Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hine Toa Author: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Narrator: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements 'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia Grace In the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whānau dismiss her dreams. To them, she is just a show-off, always getting into trouble, talking back and running away. In this fiery memoir about identity and belonging, Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku describes what was possible for a restless working-class girl from the pā. After moving to Auckland for university, Ngāhuia advocates resistance as a founding member of Ngā Tamatoa and the Women's and Gay Liberation movements, becoming a critical voice in protests from Waitangi to the streets of Wellington. 'Extraordinary, vivid, riveting. I learned, I laughed and I wept over this book' Fiona Kidman 'Beautifully written and fiercely honest' Deborah Challinor 'Brilliant. This timely coming-of-age memoir by an iconic activist will rouse the rebel in us all. I loved it' Tina Makereti

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride: A Guide to Achieving Your Dreams from a Person with a Disability Author: Lauren Spencer Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer provides a candid look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate embarks on the importance of visibility for the disabled community because representation matters! Words from someone doing the work. Lolo Spencer gained popularity as a YouTube personality. On her platform, Sitting Pretty, she encourages viewers to achieve their dreams through making strong choices. Lolo shares how she navigates daily life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). You are more than your limits. Choosing to see herself as more than a person with a disability and wheelchair user, Lolo chooses to live a bold and courageous life now because representation matters. She created this intersectional guide to provide tools for people with disabilities to thrive in personal growth, independence, and community building. Add this guide to your list of inclusion books! Inside, you'll find: ● An intersectional guide on how to grow personally and professionally ● Tools for people with disabilities to live a full life despite limitations and expectations ● Words from the inspiring Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, your favorite disability advocate

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Go: A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime Author: Drew Binsky Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Travel YouTuber Drew Binsky, who has visited every country in the world, shares everything you need to know to go anywhere you want. In 2021, Drew Binsky completed his 10-year journey to travel to every country in the world—all 197 of them. Now, for the first time, Drew reveals his wildest stories and best moments, even from places the United Nations deems the most “dangerous.” As you’ll discover with him as your guide, the world is more accessible than you think, and no matter where you’re from, people have more in common than they do differences. Just Go offers readers the adventure of a lifetime, presenting not only the tricks Drew himself has used in his trips, but also the best-kept secrets from every corner of the world. Just Go is equally a practical handbook for globe-trotters and aspiring travelers as it is an intimate and heartwarming celebration of people and cultures across the globe.In this fun and friendly guide, Drew will show you how to:• Obtain visas for obscure destinations• Make fast friends with trustworthy locals• Navigate language barriers• Share your journey and get started as a content creator• Have the greatest adventure of your lifeAs one of the few people who traveled internationally in 2020, Drew witnessed and recorded the pandemic response in countries everywhere—and realized how crucial it is for the world to reconnect. Filled with stories and tips Drew has never before shared, this book will give you the tools and inspiration to get out there and just go wherever you want.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Avalanches: A Memoir Author: Becky Ellis Narrator: Sara Van Beckum, Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her father's PTSD, she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won't talk about being a Timberwolf, a unit of specially trained night fighters that went into combat first and experienced a 300 percent casualty rate. He returns home with thirteen medals and becomes a doctor, but is haunted by his past. Seeing only his explosive and often dangerous personality, Becky distances herself from the man she wants to love. Yet on the eve of his ninetieth birthday, when Becky looks at the vulnerable man he's become, something shifts, and she asks about the war. He breaks seventy years of silence, offering an unfiltered account of war without glory and revealing the extent of the trauma he's endured. She spends the next several years interviewing, researching, and ultimately understanding the demons she inherited. Because his story is incomplete without hers, and hers is inconceivable without his, Ellis offers both, as well as their year-long aching conversation marked by moments of redeeming grace. With compassionate, unflinching writing, Little Avalanches reminds us that we are profoundly shaped by the secrets we keep and forever changed by the stories we share.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of a Thousand Stars: A Memoir Author: Hajah Kandeh Narrator: Hajah Kandeh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-three, Hajah Kandeh flees Sierra Leone carrying the trauma of abandonment, the shame of a dark family secret, and a deep desire to reconnect with her mother. Her journey takes her from the lush plains of Africa to the “promised land” of San Francisco, where she tries to make sense of the disparity between the two cultures and faces personal challenges that go beyond what she left behind. Daughter of a Thousand Stars is the true account of one woman’s unyielding will to survive—a story that shows us the strength of the human spirit even when stretched to the breaking point. Hajah dares us to believe in our capacity to overcome adversity and be a force for good in this world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like Pulling Teeth: Fact and Fiction from a Peripatetic Dentist  Author: Dr. William J. Hartel Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Travelogues, professional adventures, offbeat stories, and other musings by a lifelong lover of science and exploration.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World Author: Claudia Marseille Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most “normal” childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated—fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture. This memoir explores Claudia’s relationships with her German refugee parents—a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich—and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love. But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East Author: Gaar Adams Narrator: Gaar Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction Upon moving to the Gulf States – where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death – Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. From the UAE to Bahrain and Oman to Saudi Arabia – a region where four out of five residents are noncitizens – he begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question: Isn't it harder for you to make a life here? But as unforgettable residents share a kaleidoscope of stories – from uproarious Filipino salon workers throwing secret drag parties to a courageous Pakistani farmhand helping his compatriots smuggle themselves across borders – cracks emerge in the framing of his enquiry, revealing disquieting assumptions about the motivations, places and identities of others. As Gaar begins his own clandestine queer relationship, fault lines and deeper questions begin to emerge: about what we perpetuate and refuse to examine, and how we balance opportunity, risk, subversion and assimilation. Weaving revealing memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of dislocation not just through the Gulf States – one of the most maligned and misunderstood regions in the world – but into the very nature of home, belonging and how we form a life and community. ©2024 Gaar Adams (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.   And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities. Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced and overcome and of shattering glass ceilings and opening doors for future generations of leaders. She shares her early battles with childhood illness and her desire to overcome stereotypes, while also chronicling her meteoric rise through various roles in the field of health care, leading to her service as the nation's top medical officer. In Duty Calls, listeners will learn about: ● Dr. Novello's early life and her struggles with congenital megacolon ● How she became the first female/first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States ● Her efforts to vaccinate and provide health care resources to her home in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ● Wisdom and insights Dr. Novello gained through her life experiences