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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Young Man's Guide to Life Author: Steven Mulhall Narrator: Steven Mulhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Young Man's Guide to Life is a passionate, personal book that speaks frankly about the problems young men typically face and offers an alternative mindset to help deal with such issues. As well as comprehensive and honest information regarding sex, dating, career and other things young men are eager to learn about. From the perspective of someone who has just finished being a young man this book shares personal experience and philosophy and is never condescending, tongue-in-cheek or super-serious. This book is suitable for all young men regardless of race, religion etc. Or may be enjoyed by those who care for young men: such as parents or girlfriends. In the book the author identifies what guys typically go through and lets them know that it is okay, as well as stories containing practical advice on dealing with such issues. There are not too many techniques or 'how to' explanations to confuse the user, just a view of life for a young man sharing personal experience and philosophy in a kind tone that is never condescending.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance Author: Jessamyn Stanley Narrator: Jessamyn Stanley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Finding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday—a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. In a series of deeply honest, funny autobiographical essays, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses—or misuses—the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic”: Growing up Baháí, loving astrology, learning to meditate, finding prana in music. And in the end, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke—linking that good and that bad, that light and that dark.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Amanhã hoje é ontem: Uma jornada espiritual na luta contra o câncer de mama Author: Daniella Zupo Narrator: Lorena Aloli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 35 minutes Release date: June 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: O diagnóstico de câncer de mama representou uma verdadeira guinada na vida da jornalista Daniella Zupo. Em 2015, quando estava no auge de uma carreira como apresentadora de TV, a descoberta fez com que ela, aos 42 anos, tivesse que se retirar do trabalho para se dedicar ao tratamento. Foi na escrita que Daniella encontrou o caminho para superar o medo e a angústia. O resultado é Amanhã hoje é ontem – Uma jornada espiritual na luta contra o câncer de mama, relato de como conseguiu enfrentar a doença ao conceber uma nova perspectiva sobre a vida. Nas palavras da autora, 'como jornalista sempre produzi histórias. Dessa vez, crio narrativa a partir da minha história. Fico muito feliz em ter transformado uma experiência dolorosa em algo relevante para mim e que faz sentido para outras pessoas.' Para o jornalista Marcel Souto Maior, Amanhã hoje é ontem é 'um texto gerado por uma situação limite: o confronto diário, olho no olho, com a perspectiva da morte. Confronto que se transforma, no calor da luta, em revelação.' Amanhã hoje é ontem (Ed. Ramalhete) não só marcou a estreia de Daniella na literatura, como abriu a programação oficial da FliAraxá 2017 e figurou na lista dos 3 livros mais vendidos do festival. O retrato sensível e humanizado de sua experiência se ramificou para a websérie Amanhã hoje é ontem. Selecionada para o RioWebFest como uma das melhores de 2016, a produção também recebeu menção honrosa da Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais pelo trabalho de conscientização e prevenção ao câncer. Ramificando-se mais uma vez, Amanhã hoje é ontem – Uma jornada espiritual na luta contra o câncer de mama agora é lançado em audiolivro pela Pop Stories. Sobre a autora DANIELLA ZUPO é jornalista, escritora e documentarista. Com mais de 20 anos de uma bem-sucedida carreira nas redações de rádio e TV, trabalhou como repórter, editora de cultura e apresentadora de alguns dos principias veículos de comunicação de Minas, além de ter sido correspondente internacional do SBT durante o período em que viveu na Alemanha. Atualmente é comentarista da Rádio Itatiaia, apresenta o programa Meus discos, meus livros e nada mais veiculado em seu canal no YouTube (youtube.com/daniellazupo) e realiza lives no seu perfil no Instagram (@daniellazupo). Desde 2019 é integrante da Academia Novalimense de Letras.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Als ich vom Himmel fiel: Wie mir der Dschungel mein Leben zurückgab Author: Juliane Koepcke Narrator: Angelika Osusko Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Internationaler Bestseller. Sie entkam dem Tod gleich zweimal. Es sollte der Beginn der Weihnachtsferien sein – und endete für 91 Menschen mit dem Tod: Flug 508, der am 24. Dezember 1971 über dem peruanischen Regenwald abstürzte. Nur die damals 17-jährige Juliane, die neben ihrer Mutter in der Maschine saß, überlebte. Hinter ihr lag eine Kindheit im Dschungel – umgeben von wilden Tieren und tropischen Pflanzen. In dieser Zeit hatte Juliane die Gesetze des Regenwaldes gelernt. Sie kannte die Geräusche, wusste, welche Tiere gefährlich sein konnten und welche den Weg zur Zivilisation weisen konnten. Das verletzte Mädchen schlug sich elf Tage durch das Dickicht – ohne Kompass oder Karte. Jetzt, nach vier Jahrzehnten, findet Juliane Koepcke die Kraft, von dem Absturz zu erzählen, den sie wie durch ein Wunder überlebte. In diesem Hörbuch erfahren wir ihre mitreißende Geschichte: -davon, was ihre ungewöhnliche Kindheit in der Wildnis sie lehrte; -wie der tropische Regenwald für sie zur Schule des Überlebens wurde; -wie der Einsatz für den Urwald zur lebenslangen Aufgabe für sie wurde. Juliane Koepcke, 1954 geboren, wuchs in Lima und im Urwald auf, wo ihre Eltern die Forschungsstation Panguana gründeten. Sie arbeitet als promovierte Biologin an der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München und kehrt jedes Jahr nach Peru zurück. Heute leitet sie die Forschungsstation und das Naturschutzgebiet Panguana. (c) Piper Verlag GmbH, München 2011 (P) 2021 ABP Verlag

