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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Show Up: Mindset, Motivation and Creating Your Dream Life Author: Tammy Hembrow Narrator: Tammy Hembrow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Whatever dreams you may have, if you want them enough, and you show up and back yourself, you can create the life you want. It’s completely up to you.’ Discover the accessible tools and tips that fitness and fashion entrepreneur Tammy Hembrow has used to build success and happiness in all the key areas of life. Have you ever wondered what you could achieve if you knew how to show up as your best, strongest self every day? Tammy Hembrow knew she wanted to make an impact on the world – and do it her way, as her own boss. Since founding Tammy Fit and Saski and becoming a mum aged 20, Tammy has had her share of ups and downs. But through it all she’s held strong on her values and motivations, and used a positive mindset to create a life she adores. Now, as she runs two multi-million-dollar businesses, raises three young kids and continues investing in her relationships, health and fitness, Tammy reveals what she’s learned about keeping everything balanced – while staying grounded and happy. In her first book, Tammy explains how she approaches and balances the big life priorities: - Work - Relationships - Movement - Nourishment - Parenting - Challenges - Development - Celebration Through candid stories from the behind-the-scenes of her life, Tammy shares her secrets about setting goals, building habits, staying motivated, embracing vulnerability and having fun. Written with Tammy’s characteristic warmth, energy and sense of humour, Show Up is filled with practical takeaways you can apply whenever you need a boost to drive you closer to your dreams. ©2024 Tammy Hembrow (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Salman Rushdie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him   A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide. Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Salman Rushdie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again. ©2024 Salman Rushdie (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/727385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith Author: Beth Holloway Narrator: Beth Holloway, Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee, had vanished without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Four years later, Beth Holloway steps forward to tell the story of her daughter's disappearance and her own harrowing ordeal—and her never-ending belief in the power of faith that gave her hope against all odds. When Natalee went missing, her photograph was splashed across newspaper front pages and television screens from coast to coast. Desperate for clues to the whereabouts of the lost eighteen-year-old, Beth searched relentlessly with the help of a dedicated army of volunteers, encountering roadblocks, obstacles, and misinformation at every step—and unbearable questions that had no answers. Loving Natalee is a shocking, tragic, yet poignant chronicle of an unthinkable event and its aftermath—and the inspiring true story of a mother's strength, courage, devotion, and unwavering love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America Author: Helen Tworkov Narrator: Helen Tworkov Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties and their legacy, this intimate self-portrait depicts Tworkov's search for a true home as she interacts with renowned artists and spiritual luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Joseph Goldstein, Bernie Glassman, Charles Mingus, Elizabeth Murray, and Richard Serra. Interweaving experience, research, and revelation, Helen Tworkov explores the relationship between Buddhist wisdom and American values, presenting a wholly unique look at the developing landscape of Buddhism in the West. Lotus Girl offers insight not only into Tworkov's own search for the truth but also into the ways each of us can better understand and transform ourselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Max: The lasting adventures of the world's most loved dog Author: Kerry Irving Narrator: Marston York Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ***The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller*** The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life of Max the Miracle dog A dog can be more than just a best friend. Sometimes they can be our hero. Shortly after a traumatic car accident, Kerry Irving met Max, a Springer Spaniel who completely changed his life. But Max didn’t stop there. For over ten years, he was a source of inspiration to countless others around the world, with hundreds of thousands of pounds being raised in his name. His was truly a life well lived. Forever Max sees Kerry and his trusted companion take on their final adventures around the Lake District, from providing joy to those stuck inside through lockdown to adjusting to Max’s twilight years – helped along every step of the way by fellow spaniels Paddy and Harry. Following on from the bestseller Max the Miracle Dog, this touching tribute celebrates a much-loved, much-missed dog and his incredible legacy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us Author: Chimene Suleyman Narrator: Chimene Suleyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “[Suleyman’s] narration brings a palpably chilling authority to a story she shouldn’t have to tell.” — Vulture A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny. In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that the man she’d loved had gaslit, lied to, stolen from, and painfully betrayed her and many others. In this spellbinding memoir, Suleyman exposes one man's control over many women and the trauma he left behind and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite—and in spite of—him. With radiant prose and incisive observation, Suleyman questions society’s complicity in allowing those who would do women harm to flourish and contemplates why others remain silent witnesses by accepting and normalizing shameless behavior towards women. She demonstrates how women themselves are acculturated to perform prescribed roles of giver and nurturer, to be self-sacrificing and subordinate, and to bolster the egos of others by remaining silent and ignoring their own protective instincts. A soul-baring story, brilliant cultural critique, and celebration of the healing power of sisterhood, The Chain is a book for any woman who has questioned her relationship and buried her doubts, for any woman who can't quite identify the source of her unease and for any woman who has been sheltered by the fierce protection of her female friends.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fi: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Fuller Narrator: Alexandra Fuller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child “Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexandra Fuller’s open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep.No stranger to loss—young siblings, a parent, a home country—Alexandra is nonetheless leveled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers—in poetry, in rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as a child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating andunexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World Author: Kai Cheng Thom Narrator: Nicky Endres Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House Restored: The Tragedies and Triumphs of Saving a New England Colonial Author: Lee Mccolgan Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shop Class as Soulcraft meets A Place of My Own in this lyrical meditation of a woodworker steadfastly repairing a historic home. Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline. But his enchantment withers as he discovers the massive repairs it needs. A small kitchen fix reveals that the structure’s rotten frame could collapse at any moment. In a bathroom, mold appears and spreads. He fights deteriorating bricks, frozen pipes, shattered windows, a punctured foundation, and even an airborne chimney cap while learning from a diverse cast of preservationists, including a master mason named Irons, a stone whisperer, and the Window Witch. But can he meet his deadline before family and friends arrive, or will it all come crashing down? McColgan’s journey expertly examines our relationship to history through the homes we inhabit, beautifully articulating the philosophy of preserving the past to find purpose for the future.