Top Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Author: Margaret Rhodes Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay, and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. During the Second World War, she 'lodged' at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Elizabeth, to Prince Philip. Three years later, the King and Queen attended her own wedding, in which Princess Margaret was a bridesmaid. In 1990, she was appointed as a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, acting also as her companion, which she describes in touching detail. In the early months of 2002, she spent as much time as possible with her ailing aunt and was at her bedside when she died. The next morning, she went to Queen Elizabeth's bedroom to pray, and in farewell dropped her a final curtsey. The Queen Mother regarded Margaret Rhodes as her 'third daughter,' and she has been extremely close to her cousins, the Queen and Princess Margaret, throughout their lives. Full of charming anecdotes and fascinating characters, this is an unparalleled insight into the private life of the British monarchy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding True North: The Healing Power of Place Author: Linda Gask Narrator: Linda Gask Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Beneath the wide skies of Orkney, Linda Gask recalls her career as a consultant psychiatrist an her lifelong struggle with her own mental health. After the favelas of Brazil, the glittering cities of the Middle East, and the forests of Haida Gwaii. Will she find perspective, spiritual relief, and healing in her own home? “A story of struggling adults who find that True North is a place in oneself that is sustained by love and loyalty. Engrossing.” ANDREW GREIG, author of At the Loch of the Green Corrie “An illuminating and enlightening book about the importance of place.” RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Herndon's Lincoln: Volume One, Part Two Author: William Herndon, Jesse Weik Narrator: Chris Blair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Abraham Lincoln called 'Billy' Herndon, “My man always above all other men on the globe'. They were business partners for decades. After Lincoln's assassination, Herndon did interviews with Lincoln's family and friends for this biography. Co-author Jesse Weik also conducted many original interviews. The result - although not without flaws - has been recognized as one of the most important biographies of the Great Emancipator ever published. This volume covers the period of Lincoln's life in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man, through his love affair with Ann Rutledge, becoming a lawyer, his marriage to Mary Todd, and service in Congress. Here for the first time is the audiobook performed 'in character'.providing an entertaining listening experience about a crucial era in American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577824 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Löwenland: Mein Leben für Afrikas letzte Wildnis Author: Valentin Grüner Narrator: Sebastian Waldemer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Valentin Grüner lebt den Traum vieler Menschen: Mit Anfang 20 gab er seine Heimat, den Bodensee, für ein Leben als Wildhüter und Naturschützer in Afrika auf und zog in die Wüste Kalahari in Botswana. Als er vor neun Jahren ein verlassenes Löwenjunges fand, änderte sich alles: Die kleine Sirga bestimmte fortan seinen Alltag, wuchs heran, lernte auf Streifzügen, mit Valentin zu jagen und sich selbst zu versorgen. Nur durch Willenskraft, Kreativität und Durchhaltevermögen schaffte es Valentin, für Sirga ein Reservat in der afrikanischen Wildnis zu errichten. Nun streift Sirga unter Valentins wachsamem Blick durch ihr eigenes Gelände. In seinem Buch erzählt Valentin Grüner von seiner abenteuerlichen Geschichte – und der Freundschaft zu der Löwin Sirga.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Codebreaker: Wie die Erfindung der Genschere die Zukunft der Menschheit für immer verändert Author: Walter Isaacson Narrator: Marlen Ulonska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die CRISPR-Methode und die Zukunft der MedizinWas macht die Natur, wenn ein neuer Feind auftaucht? Sie findet eine neue Strategie. Wenn eine Bakterie von einem Virus attackiert wird, verteidigt sie sich beispielsweise, indem sie ihre genetische Struktur ändert. Doch wie können diese Mechanismen nachgewiesen werden? Und welchen Nutzen hat dieses Wissen für die Medizin?Der Amerikanerin Jennifer Doudna und der Französin Emmanuelle Charpentier sind bahnbrechende Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Biochemie gelungen: Die beiden Forscherinnen konnten die Verteidigungsstrategien der Natur auf grundlegendster Ebene, auf jener der Zelle, entdecken und nachbauen. Das Ergebnis heißt »CRISPR«. Diese Genschere kann den genetischen Bauplan punktgenau ändern. Die Sternstunde der Forschung: Blicken Sie den berühmten Wissenschaftlerinnen über die Schulter! Was trieb Jennifer Doudna und Emmanuelle Charpentier zu dieser Höchstleistung an? Welche Rückschläge und Erfolge begegneten den Forscherinnen auf ihrem Weg zum Durchbruch? Wie wurde aus einer Idee, die zunächst wie Science-Fiction klang, ein Projekt, das die Welt der Wissenschaft für immer verändern würde?Walter Isaacson erzählt in diesem fundierten Sachbuch nicht nur die Geschichte der CRISPR-Methode, sondern lässt Sie auch hinter die Kulissen blicken: in die Labore, in denen der Wettlauf der Biosciences entschieden wurde. Ein packendes Wissenschaftsbuch, das Forschung und Biografie verbindet!