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jabberwocky: Lessons of Love from a Boy Who Never Spoke Author: Steven Gardner Narrator: Scott Wallace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ”This is a holy book” —Rabbi Lawrence Kushner Graham Hale Gardner died before turning twenty-three and never learned to walk or speak due to severe cerebral palsy complicated by epilepsy. Yet he left a legacy of love and compassion that deeply moved scores of people from widely different backgrounds. How was that possible? Graham’s story, written through the eyes of his father, speaks of the enormous legacy left by a boy who never spoke. A story that raises provocative questions about the “invisible lines of connection” that make us human. Graham was a strikingly beautiful boy who faced formidable challenges on a daily basis that most of us will never encounter. His ability to confront adversity with resilience and grace astonished and inspired nearly everyone whose lives he touched. On the bucolic island of Martha’s Vineyard, at a pioneering summer camp for the disabled, a place “where hope flourishes,” Graham and his father become camper and camp doctor. There, they encounter an eclectic group of people who eat, work and create together. They write and cry together. They argue and dance together. Camp Jabberwocky, as it is widely known, embraces the boy and his father and they become part of a passionate and zany extended family that will forever change how they see the world. As the years pass, Graham and his parents experience both surprising adventures and formidable challenges. Wherever they live and travel, they encounter people who are drawn to Graham. These people, from widely different backgrounds, want to be near him, to assist in his care and to laugh with him. To them, the person they uniformly cherish is nothing less than a living angel. Can we imagine living in a parallel universe known as “Jabberwocky,” where people open their hearts and minds to those who are different and nobody is left behind?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Area of Darkness Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: May 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El mundo de ayer Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Carles Sianes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 18, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El mundo de ayer es uno de los más conmovedores y atractivos testimonios de nuestro pasado reciente, escrito además con mano maestra por un europeo empapado de civilización y nostalgia por un mundo, el suyo, que se iba desintegrando a pasos agigantados. Escritor extraordinariamente popular y testigo de excepción de los cambios que convulsionaron la Europa del siglo XX entre las dos guerras mundiales, Zweig recuerda, desposeído y en tierra extraña—en unas circunstancias personales de insospechado dramatismo—, los momentos fundamentales de su vida, paralela en mucho a la desmembración de aquella Europa central que se quería más libre y segura, al abrigo de la locura y la tormenta. El resultado es un libro capital, uno de los mejores de Zweig y referencia inexcusable para entender los desvaríos de un siglo devastador.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute Author: Devon Angus, Ivy Anderson Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 11, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s world In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering “the life.” While prostitute narratives had been published before, never had they been as frank in their discussion of the underworld, including topics such as abortion, police corruption, and the unwritten laws of the brothel. Throughout the series, Alice strongly criticized the society that failed her and so many other women, but, just as acutely, she longed to be welcomed back from the margins. The response to Alice’s story was unprecedented: four thousand letters poured into the Bulletin, many of which were written by other prostitutes ready to share their own stories; and it inspired what may have been the first sex worker rights protest in modern history. An introduction contextualizes “A Voice from the Underworld” amid Progressive Era sensationalistic journalism and shifting ideas of gender roles, and reveals themes in Alice’s story that extend to issues facing sex workers today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chalked Up (Updated Edition): My Life in Elite Gymnastics Author: Jennifer Sey Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dreams of becoming the next Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. Her early success and love of the sport propelled her and her family to great sacrifice so that she could become a National Team member and one of America’s elite gymnasts by age eleven. But as she set her sights higher, Jennifer began to change, setting her mental and physical health aside in the name of winning. The coaching culture of extreme cruelty drove Jennifer to self-harming behaviors, extreme injuries, an eating disorder, and depression and the adults in her life who were supposed to protect her failed to intervene, swept up in the dream of an Olympic berth. Now Sey reveals the tarnish beneath the gold medals in this powerful portrait of intensity and drive, and the way that adults set children’s needs aside in the name of winning. Abusive coaches, manipulative business leaders, and parents blinded by the glory of gold forced Jennifer from the sport to find her own way back to mental health, self-worth, and happiness. Jennifer’s personal tale exposes the dark side of sport, now well documented in the film she produced, Athlete A. Her personal journey provides hope for those young athletes struggling to find their way back from abuse and neglect at the hands of adults who put their own needs ahead of children’s.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Bridges: A Memoir Author: Cassandra Lane Narrator: Cassandra Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt’s lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town. We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family—and considers how to take back one’s American story.