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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion Author: Tyler Leblanc Narrator: Pierre Simpson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing A Hill Times Top 100 selection A Canada’s History Bestseller Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the Expulsion, Acadian Driftwood is a vivid insight into one family’s experience of this traumatic event.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somersaults: Through the Keyhole Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are somersaults and there are somersaults. Physically … no big deal. Lots of people can do them. This book is about the other kind of somersaults – through life. In this case, from a little girl plunked into the mid-fifties in socialist Czechoslovakia to a rebel at school with beliefs twisted and turned by social storms. Then in 1968, her family lives through morphing into socialism with a human face, the consequent invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies, and ultimately, the Russian occupation. And eventually, for many ordinary people, the reality of the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989. When the girl grows into a young woman, she fights with traditions and old thinking. Plenty of humour, the discovery of limits, many sides of the same coin, the power of friendship, stepping into worlds of taboo, and challenging one’s own fear – every somersault has consequences. Intimate, funny, honest. If you enjoyed this audiobook, try listening to the sequel: Czech Mate

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden. ©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers in the Beloved Community Author: Marc Andrus Narrator: Marc Andrus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: 'I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us. I am afraid the root of violence is so deep in the heart and mind and manner of this society. They killed him. They killed my hope. I do not know what to say. . . . He made so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss.' Only a few years earlier, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote an open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. as part of his effort to raise awareness and bring peace in Vietnam. There was an unexpected outcome of Nhat Hanh's letter to King: The two men met in 1966 and 1967 and became not only allies in the peace movement, but friends. This friendship between two prophetic figures from different religions and cultures, from countries at war with one another, reached a great depth in a short period of time. Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He wrote: 'Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.' The two men bonded over a vision of the Beloved Community: a vision described recently by Congressman John Lewis as 'a nation and world society at peace with itself.' It was a concept each knew of because of their membership within the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international peace organization, and that Martin Luther King Jr. had been popularizing through his work for some time. Thich Nhat Hanh, Andrus shows, took the lineage of the Beloved Community from King and carried it on after his death.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre Author: Liz O'riordan Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution Author: Fred Appelbaum Narrator: Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery. In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia—forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest illnesses. His feats were extraordinary, earning him a Nobel Prize, and the cascade of treatments he inspired have reshaped and will continue to reshape the practice of clinical medicine. Yet no one has ever written Thomas’s courageous story. Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum, a member of Thomas’s research team, does so for the first time in Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution. Bone marrow transplantation has now saved over a million lives, but when Thomas first had the idea, he was met with disbelief by the scientific community. Appelbaum, informed by decades in the field and personal connection with Thomas, tells us the secrets to Thomas’s success: his unique characteristics, how he created an effective team of researchers, and how he overcame the technical obstacles of marrow transplantation. Appelbaum tells a bigger story, too, of the scientific and societal implications of this achievement, which are critical for scientific and lay readers alike so that we all might be better informed of how far our medical progress has come and will go.