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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunrise in the Valley of Death Author: Amiira Ann Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ever since you started Christianizing Muslims, you have walked a dangerous path! Today we burned your car and part of your house. Tomorrow we will surely burn you and your family if you don t immediately stop trying to convert people. Just leave! Leaving Western culture and their German home far behind, Amiira Ann and her husband, Chris, responded to the prompting of God to move to one of the most thoroughly Muslim cultures on earth, Yemen. The 9/11 attacks in the United States created the dangerous backdrop for reaching out to their Yemeni hosts with the love of Christ. With a commitment to work in relief and development, they would find, despite the threat of death, that their hearts would be forever knit together with this people so different from themselves. Amiira Ann will take you on a rare and personal journey into Muslim life in Yemen. Amiira Ann and her family lived in Yemen for seven years, working in aid and development. Integrating themselves deeply into the culture, they established a credible Christian witness through their work and personal lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: William Wilberforce: Take up the Fight Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For two hundred years, British slave ships plied in the Middle Passage, taking African men, women, and children to their doom. Ending slavery in the mighty British Empire seemed like an impossible dream, but once William Wilberforce resolved to represent the abolitionists in Parliament, he would fight to the bitter end - for nearly half a century - to achieve that goal. Together with a community of dynamic reformers, Wilberforce struggled to rid his nation of evil and to give dignity and freedom to all people - slave and slave trader, poor and powerful. His example continues to inspire others to use their gifts and influence to do good against the odds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milton Hershey: More Than Chocolate Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'We've done more than our share to see you right, but you're a Hershey, a true son of a dreamer,' Milton's Uncle Abraham said. 'You'll never stick with anything long enough to make it work for you.' Milton gulped. He'd already suspected that his relatives had given up on him succeeding as a candy maker, but the words still stung. When Milton Hershey's famous Hershey Bars debuted in 1905, few people knew of the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice preceding the triumph. Debt, lack of support, and fatigue had been constant companions for the famous chocolatier and philanthropist -- a man with a fourth-grade education. Despite comparisons to his wandering father, Milton never gave up. Learning from his mistakes, he spent a lifetime creating sweet things to eat -- first caramel, then chocolate. As his company soared, Milton used his wealth to care for others, founding a town for Hershey workers, a school for children in need, and a foundation dedicated to education, culture, and health care.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It was totally dark. The lights in the city were turned off, and there were no street lamps, no neon signs, and no extra glow in shop windows. Klaus noticed that theirs was the only car on the road. How would they slip by the checkpoint? Klaus glanced at his wife Tina, whose eyes were shut in prayer. Suddenly he heard a thunderous crash, then saw a bright flash of light. Klaus-Dieter John (1960-) dreamed of becoming a medical missionary in the developing world. He would do whatever it took -- study in top universities and practice surgery in remote and dangerous places -- to reach his goal of providing health care for people who needed it most. Dr. John's seemingly impossible vision of Diospi-Suyana, a world-class hospital for impoverished Peruvians deep in the Andes Mountains, was blessed by God to the end. Despite challenges in fund-raising, construction, moving his family from Germany, and countless roadblocks, Klaus's dream was finally realized, bringing hope in a land loved by God.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - José de Alencar: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia de José de Alencar tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. 'Trinta e seis anos são passados...' escreve o autor... 36 anos desde 1822, ano da Independência do Brasil! Eis o frescor do texto. Nesta biografia, é privilegiada sua atuação política, sem referências à sua obra literária. E nessa faceta de seu caráter, em que ele pregava o respeito nas divergências de opiniões, o leitor encontra eco para a realidade dos dias de hoje.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O Senhor D. Pedro II: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia de D. Pedro II tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. O leitor fica assim conhecendo os passos que antecederam a subida ao trono do imperador, no chamado 'decênio das regências', quando muitas calamidades pesaram sobre o país. A imagem do regente, por fim, é enaltecida: 'Os atos da vida pública do Sr. D. Pedro II atestam sua capacidade intelectual e uma erudição invejável. As nações estrangeiras consideram-no como um dos mais ilustrados monarcas.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Barão de Mauá E Eusébio de Queirós - biografias Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Renato Peres Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sisson tem um ponto de vista singular sobre os biografados – o de um contemporâneo deles! Esse frescor, por si só, justifica sua leitura nos dias de hoje dessas biografias. De 'Barão de Mauá', destaca-se a vertiginosa ascensão como empresário, cujo exemplo atualíssimo é ter fundando o Banco do Brasil. De 'Eusébio de Queirós', é de se notar seu vigoroso combate ao crime num Rio de Janeiro assolado por ladrões e falsários.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Auto-Biography by Joe Biden Author: J. Galt Escort Narrator: Mark Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It's All Here! The Life of The Joe 'Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.' - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. (What the Bard of Avon might have written even today had he the opportunity to meet the King of Kovid and the Cyclic Cycler of Redundancy and Recursive Mental Fluidity). And so it is that this Man for All Reasons now graces the world with his wisdom and his downright homeyness. What a delight to read and learn of the man's own thoughts before they vanish like ice in hot water. For like ice itself, his thoughts are hard and inflexible, which must demonstrate a kind of mental gymnastics as they nonetheless transition from liquidity to cold concrete and then quickly evaporate into the heavens like a carbonated food print. The Guiding Principles of Joe's Life The Eight Big Attitudes (1) Blessed are the chic who mumble for they shall become president. (2) Blessed are our boarders for they shall pay rent. (3) Blessed are the homeless for they shall seem odd and live in California. (4) Blessed are the corrupt for they shall run the Department of Justice. (5) Blessed are the naked for they are for touching and sniffing. (6) Blessed is foreign policy for it is for them and not us. (7) Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for tail for they shall be with Hunter. The wit and wisdom of The Big Guy, Joe of the Magic Syntax, who once said, 'There is no reason to be afraid, for tax for sins like drugs and stuff makes think me things many and more.' Read more about Joe's syntax from the perspective of a grammarian inside. Or, as the great American poet ee cummings might have written had he been around today, 'Joey lives in a pretty White House, within go leaving aides and out. Sultry passes, swampy gasses, and goes the luster with the muster. Called attention to are we, all the Greenies, meanies not. I order got no my to thoughts, just my Twitter writ by bots.'