Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tommy's Field Author: Nikki Mark Narrator: Nikki Mark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark’s perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They’re still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring Tommy’s love of soccer and sharing his spirit of play with others. After family, friends, and LA’s soccer community banded together to raise over a million dollars for the project, park neighbors resistant to change threatened to derail it. Throughout Nikki’s journey, a remarkable string of incidents convinced her that her recently departed son was guiding her through the process. Ultimately, Tommy’s enduring spirit and the beautiful game he loved taught her how to navigate the challenges she faced along the way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes for the Children Author: Patrick Priestner Narrator: Patrick Priestner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “An example of how meaningful change begins—and where our path can lead if we are brave enough to keep asking why.”—Martin Luther King III, from the foreword In an extraordinary gift to his children, one father shows how the power of mindfulness and self-compassion can help chart a path through life’s challenges toward solace and joy. A unique memoir that weaves together stories of personal triumph, love, loss, and lessons learned, Notes for the Children follows Patrick Priestner throughout his life as a son, a brother, a car salesman, an award-winning automotive entrepreneur—and his most rewarding roles, as a husband and a father. Through his engaging and inspiring storytelling, Priestner transports readers from the streets of his childhood neighborhoods to the bustling car dealership where he made his first sale. He reveals the challenges and joys of his relationships with family members and loved ones and how music and Buddhist philosophy helped him cope with the struggles that life threw his way with compassion and forgiveness. Notes for the Children is a testament to the power of making small changes in life in order to heal, inspire, and connect. Priestner’s inspiring words offer reflections on life and its many lessons and show how the threads of experience make up the tapestry of life. All proceeds of Notes for the Children will be donated to Well-being Canada. Please visit wellbeing-canada.ca/ for more information.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better Dirty Than Done Author: Rick Czaplewski Narrator: Rick Czaplewski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Inspiring. Emotional. Profound. A Cancer Diagnosis and a Relapse … Grim Medical Results … The Expiring Clock … The Unquenchable Thirst to Live and Thrive … Already facing a wretched cancer diagnosis, a young man’s prospects for survival dim as he learns his treatments have not worked. Writing against the clock, he feverishly authors a story of profound joy and sadness exploring the life he could have lived. Desperately told, his story takes you through poignant memories, intimate relationships, and fantastical triumphs in a quest to make sense of it all and leave a legacy behind. An addictive, inspiring memoir, Better Dirty Than Done will have you turning pages and questioning the value of your own time. What would you do if your life suddenly had an imminent expiration date? Grab a box of tissues and reflect on both the fragility of life and its limitless potential for joy. Beautifully told through an authentic, intimate voice Better Dirty Than Done will inspire anyone seeking to make sense of life. It fits perfectly with the missions of hospitals and cancer organizations and on resource lists of inspirational reads for cancer patients and survivors. This is the perfect book for college students or university “book talk” events.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Siempre positivo, nunca negativo: Begegnungen auf dem Jakobsweg Author: Michael Engel Narrator: Michael Engel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Der Camino frances, der französische Jakobsweg, beginnt in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in den französischen Pyrenäen und endet nach 800 Kilometern in Santiago de Compostela. Er ist auch im 21. Jahrhundert noch eine Herausforderung, obwohl er jedes Jahr von Tausenden Pilgern gelaufen wird. Auch Michael Engel hat sich den Camino erobert. Sein Buch ist jedoch weder ein Wanderführer noch eine Routenbeschreibung. Er schildert uns seine Begegnungen mit Gleichgesinnten aus aller Welt und lässt uns hautnah an seinen Erfahrungen und Erlebnissen teilhaben. Wir lernen Menschen kennen, die den Weg aus unterschiedlichsten Motiven gehen – auf der Suche nach sich selbst, um einschneidende Erlebnisse zu verarbeiten oder aber, um sich selbst etwas zu beweisen. Alle eint ein Gedanke: Der Weg ist das Ziel! Die gegenseitige Hilfsbereitschaft, das Vertrauen zueinander, die Unterstützung und das friedliche Miteinander sind überragend und helfen vielen Pilgern das Ziel in Santiago zu erreichen. Michael ergänzt das Buch mit seiner »Camino-Playlist«. Jeder Tag, jede Etappe wird bereichert durch ein ganz besonderes Musikstück! Lassen Sie sich anstecken von diesem wunderbaren Buch und nehmen Sie sich doch auch mal wieder eine Herausforderung vor, zum Beispiel den Camino frances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Farming Life: Tales of Resilience from Inspiring Rural Women Author: Liz Harfull Narrator: Taryn Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Liz Harfull shares fascinating true stories of rural Australian women, showcasing the passion, tenacity and resilience required to make a life on the land. Making a living on the land in Australia can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, floods and bushfires - not to mention a global pandemic - have made it even more difficult. A FARMING LIFE shares the uplifting stories of women from six rural families as their resilience is tested by personal loss, illness, fractured relationships, natural disasters and the challenges that come with working in a traditionally male-dominated world. These women are all hands-on farmers - in fact, most are responsible for managing their own farms - and their defiance, tenacity and genuine humility shines through, as does their hope for the next generation of young women already lining up to follow in their footsteps.