Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/815479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: IQ, EQ and DQ: Digital DNA in the AI Age Author: Yuhyun Park Narrator: Ellie Flory Fawcett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Do you know that 60% of children around the world have experienced at least one cyber-risk such as cyber-bullying, technology addiction, misinformation, online sexual exploitation, and others? The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the digitalization of global society. Cyber-risks among children, digital skill gaps and societal instability due to fake news and cyber-threats, are rapidly increasing and widening inequality. Amidst these challenges, how can we move forward to realize a better future?This book is about Park’s social impact journey to develop DQ (Digital Intelligence) as the global standard for digital literacy, digital skills, and digital readiness with the belief that ‘technology is only meaningful when it enhances humanness’. This book shares over a decade of her experiences and insights on the empowerment of individuals across more than 80 countries with digital citizenship, which constitutes the core life skills that are needed in the digital age to minimize cyber-risks and maximize human potential. The story invites all people to envision how DQ can help to reshape technology, education, and well-being in the digital age.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Bonjour Deutschland! Author: Martine Lestrat Narrator: Martine Lestrat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wenn eine Französin nach Deutschland zieht, kann nicht nur die Sprachbarriere eine Herausforderung darstellen. Martine Lestrat lebt inzwischen seit vier Jahrzehnten in Deutschland und kann über die sprachlichen und kulturellen Unterschiede einiges erzählen! In einem gemütlichen, humorvollen Plauderton berichtet sie von den Tücken der deutschen Sprache, Vorurteilen gegenüber Französinnen, dem Leben als Ausländerin in Deutschland und vielen, zum Teil sehr lustigen Begegnungen und Erlebnissen, die auch zum Nachdenken anregen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi's Daughter Author: Andrea van de Loo Narrator: Andrea van de Loo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born during WWII in the Netherlands, Andrea van de Loo experienced a traumatic childhood, with her father’s past as a member of the Nazi SS casting a long shadow over her life. Despite these challenges, she embarked on an inspirational journey toward healing and self-discovery. Her search for self took her across the globe, where she found solace, purpose, and community. Encompassing eighty years of the author’s life, The Pressing Stones guides readers through a deeply intimate and emotional journey, exploring family, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, motherhood, psychedelic therapy, addiction recovery, and the generational impacts of war. It also presents a personal portrait of life in Auroville, the “City of Dawn,” dedicated to the spiritual visions of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. This poignant portrayal of one woman’s courage and determination to follow her inner guidance, and overcome her childhood trauma, is a testament to the power of consciousness and the human spirit, inspiring readers to find their own paths toward healing and fulfillment. Andrea’s story illustrates how freedom, joy, peace of mind, and happiness are possible, as we face our deepest truths and emerge from our darkest tribulations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mom Like That: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis Author: Aaisha Alvi Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A brave and lyrical exploration of motherhood and mental health . . . as terrifying as it is riveting.' —Susannah Cahalan, NYT bestselling author of Brain on Fire Early motherhood is supposed to be joyous, but for Aaisha Alvi those early days were ruined by terrifying thoughts about her baby and family. Her experience was the antithesis of everything she had ever been told about motherhood, far beyond the trials of breastfeeding or putting her baby to sleep. Aaisha did recover and began to enjoy motherhood. She was thrilled when she fell pregnant again. Sadly, that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and the psychosis returned. This time, however, she was blindsided by the unimaginable: voices urged her to stab her daughter and to harm innocent people. Aaisha felt evil, worthy of taking her own life. But each time she sought medical help, she was turned away. With unflinching honesty, Aaisha takes listeners beyond the vitriol and blame that is flung at women suffering from postpartum psychosis—particularly women of color. Hers is a clarion call for increased awareness of a condition that need never result in tragedy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Long Drive: Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter Author: Bob Phillips Narrator: Bob Phillips Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2021, Texas Country Reporter celebrates its fiftieth season on the air. Broadcast every week on stations across Texas, it focuses on 'ordinary people doing extraordinary things.' And at the center of it is Bob Phillips, the show's creator and host—an erstwhile poor kid from Dallas who ended up with a job that allowed him to rub elbows with sports figures, entertainers, and politicians but who preferred to spend his time on the back roads, listening to less-famous Texans tell their stories. In this memoir, Phillips tells his own story, from his early days as a reporter and his initial pitch for the show while a student at SMU to his ongoing work at the longest-running independently produced television show in American television history. As we travel with Phillips on his journey, we meet Willie Nelson and former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry; reflect on memorable, unusual, and challenging show segments; experience the behind-the-scenes drama that goes on in local television; witness the launching of an annual festival; and discover the unbelievable allure of Texas, its culture, and, especially, its people. Spanning generations, A Good Long Drive is proof that life's journey really is a destination unto itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Penis Business: A Social Activist's Memoir Author: Georganne Chapin Narrator: Judy Kirkwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: CIRCUMCISION CUTS THROUGH US ALL. In her eye-opening memoir, Georganne Chapin exposes the business of medical circumcision. This unnecessary and most common pediatric