Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World Author: Geoffrey Stevens, Flora Macdonald Narrator: Sarah Orenstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time. Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan. Flora was driven by a lifelong conviction that there is nothing a woman cannot achieve in a world controlled by men, and she pursued this conviction in everything she did, carving a path for women in Parliament. She won international acclaim for bringing 60,000 Vietnamese refugees to Canada, and for engineering the rescue of six American hostages in Tehran in a top-secret collaboration with the CIA known as the Canadian Caper. She exposed the inhumane treatment of inmates at Kingston’s Prison for Women. She defied male chauvinists in the Progressive Conservative party by running for its leadership, and she introduced the Employment Equity Act to guarantee women equal access to federal jobs. Flora was brave. She was relentless. She was controversial. She was a force of nature. In her own words and drawing from interviews with those who knew her, Flora! grants us insight into this exceptional woman who changed the course of history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Common Yet Uncommon: 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life Author: Sudha Murty Narrator: Pallavi Bharti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox-to be filled with food-wherever she goes!Written in Sudha Murty's inimitable style, Common Yet Uncommon is a heartwarming picture of everyday life and the foibles and quirks of ordinary people. In the fourteen tales that make up the collection, Sudha Murty delves into memories of childhood, life in her hometown and the people she's crossed paths with. These and the other characters who populate the pages of this book do not possess wealth or fame. They are unpolished and outspoken, transparent and magnanimous.Their stories are tales of unvarnished humans, with faults and big hearts.Testament to the unique parlance of a small town, Common Yet Uncommon speaks a universal language of what it means to be human.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/726229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hanging By A Thread Author: Erin Deering Narrator: Erin Deering Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What would it take to walk away from your dream life in Monaco and a global, multi-million-dollar business? Wind back the clock on any Australian or New Zealand woman in her thirties or forties today and you'd probably find a Triangl bikini tucked away in her swimwear drawer. The uniquely neoprene, colour-blocked bikinis were the summer accessory season after season. Yet as customers snapped selfies at the beach, one woman was holed up in a smog-filled Hong Kong apartment, living on canned soup, battling twenty-hour days and debilitating depression, trying to make it all happen. Hanging by a Thread takes a vulnerable deep dive into success and the challenge of caring for your mental health while in pursuit of your dreams. From getting scammed out of $50,000, trying to illegally cross the border into China, meeting with elite private equity firms with a three-month-old baby in tow and even experiencing the Kardashian-Jenner-kiss-of-death, Hanging By A Thread shares what it was really like behind the closed doors of one of Australia's young start-up success stories, and to be a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Showing Off to Showing UP Author: Nancy Regan Narrator: Nancy Regan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: December 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nancy Regan appeared as if she had it all together; she was a happy wife and mother and loved her successful career as a television broadcaster. Her memoir, From Showing Off to Showing UP, reveals just how close she was to having everything in that perfect illusion fall apart. With lyrical prose, Regan explores overcoming imposter syndrome, stage fright, and perfectionism, and the journey toward embracing our most authentic selves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ciudad Presidio: Cosas para hacer en la tarde, antes del fin del mundo Author: Santiago Gamboa Narrator: Adrián Wowczuk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Ciudad Presidio es una clara demostración de que el derecho a la lectura y la escritura es, ante todo, pura potencia de afirmación de la vida, puro combate cuerpo a cuerpo contra la muerte'. Mario Mendoza Este es el audiolibro más personal de Santiago Gamboa. Realizado durante casi tres años, contiene una serie de reflexiones honestas y cautivantes en las que el autor revela aspectos de su vida y