New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop's Crusade in Mormon Country Author: Ron Stallworth Narrator: Phil Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the ’90s. Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth finally lands in Salt Lake City, Utah. Once again, he’s an outsider—not only as a Black man on a mostly white police force but also as an unapologetic nonbeliever in a state dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But soon after his first drug bust in the Beehive, Stallworth makes a startling discovery—Bloods and Crips are infiltrating Mormon Country, threatening to turn the deeply conservative community into a hotbed of crime. Kids are bombing homes while carrying pocket versions of the Book of Mormon, yet his fellow cops are in denial that gangs are wreaking havoc in their Christian town.  Now Stallworth has a new mission. Whether facing off with skinheads at a downtown bar or schooling white Crips blasting “F*ck tha Police,” he is intent on stemming the tide of gangs into the state. But those he expected to be his allies either have their heads in the sand or their own agendas—from the racist Mormon legislator to the community activist exploiting a fatal gang incident to spread paranoia over an imaginary race war. As he butts heads with these so-called leaders, Stallworth also realizes that gangsta rap has the key to the g-code. He becomes obsessed with—even defensive of—the music he once loathed and puts himself on the front lines of America’s culture war. Now he’s spitting uncensored lyrics before Congress and taking the stand in the 1993 murder case that puts hip-hop on trial. But the more Stallworth speaks truth to power, the more determined the gatekeepers in Utah are to silence him, and not even twenty-three years of police work could prepare him for how low they would stoop.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ''Enough'' Author: Emma Specter Narrator: Erin Deward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AS FEATURED IN NYLON • W MAGAZINE • GLAMOUR • BOOK RIOT • HEYALMA • BUSTLE • ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ROMPER • AND MORE! ''Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart.'' —Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn’t just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food—its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world—as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating. Melding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about food, fatness, and disordered eating—Virginia Sole-Smith, Virgie Tovar, Aiyana Ishmael, Leslie Jamison, and others—Emma Specter explores binge-eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please, she provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than you’ll allow yourself to have.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Give Me Strength: How I Turned My Back on Restriction, Nurtured the Body I Love, and How You Can Too Author: Alice Liveing Narrator: Alice Liveing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. For anyone who has thought that being thinner would make them happier, this book is for you. In 2017, Alice Liveing, known as Clean Eating Alice, was the UK’s leading personal trainer, she had over half a million followers on Instagram, counted celebrities amongst her clients, appeared on the cover of Women’s Health, and even achieved her third Sunday Times bestseller. She had everything she had ever dreamed of, and more, because as she was recognised as the embodiment of health, but that was the furthest thing from the truth. Now, having faced a sustained period of disordered eating and exercise addiction that had controlled her life for so long, Alice tells the intimate story of what led to her darkest moments of restriction, the ultimatum that forced her to change, and how she overcame those demons to find true health, happiness and find peace with her body. Part-memoir, part-manifesto, Alice reveals how we can all move in a way that prioritises how we feel over how we look using her four pillars of fitness: Why, What, When and How. Give Me Strength is a vital, powerful and life-affirming book for any woman who has ever struggled to love their body. ©2024 Alice Liveing (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Sinha Lifetime: Comedy, disaster and one man’s quest for happiness Author: Paul Sinha Narrator: Paul Sinha Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact. Yes, this chaotic life has always been a gamble. ...But what a gamble.' Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a quizzing mastermind and a happily-married husband. But it hasn't always been this way. As a boy, Paul struggled to find his place in a world where he didn't quite fit. Who was he? A smart young man with the world's knowledge at his fingertips? A traditional Bengali son, destined for a career in medicine that he didn't want? A gay man who couldn't quite come out? A man on a self-destruct mission? Amid life's chaos, it was general knowledge - the security of clear questions with correct, if not always simple, answers - that kept Paul sane, even as he struggled into a new life as a stand-up comedian. And it was an unexpected introduction to a pub quiz team that took things even further, introducing him to a new life, a new identity, and, eventually, new love... A hilarious and moving coming-of-age memoir of one man's search for meaning, One Sinha Lifetime is an unforgettable story of love, family, and the joy of general knowledge. ©2024 Paul Sinha (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter Author: Kat Hill Narrator: Catrin Walker-Booth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE ‘The bothy embrace is addictive’ ADAM NICOLSON 'Will have you reaching for your boots’ CAL FLYN The door to the bothy is always unlocked, you just need to step inside. You will find them in the mountains. You will find them in the wilderness. A bothy is a remote hut you can’t reserve, with no electricity, mod-cons or running water. And it’s here you’ll find Kat Hill – kettle on, feet up and pen out. Leading us on a gorgeous and erudite journey around the UK, Kat reveals the history of these wild mountain shelters and the people who visit them. With a historian’s insight and a rambler’s imagination, she lends fresh consideration to the concepts of nature, wilderness and escape. All the while, Kat weaves together her story of heartbreak and new purpose with those of her fellow wanderers, past and present. Writing with warmth, wit and infectious wanderlust, Kat moves from a hut in an active military training area in the far-north of Scotland to a fairy-tale cottage in Wales. Along her travels, she explores the conflict between our desire to preserve isolated beauty and the urge to share it with others – embodied by the humble bothy. Bothy is a stirring, beautiful book for anyone who longs to run away to the wilds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/674232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ask Jules: Love yourself and live your dream Author: Jules Robinson Narrator: Jules Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Honest, first-hand advice from the beloved TV personality, entrepreneur, wife and mother.   Since finding love on Married at First Sight, Jules Robinson has had a whirlwind five years – she got married (for real), had a baby, and became a purpose-driven entrepreneur. Though there have been setbacks and challenges, Jules has stayed true to herself throughout.   Jules is beloved for her unshakeable optimism, vulnerability, and sense of fun. But what is the real secret to her confidence? How does she juggle motherhood with multiple businesses, while remaining her most glamorous self?   In Ask Jules, Jules Robinson puts it all out on the page. She shares her personal experiences, expert tips, and empowering lessons on style, family, motherhood, self-love, wellbeing, manifesting and practising gratitude. Jules’s mission is to give you the tools you need to go after the life you’ve always dreamed of, and to feel good about yourself while you’re doing it – exactly as you are, right now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days Author: Andrea Wilson Woods Narrator: Andrea Wilson Woods, Charity Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Raw and honest story of great courage and unconditional love Adrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager—until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers just how much she wants to live. As Adrienne’s legal guardian, Andrea acts as her parent, sister, friend, and guide. In Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, Andrea Wilson Woods tells a brilliant, touching story that captures the reader’s heart and attention with clarity and grit. This emotional true story is a beautifully written, insightful, page-turning book on how we connect as humans and why life—no matter how truncated—is worth living. Among smiles and tears, this heartwarming and heartbreaking memoir will touch your soul and change your life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me Author: Caleb Carr Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior.   For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb’s life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha’s inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests—a love story like no other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir Author: Genevieve Kingston Narrator: Genevieve Kingston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The most “profound” (Booklist, starred review) memoir you will ever read about the power of love. Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen’s life and each of her birthdays until age thirty. When Did I Ever Tell You? opens, just three packages remain: engagement, marriage, and first baby. Tracing Gwen’s coming-of-age, the book reveals a treasure hunt, with each gift and letter unveiling more about her mother, her family, and—ultimately—herself. This transformative memoir is a moving coming-of age story and an “extraordinary testament to the power of love over death” (Sarah Ruhl, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Smile). Like Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Did I Ever Tell You? is a life-changing story that “has a scope and power that will take your breath away” (Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health Author: Rose Cartwright Narrator: Rose Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté What if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable? Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. Yet no biological test can diagnose any mental health problem. So where are we going wrong? Rose Cartwright was once the poster-girl for OCD. Now, she reveals how the failure of the mental health system led her to radical action. Uncovering her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she explored a new path to healing. If you have ever asked yourself: ‘why am I like this?’ This revolutionary book – part memoir, part manifesto – could change your life.