Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Two Author: Lisa Messenger, Sarah Megginson Narrator: Sarah Megginson, Lisa Messenger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Power of Two is a universal and timeless story of hope, possibility and living life outside the lines, co-written by media powerhouses and best friends Lisa Messenger and Sarah Megginson, and their uplifting, life-affirming surrogacy story.For the past year, the world has followed closely as Lisa and Sarah - co-authors, media powerhouses and best friends - candidly and generously shared the remarkable journey to starting Lisa's family. After eight years of 'trying' - involving 16 rounds of IVF, 480 injections and endless heartbreak - Lisa accepted that she needed to take up Sarah's incredible, selfless offer of surrogacy to support her dream of becoming a mother.When they decided, after a twelve year friendship to embark on creating a baby together, they started candidly sharing their story and the joys and lessons they were learning along the way. Audiences hung on their every post and word and the media came in throngs.In The Power of Two, Lisa and Sarah will delve further into their profound journey - one that transcends pain and heartache to shine a light on what becomes possible when we embrace vulnerability and the power of community. This story may start with a beautiful friendship and the birth of a much-wanted baby boy - but this book is about more than the journey to parenthood.While people are fascinated by the challenges of fertility, IVF, and surrogacy, it is the accompanying themes of friendship, vulnerability, tenacity, resilience, generosity, the power of community, staying open and never taking no for an answer, that are having a deep and profound impact.The Power of Two will be a beacon of hope for anyone who has faced adversity, loss, grief and heartache. It will be a celebration of the tenacity we all possess, the power of giving - and the power in receiving. The Power of Two is ultimately about how one single connection can cause a boundless ripple, a wellspring of potential for lasting change well beyond what was once thought conceivable.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust Author: Janet Singer Applefield Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a four-year-old in Nowy Targ, Poland, Gustawa Singer lived an idyllic life. Her parents doted on her, and she was always surrounded by loving relatives. Her father worked in the hardware store owned by her grandfather, and the family prospered. Then, in 1939, everything changed: Hitler's army invaded Poland, and Gustawa's carefree childhood days were gone forever. The Nazis killed 2,000 of the 2,200 Jews in her small hometown. Gustawa's mother was transported to the death camp at Belzec, her father was assigned to forced labor, and Gustawa became separated from everyone she had ever known. Amidst the Nazis' hatred and savagery, a stranger spotted Gustawa after her cousin abandoned her in Krakow. This woman took her in and loved her at terrible risk to her own family. For Gustawa's protection, her name had to be changed several times. She survived the seemingly endless ordeal of the Holocaust and was eventually reunited with her father. They emigrated to the United States where Janet grew up. Believing that the world must never forget the horrors unleashed by Hitler's regime, the woman who was now Janet Singer Applefield began a series of talks to students, telling them the moving story of all she had endured, teaching them the power of courage and resilience in the face of bigotry, and encouraging them to stand up to discrimination and injustice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taboo Author: Hannah Ferguson Narrator: Hannah Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Conversations we never had about sex, body image, work and relationships.A vulnerable exploration of modern womanhood that weaves deeply personal stories with opinions and advice on sex, friendship, family, career and beyond.This part-memoir, part feminist-manifesto meets women where they are and as they are. Hannah exposes and celebrates the messy, honest and insular parts of ourselves in a book designed to feel like a late-night conversation with your best friend – one that will make you laugh, cry and that you'll never want to end.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: OCT 7: The War Against Hamas Through the Eyes of an Israeli Commando Officer Author: Capt. Elkana (Kuno) Cohen Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israelis awoke to a harrowing reality. Not only were hundreds of rockets being launched from Gaza into Israeli population centers, but the security border had also been breached by several thousand Hamas terrorists. Carnage, not seen since the Second World War, ensued. Elkana Cohen, Captain of an Elite Commando Unit was called, along with thousands of other reservists, to prepare for war. One that will have to ensure nothing less than Israel's survival. In notebooks he found on the ground in the streets of Gaza, Cohen began writing a diary. Every day, he candidly documented the sights of the war. From an honest, precise, and fluid first-person perspective, Cohen presents the feeling and story of the war from the eyes of the heroes who were there: the dust, the sweat, the brotherhood, the longing, and the awful smell of death and destruction. Cohen's writing poignantly describes his relationships with his fellow comrades, the mass arrests of terrorists, the homes of Hamas members, the story of the fallen soldiers, and the desperate hope to bring the hundreds of Israeli hostages home. OCT 7 is not only the story of one Israeli officer, but it is also the narrative of an entire nation. A nation that stepped up without a moment's hesitation to face an existential challenge with a sense of purpose and mission.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving Life as a Miracle Child Author: Brandon C. Gandy Narrator: Brian Wiggins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a true story about Brandon C. Gandy, who overcame fifteen birth defects, twenty-eight surgeries, a medically induced coma, and cancer, and became the eighth person in the world to have a testicular and kidney transplant. During all of his near-death medical challenges, Brandon persisted; he would remain an athlete and he tackled many different sports. His brave, strong journey sheds light on real-life struggles of what a miracle child has to go through growing up and how he turned his preconceived weaknesses into his ultimate strengths with his endless faith.