su oficio, sus lecturas y su biblioteca, así como algunas de sus opiniones más lúcidas sobre arte, literatura y la realidad del país. En el centro de todo aparecen dos preguntas: ¿qué es escribir?, y, fundamentalmente, ¿por qué se escribe? Para tratar de responder a ello, Gamboa nos embarca en un recorrido fascinante por las ciudades en las que ha vivido, como París, Bogotá, Delhi, Madrid o Roma, y por muchas otras como Washington, Ciudad de México o Seúl; por hoteles y bares legendarios -como el hotel Ambos Mundos de La Habana, que Hemingway solía frecuentar-, y por la obra de algunos de los autores que lo han acompañado a lo largo de su trayectoria -Michel Houellebecq, Paul Bowles, Roberto Bolaño, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Duras, Juan Goytisolo, Karen Blixen y Virginia Woolf, entre otros-. De este viaje literario, íntimo, por momentos confesional, salimos con la certeza de que la palabra será siempre un refugio, y el impulso creador, un modo de supervivencia. La crítica ha dicho: 'El talento de Gamboa para cultivar la intriga y la extravagante energía de sus historias hacen que su lectura sea compulsiva'. Times Literary Supplement 'Su obra mezcla la poesía con una violencia extraordinariamente cruda y unaironía extraordinariamente ácida. […] Lo que más me gusta de sus novelas es la mezcla de géneros y estilos'. Pierre Lemaitre Sobre Colombian Psycho: 'Esta es la historia de un país donde las víctimas se acaban convirtiendo en victimarios. Y duele'. Pilar Manzanares, Esquire 'Gamboa nos muestra un fresco de la violencia de su país, machacado por décadas de guerra y con muchas heridas abiertas. [...] Un envite literario de primer orden en una novela con un poderoso lenguaje'. Juan Carlos Galindo, El País Sobre Perder es cuestión de método: 'El acierto de Gamboa es haber contado este relato amargo mediante una trama apasionante y un tono narrativo lleno de humor que roza hábilmente lo grotesco. Los diálogos son trepidantes. Los personajes gozan de auténtico estatuto de seres vivientes'. José Manuel Fajardo, El Mundo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brilliant Life: An Unforgettable Memoir of Love, Loss and the Ability of the Heart to Heal Author: Rachelle Unreich Narrator: Rachelle Unreich, Rachel Griffiths Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe: a mother's love.' - Jonathan Freeland, The Escape Artist A powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter - a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mira was only 12 years old when World War II broke out and 17 when the Nazis finally caught up with her. Torn apart from her family, she went on to survive four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March when she was too weak to walk. She lived when almost everyone she knew did not. At 88, living in Australia, Mira is diagnosed with cancer and her daughter, a journalist, decides to interview her to distract her from her illness. As Mira gives her testimony Rachelle comes to understand how Mira's unique perspective - seeing her experiences through the lens of the goodness of the people who helped her - protected her from the depths of humanity's cruelty, and enabled her to go on to live a full and brilliant life. Rachelle also fits together the jigsaw pieces of her own life as a child of a survivor. She comes to understand that however different their lives have been, she and her mother are uniquely united by a fierce inner strength to live, and a mystery of strange things that always seem to happen around them. A beautiful story of love, loss, wonder and the deepest kind of trust in life, A Brilliant Life questions the role that fate, chance and destiny play. It is a tribute to family, a story of incredible resilience, and a chronicle of the deep connection between a mother and a child which not even death can destroy. With an exclusive introduction and sources read by the author.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gender Euphoria: Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers Author: Laura Kate Dale Narrator: Laura Kate Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for many non-cisgender people, it's gender euphoria that pushes forward their transition: the joy the first time a parent calls them by their new chosen name, the first time they have the confidence to cut their hair short, the first time they truly embrace themself. In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid, and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called 'Daddy,' an Arab trans man getting his first tattoos, a trans woman embracing her inner fighter. What they have in common are their feelings of elation, pride, confidence, freedom and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as non-cisgender, and how coming to terms with their gender has brought unimaginable joy into their lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich schwimme nicht mehr da, wo die Krokodile sind Author: Sabine Kuegler Narrator: Madeleine Coco Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Von der Autorin des Weltbestsellers 'Dschungelkind' Sabine Kuegler wuchs im Dschungel von Westpapua auf, ihr Buch 'Dschungelkind' wurde ein weltweiter Millionenbestseller. Mit 17 Jahren kam sie nach Europa und erfuhr einen Kultur-Clash. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg, hat Kinder, Freunde und Arbeit. Aber noch immer ist sie eine Zerrissene zwischen den Welten und der innere Kampf um ihre Identität quält sie. Im Dschungel hatte sie gelernt, unsichtbar zu werden, um zu überleben - in der westlichen Welt muss man sichtbar sein. Sie wurde darauf trainiert, ihre Welt mit allen Sinnen wahrzunehmen, aber hier waren sie permanent überreizt. Sie zweifelt und blickt von außen und innen auf unsere Zivilisation: Sind wir hier glücklich? Entfremdet? Gesund? Krank? Mehrfach kehrt sie in den Dschungel zurück. Bei einer dieser Reisen erkrankt Sabine Kuegler schwer, gilt als austherapiert und unternimmt einen letzten verzweifelten Rettungsversuch: Sie verlässt Deutschland, gibt ihre Kinder in die Obhut ihrer Väter und geht zurück in den Dschungel, in die Kultur, in der sie sich beschützt fühlt. Sie erlebt dort Abenteuer, die für viele Menschen kaum zu glauben sind. Erst nach fünf Jahren kommt sie zurück und erzählt erstmals von dieser dramatischen Zeit, von ihrer Suche nach Heilung, Glück und ihrem Platz im Leben. Dabei öffnet ihr einzigartiges Leben vielleicht auch die Chance, in einer globalisierten Welt Mittlerin zwischen den Kulturen zu sein. 'Meine Geschichte begann an dem Tag, an dem mein Vater das Volk der Fayu entdeckte, einen Stamm, der in seiner Entwicklung seit Jahrhunderten stillsteht. Es war auch der Beginn des inneren Zusammenpralls zweier Welten. Denn ich trage in mir die Kultur, die Psychologie, die Mentalität und die Spiritualität von zwei Gesellschaften, die so gegensätzlich und so voneinander verschieden sind, dass sie auf unterschiedlichen Planeten zu Hause sein müssten.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - 11 de septiembre: Esa semana Author: Isabel Allende Bussi Narrator: Valentina Muhr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 38 minutes Release date: November 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 50 años después del Golpe, la hija menor de Salvador Allende relata qué ocurrió durante esa fatídica semana. El martes 11 de septiembre la autora de este libro partió en su automóvil a La Moneda para acompañar a su padre, el presidente Salvador Allende, en la resistencia al golpe de Estado. Salió del palacio antes del bombardeo y, desde ese momento, tuvo que pasar por situaciones angustiantes e insólitas antes de salir con su familia, en calidad de exiliadas, a México, el sábado 15 de septiembre. Este audiolibro, un ejercicio de memoria de lo acontecido durante esa semana, ofrece por primera vez un panorama íntimo de cómo la familia Allende Bussi tuvo que lidiar con episodios dolorosos y resguardados en la intimidad hasta hoy: la muerte del padre, el bombardeo a Tomás Moro, el entierro anónimo en Viña del Mar, la rápida salida de su hermana Beatriz 'Tati' Allende con el cuerpo diplomático cubano, el asilo familiar en la Embajada de México y la -hasta último minuto- angustiosa salida al país mediante la valiente gestión del embajador Gonzalo Martínez. Isabel Allende Bussi ofrece una poderosa y pormenorizada evocación de esa semana, en que la gesta del presidente de resistir hasta el final impactó al mundo entero.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - 'Du wirst noch an mich denken' - Liebeserklärung an eine schwierige Mutter (Ungekürzt) Author: Dorothee Röhrig Narrator: Hildegard Meier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Als Dorothee Röhrig auf ein altes Foto ihrer Mutter stößt, setzt sich ein Gedankenkarussell in Bewegung. Was weiß sie über diese Frau, die 18 war, als ihr Vater Hans von Dohnanyi hingerichtet wurde? Die nach dem Krieg versuchte, ihre traumatisierte Mutter Christine in das Familienleben einzubetten - so wie die Autorin später selbst für ihre von Verlusten gezeichnete Mutter da war. Mit großer emotionaler Ehrlichkeit erzählt Dorothee Röhrig vom widersprüchlichen Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter und der Rolle der Frauen in einer außergewöhnlichen Familie. Ein Nachdenken über die Ambivalenz der Gefühle und darüber, was es heißt, Teil einer Familie zu sein, die jedem Einzelnen viel abverlangt.