Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Author: Danyel Smith Narrator: Danyel Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano) “Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”—Oprah Daily ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers Weekly SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor (Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host (Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo.  Smith’s detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley.  Shine Bright is an overdue paean to musical masters whose true stories and genius have been hidden in plain sight—and the book Danyel Smith was born to write.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash Author: Michael Stewart Foley Narrator: Greg Littlefield, Michael Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his time Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” But he was also the most prominent political artist in the United States, even if he wasn’t recognized for it in his own lifetime, or since his death in 2003. Then and now, people have misread Cash’s politics, usually accepting the idea of him as a “walking contradiction.” Cash didn’t fit into easy political categories—liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, hawk or dove. Like most people, Cash’s politics were remarkably consistent in that they were based not on ideology or scripts but on empathy—emotion, instinct, and identification. Drawing on untapped archives and new research on social movements and grassroots activism, Citizen Cash offers a major reassessment of a legendary figure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made In Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's Author: Gina Schock Narrator: Lyssa Brown, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, Charles Leggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Go-Go’s were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photographs and memorabilia collected over the course of her 40-year career. The Go-Go’s debut album, Beauty and the Beat, rose to the top of the charts in 1981 and their hit songs "We Got the Beat", "Our Lips Are Sealed", “Vacation”, and "Head Over Heels" (to name a few) served as a soundtrack to our lives in the ‘80s. Now, after the release of their Critics Choice Award-winning Showtime documentary, and in anticipation of their forthcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and their 2021 West Coast shows, Gina takes fans behind the scenes for a rare look at her personal images documenting the band's wild journey to the heights of fame and stardom. Featuring posters, photographs, Polaroids, and other memorabilia from her archives, Made In Hollywood also includes stories from each member of the Go-Go’s, along with other cultural luminaries like Kate Pierson, Jodie Foster, Dave Stewart, Martha Quinn, and Paul Reubens. With a style as bold and distinctive as any Go-Go’s album, Made In Hollywood is the perfect tribute to one of the world's most iconic groups.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World Author: Wil Haygood Narrator: Cary Hite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • BOOKLISTS' EDITOR'S CHOICE • ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “At once a film book, a history book, and a civil rights book.… Without a doubt, not only the very best film book [but] also one of the best books of the year in any genre. An absolutely essential read.” —Shondaland This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies—from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther—using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America. From the acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown. Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation—which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster—Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes.   He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. J. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselves—including Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, Porgy and Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the seventies, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Willliams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others.   An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era Author: Laurence Leamer Narrator: Carrington Macduffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS—THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK—NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU! New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his 'swans.' “There are certain women,” Truman Capote wrote, “who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.” Barbara “Babe” Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy’s sister)—they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and startling way possible. Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer’s block. While en­joying all the fruits of his success, he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel…one based on the re­markable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends. For years, Capote attempted to write An­swered Prayers, what he believed would have been his magnum opus. