Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sai Saileshwara Author: Marina Chand Narrator: Marina Chand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 25, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Born into a poor family in Fiji, Saileshwara set out on a quest seeking a cure from a life-threatening condition. Through an extraordinary journey that took him half-way around the world to India, New Zealand, and then Australia, he not only survived, but he transcended his physical and mental limitations, triggering the yogie path to self-realisation. Despite the challenges of having a physical disability, Saileshwara's mind-blowing and uplifting story reveals some of the superhuman achievements possible on this inward path.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At seventeen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in Brisbane Watch House before being sent to work in a notorious Magdalene laundry. Committed to the Holy Cross home for unwed mothers in Woolowin, Lily's son was taken from her in the labour ward and put up for adoption. She promised him: 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again.' A true story from the war-torn ravages for East End London to the far north of Queensland, Australia, Dirty Laundry recounts a journey that took Lily and a movement of women like her on a lifelong battle for justice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq’s seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost. As a young woman, Faleeha hated seeing her father and brother go off to fight, and when she needed to reach them, she broke all the rules by traveling alone to the war’s front lines—just one of many shocking and moving examples of her resilient spirit. Later, after building a life in the US, she realizes that she will coexist with war for most of the years of her life and chooses to focus on education for herself and her children. In a world on fire, she finds courage, compassion, and a voice. A testament to endurance and a window into unique aspects of life in the Middle East, Faleeha’s memoir offers an intimate perspective on something wars can’t touch—the loving bonds of family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas—both professional and personal—that left her anxious yet determined to escape. It would take a catastrophic event for Helena to abandon her career at the age of forty, recover her Korean identity, and set in motion a journey of self-discovery. In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/677381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time for Me: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Billings Narrator: Alexandra Billings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings. Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings grew up in a decade in which being herself was illegal. When she started transitioning in 1980, the word “Transgender” was not commonly used. With no Trans role models and no path to follow, Alexandra did what her family, teachers, and even friends said was impossible: Alexandra forged ahead. Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, This Time for Me captures the events of a pioneering life. An award-winning actor and history-making LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist, Alexandra shares not only her own ever-evolving story but also the parallel ways in which queer identity has dramatically changed since the Stonewall riots of 1969. She weaves a true coming-of-age story of richly imaginative lies, of friends being swept away by a plague that decimated the community, of her determination to establish a career that would break boundaries, and of the recognition of her own power. A celebration of endless possibilities, Alexandra’s bracing memoir is a fight-to-the-death revolution against all expectations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/687076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered Author: Tom Mcgrath Narrator: Tom Mcgrath, Mark Lambert Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 16, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his parents' lives before he was born; it was only many years after they died that he uncovered the unspoken truths, which did so much to explain the people they had been. Here he tells the incredible true story of his father's conscription into the British Army, his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, his daring journey across Europe and subsequent recapture – and the devastating news that awaited him in England. Tom's research also led him to discover that his mother also carried a heartbreaking secret. In writing this book Tom not only recreated his father's nail-biting escape but also embarked on a journey of his own to reconnect with previously unknown family members in order to piece together an extraordinarily rare tale that encompasses memoir, family history, and the parallel stories, which were almost lost for ever, of his parents' lives of desperate hardship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 16, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen 'Eine kühne und starke Frau.' (Stylist)  Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau. England, 1912: Gefangen in ihrer Ehe, trifft Frieda den mittellosen, aber ehrgeizigen jungen Schriftsteller D. H. Lawrence. Ihre stürmische Liebe ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal. Und Frieda muss für ihren Mut, die Fesseln ihrer Zeit zu sprengen, einen hohen Preis zahlen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Mann, der das Impfen neu erfand: Ingmar Hoerr, CureVac und der Kampf gegen die Pandemie Author: Sascha Karberg Narrator: Sebastian Dunkelberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Seine Idee rettet Millionen Menschenleben.Im Jahr 1999 macht Ingmar Hoerr als Doktorand in einem Tübinger Labor eine überraschende Entdeckung: mRNA funktioniert als Impfstoff. Über zwanzig Jahre später schützt sich die Welt mit eben solchen mRNA-Impfstoffen vor dem Coronavirus: mit den Vakzinen von BioNTech, Moderna und CureVac. Zwischen Experiment und Triumph liegen zwei Jahrzehnte hartnäckigen Forschens. Mehrfach wäre Ingmar Hoerr mit CureVac fast gescheitert, hätte er nicht Dietmar Hopp, Bill Gates und Elon Musk von seiner Vision überzeugt: die Vision einer völlig neuen Medizin, bei der sich der Körper selbst von Viren, Krebs, Diabetes und anderen Krankheiten befreit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chicos malos: villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas Author: María Del Pilar Montes De Oca Narrator: David Allende Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Los villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas que desfilan por estas páginas harán que la aguja de nuestro medidor imaginario de bondad y maldad oscile de blanco a negro.