Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - ROMANCERO GITANO Author: Federico García Lorca Narrator: Margarita Xirgu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 14, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Publicado en 1928, El romancero gitano es una de las obras líricas más significativas del siglo XX. Escrita por célebre poeta Federico García Lorca, está compuesta dieciocho romances. Con temas como la noche, la muerte, el cielo y la luna, esta serie de poemas expresan la épica del mundo gitano y el ser andaluz, representando una síntesis de la poesía popular, con toques míticos y metafóricos. Definido por el mismo Lorca como 'el poema de Andalucía', estos poemas simbolizan la contradicción básica entre el amor y la muerte, transmitiendo con sensualidad, musicalidad y artesanía, el dolor, la fatalidad y la pena del alma popular. Así, en reconocidos poemas como 'Romance de la luna, luna', 'Reyerta' o 'Romance sonámbulo', Lorca funde con maestría el lenguaje narrativo, épico y lírico, logrando conmover a todo tipo de los lectores. - Federico García Lorca nació el 5 de junio de 1898 en Granada, España, ahí estudió Filosofía y Letras, Derecho y Música. Ya en Madrid, en la Residencia de Estudiantes, conoce a Dalí, Buñuel y a Alberti. En 1921 se publica su primer Libro de poemas, en 1928 Romancero Gitano; en 1935 Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías y su poema Tierra y Luna, póstumamente en 1934. Entre sus obras teatrales incluyen: Bodas de sangre, Yerma y La casa de Bernarda Alba, ésta última, considerada su máxima obra. Fue detenido por la Guardia Civil el 16 de agosto y fusilado tres días después en 1936.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Antología poética Author: Federico García Lorca Narrator: Rafael Alberti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Adéntrate en el mundo del poeta que marca los destinos de la poesía hispana desde hace un siglo. Deléitate con sus versos llenos de simbolismo, futurismo y lo surreal. Encontrarás que en el corazón de Lorca conviven la tradición popular y la culta y que sus versos están llenos de erotismo, belleza, y pasión, pero a la vez soledad, melancolía y muerte. - Federico García Lorca nació el 5 de junio de 1898 en Granada, España, ahí estudió Filosofía y Letras, Derecho y Música. Ya en Madrid, en la Residencia de Estudiantes, conoce a Dalí, Buñuel y a Alberti. En 1921 se publica su primer Libro de poemas, en 1928 Romancero Gitano; en 1935 Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías y su poema Tierra y Luna, póstumamente en 1934. Entre sus obras teatrales incluyen: Bodas de sangre, Yerma y La casa de Bernarda Alba, ésta última, considerada su máxima obra. Fue detenido por la Guardia Civil el 16 de agosto y fusilado tres días después en 1936.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion Series: Part of The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In this work, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology? How can we recognize it? Campbell explores these questions in the concluding essay, “The Way of Art,” in which he demonstrates that metaphor is the language of art and argues that within the psyches of today’s artists are the seeds of tomorrow’s mythologies. Campbell writes in his introduction: “My desire and great pleasure in the preparation of this little volume has been as rendering a return gift to the Graces for the transforming insights of these recent years, which...we have been testing out in a broadly shared spiritual adventure.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Her Fly: A Father’s Journey and the Fight for Equality Author: Ziauddin Yousafzai, Louise Carpenter Narrator: Adnan Kapadia, Ziauddin Yousafzai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 8, 2018 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Let Her Fly by Ziauddin Yousafzai, read by Adnan Kapadia and with an introduction read by the author. “Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is, I have often used the phrase. ‘Ask me not what I did but what I did not do. I did not clip her wings’” For over twenty years, Ziauddin Yousafzai has been fighting for equality – first for Malala, his daughter – and then for all girls throughout the world living in patriarchal societies. Taught as a young boy in Pakistan to believe that he was inherently better than his sisters, Ziauddin rebelled against inequality at a young age. And when he had a daughter himself he vowed that Malala would have an education, something usually only given to boys, and he founded a school that Malala could attend. Then in 2012, Malala was shot for standing up to the Taliban by continuing to go to her father's school, and Ziauddin almost lost the very person for whom his fight for equality began. Let Her Fly is Ziauddin’s journey from a stammering boy growing up in a tiny village high in the mountains of Pakistan, through to being an activist for equality and the father of the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and now one of the most influential and inspiring young women on the planet. Told through intimate portraits of each of Ziauddin’s closest relationships – as a son to a traditional father; as a father to Malala and her brothers, educated and growing up in the West; as a husband to a wife finally learning to read and write; as a brother to five sisters still living in the patriarchy – Let Her Fly looks at what it means to love, to have courage and fight for what is inherently right. Personal in its detail and universal in its themes, this landmark book shows why we must all keep fighting for the rights of girls and women everywhere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance Series: Part of The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the book he was working on when he died. Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in modern dance who worked with Martha Graham and had Merce Cunningham in her first company. When Campbell retired from teaching in 1972, he and Erdman formed the Theater of the Open Eye, where for nearly fifteen years they presented a wide array of dance and theater productions, lectures, and performance pieces. The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell’s previously uncollected articles on dance, along with “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the treatise that he was working on when he died, published here for the first time. In this new collection Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the twentieth century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others; and, as always, probes the idea of art as “the funnel through which spirit is poured into life.” This book offers the reader an accessible, yet profound and provocative, insight into Campbell’s lifelong fascination with the relationship of myth to aesthetic form and human psychology.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume I Series: #1 of The Masks of God Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Explore the power of myth as humanity first discovered it In this first volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the wellsprings of myth. From the earliest expressions of religious awe in cave paintings and sculptures to the rites and art of contemporary primal tribes, myth has informed humankind's understanding of the world, seen and unseen. Exploring these archetypal mythic images and practices, Campbell examines the basic concepts that underlie all human myth, even to this day. The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell’s masterworks. On completing it, he wrote: Its main result for me has been the confirmation of a thought I have long and faithfully entertained: of the unity of the race of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, in a grand fortissimo of all sections sounding together, irresistibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge. This edition is part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. Joseph Campbell Foundation has worked with scientists and academics to bring the anthropological information Campbell explores in line with the best twenty-first century scholarship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Speeches of Note: A celebration of the old, new and unspoken Author: Shaun Usher Narrator: Daniel O'Meara, Ursula le Guin, Maurice Williamson, Adora Svitak, Clifford Samuel, Amaka Okafor, Shirin Neshat, Edward Murrow, Carla Mendonca, Donovan Livingstone, Liz Kingsman, Paul Keating, Fiona Hampton, Ryan Ford Iosco, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Leo Burnett, Panti Bliss, Taj Atwal, Shenoa Allen, Mhari Black, Robert F Kennedy, Ako Mitchell, Justin Trudeau, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, Richard Cordery, Mitch Landrieu, Laura Aikman, Kirsty Besterman, Kieran Bew, Yeonmi Park, Kristin Atherton, Angus King, Louise Brealey, Dan Russell, Natalie Simpson, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Hughes, Nick Cave, Jackie Robinson, Roy McMillan, Elliot Cowan, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, Geraldine James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher, compèred by Richard Cordery, and with speeches read by a variety of narrators. SPEECHES OF NOTE: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes. From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throughout the ages. Discover speeches that altered the course of history, like NELSON MANDELA’s on the day he became South Africa’s first black President, and outpourings of much-needed change, such as the impassioned, impromptu appeal for women’s rights from SOJOURNER TRUTH, an African-American woman born into slavery. Expect the gloriously unexpected, as KERMIT THE FROG takes to the podium, and celebrate lives well-lived, including TILDA SWINTON’s tribute to ‘every alien’s favourite cousin’, DAVID BOWIE. While some speeches are heard by millions, some remain unspoken: the secret draft prepared for QUEEN ELIZABETH II during a military exercise for World War III, and PRESIDENT NIXON’s chilling public announcement should NEIL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN become stranded on the Moon. Surprising, inspiring and shocking; moving, comforting and enlightening. Read by Laura Aikman, Shenoa Allen, Kristin Atherton, Taj Atwal, Kirsty Besterman, Kieran Bew, Mhari Black, Panti Bliss, Louise Brealey, Leo Burnett, Nick Cave, Richard Cordery, Elliot Cowan, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Ryan Ford Iosco, Fiona Hampton, Richard Hughes, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, Geraldine James, Paul Keating, Robert F Kennedy, Angus King, Liz Kingsman, Mitch Landrieu, Ursula le Guin, Donovan Livingstone, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Roy McMillan, Carla Mendonca, Ako Mitchell, Edward Murrow, Shirin Neshat, Amaka Okafor, Daniel O'Meara, Yeonmi Park, Jackie Robinson, Nicholas Rowe, Dan Russell, Clifford Samuel, Natalie Simpson, Adora Svitak, Justin Trudeau, Elie Wiesel, Maurice Williamson, Laura Aikman, Shenoa Allen, Kristin Atherton, Taj Atwal, Kirsty Besterman, Kieran Bew, Mhari Black, Panti Bliss, Louise Brealey, Leo Burnett, Nick Cave, Richard Cordery, Elliot Cowan, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Ryan Ford Iosco, Fiona Hampton, Richard Hughes, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, Geraldine James, Paul Keating, Robert F Kennedy, Angus King, Liz Kingsman, Mitch Landrieu, Ursula le Guin, Donovan Livingstone, Nelson Mandela, Roy McMillan, Carla Mendonca, Ako Mitchell, EdwardMurrow, Shirin Neshat, Amaka Okafor, Daniel O'Meara, Yeonmi Park Source: Take Care of Your Artists, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, 2014

