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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los años de plomo Author: Isabel San Sebastián Narrator: Menchu González Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Yo pensaba: al final se ha disfrazado de guardia civil y, para escarnecerme más, me va a sacar de aquí para matarme fuera. Entonces fue cuando le dije: 'No, no, fuera no. Hazlo aquí, que es más fácil y no quiero salir'». Así describe José Antonio Ortega Lara su liberación en una extensa entrevista en la que relata, por primera y única vez, los detalles de su cautiverio por parte de la banda terrorista ETA en aquel zulo de cuatro metros cuadrados en el que permaneció secuestrado 532 días. Como él, otras nueve víctimas desgranan ante Isabel San Sebastián los recuerdos que han marcado sus vidas, que la periodista recoge en esta obra «Los años de plomo: Memoria en carne viva de las víctimas». Esas víctimas son Marta Bergareche, madre de Pertur, quien evoca al hijo asesinado por sus compañeros; Álvaro Cabrerizo, quien rememora la tragedia de Hipercor, donde perdió a su esposa y sus dos niñas; o Domingo Durán (policía tetrapléjico fallecido apenas unos días después de aportar su testimonio) y su mujer, Manoli, quienes revelan el horror de las secuelas de un atentado. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Isabel San Sebastián es una famosa periodista española. Este libro recopila entrevistas y testimonios inéditos de las víctimas de ETA. Isabel San Sebastián es una periodista y escritora española. Se licenció en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha trabajado en numerosos medios de comunicación españoles, tanto públicos como privados, pero también es conocida por sus novelas de ficción histórica y sus obras de no ficción, algunas de las cuales dedicó a la denuncia de la lucha armada en País Vasco.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bloody Good Rant Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Jim Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren't to be a better society, if we were simply serfs designed to support a system of privilege, what was the bloody point?' Thomas Keneally has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over fifty years. In this deeply personal, passionately drawn and richly tuned collection he now turns inwards to reflect on what has been important to him, drawing on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding. He writes with unbounded joy of being a grandparent, and with intimacy and insight about the prospect of death and the meaning of faith. He is outraged about the treatment of Indigenous Australians and refugees, and argues fiercely against market economics and the cowardice of climate change deniers. And he introduces us to some of the people, both great and small, who have dappled his life. Beautifully written, erudite and at times slyly funny, A Bloody Good Rant is an invitation to share the deep humanity of a truly great Australian.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beak in the Heart: True Tales of Misfit Southern Women Author: Betina Entzminger Narrator: Julie Niblett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 29, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author’s “misfit” female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a “proper Southern woman.” The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up “Southern.” Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of women who preceded her—misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and concubine to her third great uncle, Rosalee, a great aunt committed to the state hospital for forty years, and Louise, an aunt who unwittingly married a gay man at a time when divorce was not legal in South Carolina. She also shares candid details of her rebellious youth and her own struggles with marriage and parenthood. In exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger—their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant—restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity. The Beak in the Heart speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices. "

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share Author: Amanda Owen Narrator: Amanda Owen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning audiobook from Amanda Owen – shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5’s Our Yorkshire Farm – that brings her world to life in glorious colour. In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda shares funny and charming stories about life with her family and their many four-legged charges and describes their activities at Ravenseat, from lambing and shearing to haymaking and feeding the flock in midwinter. Her gorgeous photographs showcase the famous Swaledale landscape she writes about, from the sweeping moors to rare wildflowers and the elusive hares glimpsed in the field. She lives in tune with nature and Amanda's attitude to food is the same. She believes in buying good, seasonal ingredients when it comes to feeding her family and includes her favourite recipes here, from wild garlic lamb with hasselback roast potatoes to rhubarb and custard crumble cake and Yorkshire curd tart. As inspirational as Amanda herself, this is a beautiful audiobook that will delight everyone who has followed her adventures so far.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de un confinamiento Author: Eduardo Galán Narrator: Martín Quirós Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Diario de un confinamiento es una obra poliédrica. Lo que empieza como diario abierto, un diario que se pretende bálsamo para el autor y medicina para el alma de aquellos contactos a los que cada noche, religiosamente, envía sus páginas, se va convirtiendo poco a poco en un cajón de sastre de emociones y vivencias. En palabras del autor, el diario le permite narrar sus historias cerca de los políticos, anécdotas del mundo educativo, los procesos de creación, introducir fragmentos líricos, pensamientos filosóficos o existencialistas u al mismo tiempo cultivar el humor, la frase hecha, el refrán, las expresiones malsonantes y el tópico. En un diario cabe todo, concluye, menos la mentira vital.