Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Time I Wore a Dress Author: Dylan Scholinski Narrator: Dylan Scholinski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder. For three years and more than a million dollars of insurance, the problem was “treated”—with makeup lessons and instructions in how to walk like a girl.   With a new epilogue by Scholinski, whose name is now Dylan and who identifies as nonbinary, this revised paperback edition of The Last Time I Wore a Dress looks back at those experiences and their life since. It chronicles the journey of coming into oneself and gaining a nuanced, freeing understanding of being born transgender. This memoir tells Dylan Scholinski’s remarkable story in an honest, unforgettable voice that’s both heartbreaking and hopeful. * This audiobook edition includes a donwloadable PDF with the Appendix, Resource List, and images from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agnes: A childhood betrayed and reclaimed Author: Judy King Narrator: Lisa Armytage Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia, the country of her birth, at the request of her aging, narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories encouraged into the light. Something has blighted her life since childhood. Something has cast a long shadow over her existence, affecting her ability to grasp at life fully, to develop sustained relationships and to appreciate her own sense of self-worth. In a leafy suburb of Sydney, a chance meeting in front of her early childhood home resurrects memories of a traumatic event. This represents the moment young Agnes starts to realise, and repress, feelings of confusion, cruelty and alienation from those who should love her the most. Agnes - A childhood betrayed and reclaimed is the revelatory, true account of one woman's determination to grapple with - and heal - the ills that have beset her past. As the missing pieces of the family puzzle gradually fall into place this brave woman's search for the truth is vindicated. Decades of mental health challenges, from amnesia to acquired dyslexia to self-limiting thoughts are ultimately overcome, and an irrepressible spirit released.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/828983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Seelenfänger von Capri: Von Menschen und Tieren Author: Klaus Witt Dr. Narrator: Karolin Pape Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tiere sind für ihn Brüder und Schwestern. Die Liebe zu ihnen, zu den Pflanzen und zu allem, was lebt, schließt immer Menschenliebe mit ein. Schon als Jugendlicher findet er in den Büchern von Axel Munthe seine Gedanken und Gefühle wieder. So entsteht die Sehnsucht nach Capri. Seine Approbation zum Tierarzt und das Todesurteil Krebs für seine Mutter treffen ihn fast zur gleichen Stunde und so ist es augenblicklich sein innigster Wunsch, der Mutter noch seine Lieblingsinsel zu zeigen. Kaum auf Capri angekommen, lernen sie den charismatischen 'Dottore', den Tierarzt der Insel kennen. Ein Seelenfänger. Das blaue Meer, die mediterrane Lebensart, fröhliche Feste, Freundschaft, Liebe, Eros - aber auch Krankheit, Abschied und Tod. Ein zutiefst anrührendes Buch über Menschen und Tiere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unfiltered: My Incredible Decade in Formula 1 Author: Guenther Steiner Narrator: Guenther Steiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Fasten your seatbelts as Formula 1's favourite underdog, Guenther Steiner, takes you on a wild ride through his ten years at Team Haas. From the first seeds of his idea to establish a new F1 team to the challenges of funding and building that team from the ground up, Guenther shares the real story of the origins of Team Haas, immerses readers in the high and lows of its first decade on the grid, and opens up about his departure from the team at the end of 2023. As Guenther recalls his proudest achievements and the many, many disasters he has faced, he takes readers behind the scenes, into the pit lanes and garages, and out on to the circuits of the world's greatest race tracks. We spend time with drivers, mechanics, executives, sponsors, commentators and fans, and take in many personal moments too, all the while grappling with the big challenges and small details that keep the wheels of a Formula 1 team turning. Told in his inimitable style, packed with hugely entertaining stories, outspoken opinions and unvarnished truths, this is Guenther at his very best – insightful, opinionated and completely unfiltered. © Guenther Steiner 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/797245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You Author: Miranda Hart Narrator: Miranda Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title! Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures. Treasures – practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) out there – that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery I never would have thought possible. Life now, amazingly, with what I will share is – SUCH FUN! (Always important to quote your own catch phrases…) If you fancy having a read, then I hope my story might help your story. After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious, challenging life together. Rest assured there are funny stories along the way – we will have a laugh too, my dear reader chum. Oh, and I couldn’t possibly say if there is a love story in it . . . (There is – shush.) Exciting! © Miranda Hart 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/785619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir Author: William Friedkin Narrator: William Friedkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ''[This book] captures the gut-wrenching shifts of a filmmaker’s life—the bizarre whipsaw from success to disaster.” —Variety An acclaimed memoir from William Friedkin, a maverick of American cinema and Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA. The Friedkin Connection takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical storytelling as fast-paced and intense as any of the auteur's films. In this book, William Friedkin, offers a candid look at a thrilling era of Hollywood cinema, when traditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative; when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdown.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power in Chaos: Overcoming Adversity with Courage and Hope Author: Nick Darland Narrator: Phil Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “You’ll be dead or in prison by the time you’re eighteen.” Born into a family of addicts and abusers, Nick Darland knows what it’s like to be stuck inside chaos. Physical and psychological trauma fill his childhood. He self-medicates with alcohol and adrenaline. No one—including him—thinks he will amount to anything. For years he is homeless, penniless, and often hopeless. Then, one memorable winter night, Nick the victim dies. Nick who holds his own power is born. Power in Chaos is the unlikely story of a boy who comes from nothing to become a self-made man—and the bright lights in his dark world that make it possible. Darland’s story is one of navigating life’s challenges with courage, perseverance, and grace. From overcoming obstacles to embracing change, Power in Chaos illustrates what can happen when you harness the chaos of life and emerge stronger, wiser, and more empowered than ever before.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Order of Things: A Memoir About Chasing Joy Author: Sarah Gormley Narrator: Nancy Benincasa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sometimes nothing is more unexpected than joy. What happens when a marketing executive leaves San Francisco to care for her dying mother on their family farm in Ohio? A Hallmark heroine would fall in love with her high school sweetheart during a snowstorm—but this is no Hallmark movie. Sarah Gormley spent most of her life trying to outrun the persistent self-loathing that plagued her from childhood, convinced that self-worth was something she had to earn by doing rather than being. When she returned to Salt Creek Farm at age forty-five, Gormley had no idea that detaching from the success she believed defined her, untangling the complicated relationship with her mother, and continuing the hard work of therapy would lead to a wildly transformed life. Told with exceptional candor and humor, The Order of Things is a story about how one woman learned to let go of the patterns of her past to create a future she never imagined.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So viel mehr - Meine Geschichte (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Max Mutzke, Kira Brückner Narrator: Max Mutzke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: So viel mehr als der ESC: Max Mutzke über Momente, die ihn geprägt haben Aufgewachsen in einem unkonventionellen, künstlerisch geprägten Haushalt, hat Max Mutzke schon früh viel fürs Leben gelernt. Als 'Bullerbü-Idyll' beschreibt er seine Kindheit und Jugend im Schwarzwald. Doch Max und seine fünf Geschwister blieben von Schicksalsschlägen nicht verschont. Die Flucht nach vorne, in die Selbstbestimmung und in die Kreativität, führte ihn 2004 ins Showbusiness. Dort stellt er bis heute, zwanzig Jahre später, eine absolute Ausnahme dar: charismatisch und sich selbst zu hundert Prozent treu geblieben. In seiner Autobiografie teilt Max Mutzke Geschichten aus seinem Leben und schreibt sehr persönlich über Themen wie Erziehung und Elternschaft, Werte, ADHS und den Umgang mit sozialen Medien. Ein zutiefst bewegendes und humorvolles Buch, das immer wieder zu der Einsicht kommt, dass wir alle wie kleine Lichter durch die Welt laufen müssen, um sie zu erhellen. Und das schaffen wir nur, indem wir authentisch bleiben - und somit wir selbst.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays Author: Steve Wasserman Narrator: Steve Wasserman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens. Born on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social critic of the first rank. In thirty splendid essays, originally published in such diverse publications as The New Republic and The Nation, The American Conservative and The Progressive, The Village Voice and The Economist, Wasserman delivers a riveting account of the awakening of an empathetic sensibility and a lively mind. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of his enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, and the tumults of a world in upheaval. These essays include the remarkable tale of a bookstore owner who wouldn't let him buy the books he wanted, to his brave against-the-grain take on the Black Panthers, to his shrewd assessment of the fast-changing world of publishing. Here is, as Joyce Carol Oates notes, 'arguably the very best concise history of Cuba and the legendary Fidel Castro; beautifully composed eulogies for two close friends, Susan Sontag and Christopher Hitchens; sharply perceptive commentary on Daniel Ellsberg; a thrillingly candid interview with W. G. Sebald.'