Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays Author: Pedro Lemebel Narrator: Gwendolyn Harper, Vico Ortiz, Idra Novey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classic “I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Updated) Author: Edwidge Danticat Narrator: Edwidge Danticat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers. Now an adult, she resolves to return and exorcise her Carnival demons. She spends the week before Carnival in the area around Jacmel, exploring the rolling hills and lush forests and meeting the people who live and die in them. During her journeys she traces the heroic and tragic history of the island, from French colonists and Haitian revolutionaries to American invaders and home-grown dictators. Danticat also introduces us to many of the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the Carnival festivities to life. When Carnival arrives, we watch as she goes from observer to participant and finally loses herself in the overwhelming embrace of the crowd. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a lyrical narrative of a writer rediscovering her country along with a part of herself. It’s also a wonderful introduction to Haiti’s southern coast and to the true beauty of Carnival.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas Author: Gill Sims Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: ‘I romped through ‘Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas’, and I absolutely adored it’ – Jilly Cooper Tis’ the season to get trollied! Mummy has always loved Christmas. Sure, the kids turn into demons, the dinner gets burnt to a crisp and Aunt Louisa’s general staggering inappropriateness sends Mummy reaching for the nearest maximum-strength festive tipple, but nevertheless, for her, Christmas is always special. This year, she wants nothing more than to perfectly fig up the pudding and sit by the fire reading aloud from A Christmas Carol to a rapt, rosy-cheeked audience. But, just like all Mummy’s best-laid plans, this year’s Festive Vision is in danger of being totally derailed by her chaotic family. There’s not much chance of any action under the mistletoe, and the kids are just not playing ball. Can Mummy find her silver lining after all and bring the whole family together for one moment of harmony, so they can finally proclaim ‘Verily You Are the Queen of Christmas’? Or should she get stuck into the festive spirits and just let it all go?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Food Writing 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Silvia Killingsworth, Mark Bittman Narrator: Elyse Dinh, Justin Chien, Carolina Hoyos, Johnny Rey Diaz, Terrence Kidd, Chanté Mccormick, Nikki Massoud, Will Tulin, Dylan Moore, Anthony Rey Perez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: ''Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food’s sensory pleasures to investigate it as a cultural vessel, a symbol of inequality, and more. It’s a standout addition to the series.'' —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman. ''In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing,” writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. “Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing.” The stories in this year’s Best American Food Writing are brilliant, eye-opening windows into the heart of our country’s culture. From the link between salt and sex, to Syrian refugees transforming ancient Turkish food traditions, to the FDA’s crusade on alternative non-dairy milk options, to Black farmers in Arkansas seeking justice, the scope of these essays spans nearly every aspect of our society. This anthology offers an entertaining and poignant look at how food shapes our lives and how food writing shapes our culture.  THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2023 INCLUDES JAYA SAXENA • LIGAYA MISHAN • MARION NESTLE TOM PHILPOTT • WESLEY BROWN • ALICIA KENNEDY CAROLINE HATCHETT • AMY LOEFFLER and others

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Carl Zimmer, Jaime Green Narrator: Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz, Katharine Chin, Jeena Yi, Nikki Massoud, Shahjehan Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.  “What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer’s disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal how science and nature shape our everyday lives. With tremendous intelligence, clarity, and insight, this anthology offers an expansive look at where we are and where we are headed. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 includes JESSICA CAMILLE AGUIRRE • VANESSA GREGORY • SABRINA IMBLER FERRIS JABR • MARION RENAULT • ELIZABETH SVOBODA NATALIE WOLCHOVER • SARAH ZHANG and others

