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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Yallah Deutschland, wir müssen reden! - Aus dem Leben einer deutsch-marokkanischen Beamtin (ungekürzt) Author: Souad Lamroubal Narrator: Souad Lamroubal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ich verrate Dir, wo ich herkomme, und vor allem, wo ich hinwill!' - So beginnt ein packendes, tiefgründiges, witzig-ernstes Zwiegespräch mit 'ihrem' Deutschland, das Souad Lamroubal als 'problematisches' Gastarbeiterkind kennengelernt hat und dem sie heute als Integrationsbeamtin dient. Ein unwiderstehlicher Dialog über Freiheit und Herkunft, Verbotenes und Erlaubtes, über Heimat, Zukunft und die Frage, wer wir Deutschen sind und wann wir Deutsche sind. Lamroubal deckt ungeklärte Widersprüche bei ihren deutschen Landsleuten auf, beim Umgang mit Migrant*innen und dem Umgang der Migrant*innen mit Deutschland. Dabei erzählt sie mal mit beinhartem, mal mit zärtlichem Humor ihre marokkanische Familiengeschichte und die ihrer früh verstorbenen Mutter, die zwar nicht lesen und schreiben konnte, aber dennoch ein großes Vorbild für sie war. Wann ist Integration gelungen? Das kann Lamroubal besser beantworten als die meisten. Sie kennt beide Seiten: die Erwartungen der Ankommenden und die Ansprüche deutscher Behörden, Überforderung und Menschlichkeit, Freude und Bürokratenfrust. Sie erzählt die alte Geschichte über 'die' und 'wir' - 'wir' und 'die' so neu, dass wir sie endlich verstehen. Authentisch von der Autorin selbst gelesen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Crónica de la eternidad (Vida de Hernán Cortés 2) Series: #2 of Vida de Hernán Cortés Author: Christian Duverger Narrator: José Manuel Rincón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: «Sustentado por una apreciable información documental, el asombroso libro de Christian Duvergerrinde a Cortés escritor un merecido homenaje.» Bartolomé Bennassar Se cumplen cinco siglos de la Conquista de México, y a lo largo de este tiempo Hernán Cortés ha desempeñado un claro papel en el imaginario colectivo de la nación: el de villano. Sin embargo, para Christian Duverger esta apreciación no podría ser más injusta. Lejos del ambicioso y sanguinario invasor que los libros de texto han urdido, el historiador francés presenta en esta biografía en dos tomos a un humanista, un hombre de armas y de letras que vio en las tierras americanas la posibilidad, no de trasplantar una copia de la sociedad castellana, sino de inventar un mundo nuevo. Para Cortés, el mestizaje era la clave de este proyecto cultural. Publicada por primera vez en 2013, bajo el título de Crónica de la eternidad, esta segunda parte de la biografía cortesiana causó un gran revuelo al desmontar la autoría de Bernal Díaz del Castillo sobre la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España y devolvérsela a su verdadero dueño: Hernán Cortés. La pluma nos presenta a un Cortés cronista de sí mismo, un escritor que supo fundar su legado a través de un magistral artificio literario: un auténtico conquistador de la memoria.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Jefferson An Autobiography Author: Thomas Jefferson Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I cannot live without books.” “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ? Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams and as the first United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence. As a Virginia legislator, he drafted a state law for religious freedom. He served as the second Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. In 1785, Jefferson was appointed the United States Minister to France, and subsequently, the nation's first secretary of state under President George Washington from 1790 to 1793. Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the First Party System. With Madison, he anonymously wrote the provocative Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 and 1799, which sought to strengthen states' rights by nullifying the federal Alien and Sedition Acts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zuhören ist die beste Antwort - Was ich aus meinen Begegnungen gelernt habe (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Leeroy Matata Narrator: Patrick Abozen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Was zählt wirklich im Leben? Zuhören! Moderator und Youtube-Star Leeroy Matata teilt seine Erfahrungen mit uns. Hey Freunde, herzlich willkommen! Mein Name ist Leeroy und ich freue mich, dass ihr euch dieses Hörbuch gerade anschaut. Denn hier spreche ich so offen wie noch nie über das, was mich bewegt. Wir alle machen unterschiedliche Erfahrungen, die uns oft ein Leben lang prägen. Und niemand von uns kann in den Kopf anderer Leute schauen, deshalb führt das oft zu Missverständnissen. Aber das muss nicht so sein. Wenn wir einander wieder besser zuhören, können wir eine Menge lernen. So geht es mir zumindest. Ich habe über 250 Gespräche mit außergewöhnlichen Menschen geführt und auch mein eigenes Leben hielt schon ein paar Überraschungen für mich parat. Die spannendsten Aha-Momente möchte ich mit euch teilen. Denn zusammen können wir einen Unterschied machen. Jeden Tag aufs Neue. Das Hörbuch wird gelesen von Patrick Abozen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mother's Job: From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight For Her Tragic Daughter Author: Joy Dove, Joe Cusack, Ann Cusack Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I am just an ordinary mum, yet I would go to the ends of the earth to get justice for my daughter. If I can change the way people are treated, then Jodey will not have died in vain. I now feel that this was her destiny; to change the lives of millions of others.“ While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. It was a letter she never saw. Despite suffering from major health problems and needing daily care, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine. While waiting for her appeal, and with no money coming in, Jodey killed herself, aged just 42. Another DWP letter pronouncing her ‘fit to work' was sent to her home three days after her tragic death. A Mother's Jobis the story of how Jodey's mum Joy Dove, 67, took on the system – and won justice for her daughter. A former cleaner and shop-worker, she is intimidated by nothing and nobody. Joy reveals how she struggled to raise her family, as a single mother, living on the now notorious: ‘Benefits Street' estate in Stockton-on-Tees. Of how Jodey, her middle daughter, developed problems including curvature of the spine, a brain cyst, and bipolar and personality disorders and how, as her health deteriorated, Joy became her unofficial carer, visiting several times a day. Jodey left farewell notes following her suicide, warning that her youngest son, Cory, a twin, was particularly vulnerable. Tragically, her premonition was realised when, unable to cope with his grief, he died from a drug overdose, aged 19, in May 2020. Joy felt that the DWP had stolen two members from her family. An inquiry after Jodey's death found the DWP had failed to follow its own safeguarding practice. It issued an apology and compensation. The case was discussed in Parliament where the Prime Minister labelled it ‘appalling.' Joy launched ‘Justice For Jodey' which aims to hold the DWP to account and to prevent other tragedies. She met other grieving families and her campaign saw her take centre stage at the Labour Party conference and argue her case in the High Court.