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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Tartarin de Tarascon Author: Alphonse Daudet Narrator: Ezwa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Héros de la petite ville de Tarascon, Tartarin ne rêve que d'aventure et de chasse au lion. Mais que l'Afrique est loin pour qui n'a jamais quitté sa maison ! L'intrépide chasseur s'embarque enfin : parviendra-t-il à débusquer un fauve du désert ? Personnage burlesque mais si attachant, Tartarin est le type même du Méridional hâbleur qui se dupe lui-même autant qu'il dupe les autres. Où se rejoignent cocasserie et vérité, mais 'une vérité d'outre-Loire qui enfle, exagère, ne ment jamais, et tarasconne tout le temps'. Sans jamais se départir d'une réelle tendresse pour son personnage, Daudet a déployé dans Tartarin de Tarascon toutes les ressources de sa verve et de son ironie, créant ainsi l'un des plus grands types comiques de la littérature française.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/661766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Anne Frank Author: Ronald Leopold Narrator: Jonas Baeck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Anne Frank vertraute vom 12. Juni 1942, ihrem dreizehnten Geburtstag, bis zum 1. August 1944 ihrem Tagebuch an, wie sich ihre Familie zwei Jahre lang in einem Amsterdamer Hinterhaus vor den deutschen Besatzern versteckte. Die anschauliche Einführung schildert auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand das kurze Leben der Anne Frank, die Umstände des Untertauchens und was wir über den Verrat, die Deportation und den Tod Anne Franks im KZ Bergen-Belsen wissen. Nicht zuletzt erklärt das kleine Standardwerk die Bedeutung des Tagebuchs als historische Quelle, als ein Stück Weltliteratur und vor allem als ein Vermächtnis für uns alle.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time and Chance: An Autobiography Author: Peter Townsend Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF PETER TOWNSEND, THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT LOVE OF PRINCESS MARGARET'S LIFE, EQUERRY TO KING GEORGE VI AND HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. 'One afternoon, at Windsor Castle, when everyone had gone to London for some ceremony, we talked, in the red drawing-room, for hours—about ourselves. It was then that we made the mutual discovery of how much we meant to one another. She listened, without uttering a word, as I told her, very quietly, of my feelings. Then she simply said: 'That is exactly how I feel, too.' It was, to us both, an immensely gladdening disclosure, but one which sorely troubled us.' The romance between Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend in the 1950s rocked the British Establishment, pulled at the heartstrings of a nation and brought sorrow to two intensely human individuals. In Time and Chance, Peter Townsend tells his side of the story in intensely personal terms and places the episode within the whole context of his full and varied life, a story which includes great heroism in World War II as well as his part in one of the most publicized love stories of the twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Author: Marika Cifor Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia: A Romanov Tragedy Author: Christopher Warwick Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Ella was born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. At twenty, her marriage to the Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich, who became the victim of terrorist assassination, like the marriage of her younger sister Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II, was partly responsible for the fall of the Imperial House of Romanov. In her widowhood and against great opposition, Ella established the first convent community of its kind in Moscow. As the ordained abbess of the Order of Saints Martha and Mary, Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna worked tirelessly with the sick, needy, outcast, and untouchable inhabitants of the city's slum districts. Brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks at the height of the Russian Revolution, Ella was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as the Holy Imperial Martyr Saint Elisabeth Romanova. This study is based on a wealth of original material, much of it previously unpublished, from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Hesse State Archives in Darmstadt, the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and the Russian State Historical Archives in St Petersburg.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine Author: Will Linder, Ralph H. Hruban Narrator: Tristan Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history of medicine. When it first opened its doors in 1893, medicine was a rough-and-ready trade. It would soon evolve into a rigorous science. It was nothing short of a revolution. This transition might seem inevitable from our vantage point today. In recent years, medical science has mapped the human genome, deployed robotic tools to perform delicate surgeries, and developed effective vaccines against a host of deadly pathogens. But this transformation could not have happened without the game-changing vision, talent, and dedication of a small cadre of individuals who were willing to commit body and soul to the advancement of medical science, education, and treatment. A Scientific Revolution recounts the stories of John Shaw Billings, Max Brödel, Mary Elizabeth Garrett, William Halsted, Jesse Lazear, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, William Osler, Helen Taussig, Vivien Thomas, and William Welch. This chorus of lives tells a compelling tale not just of their individual struggles, but how personal and societal issues went hand-in-hand with the advancement of medicine.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies Author: Seth Curtis Beach Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation. This audiobook contains biographies of: Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789–1867Mary Lovell Ware - 1798–1849Lydia Maria Child - 1802–1880Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802–1887Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810–1850Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1811–1896Louisa May Alcott - 1832–1888

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We've lost my prostate mate... and life goes on Author: Alan White Narrator: Fiona White, Dave Stokes, Alan White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Being diagnosed with prostate cancer once in a lifetime is enough. In 2011, Alan White was facing a second round with this life-threatening disease. Alan’s years of experience as a natural health practitioner and counsellor helped him and his wife, Fiona, to make the choice that no man really wants to make – surgical removal of the prostate gland – and to recover, physically and emotionally. Talking about the things not usually discussed – sex after surgery, giant incontinence pads and how to wrangle your overnight urine bag – Alan shares his story and his discoveries. Fiona adds her tips for partners of men facing prostate cancer. We’ve lost my prostate, mate is Alan’s story about the diagnosis, the decision making, the surgery and the road to recovery. He shares the good, the bad and the ugly along the way, providing helpful tips for fellow prostate cancer sufferers. Armed with his irrepressible laughter and a very determined wife, Alan shows that there is life after losing your prostate, mate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era Author: Harold R Johnson Narrator: Craig Lauzon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling. Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book is the outcome of that gathering. In The Power of Story, Johnson explains the role of storytelling in every aspect of human life, from personal identity to history and the social contracts that structure our societies, and illustrates how we can direct its potential to re-create and reform not only our own lives, but the life we share. Companionable, clear-eyed, and, above all, optimistic, Johnson’s message is both a dire warning and a direct invitation to each of us to imagine and create, together, the world we want to live in.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Un tal Bialet Author: Graciela Bialet Narrator: Ailen Luponio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 6, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Médico, abogado, docente, reformador social, agrónomo y emprendedor: Juan Bialet Massé, catalán radicado en Argentina a fines del siglo XIX, fue un hombre que pareció vivir varias vidas en una. Graciela Bialet, su descendiente, reconstruye hechos de su vida a la par de brindarnos algunas pinceladas sobre las generaciones que le siguieron, en una obra que cautiva nuestra atención desde el principio. Bialet Massé fue, entre muchas otras cosas, el responsable de un lúcido e innovador 'Informe sobre el estado de las clases obreras argentinas' y el constructor del Dique San Roque. Se ganó algunos enemigos poderosos que lo empujaron a la cárcel, pero pudo limpiar su nombre y su búsqueda de justicia fue retomada por sus hijos y nietos. - Graciela Bialet es una escritora y docente nacida en Córdoba, Argentina. Entre novelas, ensayos y libros de literatura infantojuvenil ha publicado más de cincuenta títulos, varios de los cuales fueron premiados y traducidos a otros idiomas. Es maestra de escuela primaria y ha cursado estudios de Comunicación Social y Educación. Integra la Comisión de Programación de la Feria del libro de Córdoba, es asesora de Promoción de la Lectura en la Fundación Mempo Giardinelli y tuvo a su cargo la coordinación de áreas del Plan de Lectura Nacional en su país.