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest fe­male confidantes were laid bare for all to see, and he was banished from their high-society world forever. Laurence Leamer re-creates the lives of these fascinating swans, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502042 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen Author: Allison Moorer Narrator: Allison Moorer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From a Grammy-nominated musician comes a lyrical testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, who has nonverbal autism. When Allison’s son, John Henry, stopped using his growing vocabulary just before his second birthday, she knew in her bones that something was shifting. In the years since his autism diagnosis, Allison and John Henry have embarked on an intense journey filled with the adventure, joy, heartbreak, confusion, and powerful love lessons that are the hallmarks of a quest for understanding. In I Dream He Talks to Me, Allison details the meltdowns and the moments of grace, and how the mundane expectations of a parent turn into extraordinary achievements. The saying goes, “If you know one person with autism, you know one person with autism”; no two stories are alike, and yet there are universal truths that apply to all parent-child relationships. With gorgeous prose, Allison shares her and John Henry’s experience while also creating a riveting narrative that will speak to anyone who parents—and who has questioned their own ability to do so. An exploration of resilience and compassion—both for ourselves and for others—I Dream He Talks to Me is also a moving meditation on our place in the world and how we get there; what words mean, what they don’t; and, ultimately, how we truly express ourselves and truly know those whom we love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Known and Strange Things: Essays Author: Teju Cole Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 12, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today’s most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter; the African American photographer Roy DeCarava, who, forced to shoot with film calibrated exclusively for white skin tones, found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects; and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex, the system by which African nations are sentimentally aided by an America “developed on pillage.” Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole’s wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities, and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames. Praise for Known and Strange Things “On every level of engagement and critique, Known and Strange Things is an essential and scintillating journey.”—Claudia Rankine, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “A heady mix of wit, nostalgia, pathos, and a genuine desire to untangle the world, or at the least, to bask in its unending riddles.”—The Atlantic “Brilliant . . . [Known and Strange Things] reveals Cole’s extraordinary talent and his capacious mind.”—Time “[Known and Strange Things] showcases the magnificent breadth of subjects [Cole] is able to plumb with . . . passion and eloquence.”—Harper’s Bazaar “[Cole is] one of the most vibrant voices in contemporary writing.”—LA Times “Cole has fulfilled the dazzling promise of his novels Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City. He ranges over his interests with voracious keenness, laser-sharp prose, an open heart and a clear eye.”—The Guardian “Remarkably probing essays . . . Cole is one of only a very few lavishing his focused attention on that most approachable (and perhaps therefore most overlooked) art form, photography.”—Chicago Tribune “There’s almost no subject Cole can’t come at from a startling angle. . . . His [is a] prickly, eclectic, roaming mind.”—The Boston Globe “[Cole] brings a subtle, layered perspective to all he encounters.”—Vanity Fair “In page after page, Cole upholds the sterling virtue of good writing combined with emotional and intellectual engagement.”—The New Statesman “[Known and Strange Things possesses] a passion for justice, a deep sympathy for the poor and the powerless around the world, and a fiery moral outrage.”—Poets and Writers

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres Author: Kelefa Sanneh Narrator: Kelefa Sanneh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble.   Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t transcendent. Songs express our grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498541 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odd Boy Out: The ‘hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable’ Sunday Times bestseller 2021 Author: Gyles Brandreth Narrator: Gyles Brandreth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The long-awaited autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox. There are few people Gyles Brandreth doesn't know or hasn't met - from the Queen to the Sex Pistols, Mandela and Marlene Dietrich to TS Eliot, he's the celebrities' celebrity, as familiar and welcome to us on radio and screens as biscuits are to a cup of tea. Now a grandparent, looking back on his remarkable life, he traces his steps back to being a three-year-old tearing around 1950s London on his tricycle, to boarding school where he had an appendix removed simply to get out of football, to Bedales, where he met Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (and became intimate with a matron), to balancing his growing love of theatre with his love for educating, the 'woolly jumper years', the stint as an MP, the years of close friendship with the Queen, to becoming a septuagenarian Twitter star and stalwart fixture in British entertainment. Throughout it all, there are lessons to be learned as Gyles derives wisdom and wit from his extraordinary encounters. Full of stories and full of heart, this is Gyles as you don't yet know him. © Gyles Brandreth 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin Author: C. M. Kushins Narrator: Chris Abell, Matthew Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A compelling narrative biography of the legendary drummer John Bonham, his wild ride with iconic rock band Led Zeppelin, and the highs and lows that made up his wild (and tragically short) life.   