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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spíləxm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence Author: Nicola I. Campbell Narrator: Nicola I. Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m explores resilience, reconnection, and narrative memory through stories. Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgence.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Kannada] - Peruvina Pavithra Kaniveyalli Author: Nemichandra Narrator: Nemichandra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ಪೆರು ಕಣಿವೆಗೆಂದು ಹೊರಟು, ಪರವಾನಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ಅಕ್ಕಪಕ್ಕದ ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ಸುಳಿದಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚನಕಾರಿ ಚಿತ್ರಣ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎದುರಾಗುವ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಕೈ ಬಾಯಿ ಸನ್ನೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ನಿಭಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಆಹಾರದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯನ್ನು ಬಗೆಹರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರಂತೆಯೇ ಆದರಿಸುವ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವ, ಸ್ನೇಹಭಾವ ತೋರಿಸುವ ಜನರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ಲೇಖಕಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾರಸ್ಯಕರವಾಗಿ ವರ್ಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಗೆಳತಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೂಡಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟವೇರಿ, ಕಣಿವೆ ಇಳಿದು, ಅಮೆಜಾನ್ ನದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ದೋಣಿ ಪಯಣ ಮಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚಕ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು, ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಅಪೂರ್ವ ಸಾಧನೆಯನ್ನು ನೇಮಿಚಂದ್ರ ಅವರು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕುತೂಹಲಭರಿತವಾಗಿ ದಾಖಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los diez pasos hacia Nanette: Memorias incómodas Author: Hannah Gadsby Narrator: Gwendolyne Flores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hannah Gadsby desvela los momentos que definieron su vida y la llevaron a subir al escenario con toda la verdad por delante. Tan dura como divertida, Los diez pasos hacia Nanette es una «autobiografía incómoda» que, siguiendo la costumbre de su autora de jugar con las expectativas y las reglas de la comedia, nos acerca a una de las voces más explosivas e influyentes de nuestro tiempo. «No hay nada más fuerte que una mujer rota que logra recomponerse». Hannah Gadsby Nanette no fue solo un espectáculo de stand-up insuperable, fue también un arrollador éxito viral que cautivó al público por su sinceridad desgarrada y por su habilidad para generar a un mismo tiempo tensión y risa. El éxito mundial de Gadsby podría hacernos creer que la fama le llegó de la noche a la mañana, pero el camino que la llevó a lo más alto de la escena internacional fue en realidad bastante tortuoso. En Los diez pasos hacia Nanette, Gadbsy nos brinda su retrato más íntimo: su adolescencia como persona queer en Tasmania (donde la homosexualidad fue ilegal hasta 1997), los trabajos itinerantes en Australia tras la universidad, sus duros encontronazos con la homofobia y la violencia sexual, su constante evolución como cómica, los diagnósticos tardíos de autismo y TDAH... y finalmente el hallazgo de lo que había de ser la esencia de Nanette, es decir, la renuncia a mofarse de sí misma en sus chistes, el rechazo de la misoginia y el compromiso moral con decir la verdad a toda costa. La crítica ha dicho: «Hannah es una fuerza prometeica, un talento revolucionario. Con este libro gracioso, conmovedor y a veces trágico lo que ha hecho es señalarnos dónde se originaron sus hogueras». Emma Thompson «Hannah Gadsby es la perfecta representación de la verdad que se esconde detrás de toda broma». La Vanguardia «Una clara muestra de todo lo bueno que puede pasar cuando una voz diferente se hace oír». Victoria Segal, The Times «Gadsby se muestra aquí como una escritora clara, inteligente y sustanciosa, capaz de hablarnos de sus años de formativos y de la evolución de su carrera y a la vez tocar temas relativos a la cultura popular, la política, la salud mental o el autismo». Steph Harmon, The Guardian «Un libro aparentemente de memorias que, sin embargo, escapa a toda convención y con el que Gadbsy logra, desde el núcleo irradiador que es su espectáculo más famoso, reconstruir con detalle su trayectoria vital». Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post «Sus fans comprobarán con sumo placer que Gadbsy, sobre el papel, es tan buena como sobre el escenario.» Trish Bendix, Time La crítica ha dicho sobre Nanette: «Nanette es un fenómeno internacional, el monólogo más comentado, reseñado y compartido en años, exquisitamente sincronizado con la era MeToo». The New York Times «Tan divertido como profundamente furioso». The New Yorker «Nanette es sencillamente extraordinaria. Me ha conmovido y me ha hechoreflexionar sobre el humor, el yo, el autodesprecio y los usos de la ira. Muchas gracias. Es simplemente brillante». Roxane Gay «Una hora y tres minutos. Ese es el tiempo que tarda Gadsby en destrozarte con sus palabras, ojos vidriosos y realidad sin filtros». El País «Jamás he llorado tan desconsoladamente en un espectáculo de comedia stand up». Monica Lewinsky

