New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Word Author: Amy Price Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Raw and unflinching This is a mother’s account of her daughter’s life And of Katie Price and her turbulent rise to fame The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Amy Price. Katie Price’s life has long been lived in the public eye, documented both by her own books, reality tv, and the tabloids. But what does this story look like from the inside? While battling a terminal illness, Katie’s mother, Amy Price, has the last word in this honest and insightful memoir, where she reveals how her family’s past has shaped her daughter’s future. The Last Word is the definitive story of how Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield became Katie Price. It documents how her life has been shaped by a tradition of strong women, by cycles of abuse which have been repeated through generations, and by the impact of fame and trauma on a close family unit. With tributes read by Kate, Sophie, Dan, and Paul Price. The Last Word was Number 2 in the Sunday Times Hardback Non-Fiction bestseller list on Sunday 16th July.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Lived the 80s: A Gen X Life and the Pop Culture That Defined It Author: B Harrison Smith Narrator: B Harrison Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Gen X is the “forgotten generation.” We made our own meals after school and Saturday mornings, we got dirty, played miles away from home with no way to reach us, we told offensive jokes, we built and jumped bike ramps, broke bones and drank from garden hoses, we had three network channels, we didn’t “mediate” with bullies—we kicked their asses, we had land lines, house phones and cordless phones that you could beat someone with, MTV showed music videos, Steven Spielberg and Michael Jackson ruled, we knew who we were gonna call, girls had big hair, guys popped their collars, there were clogs, and penny loafers, you chose Beta or VHS at the video store, high school lunch could be hell, we partied like it was 1999, teachers were off the wall, we had nerds, preps, stoners, burners, geeks, jocks, we drank Malt Duck, White Mountain wine coolers and Mickey’s Big Mouths, we got our permits at 15 and learned to drive on stick shift, the malls were our hangouts. There was no Internet or social media. And we liked it. (Oh yeah, we also had AIDS, terrorism, crack, racism, homophobia, subway shootings, cocaine, corrupt politicians, pollution, book banning, political correctness, TV preachers, climate change, stranger danger and Can’t Stop the Music.)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Your Name Is Not Anxious: A very personal guide to putting anxiety in its place Author: Stephanie Dowrick Narrator: Stephanie Dowrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Read. This Book. It's a lifesaver.' MAGDA SZUBANSKI Anxiety is restricting millions of lives. Award-winning writer, Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, shows how new mind-body insights and research can emphatically restore the inner security that anxiety takes away. Restoring the wellbeing that anxiety takes away Of all the possible blows to your emotional health, anxiety is the most treatable. In this intimate, exciting book, best-selling author Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, challenges the way anxiety is usually thought about. Writing from her personal as well as professional experience, she emphasizes the profound relationships between your mind and body – plus you and the world you live in. She makes life-giving change possible. There are many strong ideas here to make your own, including proven emergency strategies for the hardest times, making way for clearer thought - and lasting self-care. Using her powerful gifts of story and memoir, plus the latest mind-body research on stress as well as anxiety, Stephanie Dowrick speaks up for a new understanding of personal power. Anxiety may be limiting your life. But it is never the whole 'you'. It need never define you. 'A timely gift in our anxious and troubled world... Dr Dowrick's unique book covers all dimensions and layers. An array of connected insights accessible to us all.' PROFESSOR PATRICK MCGORRY AO

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House With All The Lights On Author: Jessica Kirkness Narrator: Elizabeth Nabben Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The House with All the Lights On was shortlisted for the 2021 Richell Prize and was described by judges as 'beautifully crafted' and written in 'adept, precise prose'. It is a story of struggle; of lives that were both ordinary and extraordinary. Full of heart and tenderness, it provides an account of deafness in Australia and the UK, where Jessica's grandparents spent the first 60 years of their lives. She tells her grandparents' experience of growing up in a hearing world- one where sign language was banned for much of the 20th Century. Her quest to better understand them takes her to sign language classes, to the workplaces of research audiologists, and in the final chapters, she is led back to England where she visit their old schools and family landmarks. Throughout this journey, Jessica navigates the throes of grief - both for the loss of her grandfather, who died just before the pandemic, and for the ways her grandparents' deafness has been so terribly misunderstood. The House with All the Lights On captures the universal experience of the complex navigating familial relationships. It's a beautiful exploration of Family and identity, of mothers and daughters and more broadly, what it is to be a member of a family with its own unspoken rules, undeclared boundaries, and unique bonds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Traut euch, träumt!: Lektionen eines Lehrers, den man gerne gehabt hätte Author: Dieter Bachmann Narrator: Milan Peschel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Der Lehrer, von dem du gerne gelernt hättest (und deine Eltern wären froh gewesen, hättest du so einen Lehrer gehabt) Ein ganz und gar ungewöhnlicher Lehrer schreibt über die Erkenntnisse aus der jahrzehntelangen Arbeit mit Schülerinnen und Schülern. Die wichtigsten Dinge hat Dieter Bachmann nämlich nicht im Studium gelernt, sondern vom Leben selbst oder eben von den Kindern. Von Herrn Bachmann können wir wiederum lernen, wie man Kindern Vertrauen schenkt, wie man im Umgang mit ihnen authentisch bleibt, Haltung und Mitmenschlichkeit zeigt und dabei Kreativität, Toleranz und Kommunikation in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Eine Schale Äpfel kann manchmal mehr bewirken als vier Stunden Matheunterricht. Der Dokumentarfilm 'Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse' hat zahlreiche Preise gewonnen, unter anderen den silbernen Bären der Berlinale und den Deutschen Filmpreis.