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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir Author: Colton Haynes Narrator: Colton Haynes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.77 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A brutally honest memoir that socks you in the gut with its candor” (Elton John and David Furnish) about lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes. In 2018, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He’d had two seizures, lost vision in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary psychiatric hold. Not yet thirty, he knew he had to take stock of his life and make some serious changes if he wanted to see his next birthday. As he worked towards sobriety, Haynes allowed himself to become vulnerable for the first time and discovered profound self-awareness. He had millions of social media followers who constantly told him they loved him. But what would they think if they knew his true story? If they knew where he came from and the things he had done? Now, Colton bravely pulls back the curtain on his life and career, revealing the incredible highs and devastating lows. From his unorthodox childhood in a small Kansas town, to coming to terms with his sexuality, he keeps nothing back. By sixteen, he had been signed by the world’s top modeling agency and his face appeared on billboards. But he was still a broke, lonely, confused teenager, surrounded by people telling him he could be a star as long as he never let anyone see his true self. As Colton’s career in television took off, the stress of wearing so many masks and trying to please so many different people turned his use of drugs and alcohol into full-blown addiction. “In searing, honest prose, he tells a coming-of-age story that is utterly his own, yet surprisingly universal” (Bill Clegg, New York Times bestselling author)—of dreams deferred and dreams fulfilled; of a family torn apart and rebuilt; and of a man stepping into the light as no one but himself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry Author: Rollie Pemberton Narrator: Rollie Pemberton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bedroom Rapper is a book for obsessive music fans who are looking for the definitive take on what’s happened in the last two decades of hip hop, from Cadence Weapon, aka Rollie Pemberton: Pitchfork critic, award-winning musician, producer, DJ, and poet laureate. Tracing his roots from recording beats in his mom's attic in Edmonton to performing with some of the most recognizable names in rap and electronic music—De La Soul, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Questlove, Diplo, and more—Polaris Prize winner Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a Cadence Weapon, captures the joy in finding yourself, and how a sense of place and purpose entwines inextricably with a music scene.   From competitive basement family karaoke to touring Europe, from fights with an exploitative label to finding his creative voice, from protesting against gentrification to using his music to centre political change, Rollie charts his own development alongside a shifting musical landscape. As Rollie finds his feet, the bottom falls out of the industry, and he captures the way so many artists were able to make a nimble name for themselves while labels floundered.    Bedroom Rapper also offers us a wide-ranging and crucial history of hip-hop. With an international perspective that's often missing from rap music journalism, he integrates the gestation of American hip hop with UK grime and niche scenes from the Canadian prairies, bringing his obsessive knowledge of hip-hop to bear on his subject. Rollie takes us into New York in the ’70s, Edmonton in the ’90s, the legendary Montreal DIY loft scene of the 2000s, and traces the ups and downs of trusting your gut and following your passion, obsessively.   With a foreword by Gabriel Szatan, music fans and creators alike will relate to the dedication to craft, obsessive passion for what came before, and desire to shift the future that is embodied in every creative project Rollie takes on.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beqoming Author: Benjamin Bequer, Azrya Bequer Narrator: Leyda Bequer, Gysel Bequer, Mars Barrera, Grisel Bequer, Benjamin Bequer, Azrya Bequer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This audiobook is 7 hours and 36 minutes, and the additional interviews are 4 hours and 35 minutes. BEQOMING (noun verb): devotion to the process of becoming who you are designed to be by radically embracing your greatest challenges as curriculum and savoring the full spectrum of life and death. When Benjamin, a no-nonsense businessman, and Azrya, a free-spirited artist, fall madly in love, they birth a vision for a committed partnership capable of elevating humanity. But in order to become the heart-centered impact leaders they aspire to be, they must face off with the deepest unconscious fears threatening their mission and union. A unique hybrid of personal development, spiritual memoir, and erotic nonfiction, BEQOMING is an intimate and uncensored exploration of psychedelics, sex, power, and purpose. Join Azrya and Benjamin Bequer as they navigate the light and shadow sides of their own BEQOMING and deliver potent wisdom and tangible strategies for your own activation. Warning: This book may inspire you to face off with your darkest subconscious shadows, claim your Truest Truth, and embody the greatness you’re here to share with the world. Side effects may include becoming radically unfuckwithable.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556485 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Yoga Manifesto: How yoga helped me and why it needs to save itself Author: Nadia Gilani Narrator: Avita Jay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for over twenty-five years. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Desmorir: Una reflexión sobre la enfermedad en un mundo capitalista Author: Patricia Gonzalo De Jesús (translator), Anne Boyer Narrator: Aneta Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Una semana después de cumplir 41 años, a la poeta Anne Boyer le diagnosticaron un cáncer de mama triple negativo de pronóstico grave que requería un tratamiento muy agresivo. Como madre soltera habituada a vivir al día y a prodigar cuidados antes que a recibirlos, la dramática enfermedad supuso una crisis, pero también un punto de partida para recapacitar sobre la mortalidad y las políticas de género relacionadas con la salud. Desmorir es la descarnada narración del proceso de enfermedad y supervivencia de la autora, pero es también un libro de memorias que se rebela contra el género memorístico, un recuento personal que rechaza limitarse a lo individual. Sumándose a la larga lista de autoras que han escrito sobre el cáncer, como Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker y Susan Sontag, Boyer reflexiona con furia, brillantez y clarividencia sobre la enfermedad y la salud en nuestra sociedad, abordando temas como la experiencia corporal y mental del dolor, la proliferación de charlatanes y oportunistas, el abuso de las farmacéuticas, el cinismo político en el debate de sanidad pública versus privada y, en definitiva, la hipocresía que rodea la industria de la salud en nuestro mundo. Obra reconocida con el Premio Pulitzer de No Ficción en 2020, profundamente humana y conmovedora, Desmorir es una imprescindible meditación acerca de la enfermedad en un mundo capitalista, y acerca de las miserias y las grandezas de la vida contemporánea. 'Una irrupción sobrecogedora e imprescindible en nuestros discursos sobre la enfermedad y la salud, el arte y la ciencia, el lenguaje y la literatura, la mortalidad y la muerte.'—Sally Rooney 'Narrada con precisión febril, la historia de Boyer es solo uno de los hilos argumentales de un libro que reflexiona sobre la necesidad de encontrar una causa común en el sufrimiento individual.'—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times 'Un libro indignado, hermoso y brillante de crítica hecha desde el cuerpo.'—Ben Lerner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times Author: Mark T. Esper Narrator: Joe Knezevich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in two generations, and a White House seemingly bent on breaking accepted norms and conventions for political advantage. A Sacred Oath is Secretary Esper’s unvarnished and candid memoir of those extraordinary and dangerous times, and includes events and moments never before told. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. ‘Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton Author: Minnie Driver Narrator: Minnie Driver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt' 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton 'A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day 'An absolute jewel of a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen Fry A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. I love stories. I have mostly told other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss, fortitude, and fortune: being human. When I look at my life from the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two, happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost never the end. This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth talking about. So, this is a collection of stories about how things not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true. I really hope you enjoy it. Love, Minnie x

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency Author: Ben West Narrator: Ben West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What’s sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still drive, the planes still fly… everything just continues. And that’s probably the best gift we have. Because, for the most part, there’s no right or wrong way to do things – life becomes whatever you make it. This book has been written for you. In 2018, Ben’s world collapsed around him when he unexpectedly lost his brother to suicide. In the raw aftermath of this tragedy, Ben found the strength to learn, educate and campaign about mental health. He also wrote this book as a reminder that in despair you can always find hope. It’s packed with advice and practical takeaways. So read it, remember it and pass it on – it could save your life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death Author: Tallu Schuyler Quinn Narrator: Tallu Schuyler Quinn, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Facing death is the hardest thing of all, and Tallu Quinn faces hers in a way that broke and healed my heart. This book is a beautiful tribute to life, to truth, and to love.”—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitarian and young mother creating “a vibrant legacy for us to hold on to and learn from” (Ann Patchett) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews “I am holding both my hope and my grief together in the same hands. It is a loose hold, looser than I am accustomed to. My love is so much bigger than me.” Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn spent her adult life working to alleviate hunger, systemic inequality, and food waste, first as a volunteer throughout the United States and abroad, and then as the founder of the Nashville Food Project, where she supported the vibrant community work of local food justice in Middle Tennessee. That all changed just after her fortieth birthday, when she was diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma, an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer. In What We Wish Were True, Quinn achingly grapples with the possibility of leaving behind the husband and children she adores, and what it means to live with a terminal diagnosis and still find meaning. “I think about how my purpose may be the same in death as it continues to be in life—surrendering to the hope that our weaknesses can be made strong, that what is broken can be made whole,” she writes. Through gorgeous prose, Quinn masterfully weaves together the themes of life and death by integrating spiritually nourishing stories about family, identity, vocational call, beloved community, God’s wide welcome, and living with brain cancer. Taken together, these stunning essays are a piercing reminder to cherish each moment, whether heartbreaking or hilarious, and cast loose other concerns. As a mother, a kindred spirit, and a dear friend, Tallu Schuyler Quinn looks into our eyes with well-earned tears in her own and tells us the bittersweet truth: We are all searching for what has already found us—present and boundless love. This love will deliver us and never let us go.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore Author: Lawrence Jackson Narrator: Korey Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides a point of departure for this captivating memoir in essays.With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray. His new neighborhood, Homeland—largely White, built on racial covenants—is not where he is “supposed” to live. But his purchase, and what it might mean for his children, provides a foundation for this personal, spiritual, and civic history that captures the raging absurdity of American life. Shelter is an extraordinary biography of a city and a celebration of our capacity for domestic thriving. It establishes Lawrence Jackson as a maverick, essential writer.