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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Почти книга Author: владимир штерн Narrator: владимир штерн Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 29, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Представляем вам аудиоверсию автобиографии Владимира Штерна 'Почти книга'. 'Почти книга' повествует о занимательных случаях и встречах на жизненном пути автора и о непростых человеческих взаимоотношениях. Владимир Штерн более 25 лет проработал на строительстве московского метрополитена, пройдя путь от рабочего до заместителя начальника 'Московского метростроя'. Многие из описанных в книге событий до сей поры оставались неизвестны публике — и будут интересны широкому кругу читателей. Большой раздел 'Почти книги' посвящен воспоминаниям автора о работе в Межотраслевом научно-техническом комплексе 'Микрохирургия глаза' и личных встречах с легендарным хирургом, руководителем комплекса профессором Святославом Николаевичем Федоровым. Читает — сам автор, совершенно особенным образом оживляя страницы книги.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces Series: #59 of Life Writing Author: Kathleen Venema Narrator: Catriona Leblanc Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive. Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they're ours to hold.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Master of Deception: A Son Searches for His Father in the House of Illusion Author: John-Ivan Palmer Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 11, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Master of Deception tells of a son’s search for his father amid the fabric of family, guilt, renunciation, and hidden history in the borderlands of 1950s stage show and trailer park culture. In the tradition of Geoffrey Wolf’s The Duke of Deception and Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle, John-Ivan Palmer’s Master of Deception takes readers on the road with his magician father and his mother, the lovely assistant, as they travel from Elks Lodges to County Fairs, performing alongside contortionists, ventriloquists, and every manner of screwball act that passed for variety entertainment before television drove us all indoors and away from one another. From dressing rooms across America, John learned to stay invisible among other acts while his parents performed, making friends with janitors, night watchmen, elevator operators, and cooks who gave him leftover tortes and parfaits. They were as exotic to him as the Master of Deception was to them. When they were in one place long enough for John to attend to school he was instructed to follow the other kids and just sit down at a desk. Before they knew who John was, his family would be gone. But even at home (in their trailer), his father remained aloof and unknowable. 'Growing up confined to the back seat had allowed me to study every wave of my father’s hair, the arch of his ears, the stubble on his jaw, but nothing of what was beneath. It was only after he vanished from worldly existence that it occurred to me that whatever was beneath might be something I could know. And I would soon learn there was a reason for his silence, which in turn became a reason for mine as an invisible dressing room kid.' Palmer’s depiction of his upbringing is a brilliant and atmospheric evocation of a disappeared America paired with the emotional gravity of a son’s search for who is father really is. At the center of it is the story of his unusual family, who were themselves part of a much larger and more unusual community of variety performers, most of them more at home among each other than the non-performing world. The questions of Palmer’s young life defined the path of his adult life, and, as he proceeded to find his own way in this world, he began to find unexpected answers about his father’s and what made him who he was.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Son and Heir: A Memoir Author: Alexander Münninghoff Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post–World War II Europe. What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform? Reporter Alexander Münninghoff was only four when he found this mortifying relic from his father’s recent past in his attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his father’s tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother and son. In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his parents’ complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of twentieth-century Europe. The Münninghoffs were driven by greed, rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted Alexander’s life for the next seventy years. Only in reconciling with them can this man find the courage to move forward as son and heir to the startling legacy of a flawed yet grand tradition.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - na pamet: aus dem gedächtnis einer slowenisch-deutsch schweigenden familie Author: Petra Kohlenprath Narrator: Petra Kohlenprath Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 1, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: na pamet: aus dem gedächtnis einer slowenisch-deutsch schweigenden familie. ein hörbuch gelesen von petra kohlenprath, bassklarinette: gerald preinfalk

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gestern Unterwegs. Aufzeichnungen November 1987 bis Juli 1990 Author: Peter Handke Narrator: Peter Handke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 3, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein Buch über das Reisen in einer Zeit ohne festen Wohnsitz: Mithilfe von tagebuchartigen Notizen, die sich Handke während seiner Nomaden-Zeit zwischen November 1987 und Juli 1990 machte, lässt er sein Treiben durch Jugoslawien, Griechenland, Ägypten, durch ganz Europa bis nach Japan und mehrfach in den slowenischen Karst wiederaufleben. Dabei sind es nicht nur die physischen Reisen, sondern auch die mentalen, an denen Handke den Leser teilhaben lässt.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Über Grenzen Author: Ralf Dahrendorf Narrator: Ralf Darendorf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 4, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Der Lebensrückblick eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes: Ralf Dahrendorf, den viele durch seine öffentlichen Gespräche mit Rudi Dutschke 1968 erinnern werden, lässt sein Leben Revue passieren – von seiner Kindheit im Nazi-Deutschland als Sohn eines sozialdemokratischen Widerstandskämpfers über sein Studium bis zum Beginn seiner Karriere als Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Journalist. Dieses 'Patchwork', wie er das, was er dem Leser damit bot, nannte, bietet ungewöhnliche Einblicke in das Leben einer großen Persönlichkeit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geschenke des Lebens Author: Peter Bachér Narrator: Stephan Carl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 21, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Was sind die besten Geschenke des Lebens? Für Peter Bachér ganz klar: Gute Gespräche! In vielen Begegnungen und spannenden Gesprächen über Gott und die Welt mit deutschen und internationalen Prominenten hat der Autor und Journalist die Erfahrungen und Lebensweisheiten gesammelt, die ihm die Personen mit auf den Weg gegeben haben und die jeder Hörer auch für sich beherzigen kann. Dabei sind sehr stimmungsvolle Porträts der befragten Personen entstanden.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/541706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mill Farm - Menschen und Tiere unter einem Dach Author: Elisabeth Castonier Narrator: Regina Reinhardt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vom Landleben und dem Leben mit Tieren: Mit viel Humor und Warmherzigkeit beschreibt die Autorin ihr Leben auf einer Farm im englischen Wiltshire, wo sie einige Jahre Stall- und Feldarbeit verrichtete und sich vor allem um die Tiere kümmerte. Als große Tierfreundin bekannt, schildert Castonier kleine Begebenheiten, die jeden, der Tiere kennt und mag, erfreuen werden.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/541384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zwischen Eiszeit und Tauwetter - Diplomatie in einer Epoche des Umbruchs: Erinnerungen Author: Berndt Von Staden Narrator: Robert Arnold Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 20, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Erinnerungen an eine Zeit mit großen geopolitischen Unruhen, an eine Welt am Rande des Krieges - Erinnerungen an den Kalten Krieg. Ehemaliger Botschafter in Washington, Berndt von Staden, berichtet von seinen Erfahrungen als Diplomat zwischen den Fronten der damaligen Zeit. Dem Leser werden die politischen Größen, mit denen von Staden damals zu tun hatte, mit beispielloser Lebendigkeit vorgestellt. Man bekommt das Gefühl, Männern wie Willy Brandt, Walter Scheel, Ronald Raegan und Leonid Breschnew auf Augenhöhe zu begegnen. Viele Jahre liegt die Zeit des Kalten Krieges zurück. Nun lässt Berndt von Staden die Jahre noch einmal vor dem inneren Auge des Lesers auferstehen.