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Your Hand is in the Lion's Mouth: The Life and Wisdom of a Man named Green Author: Nita Whitaker Narrator: Nita Whitaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: WHEN YOUR HAND IS IN THE LION'S MOUTH is a narrative non-fiction told in forty-two stories that is a father-daughter memoir. The foundational paternal love, wisdom and life lessons shared can father us all, and at 96 years young, he keeps inspiring and teaching us with his foundational practical wisdom. Not often enough do we hear of great black fathers in our stories or media, one that goes beyond stereotype, shining a light on a devoted man who lifts and enlightens. Green is one of those men. The simplicity and complexity of the life into which he was born informed the wisdom and worldliness he would gain. Born as the second youngest of nineteen children in a rural northwest Louisiana farming community, the lion of the Jim Crow South loomed large and oppressively in the 1920's. But, Green Whitaker had the beautiful gift of a family devoted to each other to guide him through. That familial devotion and grounding grew him into a man of great integrity and grit whose love melded with the faith seeds planted in his quest for a piece of the American dream. He continues to be a beloved father, uncle and friend, as well as a father figure to more than his own children, serving as a mentor and willing role model for his entire community and more. His love and nurturing gave me the confidence to pursue a career in entertainment. His example is the salve our souls need; a re-parenting from a father figure whose voice and simple wisdom can nourish and support the child within each of us. Green is the last surviving of his large family and is the portal to his family's history and legacy. It is not an academic book on parenting, but a sharing, a recollection of unpolished gems of wisdom about how to have better values, sharing the ways he to be more kind, loving and honest to foster a rich life. It gives us a glimpse into the life and earned wisdom of a distinguished black father named Green, and how he shares his practical life gems with his children, his community, and especially his youngest daughter, Nita.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - De donde soy Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Susie Caraballo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, narradas con la inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva que caracteriza su obra. «Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas». The New York Times Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atrás, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ató gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploración de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que crecí [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medidaque todavía hoy solo les hago frente de refilón», decía Didion sobre un libro tan intelectualmente provocador como íntimo. Mezclando historia, crónica, memoria y crítica literaria, la autora explora los romances de California con la tierra y con el agua, sus deudas no reconocidas con los ferrocarriles, la industria aeroespacial y con el Gobierno central, así como el contraste entre su culto al individualismo y su fetiche por las cárceles. Ya sea escribiendo sobre sus antepasados, sobre depredadores sexuales, políticos corruptos o escritores (sin excluirse a sí misma), Didion vuelve a demostrar aquí su incomparable capacidad de observación. De dónde soy nos regala una mirada única al dibujar un mapa histórico y personal de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, pero también al reflexionar sobre la escritura mientras revisa, a través del arte, la política, la economía y las vivencias de sus antepasados, el ideal de la «tierra prometida» a lo largo de dos siglos. La crítica ha dicho: «Nos encontramos ante la mejor Didion, una escritora que dio buena cuenta de la historia y el estado mental de su país y de California […] Sin duda, su aproximación es original y personal, resultado de su particular forma de mirar». José Luis G. Gómez, La Opinión de Málaga «La mejor cronista de California». Vogue «Una voz sin parangón en el periodismo contemporáneo». The New York Times «Didion ha escrito un librito valiente, un buen libro que debe leerse con tanto cuidado como con el que fue escrito [...]. Es una autora de una honestidad implacable». The Washington Post «Si alguien necesita alguna prueba más de que Didion es una de las mejores ensayistas contemporáneas, este libro lo confirmará». The Seattle Times «Didion es una Walt Whitman contemporánea, cantando sobre América al cantar sobre sí misma». Slate.com «Tanto en la despedida como en la elegía, De dónde soy es un libro sacudido por la tormenta. Su historia es densa [...], su prosa aguda, directa y cincelada». The Los Angeles Times Book Review «Didion descubre el lugar exacto donde se cruzan la geografía y el viaje personal, y el resultado es una obra tan convincente y enigmática como los temas que trata». Time Out «Suprosa tenaz, hermosa y quirúrgicamente precisa no se parece a ninguna otra cosa que haya leído nunca». Donna Tartt «Uno de los estilos literarios más reconocibles y brillantes que ha surgido en Estados Unidos durante las últimas cuatro décadas [...] Didion es una de las grandes escritoras estadounidenses». The New York Times Book Review «Una amalgama fascinante de memorias y cronología histórica. [...] Elaborado con exquisitez, tan sutil como el lento despertar de un sueño agradable». The Baltimore Sun