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska Author: Anna Maria Berezowska Narrator: Iris Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: IPPY (Independent Publishers) 2021 award-winning Best European Non-Fiction. An unforgettable literary masterpiece written over 200 years ago by a remarkable woman during the struggle and fall of Europe's first attempt at a constitutional democracy. A coming-of-age story, love drama, and historical saga all in one, it reads more like a novel than an authentic memoir. Despite its epoch, the highs and lows of Countess Anna's journey reverberate with timeless issues that still affect us all today. This courageous young woman wrote down extraordinarily visceral details of the horrendous experiences she was living through between 1791 and 1795 -- fires, blizzards, near-starvation, bloody battles between nations, and savage bodily assaults. Nevertheless, she miraculously retained her poetic sensitivity and hopefulness, never succumbing to bitterness or resignation. Translated from mainly Polish over 60 years ago, this book contains unique descriptions of the lifestyle of an unknown peasant clan who rescued and revived Anna after a murderous carriage attack; graphic accounts of childbirth and healing practices; ghastly war scenes; candid comments on women's suppression and social class inequalities; poignant confessions of conflicts between love and duty; and explicitly sexual passages that Anna copied from the memoirs of her lascivious cousin Sophia. This Diary has never heretofore been published in its authenticity. Its present availability finally fulfills Countess Anna Berezowska's profound wish to share her experiences and insights with the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Recuerdos de un médico rural: Favaloro 100 años Author: René Favaloro Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Nueva edición por el 100 aniversario del nacimiento del Dr. Favaloro. Uno de los médicos más reconocidos del país rememora sus experiencias como médico en un pueblo del oeste pampeano y reflexiona sobre las condiciones en las que se ejerce su profesión en la Argentina. Entre comienzos de la década del 50 y 1962, René Favaloro se desempeñó como médico rural en el pueblo pampeano de Jacinto Aráuz. Estos doce años fueron los que lo definieron, tanto en su vida profesional como en la personal. El mismo doctor que se volverá una eminencia años después en Cleveland, trabajando con los profesionales más destacados de la medicina internacional, inició su carrera en el interior de la Argentina, y fue esa labor lo que más marcó su vocación. En 1980 publicó esta obra, su primer libro autobiográfico. En él reflexionó acerca de su propia experiencia y del ejercicio de la medicina en algunas zonas postergadas del país, a la vez que advirtió sobre el devenir de la práctica pública de la salud y cierta decadencia en la formación de nuevos médicos. Recuerdos de un médico rural tuvo un gran recibimiento. 'Mi objetivo -decía en el prólogo a la segunda edición, que escribió emocionado por las cartas que le habían enviado cole - gas y maestros rurales que se sintieron representados en sus escritos- no es presentar la simple descripción de hechos anecdóticos sino, a través de ellos, mostrar las condiciones socioeconómicas del interior'. Y se preguntaba: '¿Tendremos capacidad de reaccionar? ¿Seremos capaces de realizar la verdadera reconstrucción?'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Czech Mate: Don't Shoot the Journalist Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Nobody in our family ever got divorced.” – In the words of my dad. “So there is always a first time for everything.” – Those would be my words. Early in the 1990s, the Czech Republic was changing, desperately trying to enter a western capitalistic lifestyle. But the change was slow motion compared to the turbulent life of a young female journalist trying to do it all – end her first marriage, mother two kids, while drowning in lots of work. One could also say – divorcing chin first, pulling new jobs while juggling old jobs, surrounding herself with loyal friends, and marrying a new man, the love of her life, who was – ooohh my god! – a foreigner … how scandalous! She is forced to fight with old traditional thinking, the socialistic school system, and a judgemental society. But she is never alone – with the help of her faithful friends, family and a refreshing dose of humour, she finally wins her life game of Czech Mate. And finally, a fresh start. Canada – here they come! If you enjoyed this book, try the prequel: Somersaults

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Einhundert Samstage - Stella Levi und die Suche nach einer verlorenen Welt (ungekürzt) Author: Michael Frank Narrator: Sebastian Blomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Als Michael Frank die heute hundertjährige Stella Levi zufällig kennenlernt, nimmt eine große Geschichte ihren Anfang. Sie lädt ihn in ihr New Yorker Apartment ein, und bald wird aus den Besuchen ein Ritual: An hundert Sams­tagen erzählt Levi dem Schriftsteller ihr Leben. Gemeinsam suchen und erkunden die beiden eine fast märchenhafte, verlorene Welt. Levi, geboren 1923, wuchs auf im jüdischen Viertel La Juderia auf der Mittelmeerinsel Rhodos - eine Kindheit und Jugend zwischen sephardischer Tradition und Moderne, inmitten einer Vielfalt von Kulturen und Sprachen zwischen Orient und Okzident. Stella eifert der Schwester Felicie nach, die Freud und Henri Bergson liest; sie selbst träumt vom Studium in Italien. Schließlich aber werden diese Welt und die Familie grausam zerrissen, und Stella Levi erzählt auch davon: Im Herbst 1943 besetzen die Deutschen die Insel, für Levi der Anfang eines Leidenswegs, der sie bis nach Auschwitz führt. Sie überlebt - und beginnt ein ganz neues Leben in den USA. Stella Levis Geschichte ist ein faszinierendes historisches Zeugnis. Sie erzählt von einer einzigartigen Welt, die zerstört wurde - und setzt ihr zugleich ein Denkmal, das die Vielfalt und Fülle des Lebens zeigt. Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Jewish Book Award 2023. 'Stella Levis Geschichte wird mit diesem Buch weiterleben.' (Christine Westermann).