Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Waters Between Us: A Boy, a Father, Outdoor Misadventures, and the Healing Power of Nature Author: Michael J. Tougias Narrator: Michael J. Tougias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming and delightful reminiscence of growing up loving the woods, waters, fields, and fauna of Massachusetts by Michael Tougias, New York Times bestselling author of The Finest Hours, Overboard!, and Fatal Forecast. Untamed. Unsupervised. Uncontrolled. Boyhood in the 1960s and ’70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water: some life-threatening but others innocently hilarious. Over time—and after reading a multitude of adventure books—these experiences took shape in his quest to be a mountain man, owning a cabin in the forest and living off the land. Part of that dream would come true but only after a family tragedy that shook his world and forced changes in his life. This is also a story of a complex and strained relationship between father and son, the efforts at understanding, and ultimately respect and devotion. In The Waters Between Us Tougias channels Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods to mix laugh out loud humor with insight into the natural world through the eyes of a curious boy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship Author: Chaney Kwak Narrator: Keong Sim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first even for him: trapped on the battered cruise ship, he stuffs his passport into his underwear just in case his body has to be identified. As the massive cruise ship sways in surging waves, Kwak holds on and watches news of the impending disaster unfold on Twitter, where the ship’s nearly 1,400 passengers are showered with “thoughts and prayers.” Kwak uses his twenty-seven hours aboard the teetering ship to examine his family history, maritime tragedies, and the failing relationship back on shore with a man he’s loved for nearly two decades: the Viking Sky, he realizes, may not be the only sinking ship he needs to escape. The Passenger takes listeners on an unforgettable journey from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco. Kwak weaves his personal experience into events spanning decades and continents to explore the serendipity and the relationships that move us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love Author: Justin Black, Alexis Black Narrator: Alexis Black, Justin Black Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up, they didn’t believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever. Alexis Black persevered through her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman on the first day of their scholarship program, she feels the world melt away, as though it were only the two of them in the room. Justin Black lived in the poorest section of Detroit before his parents surrendered him to the foster care system at the age of nine. But when he grabs the chance for better opportunities by pursuing higher education, he can’t help but be drawn to a beautiful third-year student. At first, their past traumas--and their age difference--conspired to complicate their attraction. But the joy each took in the other and eventually conquered those obstacles, and these two survivors journeyed together toward healing. In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-in-hand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their past, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors. Written in an engaging novelistic style, the authors put forward a thoughtful exchange of ideas and personal experiences illustrating how anybody, no matter their backgrounds, can have a life of self-empowerment and joy. Broken down into four sections that cover crucial topics such as “Worthiness” and “Mental Health,” this compelling narrative will help any who are learning to love themselves and want to end the line of toxic relationships. If you like honest tales of triumph, refreshing transparency, and resilient faith in God, then you’ll adore Justin and Alexis’ inspirational story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burden is Light: The Autobiography of a Transformed Pagan Who Took God at His Word Author: Eugenia Price Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: March 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Told in the vibrant, honest prose that has made Eugenia Price a classic religious writer and bestselling novelist, The Burden Is Light offers an intimate account of her conversion to Christianity at the age of thirty-three. Traversing the mountains and valleys of her journey from birth to rebirth in Jesus Christ, Ms. Price examines closely her spiritual, personal, and professional development through the years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mehr als 100 Jahre: Eine Liebe zwischen den Kulturen - ein autobiografischer Roman von Angelika Horn Author: Angelika Horn Narrator: Marco Wittorf, Angelika Horn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 14, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Es ist das Frühjahr 1978. Raj und Angelika lernen sich in Berlin kennen. Er kommt aus Bangladesch, sie ist Berlinerin. Gemeinsam tauchen die beiden tief in die Geschichten ihrer Familien ein und so hören wir über Schicksale in zwei Kontinenten über eine Zeitraum von mehr als 100 Jahren.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey Author: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley Narrator: Josiah Hartley, Amanda Prowse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son came to her with a real one… Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student’s mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times. Josiah’s situation is not unusual: the statistics on student mental health are terrifying. And he was not the only one suffering; his family was also hijacked by his illness, watching him struggle and fearing the day he might succeed in taking his life. In this book, Josiah and Amanda hope to give a voice to those who suffer, and to show them that help can be found. It is Josiah’s raw, at times bleak, sometimes humorous, but always honest account of what it is like to live with depression. It is Amanda’s heart-rending account of her pain at watching him suffer, speaking from the heart about a mother’s love for her child. For anyone with depression and anyone who loves someone with depression, Amanda and Josiah have a clear message—you are not alone, and there is hope.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic Author: Jen Lancaster Narrator: Jen Lancaster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is here to help you chill the hell out. When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake up, we’re bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-inducing foods we’ve been enjoying for years. We’re judged by social media’s faceless masses, pressured into maintaining a Pinterest-perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO, and the disparity between the ideal and reality, is leading us to spend more and feel worse. No wonder we’re getting twitchy. Save for an Independence Day–style alien invasion, how do we begin to escape from the stressors that make up our days? Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction. When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who’d given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating background. Soon they were in love, and when he proposed after a month it seemed recklessly romantic. Caught up in a whirlwind, Mary accepted that Will’s work often took him away from home, out of contact. She was his rock, supporting him emotionally when a misunderstanding led to criminal charges, and even selling everything when blackmailers threatened to kidnap their children. Together, they took on the world. And then one day the phone rang, and a woman introduced herself as ‘the other Mrs Jordan’… In this raw account of deception on a grand scale, Mary Turner Thomson recounts what happened after she discovered every word he’d said, from the very first moment, was a lie. This is her painful, humiliating truth—but she tells it for one reason: she too was once a strong, independent woman who would have read all this and thought It could never happen to me… Revised edition: Previously published as The Bigamist: the true story of a husband’s ultimate betrayal, this edition of The Bigamist includes editorial revisions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Author: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Narrator: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction A Southern Book Prize Finalist An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A BookPage Best Book of 2020 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020 An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 A Publishers Weekly 'Big Indie Book of Fall 2020' A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 A Literary Hub 'Most Anticipated Book of 2020 A Ralph Lauren Summer Reading Recommendation A Garden & Gun Summer Reading Recommendation A Bustle 'Best Book of Fall 2020 Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2020' by The Millions An Alma 'Favorite Book for Fall 2020' A Literary Hub 'Recommended Climate Read for September 2020' A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020 From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction―a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted―no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape―she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting Author: Kyl Myers Narrator: Kyl Myers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “What did you have? A boy or a girl?” Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then… As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less traveled. Raising a confident, compassionate, and self-aware person was all that mattered. In this illuminating memoir, Kyl delivers a liberating portrait of a family’s choice to dismantle the long-accepted and often-harmful social construct of what it means to be assigned a gender from birth. As a sociologist, Kyl explores the science of gender and sex and the adulthood gender inequities that start in childhood. As a loving parent, Kyl shares the joy of watching an amazing child named Zoomer develop their own agency to grow happily and healthily toward their own gender identity and expression. Candid and surprising, Raising Them is an inspiration to parents and to anyone open to understanding the limitless possibilities of being yourself.