Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You’re Embarrassing Yourself Author: Desiree Akhavan Narrator: Desiree Akhavan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 'I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again' LENA DUNHAM 'Smart and funny … reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron’ GUARDIAN Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love. When it comes to shame, award-winning filmmaker and director Desiree Akhavan knows what she’s talking about – whether it’s winning the title of The Ugliest Girl at her high school, acquiescing to the nose job she was lovingly forced into by her Iranian parents, or losing her virginity to a cokehead she met in a support group for cutters. In You're Embarrassing Yourself, Desiree goes to the rawest places: the lifelong struggle to be at peace in one’s body, the search for home as the child of immigrants and the anxious underbelly of artistic ambition. With all the humour and vulnerability of Jennette McCurdy and the warmth and nuance of Jia Tolentino, You're Embarrassing Yourself is equal parts funny and heartfelt, charting an artist’s journey from outcast to overnight indie darling, to (somewhat) self-aware adult woman. The result is a book that captures the pathetic lows and euphoric highs of our youth, and how to survive them, in a voice that is unmistakably, unapologetically Desiree’s.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Author: Michael Newton Narrator: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, David Monteath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 1 minute Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by David Monteath and Gabrielle Nellis-Pain. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Newton. 'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients' - Dorothy Scarborough This new selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre. From Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story' through to Edith Wharton's 'Afterword', this collection covers all of the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, Newton places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cape Doctor Author: E. J. Levy Narrator: Mary Jane Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A "gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man’s journey from penniless Irish girl to one of most celebrated and accomplished figures of his time (Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me).   Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Perry’s journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town, Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives.   E. J. Levy’s enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Narrator: Heida Reed, Richard Goulding, Jade Anouka, Clarke Peters, Richard Armitage, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A celebration of the great speeches of world history and cultural life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious. Some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. The speakers themselves vary from empresses and conquerors to rock stars, novelists and sportsmen, dreamers and killers, from Churchill and Elizabeth I to Stalin and Genghis Khan, and from Michelle Obama and Cleopatra to Ronald Reagan, Nehru, and Muhammad Ali. All human drama is here: from the carnage of battlefields to the theatre of courtrooms, from table talk to audiences of millions, from desperate last stands to orations of triumph, from noble calls for liberation to genocidal rants, from foolish delusions and strange confessions to defiant resistance and heartbreaking farewells. Voices of History spans centuries, continents, and cultures. In the accessible and gripping style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these seventy speeches are essential reading and how they enlighten our past, enrich our present, and inspire--as well as hold warnings for--our future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446415 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 Series: #3 of Living Autobiography Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 13, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. 'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.' 'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story.' 'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer on The Cost of Living 'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise... A brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph on The Cost of Living 'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights' Financial Times on The Cost of Living © Deborah Levy 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide Author: Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Steve Albini, Vidya Balachander, Nari Kye, Claude Tayag, Christopher Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Shep Gordon, Bill Buford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 94 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. Supplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. For veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. The audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. Copyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and  “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/421779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy Author: Natalie Baszile Narrator: Tina Lifford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From the author of Queen Sugar—now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay—comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America.  In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The ''Returning Generation''—young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations.  These farmers are joined by other influential voices, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives, adding richness and texture.  As Baszile reveals, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culture—the family, the way our national identity is bound up with the land, the pull of memory, the healing power of food, and race relations. She reminds us that the land, well-earned and fiercely protected, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended, tilled, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color, celebrating their perseverance and resilience, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 Author: Rachel Kushner Narrator: Rachel Kushner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES GALAXIE 500’S SONG “ANOTHER DAY!” “The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters of Note: Mothers Series: #7 of Letters of Note Author: Shaun Usher Narrator: Ferdinand Kingsley, Jude Law, Danny Huston, Helen Mccrory, Natascha Mcelhone, Louise Brealey, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adrian Edmondson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow, Neil Gaiman, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child. A young Egyptian girl mourns her mother's death in the fourth century AD. Melissa Rivers lovingly chides her mother, Joan, for treating her house like a hotel and taking her thirteen-year-old son to see Last Tango in Paris. Anne Sexton gives her daughter the advice to live life to the hilt, and be your own woman. In a letter to her teenage daughter, Caitlin Moran explains that some boys are as evil as vampires, and you must drive stakes through their hearts. The film Ladybird inspires journalist Hannah Woodhead to write an emotional letter to her mother. While at seminary, Martin Luther King Jr. writes that he has 'the best mother in the world.' These thirty letters capture the endless range of feelings that comes with being or having a mother. Includes letters from E.B. White, George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath, Laura Dern, Baya Hocine, Louisa May Alcott, Wallac Stegner, and more. Read by Sanjeev Bhaskar, Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adrian Edmondson, Neil Gaiman, Danny Huston, Toby Jones, Ferdinand Kingsley, Jude Law, Helen McCrory, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, Clarke Peters, Juliet Stevenson and Meera Syal.