New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crossing Author: Sophie Matterson Narrator: Sonya Kerr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspirational an amazing memoir about a woman who gave up everything she knew to start her own camel saddlery and do a camel trek across the Australian Outback. In April 2020, as the world began to lock down due to Covid-19, Sophie began her own form of extreme social distancing. From April 2020 - December 2021 she walked with her five camels from the most westerly point of Australia to the most easterly, with a six-month break in Coober Pedy when the conditions grew too hot to continue. Along the way she met hundreds of kind strangers - she required permission to cross every single piece of land, and often they'd make the effort to meet her with additional supplies to support her journey. The red dirt of the outback seeped into her pores and her appreciation for the beauty of Country and the ways we can observe and better understand its subtle changes only grew as she walked. She sometimes went weeks at a time without seeing a soul due to the movement restrictions in place for Covid-19 prevention in Central Australia. Halfway through the trek, she fell in love with a baker called Jimmy in the Flinders Ranges: some of their first dates involved him driving her to drop-off points, and delivering food and supplies every four or so weeks. Jimmy walked the final section of the journey with her, marshalling traffic to allow Sophie and the camels to cross roads and highways as they drew closer to the coast.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Juanes: 1.577.836.800 segundos Author: Diego Alejandro Londoño Molina Narrator: Juanes, Diego Alejandro Londoño Molina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El audiolibro oficial de Juanes La vida de Juanes es una canción, o mejor, son miles de canciones volando a toda velocidad en miles de millones de segundos, o en una sola historia. en estos audios, realizados desde los más lejanos rincones de su memoria, sus recuerdos se hacen palabras e imágenes. Juanes, el hombre que ha vendido más de 20 millones de discos, que fue seleccionado por la revista time como una de 'las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo',que suma 26 Premios Grammy latinos y tres estatuillas Grammy anglo, y que fue invitado por el dios del rock Mick Jagger para tocar la guitarra al lado de los Rolling Stones, cumple 1.577.836.800 segundos de vida, y los celebra con este audiolibro. Juanes vacía su alma y la irriga en estas páginas para decir 'gracias', y para recordarnos -y recordarse a él mismo- que lo mejor está por venir, que aún quedan muchos millones de segundos por vivir. estas son las memorias de un soñador.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel Author: Jeannie Marshall Narrator: Fiona Hyatt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes—and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age. What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context—but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know she was looking for. All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall’s relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of today, it’s an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. An impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age, All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patrimony: A True Story Author: Philip Roth Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long engagement with life. Written with fierce tenderness, Patrimony is a classic work of memoir by a master storyteller. ©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter Author: Steven Rinella Narrator: Steven Rinella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of Netflix’s MeatEater comes “a unique and valuable alternate view of where our food comes from” (Anthony Bourdain). “Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson, and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review Meat Eater chronicles Steven Rinella’s lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old Brooklyn father who hunts in the remotest corners of North America. He tells of having a struggling career as a fur trapper just as fur prices were falling; of a dalliance with catch-and-release steelhead fishing; of canoeing in the Missouri Breaks in search of mule deer just as the Missouri River was freezing up one November; and of hunting the elusive Dall sheep in the glaciated mountains of Alaska.   A thrilling storyteller, Rinella grapples with themes such as the role of the hunter in shaping America, the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, and the disappearance of the hunter himself as consumers lose their connection with the way their food finds its way to their tables. The result is a loving portrait of a way of life that is part of who we are—as humans and as Americans.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infidelity and Other Affairs Author: Kate Legge Narrator: Kate Legge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's affair, she discovered a fault line of betrayal running through four generations of his family, which began a search for answers both close to home and more universally. Infidelity and Other Affairs begins with this puzzle: is unfaithfulness a predisposition or a learned behaviour? From there, Legge contemplates a vast catalogue of behaviours as she strives to understand how we become who we are. To her own surprise, she finds strength and peace over revenge and hate, as well as joy in unexpected places. ‘One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom.' ANNABEL CRABB ‘Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and the true cost of betrayal.' TRENT DALTON

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Жизнь — сапожок непарный. Книга первая Author: тамара петкевич Narrator: юлия тархова Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Воспоминания Тамары Петкевич, наряду с произведениями Варлама Шаламова, Евфросинии Керсновской, Евгении Гинзбург и многих других, занимают прочное место в ряду произведений, которые запечатлели «единый человеческий слив помоев, добра, жестокости, зверств и беззащитности» и навсегда обозначили координаты «лагерной» темы на карте русской литературы ХХ века. Юной, хрупкой, нежной, потрясающе красивой женщине в полной мере довелось хлебнуть из чаши страданий, выпавших на долю безвинных жертв политических репрессий; она испытала и непосильный труд, и унижения, и голод, и холод, которые превращают заключённых в затравленное животное. Вместе с тем лагерные годы стали для автора не только наукой выживания в нечеловеческих условиях. Судьба Тамары Петкевич под стать захватывающему роману, в котором соединились любовь, предательство, ревность, разлука, дружба, встречи с удивительными людьми, радость материнства и боль утраты — всё то, что определяет волнующую полноту человеческой жизни вопреки уродству страшных законов лагеря и своеволию его богов и божков.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda Author: Michael Hingston Narrator: Tom Lute Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming. Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers. With a cast of characters including forgotten sci-fi novelists, alcoholic poets, vegetarian publishers, Nobel Prize frontrunners, and the bartenders who kept them all lubricated while angling for the throne themselves, Michael Hingston details the friendships, feuds, and fantasies that fueled the creation of one of the oddest and most enduring micronations ever dreamt into being. Part literary history, part travelogue, part quest narrative, this cautionary tale about what happens when bibliomania escapes the shelves and stacks is as charming as it is peculiar—and blurs the line between reality and fantasy so thoroughly that it may never be entirely restored.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Wonder Tales Author: Emily Urquhart Narrator: Anne Wessel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday. “I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories.” In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm—or the onset of a loved one’s dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - De moto pela América do Sul (resumo) Author: Che Guevara Narrator: Rodrygo Gomes Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Este livro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. Filme - Diários de Motocicleta Este diário - reelaborado por Ernesto Che Guevara, em forma narrativa, graças às suas anotações detalhadas - é o relato da viagem feita por Che e seu amigo Alberto Granado, desde a Argentina até a Venezuela, em 1952. Aventura e emoção entremeadas de reflexões sobre múltiplos aspectos da América - a miséria dos índios, o espanto de conhecer o mar-, o mundo percebido pelos olhos de um jovem de 23 anos, disposto à surpresa e à compaixão, mas também querendo descobrir sua verdadeira vocação, aproveitar a vida, enamorar-se verdadeiramente. Tudo isso enquanto a moto segue pelas estradas poeirentas e arriscadas, perdendo peças pelo caminho, provocando tombos e episódios tragicômicos. O livro serviu de base para o filme 'Diários de Motocicleta', dirigido por Walter Salles.