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Essays 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan Narrator: Pun Pandhu, Elyse Dinh, Elena Rey, Isabella Star Lablanc, Katharine Chin, Will Tulin, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Ewan Chung, Marie Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship movements, the twenty-one essays collected here reflect their authors’ unapologetic observations of the world around them. From an inmate struggling to find purpose during his prison sentence to a doctor coping with the unpredictable nature of her patient, to a widow wishing for just a little more time with her late husband, these narratives—and the others featured in this anthology—celebrate the endurance of the human spirit. The Best American Essays 2023 includes Ciara Alfaro • Jillian Barnet • Sylvie Baumgartel • Eric Borsuk • Chris Dennis • Xujun Eberlein • Sandra Hager Eliason • George Estreich • Merrill Joan Gerber • Debra Gwartney • Edward Hoagland • Laura Kipnis • Phillip Lopate • Celeste Marcus • Sam Meekings • Sigrid Nunez • Kathryn Schulz • Anthony Siegel • Scott Spencer • Angelique Stevens • David Treuer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Short Stories 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor Narrator: Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Mirai, Elena Rey, Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz, Katharine Chin, Micky Shiloah, Jeena Yi, Nikki Massoud, Will Tulin, Dylan Moore, Pascale Armand, Laura Copland, Korey Jackson, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home. Enlightening, poignant, and undeniably human, the stories in this anthology bravely confront societal darkness and offer, in Lee’s words, “our emotional truths, restoring our sanity and providing comfort for the days ahead.” The Best American Short Stories 2023 includes Cherline Bazile • Maya Binyam • Tom Bissell • Taryn Bowe • Da-Lin • Benjamin Ehrlich• Sara Freeman • Lauren Groff • Nathan Harris • Jared Jackson • Sana Krasikov • Danica Li • Ling Ma • Manuel Muñoz • Joanna Pearson • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Kosiso Ugwueze • Corinna Vallianatos • Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi • Esther Yi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 Series: Part of Best American Author: Steph Cha, Lisa Unger Narrator: Jacob Patalive, Pun Bandhu, Aida Reluzco, Terrence Kidd, Chanté Mccormick, Ewan Chung, Laura Copland, Sue Jean Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha. “This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with immediacy,” writes guest editor Lisa Unger in her introduction. The transporting stories in this year’s The Best American Mystery and Suspense are populated by those who exist on the fringe of our society and want more than what life has dealt them: A haunted veteran turned career criminal is on the run. An injured fighter turned bouncer seeks vengeance for his lost love. An assassin on his last job finds himself questioning his life choices and breaks all the rules to understand his final victim. By turns thrilling and enlightening, each story, according to Unger, “will have you holding your breath, flipping the pages, will leave you thinking about people and why they do the dark, dangerous, frightening things that they do.” The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 includes Ashley-­Ruth M. Bernier • William Boyle • S. A. Cosby • Jacqueline Freimor • James A. Hearn • Ladee Hubbard • A. J. Jacono • Adam Meyer • Silvia Moreno-­Garcia • Walter Mosley • Leigh Newman • Joyce Carol Oates • Margaret Randall • Annie Reed • Anthony Neil Smith • Faye Snowden • Jervey Tervalon • Joseph S. Walker • Thaai Walker • Jess Walter

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of (More) Delights: Essays Author: Ross Gay Narrator: Ross Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the New York Times Book Review), and “brilliant” (Ada Limón). Now, in this new collection of genre-defying pieces, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “ubiquitous, nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. For his many fans eagerly awaiting this new volume and for readers who have enjoyed the works of Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Zadie Smith, and Rebecca Solnit, Gay once again offers us “literature that feels as fluent and familiar as a chat with a close friend” (the New York Review of Books). The Book of (More) Delights is a collection to savor and share.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii Author: Vicky Alvear, Sophie Perinot, Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, Kate Quinn, Eliza Knight Narrator: Andrew Kingston, Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii’s flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other’s paths during Pompeii’s fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity? Text copyright 2023 by Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perinot, Kate Quinn, Victoria Alvear, and Michelle Moran

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays Author: Erin Riley Narrator: Erin Riley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: This edition includes an additional essay exclusive to the audiobook. 'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most: family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one's authentic self. In weaving together their everyday while questioning society and its structures, Erin gifts us stories that double as a manifesto on how to disrupt and reinvent narrative, identity, love and community. Life is complicated, messy and - when small risks are taken - even exhilarating. In Erin's hands we fall in love, get curious and become exasperated with (and sometimes charmed by) the people in their life, emerging with new perspectives on how to be in the world. Social worker and counsellor Erin Riley is a recipient of Penguin Random House Australia's 2021 Write It fellowship program, which aspires to find, nurture and develop unpublished writers across all genres, with a focus on underrepresented sections of our community.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - لقد وصلت إلى وجهتك Author: الجوهرة الرمال Narrator: رهام حمدي زيدان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 4 minutes Release date: July 12, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: «الحياة بسيطة عندما تبدأ بنا. تتسع لكل شيءٍ حتى لأحلامنا العالقة بالسماء. كلما لامس جبيني الأرض في السجود، واختزنت عيناي بالدموع وملأني خشوع وانكسار؛ ذكرت ذاك الوعد الذي قطعته على نفسي بسجدة ودعاء، رددتها بكل كبرياء وثقة، بكل أمل وبكل حياة، فالجبناء وحدهم من يفشلون في مواجهة أقدارهم، ولا يستطيعون الركض باتجاه أنفسهم والعودة من جديد». مجموعة من النصوص الأدبية المكتوبة بشاعرية للكاتبة السعودية «الجوهرة الرمال»، تشبه الخواطر والفضفضة مع الذات أو الابتهال لله وللحياة. تصف مجموعة من المشاعر المتنوعة للكاتبة، التي خرجت في صورٍ مختلفة؛ سواء مشهدية أو حوارية أو مجرد وصف لموقفٍ أو شعورٍ ما. من عناوين النصوص: «أنا آسفة، عند مفترق الطرق، الانتظار، رسائل ملغمة، ما بعد الفقد، لقد وصلت إلى وجهتك». استمع الآن.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untethered Author: Ayesha Inoon Narrator: Khema De Silva Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 7, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: HIGHLY COMMENDED - The ACT Book of the Year 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED - ACT Literary Awards 2024, Fiction. Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon. Zia secretly longs to go to university but as a young woman in a traditional Muslim family, she does what is expected of her and agrees to an arranged marriage to Rashid, a man she barely knows. Cocooned by the wealth and customs of her family, Rashid's dark moods create only the smallest of ripples in their early life together. When growing political unrest spurs them to leave Sri Lanka and immigrate to Australia, Zia is torn between fear of leaving her beloved family and the possibility of new freedoms. While on paper their new country welcomes them with open arms, their visas come with many restrictions and for the first time Zia faces isolation, poverty and an increasingly unstable marriage that forms a cage stronger than any she's known before. Determined to carve a place for herself in this new country, Zia sets out on uncertain terrain and discovers friendship, devastating loss and hope for a different future. One that asks her to consider not just who she is, but who she might become. Partially drawn from her own experiences, debut author Ayesha Inoon's novel weaves the threads of family, culture and tradition together with the uncertainty and freedom of starting anew to create a complex tapestry of identity, resilience and hope. 'A nuanced and moving exploration of what it means to leave the only home you've ever known for the promise of a better life, Ayesha Inoon's Untethered examines the crushing disappointments that can await immigrants and the ever-present question of whether they did the right thing.' - Tracey Lien, award-winning author of All That's Left Unsaid 'By turns gentle and searing, rich with life, yearning and the search for self, Ayesha Inoon's beautifully written debut novel is an unmissable read.' - Kim Lock, bestselling author of The Other Side of Beautiful & The Fancies PRAISE: 'Untethered is a study in cultural difference, written with fluidity and honesty. It's thought-provoking and invites cultural self-examination.' - The Canberra Bookshelf 'Untethered is about uprooting and relocating, and it is about the resilience of one woman, determined to take control of her own life.' - The Weekend Australian, Notable Books

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing but the Rain Author: Naomi Salman Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's debut novella, Nothing but the Rain. The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be. By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain. With mysterious forces preventing escape, calls for rebellion seem to be on every resident's lips. But Laverne has no interest in fighting. She has no interest in rebellion. She just wants to survive.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قلوبهم معنا وقنابلهم علينا Author: أحلام مستغانمي Narrator: عائشة خراط Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: «عندما تكون الديمقراطية هبة الاحتلال.. كيف لك أن تتعلم الحرية من جلادك؟!». بطريقةٍ سلسلة وكلماتٍ منتقاة بعناية شديدة، تكتب الكاتبة الجزائرية أحلام مستغانمي هذا الكتاب؛ إذ تستعرض آلام الوطن العربي بأسلوبٍ ساخر ومحزن، وتسرد حقائق تاريخية وسياسية في قالبٍ أدبي فريد لتخرج مقالات سياسية بنكهةٍ مختلفة. تتحدث الكاتبة عن أهم الأحداث السياسية في العراق منذ حرب العراق عام 2003م، إذ كانت وقتها تكتب مقالات في مجلة زهرة الخليج. وبعد أعوامٍ طويلة قامت بجمع مقالاتها وأعادت ترتبيها وفق تواريخ كتابتها ونشرها، ونشرتها في كتاب «قلوبهم معنا وقنابلهم علينا». سلطت الضوء في هذا الكتاب على قصة المراسل الصحفي العراقي «منتظر الزيدي» الذي رمى الرئيس الأمريكي جورج بوش بالحذاء أمام أعين الكاميرات والصحفيين، وما حدث في العراق من انتهاكات للإنسان العربي من قبل الاحتلال. كما تحدَّثت عن مؤامرةٍ تعرَّض لها الوطن العربي على مر السنوات السابقة، فكانت أحلام تقصد في كتابها حال الوطن العربي الكبير كلِّه، مُستخدمةً العراق كصورةٍ مصغَّرة لواقعٍ أليمٍ يعيشُهُ الوطن العربي بشكل عام. وبذلك يعتبر الكتاب وثيقة رسمية لأهم الأحداث السياسية العربية التي لا يصعُب نسيانها من ذاكرتنا. استمع الآن.