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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper Author: Brooke L. Blower Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dhruva: Relationship and Success Sutras from the Story of a Celebrated Prince Author: Gauranga Darshan Das Narrator: Ashish David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Does destiny block our path to success?How can we make complex relationships thrive?Discover practical answers to these questions within the pages of DHRUVA, an enthralling narrative penned by Gauranga Darshan Das, an esteemed author, educator and monk, hailing from the prestigious IISc.Prince Dhruva's awe-inspiring journey evokes a spectrum of emotions--love, heartbreak, revenge, passion, guilt and devotion. As you immerse yourself in this gripping tale, Gauranga Darshan artfully weaves his realizations as pearls of wisdom that are refreshingly simple yet remarkably effective.With a seamless blend of storytelling prowess and practical wisdom, DHRUVA shall deeply resonate with your pursuit of organic success and fulfilling relationships.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Superarme siempre fue un placer Author: Federico Atilio Rodriguez De Lima Narrator: Lucia .I.A Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Vivir es un aprendizaje continuo, un ejercicio de adaptación que nunca termina, un camino que, en ocasiones, se oscurece y se vuelve hostil, asediado por situaciones que nos atormentan y nos hacen querer tirar la toalla. Pero esas situaciones son, al final, tan solo experiencias, momentos pasajeros que podemos superar, incluso en las condiciones más adversas. Federico Rodríguez de Lima invita a los lectores a acompañarle por la historia de su vida, narrada con total sinceridad, para demostrar que después de la tormenta siempre llega la calma y regresa la felicidad, en forma de sueños, personas y experiencias nuevas que uno nunca esperó.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Unabridged) Author: Frederick Douglass Narrator: Jesse Zuba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass - is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. Synopsis Douglass begins by explaining that he does not know the date of his birth (he later chose February 14, 1818), and that his mother died when he was 7 years old. He has very few memories of her (children were commonly separated from their mothers), only of the rare nighttime visit. He thinks his father is a white man, possibly his owner. At a very early age, he sees his Aunt Hester being whipped. Douglass details the cruel interaction that occurs between slaves and slaveholders, as well as how slaves are supposed to behave in the presence of their masters. Douglass says that fear is what kept many slaves in forced servitude, for when they told the truth they were punished by their owners. At this point in the Narrative, Douglass is moved to Baltimore, Maryland. This move is rather important for him because he believes that if he had not been moved, he would have remained a slave his entire life. He even starts to have hope for a better life in the future. He also discusses his new mistress, Mrs. Sophia Auld, who begins as a very kind woman but eventually turns cruel. Douglass learns the alphabet and how to spell small words from this woman, but her husband, Mr. Auld, disapproves and states that if slaves could read, they would not be fit to be slaves, being unmanageable and sad. Upon hearing why Mr. Auld disapproves of slaves being taught how to read, Douglass realizes the importance of reading and the possibilities that this skill could help him. He takes it upon himself to learn how to read and learn all he can, but at times, this newfound skill torments him. Douglass then gains an understanding of the word abolition and develops the idea to run away to the North. He also learns how to write and how to read well. When Douglass is ten or eleven, his master dies and his property is left to be divided between the master's son and daughter. The slaves are valued along with the livestock, causing Douglass to develop a new hatred of slavery. He feels lucky when he is sent back to Baltimore to live with the family of Master Hugh. He is then moved through a few situations before he is sent to St. Michael's. His regret at not having attempted to run away is evident, but on his voyage he makes a mental note that he traveled in the North-Easterly direction and considers this information to be of extreme importance. For some time, he lives with Master Thomas Auld who is particularly cruel, even after attending a Methodist camp. Douglass is pleased when he eventually is lent to Mr. Covey for a year, simply because he would be fed. Mr. Covey is known as a 'negro-breaker', who breaks the will of slaves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle in the Mirror Author: Jesse Fink Narrator: Jesse Fink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century: Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis The longest serving spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis helped set up the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), now known as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6 and controlled its activities, as one journalist put it, 'for half the world'. But in the 1980s journalist Chapman Pincher and retired MI5 intelligence officer Peter 'Spycatcher' Wright posthumously accused Ellis of having operated as a 'triple agent' for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1965, while under interrogation in London, Ellis had allegedly made a partial confession that he had worked for the Nazis. The scope of Ellis's purported betrayal was considered even worse than notorious British traitor and double agent Kim Philby. However, Pincher's and Wright's accusations against Ellis have never been comprehensively proven. Was Ellis guilty or was an innocent man framed? By confessing did he take the fall for someone else? Or had the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia been fatally compromised by a 'super mole'? Internationally bestselling author Jesse Fink attempts to find out the truth once and for all. The Eagle in the Mirror is not just a long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis; it's a gripping real-life international whodunit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada Author: Jon Tattrie Narrator: Lee Majboub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, Gourmand Awards, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives) A National Bestseller A Hill Times Top 100 Selection The extraordinary story of the Hadhad family and the founding of the chocolatier, Peace by Chocolate. Peace by Chocolate is the inspiring story of one family’s journey from the devastation of the Syrian Civil War and their welcome in a small town in Atlantic Canada.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I have been the bad guy Author: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been made to feel like the bad guy? Dr. bird has too. In this brief memoir, they reveal secrets about their life that they have kept hidden for over thirty years regarding compulsory heterosexuality, repressed/unexplored queernesses, and the late in life realization that -- turns out -- they're #actuallyautistic! Retold from their 33-year-old Dr. bird’s eye view, these extensively brave disclosures add one whole lifetime of flesh onto the U.S. body politic. This timely manuscript illuminates, historicizes, and contextualizes the f***ing fact that autism is not “just a trend” taking off just on TikTok recently, but that there are massive neuroqueer self-realizations happening worldwide in the algorithmic envirusment (environment + virus = envirusment). Dr. bird’s unmasked writing voice puts the “cut-the-shit” into “slice-of-life,” providing deep and raw disclosures of lifelong confusion, gaslighting, and struggles with family dysfunction, friendship loss, vulnerability, intimacy, sexual violence, and substance abuse. After extensive sharing, it’s time to grieve. They usher in a eulogy for their lifetimes that once were, by diagnosing how foundational U.S. ideas did and continue to dehumanize, sicken, disable, and deaden us. Then, they preach to the global choir about the single most connected time in history. Dr. bird has a lot more puns and trauma than answers, but in the end, recommends some liberatory antibodies for moving forward, far less miserably.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Hospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die. We don't often talk about dying, even in the medical field, but death is a universal part of life. An ardent advocate for compassionate end-of-life care, Hadley Vlahos, shows us that the end of our lives can be rich, beautiful and transformative by sharing moving stories about how her patients' final days have changed her life. Full of insights from real people, from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her - each story raises vital questions about living, dying and the afterlife, inspiring us to live our lives to the fullest. ©2023 Hadley Vlahos (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy—equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction—'the pursuit of happiness'—remains a fundamental dilemma even today. Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln—Lincoln the man of ideas—providing new insights into one of the giants of American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.