall Narrator: Cynt Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A relentlessly optimistic memoir by one of the most influential Black business leaders in America today, offering hope and practical guidance for navigating life’s most difficult challenges “Do you want to be lifted up? You have come to the right place.”—Hoda Kotb Cynt Marshall has spent her entire life beating personal and professional odds while also helping everyone she meets see how they are uniquely equipped to thrive. Through it all, this self-described “people person” never stopped reaching out and built a reputation as an inspiring motivator and mentor in business and beyond. Marshall grew up in a northern California housing project with a violent father who once broke her nose, but also with a strong, devoted mother who kept her family fed and focused, reminding them, “It’s not where you live, but how you live.” Heeding her mother’s advice, Marshall excelled first at school and then in her professional life, overcoming overt and subtle racism to become, at forty, one of the first Black woman officers at AT&T, while also navigating both grief and joy as she started a family of her own. All that life experience prepared Marshall for the day when, at fifty-one, she was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer, just one lymph node from stage 4. Overnight, her life changed, but her commitment to serve others did not. You’ve Been Chosen offers what Marshall calls “the good, the great, the bad, and the ugly parts” of her journey through both cancer and everything that led up to it. Along the way, she tackles the tough questions we all face: What will I do with what I have been given? How will I respond to challenges with both grace and grit? Where will this new path take me if I keep moving? And how can I offer something good back to the world as a result? Cynt Marshall’s deep faith and positivity will inspire and motivate you, and her story will help you see how all your experiences, even the hardest moments, can work together for something good, bringing you to positive places you’d have never experienced otherwise. She shows you how to find your own “voice of power” and encourages you to remember—and believe—that you, too, have been equipped to walk your unique path with purpose. That you, too, have been chosen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memorias de un historiador del Holocausto Author: Raul Hilberg, àlex Guàrdia Berdiell (translator) Narrator: Germán Gijón Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Un faro, un rompeolas, un barco de la historia anclado en el tiempo y en un sentido más allá del tiempo, imperecedero, inolvidable, con el que nada en el curso de la producción histórica ordinaria puede compararse.'—Claude Lanzmann 'Nadie podrá ya escribir sobre estas cuestiones sin recurrir a él.'—Hannah Arendt 'La tarea hercúlea de reconstruir el obsceno edificio de la burocracia nazi. El viaje intelectual de un hombre extremadamente exigente. Cada página es apasionante.'—London Review of Books Raul Hilberg dedicó su vida al estudio de uno de los mayores horrores de la humanidad y escribió La destrucción de los judíos europeos, la obra más exhaustiva e influyente jamás escrita sobre el genocidio nazi. Sin embargo, el libro no fue bien recibido por sus contemporáneos: el manuscrito fue rechazado por numerosas editoriales de prestigio —Hilberg tardó catorce años en encontrar editor—; una vez publicado recibió duras críticas en el ámbito académico y mediático y por parte de la propia comunidad judía. Para colmo, sus ideas más importantes fueron retomadas más tarde y sin reconocimiento alguno por intelectuales como Lucy Dawidowicz, Nora Levin y Hannah Arendt. Memorias de un historiador del Holocausto es el conmovedor testimonio autobiográfico de un hombre que, en un momento en el que nadie quería oír hablar del Holocausto, se propuso descubrir la verdad de los hechos y se halló inmerso en un doloroso debate sobre la actitud de las víctimas y los testigos de la catástrofe. También es una galería de retratos de grandes figuras intelectuales del siglo XX, así como el reflejo de la progresiva y costosa penetración del genocidio nazi en nuestra conciencia colectiva. 'Me he basado en la obra de Raul Hilberg, que fue publicada después del juicio, y que constituye el más exhaustivo y el más fundamental estudio sobre la política judía del Tercer Reich.'—Hannah Arendt, sobre su libro Eichmann en Jerusalén 'Mucho más que una autobiográfica. Un libro sobre ética académica y manipulación política.'—Die Presse

