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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care Author: Tracey Lindeman Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is chronically overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood—and improperly treated across the medical system. Discrimination and medical gaslighting are rife in endo care, often leaving patients worse off. Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED—part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all scathing indictment of how the medical system fails patients. Through extensive interviews and research, BLEED tracks the modern endo experience to the origins of medicine and how the system gained its power by marginalizing women. Using an intersectional lens, BLEED dives into how the system perpetuates misogyny, racism, classism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other prejudices to this day. BLEED isn't a self-help book. It's an evidence file and an eye-opening, enraging book. It will validate those who have been gaslit, mistreated, or ignored by medicine and spur listeners to fight for nothing short of revolution.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, 'What does it mean to be normal?' and 'Should we be sane in an insane world?'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Author: Leah Myers Narrator: Kimberly Woods Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. She tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her 'culture is being bleached out,' offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naïve childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager. Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases Author: Andrew Lam Narrator: Jason Vu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. The story of our medical triumphs reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, but the journey was far from smooth. It is a tale replete with dramatic episodes as spellbinding as any blockbuster Hollywood movie. In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles. He brings to life heroic tales of embattled mavericks who endured ridicule and sometimes risked their own lives to conceive the life-saving cures we depend on, and often take for granted, today. Listeners will discover fascinating true stories throughout history, including: rival surgeons who killed patient after patient in their race to operate on beating hearts—and put us on the path toward the life-saving heart transplant; a quartet of Canadians who miraculously discovered insulin in a saga marred by jealousy and resentment; the feud between two Americans in the quest for the polio vaccine; and the discredited New York surgeon whose 'heretical' idea to cure patients by deliberately infecting them has now inspired our next best hope to defeat cancer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul  Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up under the spell of surfdoms coveted mecca, Malibu Beach, Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard, and triathlete. Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients. His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Rauchschiffe Author: Thomas Giehl Narrator: Michael Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lucius Cassianus Secundus ist als Präfekt der Benefiziarier-Garde in der römischen Stadt Colonia Agrippina für die öffentliche Ordnung und Sicherheit zuständig. Die Vorbereitungen zum Britannien-Feldzug des Kaisers Septimius stellen ihn und seine Benefiziarier vor große logistische aber auch politische Probleme. Neben den Soldaten des Kaisers und anderen Einheiten, die dank Wein und zu viel Freizeit für Ärger sorgen, sind da auch noch die persönlichen Truppen des Caracalla, einer der Söhne des Kaisers, der an der Grenze zu den germanischen Stämmen eigene Pläne verfolgt. Als ein Haufen Germanen die Eskorte einiger angereister römischer Senatoren überfällt, findet sich Lucius zwischen allen Stühlen wieder. Es geht nicht nur um seine berufliche Zukunft, sondern auch um die Sicherheit seiner Stadt und nicht zuletzt seiner Familie …

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - María Jesús Alvarado: Retrato de una intelectual y activista peruana Author: Leonardo Ysla Heredia Narrator: Cárdenas Enrique Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A través de esta publicación, descubriremos a esta intelectual y activista que dedicó su vida a la educación y a la lucha social, desde sus inicios en su querida Chincha, la formación de la primera institución femenina peruana Evolución Femenina, sus grandes luchas por el indígena y por la niñez hasta su exilio y sus últimos días prácticamente en el olvido. Esta biografía está dirigida a un público juvenil y a aquellos lectores que quieran conocer más sobre una de las mujeres con mayores aportes a la cultura de nuestro país.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If Prison Walls Could Speak Author: Richard Wurmbrand Narrator: Michael Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For more than three years, while imprisoned in a cell 30 feet below ground in Communist Romania, Richard Wurmbrand composed sermons for an audience of One. When released from prison, he retained the treasure that God had given him there-sermons composed in solitary confinement. Though isolated from people, VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand was never separated from God's presence. In his book If Prison Walls Could Speak, he shares how God graciously brought His beauty to one of the most horrific places ever known. This book is an intimate look at the spiritual battle fought by one pastor who boldly followed Christ while suffering greatly for His name.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer Author: Christian Fink-Jensen, Randolph Eustace-Walden Narrator: Jo Ayres Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story of the Guinness World Record Holder of the First Woman to Drive Around the World In 1922, a 16-year-old Canadian girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centrepiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name. The American Aloha Wanderwell was raised in Canada as Idris Hall. Drawing upon Aloha’s diaries and travel logs, as well as films, photographs, newspaper accounts, and previously classified government documents, Aloha Wanderwell reveals the astonishing story of one of the greatest — and most outrageous — explorers of the 1920s.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.