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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation Author: Tara Sidhoo Fraser Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes—the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost. Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude's transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara's conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost's voice becomes stronger, and memories of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara's new relationship. She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and an embracing/reclamation of selfhood.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/713560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Estamos tarde: Una memoria para recobrar la educación en el Perú Author: Jaime Saavedra Narrator: Adrián Wowczuk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jaime Saavedra, exministro de Educación del Perú, nos narra las luchas y desafíos para reformar el sistema educativo en favor los estudiantes. ¿De qué magnitud es el reto de recomponer la Educación en el Perú? ¿Cuán importante es contar con gente comprometida en la función pública? ¿Es posible revertir la situación crítica de los sectores educativos? Mediante anécdotas personales y profesionales, ideas, estudios y datos que refuerzan sus planteamientos, el exministro de Educación, Jaime Saavedra, aborda en este libro algunos de los complejos retos educativos en el Perú, a partir de su experiencia entre los años 2013 y 2016. En esta cruzada urgente por recomponer la labor educativa, una sana obsesión surge y anima estas páginas: la de conformar ciudadanos que contribuyan al desarrollo nacional a partir de un compromiso político con la educación, que a la vez se traduzca en el aprendizaje y formación de las niñas, niños y jóvenes peruanos. Estamos tarde es un testimonio invaluable, pero también un intento de poner la educación nuevamente en el centro de la discusión pública, de insistir en la necesidad de obsesionarnos por ella y de asumir una decisión firme: que todas las acciones de política educativa respondan única y exclusivamente al bienestar de los estudiantes, que no es otro que el bienestar de todo un país. El tiempo apremia y el desafío es tan impostergable como colectivo.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696293 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Other World: The Fight for Freedom, Joy, and Belonging Author: Hanif Fazal Narrator: Frewine Kiros, Hanif Fazal, Paul Stefano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We speak in we. A journey towards racial healing and the relationships that set us free. Addressing the leaders of today and tomorrow, An Other World alternates between heart-wrenching but hopeful letters to Hanif Fazal’s daughter Amina, reflections on Fazal’s formative life experiences and lessons on identity, Black and Brown relationships, and a unique type of freedom that could be available to all of us. ​​In this moving blend of social commentary and memoir with a call to action, Fazal—co-founder of the Center for Equity and Inclusion—documents his journey towards Black and Brown joy, freedom, and belonging. This timely book traces Fazal’s relationships with Black and Brown family members, professional colleagues, and close friends as they attempt to thrive at home, school, and work in the all-consuming whiteness of Portland, Oregon, and the broader United States landscape. Fazal's youth involved a constant experience as the other in an all-white school system, breakdowns in family, and feeling split between his Mexican and Indian heritages. He went on to create programs that offered healing and belonging to BIPOC youth in schools and to BIPOC adults in the workplace. In An Other World, Fazal pinpoints how educational and professional diversity frameworks often perform surface-level inclusion but refuse to invest fully in the complex realities of their BIPOC learners and employees. He also stares down the myth of “making it” and invites BIPOC communities to reflect and redefine success on their own terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worthy Author: Jada Pinkett Smith Narrator: Jada Pinkett Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: **The New York Times Bestseller** **Parade magazine must-read books by celebrities 2023** ''I went through so many emotions reading this book. Reconnecting to one's ancestors and truly feeling, not only hearing, their stories are fertile ground for true ecstatic embodiment of the self. We have to know where we've been to see where we're going.'' -Willow Smith ''[Smith] is candid and honest... For the first time she reveals the truth behind [the] happy images. An incredible read.'' -Hoda Kotb, The Today Show A gripping, at times painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith.  Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life—from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore streets as an observer and participant in the drug trade, to the deep bond she shared with Tupac Shakur from the moment they met, to her move to Los Angeles and the successful career she built on her own terms, to becoming the wife of superstar Will Smith and mother to Jaden, Willow and bonus-mom to Trey . A rollercoaster from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of self-acceptance and spiritual healing, Worthy is a woman’s journey to finding herself again.  In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith shares herself in an intimate conversation with readers. She answers questions about her difficult childhood, her marriage, her parenting style, her career choices, and the intense scrutiny that followed “the slap.” An impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates, Worthy shows why adhering to the status quo has never been the plan for Jada Pinkett Smith and why labels and stories crafted by others strip women of their authenticity. Worthy teaches us who Jada is, and how to embrace our most lovable qualities. Complete with thought-provoking writing prompts and meditations on how to discover who we really are and nourish our self-worth.