surgery in the United States permanently reduces the size and alters the function of a boy’s penis for the rest of his life. Every year, nearly 1.5 million baby boys are assaulted in American hospitals and doctors’ offices, subjecting them to pain, functional and psychological damage, and a forever-altered sexual experience. Chapin traces circumcision’s U.S. roots from 19th Century fears of masturbation to stereotypes about race, class, religion, and male sexuality. She describes how what started as a way to keep men and women from enjoying sex morphed into a for-profit medical practice-one that is rare or unknown in Europe, non-Muslim Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Finally, she shows how physician organizations, especially the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), have worked for decades to fraudulently promote circumcision’s supposed benefits and suppress facts about circumcision harm and deaths, and how they refuse to acknowledge the procedure as a gross violation of basic medical ethics. Indeed, the AAP now characterizes male genital mutilation as a matter of “culture” and “parental preference”—a position that, conveniently, shields trade associations and their physician members from legal and financial liability. This book is a punch-in-the-gut wake-up call that will enrage and empower anyone impacted by the multi-billion-dollar penis business.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line Author: Lindsey Hilsum Narrator: Mikhail Sen, Nadia Albina, Lindsey Hilsum Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo to Palestine, Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. In Ukraine, she tweeted a poem a day, and people began to read, to share, to ask for more. Here, Lindsey collects her favourite poems from ancient times to modern, by writers from all around the world. Alongside each, she recalls a memory from her own work, whether interviewing the warlords of Bosnia, meeting child soldiers in Uganda or giving testimony in Rwanda. Her prose reveals comic absurdity and astonishing courage, meaning and its absence, unexpected moments of love and the untold consequences that come long after most cameras disperse. She explores the pity of war – and its fatal attraction. 'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTION 'Profound, revelatory, distressing and timely' CAROL ANN DUFFY 'Fantastic, beguiling and movingly profound' WILLIAM BOYD 'Brings us darkness and light in the most moving, magical way' CHRISTINA LAMB © Lindsey Hilsum 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/801286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some of Our Parts: Why we are more than the labels we live by Author: Laura Kennedy Narrator: Laura Kennedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Wise, thoughtful and provocative ... An important book for our times' - Róisín Ingle 'Laura is an acute, intelligent and accurate observer and this book successfully combines psychology, philosophy and modern thinking in a fresh and vibrant way' - Brian O'Connell, journalist 'I have worn a lot of labels, by choice and otherwise. Here, I consider the ones I've picked up, rejected, lost, had stuck to my back like a 'kick me' poster in the schoolyard at lunch time, worn for a while and lost connection to. In its way, each one makes a discrete claim on who I am, as the labels you bear do for you. Each one is a means of translating who we are to the world and, when seen as the most important or truest element of who we are, shrinking and flattening us. Each one is part of our story, nothing more.' A thought-provoking exploration of identity, Some of Our Parts casts a philosophical eye over the labels that shape our lives, considering how they can both help us to communicate our values and how they have the potential to trap us. A memoir explored through a life in labels inherited, accrued and cast off, Some of Our Parts considers the power in reclaiming our own story and challenges readers to question how we define ourselves in a world that is so ready to decide for us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich beginne wieder von vorn - Tagebücher 2000-2001 (ungekürzt) Author: Manfred Krug Narrator: Daniel Krug Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Goldene Kamera, Goldene Schallplatte - Goldener Herbst Ein neues Jahrtausend bricht an, und ein für alle Mal will Manfred Krug das für ihn so erfolgreiche Schauspiel-Kapitel schließen. Am 11. November 2000 fällt die letzte Klappe beim Tatort - bye-bye, Hamburg! Voller Elan tritt Krug seine zweite Gesangskarriere an. Drei Platten erscheinen, darunter 'Schlafstörung', die er für seine beste hält. Quer durch Deutschland geht er auf musikalische Lesereise und besucht Städte, die er von früher kennt. Emotionale Erinnerungen, gravierende Veränderungen. Mit der Jazz-Legende Uschi Brüning gibt es ein Wiedersehen und bald schon die ersten Misstöne. Krug holt Tochter Fanny auf die Bühne. Aufritt bei 'Wetten, dass ...' und zum 66. Geburtstag von Udo Jürgens, Einladung zur Tour de France, um das Team Telekom am Straßenrand zu beklatschen. Goldene Kamera, Goldene Schallplatte - Goldener Herbst. Und doch: die Gesundheit, die vielen Kilos auf den Rippen, die nachlassenden Kräfte. Und die Weltlage verändert sich: Spendenaffäre, russische Kursk-Katastrophe, dann der Paukenschlag: Am 11. September 2001 fliegen zwei Flugzeuge in die Türme des World Trade Centers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/799342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton Narrator: Hillary Rodham Clinton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF 2024 What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy. From canoeing with an ex-Nazi trying to deprogram white supremacists to sweltering with salt farmers in the desert trying to adapt to the climate crisis in India, Hillary brings us to the front lines of our biggest challenges. For the first time, Hillary shares the story of her operation to evacuate Afghan women to safety in the harrowing final days of America’s longest war. But we also meet the brave women dissidents defying dictators around the world, gain new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin, and learn the best ways that worried parents can protect kids from toxic technology. We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, Something Lost, Something Gained is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better. Hillary has “looked at life from both sides now.” In these pages, she shares the latest chapter of her inspiring life and shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward, with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humour.