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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Suddenly Single at Sixty Author: Jo Peck Narrator: Anna Hruby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, Jo Peck—smart, successful and sixty—is totally floored. There's the complete bombshell of the news, the cliché of a younger woman—a much younger woman—there's the disappointment of cancelled retirement travel plans, and there's the foundation-rocking loss of her sense of identity—if she's no longer Rex's wife, who the hell is she? She's lost and angry and hurt and confused. But not for long! There's the comfort and support of excellent friends and newly forged connections with extended family, there's therapy. And there's internet dating. This inspiring, witty and at times hilarious memoir tells the story of the road from shock and despair to an unexpected new life, of friendship, romance and racy sex—proof that being suddenly single at sixty is not the end, it's an opportunity for a fabulous new beginning.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative. Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Souad a dix-sept ans, elle est amoureuse. Dans son village comme dans beaucoup d'autres, l'amour avant le mariage est synonyme de mort. « Déshonorée », sa famille désigne son beau-frère pour exécuter la sentence. Aux yeux de tous, cet homme est un héros. C'est ce que l'on appelle un « crime d'honneur ». Ce n'est en fait qu'un lâche assassinat. L'exécutant ne risque rien, il n'est presque jamais poursuivi, encore plus rarement condamné. Plus de cinq mille cas sont répertoriés chaque année dans le monde, bien d'autres ne sont jamais connus. Atrocement brûlée, Souad a été sauvée par miracle. Elle a décidé de parler pour toutes celles qui aujourd'hui risquent leur vie. Pour dire au monde la barbarie de cette pratique. Elle le fait au péril de sa vie car l'atteinte à « l'honneur » de sa famille est imprescriptible. Brûlée vive est un témoignage bouleversant, mais aussi un appel, afin de briser le tabou du silence insupportable qui recouvre la mort de ces femmes. Victimes de la loi des hommes. ©2003 Oh Éditions / XO Éditions

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg: Erinnerungen Author: Josef Ackermann Narrator: Klaus B. Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Josef Ackermann ist einer der international bekanntesten Topmanager. Berühmt und umstritten. Bankenboss, Krisenmanager, Reizfigur. Nach Studium und Militärzeit legte er eine rasante Karriere bei der SKA hin und wurde als erster Ausländer zum CEO der Deutschen Bank und an die Spitze des Weltbankenverbandes IIF berufen. Mit dem Ziel einer 25%igen Eigenkapitalrendite erregte Ackermann den Zorn von Politikern, Journalisten und Kirchenfürsten. Sein Victory-Zeichen während des Mannesmann-Prozesses sorgte für nationale Empörung. Ackermann ist aber weit mehr als das „kalte Gesicht des Kapitalismus“. Er war Zeitzeuge der Terroranschläge 9/11, enger Berater von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, in- und ausländischer Finanzminister und Politikern in den hochdramatischen Wochen der globalen Finanzkrise und trug entscheidend dazu bei, einen Kollaps des globalen Finanzsystems zu verhindern. Erstmals berichtet Ackermann, was hinter den Kulissen geschah und gewährt Einblicke in sein Privatleben, von den Kindheitstagen bis in die Welt der Hochfinanz.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journeys in Economic Theory Author: Edmund Phelps Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. My Journeys in Economic Theory charts two major phases of Phelps's work, illuminating the breadth of his contributions to the field. First, introducing the expectations of wage setters and cofounding the 'equilibrium' rate of unemployment, he built the microeconomic foundations for the employment theory pioneered by Keynes and Hicks. More recently, he conceived a theory of 'mass flourishing' in which individuals' creativity and society's dynamism fuel grassroots innovation and generate job satisfaction in the process. Phelps recounts his vivid experiences in the world of economics as well as his relationships with luminaries such as John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Paul Samuelson, and Paul Volcker. At its core, this book shares the joy of intellectual achievement: the excitement of coming up with a new idea that radically departs from prevailing views and the satisfaction of exercising one's own ingenuity instead of applying or developing others' models.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After Author: Christina Ford Narrator: Christina Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: PRINCE CHARMING? HAPPILY EVER AFTER? CHILDHOOD FAIRY TALES ARE FULL OF PROMISES, BUT THE REALITY - LIFE - IS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. AND THAT STORY HAS A HELL OF A LOT TO TEACH US. Writing with searing honesty, wry humour and endless warmth, Christina Ford takes us on a real-life Sex and the City-like journey as she looks back on four decades of dates, loves, marriages, friends, frenemies, affairs, divorces, parenting disasters and step-parenting nightmares. Bravely and candidly, she shares heartrending details of the betrayal and hurt caused by the end of her marriage, shows how she overcame her fears about starting again and lets us in on the secret of the perfectly timed fling that was more effective than years of therapy. Together, these intimate insights show exactly how such experiences and their lessons came to define the woman she is today. In Search of Mr Darcy is for anyone who has ever wondered if there is life after divorce, if there is sex after 40, or if they will ever find love again. Hearts get broken, and even life's best-planned journeys can drop you somewhere unexpected, leading you to ask yourself, 'How did I get here? And, more importantly, who can I blame?' But Christina Ford is here to tell you that is exactly where the real adventure begins. This book will help you redefine love, womanhood, and what it means to come of age ... middle age. “A 21st-century Nora Ephron.” - Stephen May “A triumph. Hope-filled and life-affirming.” - Sunday Post

