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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Historical Perspectives - Mahatma Gandhi Speaks - Voice Of The Master Series Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 19, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Although an icon for the ages, little is known about the actual, intimate, secret life of Mahatma Gandhi. Although his great work and philosophy remain largely intact, the man behind the legend has been all but obscured by time. Here, for the first time, is Gandhi in his own words. A spirited retrospective of the remarkable man who single-handedly ejected the British Empire from Mother India. Includes never before released interviews with India's modern saint.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Above All Ram Das - A Spiritual Biography Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Release date: May 19, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr. Richard Alpert, a former Harvard professor and Timothy Leary cohort, was an icon of the 1960s hippie, LSD fueled revolution. Thereafter, on a trip to India - like Clark Kent changing into Superman - he became the much beloved spiritual teacher Baba Ram Das, whose 1970s iconic book, Be Here Now, turned on a generation to the deep, non-sectarian spirituality within us all. Author Geoffrey Giuliano became friends with Ram Das in the early '70s and traveled America playing Indian drums at his speaking engagements. During that time the two discussed the publication of some of his lectures but nothing was ever done and the two lost touch. Now, finally, after all these years, Giuliano keeps his promise to his old friend, publishing this original audio history of one of our most inspired and cherished spiritual teachers. Geoffrey Giuliano will donate all of his proceeds from this work to the Vrndavan Widows & Children's Fund of India via Sri Radhe International Inc., a New York State charity. Music by AudioNautix.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: England's Rose Princess Diana - An Audio Tribute Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 36 minutes Release date: May 16, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Princess Diana almost single-handedly saved the British monarchy from demise with her manners and compassionate charitable work. When she was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 it became immediately clear just how much this shy, self-effacing, kindly woman really meant to the world and history. Featuring unheard interviews with Princess Diana, the British royal family and luminaries from every sphere of human endeavor. An entertaining, educational, one of a kind audio program. Narrated by the author.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatle's Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yog - the Lost Rishikesh Interviews, Volume 1 Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 39 minutes Release date: May 16, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Of all the many spiritual masters who transplanted themselves from India in the 1960s the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is perhaps the most lauded, and indeed, successful. His easy to learn technique of transcendental meditation is everywhere with millions gaining great benefits from the ageless technique today. With the Beatles as his most famous disciples, the giggly guru changed the face of personal spirituality forever. Here is the venerated master in his own words. A must for anyone interested in the subtler aspects of recent popular culture and philosophy. A boon too for Beatles fans. Celebrating 50 years of The Beatles' White Album!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/373916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghost Garden: Inside the lives of schizophrenia's feared and forgotten Author: Susan Doherty Narrator: Paula Kaye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned. Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society, feared, shunted from locked wards to rooming houses to the streets to jail and back again. For the past ten years, some of the people who cycle in and out of the severely ill wards of the Douglas Institute in Montreal, have found a friend in Susan, who volunteers on the ward, and then follows her friends out into the world as they struggle to get through their days. With their full cooperation, she brings us their stories, which challenge the ways we think about people with mental illness on every page. The spine of the book is the life of Caroline Evans (not her real name), a woman in her early sixties whom Susan has known since she was a bright and sunny school girl. Caroline had formed a close friendship with Susan and shared stories from her life; through her, we experience what living with schizophrenia over time is really like. She has been through it all, including the way the justice system treats the severely mentally ill: at one point, she believed that she could save her roommate from the devil by pouring boiling water into her ear...      Susan interleaves Caroline's story with vignettes about her other friends, human stories that reveal their hopes, their circumstances, their personalities, their humanity. She's found that if she can hang in through the first ten to fifteen minutes of every coffee date with someone in the grip of psychosis, then true communication results. Their 'madness' is not otherworldly: instead it tells us something about how they're surviving their lives and what they've been through. The Ghost Garden is not only touching, but carries a cargo of compassion and empathy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal Author: Yuval Taylor Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Zora and Langston is the dramatic and moving story of one of the most influential friendships in literature. They were best friends. They were collaborators, literary gadflies, and champions of the common people. They were the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Langston Hughes, the author of 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Let America Be America Again,' first met in 1925, at a great gathering of black and white literati, and they fascinated each other. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote scores of loving letters. They even had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy white woman who insisted on being called 'Godmother.' Paying them lavishly while trying to control their work, Mason may have been the spark for their bitter and passionate falling-out. Was the split inevitable when Hughes decided to be financially independent of his patron? Was Hurston jealous of the young woman employed as their typist? Or was the rupture over the authorship of Mule Bone? Yuval Taylor answers these questions while illuminating Hurston's and Hughes's lives, work, competitiveness, and ambition, uncovering little-known details.