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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Monk of Park Avenue: A Modern Daoist Odyssey Author: Yun Rou Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A literary memoir like no other, Monk of Park Avenue recounts novelist and martial master Monk Yon Rou's spiritual journey of self-discovery. A spiritual journey with extraordinary encounters. Yon Rou's memoir is a kaleidoscopic ride through the upper echelons of New York Society and the nature-worshipping, sword-wielding world of East Asian religious and martial arts. Monk of Park Avenue divulges a privileged childhood in Manhattan, followed by the bitter rigors of kung fu in China and meditations in Daoist temples. Join Yon Rou's adventure as he encounters kings, Nobel laureates, and the Mob. Meet celebrities along the way. A story of love, loss, persistence, triumph, and mastery, The Monk of Park Avenue is peopled with the likes of Milos Forman, Richard Holbrooke, Paul McCartney, Warren Beatty, and now-infamous opioid purveyors, the Sackler Family. Yun Rou's memoir is no mere celebrity tell-all, but a novelist and martial master's path to self-discovery. The Monk of Park Avenue offers you: ● Paths for personal and spiritual growth ● Anecdotal stories of self-discovery and insights into how to live ● An eloquent, candid exploration of spiritual transformation

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - trans(*)parent: Wie eine Normvariante der Natur ihren Weg findet Author: Christin Löhner Narrator: Christin Löhner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Christin ist - nun ja, Christin ist eben Christin. Christin ist eine ganz normale Frau und Christin möchte Dir hier erzählen, wieso das eigentlich gar nicht so normal ist und wie es dazu gekommen ist, das Christin Christin wurde. Verwirrend? Ja, das war es viele Jahre lang für mich auch. Ich war nicht immer Christin, so viel müsstest Du inzwischen schon verstanden haben. Und doch ist mein heutiger, offizieller und rechtsgültiger Name Christin. Nach vielen anderen Vornamen, die ich ausprobiert hatte und die mir nach kürzester Zeit nicht mehr gefielen, habe ich mich für diesen entschieden. Und da es ja irgendwie trendy ist, auch noch einen zweiten Vornamen zu haben, entschied ich mich dann noch für Sophie. Ich bin transsexuell, eine transsexuelle Frau, oder - für mich - eben einfach eine ganz normale Frau. Ich möchte Dir schonungslos, aber auch gefühlvoll und möglichst detailliert erzählen, wie mein Leben als transsexuelle Frau bisher so war und auch in Zukunft weitergehen wird. Es werden viele Geschichten aus meiner Kindheit, Gefühle, Gedanken, schöne Geschichten, traurige Geschichten, aber natürlich auch viele Probleme erzählt und ich werde versuchen, so wenig wie möglich zu vergessen und so viele Erinnerungen wie möglich einzubauen. Dies ist eine Autobiographie über mein Leben und meinen Weg als transsexuelle Frau und sie soll Dir anhand meines Beispiels zeigen, wie solch ein Leben aussehen kann und wie man Hürden und Probleme überwindet. Ich hoffe sehr, das ich mit diesem Buch das Verständnis und die Akzeptanz und auch Toleranz in der Gesellschaft steigern kann und neben den immer häufiger werdenden Medienberichten soll es dazu beitragen, dieses Thema in die Welt hinaus zu tragen und verständlich zu machen. Es ist zwar schön und positiv, dass das Thema inzwischen immer öfter medial aufgegriffen wird, wir können trotzdem nicht genug dafür tun, um es noch mehr an die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen und so die Akzeptanz, die Toleranz und vor allem überhaupt auch das Wissen um uns in der Gesellschaft zu schüren. Viel zu oft werden transsexuelle Personen nach wie vor als Psychopathen, als kranke oder gar perverse Menschen hingestellt, diskriminiert, geschlagen und auch erschlagen. Dies alles möchte ich mit meinem Buch und auch mit meiner sonstigen Arbeit im sozialen Bereich diese Themen betreffend, ändern und dafür setze ich mich ein.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Ringer Author: Roland Breckwoldt Narrator: Tim Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever. 'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by four foot piece of canvas and blanket. If you stay for three months we will refund your fare. You will need to fly TAA out of Cloncurry and advise me your date of arrival.' And so began the adventures and misadventures of young Roland Breckwoldt. It was 1960. He was not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland was leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland. A more unlikely stockman you would not find. Born in an internment camp in Central Victoria, his family had come to Australia from Germany via Shanghai. But it was out mustering on horseback and living in remote bush camps with characters as eccentric as any in outback Australia that Roland learnt about the world and discovered his place in it. Full of youthful stumbles and told with great freshness and gentle humour, this beautifully written coming of age story is a nostalgic and evocative reminder of a disappearing way of life. 'A beautifully written - yet stunningly different - memoir of a young misfit. Absolutely loved it.' RAY MARTIN

