New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Bert Hellinger (resumo) Author: Bert Hellinger Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Este livro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. Bert Hellinger é uma das personalidades mais bem-sucedidas no ambiente psicoterapêutico, mas também uma das mais controversas e polêmicas. O que marcou sua trajetória? Quais experiências o levaram a se ocupar tão intensivamente de traumas que muitas vezes influenciam dinâmicas familiares por gerações? Pela primeira vez, Bert Hellinger fala sobre suas vivências particulares e conta em detalhes sua experiência durante o período em que atuou como missionário na África do Sul, suas formações em psicoterapia e a criação do seu método de Constelação Familiar, permitindo que nos aprofundemos em seus pensamentos e conhecimentos a respeito do que adoece as famílias e impede seus membros de terem uma vida plena. Com isso, sua autobiografia também apresenta os caminhos para uma vida feliz, na qual todos possam encontrar a paz interior e o verdadeiro significado do amor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Street Angel Author: Magie Dominic Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Magie Dominic's first memoir, The Queen of Peace Room, was shortlisted for the Canadian Women's Studies Award, ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominic's experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn't finished. Street Angel opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She's growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her father's business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundland's wilderness. Revealing her life through flashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - [Resumo] A menina da foto: Minhas memórias: do horror da guerra ao caminho da paz Author: Kim Phuc Phan Thi Narrator: Carla Dias Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Neste resumo do livro A menina da foto você será apresentado ao tocante relato de Kim Phuc Phan Thi, que vivenciou os horrores da Guerra do Vietnã e a descoberta de perdão e paz que somente Deus pode proporcionar.  'Vão! Crianças, corram primeiro! Vão! Vão agora!' As ordens do soldado não poderiam ser mais claras para Kim. Ela e as demais crianças correram, mas não o suficiente para escapar de mais um ataque de Napalm, na Guerra do Vietnã, transformando a estrada em que fugia numa bola de fogo e atingindo seu corpo com queimaduras excruciantes. A imagem que ilustra a capa deste livro tornou-se um ícone da barbárie da guerra, e a personagem principal da foto é quem conta sua história de sofrimento e redenção nesta autobiografia de forte impacto. A menina da foto apresenta uma história real de elevada carga emocional sobre como Deus pode transformar circunstâncias catastróficas em uma nova trajetória de paz e esperança.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Community: A Memoir Author: N. Jamiyla Chisholm Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter coming to terms with a parent’s devastating choices, and the trials ahead in post-9/11 New York. In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, Ummi, quit her job, converted to Islam with her husband, and moved into an exclusive Muslim society in Brooklyn. Once inside the Community, the family was separated by its powerful and charismatic leader, Dwight York, who was hiding behind the name Imam Isa. Instead of the devotional refuge they’d imagined, the Community was a nightmare of controlled abuse and unspeakable secrets. Forty years later, Jamiyla was ready to excavate and understand a past buried in bad dreams, disturbing memories, and inexplicable rage. It was a place Ummi never wanted to return to. Jamiyla had to. Jamiyla’s emotional memoir tells her family’s story of life inside and outside the cult, and of escaping into new challenges as conservative Muslims in the secular Brooklyn they left behind. A harrowing and deeply personal history fraught with racial tension and devastating personal betrayals, The Community is also a hopeful story brimming with Black pride, justice, and the long-overdue healing between a daughter and mother.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: North to Paradise: A Memoir Author: Ousman Umar Narrator: Kwesi Busia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona—and the path that led him home. Ousman Umar is a shaman’s son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields, setting traps in the jungle, and living off the land. Still, as strange and wondrous flying machines crisscrossed the skies overhead, Ousman dreamed of a different life. And so, when he was only twelve years old, he left his village and began what would be a five-year journey to Europe. Every step of the way, as he traveled across the Sahara desert, through the daunting metropolises of Accra, Tripoli, Benghazi, and Casablanca, and over the sea aboard a packed migrant dinghy, Ousman was handed off like merchandise by a loose network of smugglers and in the constant, foreboding company of “sinkers”: other migrants who found themselves penniless and alone on their way north, unable to continue onward or return home. But on a path rife with violence, exploitation, and racism, Ousman also encountered friendship, generosity, and hope. North to Paradise is a visceral true story about the stark realities of life along the most dangerous migrant route across Africa; it is also a portrait of extraordinary resilience in the face of unimaginable challenges, the beauty of kindness in strangers, and the power of giving back.