Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Happy Tears: How I Dealt With the Loss of a Loved One Author: Lynne Minyard-Christer Narrator: Jessica Mathison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the beginning, it was shock and what am I to do now, feeling numb. Lessons to be learned, an awakening. By the end of the book, there is so much more confidence, looking forward to enjoying life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making Faith Great Again: Wisdom from a Life with No Regrets Author: Marlene Ostrom Narrator: Stella June Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 13, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Does your life need more amazing adventures? Do you want more fulfillment and significance? Marlene was twenty-two, a new baby in arms, when her husband said, “I think God’s calling us to give our lives to the Philippines.” Her response? “Sounds like an adventure!” But three years into their successful ministry, Marlene loses her entire family to a plane crash, and Don and Marlene must return home to run the family business. They’d planned on selling the business and returning to “God’s work” until a world-famous evangelist told them that they could do even more good for the Kingdom of God by running their business well and supporting missionaries. That conversation changed everything. Over the next sixty years, they planted hundreds of churches and touched hundreds of thousands of lives. In this book, Marlene tells her fascinating story and shares hard-won wisdom about prayer, prosperity, marriage, and generosity. Above all, she urges us to pursue an adventurous life of great faith.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration Author: Shawn Hitchins Narrator: Shawn Hitchins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Publishers Weekly Notable Book 49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. "This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery - raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe at human resilience." - Shelf Awareness "A timely story so human, so beautiful, so bravely told with heart and humour." - Rosie O'Donnell A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness of being alive: the longing and desire, scorching-earth anger, raw grief - and the pathway of healing he discovers when he lets his heart remain open. Never without an edge of self-awareness, The Light Streamed Beneath It invites the reader into Hitchins's world as he reckons with his past and stays painfully in the present. As he builds an embodied future, he confronts the stories that have shaped him, sets aside his ambition, and seeks connection in what he used to deflect with laughter - therapy, community and chosen family, movement, spirituality, and an awareness of death's ever-presence. A heartrending and hope-filled story of resilience in the wake of death, The Light Streamed Beneath It joyfully affirms that life is essentially good, as Hitchins weaves his tale full of tenacious spirit, humor, kindness, and grit through life's most unforgiving challenges.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving the Island of Grace: A Life on the Wild Edge of America (2nd Rev Ed) Author: Leslie Leyland Fields Narrator: Leslie Leyland Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of one woman's life on the far edge of America and her struggle to find home amid the isolation, work, risk and beauty of the Alaskan wilderness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams Author: Anthony Ianni, Rob Keast Narrator: Anthony Ianni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of.' Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play for the Michigan State Spartans. Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams is the firsthand account of a young man's social, academic, and athletic struggles and his determination to reach his goals. In this remarkable memoir, Ianni reflects on his experiences with both basketball and the autism spectrum. Centered, an inspirational sports story in the vein of Rudy, reveals Ianni to be unflinching in his honesty, generous in his gratitude, and gracious in his compassion. Sports fans will root for the underdog. Parents, teachers, and coaches will gain insight into the experience of an autistic child. And everyone will triumph in the achievements of Centered.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir Author: N. West Moss Narrator: Erin Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Honest, warm, and witty, this memoir reads like a chat with a dear friend sharing her insight and taking us along as she heals. Complete with family stories over cocktails and a praying mantis named Claude. “I drive and say to myself, if I am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die.” When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she manages to drive herself to the nearest hospital. Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosis—uterine hemangioma—is rendered and a hysterectomy is scheduled. In prose both lyrical and unsparing, Moss takes us along through illness, relapse, and recovery. And as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, she reflects on kin and kinship and on what it means to leave a legacy. Moss’s wise, droll voice and limitless curiosity lift this narrative beyond any narrow focus. Among her interests: yellow fever, good cocktails, the history of New Orleans, and, always, the natural world, including the praying mantis in her sunroom whom she names Claude. And we learn about the inspiring women in Moss’s family—her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother—as she sorts out her feelings that this line will end with her. But Moss discovers that there are ways besides having children to make a mark, and that grief is not a stopping place but a companion that travels along with us through everything, even happiness. A remarkably honest memoir about heartache and healing, Flesh & Blood opens up a conversation with the millions of women who live with infertility and loss.