Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God Author: Robert Charles Wilson Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning the Unknown, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic world-building make it a unique lens for understanding, examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general and Christianity in particular. Drawing on his personal experience, his work as a science-fiction writer, and his deep knowledge of the classics of the genre, he makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism—an atheism drawn from everyday personal knowledge that doesn’t depend on familiarity with the scholarly debate about theology and metaphysics, any more than a robust personal Christianity does. And as he reminds us, the secrets that remain hidden beyond the borders of the known universe—should we ever discover them—will probably not resemble anything currently found in our most prized philosophies, our most sacred texts, or our most imaginative science fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El loro en el limonero Author: Chris Stewart Narrator: Joe Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Segunda parte de la trilogía sobre el encanto de la vida alternativa que vive Chris Stewart en la Alpujarra granadina. Con el formidable éxito de ventas de Entre limones -el divertidísimo relato autobiográfico de un joven inglés que, con tal de no vestir traje y acudir a una oficina, se gasta todos sus ahorros en la compra de un ruinoso cortijo en la Alpujarra granadina- Chris Stewart dio comienzoa su célebre trilogía sobre el irresistible encanto de la vida alternativa, en la que los pequeños sucesos cotidianos y la tranquila observación del espectáculo que supone la actitud del hombre ante sus semejantes y ante la naturaleza compensan con creces los placeres materiales de una vida normal. Acompañado por su mujer Ana, la pequeña Chloé y un loro algo misántropo que forma parte del núcleo familiar, Chris relata con su inimitable estilo las nuevas experiencias que le depara su retiro voluntario del mundanal ruido. Su relación con los vecinos, los entresijos de la escolarización en España, el descubrimiento de un plan para construir una presa que dejaría buena parte del valle sepultada bajo el agua, todo es motivo de asombro. Y por añadidura, el éxito de su primer libro atrae a un hatajo de periodistas ingleses interesados en su vida anterior a su llegada a las Alpujarras: las temporadas pasadas en Suecia esquilando ovejas en mitad del invierno, su primer contacto con España para aprender a tocar la guitarra flamenca, su trabajo en un circo y su breve carrera musical como batería del grupo de rock de su colegio: Genesis. La crítica ha dicho... «Stewart tiene un talento especial para captar los diálogos, una curiosidad insaciable, un optimismo contagioso y un plácido sentido del humor a prueba de conspiraciones xenófobas: Beatus ille.» Babelia «Cuando un autor es tan divertido y modesto como Stewart, uno no se cansa de leer su historia.» The Times «Stewart nunca es condescendiente, se limita a observar [...] divertido, generoso y amable.» The Guardian «Stewart nunca pierde el olfato para detectar las buenas anécdotas.» The Telegraph

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming Author: Lisa Cornwell Narrator: Lisa Cornwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lisa Cornwell never shied away from standing up to bullies. When she was a freshman in college, she saw a man hit a woman in the face with a closed fist while a paralyzed crowd stood by and watched. Seconds later, she took matters into her own hands—with a 3-iron from her golf bag. This impulse crystallized years later when Cornwell publicly spoke out against the misogynistic culture she and others experienced at the hands of their employer, Golf Channel/NBCUniversal. Throughout her time at the network, she challenged the toxic environment and was quickly branded a 'troublemaker'—a label that often accompanies women who refuse to play by an antiquated set of rules. In this authentic and unreserved memoir, which includes a powerful foreword from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cornwell takes listeners inside the boys' club of sports media and reveals the way powerful corporations cover up wrongdoings. For her, what began with retaliation exploded into a public smear campaign and, ultimately, her dismissal. She also shares the unlikely yet formative touchstones of her life: a close friendship with Tiger Woods when both were nationally ranked junior golfers; her cousin, Bill Clinton, being elected President of the United States; and the private demons she battled as a young adult that almost cost her everything. Note: Listeners can access the foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton in the bonus PDF accompanying this audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea Author: Hannah Stowe Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight ― to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea―and what might the water around us be able to teach us? Braiding her powerful and deeply personal narrative with stories of six keystone marine creatures―the fire crow, sperm whale, wandering albatross, humpback whale, shearwater, and the barnacle―Stowe invites listeners to fall in love, as she has, with the sea and those that call it home, and to discover the majesty, wonder, and vulnerability of the underwater world. For fans of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard, Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea is an inspiring, heartfelt hymn to the sea, a testament to finding and following a dream, and an unforgettable introduction to a deeply gifted nature writer of a new generation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grunts of Wrath: A Memoir Author: Ronny Bruce Narrator: Jamie Renell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Combat diaries from elite operators and commanding officers dominate the space. But what happens when regulars face the fire? Ronny Bruce is a renaissance man: philosopher, drifter, Gen X rock 'n' roller, and gentleman. At thirty-two, divorced and burnt-out with the burbs, Ronny bails on his teaching career and seeks army infantry. It's no joke when boot camp is mandatory since his marine corps' service ended ten years beforehand. Assigned to Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Ronny's platoon hunts an Afghan foe who's never surrendered. Half collapse from wounds. Ronny's decade-long postwar journey examines victory and failure. Six men expire before thirty-five as a result of four suicides, one unexplained death, and murder. Labels for the living include felon, vagrant, drunk, addict, depressed, and suicidal. Ronny checks some boxes. Graduate, businessman, engineer, teacher, accountant, and rich describes other paths. Ronny checks some of those too. War through the eyes of this offbeat ATLien provides explosive payoffs that get smothered by each page—answering an age-old question: what drives warriors over the edge?