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Visible Man: A Memoir Author: Edward Enninful Narrator: Edward Enninful Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers. When Edward Enninful became the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few in the world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed that.   Now, whether it’s putting first responders, octogenarians or civil rights activists on the cover of Vogue, or championing designers and photographers of colour, Edward Enninful has cemented his status as one of his world’s most important changemakers.    A Visible Man traces an astonishing journey into one of the world’s most exclusive industries. Edward candidly shares how as a Black, gay, working-class refugee, he found in fashion not only a home, but the freedom to share with people the world as he saw it. Written with style, grace, and heart, A Visible Man shines a spotlight on the career of one of the greatest creative minds of our times. It is the story of a visionary who changed not only an industry, but how we understand beauty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered, and Unashamed Author: Maitland Ward Narrator: Maitland Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A celebrity memoir unlike any other, this is an empowering, sex-positive, behind-the-scenes look at both Hollywood and the porn industry. Perfect for fans of Pleasure Activism and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. Maitland Ward got her start in acting as a teenager when she was cast in The Bold and the Beautiful, but it wasn’t until she joined the later seasons of the sitcom Boy Meets World that she got her first taste of fame. As the loveable co-ed Rachel McGuire, Ward soon found herself being typecast as the good girl next door and was repeatedly denied darker, more intriguing roles. So she made a career change—one that required her to turn away from the Disney universe—and eventually established herself as one of the most-respected actresses in the porn industry today. Now, Ward reveals the ups and downs of her fascinating career, including personal stories from her time on one of the most beloved shows of the 1990s, in this anything but a run-of-the-mill memoir. By showing Hollywood and triple-X stardom in a whole new light, she offers a fresh and stirring perspective on the sex industry and “champions the discovery of freedom in sexuality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Ultimately a story of hope and triumph, this is a sharp and provocative look at a former Disney princess who found her fairy tale in porn.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom Author: Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi Narrator: Dena Takruri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.7 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir. “I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, the power, the photographic storytelling of They Called Me a Lioness.”—Ibram X. Kendi, internationally bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews “What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life. How would you want the world to react?” Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier who refused to leave her front yard. The video went viral, and Tamimi was arrested. But this is not just a story of activism or imprisonment. It is the human-scale story of an occupation that has riveted the world and shaped global politics, from a girl who grew up in the middle of it . Tamimi’s father was born in 1967, the year that Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and he grew up immersed in the resistance movement. One of Tamimi’s earliest memories is visiting him in prison, poking her toddler fingers through the fence to touch his hand. She herself would spend her seventeenth birthday behind bars. Living through this greatest test and heightened attacks on her village, Tamimi felt her resolve only deepen, in tension with her attempts to live the normal life of a daughter, sibling, friend, and student. An essential addition to an important conversation, They Called Me a Lioness shows us what is at stake in this struggle and offers a fresh vision for resistance. With their unflinching, riveting storytelling, Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri shine a light on the humanity not just in occupied Palestine but also in the unsung lives of people struggling for freedom around the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solito: A Memoir Author: Javier Zamora Narrator: Javier Zamora Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.68 of Total 34 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.   Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award “I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.”—Emma Straub “A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”   Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.   At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.   A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Elogio de la hospitalidad: Sobre la comida y el sentido de la generosidad Author: Priya Basil, Ana Nuño (translator) Narrator: Aneta Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Una meditación singular sobre la íntima conexión entre el cuidado de los demás y el de uno mismo, sobre el valor profundo de la hospitalidad. Priya Basil explora cómo la comida, y ofrecer comida a los demás, pueden servir para expresar amor y apoyo. La autora arroja una luz distinta sobre lo que significa ser anfitrión y ser invitado. En una época donde se construyen y se cierran fronteras, Elogio de la hospitalidad es un llamamiento, tan delicado como convincente, en favor de un mundo más amable y acogedor donde en definitiva todos nos sintamos en todo lugar como en casa. 'Chovinistas, xenófobos, negacionistas del cambio climático, gentes nada inclinadas a la hospitalidad en todo el mundo, detestarán esté libro delicioso y convincente.'—Alexander Gilmour, Financial Times