- Ausgezeichnet mit dem Nobelpreis für Chemie: Die Erfolgsgeschichte des Code-Breakers- Die Erfindung von CRISPR: So funktioniert die Technologie des Gen-Editierens- Frauen in der Wissenschaft: Jennifer Doudna und Emmanuelle Charpentier im persönlichen Porträt- Moralische und ethische Fragen, die bei der Genforschung bedacht werden müssen- So kann die Genschere in der Virus-Bekämpfung eingesetzt werden-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las gemelas de Auschwitz Author: Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri Narrator: Karina Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: La historia real de dos niñas frente al Ángel de la Muerte Eva Mozes Kor tenía sólo diez años cuando llegó a Auschwitz. Sus padres y dos hermanas mayores fueron llevados a las cámaras de gas, pero ella y su gemela Miriam fueron puestas al cuidado del hombre conocido como el Ángel de la Muerte, el sanguinario doctor Josef Mengele,quien realizaba crueles experimentos sobre todos los gemelos que encontraba, en su delirante afán por entender la genética y mantener pura a la raza aria. En estas páginas, Kor relata cómo luchó a diario por su supervivencia y la de su hermana en condiciones infrahumanas frente a una maldad difícil de comprender.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben's Mission to Dismantle Hate Author: Jori Epstein Narrator: Jori Epstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The stench of decay pierced the air aboard the boxcar of trapped Jews. 'Why me?' fifteen-year-old Max asked himself, as a convoy rumbled from the Warsaw Ghetto to Majdanek death camp in May 1943. The Nazis had destroyed the Glauben family's business, upended their rights, and ultimately decimated their neighborhood. The deluge of questions would only intensify after the Nazis murdered Max's mother, father, and brother. Max channeled grit and determination to outlast six horrific concentration camps in his quest to survive. This memoir explores Max's mischievous childhood and teen years as a go-to ghetto smuggler. Max journeys from displaced person to American immigrant and Korean veteran. He reveals how he ached as he dared to court love and rear children. For decades, he bottled up his trauma. Then he realized: He could transform his pain into purpose. Infused with raw emotion and vivid detail, historical records and Max's poignant voice, this memoir relays the true story of the dehumanization Max endured. It also relays Max's powerful lifetime commitment to actively thwarting hate and galvanizing resilience. Max insists you, too, can transform your adversity into your greatest strength.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Education of Augie Merasty Author: Joseph Auguste Merasty Narrator: Lorne Cardinal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Named the fourth most important "Book of the Year" by the National Post in 2015 and voted "One Book/One Province" in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant classic. A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation. A retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lived rough on the streets, Augie Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of aggressive assimilation. As Augie recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mould children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse. But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty's sense of humour and warm voice shine through. "In this book I have seen horror through eyes of a child." - James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains "A story in which our entire nation has an obscure and dark complicity." - David Carpenter, co-author of The Education of Augie Merasty and author of The Gold and other books Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Une Biographie Historique et Philosophique de Jésus-Christ Author: Israel Nazir Narrator: Israel Nazir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Release date: March 10, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Cette biographie historique et philosophique de Jésus-Christ a été écrite sur la base des Antiquités Juives de Flavius Josèphe, les évangiles canoniques, le Nouveau Testament, le dit évangile de Thomas ainsi que les manuscrits de la Mer Morte. Cette histoire romancée, ou roman historique, reprend la trame historique définit par les évangiles canoniques, c'est à dire que l'histoire commence par le baptême de Jésus par Jean-le-Baptiste et se termine par sa crucifixion. Dans cette ouvrage il n'est pas fait usage d'une argumentation évangélique symbolique et apologique mais bien l'usage de l'histoire des faits qui est agrémenté par les raisons qui ont amenées à l'évolution des idées. Cette biographie est tirée du livre : l’Évangile de Thomas : la Source Q de la Chrétienté.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - La Vie des Disciples de Jésus-Christ, jusqu' à la Destruction du Temple de Jérusalem. Author: Israel Nazir Narrator: Israel Nazir Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Release date: March 9, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Cette histoire romancée ou roman historique commence quelques jours après la crucifixion de Jésus-Christ par la découverte par Marie-Madeleine et Marie-Salomé du sépulcre vide de Jésus. L'histoire s'étale ensuite sur les 40 années qui suivirent et se termine par la destruction du Temple de Jérusalem. Cette histoire est centrée sur la vie des douze disciples de Jésus auquel se rajoute Paul, apôtre de Jésus, Saint-Étienne, l'un des 7 diacres, ainsi que Marc et Luc les évangélistes. Cette histoire raconte aussi les persécutions et les martyrs chrétiens. Ce roman historique est basé sur les Actes de Apôtres, Le Nouveau Testament, les Antiquités juives de Flavius Josèphe ainsi que les écrits des historiens romains Suétone et Tacite. Cette hagiographie est écrite sous l'angle de vue chrétiens et elle expliquent philosophiquement et historiquement les événements qui suivirent la crucifixion de Jésus, lesquels événements ont été fondateurs dans l'évolution de la pensée et la construction des églises chrétiennes.