New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss Author: Abraham Verghese Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick. “Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston Globe When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David’s past emerges once again—and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class Author: Michael Gross Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial America's founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the clans progress, prosper, and periodically stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime mis-use of astonishing economic and political power; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. In previous acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues' Gallery, Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential contribution to American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Maurice Samuels Narrator: Jason Grasl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting 'Death to Judas!' In this book, Maurice Samuels gives listeners new insight into Dreyfus himself—the man at the center of the affair. He tells the story of Dreyfus's early life in Paris, his promising career as a French officer, the false accusation leading to his imprisonment on Devil's Island, the fight to prove his innocence that divided the French nation, and his life of quiet obscurity after World War I. Samuels's striking perspective is enriched by a newly available archive of more than three thousand documents and objects donated by the Dreyfus family. Unlike many historians, Samuels argues that Dreyfus was not an 'assimilated' Jew. Rather, he epitomized a new model of Jewish identity made possible by the French Revolution, when France became the first European nation to grant Jews full legal equality. This book analyzes Dreyfus's complex relationship to Judaism and to antisemitism over the course of his life—a story that, as global antisemitism rises, echoes still. It also shows the profound effect of the Dreyfus Affair on the lives of Jews around the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Basque] - PASIONARIA: Bere bizitza Author: Alberto Bargos Cucó Narrator: Gontzal Mendibil Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dolores Ibarruri Gómez, 'Pasionaria', Gallarta herrian jaio zen 1895ean. Bere familia meatzaria izan zen. Gaztetan irakasle-ikasketak egin nahi izan zituen baina etxean ez zeukaten behar beste diru. Meatzari eta sozialista amorratu batekin ezkondu zen. Pobrezia gorrian bizi ziren baina mundua alda zitekeela uste zuen. Xede hau lortzeko komunista bihurtu zen eta egunkarietan idazten hasi zen. Bere lehenengo artikulua 'Pasionaria' ezizenez sinatu zuen. Bigarren Errepublikan diputatua izatera heldu zen. Baina… 1936an, Gerra Zibila hasi zen. Errepublikako milizianoen alde borrokatu zuen. Azkenean, Franco jeneralaren faxistek gerra irabazi zuten. Horregatik, bere herrialdetik alde egin behar izan zuen. Han zegoela, Espainiako alderdi komunistako buru aukeratu zuten. Demokrazia berpiztu zen eta Pasionariak bere herrira itzultzea lortu zuen. Berriro, diputatu hautatua izan zen. Mitin askotan ibili zen eta etengabe idazten jarraitu zuen. 1989an, 93 urte zituela, hil zen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Doctrine of The Rosicrucians Author: Magus Incognito Narrator: Clay Lomakayu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A must have book for all those interested in the truth about the Rosicrucians. Many false claims are debunked. Writing as Magus Incognitio William Walker Atkinson explores the Seven Aphorism of the Rosicrucian doctrine.These traditions emphasize the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment and personal transformation through the understanding of hidden truths and the transmutation of the self. He describes the path of the Rosicrucian initiate: a journey of self-discovery, spiritual development, and the attainment of higher states of consciousness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soul of An Indian: Charles A. Eastman Collection Author: Charles A. Eastman (ohiyesa) Narrator: Clay Lomakayu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Charles Eastman, Ohiyesa, was born of the Sioux Nation, the Lakota tribe. Here as no where else is described the sacred and beautiful life of the American Indian before the appearance of the white man and afterwards. This collection of Ohiyesa's books includes 'The Soul Of An Indian', Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans', 'Indian Boyhood' and 'From Deep Woods to Civilization'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Come with This Place Author: Debra Dank Narrator: Debra Dank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love, in marriage and in family, and for the land. Dank faces head on the ingrained racism, born of brutal practice and harsh legislation, that lies always under the skin of Australia, the racism that calls a little Aboriginal girl names and beats and rapes and disenfranchises the generations before hers. She describes sudden terrible violence, between races and sometimes at home. But overwhelmingly this is a book about strong, beloved parents and grandparents, guiding and teaching their children and grandchildren what country means, about joyful gatherings and the pleasures of eating food provided by the place that nourishes them, both spiritually and physically. Dank calibrates human emotions with honesty and insight, and there is plenty of dry, down-to-earth humour. You can feel and smell and see the puffs of dust under moving feet, the ever-present burning heat, the bright exuberance of a night-time campfire, the emerald flash of a flock of budgerigars, the journeying wind, the harshness of a station shanty, the welcome scent of fresh water. We Come with This Place is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West Author: Marty Ohlhaut Narrator: Brandon Pollock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Marty Ohlhaut loved the great outdoors, and he loved his family, but this time, the combination proved disastrous. Cooped up inside due to long work hours, Marty was excited about taking off with his wife and five children for the beautiful Canadian Rockies. Aware that this could be their last camping trip together, he wanted to make it extra memorable. Little did he know how memorable it would be. From a massive heat wave and tainted water to encounters with aggressive red ants and formidable bears, they experienced one problem after another. Then tragedy struck, forcing Marty to face the terrifying possibility of losing a loved one. With the help of mysterious strangers in one of the world's most awe-inspiring locations, he fought to keep his family alive and his sanity intact. Now, three decades later, he joins forces with his daughter Grace Ly to recount the gripping tale of that ill-fated vacation. Written with candor and wit reminiscent of Bill Bryson, Tent for Seven vividly captures both the grandeur and the dangers of the wilderness as Marty learns just how much his wife and children mean to him—and how fragile life can be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wir sind frei, die Welt zu verändern: Hannah Arendts Lektionen in Liebe und Ungehorsam Author: Lindsey Stonebridge Narrator: Lena Drieschner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dieses Buch bringt uns die Hannah Arendt nahe, die wir für das 21. Jahrhundert brauchen. Es erzählt, wie die charismatische Philosophin zu ihrem eigenen, sehr besonderen Denken kam, und erklärt, wie wir denken sollten, wenn unsere Politik aus den Fugen gerät. Mit Leidenschaft und brillanter Expertise beleuchtet Lyndsey Stonebridge Arendts Leben und Werk, bringt sie in einen Dialog mit unserer unruhigen Gegenwart – und fordert uns dazu auf, so zu denken wie Hannah Arendt: unerschütterlich, liebevoll und trotzig. Die Umwälzungen unserer heutigen Welt wären Arendt nur allzu vertraut gewesen. Tyrannei, Rassismus, postfaktische Politik, Verschwörungstheorien, Massenmigration, die Banalität des Bösen: Alles hat sie erlebt. Arendt wurde zu Beginn des letzten Jahrhunderts geboren und floh aus dem faschistischen Europa, um sich in Amerika ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Dort wurde sie zu einer der einflussreichsten – und umstrittensten – öffentlichen Intellektuellen der Welt. Sie schrieb über Macht und Terror, Exil und Liebe, aber vor allem über die Freiheit. Fragen und Denken – darin bestand ihre erste Verteidigung gegen jede Form der Tyrannei, der sie eine Politik der menschlichen Pluralität und Spontaneität entgegensetzte. Die Welt zu lieben, so lehrt uns Arendt, bedeutet, den Mut zu finden, sie zu schützen. Cover-Abbildung: Hannah Arendt, fotografiert von Fred Stein © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael Author: Elisabeth Elliot Narrator: Elisabeth Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 14, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally to serve her Master. Bringing Amma to life through compelling biographical narrative, Elisabeth Elliot urges readers to examine the depths of their own commitment to Christ.