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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running from the Mirror: A Memoir Author: Howard Shulman Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As quickly as his face disappeared, so did his mother and father. Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face. Running from the Mirror is a poignant story of one man's struggle to survive against staggering odds and create a meaningful life for himself. With unapologetic candor, Howard gives an unflinching account of growing up a bullied outcast, with no family to officially call his own. Relying on little more than street smarts and grit, he rises from dishwasher to successful entrepreneur. Along the way, a European actress, a schoolteacher, and a fiery Latina help transform his life. Filled with heart-wrenching suffering as well as soul-lifting joy, Running from the Mirror is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Author: Brian H. Williams Narrator: Brian H. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories more than hard truths, he came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like. Now, in raw, intimate detail, he narrates not only the events of that night, but the grief and anger of a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Gawande and Tweedy, he diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a through line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to revive, training his surgeon's gaze on the structural ills manifesting themselves in his patients' bodies. What if racism is a feature of our healthcare system, not a bug? What if profiting from racial inequality is exactly what it's designed to do? Black and brown bodies will continue to be wracked by all types of violence, Williams argues, until we transform policy and law with compassion and care.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women's liberation movement over 'sexual politics.' Shteir considers how Friedan's Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So weit das Licht reicht: Die Kreaturen der Tiefsee und was sie mir über das Leben erzählen Author: Sabrina Imbler Narrator: Katja Bürkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'So weit das Licht reicht' ist Naturbuch, poetisches Memoir und Coming-of-Age-Geschichte in einem – ein faszinierender Tauchgang von der Oberfläche bis zum Meeresgrund.  Nicht zuletzt ist es ein Plädoyer für neue Sichtweisen auf unsere Welt und die erstaunlichen Kreaturen, die sie beherbergt.  Eine besondere Faszination geht von den geheimnisvollsten Kreaturen der Tiefsee aus, die verborgen vor den Augen der Welt ein Dasein fernab vom Sonnenlicht fristen. Weißhaarige Yeti-Krabben, unsterbliche Quallen, wilde Goldfische, hungernde Tiefseekraken und hybride Schmetterlingsfische – in jedem Kapitel verbindet Sabrina Imbler naturkundliche Beobachtungen mit Geschichten aus dem eigenen Leben und reflektiert über das Erwachsenwerden, Anpassung, fluide Sexualität, Migration, Gemeinschaft und Umweltzerstörung. Dabei entsteht ein dichtes Geflecht aus meeresbiologischen Fakten und persönlichen Erfahrungen, das einen unwiderstehlichen Sog entwickelt.  - Ausgezeichnet mit dem Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2023  - Ein starkes, kluges, sensationell gut geschriebenes Debüt  - poetisch, tiefgründig, queer! 'Imbler holt nicht nur Krabben, Störe oder Sepien ans Licht, sondern auch ihre eigene Geschichte; vom queeren Coming-out, ihrer chinesischen Mutter und einem Körperverständnis, das sich an der polymorphen Schönheit der Tiefseekreaturen berauscht.' Jutta Person, Philosophie Magazin 'Imbler fordert uns dazu auf, darüber nachzudenken, wie unser Leben das Leben der Tiere um uns herum widerspiegelt, insbesondere derjenigen, die unserem Blick so oft entgehen, genau wie die dunkleren Facetten unserer eigenen Persönlichkeit.' Los Angeles Review of Books '[Sabrina Imbler] wirft ein Licht auf einige der entzückendsten und am wenigsten beachteten Lebewesen des Ozeans … und stellt Verbindungen zwischen diesen faszinierenden Tieren und unseren eigenen Bedürfnissen und Wünschen her – nach Sicherheit, Familie und mehr.' New York Times 'Eine schwindelerregend schöne Ode an das Leben in all seinen Formen.' Vogue

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center Author: Martin Peretz Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From 1974 to 2012, during his years as publisher and editor-in-chief of the New Republic, Martin Peretz was a familiar presence on the political scene. In its time under his leadership, the magazine was always fresh, erudite, contrarian, and brave. Anyone interested in finding out the most distinctive expert takes on the issues that mattered—whether they be domestic or international, cultural or political—knew that the New Republic was required reading. The Controversialist begins in a vibrant but tragedy-stricken community of Yiddish Jews in his native Bronx and takes Peretz, blessed with that rare trait of always being in the right place at the right time, into the same rooms as some of the most prominent writers, thinkers, businessmen, activists, and politicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Peretz's insights into his relationships with these men and women are both original and illuminating. Through his examination of the personalities, not least his own, at the center of the events that have defined the postwar and neoliberal decades, Peretz makes a rich and compelling argument for the ideals that have been the focus of his life: liberalism, democracy, and Zionism. In revisiting this rich life, he considers, too, what will come next now that those ideals are no longer assured.