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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur Author: Sheldon Pearce Narrator: Ashton Grooms, Landon Woodson, Jackie Sanders, Leon Nixon, Aden Hakimi, Guy Lockard, JD Jackson, Pete Simonelli, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Fred Sanders, Heather Alicia Simms Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur’s single “Changes” became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George Floyd. The song became so popular, in fact, it was vaulted back onto the iTunes charts more than twenty years after its release—making it clear that Tupac’s music and the way it addresses systemic racism, police brutality, mass incarceration, income inequality, and a failing education system is just as important now as it was back then. In Changes, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Tupac’s birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Sheldon Pearce offers one of the most thoughtful and comprehensive accounts yet of the artist’s life and legacy. Pearce, an editor and writer at The New Yorker, interviews dozens who knew Tupac throughout various phases of his life. While there are plenty of bold-faced names, the book focuses on the individuals who are lesser known and offer fresh stories and rare insight. Among these are the actor who costarred with him in a Harlem production of A Raisin in the Sun when he was twelve years old, the high school drama teacher who recognized and nurtured his talent, the music industry veteran who helped him develop a nonprofit devoted to helping young artists, the Death Row Records executive who has never before spoken on the record, and dozens of others. Meticulously woven together by Pearce, their voices combine to portray Tupac in all his complexity and contradiction. This remarkable book illustrates not only how he changed during his brief twenty-five years on this planet, but how he forever changed the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life Author: Jay Blades Narrator: Damian Lynch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Sunday Times bestseller, Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless, by Jay Blades, the beloved star of hit BBC One show The Repair Shop. We had our hardships, and there were times that we didn’t have a lot of food and didn’t have a lot of money. But that didn’t stop me having the time of my life. In his audiobook, Jay shares the details of his life, from his childhood growing up sheltered and innocent on a council estate in Hackney, to his adolescence when he was introduced to violent racism at secondary school, to being brutalized by police as a teen, to finally becoming the presenter of the hit primetime show The Repair Shop. Jay reflects on strength, weakness and what it means to be a man. He questions the boundaries society places on male vulnerability and how letting himself be nurtured helped him flourish into the person he is today. An expert at giving a second life to cherished items, Jay’s positivity, pragmatism and kindness shine through these pages and show that with care and love, anything can be mended.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End” Series: #3 of Rush Across the Decades Author: Martin Popoff Narrator: Michael Butler Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North. In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada's most beloved and successful rock band, Martin Popoff takes us through three decades of 'life at the top' for Rush's Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Though this era begins with the brisk-selling Roll the Bones and sees throngs of fans sell out international tours, there is also unimaginable tragedy, with Peart losing his daughter and his wife within the space of ten months and, two decades later, succumbing to cancer himself. In between, however, there is a gorgeous and heartbreaking album of reflection and bereavement, as well as a triumphant trip to Brazil, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, and—some say surprisingly—the band's first full-blown concept album to close an immense career marked by integrity and idealism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget: How to Survive in Business and Life Author: Margaret Josephs Narrator: Margaret Josephs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Pretty Mess meets #Girlboss in this part memoir, part entrepreneurial manifesto from The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s “Powerhouse in Pigtails.” Margaret Josephs is a hustler. She’s a tough cookie. She speaks her mind. She never leaves the house without lipstick on. She’s also a devoted wife, mother, daughter, businesswoman, lifestyle expert, and fan-favorite star of the reality TV series The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Sounds pretty glamorous, right? Well, things are never exactly as they seem. Before she arrived where she is today, “The Marge” was born to young immigrant parents. Raised by a single party-girl mother who left her physically abusive father when she was one and a half, she was taught that it was more important to look good than to feel good. No structure. No rules. No blueprint for future success or stability. But like most people who struggle through atypical childhoods, destructive relationships, and career challenges, she forced herself to wake up every morning and put one high heel in front of the other, even if she didn’t know where she was going. Margaret took the cards she was dealt and eventually turned them into a winning hand, and she wants to arm fans with the ability to do the same. In Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget, she’ll talk about how to launch a lifestyle brand, how to work with family members, and how to be an uncompromising woman in a man’s world. She also spills stories from her personal life about the son Real Housewives viewers don’t know exists, the time Joan Rivers gave her the best advice she ever got, the rendezvous she had with a famous rock star, and the affair with her contractor that ended her marriage but gave her the happily ever after. Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget takes fans along Margaret’s wild, bumpy journey to entrepreneurial success and reality TV fame, written in her trademark no-nonsense, tongue-in-cheek voice with the perfect combination of grit and glitz.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Narrator: Patrick Radden Keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 103 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 26 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. Forty years later, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.  Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.  Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Phil Ellis is Trying: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama Author: Phil Ellis, Fraser Steele Narrator: Amy Gledhill, Phil Ellis, Lolly Adefope, Johnny Vegas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 25, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: All 12 episodes of the anarchic radio sitcom about a man desperate to succeed in a world he doesn't understand Phil's trying to keep his business afloat, and pay the rent. He's trying to get over his ex-wife, who divorced him three years ago. He's trying to be a better person. He's trying - boy, is he trying. He just needs a bit of a break (and a lot of luck) and things will surely start looking up... Series 1 sees him going on a date with Ellie Evans, the florist next door; hosting an awards ceremony; organising a short-notice wedding (and falling in love with the bride) and getting a job as a takeaway delivery driver. Meanwhile, his assistant Lolly attends a funeral to take advantage of the free buffet, and comes to Johnny's aid when he gets trapped in a Dalek... In Series 2, Phil tries to win a big cash prize in a pinball championship; accidentally joins a gym-based cult; discovers his Dad is not dead but living in his loft and goes undercover to investigate the mayor's philandering husband. It's a case Phil's desperate to crack - but will he like what he finds? Finally, Series 3 finds Phil and Johnny embarking on a magical tour of the Cup A Soup factory, hosted by reclusive owner Billy Bonker. If only the other people on the tour weren't so set on getting themselves killed... Plus, Phil reconnects with his Dad (again), only to be disappointed (again); puts on a ghost walk - but has competition in the shape of Mick the Chinese herbalist; and faces the loss of his liberty and his reputation when he's accused of murdering a hipster... Created and written by Phil Ellis (Edinburgh Award Panel Prize winner 2014) and Fraser Steele (I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, 8 Out Of Ten Cats), this madcap sitcom stars Phil Ellis as himself, Lolly Adefope as Lolly, Johnny Vegas as Johnny, Katia Kvinge as Ellie and Amy Gledhill as Polly. Among the special guest stars are Mick Ferry, Sean Lock, Alexei Sayle, Lee Mack, Desiree Burch, Mark Lamarr, Sindhu Vee and Jack Dee. Production credits Written by Phil Ellis and Fraser Steele Produced by Sam Michell A BBC Studios production First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 5-26 June 2018 (Series 1), 13 August-3 September 2019 (Series 2), 9-30 September 2020 (Series 3) Cast Phil - Phil Ellis Lolly - Lolly Adefope Johnny - Johnny Vegas Ellie/Leanne/Mrs Tailor/Tanning salon owner/Gemma/Martha/Barber/Goth - Katia Kvinge Old man/Waiter/Geoff/Morgan Freeman/Doreen/Ikea assistant/Father Josh/Sid/A-J/Jamie the builder/Tom Baker/Barry Bean/J-Dawg/Al Pacino/Bingo caller Terry Levoux/Keith/Geoff/Klaus Von Flump/Mr Kipling/Prison warder McKay/Paul McCartney/Hannibal/German tourist/Gravedigger/Orlando/Jarvis Cocker- Terry Mynott Mick the Chinese herbalist - Mick Ferry Polly/Miss Ecuador - Amy Gledhill Announcer/Bear owner/HQ/Follower/Steve - Sunil Patel The Dragon - Sean Lock Goodison - Alexei Sayle Bobby Dazzler - Lee Mack Dave - Andrew Ellis Mayor of Parbold/American tourist - Desiree Burch Captain Birdseye/Basher/Graham McCartney/DJ/Keith the barman - Jason Barnett Billy Bonker - Mark Lamarr Prosecutor - Sindhu Vee Judge Shawshank - Jack Dee

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Babblewick Hall: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy drama Author: Scott Cherry Narrator: David Antrobus, Forbes Mason, Nicholas Le Provost, Gillian Bevan, Philip Jackson, Sophie Thompson, Full Cast, Sam Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 18, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The complete Series 1 & 2 of the historical sitcom about well-meaning but gullible 18th Century squire Fenton Babblewick and his clever manservant Augustus When idealistic Fenton Babblewick inherits his uncle's Yorkshire estate, it's the perfect opportunity to realise his Utopian dreams. But for his valet, Augustus Snipe, moving to Babblewick Hall is a nightmare. The servants are surly, the house is freezing cold and full of farm animals, and worst of all, it's in the North - a world away from the cosy coffeehouses and gentlemen's clubs of London. In these