Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swedish Secret Series: #2 of Mark Author: Cleo James Narrator: Clare Corbett Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Following an intense chance meeting Mark leaves his wife to begin a new life with Cleo. What starts as a fairytale swiftly turns into a black comedy. Under the illusion she knows everything about the loveable rogue she has fallen for, Cleo is shocked to discover that he may not be so lovable after all. By the time realisation kicks in, Mark and Cleo are in the grips of a bad, mad love affair that neither of them seem able to walk away from. The story which is based on true events (unfortunately) gives an alternative viewpoint on topics that are current yet still somewhat taboo. Mental health, odd OCD tendencies, anger, jealousy, emotional abuse, an occasional fight, drinking too much, eating too little, unwanted pregnancies and a s_ _tload of swearing. Thinking things can't get any worse, Cleo marches on, telling her story with a dry sense of humour and a 'just get on with it' attitude. Only things do get worse. Very much worse. Has she got the strength to deal with a woman's worst nightmare? After everything she has been through will this be the final nail in the coffin or the chance of a new life. Spanning nearly two decades, this is a raw and honest account of an unconventional love story, funny, sad, jaw dropping and completely addictive. Cleo James lifts up the carpet where society sweeps things they would rather not talk about and brings them out in the open. Shameless and unapologetic with an ending you won't see coming however hard you look.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Too Good to Be True: The Unbelievable True Story of How the Father of My Children Lived a Double Life Author: Andrea Hunter Narrator: Sofia Engstrand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: January 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: They say that revenge is a dish best served cold - but how cold does it have to be? ?And should it be chopped, sliced or diced? What dish is best suited to a man who at one point had an ex-wife, a wife, a pregnant girlfriend and a new girlfriend - all at the same time? I was an independent, clever, blonde and slightly wild 31-year old Swedish girl when I in 1998 met the man of my dreams. A big hunk of an Englishman, with the looks of Marlon Brando (a young Marlon that is), lush Paul Newman lips and a wide Gene Kelly smile? Now, still independent, clever, not-so-blonde-and-wild but also deceived, dumped and ditched by that same man. Sixteen years together, and two kids. So what do you do when you find out that a big part of that has been a lie? Well - you write about it of course!? This is the true story about how Mr Right became the father of my boys. And how he turned out to be Mr Not-so-Right. Names have been changed of course, but the email correspondence, texts and conversations are real. Welcome to indulge in my revenge - a sweet and juicy real life love story with a spicy twist!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/785543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Perra Author: Marie-Pier Lafontaine Narrator: Cecilia Bona Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: January 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Entre todas las leyes del padre, había una de índole fundamental: no contar. De niña, disimulaba mis deseos en textos de ficción. Dos hermanas en fuga. Perseguidas por un monstruo de dos cabezas. Huían por sombríos bosques. Se armaban con ramas, palos. Hoy ya no escondo mis deseos. Quisiera que este texto diezmara a mi familia toda. Perra, ganadora del Premio Sade en 2020, es el primer libro de Marie-Pier Lafontaine. Con una crudeza que limita todo el tiempo con lo sórdido, Lafontaine se aferra a su experiencia personal para hablar de un tema que, aún hoy, sigue siendo tabú: el abuso intrafamiliar.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/836406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Quit Everything: How One Woman's Addiction to Quitting Helped Her Confront Bad Habits and Embrace Midlife Author: Freda Love Smith Narrator: Freda Love Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An experimental account of one woman’s quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her life—which dares to ask if we’re really better off without them. In January 2021, Freda Love Smith, acclaimed rock musician and author of Red Velvet Underground, watched as insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol. It felt like the culmination of eight months of pandemic anxiety. She needed a drink, badly. But she suspected a midday whiskey wouldn’t cure what was really ailing her—nor would her nightly cannabis gummy, or her four daily cups of tea, or any of the other substances she relied on to get through each day. Thus began her experiment to remove one addictive behavior from her life each month to see if sobriety was really all it was cracked up to be. With honesty and humor, Smith describes the effects of withdrawal from alcohol, sugar, caffeine, cannabis, and social media, weaving in her reflections on the childhood experiences and cultural norms that fed her addictions to these behaviors. Part personal history, part sociological research, and part wry observation on addiction, intoxication, media, and pandemic behavior, I Quit Everything will resonate with anyone who has danced with destructive habits—that is, those who are “sober curious” but not necessarily sober. Smith’s experiment goes beyond simply quitting these five addictive behaviors. Moved by the circumstances of the pandemic and the general state of the world, she ends up leaving an unsatisfying job for more meaningful work and reevaluating other significant details of her life, such as motherhood and the music that defined her career. More than a simple sobriety story, Smith’s book is an exploration of passion, legacy, and what becomes of our identities once we’ve quit everything.