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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up for the Fight: How to Advocate for Yourself as You Battle Cancer—from a Five-Time Survivor Author: Bill C. Potts Narrator: Bill C. Potts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The guide endorsed by MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic, and used by Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation patients. Imagine a road map for the entire cancer journey, for both patients and their loved ones. That’s what this book is. Think What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but for navigating the complexities of a cancer diagnosis, its treatment, and beyond. Up for the Fight empowers you to take control of your cancer journey with advice from five-time cancer survivor Bill C. Potts. Learn to be your own advocate, build the right care team, and prioritize your emotional and mental well-being. Discover practical tips for comfortable treatment days, side effect management, and understanding test results. Gain valuable insights on diet, exercise, and staying active while navigating the impacts of treatment and the disease on your immune system. Special sections offer guidance for supporting loved ones with cancer, facing mortality with peace, and realigning your priorities to truly live your life to the fullest. This book equips you with the knowledge and tools you need to fight this battle, all from the perspective of a tenacious cancer veteran

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing Author: Jeff Smoot Narrator: Eric Smies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Once considered a fringe activity, climbing without a rope has entered the mainstream consciousness, largely because of the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo featuring professional climber Alex Honnold. Yet climbers have been free soloing all along—motivated by reasons as varied as the climbers themselves. All and Nothing delves into the cultural history of free soloing, ranging across the storied climbing cultures of the Alps, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, the Gunks, Eldorado Canyon, and several other locales. Writer and climber Jeff Smoot explores the interplay of climbing and risk, as well as psychological theories, evolving ethics, the effect of media coverage (particularly the portrayal of extreme sports), and shares original interviews with dozens of free soloists. Smoot also recounts his personal experiences climbing without a rope in the same era as talented climbers like Mark Twight and Peter Croft. From inside his complex connection to free soloing, he examines our relationship with risk, how we perceive our sense of control, and our perspective on mortality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School Author: Laurence M. Hauptman, Adam Fortunate Eagle Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a 'contrary warrior' by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone's shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than 'a little bit of heaven.' Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows listeners to decide for themselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los científicos de Hitler Author: Eric Frattini Narrator: Chema Agulló Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Un libro que muestra la creación de La Anhenerbe, la «Sociedad de estudios para la historia antigua del espíritu», un departamento de las SS creado por Himmler. Este departamento tenía varios objetivos: rescatar las tradiciones alemanas, proteger la pureza aria e investigar el origen de los pueblos germánicos. Respaldado por un esoterismo racista y conspiranoico que se alzó a la altura de la ciencia, la Anhenerbe albergó e impulsó investigaciones científicas abominables. En este libro, Frattini explica y analiza el departamento y todo lo que se realizó bajo el objetivo de proteger la raza aria. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Eric Frattini es escritor, periodista y fotógrafo. Ha sido corresponsal de guerra en 17 conflictos, ha viajado por más de cien países y ha escrito varios libros de narrativa y ensayo político. Experto en conflictos árabes y terrorismo islámico, ha trabajado para varias televisiones como investigador y da clases teóricas sobre ese tema. En la actualidad se dedica a ayudar a enfermos de cáncer y personas con peligro de exclusión social.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project Author: Robert P. Moses, Charles E. Cobb Jr. Narrator: Langston Darby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: 'Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want.' We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction Author: Andrew Bowie Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 26, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: T. W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society evident in today's climate emergency, the financial crash, the reappearance of fascism in many countries, and the growing instability of the world order. This Very Short Introduction covers Adorno's work and life, explaining his key philosophical concepts and the philosophical background and historical context of Adorno's thinking. Andrew Bowie shows how Adorno's exploration of why human reason can have irrational consequences led him to rethink basic concepts like 'nature', 'history', and 'freedom', offering alternatives to many ways of thinking about these concepts in contemporary philosophy. The book also examines Adorno's social theory, as well as his highly critical assessments of jazz and modern culture, which he considered threatened by the effects of modern capitalism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors Author: Tom Bower Narrator: Andrew Wincott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.56 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 3.31 of Total 13 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This instant #1 internationally bestselling “explosive tell-all” (Daily Express, London) reveals the inside story about Meghan Markle’s journey from minor actress and attempted activist to the woman powerful enough to fracture the British Royal Family. After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, Meghan Markle fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role on Suits, her dream of worldwide celebrity remained elusive until she met the man who would change her life—Prince Harry. Their whirlwind romance culminated with Meghan’s ultimate fairy tale ending: their 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle. Finally, the world was her stage. It seemed that the dizzying success of the wedding between the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex marked the beginning of a fresh era for the British Royal Family. Yet, within one tumultuous year, the dream became a nightmare. In the aftermath of the infamous Megxit split and their Oprah Winfrey interview, the increasingly toxic relationship between the two Windsor sides seemed forever ruptured. What does the future hold for Meghan and Harry? And can the rest of the Windsors restore their reputation? Now, with “new shocking revelations” (Bella), Revenge reveals the full tangled web story of love, betrayal, secrets, and deceit within the Windsor family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Watchmakers: A Powerful WW2 Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust Author: Scott Lenga, Harry Lenga Narrator: Barry Abrams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father's trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watches for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow and Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee, Harry, Mailekh, and Moishe endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation. Derived from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga, conducted by his own son Scott and others, The Watchmakers is Harry's heartening and unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood, the lessons learned from his own father, his harrowing tribulations, and his inspiring life before, during, and after the war. It is a singular and vital story, told from one generation to the next—and a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into Enemy Arms: The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape with the Allied Airman She Loved Author: Michael Hingston Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression, and a harrowing journey to freedom. In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII, a POW camp in the same region. Twenty-three of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching column—and by chance hobbled into Lossen. One among them, Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey, was the man Ditha was destined to meet and fall in love with. Into Enemy Arms tells the extraordinary story of Ditha and the escaped POWs she helped save. Together, they embarked on a dangerous and daring flight out of Germany. As they faced exhaustion, hunger, extreme cold, and the constant risk of discovery, Ditha and Gordon's love for one another intensified, and so did their determination to survive and escape.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Child: A Memoir Author: Judy Goldman Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her—the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves. It is an incandescent book of small moments, heart-warming, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, inspiring.