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brady Street Pharmacy Author: Tea Krulos Narrator: Tea Krulos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 57 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amongst sacred institutions lost to time, the drug store lunch counter remains one of the most lamented and revered pieces of true americana. The community and chaos generated within the walls of these one-stop mom & pops is legendary. Tea Krulos recounts tales from the last days of one of Milwaukee’s finest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than One Thing Can Be True: a story of survival Author: Caroline Brunne Narrator: Caroline Brunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this work of deep reflection, insight, and vulnerability Caroline Brunne shares her story of becoming the woman she is today. From the shores of the picturesque island of Mauritius, to suburban Victoria, through to her childhood home in Queensland, deep in the heart of her life journey is her lived experience of trauma, the impact of childhood sexual abuse and her ongoing quest to support her fellow survivors to reduce the shame they may carry. With sensitivity around the subject of childhood sexual abuse, Caroline courageously discloses her truth while examining the complexities of trauma as she learns that more than one thing can be true. There is a strong message of hope and courage in Caroline’s story as she opens up conversations to enable opportunities for change, both in survivor support and in the space of child safety. Walk beside Caroline as she sheds the label of victim and claims her powerful voice as a survivor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS Author: Alison Acheson Narrator: Ellen Dubin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away. From day one, Alison, Marty's spouse of over twenty-five years, kept a journal as a way to navigate the overwhelming state of her mind and soul. Soon the rawness of her words harmonized to tell the story of Marty's diagnosis, illness, and decline. Her journal became a chronicle of caregiving as well as an emotional exploration of the tensions between the intuitive and the pragmatic, the logical and illogical, and the all-consuming demands of being both spouse and nurse. Divided into short pieces, some of which reads as free verse, Alison's words are at times profoundly intense and painfully private. The composition of the intricate notes of a life in its final movements includes another stanza of the journal that became Dance Me to the End: the guiding of children grappling with the imminent loss of a parent, and the shifting roles of family, friends, and community-all of which add their own complex rhythms. Dance Me to the End is an evocative memoir about the emotional impact of witnessing a loved one suffer from a neurological, degenerative, and terminal disease. This is a detailed account of grief, shock and pain coexisting with the levity, laughter and love shared with her husband and sons in those final months of Marty's life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waswanipi Author: Soucy Jean-Yves Narrator: Braden Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and Chibougamau in Northern Quebec. His disappointment vanishes when he learns that the depot is located near a Cree community and that he will have two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, and his work will involve canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, on each of the long trips across water or through the bush, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world but realizes he's meeting a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization. Yet he knows nothing about it. Nor does he understand the nature surrounding them as do his Cree guides, and friends. Jean-Yves Soucy wrote this story because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: "You have to write that, Jean-Yves. About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village. You got to see the end of an era." He unfortunately passed away before completing it. However, in his poignant Afterword, Romeo Saganash provides a finishing touch to this story of an unlikely meeting of two worlds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Shoes Author: Erin Darcy Narrator: Gina Burke, Aoife Mcmahon, Caroline Lennon, Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes – Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five months leading up to the referendum on abortion, the project asked a simple question of undecided voters: put yourself in her shoes. Within weeks, Erin was receiving hundreds of stories from a broad spectrum of experiences of planned and unplanned terminations. By the time Ireland historically voted Yes to Repeal the Eighth on 25 May 2018, the page had gathered over 100,000 followers, was reaching over four million readers each week and had been featured by international news outlets. What began as a solo act of grassroots activism by a mother and an artist had unleashed a national conversation on human rights that would change Ireland forever. Where once there had been silence and shame, now there was honesty and empathy. For 43 per cent of voters, it was ‘stories in the anthology and a memoir media’ that influenced their decision to vote 'Yes'. But for Erin Darcy, In Her Shoes was also a distraction from her own heartbreaking loss, loneliness and depression as she grieved her mother’s death and sought a community of her own. In time, it became an act of healing, as she connected with other women, mothers and campaigners who felt the same overwhelming need to do something. Here, In Her Shoes: Women of the Eighth reproduces thirty-two of those anonymous stories, representing the entire island of Ireland. Published with their authors’ consent, they are powerful testimonies to storytelling as salvation from heartache, stigma and threat. Together, they record lived truths previously omitted from history and signal a monumental change in the social landscape of Ireland. Please note that this audiobook includes graphic descriptions and lived experiences that some listeners may find upsetting. - Born in Oklahoma, Erin grew up travelling the Mid West of the US with her family. At the age of 15 and looking for a pen pal in Ireland – she found the man of her dreams and traveled alone to Ireland when she was 17 to meet him in person. She finished school and moved to Galway, where she now resides with her husband and three children. Erin is a self taught artist and activist. Inspired by women and children, Erin's paintings and writing often reflects the taboo subjects of miscarriage, grief, mother-loss, abortion, depression, and radical self love.