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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que aprendemos de los gatos Author: Paloma Díaz-Mas Narrator: Ana Serrano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Los seres humanos —piensa el gato— tienen una irremediable tendencia a entender las cosas al revés. Por ejemplo, si ven un libro que se titula «Lo que aprendemos de los gatos», probablemente creerán que trata de lo que los humanos pueden aprender acerca de los gatos, para conocerlos mejor (cosa que, dicho sea de paso, tampoco estaría de más); sin embargo, para cualquiera que sea capaz de pensar con claridad, resulta evidente que «Lo que aprendemos de los gatos» significa otra cosa: lo que los humanos pueden aprender a partir de los gatos, es decir, lo que los gatos pueden enseñarles. Este tipo de errores se producen porque los humanos parten de la absurda creencia de que son animales superiores, cuando todo el mundo sabe que los animales superiores son los gatos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Paloma Díaz-Mas es una escritora, catedrática universitaria e investigadora española. Estudió Filosofía y Letras y Periodismo, especializándose en poesía sefardí. Actualmente es profesora de investigación en el CSIC y miembro de la Real Academia Española. Además, ha recibido importantes reconocimientos literarios, como el Premio Herralde de novela en 1992 y el Premio Euskadi en el 2000.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home And Discovering Another Author: Nancy Campbell Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Can a tiny vehicle provide the space to rebuild a life? Thunderstone: a sculpted & fearless memoir from the award-winning author of Fifty Words for Snow - a Waterstones Book of the Month.  ‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors... But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.’ In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan and drives it into a strip of neglected woodland between a canal and railway. It is the first home she has ever owned. It will not move again. As summer begins, Nancy embraces the challenge of how to live well in a space in which possessions and emotions often threaten to tumble. And as illness and uncertainty loom once more, it is this anchored van that will bring her solace and hope. An intimate journal across the span of a defining summer, Thunderstone is a celebration of transformation; an invitation to approach life with imagination and to embrace change bravely.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clarity: A Memoir Author: Diana Estill Narrator: Diana Estill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2021 International Book Awards Finalist, Health: Psychology & Mental Health At age four, Diana manages her family's banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana's narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him. Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad. In this thought-provoking tale of resilience, the author pierces the fog of emotional and sexual abuse.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Mercy: Daring to Live Out God’s Compassion in Bold and Practical Ways Author: Abby Johnson Narrator: Abby Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Abby Johnson thought she knew what mercy was when she ushered desperate women toward abortion as the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. She was wrong. It wasn't until she understood the blood on her hands that she personally experienced the power of God's fierce yet tender mercy to transform her life. But she never imagined what could happen once she allowed that very mercy to infiltrate her life and spill out into a hurting world. In Fierce Mercy, Abby calls you to experience a transformation of your own. Against the backdrop of her first decade involved in the pro-life movement, Abby helps you discover God's unrestrained mercy at work in your own life and take steps toward becoming a channel of that life-changing mercy in the world around you. She shows you how to model God's mercy, freely offer mercy to those who seem undeserving, respond with mercy when others err or offend, and bear witness to God's unrestrained compassion so that others may know him. This is Abby's challenge to you: dare to do what is hard, what is right, and what is good. And do all of it in love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is One Way to Dance: Essays Author: Sejal Shah Narrator: Priya Ayyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful meditation on identity and belonging, Sejal Shah explores the tension of being both invisible and hyper-visible in a country that struggles with race. The daughter of immigrants from Indian and Kenya, Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up in—and returning to—western New York, an area of stark racial and socioeconomic segregation. Her work illuminates how we are all marked by family and place; by the limits of our bodies; by our losses and regrets; by who and what we love; by our ambivalences and our silences. This is a book about growing up Indian in non-Indian places, about what it means to be American, South Asian American, a writer of color, and a feminist. Shah considers the implications of being asked where are you from—the geographic and cultural distances between people, how these gaps are imagined and real, constructed and changing. These literary essays will certainly appeal to readers of short stories and poetry as well.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cinder Girl: Growing Up on America's Fringe Author: Holly Thompson Rehder Narrator: Holly Thompson Rehder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cinder Girl sits in the rarest class of memoir—a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success.Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child.But unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter.Two decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouri—and indeed, the entire nation—all while never forgetting where she came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances.As a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in Cinder Girl, Rehder rises above standard political prose to provide an unvarnished look inside the worst of American poverty––those living in the margins. Rehder challenges us to recall the plight of those far less fortunate, who struggle without the opportunities most of us take for granted.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy As: a memoir of the magic of family from one of Australia's most popular TV personalities and Gold Logie award winner 2024 Author: Larry Emdur Narrator: Larry Emdur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry. Gold Logie Winner for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television 2024 Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit and bowl haircut. It was an idyllic childhood growing up in the 1970s and '80s, dominated by endless summers, adventures with mates, sunburnt noses and board rashes, all underpinned by his dad's simple rule: 'Be nice to everyone.' Told with wit and warmth, Happy As charts Larry's career as a professional show-off, from winner of the Rose Bay Public School marching parade to living-room fixture. From his first 'job' pinching golf balls to that big TV break; from awkward teen romances to true love; from the less-than-impressed prize winners on The Price is Right to unexpectedly bonding with Yoko Ono - this is a life-affirming collection of stories about the enduring love of family and friends, and just how far being nice to everyone will get you. A perfect blend of nostalgia, side-splitting humour and heartbreaking pathos that will leave you wishing it was the '80s again. Emdur's laugh-out-loud chronicle of his four decades in television, the book also serves as a sepia-toned recollection of a time when childhoods were long and families were everything. Angela Mollard, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summertime of Our Dreams Author: Michael Pascoe Narrator: Michael Pascoe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable celebration of life, a hymn to the land, and a meditation on the memory and dreams of youth To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Jim, his friend since boarding school in Queensland, as he faces up to terminal illness. We see a group of friends as they meet occasionally to talk about their shared youth and their mortality. Eloquent, profound – and sometimes funny, as mates can be with one another – these encounters, as well as Michael and Jim's correspondence about living, dying, memory and family – will resonate deeply with readers. The narrative is also a reflection on the author's own story from son of a country cop to one of Australia's best-known journalists, taking the reader on a journey – both literal and metaphorical – as he drives north in his beloved Alfa Romeo, exploring along the way what it means to be a son and a father, how one ages and deals with one's own mortality. We were just boys, forming bonds we didn't know existed until we dared reach for them and found them strong.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life's Greatest Questions Author: John Schlimm Narrator: John Schlimm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What is heaven on earth? The answer lies in this true story of one young man’s journey to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher—a compassionate and wise old nun, whom the world had long-forgotten. By the time Harvard-educated John Schlimm turned thirty-one years old, he had worked with some of the biggest superstars in Nashville and served under the most powerful people in the White House. But something was missing. His life had come to a standstill, lost in a whirl of questions about belonging, faith, rejection, and purpose. He soon decides to return to his small-town roots in search of a new beginning. Returning home, John meets eighty-seven-year-old Sister Augustine, the beguiling self-taught artist-in-residence at the ceramic shop on the sprawling grounds of the local 150-year-old convent. John is instantly bowled over by Sister’s quiet grace and vision. Before long, his weekly visits to Sister’s shop become a master’s class in the meaning of life, love, humility, and second chances. As she directed him on the road to self-discovery and salvation, John returned the favor by putting Sister Augustine on the front page of newspapers and showing his friend that her life still had one very important and unexpected final chapter yet to go. In Five Years in Heaven, John shares the wisdom, humor, grace, and inspiration he experienced during his hundreds of visits with Sister Augustine. Five Years in Heaven reminds us that we can find love and joy in the most unlikely of places, and that the building blocks of peace and happiness are always within our reach.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine Author: Matt Fowles, Peter Coleman Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion. The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there's no better metaphor for life. It was at the bottle shop, somewhere between the chardonnay and the zinfandel, that Peter realised he didn't have a clue about wine. On his way to a dinner party and in a mild panic, he called Matt, a wine-loving acquaintance who expertly steered him towards the perfect bottle. The selection was a hit, but it was Matt's passion that stuck in Peter's mind. He decided to visit Matt's vineyard for an introduction to the noble grape. One visit led to another and this unlikely pairing of a Proust-quoting intellectual and a farmer with a love of hunting found themselves bonding over life, ideas, vulnerability, aspiration, nature, philosophy and, of course, a glass or three of wine. Like a tipsy Tuesdays with Morrie, this well-crafted tale is as much a guide to life as the mysteries of wine. With thought-provoking notes and philosophical undertones, this is a delightful story that readers will love to sip and savour.