New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything and Nothing Author: Heather Mitchell Narrator: Heather Mitchell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful, immersive and intimately candid memoir exploring the light and shade that co-exist in love, family and the arts, from celebrated stage and screen actor Heather Mitchell. Heather Mitchell is an esteemed Australian stage and screen actor, and yet behind the scenes her real life has taken many remarkable twists and turns. Training an unflinching spotlight on her most formative memories, Heather illuminates the heartbreaking secrets, sexual encounters, family dramas and creative pursuits that have shaped her life as a woman, an actor and a mother. Told with raw candour and spellbinding lyricism, Everything and Nothing draws back the curtain on a unique and fascinating life. ‘Reading Mitchell's memoir reminded me of how I felt when I first read Tuesdays With Morrie. A gentle collection of musings on an extraordinary life; unpretentious and honest, full of stoic wisdom.' Tim Minchin ‘This is exquisitely written, with such courage and candour. I was profoundly shaken, shocked, and I often wept. But best of all, I laughed—Heather is very, very funny. Superb.' Sam Neill ‘To read her memoir is to understand why Heather Mitchell is universally beloved across the world of Australian theatre, film and television. An extraordinary life told in tender detail, capturing triumph, love and tragedy with a beautiful humanity.' Annabel Crabb

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Blanco Author: Bret Easton Ellis Narrator: Carlos Canales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Las memorias del creador de American Psycho: después de una década regresa el autor más controvertido de los 90 con su libro más polémico. «Hemos entrado en una peligrosa suerte de totalitarismo que en realidad aborrece la libre expresión y castiga a la gente por mostrarse tal cual es.» Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis creó a Patrick Bateman, el célebre ejecutivo de Wall Street que, en la obra maestra American Psycho, mejor describió los delirios de toda una época. Después de una brillante carrera novelística, el enfant terrible de la literatura norteamericana vuelve a la carga con su aclamado primer libro de no ficción: una autobiografía que recorre su infancia, su polémica carrera y las referencias literarias, cinematográficas y de la cultura popular de los setenta y los ochenta que marcaron su vida. Pero Bret Easton Ellis no se queda en el pasado, y lleva a cabo un análisis perspicaz y totalmente libre de autocensura de la sociedad del presente, preguntándose qué demonios ha ocurrido en estas últimas cuatro décadas. Blanco es una defensa del derecho a la libertad de expresión y una crítica a la dictadura del neopuritanismo, a la hipersensibilidad millennial y a lo políticamente correcto en la era de las redes sociales. Bret Easton Ellis reivindica el humor y la sátira como herramientas de provocación y, por encima de todo, reclama una libertad que se desvanece. Las agudas reflexiones que pone sobre la mesa vienen a revolucionar la actualidad con una honestidad provocadora y corrosiva. Críticas: «Ellis irradia el mismo espíritu joven de siempre: diversión irreverente, una fina ironía y una curiosidad artística incansable. Es la encarnación de cómo todo y nada ha cambiado entre el mundo predigital de 1985 y la actualidad.» Lauren Christensen, The New York Times «Bret Easton Ellis no pierde el punch de enfant terrible.» Laura Fernández, El País «Unas páginas magníficas.» Michel Guerrin, Le Monde «La mejor descripción de Blanco es decir que se trata de una provocación, aunque es mucho más que eso, si te molestas en leerlo.» Rachel Cooke, The Guardian «Un golpe a la corrección política de nuestro tiempo y una gran muestra de literatura.» Hannah Lühmann, Welt am Sonntag «Un autoretrato lleno de revelaciones.» Nelly Kaprièlian, Les Inrockuptibles «Blancodemuestra que el autor no ha perdido su garra, talento y singularidad.» Alexandre Fillon, Sud Ouest «Alegremente provocadora [...] un extenso alarido, con memoria y análisis sociopolítico a partes iguales, que te enfurecerá o deleitará [...] Ellis critica de manera feroz los dictados de lo políticamente correcto.» Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post «El mundo que describe Ellis es familiar y distópico a la vez: un sistema que nos condena a moderar nuestra imagen como solo las celebridades lo hacían en otro tiempo, a convertirnos en un 'robot virtuoso' que censura sus emociones y sus opiniones para reducirlas al triste denominador común del 'like'.» Adrienne Boutang, Le Monde «Un antídoto al discurso de la virtud.» Mathieu Laine, Le Figaro «Uno de los más grandes novelistas americanos, autor de libros visionarios sobre nuestra época.» Le Monde «Un ensayo brillante contra lo políticamente correcto.» Le Figaro Littéraire. «Controvertido, Ellis se entrega a una defensa de la libertad de expresión.» Le Journal du Dimanche

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Woman: A Memoir in Poetry From… An Enabling Wife, An Adoptive Mother, An Enlightened Friend, And A Resurrected Woman Author: Rosebud Alford Turner Narrator: Tracie Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Release date: June 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The book chronicles, in poetic form, the life of a woman who in three distinct and significant life events feels she is 'the other woman' to her husband, to her child, and even to herself rather than the woman who is 'good enough' just as she is. Not until she loses her eyesight does she finally allow herself to stop putting herself aside and be who she always has been…a strong, insightful, creative, resilient, faith driven, funny, and fun-loving woman; a Resurrected Woman! Additionally, this beautifully written and beautifully designed memoir allows the reader to find connections in some of the poems through Personal Reflection opportunities if desired.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle Author: Clint Edwards Narrator: Clint Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: How Are You Doing? No, Really . . . In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father's battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother's undiagnosed mental illness. From being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, to finding love, marriage, and having children, Clint explores what it means to find a healthy and balanced life with mental illness as your copilot. From the little hells of middle school and (frankly relatable) anxiety poops to running away from home at fourteen and dealing with the death of a loved one, to learning that truly basic life lesson: you are not your parents, Clint touches on the crux of living moment to moment, struggle to struggle—without losing your ever-loving mind. Clint's candor, critical self-awareness, and refreshing sense of humor make for a one-of-a-kind listen that might just make you feel less alone.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Жизнь — сапожок непарный. Книга вторая Author: тамара петкевич Narrator: юлия тархова Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Вторая часть воспоминаний Тамары Петкевич «Жизнь — сапожок непарный» вышла под заголовком «На фоне звёзд и страха» и стала продолжением первой книги. Повествование охватывает годы после освобождения из лагеря. Всё, что осталось недоговорено: недописанные судьбы, незаконченные портреты, оборванные нити человеческих отношений, — получило своё завершение. Желанная свобода, которая грезилась в лагерном бараке, вернула право на нормальное существование и стала началом новой жизни, но не избавила ни от страшных призраков прошлого, ни от боли из-за невозможности вернуть то, что навсегда было отнято неволей. Книга увидела свет в 2008 году, спустя пятнадцать лет после публикации первой части, и выдержала ряд переизданий, была переведена на немецкий язык. По мотивам книги в Санкт-Петербурге был поставлен спектакль, Тамара Петкевич стала лауреатом нескольких литературных премий: «Крутая лестница», «Петрополь», премии Гоголя. Прочитав книгу, Татьяна Гердт сказала: «Я человек очень счастливый, мне Господь посылал всё время замечательных людей. Но потрясений человеческих у меня было в жизни два: Твардовский и Тамара Петкевич. Это не лагерная литература. Это литература русская. Это то, что даёт силы жить».