John Bonham is considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers of all time. He was recruited to join the band who would eventually become known as Led Zeppelin–and before the year was out, Bonham and his bandmates would become the richest rock band in the world.   Throughout the 1970s, Led Zeppelin reached new heights of commercial and critical success, making them one of the most influential groups of the era, both in musical style and in their approach towards the workings of the entertainment industry. In September of 1980, Bonham–plagued by alcoholism, anxiety, and the after-effects of years of excess–was found dead by his bandmates.   As Adam Budofsky, managing editor of Modern Drummer, explains, "If the king of rock 'n' roll was Elvis Presley, then the king of rock drumming was certainly John Bonham."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Deserve Better: What Life Has Taught Me About Love, Relationships, and Becoming Your Best Self Author: Tyler Cameron Narrator: Tyler Cameron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: **The Instant National Bestseller**  From the Bachelorette breakout heartthrob, You Deserve Better combines Tyler Cameron's life story with a guide for both men and women to building healthy relationships in the tricky world of modern dating, proving why he's the male feminist we never knew we needed. Tyler Cameron impressed fans on The Bachelorette with his ability to discuss difficult topics with a level of emotional intelligence perhaps never seen on reality television. Things like consent and boundaries, respect for women and their decisions, the roots of toxic masculinity in insecurity, and more, he espoused with confidence and genuineness. Tyler seems like a unicorn. He got the world's attention simply by demonstrating a full grasp of respect and no fear of vulnerability and honesty. But shouldn't this be the norm? In this book, Tyler shows that every person deserves a partner who understands and values them, with advice on how to seek out someone like this and how to behave like this for your own someone. Part memoir, part how-to guide for anyone lost in the world of modern dating, and interspersed with practical tips on how to find and foster a meaningful relationship, You Deserve Better shows readers how Tyler C. became Tyler C., the story his fans are dying to know.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics Author: Jim Morrison Narrator: Oliver Ray, Ian Morrison, Sefton Graham, Anne Morrison Chewning, Frank Lisciandro, Jim Morrison, Liz Phair, Patti Smith, Tom Robbins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Performed by Jim Morrison, Patti Smith, Liz Phair, Oliver Ray, Tom Robbins, Frank Lisciandro, Anne Morrison Chewning, Sefton Graham, and Ian Morrison. Includes Jim Morrison’s final poetry recording, now available for the first time, at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles on his 27th birthday, December 8, 1970. The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks. Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison’s estate and inspired by a posthumously discovered list entitled “Plan for Book,” The Collected Works of Jim Morrison is an almost 600-page anthology of the writings of the late poet and iconic Doors’ front man. This landmark publication is the definitive opus of Morrison’s creative output—and the book he intended to publish. Throughout, a compelling mix of 160 visual components accompanies the text: excerpts from his 28 privately held notebooks—all written in his own hand and published here for the first time—as well as an array of personal images and commentary on the work by Morrison himself.   This oversized, beautifully produced collectible volume contains a wealth of new material—poetry, writings, lyrics, and audio transcripts of Morrison reading his work. Not only the most comprehensive book of Morrison’s work ever published, it is immersive, giving readers insight to the creative process of and offering access to the musings and observations of an artist whom the poet Michael McClure called “one of the finest, clearest spirits of our times.”   This remarkable collector’s item includes:  Foreword by Tom Robbins; introduction and notes by editor Frank Lisciandro that provide insight to the work; prologue by Anne Morrison Chewning Published and unpublished work and a vast selection of notebook writings  The transcript, the only photographs in existence, and production notes of Morrison’s last poetry recording on his twenty-seventh birthday  The Paris notebook, possibly Morrison’s final journal, reproduced at full reading size Excerpts from notebooks kept during his 1970 Miami trial The shooting script and gorgeous color stills from the never-released film HWY Complete published and unpublished song lyrics accompanied by numerous drafts in Morrison’s hand Epilogue: “As I Look Back”: a compelling autobiography in poem form  Family photographs as well as images of Morrison during his years as a performer Hear Jim Morrison’s final poetry recording, now available for the first time, on CD or digital audio book, at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles on his twenty-seventh birthday, December 8, 1970. The digital audio book also includes performances by Patti Smith, Oliver Ray, Liz Phair, Tom Robbins, and others reading Morrison’s work.