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood Author: Dallas Louis Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Dallas Louis decided that all she wanted was to meet and marry her Prince Charming and become a mom, she had no idea what was in store for her. But she would soon find out. After only seven months of dating the love of her life, she married him, and within the course of twenty-six months, she gave birth to three children. Her husband knew her longer pregnant than not pregnant! In this laugh-out-loud book, Dallas shares highlights of what happened in her world once she and her husband, Jeff, brought home three kids in a time span that was barely long enough to build a house, let alone build three humans. She would like listeners to find comfort in knowing they aren't the only ones suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome or buyer's remorse. And, yes, it’s okay to admit that both of these conditions apply to parenting, though hopefully not all the time. Channeling Erma Bombeck, Dallas will tell you the things your friends won't and the things other books are too afraid to print. With her irreverent humor and brash 'tell it like it is' style, she'll help you laugh at everyday situations, easing the pressure of the toughest job in the world: being a mom.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Cares: Encouraging Words and Stories from an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Author: Charles Towne Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One Man’s Prayers and Reflections on Caring for a Loved One Alzheimer’s. Dementia. Such a diagnosis creates fear and apprehension in the hearts of families whose loved one has received it. What to do? Where to turn? Author Charles Towne had such fears and questions as he faced the long-term prospect of his wife’s illness. Through 20 years of caregiving, he found answers. In Love Cares he shares them with you. Through short vignettes, Towne details his journey. With honesty and humor, he draws you in as he navigates his challenging life, always relying on Papa God to carry him through the tough times. Are you or someone you love in the midst of the challenges of caregiving? As you read this book, author Towne wishes you “hope and the realization that your journey, like mine, is purpose driven and, though at times difficult, is likely the most rewarding journey you will ever embark upon.” Because love always cares. Charles Towne is an author and newspaper columnist whose life has been and continues to be anything but boring. For his 87th birthday, he celebrated by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 14,000 feet! Charles says that being the father of his four children definitely helped prepare him for directing a zoo in Iowa and operating a breeding facility for large cats in Michigan during the next chapter of his story. Yes, zoo director, breeder of big cats, and wildlife photographer specializing in bears . . . and then, the too-soon death of the mother of his children by a drunk driver. Another chapter. Eventually Charles met and married his present wife Nancy, the inspiration for this book. Nothing that had gone before could possibly have prepared him for the cascade of tests that were to come. That is what this book is about. Twenty-one years of caregiving can present some daunting challenges, many joyous moments, much laughter, a bunch of pain, and many, many victories.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House Author: Stephanie Grisham Narrator: Stephanie Grisham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight into the turbulent four years of the administration, especially the personalities behind the headlines.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El caso Florence Cassez: Mi testimonio Author: Pablo Reinah Narrator: Rafael Pacheco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 3, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Éste es su valioso testimonio en torno a un caso que hoy, a pesar de haber sucedido hace ya más de 15 años y de que Florence Cassez haya sido liberada, aún sigue dando de qué hablar. El 9 de diciembre de 2005, el reportero Pablo Reinah cubrió un “operativo” en el rancho Las Chinitas para Televisa. Se trataba de la captura de dos presuntos secuestradores de la banda Los Zodiaco: la francesa Florence Cassez y el mexicanoIsrael Vallarta. Poco después, se supo que este “operativo” había sido un montaje. La noticia se volvió un escándalo mediático y político de proporciones inimaginables que puso al descubierto las ineficiencias y la corrupción que atraviesan al sistema de justicia mexicano. La trama de este caso incluye a un famoso conductor, a dos presidentes que se enemistaron y a un exfuncionario que hoy está preso, entre muchos otros. Sin prueba alguna, tanto Televisa como la afi acusaron a Reinah de haber orquestado dicho montaje. El reportero fue despedido, acusado y señalado injustamente. Pero Reinah inició una valiente batalla legal para limpiar su nombre.