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth Series: Part of The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, edited and introduced by Arthurian scholar Evans Lansing Smith, PhD, the chair of Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged in the study of the Grail Quests and Arthurian legends of the European Middle Ages. In this new volume of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, editor Evans Lansing Smith collects Campbell’s writings and lectures on Arthurian legends, including his never-before-published master’s thesis on Arthurian myth, “A Study of the Dolorous Stroke.” Campbell’s writing captures the incredible stories of such figures as Merlin, Gawain, and Guinevere as well as the larger patterns and meanings revealed in these myths. Merlin’s death and Arthur receiving Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, for example, are not just vibrant stories but also central to the mythologist’s thinking. The Arthurian myths opened the world of comparative mythology to Campbell, turning his attention to the Near and Far Eastern roots of myth. Calling the Arthurian romances the world’s first “secular mythology,” Campbell found metaphors in them for human stages of growth, development, and psychology. The myths exemplify the kind of love Campbell called amor, in which individuals become more fully themselves through connection. Campbell’s infectious delight in his discoveries makes this volume essential for anyone intrigued by the stories we tell—and the stories behind them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332132 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work Series: Part of The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith, David De Vries, Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 7, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell and some of the people he inspired, including poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, filmmaker David Kennard, Doors drummer John Densmore, psychiatric pioneer Stanislov Grof, Nobel laureate Roger Guillemen, and others. Campbell reflects on subjects ranging from the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist, and the need for ritual to the ordeals of love and romance. With poetry and humor, Campbell recounts his own quest and conveys the excitement of his lifelong exploration of our mythic traditions, what he called “the one great story of mankind.” Cover photographs of Joseph Campbell © Joseph Campbell Foundation (jcf.org) and used with permission.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Immune Health Author: Daniel M. Davis Narrator: Jot Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 26, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Beautiful Cure by Daniel M Davis, read by Jot Davies. The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific quest to understand how it works – and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age and our state of mind – and explains how this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being. The body's ability to fight disease and heal itself is one of the great mysteries and marvels of nature. But within the last few years painstaking research has resulted in major advances in our understanding of this breathtakingly beautiful inner world: a vast and intricate network of specialist cells, regulatory proteins and dedicated genes that are continually protecting our bodies. Far more powerful than any medicine ever invented, it also plays a crucial role in our daily lives. Already we have found ways to harness these natural defences to create breakthrough drugs and so-called immunotherapies that help us fight cancer, diabetes, arthritis and many age-related diseases, and we are starting to understand whether or not activities such as mindfulness might play a role in enhancing our physical resilience. Written by an expert at the forefront of this adventure, The Beautiful Cure tells a dramatic story of detective work and discovery, of puzzles solved and of the mysteries that remain, of lives sacrificed and saved, introducing the reader to this revelatory new understanding of the human body and what it takes to be healthy. 'One of those books that makes you look at everything human in a new, challenging and thrilling way' Stephen Fry 'Brilliantly conveys the excitement of scientific discovery' Bill Bryson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332171 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation Series: Part of The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: Fred Stella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people’s religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment—or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world’s most powerful myths support the individual’s heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic best-selling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell’s popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology’s symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives. Campbell dwells on life’s important