Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult Author: Perry Bulwer Narrator: Kyle Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1972, Perry Bulwer, a naive sixteen-year-old growing up in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, dropped out of high school to run away with the Children of God, one of a number of millennial Christian cults that sprang up in the 1960s and 1970s. Bulwer takes the listener on an extraordinary trip through the world of biblical literalism, fundamentalist endtime fantasies, paranormal spirituality, evangelical extremism, ritual abuse, and liberally interpreted Biblical teachings that were used to justify licentious sexual doctrines, evangelical prostitution, and child sexual abuse. We learn about the inner workings of the CoG, aka The Family, and the machinations of David Berg, a self-declared endtime prophet. Berg died in 1994, before various law enforcement agencies around the world caught up with him. Perry Bulwer escaped The Family in 1991, managing to escape the cult's tight control while living in Asia. Returning to Canada, he tried to pick up his life where he had left it off two decades earlier. Through education Bulwer lost his religion, turning from religious extremist to secular humanist lawyer, fighting for the rights of sex workers and drug users living on the streets of Vancouver. Haunted by his own past, Bulwer became an advocate for thousands of second-generation survivors of the cult's child abuse and psychological trauma.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fear Talking - The True Story of a Young Man and Anxiety (Unabridged) Author: Chris Westoby Narrator: Chris Westoby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Chris is sixteen. He wants to do well at college, have fun with his mates, be a good boyfriend and son. But anxiety takes its grip and won't shake loose. This is his true story. Chris Westoby takes us inside his past self, a teenager from a small English town. He's trying to be a good friend, student, son and boyfriend, but he struggles to be in company without wanting to hide. And things only get worse: it's nearly impossible to take the bus to college without catching the next bus home. His obsessive germaphobia begins to destroy his life. How can one boy overcome all this? Chris gives an unflinching, raw account of his troubles and presents what he's has learned. This book offers an outstretched hand to those fighting these same battles, or to anyone who's watching someone else go through the same. 'The Fear Talking' does not promise to solve your problems, but it shows you that you're not alone. That's all Chris ever wanted, really; to unflinchingly capture the warmth and darkness of the teenage years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keep Living Author: Loreal Chanel 'lc' Palmer Narrator: Loreal Chanel 'lc' Palmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As long as you’re alive and breathing, you have a say in what direction your life will take. Just keep living.After seven years of marriage, multiple miscarriages, and three beautiful children, Loreal’s life changed in an instant when she found out that her husband, her first and only love, had a secret. At first, they embraced an untraditional solution, separating romantically but choosing to live in the same house to continue raising their children together. But ultimately, at thirty-two, Loreal would need to start over in life, find herself, and pave her own way forward. Loreal used to make decisions based on internal fear and arbitrary timelines—until life started making decisions for her. In her inspirational memoir, she decides to step up and start taking control of her own destiny. Choosing to look back and learn from her past, with new insight, Loreal draws from the wisdom of her grandmother and her own personal journey to embolden readers to take control of their futures and turn change into fuel for self-discovery. By remembering her grandmother’s phrase, “keep living,” she realizes that no matter what your past looks like, you are responsible for your own future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Live Like a Guide Dog: True Stories from a Blind Man and His Dogs about Being Brave, Overcoming Adversity, and Moving Forward in Faith Author: Keri Wyatt Kent, Michael Hingson Narrator: Pat Grimes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A guide dog’s guide to life’s most important lessons! Michael Hingson’s inspiring true story captivated the world when he and his guide dog Roselle escaped the Twin Towers together on 9/11, a story that became the New York Times bestselling book Thunder Dog. During decades of walking with guide dogs, he had learned a surprising truth that helped save his life that day: Being afraid can be a positive thing, one that prepares us to deal with any situation that befalls us. Now, in Live Like a Guide Dog, he reveals how to: - Get equipped for whatever obstacles or challenges you may encounter as you make your way through the world - Train yourself to be brave, just like a guide dog’s training equips handler and dog to prepare for the unexpected - Learn to use your natural fear reactions as a way to focus and concentrate to make better decisions and turn your fear into courage and confidence. - Apply eleven principles Michael has learned with his guide dogs to overcome the fears that you face every day Join Michael on the joyful adventure of walking with, loving, and learning from guide dogs!