Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zeugnistag: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Series: #1 of Kennst du das? Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eine Kurzgeschichte als humorvoller Rückblick an die eigene Schulzeit, Jugend und die Besonderheiten dieser Zeit. Von Mitschülern, Lehrkräften und den besonderen Erlebnissen, die 'hängengeblieben' sind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Abseits vom Urteil: Der Todesstoss - Autobiografiekrimi Author: Matthias Küffner, Regina Schiele, Peter Urban Narrator: Regina Schiele Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Doch sie funktioniert: Die fiktive Geschichte nimmt dem Thema 'Spinale Muskelatrophie' des Utzmemminger Protagonisten Matthias Küffner und seiner langjährigen Assistentin Regina Schiele, die Schwere. Freude und Leid, Weinen und Lachen liegen nah beieinander. Und doch wird das aufregende Leben eines Kämpfers und Mutmachers realitätsnah geschildert. Ein Buch, das mitreißt. Und das Matthias' Lebensmotto bestens beschreibt: 'Geboren um zu leben!'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicky Winmar: My Story Author: Nicky Winmar Narrator: Luke Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for decades. Even fewer transcend sport and speak to an entire nation. April 17, 2023, marked the 30th anniversary of St Kilda legend Nicky Winmar's proud and defining stand against racism – one of those moments that hasn't diminished over time and regrettably is still just as relevant today. It is a stand that has become iconic, and so has Winmar, not just for his courage as he declared to a hostile, jeering crowd 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black' – but also because he is one of the game's great and most celebrated players. Born a Noongar man from the WA wheatbelt 200 kilometres from Perth, Neil Elvis 'Nicky' Winmar quickly displayed an ability to overcome adversity. He would need to. He had a hard upbringing but loved to play footy every day with his younger brother among the livestock on the sheep farm where their father worked as a shearer. The skinny teenager soon began playing football amongst hardened men for the local team and was signed to a senior team as a promising fifteen-year-old. Winmar would go on to become one of the most decorated players in AFL history. Recently inducted into the illustrious AFL Hall Of Fame, a member of the Indigenous Team of the Century, the St Kilda Team of the Century, a winner of Best and Fairest and Mark of the Year awards, Winmar became the first Indigenous footballer to play 200 games. This long-awaited autobiography tells the story of Winmar's brilliant career in colourful detail, as well as giving moving insight into his life. Amidst the pain, the turbulence and the triumph, his heart and abiding sense of humour shine through. 'One of the truly great players . . . an amazing talent . . . If actions speak louder than words then Nicky Winmar's actions were better than anyone's.' Tony 'Plugger' Lockett

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart Author: James R. Doty Narrator: James R. Doty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart   Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart.   Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736097 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duplicity - My Mothers' Secrets (Unabridged) Author: Donna Freed Narrator: Donna Freed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Just the most amazing story, a brilliant story, it's like discovering another world. How incredible to go back and search for your past in that way.' Jeremy Vine, BBC R2. 'Mesmerising, I couldn't stop reading'. Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times. 'A family scandal straight out of a Hollywood film noir .. what a story it is. I look forward to seeing it on Netflix'. Genevieve Gaunt, The Spectator. Donna's birth parents were infamous con artists at the heart one of the US's biggest crime investigations of the 1960's. Donna Freed was six years old when her sister casually revealed that she and her siblings were all adopted, a subject her parents refused to discuss. The revelation fractured Donna's sense of identity. The death of her tricky yet treasured adoptive mother died left Donna feeling exposed, her life un-witnessed without a mother to look over her. When she became a mother herself, Donna felt compelled to track down her birth mother. Trawling through records of the now notorious Louise Wise Adoption Service, many previously redacted, she uncovered an explosive and salacious story, one of the biggest true crime investigations to grip the USA in the late 1960s. Her (real) parents had faked her mother's death tby drowning o benefit from a massive life insurance payout - a manhunt ensued....This vivid memoir about motherhood and identity, explores the essence of what it is to be a mother and the fundamental truth of nature vs nurture.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaslight Days: Book 1: From Over the Seas Author: Edward Forde Hickey Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A chance to delve into the minds of children and adults among the ruined streets of post-war London. The streets were our playground with not a car in sight, where we played all day. On Sundays, bugle boy bands marched past us and in the evening the military band raised our spirits. Life was never dull. Our parents took us to the zoo and for boat rides on the Serpentine.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Txayenko (Eco de la cascada) Author: Elisa Loncon Antileo Narrator: Noelia Socolovski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El emocionante ejercicio de memoria de una protagonista indiscutible del Chile actual. Elisa Loncon ha querido en este libro narrar su trayectoria vital, una que comenzó en el Wallmapu, durante la reforma agraria y que despegó, luego de su paso por la escuela en Traiguén (no sin dificultades), con sus estudios universitarios, iniciando una ascendente carrera académica que tuvo como eje las indagaciones sobre su lengua materna como fenómeno vivo, pasando episodios memorables y recorriendo diversos países y sociedades descubriendo saberes y experiencias similares. De este modo, acompañamos a la autora en travesías por Canadá, México y Holanda, experiencias decisivas que llevaron a una académica experta en lingüística a ser protagonista de un proceso fundamental del Chile contemporáneo, convirtiéndose, en tanto presidenta de la Convención Constitucional, en portadora de un mensaje que trató de construir un nuevo pacto social entre los pueblos y el Estado sin dejar de mirar la naturaleza. 'Mi historia es la de tantas mujeres que se levantaron en contra del doble sistema de dominación patriarcal y de raza. Fui una niña feliz que creció rodeada de cariño y en contacto con la naturaleza, pero también víctima de privaciones y discriminaciones estructurales. […] He tenido también el privilegio de aprender y estudiar el lenguaje como fenómeno humano, de conocer el mundo y entablar amistades profundas con hombres y mujeres de otras latitudes. He visto nacer y morir. A la hora del balance no concibo manera más intensa de vivir que a través de lo colectivo».

