Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Author: Robert K. Massie Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 15 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs “[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—Newsweek ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Salon, Vogue, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Providence Journal Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution. Catherine’s family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemies—all are here, vividly brought to life. History offers few stories richer than that of Catherine the Great. In this book, an eternally fascinating woman is returned to life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 23, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his “Final (and Right) Plan” for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to “talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment”—meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for one hundred years meant that when they came out, he would be “dead, and unaware, and indifferent,” and that he was therefore free to speak his “whole frank mind.” The year 2010 marked the one hundredth anniversary of Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone, here, for the first time, is Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography, in its entirety, exactly as he left it. This major literary event offers the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain’s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave, as he intended.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Early Life: A Roving Commission Author: Sir Winston Churchill Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As a visionary, statesman, historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.This is the story of the first thirty years of his life, up to the point where his unique parliamentary career was just beginning. From childhood and his apprentice days at Harrow and Sandhurst we follow him on active service to Cuba, the northwest frontier, Omdurman and the Boer War—including the historic story of his escape from captivity—whilst in the background are his early adventures in politics and literature. 'I have tried, in each part of the quarter-century in which this tale lies, to show the point of view appropriate to my years, whether as a child, a schoolboy, a cadet, a subaltern, a war-correspondent or a youthful politician…When I survey this work as a whole I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age.'—from the author's preface My Early Lifegives listeners insights into the shaping of a great leader.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Education of Henry Adams Author: Henry Adams Narrator: Wolfram Kandinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 12, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he 'revealed a phase of American history with unparalleled boldness and truth.' In spite of his illustrious background and Harvard schooling, Henry Adams asserts that his conventional education was defective because it did not prepare him to live in a world transformed by the new science and the new technology. His intention was to write a kind of handbook to prepare 'young men, in universities and elsewhere, to be men of the world, equipped for any emergency.' The result is what many consider to be one of the finest autobiographies ever written.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in the Family, Doctor Included: Inspirational Stories from the Heart of a Pediatrician Author: Vladimir A. Tsesis Narrator: Pat Bottino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice. Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the dramatic predicaments facing modern society. Both humorous and serious, it is dedicated to the contemporary American family in search of purpose and meaning in the modern world.