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Class: A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and Us Author: Ken Dryden Narrator: Ken Dryden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker’s Book Award From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book. On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.” They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since. Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless possibilities. When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for? Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. How any of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married, some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids. This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Mandrake: A Memoir Author: Jason Jobin Narrator: Alex Mortensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation—these persist, but they aren't the milestones of his life. They can't be, he won't let them be. From helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy, but his is the life of 'a special case.' And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he's doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends about past diagnoses because what can you say? What do you build on rubble? He lives high and low and in between. Again he is sick, again he is cured. It's miraculous. A great gift. But never enough. Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays Author: John Lee Clark Narrator: Perry Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch. Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented tactile language and a way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community. In 'Against Access,' he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for 'accessibility' that recreates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience. In the National Magazine Award–winning 'Tactile Art,' he describes his relationship to visual art and encounters with tactile sculpture. He advocates for 'Co-Navigation,' a new way of guiding that respects DeafBlind agency and offers a brief history of the term 'DeafBlind.' As warm and witty as he is radical and inspiring, Clark welcomes listeners into the exciting Protactile landscape and celebrates the hidden knowledge that can be gained through touch.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love and Saint Augustine Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts she was using in her political works. The dissertation became a bridge over which Arendt traveled back and forth between 1929 Heidelberg and 1960s New York, carrying with her Augustine's question about the possibility of social life in an age of rapid political and moral change. In Love and Saint Augustine, political science professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and philosophy professor Judith Chelius Stark make this important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents as well as the recollections of Arendt's friends and colleagues.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Con Author: Tony Sales Narrator: Tony Sales, Nick Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BONUS Q&A TRACK WITH THE AUTHOR Britain's Catch Me If You Can story - only bigger. The extraordinary, unmissable memoir from the man who conned banks and shops out of £30 million and then lost it all. For twenty years, Tony Sales was Britain's biggest fraudster. From cloning credit cards and identities to emptying cash machines and being a confidence trickster, Tony knew how to make money. Charming, funny and bright, Sales could make people believe whatever he wanted them to. Soon he was living a millionaire lifestyle: fast cars, hotels and holidays. As analogue crime turned digital, Sales adapted his skills and became a prolific online fraudster, quickly identifying and exploiting loopholes and weaknesses in the system. Sales never fails they used to say. Until one day a mistake on a job in Sheffield saw him arrested. Facing a stretch inside Sales did a runner, using his skills to successfully avoid capture for another six years. When the police did finally catch up with him and he found himself inside, Sales decided to turn his life around. As Frank Abagnale Jr. had done in the US, Sales went from poacher to game-keeper and set up a successful business helping governments and financial institutions to prevent fraud. The incredible true story of King Con. This is a life that needs to be heard to be believed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House that Cheese Built: The Unusual Life of the Mexican Immigrant who Defined a Multibillion-Dollar Global Industry Author: Miguel A. Leal Narrator: Andrew Joseph Perez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope. Leal came to the US penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the US market and grew his company to a multi-million-dollar success story that defined an industry. Yet, like many successful entrepreneurs, Leal's great successes were matched by personal failures: the end of a marriage; trouble with law enforcement; and the deeply felt sense that there must be something more to life than great wealth. Leal's memoir, The House that Cheese Built, is both a quintessential immigrant success story—one that beautifully illustrates the immigrant experiences: isolation, fear, and ambition for a better life and assimilation—as well as a thoughtful personal account of entrepreneurship and all its benefits and costs.