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherland: A Memoir Author: Paula Ramón Narrator: Ana Osorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramón comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. Reporter Paula Ramón experienced the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family saw their quality of life deteriorate. Public services no longer functioned. Money lost its value. Her mother couldn’t afford to buy food, which was increasingly scarce. The once-prosperous country fell into ruin. Like many others, Ramón’s family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they love. In the end, it was Ramón’s mother, a widow, who stayed behind, loyal to the only home she’d ever known. In this heartbreaking mix of lived experience, family chronicle, and journalistic essay, Paula Ramón explores the anguish of her own relationships set against the staggering collapse of a country. Motherland is a uniquely human account about the ties that bind—and the fragile concept of home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/801324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir Author: Pidgeon Pagonis Narrator: Pidgeon Pagonis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth. Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls—a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why…until they uncovered the secret that had haunted their childhood. Bouncing between their Chicago home and the city’s children’s hospital, Pidgeon weathered a series of traumatic surgeries, fabrications, and misdirections. It wasn’t until college that Pidgeon pieced together the puzzle of their identity: they’d been born intersex but raised as a girl, their life shaped by lies that left them physically and mentally scarred. But for Pidgeon, what began as a shameful and traumatic discovery transforms into a painful yet joyous journey of self-love, truth, and healing. Pidgeon’s inspiring memoir is for everyone whose body and spirit defy expectations, a fierce challenge to a system hell-bent on enforcing binary definitions. Ultimately, it’s a celebration of the freedom and empowerment that come from learning the truth about who you are—and living it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place for Us: A Memoir Author: Brandon J. Wolf Narrator: Brandon J. Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-discovery, community, love, and resilience in the face of adversity. You never forget your first. First kiss. First love. First heartache. They all burrow their way into your subconscious, destined to reshape how you see the world forever. Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive. In Orlando, he found what he’d been searching for: belonging—in a community that was a safe space with people he’d come to call his chosen family. They taught Wolf how to love, and be loved, unconditionally. Then, on June 12, 2016, in an exhilarating refuge where Wolf and hundreds of others had discovered a liberating new normal, they were suddenly challenged with fighting for a way out—in order to survive. Overnight, everything was ripped away by chaos, panic, and fear. But the unimaginable tragedy also gave Wolf a new power: purpose. In this unforgettable coming-of-age memoir, Wolf shares his transformative journey from young outsider to galvanizing activist. Marshaling the compassion and strength of a community, Wolf explores how to get through the darkest times with healing, hope, and resistance. “With our backs against the wall,” he writes, “we find a way out together.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story Author: Paul Burston Narrator: Paul Burston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'This memoir is brutally honest… Wonderful!' – Russell T. Davies Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride. Paul Burston wasn’t always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London that he is today. Paul came out in the mid-1980s, when ‘gay’ still felt like a dirty word, especially in the small Welsh town where he grew up. He moved to London hoping for a happier life, only to watch in horror as his new-found community was decimated by AIDS. But even in the depths of his grief, Paul vowed never to stop fighting back on behalf of his young friends whose lives were cut tragically short. It’s a promise he’s kept to this day. As an activist he stormed the House of Commons during the debate over the age of consent. As a journalist he spoke up for the rights of the community at a time of tabloid homophobia and legal inequality. As a novelist he founded the groundbreaking Polari Prize. But his lifestyle hid a dark secret, and Paul’s demons—shame, trauma, grief—stalked him on every corner. In an attempt to silence them, he began to self-medicate. From almost drowning at eighteen to a near-fatal overdose at thirty-eight, this is Paul’s story of what happened in the twenty years between, and how he carved out a life that his teenage self could scarcely have imagined. Emotional but often witty, We Can Be Heroes is an illuminating memoir of the eighties, nineties and noughties from a gay man who only just survived them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered Author: Tamara Leitner Narrator: Tamara Leitner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award–winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons. In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims—more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways. Tamara’s twenty-year compulsion to follow the investigation began. She needed to question a failed system. She needed to know the women whose lives were irrevocably altered. And she needed to face the root of her obsession with Hull and his crimes. In interviewing, befriending, and profoundly connecting with Hull’s survivors, Tamara crafts a unique true-crime narrative. It not only reveals the struggles of the justice system to help victims of sexual violence but explores how these resilient women—and Tamara herself—strove to reclaim their power in the wake of indelible trauma.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Quintessenzen - Überlebenskunst für Anfänger Author: Sven Böttcher Narrator: Sven Böttcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sven Böttcher erhält im Alter von Anfang 40 Jahren die Diagnose Multiple Sklerose. Sein gesundheitlicher Zustand verschlechtert sich in der Folgezeit zusehends. Doch Sven Böttcher gibt nicht auf. Er sucht Alternativen zur Schulmedizin. Gleichzeitig möchte er seinen drei Töchtern im Falle seines Ablebens noch alles Wesentliche für das spätere Leben mit auf den Weg geben. Das vorliegende Buch erzählt aus dieser Zeit... -