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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient Author: Theresa Brown Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world of healthcare as a cancer nurse becomes a patient and experiences the system from the other side.​ Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medical maze from the other side of the bed. Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? Why is she expected to research her own best treatment options? Why is there so much red tape? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care. Of the almost four million women in this country living with breast cancer, many have had, like Brown, a treatable form of the disease. Both unnerving and extremely relatable, her experience shows us how our for-profit health care industry “cures” us but at the same time leaves so many of us feeling alienated and uncared for. As she did so brilliantly in her New York Times bestseller, The Shift, Brown relays the unforgettable details of her daily life—the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the bureaucratic frustrations—but this time from her new perch as a patient, looking back at some of her own cases and considering what she didn’t know then about the warping effects of fear and the healing virtues of compassion. “People failed me when I was a patient and I failed patients when working as a nurse. I see that now,” she writes. Healing is must-read for all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope: My Journey of Love, Loss, and Faith Author: Matthew Mattera Narrator: Denny Brownlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the age of six, Matthew lost his father to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At the age of thirty-seven, he lost his fifteen-year-old daughter to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Between those two deaths, he lost a cousin and two uncles to suicide, and a brother to self-harm. Hope reveals the tenacity of the human heart, showcases unrelenting faith, and shares immovable hope while giving a breathtaking inside look into the battle against generational dysfunction, destruction, and death. Matthew goes beyond simple “suicide awareness” by giving a raw perspective into its warning signs, contributing factors, depth of impact, and the cascade of damage inflicted upon those left behind. Matthew challenges us to have a critical discussion about suicide as a three-part-problem set: body/mind/spirit while telling us how to embrace growth and healing, engage in the careful art of stewarding hardship and trials, and the need for both accountability and partnership with healthy people who are committed to helping the wounded heal and grow.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family Author: Madhushree Ghosh Narrator: Deepti Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 100 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Author: Fiódor Dostoievski Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the greatest Russian writers that ever lived. His works continue to influence writers and philosophers to this day. After becoming a second lieutenant, he resigned from the army in 1859 and committed himself completely to writing. He became an admired writer after the publication of 'Crime and Punishment' (1866) and 'The Idiot' (1869). The author's final book was also his opus magnus. 'The Brothers Karamazov' was serialised in the periodical 'Russkiy Vestnik' between January 1879 and November 1880. Dostoyevsky died of a pulmonary haemorrhage three months later in February 1881. These 100 quotations aim to give the listener access to his monumental work through a selection of his most outstanding thoughts, in a format accessible to all. A quotation is more than an extract from a statement, it can be a witticism, a summary of complex thought, a maxim or an opening to a deeper reflection. - -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Running-Shaped Hole: A Memoir Author: Robert Earl Stewart Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance running When Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin—his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. The only thing that helps him deal with the fear and shame is eating. But one day, following a terrifying doctor’s appointment, he goes for a walk—an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long distances, fulfilling his mother’s dying wishes, reversing the disastrous course of his eating, losing 140 pounds, and, after several mishaps and jail time, eventually running the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon. At turns philosophical and slapstick, this memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who, left to his own devices, struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught between East and West Author: Fouad Ajami Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s—the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, east and west. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami’s sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s. The time was a transitional one—not only for the Middle East, but for America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab society. The disruptive forces of the Middle East—the Cold War, the Palestinian conflict, religious extremism, the money and oil of the Gulf—were only just beginning to appear. In this haunting and beautifully written memoir of his Lebanese childhood, the late Middle East scholar, Fouad Ajami, casts a discerning light into the corners and alleyways of an Arab reality that would later erupt into full view.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look at It This Way: The Blind Leading the Sighted Author: Sammy Sweetspirit Narrator: Sammy Sweetspirit Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindness Look at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or inferiority. There is an open discussion about the challenges blind people face and how those challenges can be overcome, by creating a space of understanding and awareness between people who are sighted and people who are blind. This book invites us to remember how connected all of us truly are and gives us ways to strengthen our bonds with each other, whether we can see or not.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Wide Open Author: Shana Pennington-Baird Narrator: Shana Pennington-Baird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In August of 2019, Shana Pennington-Baird found herself in the wilds of Ireland, traveling alone, when she had a major health emergency. During the course of this one-hour musical adventure, Shana will take you on a journey of diagnosis, emergency open-heart surgery, recovery, and recuperation 5,000 miles from home. She will make you laugh since that’s how she got through it, and tell you all the stories that she shared with medical professionals when she got home, which put them in stitches. The show includes crazy ambulance rides, instant friendships from AirBnB hosts, slumber parties on the cardio rehab floor, and lots of good Barry’s Irish Tea with bacon rashers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dangerous Truth about Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story Author: Laura Stack Narrator: Laura Stack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the poignant life-and-death story of Johnny Stack, whose young and vibrant life ended by suicide after his descent into addiction to high-potency marijuana and cannabis-induced psychosis. You’ll laugh and cry with his mother, Laura Stack, as she retells the story of Johnny’s joyful childhood and then takes you through the unthinkable tragedy of his loss. It’s every parent’s nightmare. But this audiobook is much more than Johnny’s story. Today Laura, who is a nationally recognized speaker and best-selling author, leads a national effort of parents, impacted family members, healthcare professionals, coalitions, teachers, and youth who are concerned about the harmful effects of marijuana on our children, teenagers, and emerging adults. This audiobook is a clarion call for parents across America to educate themselves about the risks of today’s high-THC marijuana products and to better understand the potentially devastating effects on youth mental health. Laura’s real-life story is backed by recent scientific-based research on how today’s potent THC products lead to mental illnesses in adolescents, such as anxiety, depression, paranoia, psychosis, and sadly, suicidal ideation. This audiobook is her vision to dramatically decrease adolescent marijuana usage, the false perception of safety, mental illness, and suicide, to allow our youth to live productive, happy lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir Author: Kathryn Davis Narrator: Kathryn Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eerily dream-like memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe. She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.” Kathryn Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings.