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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Van Gogh's Inner Struggle Subtitle: Secrets of Van Gogh, Book 2 Author: Liesbeth Heenk Narrator: Denise Kahn Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 12-06-17 Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A fascinating look into the life of a tortured genius. Using Van Gogh's letters as a primary source, the author discusses the artist's life, his approach to his work, and his mental illness. The letters vividly show the artist's life was no bed of roses. Whereas Van Gogh perfectly knew what was sellable, he continued to produce what he considered as honest, truthful art, regardless of current taste. He did not expect the art-buying public to understand the rough appearance of his work. Van Gogh acknowledged that being an artist simply involved struggle, but he believed that one would benefit from adversity, both personally and professionally. "No victory without a battle, no battle without suffering." In Van Gogh's case, it seems to have been a never-ending battle against poverty, isolation, and adversity. Given his circumstances - being financially dependent upon his brother Theo, not selling any work, and getting minimal recognition - his achievements are utterly amazing. The Secrets of Van Gogh series:

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Mansfield Park Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Alison Larkin Presents Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Award-winning Jane Austen narrator Alison Larkin is back with this hugely entertaining recording of Mansfield Park, followed by fascinating bonus material! Eleven-year-old Fanny Price is "adopted" by wealthy relatives and leaves her life of poverty in Portsmouth for a much better life at Mansfield Park. Dependent, vulnerable, and often ignored, her only true friend in her new family is her cousin Edmund. When the reckless, flirtatious Crawfords arrive at Mansfield Park, Fanny must stand up for her principles in order to protect her heart. Mansfield Park is followed by opinions on the novel by Austen's family and friends, never before heard on audio. Like most writers, Jane Austen was very interested in what her family and friends thought of her books. She wrote down their opinions of Mansfield Park, recording both the bad and the good. These opinions dating from 1814 and 1815 will give solace to any writer whose work has been criticized, and will amuse and delight Austen fans worldwide. "Alison Larkin's narration will captivate listeners from the first sentence. Her delicate voice and perfect English accent sweep the listener back in time, right into the lives of the characters.... Austen's nineteenth-century writing style flows off Larkin's tongue, making the dense passages easy to understand." - AudioFile Magazine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Why Dylan Matters Author: Richard F. Thomas Narrator: Nick Landrum Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 11-16-17 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, the literary world was up in arms. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter in his 70s, who wouldn't even deign to make a victory speech? In Why Dylan Matters, Harvard professor Richard F. Thomas answers that question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil and Ovid. Dylan's Nobel Prize win brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the limelight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas' famous course and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of classical poets. The most dazzlingly original and compelling Dylan book in decades, Why Dylan Matters will amaze and astound everyone from the first-time listener to the lifetime fan. You'll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again. Critic Reviews: "At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan. Richard Thomas takes us from Dylan's high school Latin club to his haunting engagement with Ovid and Homer in recent albums. He carefully argues that Dylan's poetry deserves comparison with Virgil's - and Thomas, senior professor of Latin at Harvard and author of some of the most influential modern studies of Virgil, should know!" (Mary Beard) "In Why Dylan Matters, Professor Thomas reveals how Dylan's work transfigures Western literature and history into a magical world of song and performance that secures Dylan's place in a pantheon of literary heroes from Virgil to Eliot. A critical breakthrough that makes a masterful case for why Dylan is the bard of our times." (Andrew McCarron, author of Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan) "Richard Thomas has created a monument to Bob Dylan - and, also, a Rosetta Stone. The erudite and politically engaged Thomas is the perfect guide through the wondrous mystery of Dylan's genius." (James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Life and Legacy of James Joyce Subtitle: Pioneer of Modern Literature Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Mark Norman Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 11-06-17 Publisher: Charles River Editors Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "His writing is not about something. It is that something itself." (Samuel Beckett, Joyces friend and secretary, about Finnegans Wake) James Joyce is the high priest of modernist writing who lived a life of endless sacrifice to literature, loaded with poverty and petty humiliations. He blazed the path of the writer as resolute individualist, rejecting all conformity and risking everything, even public shaming, in order to "communicate" over the supine body of language with his enthralled readers. He once remarked to his younger