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Health in the South Author: Tabia Henry Akintobi, Lovoria B. Williams, Steven S. Coughlin Narrator: Emana Rachelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. Black activists, physicians, and communities continue to battle inequities and structural problems that include poverty, inadequate access to health care, incarceration, a lack of transportation, and food insecurity. As the result of redlining and other historical and contemporary injustices, African Americans are less likely to own a home or to have equity, which places them in danger of financial ruin if they experience an illness such as a heart attack, stroke, or cancer, for which they are often at greater risk due to many social and environmental factors. At the same time, African American communities display many strengths and are often very resilient against these structural inequities. With essays spanning topics from culturally appropriate health care to faith-based interventions and the role of research networks in addressing disparities, this collection is pivotal for understanding the health of African Americans in the South.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/662222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seven Crucibles: An Inspirational Game Plan for Overcoming Adversity in Your Life Author: Alec Ingold Narrator: Brian Wiggins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Live up to your definition of greatness and inspire the best in the people around you. In The Seven Crucibles: An Inspirational Game Plan for Overcoming Adversity in Your Life, NFL fullback and motivational speaker Alec Ingold delivers a hands-on playbook for conquering every obstacle that stands between you and success, on the playing field and in life. You'll learn to utilize your own story of trials and tribulations to help embrace the changes to create future success. These lessons will help you face your biggest fears and sustain motivation on your path to personal and professional growth. In the book, you'll find: a set of practical tools the author used to climb to the top of one of the most punishing arenas in global athletics and lessons for applying them to your everyday life; strategies for creating a mindset that rewards resilience and perseverance, and leaves unrealistic perfectionism behind; and ways to reflect on your own accomplishments and shortcomings to help you learn from the past and build the future you want. An essential resource for students and professional athletes, The Seven Crucibles will also earn a place on the bookshelves of business, military, academic, government, and educational leaders hoping to coax the best out of themselves and the people they lead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Stefan Zweig: Brennendes Geheimnis: Eine Novelle. Ungekürzt gelesen. Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Sven Görtz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 7, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Der zwölfjährige Edgar ist mit seiner Mutter in den Urlaub gefahren. Schnell freundet er sich mit einem männlichen Gast an, den er bewundert. Doch schon bald merkt er, dass das Interesse des Herrn gar nicht ihm gilt, sondern seiner Mutter… Eine fabelhafte Erzählung Zweigs, aus der Perspektive eines Kindes geschrieben, das an der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden steht - und lernen wird, dass das Leben auch große Enttäuschungen parat hält...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations Author: Kevin Powell Narrator: Kevin Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States. The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell’s lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush years of AIDS and crack epidemics to our current era framed by the COVID-19 pandemic; the tragic killing of George Floyd; the #MeToo movement; and much more. In a journey that has produced fifteen books, countless cover stories, hundreds of published pieces, and definitive writings on iconic figures like Stacey Abrams, Dave Chappelle, Kerry Washington, Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Tupac Shakur, Aretha Franklin, and Kendrick Lamar, Powell is a voice for our times, and a voice that is timeless. This collection also tracks Powell’s personal struggles and his unwavering honesty about himself and the world around him. The Kevin Powell Reader captures twenty-first-century America with hope, insight, and the urgent need to preserve freedom and justice for all people.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Guy de Maupassant: Fettklößchen: Eine Novelle. Ungekürzt gelesen. Author: Guy De Maupassant Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: March 31, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Die Novelle, mit der de Maupassant schlagartig berühmt wurde: Eine Reisegesellschaft befindet sich in einer Postkutsche. Man hat die Heimatstadt verlassen, denn die Preußen haben diese besetzt. Unterwegs macht man Etappe in einem ärmlichen Gasthaus; der deutsche Kommandant jedoch verweigert den Reisenden die Weiterfahrt. Denn sein Interesse gilt einer der Mitreisenden - einem Freudenmädchen mit Spitznamen 'Fettklößchen'... Wunderbare Erzählung über den Krieg, den menschlichen Charakter - und die vermeintlich guten Sitten!