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meine Bekehrung Author: Charles H. Spurgeon Narrator: Eduard Janzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Wie kann ich Errettung erfahren?' Diese Frage quälte Spurgeon für viele Jahre. Trotz seiner christlichen Erziehung und eines Umfelds, in dem er alle 'Theorie' kennengelernt hatte, suchte er nach einer Antwort, die er an einem schneereichen Wintertag in einer unbekannten, kleinen Gemeindeversammlung fand. Mit dem Beginn seiner Bekehrung im Alter von 15 Jahren entfaltete sich einer der größten Prediger Englands. Sein lebendiger Predigtstil zog Massen von Menschen an und viele kamen zu Christus. Im Laufe seines Lebens predigte er zu einer geschätzten Menge von 10 Millionen Menschen und er wurde der 'Prince of Preachers' genannt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aldous Huxley George Orwell Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A deep dive into the heart and mind of both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The greatest contributions to the tradition of dystopian fiction are two defining masterpieces from the 20th century, both of them bestsellers at the time and ever since: Aldous Huxley’s 1932 Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four. The two dystopias have many details in common. Both writers saw a future shaped by weapons of mass destruction — biological and chemical weapons in Huxley’s case, nuclear war in Orwell’s. They agreed about the danger of permanent social stratification, with humanity divided into categories determined by biological engineering and psychological conditioning (Huxley) or traditional class combined with totalitarian loyalty systems (Orwell). Both men imagined future societies completely obsessed with sex, though in diametrically opposite ways: state-enforced repression and celibacy in the case of Orwell; deliberate, narcotizing promiscuity in the case of Huxley. Both men thought the future would be dominated by America. Both men thought that future governments would spend a lot of effort permanently trying to incite economic consumption — not that either man thought of anything as wildly fantastical as quantitative easing. Both began their books with a short sentence designed to signal a world that was familiar but also disconcertingly futuristic “ Here are both literary giants in their own bold words!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Elizabeth II Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Queen Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926. in Mayfair, London, as the child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War. In November of 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, their marriage lasted 73 years until his death in April 2021. They had four children together: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. When she was 25 she became queen regnant of the United Kingdom as well as head of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution of the UK, the decolonization of Africa, and the United Kingdom's accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union. The number of her realms has varied over time as territories have gained independence and some realms have become republics. Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021, She was at her husband's bedside when he died, and remarked in private that his death had 'left a huge void'.Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place in England at the time, the Queen sat alone at Philip's funeral. On September 8, 2022, Buckingham Palace announced the Queen was under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle. She peacefully passed away at 6:30 pm. She graciously ruled over the United Kingdom and of 14 other sovereign countries for 70 years and 214 days. This is her inspirational story in her own words.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dialysis Author: Lisa Frieden Narrator: Lisa Frieden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 11, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A compelling story about coping with a serious illness, offering lessons in the value of slowing down and appreciating life in the moment.' -- KIRKUS REVIEWS DIALYSIS: A MEMOIR portrays how a young woman’s life is changed forever when her kidneys fail. From hospitalization through hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and finally to transplant, the memoir explores how her experience of illness is at odds with the world around her: the buoyant and youthful atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay Area during the dotcom bubble of the 1990's. The memoir describes how she learns to make sense of what happened and how she ultimately overcomes the physical and emotional challenges of kidney failure to thrive in her new life. DIALYSIS: A MEMOIR, SECOND EDITION, includes a new Introduction and an updated Afterword, twenty years later.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Is Thicker than War: Brothers and Sisters on the Front Lines Author: Martin King Narrator: Martin King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of Triage and Searching for Augusta comes a history of love, hate, jealousy, and revenge between brothers and sisters during times of war through the ages.Journey back through time to discover remarkable accounts of parents who waved off their sons and daughters, never knowing if they would ever see them again. One mother saw no less than ten of her sons between the ages of eighteen and thirty-seven, dispatched to the frontline in the First World War. The biggest “real” band of brothers that ever served their country, but to discover how many made it back and who this dear lady was, you will have to read the rest. War is completely indiscriminate when it comes to inflicting suffering and heartbreak on families, particularly when one’s own blood takes up arms to fight with, and in some cases against their own kin. These stories recount some of the prime examples of families divided and united in some of the direst conflicts.When British police discovered the body of a dead woman, who locals knew as the “Crazy Cat Lady,” they found a small bundle of possessions that revealed a truly incredible story of two amazing sisters who served behind enemy lines as elite Special Operations Agents (SOE) during World War II.