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803314 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before I Forget: A Memoir Author: M.K. Raina Narrator: P Mathai Abraham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In his sparkling memoir, M.K. Raina documents the many lives he has lived. From sharing the stage with some of the most celebrated actors in India to his journey as a young man witnessing the violence and horrors rampant through the streets of Kashmir, an entire history of northern India is painted with subtle elegance.Brimming with delightful anecdotes as well as poignant, painful memories of a region that once was, this book is a tour de force.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman in the Polar Night Author: Christiane Ritter Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime. In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to 'read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content,' but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies . . . But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up On The Colorado Frontier Author: Hal Borland Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: 'A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream' (The New York Times). In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family's migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century. On an unsettled and unwelcoming prairie landscape, the Borlands build a house, plant crops, and eke out a meager existence. While life is difficult—and self-reliance is necessary with no neighbors for miles—the experience brings the family close and binds them closer to the terrible and beautiful natural patterns that govern their lives. Borland would grow up to study journalism and become an acclaimed nature writer, and it was these childhood years on the prairie that shaped the author's heart and mind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leadership Over Loneliness: How Unleasing the Leader Within Transformed My Life Author: Ethan Spelman Narrator: Ethan Spelman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring true story that blends life, leadership, and lessons learned Throughout most of his life, Ethan Spelman felt like he was never good enough. Despite his friendly demeanor and perceived success, he was haunted by his past, controlled by his fears, and consumed by emptiness and loneliness. But destiny – disguised as an ill-timed business trip – ultimately changed the trajectory of his life, and led him to discover and then champion the life-changing power of leadership done right. By immersing himself in leadership principles and practices and infusing them into his own life story, Ethan discovers that leadership can transcend lives – especially his own. As he works to incorporate leadership into all aspects of his life, he unleashes the leader within – and finds the courage and strength to come to terms with his past, overcome his fears, leave the loneliness behind, and move forward with confidence, conviction, and hope. If you believe that real leadership is much greater than the titles we hold, seek to find the light in your own darkness, or long to discover the leader within, you’ll be inspired by this candid true story interwoven with powerful leadership lessons that have helped the author transform his life – and may help unleash the leader in you.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Шамбала Author: Николай Рерих Narrator: Ирина Королева Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: В книге Н. К. Рериха «Шамбала» собраны легенды, мифы, рассказы о Заповедной Стране — Шамбале. Образ Шамбалы проходит через все литературное и художественное творчество Н. К. Рериха. Сочетая легенды с реальными фактами, Рерих в поэтической форме излагает концепцию Космической эволюции. Живя в Индии, Николай Константинович и Елена Ивановна Рерихи долго и продуктивно сотрудничали с удивительной группой индийских Учителей. Результатом этого явилось создание книг Живой Этики, или Агни Йоги. Надо сказать, что до сих пор наши современники по XX веку увлеченно расшифровывают значение этих книг для человечества и его эволюции.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/790630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing for change Author: Anne Wafula Strike Narrator: Tina Tieno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan village, moving across the country with her family. After overcoming additional adversity, including the loss of her mother and ableist prejudice, Anne moved to the UK, where she discovered her talent for wheelchair racing. The first East African to compete in her sport, representing Kenya in the 2004 Paralympics before joining Paralympics GB, Anne is now a fierce advocate for the promotion of the games around the world, and a champion of disabled rights. First published in 2010, and fully updated with Anne’s passionate activism – including her campaign for more accessibility on public transport – In My Dreams I Dance is an incredibly inspiring story about why you should never let others slow you down.