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cack-Handed: A Memoir Author: Gina Yashere Narrator: Gina Yashere Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her grandmother Patience. The powerful first wife of a wealthy businessman, Patience was poisoned by her jealous sister-wives and marked with a spot on her neck. From birth, Gina carried a similar birthmark—a sign that she was her grandmother’s chosen heir, and would fulfill Patience’s dreams. Gina would learn to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man’s job, and travel the world with a free spirit. Is she the reincarnation of her grandmother? Maybe. Gina isn’t ruling anything out. In Cack-Handed, she recalls her intergenerational journey to success foretold by her grandmother and fulfilled thousands of miles from home. This hilarious memoir tells the story of how from growing up as a child of Nigerian immigrants in working class London, running from skinheads, and her overprotective Mom, Gina went on to become the first female engineer with the UK branch of Otis, the largest elevator company in the world, where she went through a baptism of fire from her racist and sexist co-workers. Not believing her life was difficult enough, she later left engineering to become a stand up comic, appearing on numerous television shows and becoming one of the top comedians in the UK, before giving it all up to move to the US, a dream she’d had since she was six years old, watching American kids on television, riding cool bicycles, and solving crimes. A collection of eccentric, addictive, and uproarious stories that combine family, race, gender, class, and country, Cack-Handed reveals how Gina’s unconventional upbringing became the foundation of her successful career as an international comedian.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498004 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Further Author: Paul Myers, S. W. Lauden Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the '70s and '80s to its resurgence in the '90s and '00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. In Go Further, editors Paul Myers and S. W. Lauden have a whole new crop of writers going deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Whether they love or hate it, Go Further is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades. Featuring: Ira Robbins on Priming The Power Pop Pump; Alex Segura on the Ramones & the Archies; Mary E. Donnelly on Shoes; Pat DiPuccio on Greg Shaw & Bomp Records; John Borack on the Shivvers; Dave Hill on Glitter And Glue; Will Birch on the Records; S. W. Lauden on 20/20; Jordan Oakes on Power Pop's first fanzine, Yellow Pills; Brian Vander Ark on Andy Partridge/XTC; Anne K. Ream & R. Clifton Spargo on Teenage Fanclub; Chip Jacobs on Squeeze; Bill DeMain's Greetings From Pop Music City, USA; Thierry Côté on Pag; Doug Brod on Into The Arena; Jim Lindberg on the Replacements; Balin Schneider on The Material Issue story; Mike Randle on Baby Lemonade & Love; Butch Walker on Marvelous 3; Andrea Warner on Puffy AmiYumi; Paul Myers on Los Anglophiles; and Rex Broome's Ode on a Rickenbacker.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen Author: Robert McKee Narrator: Robert McKee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction.    Following up his perennially bestselling writers' guide Story and his inspiring exploration of the art of verbal action in Dialogue, the most sought-after expert in the storytelling brings his insights to the creation of compelling characters and the design of their casts.   CHARACTER explores the design of a character universe: The dimensionality, complexity and arcing of a protagonist, the invention of orbiting major characters, all encircled by a cast of service and supporting roles.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives Author: Brian Moylan Narrator: Brian Moylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From Brian Moylan, the writer of Vulture’s legendary Real Housewives recaps, a table-flipping, finger-pointing, halter-topping VIP journey through reality TV’s greatest saga… In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled; their homes were echoey California villas; and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution, along with The Real Housewives of New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Miami, Potomac, and more. Over the years these ladies have done a lot more than lunch, launching thirty-one books, a cocktail line, two jail sentences, a couple supermodel daughters, Andy Cohen’s talk show career, thirty-six divorces, fourteen albums, a White House party crash, and approximately one million memes. Brian Moylan has been there through it all, in front of the screen and behind the scenes. The writer of Vulture’s beloved series recaps, he’s here to tell us the full story, from the inside scoop on every classic throwdown to the questions we’ve always wanted to know, like—what are the housewives really like off-camera? (The same.) How much money do they make? (Lots.) He has a lot to say about the legacy and fandom of a franchise that’s near and dear to his heart, and inextricable from pop culture today. A must-have for any fan of real drama and fake [redacted], The Housewives is the definitive companion to an American TV treasure. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books 'In THE HOUSEWIVES, entertainment journalist and self-proclaimed Real Housewives anthropologist Moylan provides a complete history of the franchise, which thanks to interviews both on and off the record with members of the production team as well as current and former housewives is both painstakingly thorough and incredibly juicy...In the words of former Housewife Bethenny Frankel, Moylan truly “mentions it all.” -- Booklist, starred review