ten episodes, Fenton tries his hand as an agricultural reformer and radical grower of beetroots, falls in love with the charming Miss Lucinda Bluntstone, and embarks on a glamorous political career. An escape to London beckons - but Augustus' hopes are dashed when his master chooses to stay in the village, where he tries to convert a workhouse into a school and investigates a case of witchcraft... Fans of Blackadder will love this light-hearted comedy drama, full of japes, jokes and amusing sound effects and soundtracked with brilliant Baroque-style music. Olivier Award-winning actor Nicholas Le Prevost stars as Fenton Babblewick, with Forbes Masson as Augustus Snipe and Sam Kelly and Dave Hill as Jack. Among the stellar guest cast are Sophie Thompson, Maurice Denham, Tracie Bennett and John Moffatt. Production credits Written by Scott Cherry Produced by Paul Schlesinger (Series 1) and Jon Rolph (Series 2) Music composed by Paul Mottram Violin: Paul Mottram Cast Fenton Babblewick - Nicholas Le Prevost Augustus Snipe - Forbes Masson Barney - David Antrobus Jack - Sam Kelly/Dave Hill Molly - Gillian Bevan Bob Scotcher - Philip Jackson Peck - Alex Lowe Pickett - Christian Rodska Grunter - Geoffrey McGivern Flinch - Maurice Denham Mrs Bluntstone - Elizabeth Spriggs Lucinda - Tracie Bennett Smellie - David Timson Hartson - Geoffrey Whitehead Berridge - Jeremy Clyde Dribb/Maddison - John Baddeley Mrs Maddison - Sara Coward Highwayman - Stephen Critchlow William Babblewick - Benjamin Whitrow Elizabeth Babblewick - Pauline Yates Harriet - Courtney King Septimus Hickey - John Moffatt With Maggie McCarthy, Benedict Sandiford, Michael Troughton, Pat Coombs, Kim Wall, Lynda Barron, Phil Nice, Peter Gunn, Sophie Thompson, Rosemary Leach First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 27 December 1995-31 January 1996 (Series 1), 4-25 September 1998 (Series 2)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in the Purple Kingdom Author: Brownmark Narrator: Brownmark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1981, Mark Brown was a teenager working at a 7-11 store when he wasn't rehearsing with his high school band, Phantasy. Come fall, Brown, now called BrownMark, was onstage with Prince at the Los Angeles Coliseum, opening for the Rolling Stones in front of 90,000 people. Raw, wry, real, this book takes us from his musical awakening as a boy in Minneapolis to the cold call from Prince at nineteen, from touring the world with The Revolution and performing in Purple Rain to inking his own contract with Motown. BrownMark's story is that of a hometown kid, living for sunny days when his transistor would pick up KUXL, a solar-powered, shut-down-at-sundown station that was the only one that played R&B music in Minneapolis in 1968. But once he took up the bass guitar—and never looked back—he entered a whole new realm, and, literally at the right hand of Twin Cities musical royalty, he joined the funk revolution that integrated the Minneapolis music scene and catapulted him onto the international stage. He takes us behind the scenes as few can, into the confusing emotional and professional life among the denizens of Paisley Park, and offers a rare, intimate look into music at the heady heights that his childhood self could never have imagined.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Step Closer: From Xero to #1: Becoming Linkin Park Author: Jeff Blue Narrator: Jeff Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The dramatic story of the unlikely partnership that led to Hybrid Theory, the biggest-selling debut album of the twenty-first century. From the unique perspective of the executive who discovered them, One Step Closer reveals how Brad Delson's college internship was a catalyst for a group of young musical visionaries, led by Mike Shinoda, which gave rise to a band that survived countless rejections, exceeded everyone's expectations but their own, and became the voice of a generation. This against-all-odds story chronicles the early days of Linkin Park, from their first demo and Whisky a Go Go performance as Xero, through their tireless efforts to perfect their iconic sound and the discovery of Chester Bennington. Jeff Blue was there when no one else believed—first as their publisher, then as their A and R guy. This is his memoir of that incredible journey. Riveting and inspiring, One Step Closer is a testament to perseverance, as well as a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the building of a dream and what it takes to make it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope, Grace & Faith Author: Leah Messer Narrator: Leah Messer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.45 of Total 11 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'It took hitting rock bottom for me to realize that if I wanted something better for my girls, I had to learn to love myself first.' Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV's groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen—from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and the collapse of two marriages. She has learned to live under the harsh glare of media scrutiny, yet there is a truth behind the reality that the cameras have never revealed. In her unflinching and honest memoir, Leah takes listeners behind the scenes and shares an intimate, often heartbreaking, portrait of her turbulent childhood in rural West Virginia, the rock bottom that forced her to reevaluate her life, and her triumphant break from toxic relationships and self-destructive cycles to live her life with hope, grace, and faith.