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Let Myself In Author: Hannah Diviney Narrator: Hannah Diviney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly. When it occurred to me that the only real books I'd ever read with disabled characters in them were specialty books, displayed and designed exclusively for therapy settings, some of the hollowness I'd learnt to live with started making sense. Hannah Diviney has always known that her experience of the world was fundamentally different from those around her. While her friends went to soccer and dance and little athletics, Hannah was going to physio and doctors' appointments. While her friends got jobs, fell in love and went clubbing, Hannah surrounded herself with the fantastical worlds she found in books. But books where people like her were nowhere to be found. Refusing to accept the narratives, or lack thereof, that she'd been given, Hannah was determined to forge her own path in a world that wasn't designed for her, and to be the representation she'd always wanted to see. Hannah's story is filled with wit, passion and vulnerability as she transforms from outsider to creating her own media company, calling out Beyonce, Lizzo and Eminem for their ableist slurs and beginning an acting career. Both deeply personal and yet utterly relatable, I'll Let Myself In is a young woman's battle-cry over the voices who try to tell her who she can and can't be, and a reminder not to wait to be invited to the table but to break the door down and demand to be heard.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Young Man Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time—together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Oma, ich fahr schon mal den Rollstuhl vor! - Als ich vom Enkel zum Pfleger wurde (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung) Author: Martin Frank Narrator: Martin Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Die Oma hat a Schlagerl ghobt!' Der Kabarettist Martin Frank ist auf einem niederbayrischen Bauernhof aufgewachsen, und seine Großmutter ist seine wichtigste Bezugsperson. Als er gerade 19 ist, erleidet sie einen Schlaganfall und ist von heute auf morgen auf Pflege angewiesen - und Martin beschließt: Er wird sich um seine Oma kümmern. Fünf Jahre pflegt er sie, bis zu ihrem Tod, und berichtet nun über diese Zeit, die nicht nur traurig, sondern skurril-komisch, liebevoll und wichtig für ihn war. Ein tragikomisches Buch über Familie, Zusammenhalt und den Umgang mit dem Tod - erzählt mit bayrischem Charme, Warmherzigkeit und viel Zuversicht.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker Author: Mark Beaver Narrator: Mark Beaver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. 'We were very wired,' Tucker later testified, 'and we was looking for something to do.' Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people—one a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment. Fourteen years later, in early 1998, Tucker was facing lethal injection. But after her religious conversion in prison, Texas would be executing a different woman than the one who'd committed the murders. Her change was so dramatic that the most powerful and influential voices in American televangelism—Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among them—were urging viewers to contact Texas's governor, George W. Bush, and plead for clemency. One follower was author Mark Beaver's father, a devout Southern Baptist deacon who asked Beaver to put his fledgling literary ambitions to work by composing a letter on his behalf to Governor Bush. Through a merger of true crime, social history, and memoir, The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker illustrates how a seemingly distant news story triggers a national reckoning and exposes a growing divide in America's evangelical community. It's a tale of how one woman defies all conventions of death row inmates, and her saga serves as an unlikely but fascinating prism for exploring American culture and the limits of forgiveness and transformation. It's also a deeply personal reflection on how a father's request leads his son to struggle with who he was raised to be and who he imagines becoming.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Saia da frente do meu sol Author: Felipe Charbel Narrator: Diego Muras Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Uma investigação sobre o segredo que moldou a vida de um homem, um romance especulativo, uma biografia fotográfica e, ao mesmo tempo, um relato autobiográfico que suscita, sem necessariamente responder, importantes questões: é possível conhecer alguém? É possível escrever uma vida? É possível narrar o outro sem narrar a si mesmo? 'Quando eu tinha vinte anos, minha mãe avisou que meu tio-avô viria morar com a gente. Ele era, como se dizia na época, 'esquisitão': um tipo calado, um solteirão convicto, alguém que morou a vida inteira de favor no quartinho de fundos da irmã mais nova. Além disso, ele tinha uma paralisia nas pernas, possivelmente causada pela sífilis, e empurrava com os pés um balde de urina. Isso fazia com que ele se fechasse no seu próprio mundo. Ao mesmo tempo, várias histórias circulavam à boca miúda sobre o seu passado: como ele foi um homem bonito, boêmio, um pé de valsa, como teve um 'convívio respeitoso' com os malandros da Lapa. O tio Ricardo morou lá em casa por cinco anos, tempo suficiente para que gostássemos um do outro, mesmo sem trocar quase nenhuma palavra. No seu enterro, éramos apenas cinco ou seis pessoas. Vinte e tantos anos depois, encontrei uma caixa de sapatos no armário que tinha sido da minha avó. Nessa caixa, estavam as fotos do meu tio e os seus documentos. Revirando tudo, comecei a imaginar a vida que ele pode ter vivido e consegui enxergar aquilo que era o seu segredo.' Felipe Charbel