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuchillo Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Juan Ricardo León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En estas desgarradoras nuevas memorias, Salman Rushdie -escritor internacionalmente admirado, defensor de la libertad de expresión y ganador del Premio Booker de los Bookers y del Premio de La Paz de los Libreros alemanes, entre otros muchos- narra cómo sobrevivió al atentado contra suvida treinta años después de la fatwa que ordenó el ayatolá Jomeiní contra él. Por primera vez, y con una franqueza conmovedora, Rushdie habla sobre los traumáticos acontecimientos vividos el 12 de agosto de 2022, respondiendo con la fuerza del arte a la violencia ejercida contra él, y recordándonos el poder que tienen las palabras para otorgar sentido a lo impensable. Cuchillo es una meditación poderosa, profundamente personal y, en última instancia, reafirmante sobre la vida, la pérdida, el amor, el arte... y sobre cómo reunir la fuerza necesaria para ponerse de nuevo en pie. «Sentí la necesidad de escribir este libro: una forma de procesar lo sucedido y de responder a la violencia con arte». Salman Rushdie La crítica ha dicho: «Un libro que procura convertir la palabra en una herramienta punzante que atraviese el mundo como el filo de un metal muy afilado, que desgarre y penetre, que perfore la conciencia de quienes lo leen». Karina Sainz Borgo, ABC «Cuchillo es el triunfo de los principios frente a la barbarie, del lenguaje y el pensamiento articulados frente al odio inmotivado y sus cuchilladas ágrafas. Un libro en el que la compasión y el dolor, el agravio y la ira, se dan la mano […] Lean todo Rushdie, el más gran fabulador anglosajón de los últimos cincuenta años, a la altura de su maestro García Márquez». Enrique Murillo, La Vanguardia – Culturas «Rushdie hace uso de su don imaginativo para crear cuatro sesiones de un encuentro imaginario con su agresor. En ellas, muestra lo que ha estado haciendo en toda su obra: reivindicar el diálogo, arrinconar la ortodoxia y la literalidad, rebatir la mente cautiva del radicalizado, desnudar el victimismo, señalar a los autoritarios, celebrar la libertad». Marta Rebón, El Mundo «Cuchillo es un título que anticipa inequívocamente lo que podemos encontrar en sus páginas: dolor físico y psíquico, violencia ciega, horror moral. Sin embargo, también hay humor, esperanza y gratitud. Al igual que el Nobel egipcio Naguib Mahfuz, apuñalado por islamistas radicales, Salman Rushdie ha vuelto a escribir, venciendo al fanatismo que pretendía silenciarlo. La palabra ha triunfado sobre el terror». Rafael Narbona, El Cultural «La cura, al final llegaría por una vía que había descartado de antemano: la literatura. Y, también por una visita, justo un año después, al lugar donde sufrió este ataque. El resto es historia. O no. El resto es este libro: Cuchillo». Javier Ors, La Razón «Rushdie más que defenderse, ataca y pasa a de ser acuchillado a ser acuchillador». Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loose of Earth: A Memoir Author: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, 'it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit.' Stirred by her mother, the family committed to an extreme diet and sought deliverance from equally extreme sources: a traveling tent preacher, a Malaysian holy man, a local faith-healer who led services called 'Miracles on 34th Street.' What they didn't know was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe. Firefighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked. Commonly referred to as 'forever chemicals,' the presence of PFAS in West Texas besieged a landscape already burdened with vanishing water, taking up residence in wells and in the bloodstreams of people who lived there. An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition Author: Sean Scott Hicks Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption. Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles—known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried—because they’d done the burying—but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply “Uncle Jim” to him. After such an upbringing, a life of crime was a given. In this unprecedented memoir, Hicks talks about everything from his experience running illegal goods up and down the coast of Massachusetts to his theory about what really happened the night three hundred million dollars’ worth of art went missing from Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. Terms like money laundering and assault insufficiently describe his daily tasks, a brash existence that alternated with stints behind bars. This knuckles-close look at mobster life chronicles the greed and avarice, tenderness and brutality, and the reckoning all gangsters must eventually face. Hicks tells a story of blood and vengeance but also—surprisingly—of hope. The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition is an extraordinary memoir that illuminates the reality of what it’s really like in the dark, dangerous, and insidious places of the world, and what it takes to bring a person there and back again.