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel Author: Pip Williams Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 123 Ratings of Narrator: 4.55 of Total 42 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark Author: Brian Hall Narrator: Kevin R. Free, Robertson Dean, Tanis Parenteau, Graham Halstead, George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, gorgeously written novel of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition, named one of the best novels of the year by The Boston Globe, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Brian Hall’s compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark’s extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants’ lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices—from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl-captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. Bringing the day-to-day life of the expedition alive as no work of history ever could, Hall’s magnificent novel fills in the gaps and provides a new perspective on the most famous journey in American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Festival Days Author: Jo Ann Beard Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville,who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner for The Friend). A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the Year When “The Fourth State of Matter,” her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New Yorker, Jo Ann Beard immediately became one of the most influential writers in America, forging a path for a new generation of young authors willing to combine the dexterity of fiction with the rigors of memory and reportage, and in the process extending the range of possibility for the essay form.   Now, with Festival Days, Beard brings us the culmination of her groundbreaking work. In these nine pieces, she captures both the small, luminous moments of daily existence and those instants when life and death hang in the balance, ranging from the death of a beloved dog to a relentlessly readable account of a New York artist trapped inside a burning building, as well as two triumphant, celebrated pieces of short fiction.   Here is an unforgettable collection destined to be embraced and debated by readers and writers, teachers and students. Anchored by the title piece––a searing journey through India that brings into focus questions of mortality and love—Festival Days presents Beard at the height of her powers, using her flawless prose to reveal all that is tender and timeless beneath the way we live now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - المرأة الكاملة Author: سلطان موسى الموسى Narrator: دراما جماعية Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: أدركت (نفرتيتي) أثناء صلاتها أن أمامها وأمام زوجها قرارات مصيرية، وأن مستقبلها كملكة ومستقبل البلاد سيأخذ منعطفا اخر، منعطفا خيراً جداً، قد يجازف الزوجان المليكان بشعبيهما، قد يخسران حب الناس وكل شيء، قد ينقلب الناس عليهما فيكونان من الخاسرين.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الغث من القول Author: أحمد خالد توفيق Narrator: حمدي التايه Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: نشرتُ هذه المقالات في أماكن متفرقة، وإن كان معظمها في جريدة الدستور قبل اغتيالها، وفي موقع (بص وطل) على شبكة الإنترنت، يمكنك أن تجد كل حرف كتبته على شبكة الإنترنت، لكنني في النهاية ابن الكتاب وربيبه، ولا أؤمن أنني كتبت شيئًا ما لم أمسك به مطبوعًا على ورق جميل.. تضع خطًا أو تثني صفحة أو تسكب كوب الشاي على الصفحة. هذا هو اختراع الخواجة (جوتنبرج) في كامل عنفوانه ومجده. لا يمكنك أن تشعر بالشيء ذاته في الفضاء السايبري حيث أفكارك مجرد ومضات إلكترونية وتبادل بين علامة الواحد والصفر.. دعك من الحاجة البشرية الطبيعية لأن تضع كل أولادك تحت سقف واحد.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/418835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Korea - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide To Customs & Culture Series: Part of Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Author: James Hoare Narrator: Charles Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Apart from the headline-making politics, not much is known in the West about the Korean people and their ancient culture. Yet those who visit Korea, whether North or South, find a land of great interest. The Koreans, when not constrained by politics or other considerations, are friendly and sociable, and the peninsula has areas of outstanding natural beauty. The South’s cities, if not always beautiful, are vibrant and alive. The North, while very different, is complex and fascinating. The standoff between the two countries of the Korean Peninsula is a legacy of the Cold War and a potential flashpoint for future conflict. Despite a brief thaw in relations a few years ago, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the north, a secretive single-party socialist state with a centralized industrial economy, conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. The Republic of Korea (ROK) in the south meanwhile, a free-market democracy, has become a rising economic power and, in 2010, became the first former aid recipient to join the OECD Development Assistance Committee. This new, updated edition of Culture Smart! Korea looks at the changing social and economic situation and provides real insights into thinking and behavior in both countries. It indicates the pitfalls to avoid and introduces listeners to some of the many delights of the Korean peninsula.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415119 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir Author: Marina Warner Narrator: Marina Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith’s. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean. Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warner’s parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warner’s parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz Author: Dick Davis, Obayd-E Zakani, Jahan Malek Khatun, Hafez Narrator: Tala Ashe, Dick Davis, Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature   Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south-central Iran, and all three drew support from arts-loving rulers during a time better known for its violence than its creative brilliance. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered “our finest translator of Persian poetry” (The Times Literary Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart. “Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time…Faces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 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. *This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains notes from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald Author: Jonathan Bate Narrator: Paul Hilliar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMES ‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’ John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence. Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Hilton Als, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. With a forward by Hilton Als, these twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as 'an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time' (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ('the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it'), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In 'Why I Write,' Didion ponders the act of writing: 'I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.' From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one 'that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men,' these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster Author: Helen Andrews Narrator: Nicole Parnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 'Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews.'--Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of the generational draw? In Boomers, essayist Helen Andrews addresses the Boomer legacy with scrupulous fairness and biting wit. Following the model of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, she profiles six of the Boomers' brightest and best. She shows how Steve Jobs tried to liberate everyone's inner rebel but unleashed our stultifying digital world of social media and the gig economy. How Aaron Sorkin played pied piper to a generation of idealistic wonks. How Camille Paglia corrupted academia while trying to save it. How Jeffrey Sachs, Al Sharpton, and Sonya Sotomayor wanted to empower the oppressed but ended up empowering new oppressors. Ranging far beyond the usual Beatles and Bill Clinton clichés, Andrews shows how these six Boomers' effect on the world has been tragically and often ironically contrary to their intentions. She reveals the essence of Boomerness: they tried to liberate us, and instead of freedom they left behind chaos.