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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Crashing the Party Subtitle: An American Reporter in China Author: Scott Savitt Narrator: James Chen Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 12-19-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek Magazine. The city's first nightclubs open; rock 'n' roll promises democracy. Promoted to foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times then United Press International, Scott finds himself drawn into China's political heart. Later, at 25 years old, Scott is the youngest accredited foreign correspondent in China with an intimate knowledge of Beijing's backstreets. But as the seven-week occupation of Tiananmen Square ends in bloodshed on June 4, 1989, his greatest asset is his flame-red 500 cc. Honda motorcycle - giving Scott the freedom to witness first-hand what the Chinese government still denies ever took place. After Tiananmen, Scott founds the first independent English-language newspaper in China, Beijing Scene. He knows that it's only a matter of time before the authorities move in, and sure enough, in 2000 he's arrested, flung into solitary confinement and, after a month in jail, deported. Scott Savitt's memoir turns this complex political-historical subject into an extraordinary adventure story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Get Fit, Get Happy Author: Harry Judd Narrator: Harry Judd Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 10-19-17 Publisher: Coronet Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Get Fit, Get Happy isn't about just transforming the way you look. It's about transforming the way you feel. Harry Judd is a member of the hugely successful bands McFly and McBusted, who have headlined Hyde Park and notched up 19 hit singles - of which seven went to number one - and two number-one albums. He is a much-loved former Strictly Come Dancing champion and has been crowned the nation's favourite ever winner of the show. And yet in spite of this success, there have been times when Harry has been prone to anxiety and other mental health issues. He's not alone. Today, anxiety, depression and eating disorders affect more of us than ever before, and we are all looking for ways to adapt, cope and survive the pressures of daily life. The one thing that Harry has turned to time and time again to redress the balance in his life is fitness. Now, using a combination of exercise and dance, Harry makes the mood-boosting benefits of fitness accessible for everyone. Young or old, male or female, small or large, tall, short, thin, fat or somewhere in the middle: anyone will be inspired by Get Fit, Get Happy. Without any need for expensive kit or lots of time, Harry's approach is fun, fast and free. Part memoir in which Harry tells the life lessons that he has learned and part richly researched fitness plan to get you feeling more positive, Get Fit, Get Happy is a fitness revolution to help people find a little more happiness in their lives. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the fully illustrated Get Fit, Get Happy Fitness Plan PDF will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Book of Forgotten Authors Author: Christopher Fowler Narrator: Christopher Fowler Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 10-05-17 Publisher: riverrun Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner, no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites, including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world. This is a book about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and entertaining guide. Critic Reviews: "Joyous...fascinating." (Cathy Rentzenbrink) "I love it! A real gem." (Joanne Harris) "Will have the inevitable effect of sending readers in search of these intriguing lost names." (Barry Forshaw)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: John Grisham Subtitle: A Biography Author: Daniel Harrison Narrator: Mark Rossman Format: Unabridged Length: 10 mins Language: English Release date: 09-29-17 Publisher: Daniel Harrison Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: John Grisham is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide. John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in Mississippi from January 1984 to September 1990. His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. As of 2012, his books have sold over 275 million copies worldwide. A Galaxy British Book Awards winner, Grisham is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing. Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which "continues the story of attorney Mitchell McDeere and his family 10 years after the events of the film and novel." Eight of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, and A Time to Kill.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Birds Art Life Subtitle: A Year of Observation Author: Kyo Maclear Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 09-13-17 Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life - a field guide to things small and significant. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of these artists took time away from their work to become observers of natural phenomena. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a local Toronto musician with an equally captivating side passion - he had recently lost his heart to birds. Curious about what prompted this young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature, Kyo decides to follow him for a year and find out. A distilled, crystal-like companion to H Is for Hawk, this memoir celebrates the particular madness of loving and chasing after birds in a big city. Intimate and philosophical, moving with ease between the granular and the grand view, it celebrates the creative and liberating effects of keeping your eyes and ears wide open and explores what happens when you apply the core lessons of birding to other aspects of life. In one sense this is a book about disconnection - how our passions can buckle under the demands and emotions of daily life - and about reconnection: how the act of seeking passion and beauty in small ways can lead us to discover our most satisfying life. On a deeper level, it takes up the questions of how we are shaped and nurtured by our parallel passions and how we might come to cherish not only the world's pristine natural places but also the blemished urban spaces where most of us live. Birds Art Life follows two artists on a yearlong adventure that is at once a meditation on the nature of creativity and a quest for a good and meaningful life. Critic Reviews: "A wondrous little book about 'being a little lost'." (The New York Times) "An incandescent exploration of beauty, inspiration, art, family, and freedom that seems to leave no topic out of its binocular scope." (Toronto Star)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 101 Amazing Facts About Ed Sheeran Author: Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor Narrator: Kent Harris Format: Unabridged Length: 19 mins Language: English Release date: 08-17-17 Publisher: Andrews UK Limited Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Are you the world's biggest Ed Sheeran fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about one of the most talented singer-songwriters of a generation? In this excellent audiobook, Kent Harris tells us everything about Ed, from how he got started in the music industry, to his tattoos, collaborations with other artists and much more. Whether you're a brand new fan or someone who's been following Ed Sheeran for years, you're sure to enjoy these 101 amazing facts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American Legends Subtitle: The Life of Gregory Peck Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Scott Clem Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 07-03-17 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important." Gregory Peck A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. At the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute ranked Gregory Peck 12th in its list of best actors, and it's not hard to see why. In addition to being one of the most popular actors in Hollywood for three decades, Peck won an Academy Award for Best Actor playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and he was also nominated several other times. Even when he wasn't being nominated for his performances, he appeared in some of the most acclaimed movies of the century, including How the West Was Won and Roman Holiday. Peck was a household name across America, but far from resting on his laurels, he poured just as much energy into humanitarian causes, though he didn't think much of it, saying, "I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in." Nonetheless, Peck's work as a humanitarian led to him being awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson in 1969, when he was still near the height of his career. He championed several causes over the years, most of them liberal ones like gun control and gay rights. Always outspoken, he even lent his name and voice to politically charged commercials, including the notorious fight to stop Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Peck continued his work into the 21st century, and in 2011, several years after he died, he was commemorated with a postage stamp. American Legends: The Life of Gregory Peck profiles the life and career of one of America's greatest actors. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Gregory Peck like never before, in no time at all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Bulletins from Dallas Subtitle: Reporting the JFK Assassination Author: Bill Sanderson Narrator: James Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 05-23-17 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story. Thanks to one reporter's skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at President Kennedy's motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite was the first to tell America about the assassination. But when Cronkite broke the news on TV, he read from one of Smith's dispatches. At Parkland Hospital, Smith saw President Kennedy's blood-soaked body in the back of his limousine before the emergency room attendants arrived. Two hours later, he was one of three journalists to witness President Johnson's swearing-in aboard Air Force One. Smith rightly won a Pulitzer Prize for the vivid story he wrote for the next day's morning newspapers. Smith's scoop is journalism legend. But the full story of how he pulled off the most amazing reportorial coup has never been told. As the top White House reporter of his time, Smith was a bona fide celebrity and even a regular on late-night TV. But he has never been the subject of a biography. With access to a trove of Smith's personal letters and papers and through interviews with Smith's family and colleagues, veteran news reporter Bill Sanderson will crack open the legend. Bulletins from Dallas tells for the first time how Smith beat his competition on the story, and shows how the biggest scoop of his career foreshadowed his personal downfall.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scab Vendor Subtitle: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist Author: Jonathan Shaw Narrator: Carol Monda, Jonathan Shaw Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 05-16-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Jonathan Shaw's Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is a surreal, multigenerational roller-coaster ride through the underbelly of modern culture, charting the course of a life measured by extremes and all the people, places, and events that shaped that life into a survivor's tale of epic proportions. In it, Shaw takes the listener deep, not only into the recesses of his extraordinary mind and adventures but also into the strange and magical process of memoir-writing itself. If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then, as Shaw's friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, much of this book would have to be lived before it could be written. In that sense, Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist is much more than a fascinating chronicle of a popular outlaw artist's creative evolution. It is a multicolored, cinematic, modern-day Odyssey, written in blood, ink, and tears - a kaleidoscopic, visionary road map to the journey of the human soul.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Voltaire Subtitle: A Biography Author: Alexander Hall Narrator: 5395 Media LLC Format: Unabridged Length: 18 mins Language: English Release date: 03-27-17 Publisher: Alexander Hall Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Celeste Subtitle: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer Author: Roland Perry Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 01-25-17 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The true story of the Countess Céleste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. Courtesan, countess, best-selling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time.... Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Céleste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian dance halls, where, it is said, she invented the cancan. Then, as an equestrienne at the Paris hippodrome, her daring feats on horseback thrilled the crowds. However, it was as the city's most celebrated courtesan that the young Parisian found genuine fame and fortune. Strikingly beautiful and charismatic, her lovers included famous novelists, artists and composers, not least Georges Bizet, who, many believe, based his free and fearless Carmen on Céleste. But when Céleste married the Count de Chabrillan, a prominent member of the French aristocracy, Parisian society was scandalised. And when the pair turned up in far off Australia, where the count served as the first French consul, Melbourne society was scandalised in turn. Later a best-selling memoirist, novelist, playwright and librettist, the remarkable Countess Céleste de Chabrillan was, indeed, a woman far ahead of her time. Critic Reviews: "A ripper...very well written.' (The Age) "It has great pace and excitement...taut and extremely well written." (The Guardian) "Altogether an exciting story." (The New York Times)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Sting in the Tale Author: James Berryman Narrator: Ian Fisher Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 12-15-16 Publisher: Mirage Publishing Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Imagine Sting grabbing at one of the Beatles' hair in a desperate attempt to get a piece of one of them! (It really happened!) A Sting in the Tale is the sort of book to listen to if you appreciate humor. However, if you are need of a humor transplant then, perhaps, this is not the book for you. This fully authorized memoir of Sting and Jim Berryman's time together is, indeed, a hilariously, eye-wateringly funny listen. Just imagine a P.G. Wodehouse book, and substitute Jeeves and Bertie Wooster with Sting and Jim and you'll have the right picture! The author is included in most of the stories, this interaction sees Jim Berryman as the stooge to Sting's alter-ego, his real self. Not a kiss and tell book by no means but not a suck up and kiss book either , the frankly hilarious minutes cover stories of misadventure that takes an episodic approach to presenting a decidedly more down-to-earth view of Sting than we've heard or seen elsewhere. Sting and his best pal Jim Berryman are caught in various true-life situations that happened to them from when they first went to school together right up until Sting became one of the most successful superstars in rock history! Despite the gap between wealth and happiness, Jim and Sting have remained best friends to this day. It was at Sting's prompting that Jim penned this biography, which tracks their friendship through thick and thin from the school playing fields to their days as trainee warehousemen. This oblique look at his friendship with Sting will hold your attention through the short, succinct, and often very funny chapters of this book. Although there's always been a sense of mystery around Sting, this book will soon have you laughing your socks off at how the-boy-who-would-be-Sting reveals, through his friendship with the author, a side to the singer that has never been seen before. Every chapter, all 41 of them, has something to make you laugh.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Flo Gibson Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 12-08-16 Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, LLC Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In this autobiographical narrative, the author sleeps under the stars, views the beautiful French countryside, and mingles with its local populace - all with a donkey as his chief companion.

Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Titolo: Pablo Neruda: Il poeta dell'amore e dell'impegno civile Autore: Francesco De Vito Narratore: Francesca Di Modugno Formato: Unabridged Durata: 1 hr and 42 mins Lingua: Italiano Data di pubblicazione: 11-17-16 Editore: Area 51 Short Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Riepilogo Editore: Pablo Neruda è il poeta dell'amore e dell'impegno civile, uno dei più importanti letterati di lingua spagnola. Il poeta che "intingeva la penna nel sangue, invece che nell'inchiostro", ha vinto il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura e altri riconoscimenti internazionali, numerosi paesi e istituzioni lo hanno ricoperto di onori. In questo ritratto parleremo di lui al presente, perché la sua vita è da tempo leggenda e la sua poesia è eterna. Neruda è un personaggio estremamente complesso e sfuggente e insieme tenace e determinato, fedele fino in fondo alla sua passione e missione: la poesia. Conosceremo la sua famiglia e l'ambiente in cui è cresciuto. Lo seguiremo durante gli anni della formazione, tra libri, amori, amici, speranze, delusioni. Gusteremo le sue prime soddisfazioni, quelle poesie apprezzate da tutti, tranne dalla persona a cui le avrebbe dedicate volentieri. Vedremo il giovane poeta lasciare il Cile e tornarvi diverse volte, scoprire nuove realtà, arricchire il proprio mondo interiore e, di conseguenza, la propria arte. Poeta prolifico, Neruda cerca di dare spazio a tutte le esperienze vissute. E in questo ritratto daremo spesso spazio alle sue intense parole, ai suoi magnifici versi, soprattutto quando racconteremo gli ultimi, vertiginosi venti anni della sua vita. ©2016 Area51 Publishing (P)2016 Area51 Publishing

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Just Getting Started Author: Tony Bennett, Scott Simon Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 11-15-16 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: At 90, musician and singer Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, including albums, concerts, and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring artist has written his second book. In 2012's Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons he has learned over the years. Now, in Just Getting Started, he pays homage to the remarkable people who inspired those lessons. In his warm and inviting voice, Tony talks about who and what have enriched his own life, including Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cole Porter, Amy Winehouse, Fred Astaire, Lady Gaga, members of his family, significant places; and more. Just Getting Started chronicles the relationship Tony has enjoyed with each one of these legends, entertainers, humanitarians, and loved ones and reveals how the lessons and values they imparted have invaluably shaped his life. As enchanting and unforgettable as his music, Just Getting Started is a beautiful compilation of reflections every Bennett fan will treasure and a perfect introduction for those just getting to know this remarkable star and humanitarian.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Face the Music Subtitle: My Improbable Trip to Saturn (or Close Enough) with Sun Ra Author: Michael Lowenthal Narrator: Jeremy Arthur Format: Unabridged Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 11-15-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In 1990, the avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra arrived at Dartmouth to collaborate with the school's jazz band, where Michael Lowenthal - an anxious, 20-year-old senior - played trumpet. As rehearsals got underway and two musical worlds collided, Lowenthal struggled with the improvisation that Sun Ra's sparse, yet spiritual, melodies demanded. In this essay, Lowenthal recounts his "otherworldly" experience with the famous jazz star who claimed to be from Saturn. Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and The Paternity Test. His short stories have appeared in Tin House, the Southern Review, and the Kenyon Review, and his nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, the Washington Post, Out, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the MacDowell Colony, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lowenthal has taught creative writing at Boston College and Hampshire College, and as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Leipzig University. Since 2003 he has been a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Helene Hanff Subtitle: A Life Author: Helene Hanff, Stephen R. Pastore Narrator: Joan Grant Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 11-09-16 Publisher: Grand Oak Rare Books Inc Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is a biography of Helene Hanff, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road by a leading authority on her life and works. Pastore was a long-time friend and neighbor of Hanff and had access to her books, letters and relatives and friends. A biographer often faces difficult choices. Some choose to report only verifiable facts; others elaborate based on rumor, gossip, letters and sometimes mere guessing in an effort to liven up what used to be called a nonfiction genre but which is now referred to as creative nonfiction. Most biographers have the luxury of a dead subject; no one to complain, to explain, to elucidate, to obfuscate. I had a dear friend who was very much alive and very much a friend. I could have chosen to ignore her wishes about respecting her privacy and publish away. Or I could have chosen to respect her wishes even though I knew I would not publish anything until after her death. I chose the latter and I relied on her version of her life, omitting material she did not want made public and including material I had no way of verifying but which originated with her. Much of what is known about her is the result of sometimes outlandish guesswork circulated on the Internet (one of the most unreliable sources of information ever conceived by the mind of man.) Some sites have Helene as a lesbian; others as the mistress of a New York City politician. Some have her as a personal friend based on a visit with her in the lobby of her building; others claim intimate knowledge of her communist leanings based on Frank Doel's alleged friendship with a "Soviet spy". I feel it is the biographer's function to present as much truth as possible, to respect sources and to verify what can be verified.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Shakespeare Author: Alexander Kennedy Narrator: Jim D Johnston Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 10-18-16 Publisher: Fritzen Publishing LLC Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Shakespeare did more than any person to shape the English language, coining more than 1,000 words and writing a host of poems and plays considered the finest of their genres. Yet the documentary records of his life is surprisingly scanty; literary historians know more about the lives of ancient Greek tragedians like Aeschylus and Sophocles than they do about Britain's greatest writer. In this compact, highly listenable biography, Alexander Kennedy separates truth from fiction, history from myth in the life of this enigmatic genius. Was Shakespeare gay or bisexual? Who were the recipients of his celebrated sonnets? Did another author write some or all of his plays? How could a single man's work so thoroughly reshape our language, our literature, and our world? The answers lie within. "To be, or not to be, that is the question." (William Shakespeare)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Soul Serenade Subtitle: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl Author: Rashod Ollison Narrator: C. S. Treadway Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 10-04-16 Publisher: Beacon Press Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music. Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on 45s in smoky rooms. Steeped in the sounds, the smells, and the salty language of rural Arkansas in the 1980s, Soul Serenade is the memoir of a pop music critic whose love for soul music was fostered by his father, Raymond. Drafted into the Vietnam War as a teenager, Raymond returned a changed man, "dead on the inside". After his parents' volatile marriage ended in divorce, Rashod was haunted by the memory of his itinerant father and his mama's long forgotten "sunshine smile". For six-year-old Rashod, his father's record collection - the music of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, and others - provided solace, coherence, and escape. Moving nine times during his childhood, Rashod constantly adjusted to new schools and homes with his two sisters, Dusa and Reagan, and his mother, Dianne. Resilient and tough while also being distant and punitive, she worked multiple jobs, striving "to make ends wave at each other if they couldn't meet". He spent time with his acerbic mother's mother, Mama Teacake, and her family's living-out-loud ways, which clashed with his father's family - religious, discreet, and appropriate - where Rashod gravitated to Big Mama and Paw Paw, his father's parents. Becoming aware of his same-sex attraction, Rashod felt further isolated and alone but was encouraged by mentors in the community who fostered his intelligence and talent. He became transformed through discovering the writing of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, and other literary greats, and these books, along with the soulful sounds of the 1970s and '80s, enabled him to thrive in spite of the instability and harshness of his childhood. In textured and evocative language, and peppered with unexpected humor, Soul Serenade is an original and captivating coming-of-age story set to an original beat. Critic Reviews: "An elegiac look at a childhood marked by violence, dysfunction, poverty, sorrow - and plenty of good music." (Kirkus Reviews) "Gifted memoirist Ollison uses the authentic language of home, profane and poetic, to vividly describe a childhood lived in a state of impermanence." (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation Author: James Stourton Narrator: Jot Davies Format: Unabridged Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 09-22-16 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The biography of the popular British author, broadcaster and highly influential art historian who, in 1969, achieved international acclaim as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series Civilisation. Kenneth Clark was the grandest figure in the arts in Britain in the 20th century. Museum director, patron, pioneer of television, cultural panjandrum, he effortlessly dominated the art world for over half a century. Clark belonged to that stratum of society that used to be called "the top people" and was befriended by both the Queen Mother and Winston Churchill. His closest friendships, however, were amongst writers and artists, men such as John Betjeman, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and John Piper. A singular youth and then a trusted patrician, no voice has exercised so much power and influence over the arts in Britain. Telling this story of one of the great 20th-century lives, James Stourton's biography is a comprehensive view of the arts during the 20th century. Critic Reviews: "A treasure...best of all are the author's personal asides on builders and those who inspired them." (The Economist) "Stourton writes elegantly and absorbingly." (The Times) "A fascinating and witty tour." (The Economist) "Deceptively simple. Idiosyncratic and amusing, he makes you see everything in a new light." (Tablet)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Looking for Betty MacDonald Subtitle: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I Author: Paula Becker Narrator: Paula Becker Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 09-14-16 Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Betty Bard MacDonald (1907 - 1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald's vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald's archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, the first biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Woman I Was Not Born to Be Subtitle: A Transsexual Journey Author: Aleshia Brevard Narrator: Emily Beresford Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 08-12-16 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Told with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States. (The famous sexual surgery pioneer Harry Benjamin himself broke the news to Brevard's parents.) Under the stage name Lee Shaw, Brevard worked as a drag queen at Finocchio's, a San Francisco club, doing Marilyn Monroe impersonations. (Like Marilyn, she sought romance all the time and had a string of entanglements with men.) Later, she worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy Bunny at the Sunset Strip hutch. After playing opposite Don Knotts in the movie The Love God, Brevard appeared in other films and broke into TV as a regular on the Red Skelton Show. She created the role of Tex on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live. As a woman, Brevard returned to teach theater at East Tennessee State, the same university she had attended as a boy. This memoir is a rare pre-women's movement account of coming to terms with gender identity. Brevard writes frankly about the degree to which she organized her life around pleasing men, and how absurd it all seems to her now. Aleshia Brevard continues to be active in theater as an actress and director. Editorial Reviews: "Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literature-academic scientific, theoretical and literary-on transgendered experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs....Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950's movie-star autobiographies (which at heart, it is)." (Publishers Weekly) Critic Reviews: "This is a beautiful book, written with a glittering charm and humor and wisdom." (Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Thalberg Subtitle: Life and Legend Author: Bob Thomas Narrator: John Landis Format: Abridged Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 08-10-16 Publisher: Phoenix Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: More than 75 years after his death, Irving Thalberg remains a celebrated Hollywood figure. In this definitive biography, his legend comes to life - from his beginnings as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood," when at age 25 he was an MGM mogul, to the creation with Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to his tragic death at the age of 37. With his remarkable talent for developing stars and doctoring scripts, this architect of the motion picture film created some of America's best-loved movies: Ben-Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, Grand Hotel, Romeo and Juliet, The Good Earth, and Camille. His genius has made his name a legend in the land of legends. Narrated by film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer John Landis, best known as the director of National Lampoon's Animal House, An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, The Blues Brothers, Beverly Hills Cop III, and Michael Jackson's music video Thriller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Constant Alien Subtitle: An Autobiography Author: Catherine Schell Narrator: Catherine Schell Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 08-04-16 Publisher: Spokenworld Audio & Ladbroke Audio Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Catherine Schell has lived a life more dramatic and colourful than any of her many acting roles. Her story sweeps from her birth during an Allied bombing raid in Budapest to life under postwar Russian occupation, escape, and life as a refugee in Austria; a strict convent school life in America; and on to Germany, where she became an actress. Whilst international fame would follow through roles in the James Bond and Pink Panther franchises as well as the iconic role of Maya in popular sci-fi series Space: 1999, the story off camera is altogether more human and real. An abusive husband, her father's surrender to Alzheimer's, her brother's paranoid schizophrenia, and a dominant and passionate mother all play their parts in her tale. Told engagingly and with warmth, there are highs and lows, laughter and tears, and lessons learnt as a survivor...in a life where she has been A Constant Alien.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography Author: Blake Boyd Narrator: Chris Lovingood Format: Unabridged Length: 15 mins Language: English Release date: 07-13-16 Publisher: Blake Boyd Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci notes that while there is much speculation regarding his life and personality, his view of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unorthodox for his time. Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps 15 of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivaled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Trying to Float Subtitle: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel Author: Nicolaia Rips Narrator: Nicolaia Rips Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 07-12-16 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise - a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents" (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and best-selling author), Trying to Float is a 17-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens - Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, and Patti Smith, to name a few - but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned journalist with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and world-renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar "youth". Nicolaia is a perpetual outsider who has struggled to find her place in public schools populated by cliquish girls and loudmouthed boys. But at the Chelsea, Nicolaia need not look far to find her tribe. There's her neighbor, Stormy, a tall albino woman who keeps a pink handgun strapped to her ankle; her babysitter, Paris, who may or may not have a second career as an escort; and her friend, Artie, former proprietor of Studio 54. The kids at school might never understand her, but as Nicolaia endeavors to fit in she begins to understand that the Chelsea's motley crew could hold the key to surviving the perils of a Manhattan childhood. With a voice as fabulously compelling as Holden Caulfield's, Nicolaia Rips' debut is a disarming, humble, heartfelt, and wise tale of coming of age amid the contradictions, complexities, and shifting identities of life in New York City. A bohemian Eloise for our times, Trying to Float is a triumphant parable for the power of embracing difference in all its forms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Taylor Swift Subtitle: A Biography Author: Nicole Moore Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Length: 18 mins Language: English Release date: 07-06-16 Publisher: Nicole Moore Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. Her third single, "Our Song," made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. Swift is known for narrative songs about her personal experiences. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift's other achievements include 10 Grammy Awards, one Emmy Award, 22 Billboard Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Brit Award. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums - including 27.1 million in the US - and 130 million single downloads. In 2015, she became the youngest woman ever to be included on Forbes' "100 Most Powerful Women" list, ranked at number 64.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: An Extravagant Hunger Subtitle: The Passionate Years of M. F. K. Fisher Author: Anne Zimmerman Narrator: Tiffany Morgan Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 06-16-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M. F. K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria, which washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most idyllic and fleeting moments of her life, the stories of Fisher's love for food and her love for family and men are meticulously researched and exquisitely captured in this book. Exploring Fisher's lonely and formative time in Europe with her first husband; her subsequent divorce and remarriage to her creative spark plug, Dillwyn Parrish, and his tragic suicide; and the child she carried from an unnamed father, the story of M. F. K. Fisher's life becomes as vibrant and passionate as her prolific words on wine and cuisine. Letters and journal entries piece together a dramatic life, but An Extravagant Hunger steps further, bridging the gaps between personal notes and her public persona, filling in the silences by offering an engaging and unprecedented depth of intuitive commentary. With a passion of her own, Anne Zimmerman is the careful witness, lingering beside M. F. K. Fisher through her most dramatic and productive years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Porcelain Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Moby Narrator: Moby Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 06-09-16 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s. There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby - not just a poor, skinny white kid from Connecticut but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler. He would learn what it was to be spat on, to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City: the age of AIDS and crack but also of a defiantly festive cultural underworld. Not without drama, he found his way. But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes hilarious, excess and proved all too fleeting. And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated an end in his career and elsewhere in his life and put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song, his good-bye to all that, the album that would in fact be the beginning of an astonishing new phase: the multimillion-selling Play. At once bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one's place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you're on your own, betting on yourself, but have no idea how the story ends, and so you live with the honest dread that you're one false step from being thrown out on your face. Moby's voice resonates with honesty, wit and, above all, an unshakable passion for his music that steered him through some very rough seas. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both and then, somehow, when you think it's over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians' memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age and something timeless about the human condition. Push play. Critic Reviews: "Even the most the most bizarre scenes are relayed with a deadpan charm." (New York Daily News) "...self-deprecating, hilarious and moving...." (Chicago Tribune) "Moby's writing comes alive when delving into the creative process of producing his music.... A distinctive addition to the recent spate of well-written memoirs by contemporary musicians." (Kirkus Reviews)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Paul McCartney: The Biography Author: Philip Norman Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Length: 30 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 05-05-16 Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 26 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Since the age of 20, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock 'n' roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood - blighted by his mother's death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Enter Helen Subtitle: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman Author: Brooke Hauser Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 04-19-16 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and a trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman. In the mid-'60s, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl, took over the ailing Cosmopolitan magazine and revamped it into one of the most successful brands in the world. At a time when magazines taught housewives how to make the perfect casserole, Helen reimagined Cosmo and womanhood itself, championing the independent, ambitious, man-loving single woman. Though she was married to Hollywood producer David Brown, no one embodied the idea of the Cosmo Girl more than the Ozarks-born Helen, who willed, worked, and - yes - occasionally slept her way to the top, eventually becoming one of the most influential media players in the world. Drawing on new interviews with Helen's friends and former colleagues as well as her personal letters, Enter Helen brings New York City vibrantly to life during the sexual revolution and the women's movement and features a cast of characters including Hugh Hefner, Nora Ephron, and Gloria Steinem. It is the cinematic story of an icon who bucked convention, defined her own destiny, and became a controversial model for modern feminism, laying the groundwork for television shows like Sex and the City and Girls. "Bad feminist" or not, Helen Gurley Brown got people talking - about sex, work, reproductive choices, and having it all - forever changing the conversation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Actual One Subtitle: How I Tried, and Failed, to Remain Twenty-Something for Ever Author: Isy Suttie Narrator: Isy Suttie Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 01-28-16 Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Performed by Isy Suttie, and featuring three songs from the book. This audio edition also includes an exclusive extra song and a unique introduction. Isy woke up one day in her late 20s to discover that the invisible deal she'd done with her best mates - that they'd prolong growing up for as long as possible - had all been in her head. Everyone around her is suddenly into mortgages, farmers' markets and nappies rather than the idea of running naked into the sea or getting hammered in Plymouth with 80-year-old men. When her dearest friend advises her that the next guy Isy meets will be the actual one, Isy decides to keep delaying the onset of adulthood - until a bet with her mother results in a mad scramble to find a boyfriend within a month. From papier-mâché penguins to being stranded on a dual carriageway in nothing but a fur coat and trainers, The Actual One is an ode to the confusing wilderness of your late 20s alongside a quest for a genuinely good relationship with a man who doesn't use moisturiser.