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leave Me Alone Author: Christian Hull Narrator: Christian Hull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Christian Hull is a hardcore introvert. He loves being a little bit famous for his videos, but at the end of the day, he's a lone wolf - more interested in Caramilk on the couch than cocktails in the club. He's a strong believer in Netflix and chilling at home, alone; he's always the first to smokebomb social events, and he is in a committed relationship with his indoor plants. Christian tells his behind-the-scenes story with his signature, completely unapologetic honesty, from growing up with triplet brothers to building a career in comedy; from his fear of moths to some of his more daring Grindr sexcapades. He invites you into his personal creative universe, where wearing a wig to make random videos and screaming swearwords at resin pendants somehow turn out to be great decisions. Leave Me Alone is a story about breaking the mould and embracing exactly who you are, even if that means telling people to leave you the f**k alone. “I loved it! Seriously funny.” TANYA HENNESSY “I only enjoyed the parts I was in…skip to Chapter 8!” EMMYLOU MACCARTHY

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rompe tu círculo: Porque tú eres el autor de tu destino Author: Raúl Molinar Narrator: Raúl Molinar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 25, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: CON PRÓLOGO DE LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE A través de las ondas radiales Raúl Molinar #El Bueno#, del popular show matutino #El Bueno La Mala y El Feo# ha podido formar parte de la vida de sus oyentes. #Cada día me levanto con el ánimo y la disposición de colaborar de alguna forma para que esta vida sea un poquito más llevadera. Pero sentía que faltaba algo, que todavía podía hacer más# Y ése es el objetivo de este libro#. A través de las páginas de Rompe tu círculo el lector descubrirá anécdotas de la vida de #El Bueno#, así como algunos de los métodos que ha utilizado para alcanzar su objetivo, desde la pareja ideal, hasta la estabilidad económica. El autor revela cómo, gracias a una aventura prohibida, encontró al amor de su vida. Habla sin tapujos de los malabares que tuvo que hacer antes de convertirse en locutor# y de seguir adelante con su sueño. #Seguramente te vas a identificar con algunas historias, te reirás con otras y en ciertos casos, puede que te sorprendas descubriendo mis flaquezas. Pues soy como tú, con mis luces y mis sombras#, confiesa. Raúl ha vivido momentos de gloria y otros que han sido un verdadero calvario. Ha tenido aciertos y ha cometido muchos errores. Pero la gran lección que comparte es que siempre hay luz al final del túnel. Siempre hay una nueva oportunidad para romper esos círculos que nos hacen daño, que envenenan el alma y nos impiden ser feliz. En Rompe tu círculo Raúl te invita a que cambies las excusas y tragedias del pasado por la esperanza en el futuro. #Espero que estas líneas te sirvan de compañía para esas noches más oscuras y esos días grises. Te den la motivación para ir por tus sueños, por más locos que parezcan #dice el autor#. Espero que este libro te sirva de inspiración al darte cuenta de que, si un morrito de Chihuahua pudo hacerla, ¡pos, tú también puedes! La llave maestra del éxito la tienes en tus manos. Acuérdate que a cada puerco le llega su Navidad#.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music Author: Ted Gioia Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The definitive account of how the rough sounds of the Mississippi Delta changed the course of American popular music. The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia—the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz—brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others. Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the nineteenth century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, Delta Blues tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music. No cultural force boasts such humble origins or such world-conquering reverberations. In this evocative rags-to-riches tale, Gioia shows how the sounds of the Delta altered the course of popular music in America and in the world beyond.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Performer's Tale: The Nine Lives of Patience Collier Author: Vanessa Morton Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Though Patience Collier's name has faded from public consciousness since her death in 1987, it still conjures cool memories of iconic television and film from the 1970s and 1980s – Sapphire and Steel, Who Pays the Ferryman, Fiddler on the Roof and The French Lieutenant's Woman. Fearsome, eccentric and unpredictable, Patience Collier was an actress whose perfectionism shone through in her every performance. and who worked alongside many of the most celebrated actors and directors of her time. Drawing on material from Collier's extensive archive of diaries, letters and photographs as well as interviews with many of those who worked with her (including Joanna Lumley, Zoë Wanamaker and Timothy West), The Performer's Tale paints an involving portrait of a gifted and eccentric woman weaving her way through the twentieth century, mixing with artists, leftists, and numerous figures from world of entertainment. But Vanessa Morton also offers a panoramic overview of theatre, film, TV and radio in Britain over half a century. Part social history, part cultural history, The Performer's Tale is a richly entertaining account of an actor's life and times. 2021 Head of Zeus