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until I Kill You: The shocking true story of the woman who survived living with serial axe murderer John Sweeney Author: Delia Balmer Narrator: Florence Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When Delia Balmer entered into a relationship with the attentive John Sweeney, she had no idea he was a serial killer. At first he was caring but over the course of their relationship he became violent and controlling. On more than one occasion he held Delia hostage and tortured her. Chillingly, he also confessed to the murder of his previous girlfriend. After one serious assault, Sweeney was released on bail, and left her in the utmost fear knowing that he would return to finish her off. After a final frenzied attack leaving Delia on the brink of death, Sweeney went on the run. Astonishingly, it would take the police six years to capture and convict Sweeney of multiple murders. This is her compelling memoir. © Delia Balmer 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madam Author: Antonia Murphy Narrator: Antonia Murphy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *Now a major international TV series starring Rachel Griffiths and Martin Henderson* A poignant and darkly comedic memoir from a mother who opened an ethical escort agency in small town New Zealand – the only country in the world where sex work is fully legalised – and dared to make a difference.  I’m Antonia, a real-life madam. I’ve got a blended family of six kids; I spend my mornings packing lunchboxes and my evenings reading bedtime stories. And two days a week, I work as a pimp. Procurer, madam – whatever you want to call it. Personally, I think of myself as a union organiser. For vaginas. An ex-pat from San Francisco, Antonia Murphy is living on a farm in rural New Zealand with her husband and two kids, bored and isolated, when her husband leaves her. Suddenly, she has to figure out how to survive. Upon discovering the decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand, Antonia’s mind starts to wander, and she reaches out to the international sex worker community online to learn more about the business. This group of smart, anonymous, sassy women open Antonia’s eyes to the viability of sex work that safeguards women’s health and dignity, while providing a clean, shame-free establishment for male clients. Inspired, Antonia decides to open her own agency: The Bach. Over the next three years, she encounters more than she could have imagined: domestic abuse, assault, theft, drugs and a stream of silly, horrific and sometimes touching requests from her clients. She witnesses the ways so many women are trapped – by early pregnancy, lack of education and the constraints of their circumstances. More than anything, she sees fire in the women who choose sex work: they refuse to give up and be poor, even when the odds are stacked against them. In Madam, we follow Antonia through the turbulent years of her agency, as she toils to keep both her business and family afloat, and to keep the women of The Bach safe and thriving as they practice the world's oldest profession.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unruled Body: A Poet’s Memoir Author: Ani Gjika Narrator: Ani Gjika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire. Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time when everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother who helped raise her, grappling with a new language, and isolated from aging parents who are trying in their own ways to survive. When she meets a young man whose mind leans toward writing, as hers does, Ani falls in love—at least, she thinks it's love. Set across Albania, Thailand, India, and the US, An Unruled Body is a young woman's journey to selfhood through the lenses of language, sexuality, and identity, and how she learns to find freedom of expression on her own terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gulp, Swallow: Essays on Change Author: Brooke Boland Narrator: Candice Moll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Memoiric essays on who we were and how we have changed What happens when who you are is different to who you imagined you'd be? When her son was three, Brooke Boland was diagnosed with depression. She went back to find where it all started – the panic attacks, the dissociation – in the early days of motherhood. When she found it difficult to read or write. In this wide-ranging collection of essays Boland moves on from the person she was and writes to understand who she is now. She swims with sharks, falls in love with a rabbit, and watches her father fight for his life. She is a newcomer in a small regional town and a mother, but what else? She writes about family and friends, life and mortality, memory and forgetting, and along the way she finds her voice again. This book is for anyone who has felt unmoored. It is about the unremarkable in-between, the way we try to build a home from nothing, the dirty dishes and the loads of washing. The uncertainty and the love. But written in sparkling prose with a sly and wry tone that is illuminating about the everyday as it pitches for a rich and fulfilled life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uncommon Company: Dissidents and Diplomats, Enemies and Artists Author: William H. Luers Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In his revelatory memoir Uncommon Company, William Luers shares stories of his incredible career as a US diplomat to European and Latin American nations, where he introduced art and culture to forge common ground and community, improving the lives of citizens in many countries closed to Western ideas. From touring the Soviet Union with playwright Edward Albee in the 1960s to bringing such famous writers and artists as John Updike, Arthur Miller, William Styron, Peter Matthiessen, Francine du Plessix Gray, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Stella to Venezuela and Prague during his ambassadorships in Venezuela and Czechoslovakia, Bill Luers's practice of cultural diplomacy became known as his ability to wield 'soft power' that strengthened US relationships wherever he served. After more than thirty years with the State Department, Luers brought his art expertise to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as its president, where he secured the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by such masters as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Cézanne, among many other accomplishments. Uplifting and inspirational, William Luers's Uncommon Company is the true story of a life well lived, celebrating the challenges and triumphs found in the virtues of being a servant leader.