New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El hijo inesperado Author: Gemma Vilanova Narrator: Meritxell Donaire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Soy madre de un niño único. Diferente.» Este libro es un testimonio personal y directo de la experiencia de Gemma Vilanova con Josep, su hijo, diagnosticado con un trastorno del espectro autista. En estas páginas se recorren los primeros diez años de vida del pequeño en un viaje que va desde las primeras observaciones hasta la constatación. Situaciones difíciles, de desesperación, de tristeza, pero también sorprendentes y de alegría pueblan este relato que invita a dejar los prejuicios y que pretende fomentar una sociedad más comprensiva y más respetuosa con la diferencia. - Gemma Vilanova (Barcelona, 1973) es licenciada en MBA por ESADE y escritora. A lo largo de su vida ha trabajado en proyectos de consultorías multinacionales de gran envergadura y en la Fundación Edad&Vida. Comenzó su andadura como escritora cuando decidió narrar la historia de su hijo Josep para contar en primera persona su experiencia con un hijo autista.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ein Leben mit Diagnosen: Mein letztes halbes Jahr Author: Madeleine Greiner Narrator: Emilia Bechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wer bin ich? Wer soll und darf ich sein? Wie bringe ich meine Bedürfnisse und die Forderungen der anderen unter einen Hut? Ein Experiment, mich kennenzulernen – und mich vielleicht selbst zu heilen. Ein halbes Jahr meines Lebens, mit allen Höhen und Tiefen. Mal schauen, ob es klappt!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter Author: Noelle Mccarthy Narrator: Noelle Mccarthy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Quick-witted, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pubs all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthy's mother Carol rages against her life and everything she's lost. As soon as she can, in the early years of the millennium, Noelle runs away. All the way to New Zealand. Yet, the demons of the past give chase and Noelle seems fated to throw away her future, just like her mother. Somehow, she gets out of the hole and makes a new life. But then Carol gets sick, and finally it's time to face the past and everything that's waiting back home. Grand is a dazzlingly honest memoir about becoming a modern woman. 'Desperately funny, hysterically sad, so beautiful and so humane. All of life is in it' Meg Mason ©2023 Noelle McCarthy (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free Author: Laura Carney Narrator: Laura Carney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the cusp of middle age, a newlywed journalist discovers and finishes the bucket list of her late free-spirited father.Fifty-four adventures in six years. That’s what thirty-eight-year-old journalist Laura Carney embarked on when she discovered her late father Mick’s bucket list.Killed in a car crash when Laura was twenty-five, Mick seemed lost forever. My Father’s List is the story of how one woman—with the help of family, friends, and even strangers—found the courage to go after her own dreams after realizing those of a beloved yet mysterious man. This is a story about secrets—and the freedom we feel when we learn to trust again: in life, in love, and in a father’s lessons on how to fully live.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starstruck: How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years Author: Michael Kutza Narrator: Michael Kutza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A rollicking, provocative, racy, colorful irreverent show business memoir culled from Michael Kutza’s decades rubbing elbows with the giants of film at the Chicago International Film Festival and numerous other festivals around the globe. It includes many of the lowlights as well as the highlights of a life lived just off-screen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul  Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up under the spell of surfdoms coveted mecca, Malibu Beach, Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard, and triathlete. Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients. His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting Fate Author: Justin Yerbury Narrator: Nick Rheinberger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Pursued by 'the beast' of motor neurone disease, groundbreaking scientist Justin Yerbury wrote this extraordinary memoir entirely with eye movements. It is the sharpest possible lens on the value of life and hope. Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had already taken several members of Justin's family, and he learned that they carried a rare genetic form of the disease that gave them a fifty-fifty chance of inheritance. Desperate to help his loved ones, Justin went to university to study science, eventually becoming a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wollongong and one of the world's leading experts on MND. While in New York, delivering a lecture on his groundbreaking research, Justin felt his thumb stop working – 'the beast' that had lurked so long in the shadows had caught up with him. Now 99 per cent paralysed and able to move only his eyeballs, Justin refuses to yield. With eye-tracking software, he has written his extraordinary memoir to shine light on this terrible disease and to show that, even in the bleakest of moments, there is always a reason to keep fighting.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation Author: Wes “scoop” Nisker, Anne Lamott Narrator: Peter Coyote Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Iconic newscaster and Buddhist teacher chronicles the 1960s and ‘70s in India, the Bay Area, and beyond. Join Wes “Scoop” Nisker, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, performer, and newscaster, on a wild ride from West to East and back in his quest for true self and enlightenment. Narrated by the legendary Peter Coyote, this audiobook combines the best elements of memoir and social commentary to illuminate the spiritual hunger of modern America. Nisker’s journey begins in Nebraska as the only young man in his small town to be Bar Mitzvah’ed, through the heyday of the Beats and hippies in the Bay Area from his vantage point as a high-profile newscaster, the birth of the environmental movement, and the social and spiritual blossoming of the West. This is a personal, guided tour of the outer and inner movements that joined together into today’s mindfulness movement, written by one of the leaders of both. Stay tuned at the end of the audiobook for special bonus material — a collection of engaging and entertaining clips from Nisker’s unforgettable radio show on KSAN. Grab your headphones and join “Scoop” Nisker and Peter Coyote on a cosmic adventure unraveling the connections between the birth of the universe, the enlightened path of the Buddha, and the awakening of a generation. “I have loved [Wes “Scoop” Nisker] for fifty years now, loved the hope, the dharma teachings, the rock and roll, the agitation and comfort, and the great wit. I have often said that laughter is carbonated holiness, and the effervescent Wes Nisker is one of my favorite Holy men ever.” —from the Foreword by Anne Lamott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor Author: Stephen L. Hauser, M.D. Narrator: Stephen L. Hauser, M.D. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest to find a treatment for multiple sclerosis. Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating brain disease that affects millions of people worldwide. His work has revolutionized our understanding of the genetics, immunology and treatment of MS, and led to the development of B cell therapies―the most effective therapy for all forms of MS and the only therapy currently in place for progressive MS patients. The Face Laughs While The Brain Cries is a riveting memoir that follows Dr. Hauser from his unorthodox upbringing among the colorful cast of characters responsible for his development into a tenacious and innovative researcher, to the life-changing medical breakthroughs he has made against extremely long odds. Along the way, readers will learn the incredible stories of many of his patients, whose bravery, strength, and optimism in the face of a debilitating illness were instrumental to the progress that has been made in the fight against MS. This heartwarming book, written in accessible prose and related with equal measures of humor, empathy, and excitement, is sure to inspire.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking Better: 22 Armed Robberies and One Decision to Change Author: Lennox Rodgers Narrator: Lennox Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this searingly honest account, Lennox gives a fascinating insider account of his experiences operating in the criminal underworld in and around London and Oxford. Stomach-churning, heart-breaking, eye-opening - he leaves no stone unturned. Lennox recounts in riveting detail how he was drawn into his life of crime, how he operated as a drug dealer, enforcer and armed robber, and how he survived numerous spells in prisons including Dartmoor, Strangeways, Grendon, Oxford and Lewes. All culminating in the fateful day when, friendless, bloodied and broke, he collapsed behind an industrial bin in an alleyway off London's Oxford Street, and saw an eerie image out of the corner of his eye. In Breaking Better, Lennox sets out the complete story of his decent into darkness and his inspiring road to redemption. Today Lennox is co-founder of Refocus Project and has dedicated his life to helping those most at risk of being exploited or caught up in knife crime, county lines, crime, grooming, money laundering and gangs.