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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road Bends Author: Sami Yaffa Narrator: Sami Yaffa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sami Yaffa is a bass guitar legend, an icon of the rock world, and an uncompromising walker of his own way, who rose to prominence as the bassist of the mythical Hanoi Rocks. A man of lights and shadows, and the embodiment of street credibility, Yaffa has recorded with Bruce Springsteen and Slash, played with the New York Dolls and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, crawled across Helsinki pubs and restaurants with Anthony Bourdain, and performed at Carnegie Hall. This is his story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children Author: Luma Mufleh Narrator: Luma Mufleh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “[From] an influential educational leader and activist…an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join.  The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives, Mufleh learned that few of her players, all local public school students, could read a single word. She asks, “Where was the America that took me in? That protected me? How can I get these kids to that America?” Learning America traces the story of how Mufleh grew a group of kids into a soccer team and then into a nationally acclaimed network of schools for refugee children. The journey is inspiring and hard-won: Fugees schools accept only those most in need; no student passes a grade without earning it; the failure of any student is the responsibility of all. Soccer as a part of every school day is a powerful catalyst to heal trauma, create belonging, and accelerate learning. Finally, this gifted storyteller delivers provocative, indelible portraits of student after student making leaps in learning that aren’t supposed to be possible for children born into trauma--stories that shine powerful light on the path to educational justice for all of America’s most left-behind. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding Tight, Letting Go: My Life, Death and All the Madness In Between Author: Sarah Hughes Narrator: Melissa Woodbridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Too often we minimise the reality of terminal cancer, concentrating instead on survival records and talking only in positive pink ribbon terms. But what of those who live daily with the shadow of the disease? This is a book about how that feels. It is about how to die as much as about to how to live; yet it is also life-affirming, funny and shot through with hope.' Life is full of small details that we tuck away somewhere to revisit when we need them most: the calming sound of the sea, that childlike joy when you feel the sun hit your face on an early February morning. These small details knitted together, make up our perfect, ordinary lives. Few understood the importance of these more than Sarah Hughes, who lived with terminal metastatic cancer for over three years and who died in April 2021. This book is a celebration of everything that can make up a life, and how to hold it all close: how to cherish the perspective-changing, exhale-bringing perspective of a trashy novel; how to find the upside of chemo (finally being able to fit into flippy french tea dresses); how to explore the intimate topography of a body that's yours and yours alone. For fans of Matt Haig and Maggie O'Farrell, this is a tender word-of-mouth bestseller: the sort of book you'll press into the hands of your friends, family and a stranger in a bookshop.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Author: Tom Rademacher Narrator: Roger Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ollie, who used to hate weekends because they meant no school, was crying on the way to school almost every day. Sure, there were the slings and arrows of bullies and bad teachers, but, maybe worse, Ollie, a funny, anxious, smart kid, was gravely underchallenged and also struggling with identity and how to live totally as themselves. Ollie begged to switch to a new school with 'kids like me,' and so they made the change. Raising Ollie is dad Tom Rademacher's story (really, many stories) of that eventful and sometimes painful school year, parenting Ollie and relearning every day what it means to be a father and teacher. As Ollie—who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns—flourishes in their new school, Rademacher is making an eye-opening adjustment to a new school of his own, one that's whiter and more suburban than anywhere he has previously taught, with a history of racial tension that he tries to address and navigate. While Ollie is learning to finally feel comfortable at school, Rademacher increasingly sees how his own educational struggles, anxieties, and childhood upbringing are reflected in his teaching, writing, and parenting, as well as in Ollie's experience. He shows us how raising a kid changes everything—and how much raising a kid like Ollie can teach us about who we are and what we're doing in the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation Author: Hannah Gadsby Narrator: Hannah Gadsby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. In this “enthralling” (The Washington Post) memoir, they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost. Don’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s new stand-up show, Woof!, on tour now! “Hannah is a Promethean force, a revolutionary talent. This hilarious, touching, and sometimes tragic book is all about where their fires were lit.”—Emma Thompson A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Vulture “There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself,” Hannah Gadsby declared in their show Nanette, a scorching critique of the way society conducts public debates about marginalized communities.    Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, they found themselves adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. When Gadsby was twenty-seven, a friend encouraged them to enter a stand-up competition. They won, and so began their career in comedy.   Gadsby became well known for their self-disparaging humor, but in 2015, as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage, they started to question this mode of storytelling, beginning to work on a show that would transform their career and would become “the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years” (The New York Times).  Harrowing and hilarious, Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer person, their ever-evolving relationship with comedy, and their struggle with late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD, finally arriving at the backbone of Nanette: the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year Author: Laurie Lee Narrator: David Sibley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. This collection brings to life the sights, sounds, landscapes and traditions of his home - from centuries-old May Day rituals to his own patch of garden, from carol singing in crunching snow to pub conversations and songs. Here too he writes about the mysteries of love, living in wartime Chelsea, Winston Churchill's wintry funeral and his battle, in old age, to save his beloved Slad Valley from developers. Told with a warm sense of humour and a powerful sense of history, Village Christmas brings us a picture of a vanished world. 'Magical' Daily Mail 'I finished it with an ache in my heart and a tear in my eye' Spectator 'Brings to life the landscapes and traditions of Lee's home in Gloucestershire, from centuries-old May Day rituals and carol-singing on Christmas Eve, to his battle in old age to save his beloved Slad valley from developers' Guardian 'Simply written, observant and shot through with Lee's characteristic humility ... Against his whitewashed prose are touches of beauty' The Times Literary Supplement © Laurie Lee 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning Author: Laurie Lee Narrator: Laurie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . 'He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour' Sunday Times 'There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New Statesman 'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer © Laurie Lee 1969 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Moment of War Author: Laurie Lee Narrator: David Sibley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. Imprisoned and almost executed by his own side, he eventually joined the International Brigade. This is the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier, fighting for the losing side in a doomed war. 'A great, heart-stopping narrative of one young Englishman's part in the war in Spain . . . crafted by a poet, stamping an indelible image of the boredom, random cruelty and stupidity of war' - Literary Review 'This story aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror' -Guardian Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), A Rose for Winter (1955), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975) and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). He died in May 1997. © Laurie Lee 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Library Book Author: Susan Orlean Narrator: Susan Orlean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Book of the Year A Reese Witherspoon X Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries. After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29 April 1986: who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library, ultimately destroying more than 400,000 books, and perhaps even more perplexing, why? With her characteristic humour, insight and compassion, Orlean uses this terrible event as a lens through which to tell the story of all libraries - their history, their meaning and their uncertain future as they adapt and redefine themselves in a digital world. Filled with heart, passion and extraordinary characters, The Library Book discusses the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives. “Exquisitely written, consistently entertaining.” NEW YORK TIMES

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Voyager Author: Nona Fernández Narrator: Nona Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tomando como punto de partida algunos recuerdos de su madre, que en la pantalla de un escáner cerebral 'evocan un paisaje astral', Nona Fernández construye lo que ella misma ha llamado una 'constelación de materiales'. Lo hace a través de la memoria personal, familiar y colectiva, la memoria de un país, y también echando mano del documento, de aquello que consigue iluminar el olvido. Acaso del mismo modo en que, al cabo de tantos años, nos alcanza la luz de las estrellas. Como a menudo ocurre con la justicia. En este primer ensayo de la autora se cifra, pues, el modo en que escribimos la historia, cómo y desde dónde, y la potencia política del recuerdo y de lo que hacemos con él, de su narrativa. 'En Voyager conviven lo grande y lo pequeño en igualdad de condiciones: ya se trate de la evolución del cerebro humano o de los problemas neurológicos de una anciana, de la vida del Sol o del discurso inconformista de un adolescente invitado a conmemorar —'sin abrir heridas'— el aniversario del plebiscito que terminó con la dictadura de Pinochet. Nona Fernández vuelve una y otra vez a ese periodo no para instalarse en el pasado sino para revelar el modo en que su luz sigue guiando nuestro presente.'—Javier Rodríguez Marcos, El País