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girlz 'n the Hood: A Memoir of Mama in South Central Los Angeles Author: Mary Hill-Wagner Narrator: Mary Hill-Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Girlz 'n the Hood is the unsentimental, moving, and surprisingly humorous account of a girl and her ten siblings who grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Mary’s mother was a fierce matriarch, a single mom who raised eleven children with the help of welfare checks and a fire arm hidden in her bra. Drugs, guns, and pregnancies were everyday occurrences, but Mary and her siblings took it all in stride, spying on the grown-ups, playing in the streets, and helping to take care of the new babies when they were born. The dubious yet colorful cast of characters that came into their lives (the Jehovah Witnesses, the whores, the addicts, the “fathers”), and the never-ending series of hardships (the jail terms, the knife fights, the mental illness, and homicides), couldn’t shake the core of the family. This is the story of Mary, but, even more so, it’s the story of her mother, a uniquely strong and extraordinary woman who was able to survive moments of pain and disappointment by laughing at the comedy of human missteps, miscalculations, and downright stupidity. This is also a story about race and of poverty and how, over time, it can wear you down and destroy you, because, although Mary got out okay, her sisters and brothers were not so lucky.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss Author: William Debuys Narrator: William Debuys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A revitalizing new perspective on Earthcare from Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys. In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth; he sought a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of Earth's remotest regions, his writing celebrates the land's staggering natural beauty, and treats his listeners to deep dives into two scientific discoveries—the theories of natural selection and plate tectonics—that forever changed human understanding of our planet. Written in a vivid and nuanced style evocative of John McPhee or Peter Matthiessen, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that lies ahead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Childhood in Tibet: A Biography Author: Thérèse Obrecht Hodler Narrator: Tenzin Kalsang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 31 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tendöl Namling turned 60 in March 2019. She was born at the time when the Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa and the uprising of his people by the Chinese People's Army was brutally suppressed. She has lived for 22 years under Chinese rule. As the daughter of a high government official, she underwent the ordeal of 're-education' with full force. All she has kept from these years are painful memories and some crumpled photographs. They show her with her friends and cousins in Lhasa, smiling as if nothing had happened. When Tendöl turned 10 her brother was arrested and her mother sentenced to ten years in prison. Tendöl was sent to work in road construction for several years. At the age of 20 she was allowed to start an apprenticeship as motor mechanic. Thanks to the efforts of her family in exile, Tendöl was able to leave Tibet in 1982. After twenty years of hardship she landed in prosperous Switzerland. It felt as if she had to start her life all over again. She struggled but she never gave up. She founded a family and a business and reconciled herself with the painful past. In Tendöl's words, 'this little book is dedicated to all the Tibetans who continue to rebel against the Chinese occupation'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance Author: Warwick Fairfax Narrator: Warwick Fairfax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For leaders who believe they may not be maximizing their leadership potential, Warwick Fairfax is the trusted leadership advisor who helps readers uncover their own unique path to living and leading with significance, effectiveness, and authenticity in all areas of life. In Crucible Leadership, he shares the power of embracing the crucible moments: those past trials, failures, and setbacks that can be seen as either roadblocks or as jumping-off points to leading a life of significance and purpose dedicated to serving others. Crucible Leadership comes alive through the unique framework of Warwick’s own story: how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment. He demonstrates to readers in an honest, self-reflective way how they can make sense of their own talents and trials to lead with authenticity in all areas of life. Warwick empowers readers to become the leader they were designed to be through his unique perspective, which has been shaped by three powerful touchstones:  - Hard-won insights and honest, self-reflective lessons learned from his own crucible moment, and the long road back from it - Inspiring and instructive stories from his rich and iconic family history  - Time-honored leadership truths proven out by history’s greatest and most inspirational figures

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mermaid Singing Author: Charmian Clift Narrator: Josie Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece. Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended. A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. 'Mermaid Singing' is the companion volume to Peel Me a Lotus. - Charmian Clift was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1923. She became a journalist on the Melbourne Argus after World War II and in 1947 married novelist and journalist George Johnston. Early in their marriage they collaborated on three novels: the prizewinning High Valley, The Big Chariot and the Sponge Divers. Then in 1954, having lived in London for a few years, they took their family to live in the Greek Islands. During the period Charmian wrote two accounts of their life there, Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus, and two novels, Honour’s Mimic and Walk to the Paradise Gardens. In 1964 the family returned to Australia and Charmian began a weekly newspaper column which quickly gained her a wide and devoted readership. She died in 1969. Polly Samson is an author, lyricist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her most recent novel, the bestselling A Theatre for Dreamers, features Charmian Clift as one of the central characters