questions. Combining cross-cultural stories with the teachings of modern psychology, he examines the ways in which our myths shape and enrich our lives and shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder Author: Nancy Rommelmann Narrator: Nancy Rommelmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children? On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. Miraculously, his seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was saved. As the public cried out for blood, Amanda was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Embarking on a seven-year quest for the truth, Rommelmann traced the roots of Amanda’s fury and desperation through thousands of pages of records, withheld documents, meetings with lawyers and convicts, and interviews with friends and family who felt shocked, confused, and emotionally swindled by a woman whose entire life was now defined by an unspeakable crime. At the heart of that crime: a tempestuous marriage, a family on the fast track to self-destruction, and a myriad of secrets and lies as dark and turbulent as the Willamette River.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce Author: Joseph Campbell Narrator: Braden Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce’s Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in 1920), the novel left Campbell both intrigued and confused, as it had many others. Because he was in Paris, he was able to visit the Shakespeare & Company bookstore—the outpost of the original publisher of Ulysses, Sylvia Beach. She gave him “clues” for reading Ulysses, and that, Campbell attested, changed his career. For the next sixty years, Campbell moved through the labyrinths of Joyce’s creations—writing and lecturing on Joyce using depth psychology, comparative religion, anthropology, and art history as tools of analysis. Arranged by Joyce scholar Edmund L. Epstein, Mythic Worlds, Modern Words presents a wide range of Campbell’s writing and lectures on Joyce, which together form an illuminating running commentary on Joyce’s masterworks. Campbell’s visceral appreciation for all that was new in Joyce will delight the previously uninitiated, and perhaps intimidated, as well as longtime lovers of both Joyce and Campbell.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke Author: Andrew Lawler Narrator: David H. Lawrence XVII Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: *National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the New World. But when the colony's leader, John White, returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers were nowhere to be found. They left behind only a single clue--a 'secret token' carved into a tree. Neither White nor any other European laid eyes on the colonists again. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? For four hundred years, that question has consumed historians and amateur sleuths, leading only to dead ends and hoaxes. But after a chance encounter with a British archaeologist, journalist Andrew Lawler discovered that solid answers to the mystery were within reach. He set out to unravel the enigma of the lost settlers, accompanying competing researchers, each hoping to be the first to solve its riddle. In the course of his journey, Lawler encounters a host of characters obsessed with the colonists and their fate, and he determines why the Lost Colony continues to haunt our national consciousness. Thrilling and absorbing, The Secret Token offers a new understanding not just of the first English settlement in the New World but of how its disappearance continues to define--and divide--America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story Author: Pamela Druckerman Narrator: Pamela Druckerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BÉBÉ investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her 'Madame,' and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever.   Yet forty isn't even technically middle-aged anymore. And after a lifetime of being clueless, Druckerman can finally grasp the subtext of conversations, maintain (somewhat) healthy relationships and spot narcissists before they ruin her life. What are the modern forties, and what do we know once we reach them? What makes someone a 'grown-up' anyway? And why didn't anyone warn us that we'd get cellulite on our arms? Part frank memoir, part hilarious investigation of daily life, There Are No Grown-Ups diagnoses the in-between decade when...     • Everyone you meet looks a little bit familiar.     • You're matter-of-fact about chin hair.     • You can no longer wear anything ironically.     • There's at least one sport your doctor forbids you to play.     • You become impatient while scrolling down to your year of birth.     • Your parents have stopped trying to change you.     • You don't want to be with the cool people anymore; you want to be with your people.     • You realize that everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.     • You know that it's ok if you don't like jazz. Internationally best-selling author and New York Times contributor Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South Author: Issac J. Bailey Narrator: JD Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return from prison for thirty-two years. Bailey tells the story of their relationship and of his experience living in a family suffering from guilt and shame. Drawing on sociological research as well as his expertise as a journalist, he seeks to answer the crucial question of why Moochie and many other young black men—including half of the ten boys in his own family—end up in the criminal justice system. What role do poverty, race, and faith play? What effect does living in the South, in the Bible Belt, have? And why is their experience understood as an acceptable trope for black men, while white people who commit crimes are never seen in this generalized way? My Brother Moochie provides a wide-ranging yet intensely intimate view of crime and incarceration in the United States, and the devastating effects on the incarcerated, their loved ones, their victims, and society as a whole. It also offers hope for families caught in the incarceration trap: though the Bailey family’s lows have included prison and bearing the responsibility for multiple deaths, their highs have included Harvard University, the White House, and a renewed sense of pride and understanding that presents a path forward.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture Author: Ken Jennings Narrator: Ken Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes. Where once society’s most coveted trait might have been strength or intelligence or honor, today, in a clear sign of evolution sliding off the trails, it is being funny. Yes, funniness. Consider: Super Bowl commercials don’t try to sell you anymore; they try to make you laugh. Airline safety tutorials—those terrifying laminated cards about the possibilities of fire, explosion, depressurization, and drowning—have been replaced by joke-filled videos with multimillion-dollar budgets and dance routines. Thanks to social media, we now have a whole Twitterverse of amateur comedians riffing around the world at all hours of the day—and many of them even get popular enough online to go pro and take over TV. In his “smartly structured, soundly argued, and yes—pretty darn funny” (Booklist, starred review) Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means—or doesn’t—to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected President of the United States purely on showmanship. “Fascinating, entertaining and—I’m being dead serious here—important” (A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically), Planet Funny is a full taxonomy of what spawned and defines the modern sense of humor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands Author: Margaret Regan Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others   For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.   With a sweeping perspective and vivid on-the-ground reportage, Regan tells the stories of the people caught up in this international tragedy. Traveling back and forth across the border, she visits migrants stranded in Mexican shelters and rides shotgun with Border Patrol agents in Arizona, hiking with them for hours in the scorching desert; she camps out in the thorny wilderness with No More Deaths activists and meets with angry ranchers and vigilantes. Using Arizona as a microcosm, Regan explores a host of urgent issues: the border militarization that threatens the rights of U.S. citizens, the environmental damage wrought by the border wall, the desperation that compels migrants to come north, and the human tragedy of the unidentified dead in Arizona’s morgues.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret Author: Pamela Everett Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story. But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about losing two of his sisters. Her journey is uniquely personal as she uncovers her family's secret history, but the investigation quickly takes unexpected turns into her professional wheelhouse. Everett unearths a truly historic legal case that included one of the earliest criminal profiles in the United States, the genesis of modern sex offender laws, and the last man sentenced to hang in California. Digging deeper and drawing on her experience with wrongful convictions, Everett then raises detailed and haunting questions about whether the authorities got the right man. Having revived the case to its rightful place in history, she leaves us with enduring concerns about the death penalty then and now. A journey chronicled through the mind of a lawyer and from the heart of a daughter, Little Shoes is both a captivating true crime story and a profoundly personal account of one family's struggle to cope with tragedy through the generations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture Author: A. D. Jameson Narrator: A. D. Jameson, Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 22, 2018 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over. Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the Rings—properties that were once supposedly the domain of socially maladroit youth have become mainstream entertainment, enjoyed by enormous audiences and by more than a few film critics too. But there are those commentators who have decried the way in which serious adult cinema has seemingly vanished, with Hollywood dominated by mindless kiddie fare such as tent-pole-event movies, franchises, and endless remakes and reboots. As a lifelong geek, A. D. Jameson blasts through the clichés that have always surrounded pop-culture phenomena: that fans are mindless followers who will embrace all things Spider-Man, regardless of quality; or that the popularity and financial success of nerd cinema represents the death of ambitious film-making. Instead, he makes a case for why genre films are worthy of serious critical attention—and shares his thoughts on where their true flaws lie. Shining a new light on beloved classics, and exploding misconceptions as to their historical and intellectual value, I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing explores how the geek inherited the earth.