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir Author: Susannah Kennedy Narrator: Marnye Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself. But then Jane at seventy-five, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of forty-five years of hidden diaries. Daring to 'read' Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora's Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy relives her life through her mother's eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quilt of Souls: A Memoir Author: Phyllis Biffle Elmore Narrator: Phyllis Biffle Elmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked off her front porch in Detroit and dropped on her grandmother Lula Horn's doorstep in rural Alabama. Phyllis felt utterly abandoned until Grandma Lula showed her both all-encompassing love and her intricate 'Quilts of Souls.' Phyllis listened intently as Lula told epic stories of folks who had passed on as she turned their clothing into breathtaking quilts for their families. Grandma Lula's generosity of spirit, strong will, and creative soul animate each chapter, and through the quilts, she paints portraits of extraordinary Black women born before and after the Civil War. They are enslaved people, laundresses, storytellers, healers, and quilters whose stories have gone untold until now. Beautifully written and brilliantly told, Phyllis weaves back and forth through time, piecing together true tales of racism, sexism, and colorism, but also strength and pride, creating a multigenerational patchwork honoring her family and ancestors. From the engaging narrative to the powerful history, Quilt of Souls is oral tradition written and preserved for posterity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still More Stubborn Stars Author: Paul N. Gallant Narrator: Pat Sloan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Still More Stubborn Stars follows the story of Roger, a hapless but enthusiastic Come-from-Away who, arriving in Prince Edward Island with his family as a child, struggles to figure out the 'Island' way of life. Roger eventually rises to power, founding the sprawling Acadian Culture Centre in rural western PEI. Here he becomes an impresario of Acadian kitsch and a catalyst of cultural change - not without getting his heart broken and making a few enemies. When Roger dies suddenly at age 47, the death notice in the local newspaper unexpectedly lists a "special friend," a married woman and talented fiddler, setting off conflict and soul-searching in the "Up West" community. Roger's escapades fuel a comic, moving and sometimes thrilling drama across four decades of Prince Edward Island life. Taking place during the era of PEI's Comprehensive Development Plan (a government scheme to modernize the province), the renaissance of Acadian culture in the Island's rural communities and the campaign to build a "fixed link" eventually the Confederation Bridge-connecting PEI to the mainland this debut fiction will captivate and delight.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert Author: Daniel Asa Rose Narrator: Brandon Pollock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan's lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He's certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Three Lives: A Memoir Author: Tina Cole Narrator: Tina Cole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tina Cole has been a performer since she was old enough to walk and talk. She was brought up in the limelight of her famous parents: musician, Buddy Cole and Yvonne King of the singing King Sisters.Tina made her mark on the television world starring on the series Hawaiian Eye at the age of 19 and continued to perform on television with her famous family, The King Family on ABC.Tina became a national sensation when she joined the cast of “My Three Sons” as Katie Douglas and fans of the show fell In love with her.“Being in the film and TV industry, I’ve read a lot of biographies. The first thing I felt when reading Tina’s book is how much she created the feeling that you were a fly on the wall of her storybook life ... Tina shares so many life changing stories and experiences. Her book was an easy page turner … Get the popcorn out and enjoy the read!”- Victoria Burrows, 40+ years casting director: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Cast Away, Contact, The Polar Express, Walker Texas Ranger“Tina Cole’s long awaited book is an engaging gem of heartfelt memoir. She exudes joy as she shares the story of her family life and stardom as an actress-singer. Her writing voice is vibrant and insightful as she tells of both fame and life’s challenges. This book will resonate with baby boomers who grew up knowing and loving Tina Cole on television and live on stage.”- William Anderson, author at Harper Collins, Publishers Readers interested in the Golden Age of TV and Hollywood will find enjoyment in Cole’s memoir. She provides a candid look into her life growing up with her mother, Yvonne King of the singing King Sisters, and her father, musician Buddy Cole. She approaches her own time on and off-screen with honesty. This fast-paced book is told in three parts: her childhood; her time working on the long-running TV sitcom My Three Sons, in which she played Katie (opposite real-life boyfriend Don Grady); and her time after the show through the present. Readers who didn’t grow up watching Cole or her famous musical family on TV will likely still enjoy the inside she provides. This is a clear love letter to the Boomer generation. She talks with fondness of growing up in the ‘40s and ‘50s.