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Strange Man: a Memoir of Aidan Higgins Author: Alannah Hopkin Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years – filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O’Brien and other literary legends – to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan’s decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan’s very last breath. A Very Strange Man is an exceptional piece of writing, objective and authoritative, personal, honest and moving. - Allannah Hopkin is based in southwest Ireland. She is The 2020 Frank O’Connor International Fellow. Her story collection 'The Dogs of Inishere' was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. Her stories have appeared in the London Magazine and The Cork Literary Review, among others, and have been short-listed for the RTÉ Short Story Award. She has published two novels with Hamish Hamilton.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Ti Presento Francesca Author: Loretta Candelaresi Narrator: Francesca Di Natali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Il suo motto personale: "Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..... E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro". L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perché insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore.Il suo motto personale: "Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..... E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro". L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perché insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore. Una storia che ci fa palpitare il cuore, che ci fa riflettere e interrogare; che ci invita ad esplorare la profondità dell'animo e che ci meraviglia continuamente. Attraverso una serie di avvenimenti si snoda il racconto della nostra protagonista che comunque ci lascia la sua eredità di eroina romantica. Lei inarrestabile, diretta come un gancio destro, dissacrante, vivace, vera, libera, sincera sempre e ad ogni costo, coerente, forte e dignitosa. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine Author: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Narrator: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story—one that raises questions about her own guilt? In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman’s Battles and Transformations Author: Édouard Louis Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces - society, masculinity, my father - and that things could have been otherwise. One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. Growing up, Édouard only knew his mother's sadness, as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken? Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old life behind, to start a new one in Paris. A Woman's Battles and Transformations is Édouard Louis's most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, with politics and power - and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait of a mother, and an honouring of her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on her own terms. Translated from the French by Tash Aw 'Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian © Édouard Louis 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl Worth More: The courageous story of an ordinary middle class girl trafficked into a sex slave ring Author: Joanne Phillips, Shannon Kyle Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Joanne Phillips' ordeal began aged 13 when she was gang-raped in her bedroom by local boys. Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was raped by over 500 men, starved, beaten, and transported around the country to brothels. Forced to have sex with men from all walks of life including lawyers, stockbrokers, doctors, a parish councillor, Joanne was even made to have sex with her former school headteacher – who didn't recognise her. Every attempt to flee failed. Police warned her mother and stepdad she had chosen the lifestyle and even threatened to charge her parents with living off immoral earnings if they allowed her to move back. Escape seemed impossible, until one day she couldn't take any more. Just before her 21st birthday, Joanne eventually escaped her enslavement. After being left alone briefly in a London flat, where she was expected to work, she took a chance after finding a bag of money and a handgun. Fearing for her life, she fled into the night with nothing but a plastic bag of cash. After catching a train to Northern Ireland, she found her real dad and hid at his home from her pimp. Desperate to readjust to normal life, she found a job and went on to study at university. But when she tried to explain to a new boyfriend about her past, he didn't believe any of it was true, so she vowed to keep the abuse a secret – until years later, a conversation with one of her own teenage daughters changed her life...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coasting: A Private Journey Author: Jonathan Raban Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he’s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Más allá Author: Catalina Escobar Restrepo Narrator: Barbara Drebnieks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Catalina es una impresionante fuerza de la naturaleza. Ese huracán que la impulsó a crear la Fundación Juanfe viene de las tragedias que ha tenido que enfrentar. Este libro evidencia la tremenda fuerza interior que la mueve en todo lo que hace' Miguel Silva Hace veintiún años Catalina Escobar perdió a su hijo de tan solo quince meses en un fatal accidente. En medio de una profunda tristeza, y con el peso del drama del que era testigo como voluntaria de una clínica de maternidad en una ciudad tan desigual como Cartagena, Catalina reunió fuerzas, conocimientos y su vocación de servicio para trabajar por todos aquellos niños y niñas cuyas muertes sí podían evitarse. Así nació la Fundación Juanfe, un referente de emprendimiento social en el mundo que ha conseguido, entre otras cosas, reducir una de las tasas de mortalidad más altas de América Latina y ayudar a miles de madres adolescentes a consolidar un proyecto de vida. Catalina, también conocida como 'la heroína de los niños', es una líder, empresaria y gestora excepcional que hizo parte de la selección final de CNN Heroes en 2012.Más allá lleva al lector por un viaje emotivo e inspirador, lo acerca a los rincones más oscuros del infortunio humano y pone en evidencia la empatía, el amor y la esperanza que aún hoy están presentes en el mundo