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Female Icons Subtitle: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag Author: Carl Rollyson Narrator: Diane Lehman Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 12-11-15 Publisher: Carl Rollyson Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This volume represents more than 25 years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and on the nature of biography itself. This book includes a selection of Rollyson's New York Sun book reviews dealing with female icons such as Mary Stuart, Mary Wollstonecraft, the Brontës, Marie Curie, Harriet Tubman, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Plath. Rollyson's writing about icons has provoked him to question the process by which selves are defined. Discovering the shaping mechanisms of the self is simultaneously a way of understanding how biographies are built. In the end, this book should be of interest not merely to devotees of Monroe, Sontag, and other icons but also to anyone curious about the nature of biography and the biographer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: You're Making Me Hate You Author: Corey Taylor Narrator: Corey Taylor Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-15 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In his first title, front man of Slipknot and Stone Sour Corey Taylor took on the seven deadly sins, pulling them apart to reveal all that is irrelevant and wrong about the vices in the modern world through his own uniquely hilarious yet ferocious style. But in Corey's eyes that's not all that is wrong with the world today.... From bad music, fame and infomercials to raising kids, sex and airport security, You're Making Me Hate You is the result of a one-man mission to demonstrate the alarming rise in worldwide idiocy, buffoonery and out-and-out disregard for intelligent thought. Rant filled but eloquent, shocking but intelligent, this is best-selling author Corey Taylor at his most Corey Taylor, and he doesn't leave himself out either... turns out he's just as f***ing stupid as the rest of us, too.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The White Road Subtitle: A pilgrimage of sorts Author: Edmund de Waal Narrator: Michael Maloney Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-15 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 "Other things in the world are white, but for me porcelain comes first." A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way he meets the witnesses to its creation - those who were inspired or made rich or heartsick by it and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times. In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the white gold' he has worked with for decades.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: An Unauthorized Guide to Brandon Sanderson: A Short Biography of the Author of the Gathering Storm and Infinity Blade Author: Malcolm Stone Narrator: Scott Clem Format: Unabridged Length: 9 mins Language: English Release date: 09-23-15 Publisher: Malcolm Stone Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This audiobook profiles Brandon Sanderson. As one of the world's leading fantasy authors, Sanderson received a major boost when Robert Jordan's widow asked him to continue the Wheel of Time series. Find out how Sanderson became a best seller and how his career has developed.

Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Titolo: Leonardo Da Vinci: L'uomo, l'artista, lo scienziato Autore: Dalila Tossani Narratore: Lorenzo Visi Formato: Unabridged Durata: 1 hr and 55 mins Lingua: Italiano Data di pubblicazione: 08-17-15 Editore: Area 51 Short Valutazioni: 3 su 5 su 1 voti Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Riepilogo Editore: Le età della vita di Leonardo furono marcate da ricerche e spostamenti, sia attraverso luoghi fisici sia - soprattutto - attraverso le discipline che egli studiò e intrecciò in un continuo avanzamento. La sua fu una vita affascinante, tanto che da secoli viene studiata, catturando la curiosità di tutti, dagli storici dell'arte ai critici, dai filosofi agli psicologi, fino a ciascuno di noi. Fu a Firenze, la culla dell'arte rinascimentale, che cominciò a occuparsi di numerose discipline artistiche, senza dimenticare gli interessi che Leonardo coltivava fin dalla giovane età, infatti si occupò anche di ingegneria, architettura, anatomia e musica. Questo ritratto racchiude in sé i molti aspetti del poliedrico artista che amava rifugiarsi nei suoi interminabili e affascinanti studi, in cui non c'erano limiti, dove la matematica, l'arte, la musica e la scienza trovavano un unico filo conduttore, quello legato al desiderio di sapere, alla sete di conoscenza che è l'eredità che ci ha lasciato l'opera di uno dei più grandi Maestri del Rinascimento italiano, un genio immortale. ©2015 Audible GmbH (P)2015 Audible GmbH

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: An Unauthorized Guide to Donna Leon: A Short Biography of the Author of the Guido Brunetti Mystery Novels Author: Malcolm Stone Narrator: Tom McElroy Format: Unabridged Length: 12 mins Language: English Release date: 08-11-15 Publisher: Malcolm Stone Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This article profiles Donna Leon. Best known for her Venetian detective, Guido Brunetti, Leon is an international best seller. Find out how she became a success and how her career has developed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bronte Cabinet Subtitle: Three Lives in Nine Objects Author: Deborah Lutz Narrator: Kimberley Windsor Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 08-10-15 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed. In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontës through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed. By unfolding the histories of the meaningful objects in their family home in Haworth, Lutz immerses listeners in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters' daily lives while moving us chronologically forward through the major biographical events: the death of their mother and two sisters, the imaginary kingdoms of their childhood writing, their time as governesses, and their determined efforts to make a mark on the literary world. From the miniature books they made as children to the blackthorn walking sticks they carried on solitary hikes on the moors, each personal possession opens a window onto the sisters' world, their beloved fiction, and the Victorian era. A description of the brass collar worn by Emily's bull mastiff, Keeper, leads to a series of entertaining anecdotes about the influence of the family's dogs on their writing and about the relationship of Victorians to their pets in general. The sisters' portable writing desks prove to have played a crucial role in their writing lives: it was Charlotte's snooping in Emily's desk that led to the sisters' first publication in print, followed later by the publication of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Charlotte's letters provide insight into her relationships, both innocent and illicit, including her relationship with the older professor to whom she wrote passionately. And the bracelet Charlotte had made of Anne and Emily's intertwined hair bears witness to her profound grief after their deaths. Lutz captivatingly shows the Brontës anew by bringing us deep inside the physical world in which they lived and from which their writings took inspiration.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: An Unauthorized Guide to Alexander McCall Smith Subtitle: The Author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series Author: Malcolm Stone Narrator: Tom McElroy Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 08-06-15 Publisher: Malcolm Stone Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This article profiles Alexander McCall Smith. The versatile author has published more than 100 books. Find out how he became a writer and how his career has developed.

Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Titolo: Vincent Van Gogh: I colori del tormento Autore: Andrea Lattanzi Barcelò Narratore: Fabio Farnè Formato: Unabridged Durata: 2 hrs and 6 mins Lingua: Italiano Data di pubblicazione: 08-04-15 Editore: Area 51 Short Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Riepilogo Editore: In questo ritratto, racconteremo la vita di Van Gogh a partire dai primi anni, dalla nascita a un anno esatto dalla morte del fratello maggiore suo omonimo. Conosceremo la famiglia Van Gogh, una famiglia patriarcale, molto religiosa e chiusa. All'interno di questo contesto, Vincent sviluppò una forte propensione verso la missione religiosa fino a decidere di dedicare la sua vita a Dio. Contemporaneamente, durante il periodo di fervore mistico, nel giovane Vincent comparvero i tratti della ribellione e i primi malesseri psichici. Ripercorreremo le tre esperienze amorose che segnarono la vita di Van Gogh e i suoi primi passi come pittore. Infatti, a partire dal 1880, avviò una produzione pittorica densa e continuativa che lo portò a Parigi, poi ad Arles, alla ricerca dei colori puri e della luce unica della Provenza. Qui la malattia avanzò con lo stesso ritmo frenetico con cui Van Gogh dipingeva. In un solo anno, il 1888, Van Gogh dipinse decine e decine di tele ed ebbe diversi attacchi che lo costrinsero a rimanere in una casa di cura. Gli ultimi due anni di vita di Van Gogh trascorsero così tra ospizi e ospedali psichiatrici, fino al suicidio nel luglio del 1890. ©2015 Audible GmbH (P)2015 Audible GmbH

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Legends of The Enlightenment Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Voltaire Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 07-02-15 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "To hold a pen is to be at war." - Voltaire "All men are equal; it is not their birth, but virtue itself that makes the difference." - Voltaire The grand narrative of the Enlightenment, usually recounted and understood in terms of progress and modernity, generally appears as a simplified evolution from the trappings of superstition, feudalism, and everything "irrational" to a world more similar to today's world. Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited for the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as individual and collective freedom and liberty. At the heart of the movement in France was François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, whose voluminous writings advocated for greater liberalism, including the freedom of religion and the separation of church and state. In addition to the classic Candide, Voltaire was a biting polemic whose satirical attacks on the Catholic Church were among the fiercest of his day. He also understood the risks he was taking with these writings, at one point explaining, "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong." The Enlightenment is looked upon fondly, and it serves to reinforce the notion that the present is superior to the past, but things did not change as rapidly or as completely as many believe. In fact, some recent historians have challenged the belief that the Enlightenment was responsible for the French Revolution, which is a vital issue when it comes to Voltaire. After all, Voltaire, as his contemporaries and as most of his modern listeners know him, is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Enlightenment thought, the symbol of the era of reason, and the harbinger of modern values.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Notes to Boys Subtitle: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public Author: Pamela Ribon Narrator: Pamela Ribon Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 06-24-15 Publisher: Rare Bird Books Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public is a "mortifying memoir" from best-selling author and tv/film writer Pamela Ribon. Miserably trapped in small-town Texas, with no invention of the Internet in sight, Ribon spent countless hours of her high school years writing letters to her (often unrequited) crushes. The big question is: Why did she always keep a copy for herself? Wince along with Ribon as she tries to understand exactly how she ever thought she'd win a boy's heart by writing him a letter that began: "Share with me your soul" and ended with some remarkably awkward erotica. You'll come for the incredibly bad poetry, you'll stay for the incredibly bad poetry about racism. Critic Reviews: "...[B]rain-breakingly funny.... [H]ugely relatable, very entertaining.... It's a collection of embarrassing stories and mortifying notes, yes, but it's also a pretty deeply felt memoir about her introduction to boys and sex...." (Linda Holmes, NPR)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American Legends: The Life of Stanley Kubrick Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Scott Clem Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 06-22-15 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "When I made my first film, I think the thing that probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination." - Stanley Kubrick There may be no director in American film history who was better able to combine commercial appeal with art-house style than Stanley Kubrick. As his career progressed, his films grew increasingly challenging, with slow, methodical plots that made for running times that spanned upwards of three hours. No matter how much Kubrick may have broken away from the standard 90-minute Hollywood fare and threatened to alienate his audience, there is no denying the special place his films hold in pop culture. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), and The Shining (1980) remain among the more widely loved films of the latter half of the 20th century among both critics and casual moviegoers alike.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Vera Brittain and the First World War Subtitle: The Story of Testament of Youth Author: Mark Bostridge Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 06-16-15 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth while charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the midst of her studies at Oxford when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a VAD (voluntary aid detachment) nurse. There she treated soldiers in London, Malta, and Etaples. The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life. Four of Brittain's closest friends, including her fiancé, Roland Leighton, and her brother, Edward Brittain, MC, were killed in action, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. In 1933 she published Testament of Youth, the first of three books dealing with her experience of war. In equal measures courageous, tragic, and deeply fascinating, Testament of Youth is one of the most compelling and important works of war literature ever to have been written by a British woman. Mark Bostridge's Vera Brittain and the First World War, published to coincide with the film of Testament of Youth, explores the effects of the First World War on Vera Brittain both in terms of her personal life and in terms of its effect on her development as a writer and her eventual decision to become a pacifist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Rousseau and Voltaire Subtitle: The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 06-05-15 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "To hold a pen is to be at war." (Voltaire) "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself." (Rousseau) The grand narrative of the Enlightenment, usually recounted and understood in terms of progress and modernity, generally appears as a simplified evolution from the trappings of superstition, feudalism, and everything "irrational" to a world more similar to today's world. Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited with the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as the value of the individual, collective freedom, and liberty. At the heart of the movement in France was François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, whose voluminous writings advocated for greater liberalism, including freedom of religion and separation of church and state. In addition to the classic Candide, Voltaire was a biting polemic whose satirical attacks on the Catholic Church were among the fiercest of his day. He also understood the risks he was taking with these writings, at one point explaining, "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong." The Enlightenment is looked upon fondly, and it serves to reinforce the notion that the present is superior to the past, but things did not change as rapidly or as completely as many believe. In fact, some recent historians have challenged the belief that the Enlightenment was responsible for the French Revolution, which is a vital issue when it comes to Voltaire. After all, Voltaire, as both his contemporaries and most of his modern readers know him, is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Enlightenment thought, the symbol of the era of reason.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Título: Godard [Spanish Edition] Subtitular: Genio y grandeza [Genius and Grandeur] Autor: Online Studio Productions Narrador: uncredited Formato: Unabridged Duración: 28 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 04-30-15 Editor: Online Studio Productions Calificaciones: 1 de 5 de 1 votos Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: Cultivador de un cine creador, vanguardista, pero accesible en su conjunto, este excelente director de cine franco-suizo es considerado uno de los miembros más influyentes de la nouvelle vague, a la vez caracterizado por su acidez crítica y por la poesía de sus imágenes. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American Legends: The Life of Andy Kaufman Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer Format: Unabridged Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 04-29-15 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Andy Kaufman never liked to call himself a comedian, so it's a testament to his skills and routines that he is nonetheless considered one of the late 20th century's most famous comedians. In fact, Kaufman's eccentric style and theatrics made him one of the most unique performers of his era, whether it was doing a song and dance routine or staying in character to the extent that nobody could tell whether he was being himself or not. To this day, Kaufman is probably best known for his staged wrestling storyline with Jerry "The King" Lawler, which included one of professional wrestling's most famous bouts, and true to form, Kaufman subsequently went on Late Night With David Letterman with a neck brace, claiming he had suffered a broken neck as a result of a piledriver. For his part, Kaufman admitted, "What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality." Given his abilities and propensity for practical jokes and outright hoaxes, Kaufman became extremely popular during the last decade of his life, boosted by countless performances on television shows and as Latka Gravas on the hit show Taxi. However, he was diagnosed with a rare type of lung cancer in his mid-30s and died within a few months near the peak of his popularity, which helped cement his cult status among fans. Fittingly, many of those same fans initially assumed that reports of Kaufman's illness and death were also a hoax, even those who had seen some him look gaunt and sickly during his final performances. It was an odd but appropriate tribute to a performer who had always been able to blur the lines between fiction and reality and keep audiences on their toes. American Legends: The Life of Andy Kaufman explores the life and career of one of America's most unique entertainers.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Título: El Tono Universal [The Universal Tone] Subtitular: Mi Historia en la Luz [My History in the Light] Autor: Carlos Santana, Ashley Kahn Narrador: Gustavo Rex Formato: Unabridged Duración: 22 hrs and 52 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 04-21-15 Editor: Hachette Audio Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 4 votos Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: En 1967 en el Auditorio Fillmore de San Francisco, un joven guitarrista tocaba un solo arrasador que anunciaba la llegada de un prodigioso talento. Dos años después tocaba una histórica función en Woodstock, y el mundo conoció a Carlos Santana. El Tono Universal es una atrapante historia sobre la autodeterminación musical y el autodescubrimiento. Describe la trayectoria de Santana desde los primeros días de su adolescencia como músico en Tijuana y el nacimiento de su característico sonido de guitarra; su papel como esposo, padre y estrella del rock; y la grabación de algunos de los álbumes de rock más influyentes de la historia. El Tono Universal abunda en una intrepidez musical que encuentra humor en el mundo de la fama de alto vuelo, habla llanamente de las revelaciones personales y celebra la posibilidad divina e infinita que Santana ve en cada persona que conoce. PLEASE NOTE: This audiobook is in Spanish. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Crítica Comentarios: Una de las memorias del rock más elocuentes de todos los tiempos. (Chris Willman, San Francisco Chronicle) Gracias a su vasto conocimiento del músico mexicano que generalmente deja que su música hable por él, este libro es el sueño de cualquier admirador de Carlos Santana... Y su mensaje parece tan profundo como el propio universe." (Felix Contreras, copatrocinador, Alt.Latino, Los mejores libros de 2014 de NPR)

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1321/ Título: José Ortega y Gasset Subtitular: La vida del filósofo y crítico de la sociedad moderna [José Ortega y Gasset: The Life of the Philosopher and Critic of Modern Society] Autor: Online Studio Productions Narrador: uncredited Formato: Unabridged Duración: 38 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 03-25-15 Editor: Online Studio Productions Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 4 votos Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: Una presencia de relieve en las letras castellanas. José Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 9 de mayo de 1883 - Madrid, 18 de octubre de 1955) fue un filósofo y ensayista español, exponente principal de la teoría del perspectivismo y de la razón vital e histórica, situado en el movimiento del Novecentismo. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.