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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers Author: Royd Tolkien Narrator: Drew Cullingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 1, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspirational, life-affirming memoir from the great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien. Having grown up on their great-grandfather’s stories, Royd Tolkien and his brother, Mike, have always enjoyed adventures. So when Mike is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, also known as ALS, the brothers decide to use the time they have left to tick off as much as possible from Mike’s bucket list, from remote camping in Norway to travelling through Royd’s beloved New Zealand. Yet, when Royd loses Mike, he discovers his brother had been writing another kind of bucket list: fifty things he wanted Royd to do after his death. His first task? Mike wants his mild-mannered brother to trip up on his way to the lectern to deliver his eulogy. What follows is a set of emotionally charged tests that will push Royd firmly out of his comfort zone. This is the story of Royd’s journey to accomplish a challenging, humorous, and often heartbreaking list of unknown tasks that chart the brothers’ lives from childhood to adulthood. But above all, it is a story of the sibling bond, of grief—and of treasuring every moment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved The Monarchy Author: A.N. Wilson Narrator: Gareth Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 15, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For over six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was her beloved husband and the father of their nine children, Prince Albert. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist and bibliophile, Albert was one of the architects of Victorian Britain's transformation as a centre of political, technological, scientific and intellectual advancement. Albert lived only forty-two years, but fathered four royal dynasties and helped pioneer the modern constitutional monarchy. Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert's own correspondence, this biography offers never-before-known details about the man and his time, giving Albert the reverence and recognition that is long overdue.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before Wallis: Edward VIII's Other Women Author: Rachel Trethewey Narrator: Charlotte Strevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 19, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love. Before Wallis dominated his life, he adored three other women: Rosemary Leveson Gower, the girl he wanted to marry; Freda Dudley Ward, the Prince's long-term mistress; and Thelma Furness, his twice-married American lover. Each one of the three women in this book could have changed the course of history. In examining their lives and impact on the heir to the throne, Rachel Trethewey questions whether he ever really wanted to be king....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617089 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester Author: Nicola Tallis Narrator: Charlotte Strevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 6, 2018 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Cousin to Elizabeth I - and possibly Henry VIII's illegitimate granddaughter - Lettice Knollys had a life of dizzying highs and pitiful lows. Entangled in a love triangle with Robert Dudley and Elizabeth I, banished from court, plagued by scandals, embroiled in treason, Lettice would lose a husband and son to the executioner's axe. In the first ever biography of this remarkable woman, Nicola Tallis takes us through her dramatic life and the grand sweep of the Tudor Age and the events that define it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nurse: Inside Denmark's Most Sensational Criminal Trial Author: Kristian Corfixen Narrator: Colin Mace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The award-winning true-crime account of a Danish nurse accused of killing her patients—now a Netflix miniseries starring Josephine Park. In the early hours of March 2015, the police receive a call from a nurse at a provincial Danish hospital. She suspects her colleague is deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again. Soon, several witnesses reveal that they too suspect the same nurse of poisoning patients; some have been harbouring their suspicion for years… so why has no one done anything about it before? And now that those patients’ bodies have long been cremated, where is the evidence? To this day, the nurse, Christina Aistrup Hansen, maintains her innocence. Is this an example of small-town gossip snowballing out of control or a sinister case of serial sociopathic harm? In this award-winning, best-selling account, Danish journalist Kristian Corfixen reconstructs the fateful night shift in 2015 when three patients die under mysterious circumstances, setting in motion one of Denmark’s most sensational criminal trials. With thorough research and extensive source material – including medical records, autopsy reports, text and email correspondence, and police reports – Corfixen tells the true story of the events. The book includes testimonies from key players in the case, including the convicted nurse, Hansen, and the key witness, both of whom are speaking publicly about the case for the first time. Kristian Corfixen is a Danish journalist. 'The Nurse' ('Sygeplejersken', 2019), won critical acclaim and several awards while also raising debate about the rigorous vetting of caretakers and the role of indicative evidence in criminal courts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered Author: Russell Kirk Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined the public and the private man into a living whole. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy and offers a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time. Kirk defines four great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation with the American colonies; his involvement in cutting down the domestic power of George III; his prosecution of Warren Hastings, the governor general of India; and his resistance to Jacobinism, the French Revolution's 'armed doctrine.' In each of these great phases of his public life, Burke fought with passionate eloquence and relentless logic for his ideals of justice, ideals that continue to appeal today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 Author: William Manchester Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 41 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 12, 1990 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time. In political office at the end of WWI, he foresaw the folly of Versailles and feared what a crippled Germany would do to the balance of power. In his years in the political wilderness from 1931 to 1939, he alone of all British public men continually raised his voice against Hitler and his appeasers. For over fifty years, he was constantly involved in, and usually at the center of, the most important events of his age. It was, however, his obduracy on matters of principle, his fortitude in the face of opposition, and his perseverance in standing alone that defined him. As a biographer, William Manchester is the standard by which all others are measured. And when a writer of his caliber is matched with a subject as colorful as Winston Churchill, look for results that are magisterial. This, the first in a three-volume biography, is a momentous piece of work.