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cute Poodles, Sweet Old Ladies, and Hugs: Veterinary Tales Author: Dr. Pj Miller Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr. P. J. Miller's story is unique. Growing up in New York City, who would have thought that he'd complete his veterinary degree at the Royal School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland? In Cute Poodles, Sweet Old Ladies & Hugs, Dr. Miller has assembled a 'greatest hits' of veterinary tales—stories that include colorful clients, wisecracking hospital staff, and pets that aren't always friendly. Cute Poodles, Sweet Old Ladies & Hugs provides a humorous look at what Dr. Miller went through to become a veterinarian and his daily life as a doctor, told only as a typical New Yorker could. Underneath the humor, Dr. Miller gives a glimpse of how strong and emotional the human-animal bond can be, becoming an instant must-listen for any aspiring veterinary professional or animal lover that wants to know what it is really like to be a veterinarian.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Viaje al país de los blancos Author: Ousman Umar Narrator: Ousman Umar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 9, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: La odisea de un joven que arriesgó su vida por un futuro mejor. Mi nombre es Ousman Umar. Sé que nací un martes, no sé de qué mes ni de qué año porque en mi tribu eso no importa. Crecí en la sabana africana. Caminaba siete kilómetros para ir a la escuela. Mi vida era feliz y sencilla, hasta que un día, entre juegos, vi un avión volar. Desde ese momento quise ser piloto, ingeniero, todo, menos negro. La curiosidad por conocer el mundo me empujó a hacer un viaje sin retorno hacia el País de los Blancos. A los trece años crucé el Sahara a pie, el mar en patera y vi morir en el camino a la mayoría de mis compañeros de viaje, entre ellos a mi mejor amigo. Cuatro años después de comenzar esa hazaña, logré llegar a España y, tras varios meses durmiendo en la calle, me acogió una familia. La primera noche que dormí en su casa, pese a las comodidades y el confort, me puse a llorar como un niño. ¿Por qué había sufrido tanto? ¿Por qué tanta lucha? ¿Qué había hecho mal? Ahora, necesito contar esta historia, hasta que no haya más historias como esta que contar. Reseñas: «Un duro viaje de ida y vuelta que migrantes y sociedades de acogida deben conocer.» Ana Pastor «La historia de Ousman Umar es una de las más hermosas que la radio me ha permitido compartir. Sé que muchos oyentes han estado al borde de las lágrimas. Yo, también. Ya les aviso que se van a emocionar con su historia.» Julia Otero «Ousman era un niño que un día, en su Ghana natal, vio volar un avión. Desde entonces la curiosidad le empujó a cruzar el Mediterráneo y viajar hasta el País de los Blancos. Esta es su historia: la historia de un superviviente.» Gemma Nierga «El relato de Ousman comparte con los miles de migrantes que cada año se la juegan para llegar a Europa el dolor, el miedo, la injusticia, el racismoy el sufrimiento. Sentimientos provocados por situaciones que narra con una naturalidad pasmosa.» Antònia Justícia, La Vanguardia

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/366842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself Author: Andrea J. Buchanan Narrator: Andrea J. Buchanan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist A real-life neurological mystery and captivating story of reinvention by the New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls. Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one blustery March morning. The cold winter air triggered a coughing fit, and she began to choke. She was choking on a lot that day. A sick child. A pending divorce. The guilt of failing as a partner and as a mother. When the coughing finally stopped, she thought it was over. She could not have been more wrong. When she coughed that morning, a small tear ripped through her dura mater, the membrane covering the brain and spinal cord. But she didn’t know that yet. Instead, Andrea went on with her day, unaware that her cerebrospinal fluid was already beginning to leak out of that tiny opening. What followed was nine months of pain and confusion as her brain, no longer cushioned by a healthy waterbed of fluid, sank in her skull. At a time in her life when she needed to be as clear-thinking as possible—as a writer, as a mother, as a woman attempting to strike out on her own after two decades of marriage—she was plagued by cognitive impairment and constant pain, trapped by her own brain―all while mystifying doctors and pushing the limits of medical understanding. In this luminous and moving narrative, Andrea reveals the astonishing story of this tumultuous year―her fraught search for treatment; how patients, especially women, fight to be seen as reliable narrators of their own experiences; and how her life-altering recovery process affected both her and her family. The mind-brain connection is one of the greatest mysteries of the human condition. In some folklore, the cerebrospinal fluid around the brain is thought to be the place where consciousness actually begins. Here, in the pages of The Beginning of Everything, Andrea seeks to understand: Where was “I” when I wasn’t there?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine Author: Yousef Bashir Narrator: Yousef Bashir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, and transformative memoir that reminds us of the importance of looking beyond prejudice, anger, and fear. Yousef Bashir’s story begins in Gaza, on a verdant ten-acre farm beside an Israeli settlement and military base. When the soccer-mad Yousef was eleven, the Second Intifada exploded. First came the shooting, then the occupation. Ordered to leave their family home, Yousef’s father refused, even when the Israeli soldiers moved in, seizing the top two floors. For five long years, three generations of the Bashir family were virtual prisoners in their own home. Despite this, Yousef’s father—a respected Palestinian schoolteacher whose belief in coexisting peacefully with his Israeli neighbors was unshakeable—treated the soldiers as honored guests. His commitment to peace was absolute. Though Yousef’s family attracted international media attention, and received letters of support from around the world, Yousef witnessed the destruction of his home, his neighborhood, and the happy life he had known with growing frustration and confusion. For the first time he wondered if his father’s belief in peace was justified and whether he was strong enough—or even wanted—to follow his example. At fifteen, that doubt was tested. Standing in his front yard with his father and three United Nations observers, he was shot in the spine by an Israeli soldier, leaving him in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, for a year. While an Israeli soldier shot him, it was Israeli doctors who saved Yousef and helped him eventually learn to walk again. In the wake of that experience, Yousef was forced to reckon with the words of his father. And like the generous, empathetic man who raised him, he too became an outspoken activist for peace. Amid the tragedy of the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict, The Words of My Father is a powerful tale of moral awakening and a fraught, ferocious, and profound relationship between a son and his father. Bashir's story and the ideals of peace and empathy it upholds are a soothing balm for these dangerous and troubled times, and a reminder that love and compassion are a gift—and a choice. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.