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming Author: Lisa Cornwell Narrator: Lisa Cornwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lisa Cornwell never shied away from standing up to bullies. When she was a freshman in college, she saw a man hit a woman in the face with a closed fist while a paralyzed crowd stood by and watched. Seconds later, she took matters into her own hands—with a 3-iron from her golf bag. This impulse crystallized years later when Cornwell publicly spoke out against the misogynistic culture she and others experienced at the hands of their employer, Golf Channel/NBCUniversal. Throughout her time at the network, she challenged the toxic environment and was quickly branded a 'troublemaker'—a label that often accompanies women who refuse to play by an antiquated set of rules. In this authentic and unreserved memoir, which includes a powerful foreword from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cornwell takes listeners inside the boys' club of sports media and reveals the way powerful corporations cover up wrongdoings. For her, what began with retaliation exploded into a public smear campaign and, ultimately, her dismissal. She also shares the unlikely yet formative touchstones of her life: a close friendship with Tiger Woods when both were nationally ranked junior golfers; her cousin, Bill Clinton, being elected President of the United States; and the private demons she battled as a young adult that almost cost her everything. Note: Listeners can access the foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton in the bonus PDF accompanying this audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea Author: Hannah Stowe Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight ― to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea―and what might the water around us be able to teach us? Braiding her powerful and deeply personal narrative with stories of six keystone marine creatures―the fire crow, sperm whale, wandering albatross, humpback whale, shearwater, and the barnacle―Stowe invites listeners to fall in love, as she has, with the sea and those that call it home, and to discover the majesty, wonder, and vulnerability of the underwater world. For fans of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard, Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea is an inspiring, heartfelt hymn to the sea, a testament to finding and following a dream, and an unforgettable introduction to a deeply gifted nature writer of a new generation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the “American Nobels,” these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers’ next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary’s ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. This deeply researched biography paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Body Is Distant: A Memoir Author: Paige Maylott Narrator: Paige Maylott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is swept into a fairy tale romance that pushes her into discovery mode: How can she transcend her carefully curated computer universe and manifest that happiness in the real world? As she discovers the person she is meant to be, Paige contends with a cancer diagnosis and an imploding marriage while struggling to convert an online love story into reality. When a humiliation at work provides the necessary push to transition, Paige finds the freedom to explore her new self. Part trans woman’s coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wäre schön blöd, nicht an Wunder zu glauben: Die Geschichte einer Frau, die mehrfach schwer erkrankte und trotzdem die Hoffnung nie aufgab Author: Simone Heintze, Julia Fiedler Narrator: Theresa Theis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ich starre zum Himmel, balle meine Faust in der Hosentasche und würde vor Frust am liebsten laut schreien. So hatte ich das nicht geplant! Nein, so hatte ich das überhaupt gar nicht geplant! Was hier gerade mit meinem Leben passiert, das will ich nicht!' Diese Gedanken gingen Simone Heintze durch den Kopf, als sie zum vierten Mal in ihrem Leben die Nachricht zu hören bekam: 'Sie haben Krebs.' Viermal hat sie sich ins Leben zurückgekämpft. Dabei wurde in all diesen Jahren ihr Glaube, der sie seit ihrer Kindheit begleitet, ein immer stärkerer Halt. Mit ihrer Autobiografie möchte sie allen helfen, die angesichts der Diagnose Krebs oder einer anderen schweren Erkrankung den Boden unter den Füßen verloren haben. Ein wertvolles Buch nicht nur für Betroffene, sondern auch besonders für Menschen, die beruflich oder privat mit Krebspatienten zu tun haben. Mit Hoffnung bis zum Schluss zu leben ist tausendmal besser, als deprimiert bis zum Lebensende vor sich hin zu vegetieren.