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl Author: Sonia Henry Narrator: Sarah Blackstone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying Sydney medical intern to dust-covered rural GP. Solo GP needed for medical clinic, mining town in Pilbara region, Western Australia. Car and accommodation provided. On call paid extra. Close proximity to absolutely nothing. Going Under, Sonia Henry's autobiographical novel about the stresses and failures and triumphs of a young doctor struggling to find herself in a broken system was published in 2019. In real life, Sonia was the one having the affair with the older heart surgeon, and in real life, her heart ended up broken. Sonia found herself depressed, confused, with the guy owned the bottle-o on the corner of Darlinghurst road as her surrogate counsellor. She knew one thing: she couldn't keep living in the neighbourhood she'd come to think of as 'theirs'. Desperate to escape, she answered an ad calling for a GP in a tiny mining town in the middle of the western Australian desert. The Pilbara is home to iron ore, the ten deadliest snakes in the world, and red dirt. The plan was to stay for one month, instead she ended up on a cross country journey into the core of Australia, and herself. She would spend the next two years working in some of the remotest parts of the country, where she met an eclectic bunch of patients and friends, and also opened her eyes to the truths, both good and bad, of the country she calls home. Before she knew it, Sonia had gone from being a dressed-to-the-nines Sydney party girl to a red dust-covered, RM-wearing bushie - and loving it. From learning how to shoot in the middle of the desert, to living in places where there are more crocodiles than people, to opal mines, rivers, horrendous health inequities, dongas in the middle of the northern territory, and pearl divers, there isn't a part of Australia that she hasn't experienced.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Language Author: Linda Marigliano Narrator: Linda Marigliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A compelling, relatable and powerfully moving memoir of people-pleasing, family and what it means to love and be loved, from radio presenter and podcaster Linda Marigliano. Linda Marigliano has built a career out of performing for other people. In her day-job as an on-air presenter or in her family home, she contorted herself into 'the cool girl' or 'the good girl', and struggled to ever truly switch off. As she repeatedly over-committed and sought approval in all its guises, she started to ask herself: Why am I like this? Combing through her complex relationship with her mother, the sense of duty within her extended Italian and Chinese-Malaysian families, and the twisting turns of both her career path and her love life, she noticed a pattern emerging. Her love language had warped into acts of service that pleased everyone but herself, without boundaries or exceptions. And she'd lost the ability to translate the vocabulary of love being spoken all around her. Love Language is Linda's determined reclamation of her identity; a fiercely relatable and viscerally honest account of what it means to love and be loved.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of an Invasion Author: Andrey Kurkov Narrator: David Aranovich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv. This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people. Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Emboldened Author: Belinda Alexandra Narrator: Caroline Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: How do you begin your life again when you've lost everything you've worked for and your dreams have been shattered? That was the question beloved Australian author Belinda Alexandra faced one freezing winter night when she ran from her home in terror, clutching only her wallet, her phone and her latest manuscript on a USB stick. To pull herself up from rock bottom, Belinda drew strength from the real life women who had inspired her bestselling historical fiction: her mother, Tatiana Morosoff, a White Russian who had fled a home more than once due to wars and revolutions; Virginia Hall, an American who lost her leg in an accident but went on to become one of the most revered Allied agents in World War II France; Carmen Amaya, who despite being born into abject poverty in Barcelona rose to become the greatest Flamenco dancer of all time; Edna Walling, who lost her own dream home in a freak fire but created garden designs that made her one of Australia's most celebrated landscape designers. They were women who had faced seemingly insurmountable challenges and found ways to forge ahead on their own terms. In a compelling and exquisite blend of memoir and history, Belinda shows readers that, no matter what challenge they might be facing, there is always the possibility of building a bold life full of meaning again from the ashes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perfectly Queer Author: Jillian Abby Narrator: Jillian Abby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jill had a happy, healthy 20-year relationship with her college sweetheart, two wonderful kids, and rescue cat from the Humane Society. They lived in a nice suburban home with a white picket fence and owned a small bar that was rated one of the “Best Mom & Pop” businesses in Tampa Bay. From the outside, everything looked perfect. Perfectly Queer takes the reader on Jillian Abby's poignant and painfully funny rollercoaster of self-discovery as she identifies and eventually accepts herself as a lesbian just before her 40th birthday. Living her new truth means leaving behind a life that, by societal standards, is nearly perfect. This is a story for anyone who is hiding a piece of themselves and wants to know if it’s safe to be revealed. It’s for the parent who must choose between their own happiness and the stability of their family, wondering if prioritizing themselves is selfish. It’s for the person potentially facing a major life upheaval filled with unknowns in the future who is seeking reassurance that everything will work out just fine. It’s a story of hope and inspiration to those who are starting or are in the middle of their journey, and an affirmation to those who have been through it to stand proudly on the other side.