Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lebanon Days Author: Theodore Ell Narrator: Theodore Ell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A captivating memoir that unravels the emotional struggles of a nation the world has long overlooked. Through the eyes of an outsider, this story takes a deep dive into the intimate details of Lebanon's hardships, providing a profound understanding of its people and their journey. From 2018 to 2021, writer and researcher Theodore Ell accompanied his wife on her diplomatic posting to Lebanon and unexpectedly found himself a witness to a country on the brink of collapse. In 2019, facing economic meltdown, the people of Lebanon rose up, united in a revolution of hope. With the country on the precipice of war, Covid-19 then swept in and the eerie quiet of lockdowns descended—a silence tragically shattered in August 2020, when Ell narrowly survived the largest ever non-nuclear peacetime explosion, which destroyed half of Beirut. Everywhere from calm cedar forests to crowded Beirut bars, Ell listened to stories of the Lebanese people and tried to make sense of the maze of ideas, desires and illusions that create the Lebanon of their imagination, a place in sharp contrast to reality. In prose as lucid as it is emotionally rich, and based on reportage that won Ell the 2021 Calibre Prize, Lebanon Days welcomes those who wish to understand more than news footage can convey. This is the story of a nation largely ignored by the rest of the world, a complex country driven over the edge but still seeking faith in itself, seen through the eyes of an outsider drawn into its intimate struggle. 'An astonishing piece of writing.' Helen Garner on Ell's 'Façades of Lebanon', winner of the 2021 Calibre Essay Prize.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/791371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Profound Benefits of Doing a Stint in Prison Author: Andrew Hamilton Narrator: Andrew Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andrew Hamilton thought he had life sorted: beautiful fiancée, a popular pizza restaurant, two beloved dogs and a thriving side business supplying massive quantities of magic mushrooms and LSD to eager Sydneysiders. Then one night police raided his Surry Hills home and it all came crashing down. Andrew's predicament didn't sink in at first, mainly because he was on a three-day cocaine bender and just wanted to sleep it off. When he was transferred to Parklea Correctional Centre, his prison-inspired existential dilemma began. The Profound Benefits of a Stint in Prison is a sometimes confronting, more often hilarious insider's view to life inside. Andrew left prison a changed man, determined to turn his life around. This is the story of what happens when max denial collides with the reality of max security.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Intervals Author: Marianne Brooker Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. But over time, her ability to work, to move and to live without pain diminished drastically. Determined to die in her own home, on her own terms, she stopped eating and drinking in 2019. In Intervals, Brooker reckons with heartbreak, weaving her first and final memories with a study of doulas, living wills and the precarious economics of social, hospice and funeral care. Blending memoir, polemic and feminist philosophy, Brooker joins writers such as Anne Boyer, Maggie Nelson, Donald Winnicott and Lola Olufemi to raise essential questions about choice and interdependence and, ultimately, to imagine care otherwise.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/797898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Innocent Child: Can Georgia find the happiness and security she's always wanted? Author: Toni Maguire Narrator: Sophie Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From bestselling author, Toni Maguire, comes a new story of trauma and survival. Set against a backdrop of East End London, Georgia experienced a childhood few of us could imagine. Though brought up in a loving family,she watched her family break apart through deceit and her mother descend into heroin addiction. Escaping into what she felt was a loving sanctuary, Georgia ended up trapped in a violent relationship with a man who would beat and abuse her. After having her three children by him, she knew she had to escape to finally find safety. Now Georgia is sharing her story of survival to help others and prove there is hope even after trauma and heartache.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Solo2Darwin: In the Footsteps of Amy Johnson Author: Amanda Harrison Narrator: Sasha Higgins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 31, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Whilst learning to fly, Amanda Harrison discovered a beautiful vintage Tiger Moth. After researching the amazing pioneers who flew this fragile aircraft, a spark was ignited, and Amanda dreamed of emulating their adventures. On May 11, 2019, she made that dream a reality, taking off from Biggin Hill with the aim of flying to Darwin, Australia in twenty days—just as her idol Amy Johnson had done in 1930. Solo2Darwin documents one woman's exhilarating journey across the world. Indeed, the launch of her biplane, 'Solo2Darwin', received extensive press coverage, including print features in The Times and The Telegraph and TV footage broadcasted on ITV and Channel 5 News respectively. Faced with adversity, navigating through torturous mountain ranges covered in cloud, across seas, dodging thunderstorms, and surviving engine failures, Amanda's route had plenty of highs, lows, and drama. Alongside this she also experienced the difficulties of solo-flying a biplane and having to navigate dangerous regions across the world. What makes Amanda's expedition even more remarkable is that this was all undertaken whilst recovering from cancer. So strap in and prepare to go on a journey of a lifetime. Twelve countries, 2,600 miles, forty-six flying hours, two engine failures, one airplane, one female pilot, all equals one amazing adventure!