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak Author: Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened. In 1997, the government collapsed, plunging the country into anarchy and civil war. The twins' dream unraveled along with their homeland. Their parents had to find a way to leave and save their daughters' futures—not to mention their very lives. It took over two years for the Zalli family to escape. After several dangerous attempts, they finally made it to England, where the thirteen-year-old twins believed everything would be much better. They soon found out otherwise. Now refugees, with little more than the clothes on their backs, the girls were mercilessly bullied and constantly afraid they would be sent back to Albania, and their parents would be sent to jail. Still, the twins persevered and learned how to navigate their harsh new reality. When tragedy struck yet again, the girls had to come to terms with the high price they had all paid to survive. In Good Morning, Hope, Argita and Detina share their harrowing story of courage and resilience. It was the strength of their family, particularly the sisters' unique, unbreakable bond as twins, that nurtured and sustained them throughout their perilous ordeal.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684147 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reflections on Captivity: A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW Author: Porter Alexander Halyburton Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam and listed as killed in action. One-and-a-half years later, he was found to be alive and a prisoner of war. Halyburton was held captive for more than seven years. Reflections on Captivity is a collection of fifty short stories about this naval officer's experiences as a POW in North Vietnam. This book recounts difficult times but focuses more on the positive aspects—the humor, creativity, friendships, courage, and leadership of an amazing group of Americans and how they helped each other survive and even thrive. These vignettes demonstrate how the human mind, body, and spirit can adapt and find meaning in life in the most challenging circumstances. There are powerful lessons learned from this complex experience that continue to guide the author's life to this day. Despite hardship, suffering, and long separation, Halyburton strongly believes one's quality of life is determined more by choices made than by circumstances, and the most liberating choice we can make is to forgive. Reflections on Captivity furthers the listener's understanding about the nature of captivity, race relations, human relations, aspects of the air war against North Vietnam, and highlights the importance of leadership, ethics, and devotion to duty in difficult times.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre limones Author: Chris Stewart Narrator: Eduardo Díez, Joe Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Primera parte de la trilogía sobre el encanto de la vida alternativa que vive Chris Stewart en la Alpujarra granadina. **Edición actualizada: incluye entrevista del autor y capítulo extra** El primer libro autobiográfico de Chris Stewart, Entre limones, es el divertidísimo relato de un joven inglés que, con tal de no vestir traje y trabajar en una oficina, se gastó todos sus ahorros en la compra de un ruinoso cortijo en la Alpujarra granadina. Publicado en 1999 por una pequeña editorial inglesa, se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial, hasta el punto de que, junto con los dos volúmenes siguientes -El loro en el limonero y Los almendros en flor-, han deleitado a más de dos millones de lectores. Entre limones es un caso singular: un libro divertido, rebosante de observaciones agudas y reveladoras, que mezcla la mirada curiosa del viajero con cierta visión idealista de las cosas y una fuerza de voluntad inasequible al desaliento. Chris desgrana las numerosas vivencias que le depara su existencia diaria desde que, tras su llegada a la Alpujarra, inicia la aventura que cambiará su vida, rodeado de una sorprendente galería de lugareños, pastores, expatriados y viajeros New Age. Sin embargo, quizá el verdadero protagonista de esta historia sea el decrépito cortijo «El Valero», encaramado en una colina, rodeado de olivos, almendros y limoneros, situado en el margen malo de un río, sin carretera de acceso, sin agua ni electricidad... ¿Acaso puede ofrecer la vida algo mejor? La crítica ha dicho... «Un canto humorístico a la trascendencia de las cosas pequeñas [...] un libro divertido que encanta desde la primera página.» Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, La Vanguardia «Stewart tiene un talento especial para captar los diálogos, una curiosidad insaciable, un optimismo contagioso y un plácido sentido del humor.» Moncho Alpuente, Babelia «Una experienciasingular que nos atrapa desde los primeros compases de lectura y nos transmite un universo de paz.» Diari de Terrassa «Impregnado de sutil humor inglés con el que describe en primera persona el desembarco de un inglés cosmopolita en la España rural.» Miguel Artaza, El Correo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration Author: Alejandra Oliva Narrator: Angela Juarez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande, and having worked on asylum cases since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the American immigration system. In Rivermouth, Oliva focuses on the physical spaces that make up different phases of immigration and looks at how language and opportunity move through each of them; from the river as the waterway that separates the US and Mexico, to the table as the place over which Oliva prepares asylum seekers for their Credible Fear Interviews, and finally, to the wall as the behemoth imposition that runs along America's southernmost border. As investigative and analytical as she is meditative and introspective, sharp as she is lyrical, and incisive as she is compassionate, in Rivermouth, Oliva argues for a better world while guiding us through the suffering that makes the fight necessary and the joy that makes it worth fighting for.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kindergarten at 60 Author: Dian Seidel Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Teaching kindergarten in Thailand wasn’t the job Dian Seidel had in mind when, at age sixty and craving adventure, she convinced her husband that they should try working abroad. But coping with rambunctious children, sweltering heat, and Covid-19 turned out to be the challenge she needed. Struggling to understand Thai culture, their school, and their marriage, could she learn Thailand’s essential lesson: mai pen rai, don’t worry, keep cool? Part travel memoir and part second act story, Kindergarten at 60 is a retirement tale like none other. With gentle humor and polished prose, Seidel explores universal themes via the adventures of everyday life. Job-hunting retirees confront age restrictions. A couple navigates 24/7 togetherness for the first time in their lives. Professionals accustomed to working with adults are overwhelmed, and charmed, by a passel of two-, three-, and four-year-olds. An introvert struggles to forge cross-cultural and cross-generational friendships. Americans face the challenges of the five-tone Thai language and five-alarm Thai chilies. Seidel’s heartwarming story offers a unique perspective on contemporary Thailand and introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters at Pathum Thani Prep. Join the journey, meet the kids, and experience Kindergarten at 60.