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking Through: My Life In Science Author: Katalin Karikó Narrator: Eva Magyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determination through decades of obscurity and rejection – and her breakthrough discovery that saved millions of lives. *An Amazon Best Book of the Year* Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher’s daughter in post-war Communist Hungary: a hand-to-mouth existence in a single-room house of clay and straw with no running water. Breaking Through is her extraordinary memoir of how she achieved her dream of becoming a scientist, first in Hungary and then in the USA, and pursued her belief – despite so many telling her not to – that an elusive molecule could transform our ability to prevent disease. For three decades she worked in obscurity, battling cockroaches in a windowless lab, enduring demotion, the derision of her colleagues, even threats of deportation. But in 2020, Karikó’s vision was spectacularly vindicated when her work made possible the vaccines that brought an end to the pandemic, paving the way for similar vaccines against HIV, malaria and other life-threatening diseases. As frank, wise and fearless as Karikó herself, Breaking Through is a remarkable story of tenacity, friendship and loyalty, and one woman’s unshakeable commitment to her values. 'Few have overcome adversity like Katalin Karikó . . . This remarkable memoir . . . is a joy to read' Financial Times 'Riveting. A true story of a brilliant biochemist who never gave up or gave in' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Anyone who has ever doubted that science, innovation and persistence can change the world should read this book' BILL GATES ©2023 Katalin Karikó (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbroken Author: Indrani Mukerjea Narrator: Indrani Mukerjea, Vasundhra Bose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: You've seen the headlines and heard the rumours. Now hear the story from the woman who was at the centre of it all. 25 AUGUST 2015 was to be a happy day for Indrani Mukerjea-a birthday celebration had been planned in the family. But everything changed when she was accosted by a group of officers of the Mumbai Police in plain clothes as she exited Anand Ashram that day. The charge: the murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora. As the news spread and more details unravelled, Indrani found herself in the middle of a sensational murder investigation. A fast-expanding list of suspects, the beginnings of a sinister plot, and the strong whiff of scandal-the media had smelt blood. And, soon, Indrani was under the merciless glare of journalists and television anchors, making her a household name. Accusations of filicide, broken marriages, a mighty business empire, the gilded lives of the rich and famous, powerful politicians, and a complicated family-this case had it all. As a constant feed of images and updates from the trial bombarded television screens across the country, people across the country grew more and more curious about this woman who was at the very heart of the controversy and stories swirling around. In her memoir, Unbroken, Indrani doesn't hold back. From her childhood in Guwahati, the time she spent in Calcutta in the 1980s to her meteoric rise as a media baron in Mumbai, the city of dreams, and finally, the 2460 days she spent in Byculla jail as prisoner number 1468-this is her journey, in her own words, for the very first time. Told with unflinching honesty, Indrani's memoir speaks to the fragility of human relationships, the devastating aftermath of betrayal and grief, and the power of human resilience, of a woman who despite it all remains unbroken.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memories of an orphan boy Author: Francis Ravel Harvey Narrator: Francis Ravel Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Orphaned by losing his mother at three and his father - who went missing at eight – Sydney author Francis Ravel Harvey avoided the Welfare State by being raised by four older sisters in the colourful environs of Sydney in the nineteen thirties. The search for his cultivated English father is a constant thread throughout the book and reaches an amazing and heartbreaking conclusion when the author finally uncovers the truth surrounding his father’s death. Harvey’s writing has been compared by one critic with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for his ability to create a real sense of suspense and drama from his memories and for the description of the colourful characters who inhabited his world. Journalist and author, Francis Ravel Harvey was born at Homebush, New South Wales in 1930 and began his career as a cadet journalist on the Sun newspaper in 1947. In 1950 he worked for almost ten years as producer of the independent monthly music journal The Canon. He worked as a freelance journalist in the live theatre in Sydney, wrote scripts for the ABCs Tales of Many Lands, and episodes of Homicide for Crawford’s in Melbourne. In 1959 he founded his own bi-monthly magazine Theatregoer which ran for five years and published the first theatre yearbook for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (1959-60). He was theatre critic for the Canberra Times in the 70s. and then worked as an editor and writer for Horwitz Publications and Ure Smith, founding the first magazine in Australia on industrial design, Design Australia, for the Industrial Design Council of Australia, which was endorsed by the Duke of Edinburgh.