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way Author: Diana Marcum Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the national bestseller The Tenth Island finds enduring hope during cataclysmic times. Atop a hill in the rainforest of Belize, next to the ruins of a fallen civilization, a butterfly farm raises the brilliant blue morpho. What starts out as the worst vacation ever turns into a quest to learn more about the first-of-its-kind farm when journalist Diana Marcum inadvertently discovers this wildlife sanctuary, which is supported by an international live-butterfly trade. She quickly becomes acquainted with Clive, the whimsical British millionaire whose childhood passion created an industry, and Sebastian, the Maya farm manager whose stern expression belies a soft heart. Before long Diana and her partner, Jack Moody—new to being a couple—have moved into a long-empty jungle house, cohabitating with bats, scorpions, toucans, iguanas, and the vulnerable but resilient butterflies. Just ahead, although they don’t know it, are a hurricane and a global pandemic. This warm, funny tale of finding a way forward when the world seems to be falling apart is filled with the beauty of the natural world and a heartfelt cry to protect it—beginning with butterflies.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Hebrew] - המוח שלי ואני Author: דורון נשר Narrator: ישי גולן Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: בסוף אוגוסט 2012 , כשהיה בביתו, עבר דורון נשר אירוע מוחי קשה, שבעקבותיו הוא הובהל לבית החולים בילינסון. הרופאים הצליחו להציל את חייו, אבל רבות מיכולותיו הקודמות, בעיקר יכולות הדיבור והתנועה, נפגעו קשות. כעבור כשלושה שבועות הועבר נשר לבית החולים לוינשטיין, והֵחֵל מסע שיקום ארוך ומייסר, שנמשך עד היום. 'המוח שלי ואני', ספר שעליו עמל דורון נשר בשמונה השנים האחרונות, הוא רומן אוטוביוגרפי אחר לגמרי – מעשה ספרותי שמספק הזדמנות חד־פעמית לעקוב אחרי התמודדות פיזית ונפשית עם פגיעה מוחית. נשר, מכוכבי הטלוויזיה והרדיו הגדולים של שנות השמונים והתשעים בישראל, חושף בספר את חוויותיו האישיות מרגעי ההתעוררות הראשונים, דרך ימי האשפוז בבית לוינשטיין ולאורך חיי יומיום רצופים רגעי ייאוש מתסכלים והצלחות קטנות ומפעימות. בשפתו שלו, הייחודית כל כך, מגולל דורון נשר את הקשיים העצומים שעמדו בפניו, קשיים בלתי נתפסים עבור רוב האנשים. מה עובר על אדם שאיבד את יכולות הדיבור, התקשורת והתנועה? איך הוא מחזיר אותן לעצמו? והאם בכלל זה אפשרי? סיפורו האישי והכן עד כאב של נשר מנסה לענות על השאלות האלה בשפה חצי־שבורה וחצי־מפתיעה במורכבותה, במאמץ ניכר לחפש אחר המילים המדויקות, ובעברית ששורשיה במקורות ושנותרה שמורה, למרות הפגיעה, עמוק במוחו של אדם אשר ליהטט כל חייו בשפה העברית. 'המוח שלי ואני' מאת דורון נשר ('אחד מרעננה' הוצאת הספרייה החדשה) הוא רומן מעורר השראה ומרגש, וגם שיר אהבה למילים, לשפה ולתקשורת האנושית. מעל שורותיו מרחפים חנו המוכר של נשר וסגנונו הייחודי, שניכרים, למרות הכול, בַּמלחמה שלו על כל מילה.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Hebrew] - שעת אפס Author: טליה אפלבאום פלד Narrator: עדי דרורי Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'יוני 2015. היא בת חמישים. זאת מחלה קשה אבל היא לא 'מסתכלת על סטטיסטיקות'. שרידות זו מילה שהיא מבינה. בגוף זאת מחלה חוזרת. אין רגישויות ידועות לכימותרפיה. יש רגישות לאובדן אהבה.' טליה אפלבאום פלד — פסיכולוגית קלינית, מרצה, אישה, אמא — אולי יותר מכל אמא — מתאשפזת לחודש בבידוד להשתלת מח עצם. בבת אחת היא מופשטת ממעמדה ומתפקידיה, והופכת לחולה אנונימית הנושאת עמה פיסות געגוע ותהומות של חרדה. ״הצצה נדירה להלך רוחה של מספרת מבודדת בזמן שכוחות גופה דלים ונפשה סוערת. אני ממליצה מאוד לקרוא.״ ארנה קזין ״אף שהממואר כתוב בגוף שלישי, זו עדות חיונית שבוקעת מן הטקסט כגוף ראשון. זהו מסמך מרתק, שהוא גם יצירה ספרותית.״ ד״ר מירב רוט

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zeitensprünge - Kreuz und quer durch mein Leben Author: Bernd-Lutz Lange Narrator: Bernd-Lutz Lange Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: February 23, 2015 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jahreszeiten eines geglückten Lebens Anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstages liest Bernd-Lutz Lange heiter und nachdenklich stimmende Episoden aus seinen erfolgreichen Büchern. Es beginnt immer mit der Kindheit, in diesem Fall mit Magermilch und langen Strümpfen und dem Glück des Überlebens. Auf die Nachkriegskindheit folgt eine Jugend mit Mauer, Jeans und Prager Frühling. Plötzlich wurde ein ganzes Land dichtgemacht und bekam Stubenarrest, bis sich erst Jahrzehnte später das Wunder des Leipziger Herbstes ereignen sollte. Auf Mut folgten manchmal Mut- oder Ratlosigkeit, aber die Verhältnisse geizten nie mit Pointen. In einer guten Stunde porträtiert Bernd-Lutz Lange eine sagenhafte Epoche, die er mit Neugier, Chuzpe und Menschenfreundlichkeit begleitet hat.