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/786718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way Author: Fred C. Trump Narrator: Fred C. Trump Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to TheApprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son’s health and safety forced him onto a center stage that he had never wanted. And now, at a crucial point for our nation, he is stepping forward again. In All in the Family, Fred delves into his journey to become a “different kind of Trump,” detailing his passionate battle to protect his wife and children from forces inside and outside the family. From the Trump house to the White House, Fred comes to terms with his own complex legacy and faces some demons head-on. It’s a story of power, love, money, cruelty, and the unshakable bonds of family, played out underneath a glaring media spotlight. All in the Family is the inside story, as it’s never been told before.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Wisdom: Life Lessons from Leading Teams to Some of the Most Inhospitable Places in the World Author: Christine Amour-Levar Narrator: Ellie Flory Fawcett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A tale of adventure, pushing limits, humanity and the transformative power of challenging expeditions to help us grow wiser, more compassionate and purposeful with our livesWild Wisdom recounts the story of social entrepreneur and philanthropist Christine Amour-Levar and the all-female expeditions she has led across the globe via her two non-profit organisations, Women on a Mission and HER Planet Earth. Over a decade, she has taken hundreds of women, of all nationalities, ages and backgrounds, to off the beaten track locations around the world on challenging, often pioneering, expeditions that really push them outside of their comfort zone.She has run expeditions to some incredible places, from regions of the Arctic circle to the coldest, windiest and most remote continent on earth, Antarctica. Her teams have crossed the largest caves in the world in Vietnam, sailed across remote islands in Asia, were the first all-female team to bike across the frozen Arctic Circle Trail of Greenland and the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia – the hottest place on earth. And all these expeditions have had as mission to raise awareness and funds for vulnerable women, transforming the lives of thousands of women and girls in the process.By sharing her personal story and highlighting her life lessons, from growing up on multiple continents to leading teams on expeditions, she sets the stage for a new approach to caring for the human condition and the planet, at a deeper, more intrinsic, heart level. Ultimately, this is a story about roots and values, sisterhood and adventure, pushing limits and the power of our common humanity and compassion to drive change and impact the world for the better.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult, and the Healing That Came After Author: Christine Faour Narrator: Alex Picard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Have you known someone who was in a cult? Do you think you know your neighbors pretty well? You really don't know what's going on behind the smile, the dress, and the doors of the house down the street. This is the story of a Canadian woman who was in the Advanced Training Institute, run by Bill Gothard, for fourteen years. The amazing thing is that she never knew she was in a cult until several years after she was out. That's what happened to Christine in 2014. She has spent the past nine years trying to deprogram and change the way she sees the world. The Advanced Training Institute had all the hallmarks of a cult, it even fit Bill Gothard's definition of a cult, but Christine and her family believed they were God's cream of the crop. Join her as she navigates the cult, goes through a divorce, finds out she was in a cult and subsequently has to unlearn all she believed to be true. Interestingly, this is the same cult the Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting is a part of. Written with humor and candor, her story is both heart wrenching and humorous at the same time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: HMS Cavendish and Other Misadventures Author: Eric Victor Rendel Narrator: Christine Rendel, Gerard Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a memoir of a boy born in 1926 in a small seaside town on the northwest coast of England who grew up in pre-and wartime Britain and who recalls, in this account, his many adventures before, during, and after the conclusion of World War II. In the latter half of the war, our teenage author enlists in His Majesty King George VI’s Royal Navy and is assigned to serve as a naval Coder on several British warships, culminating on HMS Cavendish, a state-of-the-art Destroyer based primarily in the Southeast Asia theater of war. Throughout his service, the neophyte mariner chronicles his experiences, outrageous mishaps, and the life lessons he learns along his journey. At the conclusion of hostilities, we follow the path of the demobbed and restless young sailor upon his return to Britain as he explores a variety of careers and opportunities over the next decade in search of adventure and fulfillment. Written in a humorous and light-hearted manner, somewhat in the style of Jerome K. Jerome or P.G. Wodehouse, it is hoped this audiobook will appeal to listeners interested in the personal recollections and experiences of a sharply observant and irreverent chronicler born almost one hundred years ago.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/808227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jai's Story Part 1 - A Contemporary Yogi's Experience of Loss, Love and Liberation Series: #1 of Jai's Story - A Contemporary Yogi's Experience of Loss, Love and Liberation Author: Kieran O'Callaghan - Rishikiz Narrator: Kieran O'Callaghan - Rishikiz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kieran O'Callaghan reflects on loss, love, and true freedom in this beautiful and inspirational memoir that reflects on everything from personal relationships to global movements of love and connection. He shares moving stories of death and grief from people he has helped with in his meditation and yoga practices over the years, along with his personal stories of loss. It's not just a narrative for those who have experienced loss; it's a handbook for modern yogis, therapists, educators and other professionals to help guide individuals to healing and transformation.