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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More: A Memoir of Open Marriage Author: Molly Roden Winter Narrator: Molly Roden Winter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept. So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fuelled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person. Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighbourhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work? More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfilment. With warmth, humour, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self. 'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington Post ©2024 Molly Roden Winter (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Lärm des Lebens (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jörg Hartmann Narrator: Jörg Hartmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Der Lärm des Lebens erzählt Jörg Hartmann auf hinreißende Weise seine Geschichte und die seiner Eltern und Großeltern. Es ist eine Liebeserklärung an die Kraft der Familie - und an den Ruhrpott. Ob es um die Situation seiner gehörlosen Großeltern im Nationalsozialismus geht, das Leben seiner Mutter als Pommesbudenbesitzerin, die Demenzerkrankung seines Vaters, der Dreher und leidenschaftlicher Handballer war, die vielen skurrilen Erlebnisse in der Großfamilie oder um Schlüsselbegegnungen, die er als Schauspieler hatte - immer hält Hartmann die Balance zwischen Tragik und Komik. Er hat dabei einen kraftvollen Erzählton - persönlich, berührend, humorvoll. Und fragt: Warum kehren wir immer wieder zu unseren Wurzeln zurück? Es geht Hartmann darum, den Kreislauf des Lebens zu fassen: Eltern und Kinder, Anfang und Ende, Aufbruch und Ankunft, Werden und Vergehen - eben alles, was zum geliebten Lärm des Lebens gehört. Ein weises, geschichtenpralles Hörbuch über Herkunft und Heimat - und den Wunsch, sich davon zu lösen und in die Welt zu ziehen. Eine Éducation sentimentale und, wie nebenbei, eine Mentalitätsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Maskenball: I did it my way Author: Riyas Hoge Narrator: Riyas Hoge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wenn ich heute in den Spiegel schaue, sehe ich einen gutaussehenden (Mal mehr, mal weniger) jungen Mann. Nicht perfekt. Narben überall am Körper, ein kleines Bäuchlein, Lovehandles, nicht sehr groß oder gar muskulös. Aber ein Anblick der mir gefällt. Das war nicht immer so und der Weg dahin war gepflastert mit Ängsten, Schmerzen, Abscheu, Komplikationen, Depressionen und Hoffnung. Mein Name ist Riyas Hoge und in I did it my way - Maskenball nehme ich euch mit auf meinen Weg in ein freies Leben.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gegen den Wind - Mein Traum von den Weltmeeren (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Sanni Beucke Narrator: Julia Dernbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Faszination Hochsee-Segeln: Sanni Beucke nimmt uns in ihrer Biografie mit auf die Weltmeere In ihrer abenteuerlichen Autobiografie erzählt Susann 'Sanni' Beucke, wie sie seit ihrer Kindheit ihren großen Traum verfolgt: als Seglerin an den Olympischen Spielen teilzunehmen. Dabei helfen ihr vor allem ihr Durchhaltevermögen, die Beharrlichkeit und ihr Glaube an sich selbst. Als Profisportlerin war die Teilnahme an den Olympischen Spielen ihr Lebensinhalt, aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als einfach. 15 Jahre lang setzt die gebürtige Kielerin alles daran, das Ziel 'Olympia' zu erreichen. Zweimal scheitert sie unter tragischen Umständen in der Qualifikation. Doch sie lässt sich nicht von ihrem Ziel abbringen, und im dritten und letzten Anlauf klappt es schließlich - sie gewinnt eine Silbermedaille in Tokio. Allein auf dem weiten Ozean Sanni Beucke teilt ihre Liebe für das Meer und das unglaubliche Gefühl grenzenloser Freiheit beim Segeln. Nach ihrem Olympia-Triumph sucht sie eine neue Herausforderung: Als Hochseeseglerin will sie den Kampf mit den Elementen auf hoher See aufnehmen und setzt sich das Ziel, beim härtesten Segelrennen der Welt, der Vendeé Globe mitzusegeln. Beim Ocean Race 2023 startet sie als Mitglied im Team Holcim PRB in dieses Abenteuer und kann in Kapstadt sogar einen spektakulären Etappensieg feiern. Ihre Zukunft wird von der Faszination für die unendliche Weite des Ozeans bestimmt. Hier fühlt sie sich frei. This Race is Female Sanni Beuckes Autobiografie zeigt, dass es sich lohnt, seinen Träumen nachzugehen - auch wenn man auf dem Weg dorthin viele Rückschläge wegstecken und strukturelle Missstände überwinden muss. Segeln ist immer noch ein Sport, der vor allem von Männern dominiert wird. Sanni Beucke will das ändern und zeigt, dass Frauen auch aufs Meer gehören. Mit ihrem Hörbuch macht sie Frauen Mut, sich durchzusetzen und empowert sie. Ihr Hörbuch erzählt von Angst und Einsamkeit, aber vor allem von Euphorie und der unendlichen Leidenschaft für das Meer. Eine Hommage an das Abenteuer und die Freiheit und eine Ermutigung, groß zu träumen. Wer gerne Sport-Biografien hört, wird die Autobiografie von Sanni Beucke lieben.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/744877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Nothing Someone Author: Alice Carrière Narrator: Alice Carrière Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist?Jennifer Bartlett,?and a charismatic father, European actor?Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger—a child living in an adult's world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision. When she enters adolescence, Alice begins to lose her grasp on reality, as a dissociative disorder erases her identity and overzealous doctors medicate her further away from herself. She inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, a denizen of the downtown New York music scene, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men—ricocheting from experience to experience until?a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her mother as she descends into dementia, in a love affair with a recovering addict who steadies her, in confronting her father whose words and actions splintered her, and in finding her voice as a writer. Everything/Nothing/Someone?explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly, irrevocably, and on our own terms. In pulsing, energetic prose that is both precise and probing, Alice manages to untangle the stories told to her by her parents, the American psychiatric complex, and her own broken mind to craft a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, finally, cure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaslight Days: Book 3 - The Journey Goes On Author: Edward Forde Hickey Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some children still spent summer hopping in Kent. Our class went camping in Ashdown Forest, a change from the bomb sites. We had the cubs and brownies where we earned proficiency badges in a number of skills. On Sundays, the Lido was a short bus ride away. More of our relations now came from Ireland and our Christmas parties were exciting. Passing the scholarship meant losing friends but gaining new ones. Among my friends in the streets of Paddington, this meant I was an outsider once more - a mixed blessed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Zoe Ukhona: a Journey through Infertility and Adoption Author: Zindzi Mandela, Pelle Hvenegaard Narrator: Keith Higinbotham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials of the adoption system, they finally open the doors of their Copenhagen home to little Zoe Ukhona. Pelle’s account, told through letters to his daughter, is brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly tragic, and yet filled with warmth and good humour. It is a story of love, family, and hope. Highly recommended to those moved by Sarah Sentilles’ “Stranger Care” and 'Finding Chika' by Mitch Albom. Pelle Hvenegaard first became world famous at twelve years old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film 'Pelle the Conqueror'. A career in television and broadcast journalism followed. He has written four books on themes of adoption, love and identity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Slavery to the Stars Author: Andreea Kindryd Narrator: Andreea Kindryd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure.  It's about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor's love story; it's a journey through history, loss, and triumph. Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and faced the challenges of breaking through the glass ceiling. She has fulfilled her dreams now and makes her home on the other side of the world, living under the stars of the Southern Cross in Australia. Her story is a celebration of human resilience, a testament to the beauty of diversity, and a reminder of our shared journey on this planet. It's a firsthand account of remarkable people who changed the world, seen through her unique and personal lens. A must-read for those who crave a story that both enlightens and entertains.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between Author: Christian Espinosa Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some regrets don’t hit you all at once. They seep in at the corners of your life, at night or on a long drive, until they become a refrain. Those are the worst regrets of all. I was living in a bubble that burst on May 9, 2022. It was the middle of the afternoon. As my partner Vanessa and I approached a major intersection, a blue car accelerated, ran the red light, and T-boned a black truck directly in front of us. BOOM! The blue car’s hood crumpled like an accordion to absorb the impact. Within seconds, its front end was completely smashed, and its windows were broken. Then, everything went out of focus, except for what I needed to do—assess the scene for safety, check on the drivers of the blue car and black truck, and call 911. Nothing else mattered—I felt a heightened sense of purpose. I had always focused on one macro moment after another—the next mountain to climb or business to start. I hadn’t spent much time appreciating the micro-moments—life in between the macros. I’d been living in a macro-moment bubble. The accident awakened a desire to paint a complete picture of who I wanted to be and how I wanted to approach my life. This is my story of learning how to value the in-between and prioritize consciously living in the micro.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz Author: Pequena Lô Narrator: Mari Haruno Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 42 minutes Release date: February 19, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: O que a gente faz quando não sabe o que fazer? Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz. Este livro começa com a minha história e esbarra na sua. Na correria do dia a dia e nos detalhes da rotina, você vai perceber que somos mais parecidos do que imaginamos. O meu desejo é que as minhas vivências e histórias te façam enxergar que é possível encontrar graça onde nada parece fazer sentido. Você está pronto? Eu espero que sim. Mas se não estiver, tudo bem também. Vem comigo, que no caminho eu te explico.