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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - A la puta calle. Crónica de un desahucio Author: Cristina Fallarás Narrator: Cristina Fallarás Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La crónica en primera persona de un desahucio, el de Cristina Fallarás, periodista, escritora premiada y editora digital, leído por la propia autora. Fallarás narra el día a día del proceso de empobrecimiento que le acarreó un despido motivado por la crisis económica, y que ocasionaría la notificación de su desahucio. Un valiente testimonio que nos muestra una realidad en España.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI Author: Florence Tate, Jake-Ann Jones Narrator: Kim Staunton, Beresford Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931–2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-themovement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.Tate defied stereotypes of the 1960s, playing key roles in the lives and work of an astonishing number of high-profile leaders of the most influential social-change organizations and events of the twentieth century. She also worked with numerous Black Nationalist leaders and Pan-African activists, US politicians, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She was close to Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, serving both men as press secretary.An accomplished activist, most people never knew that Tate was bravely fighting chronic depression. She endured years of electroconvulsive shock treatments and therapy to live a full life, contribute to her community, fight for human and civil rights, and be available to her family.Farmgirls is an engaging collage of Tate’s life, woven together from her journal entries, memories from people who knew her, and excerpts from her FBI files. These multiple perspectives bring into focus the complex and complicated saga of a public persona engaged in private struggle, defying and overcoming the odds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea State: A Memoir Author: Tabitha Lasley Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men—and her. Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security. Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic Author: Amy Roost, Joanell Serra Narrator: Samara Naeymi, Frankie Corzo, Amielynn Abellera, Karen Chilton, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: frontline responders and recovering patients; going out to work, staying home to work, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location, age, race, and health, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength, ingenuity and love-for others and for self-to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country's response. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Susan Larkin, Allan Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape. Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corked—in a wine bottle. And then meet their families—the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck. If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best 'bodies of work' from America's darkest profession.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid Author: Todd Harra, Kenneth Mckenzie Narrator: Gregory St. John, Reay Kaplan, Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential. Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I HAD LOST THE HEARSE! From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother's wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned—even if it doesn't.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 Author: Laura Freixas Revuelta Narrator: Marta Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 29, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Laura Freixas aborda este libro el género de la autobiografía ficcionada, abarcando sus primeros años hasta su adolescencia, tal y como indica el título, en la Barcelona de los 70. En el texto asistimos a los primeros signos de la autora en que se convertiría la adolescente protagonista y del despertar de su profunda conciencia feminista. Sin embargo, la novela también plantea una historia directa y honesta formada por los recuerdos de niñez y las impresiones en la memoria de la autora. - Laura Freixas es una escritora nacida en Barcelona en 1958. Su producción, de un marcado corte feminista y centrada en la literatura escrita por mujeres, abarca la novela, el relato, el ensayo, los artículos periodísticos y la crítica literaria. Es fundadora de la asociación para la igualdad de género Clásicas y Modernas, que promueve políticas culturales que apoyen a la producción e investigación de la literatura escrita por mujeres.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Brother: A Memoir Author: Susan Keller Narrator: Lexi Mae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan had it all—or thought she did—until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Ninety-eight percent of her bone marrow was cancerous, and a heart attack or brain aneurism was imminent. Within minutes of being admitted to the hospital, her beautifully ordinary life disappeared. Facing a possible death sentence, Susan experienced visions so lucid and beautiful that she imagined she was looking into the foyer of death or a magnificent afterlife. Her mind and body melded into all that surrounded her. Bliss replaced all fear. But during the darkest moments, Susan questioned the nature of mortality. Does death have the same shape, sound, and feeling for everyone? Did the father she yearned for think of her the moment he died? What would she think of? Would there be regret, celebration, or nothingness? After months of grueling inpatient chemo, she faced another seemingly impossible hurdle. To live, she needed a stem cell transplant. But Johnny—her brilliant, off-the-grid brother—was the only possible donor. He hadn't been heard from in thirty years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Catalan] - Sinatra està refredat i altres escrits Author: Gaty Talese Narrator: Marc Lobato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Aquest famós recull d’històries de Gay Talese, peça de museu del periodisme nord-americà d’ara i d’abans, mostra un Frank Sinatra malhumorat amb un fort refredat que li ha fet perdre la veu. A més a més, conté històries del bevedor i perdedor Patterson, del genial Peter O’Tootle, de les models de Vogue, de Joe Louis i l’anècdota del seu pare amb la màfia siciliana, de la patètica trobada entre Fidel Castro i Muhammad Ali, o dels seus inicis com a periodista. Històries intranscendents que enganxen al lector amb un estil de no-ficció, ja que el periodista no idolatra aquests herois populars, però els humanitza, i ho fa amb ironia. Un reportatge realment interessant i excel·lent pel que fa a la descripció d’icones de la cultura pop que val la pena llegir. - Gay Talese (Ocean City, 7 de febrer de 1932) és un periodista i escriptor nord-americà. A principis de la dècada del seixanta va escriure per al diari 'The New York Times' i va ajudar a definir (juntament amb Tom Wolfe) el periodisme literari o 'reportatge de no ficció', també conegut com a 'Nou Periodisme'. Els seus articles més reconeguts parlen sobre Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin i Frank Sinatra.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go By Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor Author: Dr. Chuck Radis Narrator: Cole Tamminen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. Absent-minded and initially oblivious to island mores, Dr. Radis slowly adapts to a medical practice where x-rays and advanced laboratory testing are available only on the mainland. When he travels to the outer islands of Casco Bay for house calls, he relies on his physical examination skills and a tackle box of emergency medications to successfully manage his patients. With stories ranging from hilarious to heart breaking, Go by Boat is a respite from contemporary living, immersing the listener in the distinct culture of Maine island communities. Come along with Dr. Radis as he finds acceptance and friendship on the hardscrabble islands of Casco Bay.