brother Stanislaus, Dont you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? I mean that I am trying...to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own...for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift. Joyce pioneered modern literature through his use of stream of consciousness, a literary technique that lets readers get straight into the mind of the books characters and stands in stark contrast to Ernest Hemingway's "iceberg" style of leaving things to the readers' imaginations. In his masterpiece Ulysses, Joyce explores several topics and thoughts that go through the mind of one man in Dublin for a day, and he also wrote other critically-acclaimed works such as the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). He said of his frequent use of Dublin as a setting, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal." The Life and Legacy of James Joyce: Pioneer of Modern Literature profiles the life and career of one of America's most famous entertainers. You will learn about Joyce like you never have before, in no time at all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Facing the Music Subtitle: My Story Author: Jennifer Knapp Narrator: Jennifer Knapp Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-17 Publisher: Oasis Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Jennifer Knapp's meteoric rise in the Christian music industry ended abruptly when she walked away and came out publicly as a lesbian. This is her story - of coming to Christ, of building a career, of admitting who she is, and of how her faith remained strong through it all. At the top of her career in the Christian music industry, Jennifer Knapp quit. A few years later, she publicly revealed she is gay. A media frenzy ensued, and many of her former fans were angry with what they saw as turning her back on God. But through it all, she held on to the truth that had guided her from the beginning. In this memoir, she finally tells her story: of her troubled childhood, the love of music that pulled her through, her dramatic conversion to Christianity, her rise to stardom, her abrupt departure from Christian contemporary music, her years of trying to come to terms with her sexual orientation, and her return to music and Nashville in 2010, when she came out publicly for the first time. She also talks about the importance of her faith, and despite the many who claim she can no longer call herself a believer, she maintains that she is both gay and a Christian. Now an advocate for LGBT issues in the church, Jennifer has witnessed heartbreaking struggles as churches wrestle with issues of homosexuality and faith. This engrossing, inspiring memoir will help people understand her story and to believe in their own stories, whatever they may be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Writing out Loud Subtitle: What a Blind Teacher Learned from Leading a Memoir Class for Seniors Author: Beth Finke Narrator: Robin J. Sitten Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 10-17-17 Publisher: Golden Alley Press Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll write. She's never taught a class in her life. But when the City of Chicago calls on blind writer Beth Finke to teach a memoir-writing class for older adults, she reluctantly agrees. What she learns about her students, their stories, and herself will move and inspire you. Written the way Beth hears life, you will come to know and love Minerva, Wanda, Hannelore, and the whole colorful cast of characters who build a community around Beth's classes. Generously sprinkled with excerpts in her students' own voices, Beth's book will convince you to get your own stories down on paper while there's still time. Critic Reviews: "Honest, lyrical, and funny...a beautifully-felt and deeply moving tribute to the ways sharing life stories can connect us with others, and sometimes, with ourselves." (Miriam E. Nelson, PhD, best-selling author of Strong Women Stay Young)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lou Reed Subtitle: A Life Author: Anthony DeCurtis Narrator: Peter Coleman Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 10-05-17 Publisher: John Murray Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The essential biography of the Velvet Underground singer and New York legend. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once the height of sanctity and perversity, transcended a genre, speaking to millions of listeners, inspiring a new generation of musicians and forever changing the way we think of that iconic era of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Throughout his five-decade career, Reed embodied artistic self-awareness and captured the beauty, paranoia and vivacity of his time into an array of hit songs and experimental albums and a larger-than-life persona. With such masterpieces as 'Sweet Jane' and 'Walk on the Wild Side', Reed exerted an influence on popular music rivalled only by the likes of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, and he is recognised to this day as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Now, just a few years after Reed's death, comes the thrilling, provocative story of his complex life. An acclaimed Rolling Stone contributor, Anthony DeCurtis interviewed Reed extensively and knew him well. With unparalleled access to Reed's friends and family and dozens of other intimate relations, DeCurtis brings Reed's story compellingly alive and deepens our understanding of his indelible music. We travel deep into the underground artist clubs, listen along in the studio as the Velvet Underground record their signature work and revel in Reed's relationship with legends like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith and David Bowie. Insightful, revelatory and intimate, Lou Reed is a gripping tribute to a quintessential American icon. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 101 Amazing Facts About Eminem Author: Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor Narrator: Kent Harris Format: Unabridged Length: 30 mins Language: English Release date: 09-13-17 Publisher: Andrews UK Limited Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Do you know Eminem's real full name? What did he want to do before his career in the music industry took off? What awards has he won? And how does he come up with his rhymes? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Kent Harris talks us through 101 amazing facts about the world's most famous rapper. Covering subjects such as his background, music, relationships and much more, this is an ideal audiobook for everyone from the casual listener right through to Eminem's biggest fan!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ice Diaries Subtitle: An Antarctic Memoir Author: Jean McNeil Narrator: Bridget Wareham Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 08-29-17 Publisher: ECW Press Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent - Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody's country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil's years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic, but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent. In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Otto Binder Subtitle: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary Author: Bill Schelly, Richard A. Lupoff - foreword Narrator: Derek Botten Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 08-22-17 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and predating Isaac Asimov's collection of the same name), Binder's effect on science fiction was profound. Within the world of comic books, he created or cocreated much of the Superman universe, including Smallville; Krypto, Superboy's dog; Supergirl; and the villain Braniac. Binder is also credited with writing many of the first "Bizarro" storylines for DC Comics as well as for being the main writer for the Captain Marvel comics. In later years Binder expanded from comic books into pure science writing, publishing dozens of books and articles on the subject of satellites and space travel as well as UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Comic book historian Bill Schelly tells the tale of Otto Binder through personal letters and interviews with Binder's own family and friends. Schelly weaves together Binder's professional successes and personal tragedies, including the death of Binder's only daughter and his wife's struggle with mental illness. A touching and human story, Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary is a biography that is both meticulously researched and beautifully told, keeping alive Binder's spirit of scientific curiosity and whimsy. Critic Reviews: "Bill Schelly has done an amazing job of capturing Otto and his family and friends, and explaining in an interesting way why his work was so important and precedent-setting." (Michael Uslan, executive producer of The Dark Knight Rises) "Otto Binder was a kind of titan, a precursor of the gods ...because he came up with basic primordial forms that later writers would perhaps polish to a greater luster. But Binder hewed them out of solid rock. He was mining the raw material." (Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta)

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ Título: Aquí viven leones [Here Live Lions] Subtitular: Viaje a las guaridas de los grandes escritores [Journey to the Dens of Great Writers] Autor: Fernando Savater, Sara Torres Narrador: German Gijon Formato: Unabridged Duración: 6 hrs and 43 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 08-08-17 Editor: Audible Studios para Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: Un delicioso recorrido por la obra y los lugares más emblemáticos de ocho escritores fundamentales. El regreso de Savater a su faceta más divulgativa. En Aquí viven leones, Fernando Savater vuelve a una de sus facetas favoritas, la de divulgador de la literatura y el pensamiento. A través de ocho viajes inolvidables, ilustrados magníficamente por Anapurna, nos presenta la obra y la vida de Shakespeare, Valle Inclán, Poe, Leopardi, Agatha Christie, Reyes, Flaubert y Zweig. Son ocho extraordinarias introducciones a sendos autores clave de la literatura universal de muy distintos registros. Un libro maravilloso para entrar en el mundo de estos escritores, conocer su obra y disponer de más claves para poder disfrutarla. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Uncommon People Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 Author: David Hepworth Narrator: David Hepworth Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 06-29-17 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course. In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of 40 rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst 100 myths and create 100 more. As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn't just their story. It's ours as well.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Rainer Maria Rilke: A Biography Author: Allison Broadway Narrator: Jonathan Dauermann Format: Unabridged Length: 20 mins Language: English Release date: 06-13-17 Publisher: Allison Broadway Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers. Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, and Italy; and in his later years settled in Switzerland - settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Secret Sisterhood Subtitle: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf Author: Emma Claire Sweeney, Emily Midorikawa, Margaret Atwood - foreword Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 06-01-17 Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen's bond with a family servant; the amateur playwright Anne Sharp; how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor; the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and the underlying erotic charge that lit the friendship of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield - a pair too often dismissed as bitter foes. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood. Critic Reviews: .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scratch Subtitle: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living Author: Manjula Martin Narrator: Sean Crisden, Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 05-09-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It's an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money? As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, and what success really means to them, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps listeners and writers understand what it's really like to make art in a world that runs on money - and why it matters.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Remembering Peter Sellers Author: Graham Stark Narrator: Graham Stark Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 04-27-17 Publisher: Right Recordings Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: As Peter Sellers' close friend and confidant over many years, actor Graham Stark is in the unique position to record the real story of the man as well as the actor. Graham Stark appeared in 13 films with Peter Sellers, including all the legendary Pink Panther movies, and their close personal and professional relationship led to the many extraordinary adventures chronicled in this lively and entertaining recording. From the public house in London, where the Goon Shows were born, to the exclusive Sardi's restaurant in New York, where Sellers was the toast of the town; from the golden days of radio and variety to the truth behind his involvements with some of the world's most glamourous women, this warm and intimate memoir is packed with personal anecdotes which reveal the many and often surprising sides of the chameleon Sellers, whose own character was as complex and diverse as the legendary scene characters he created. Now available in an abridged form, this candid account of a friendship which lasted from their first meeting in the RAF in 1945 to Sellers' death in 1980 documents the life and times of a true comic genius.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Gone Subtitle: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung Author: Min Kym Narrator: Rebecca Yeo Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 04-25-17 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off - and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice. Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star". But from the very beginning, Min Kym knew that music was the element in which she could swim and dive and soar. At seven years old, she was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School. At 11, she won her first international prize; at 18, violinist great Ruggiero Ricci called her "the most talented violinist I've ever taught". And at 21, she found "the one", the violin she would play as a soloist: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career took off. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned. Then, in a London café, her violin was stolen. She felt as though she had lost her soulmate, and with it her sense of who she was. Overnight she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence. In this lucid and transfixing memoir, Kym reckons with the space left by her violin's absence. She sees with new eyes her past as a child prodigy, with its isolation and crushing expectations; her combustible relationships with teachers and with a domineering boyfriend; and her navigation of two very different worlds, her traditional Korean family and her music. And in the stark yet clarifying light of her loss, she rediscovers her voice and herself.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ Título: Su nombre era Dolores [Her Name Was Dolores] Subtitular: La Jenn que yo conocí [The Jenn I Knew] Autor: Gabriel Vázquez Aguayo, Pete Salgado Narrador: Yareli Arizmendi, Eduardo Blancas Formato: Unabridged Duración: 9 hrs and 22 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 04-25-17 Editor: HarperCollins Español Calificaciones: 3.5 de 5 de 3 votos Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: La historia jamás contada del ícono musical, Jenni Rivera, relatada a través de la perspectiva de dos exmánagers, Pete Salgado y Gabriel Vazquez, y es la base para la serie de televisión que se transmitirá en Univision.Este libro nos lleva al ojo del huracán y ofrece una perspectiva a las estrategias y momentos que llevaron a Jenni a los titulares nacionales. Pete Salgado fue un apoyo fundamental en la carrera de Jenni, y lo considerado como su quinto hermano. Salgado trabajó con ella casi una década y ayudó a negociar muchos de sus contratos. Jenni compartió cosas con él, que no compartió con nadie más, y llegó a conocerla en formas que nadie más lo hizo. Los meses previos a la muerte de Jenni estuvieron llenos de traiciones y desilusiones de las personas que ella más amaba y en quienes confiaba. Salgado aborda el tema y lleva a los lectores a descifrar algunos de los tuits publicados por Jenni, así como también esclarece asuntos tales como: ¿Chiquis tuvo un romance con el esposo de Jenni, Esteban? ¿Quién era realmente El Pelón, acerca del que Jenni tuiteaba y qué significaba para ella? ¿Estuvo Jenni involucrada con el cartel de la droga? ¿El narco llamado El Barbie la maltrataba? ¿Iba Jenni a comprar un avión? ¿Fue la muerte de Jenni realmente un accidente? Este libro describe todo lo que pasó hasta ese momento final y, por primera vez, ofrece detalles sobre la belleza, el amor, la complejidad y el dolor de la relación de Jenni con Chiquis, la cual fue muy diferente y mucho más allá de la relación tradicional de madre e hija. Salgado comparte quién era Dolores realmente, la que sus seguidores no conocían y nunca vieron en el escenario...Salgado y Vazquez ofrecen una mejor perspectiva de la vida de la diva de la banda por las dos personas involucradas más profundamente en su carrera y que la conocían como nadie más. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Way of the Writer Subtitle: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling Author: Charles Johnson Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 04-18-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic, revered as much for its daring plot as its philosophical underpinnings. For 33 years Johnson taught and mentored students in the art and craft of creative writing. The Way of the Writer is his record of those years and the coda to a kaleidoscopic, boundary-shattering career. Organized into six accessible, easy-to-navigate sections, The Way of the Writer is both a literary reflection on the creative impulse and a utilitarian guide to the writing process. Johnson shares his lessons and exercises from the classroom, starting with word choice, sentence structure, and narrative voice and delving into the mechanics of scene, dialogue, plot, and storytelling before exploring the larger questions at stake for the serious writer: What separates literature from industrial fiction? What lies at the heart of the creative impulse? How does one navigate the literary world? And how are philosophy and fiction concomitant? Critic Reviews: "A meditation on the daily routines and mental habits of a writer...the book radiates warmth...a writer's true education might start in institutions, it seems, but for Johnson it is more a lineage of good, memorable talk." ( New York Times)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ambulance Drivers Subtitle: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War Author: James McGrath Morris Narrator: Dean Temple Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 03-28-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense 20-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. Rich in evocative detail - from Paris cafés to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West - The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides. Critic Reviews: "The story of the close yet volatile friendship between John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway.... [A] lively biography of their relationship.... A welcome new look at Dos Passos and another sad chapter in the life of Hemingway." (Kirkus Reviews) "Two of the most significant writers of their generation, John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, are described by Morris in his evocative, lively volume about how differently they emerged from the crucible of WWI.... Morris's narrative demonstrates how, despite jealousies and differences, the two men found common ground.... Dos Passos will be the less recognizable name to most readers, and Morris does a great service by reinserting him into the picture of post-WWI American writers." (Publishers Weekly)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: This Long Pursuit Subtitle: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Author: Sir Richard Holmes Narrator: Charles Armstrong Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 03-28-17 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In this chronicle of his lifelong obsession with recreating the lives of writers and scientists, Richard Holmes here casts a new eye not only on the Romantic poets and lost women of Romantic science he has long studied, but on their biographers, as well. He examines the evolution of the myths that have overshadowed certain lives (Percy Shelley's death at sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-fueled lectures), and reveals how the manner in which each generation tells the stories of the lives that came before it shapes and is shaped by a contemporary understanding of human nature. These portraits are deftly woven with Holmes' own experience as a biographer. A spellbinding examination of the nature of biographical knowledge, brimming with the infectious curiosity of Holmes' catalog.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Instrumental Subtitle: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music Author: James Rhodes Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 03-23-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny - James' prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives. Critic Reviews: "The publishing sensation of the year." (Mail on Sunday) "Thrilling and harrowing.... Unsurpassed and unsurpassable" (Sunday Times) "There is an insight, often startling but always valuable, on almost every page...a tough, riveting read." (The Times)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: My Utmost Subtitle: A Devotional Memoir Author: Macy Halford Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 02-07-17 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is the beautifully written and heartfelt memoir of a young woman from Dallas, Texas, wrestling with the evangelical Christianity of her childhood by examining the one item from it that she is still attached to, the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Raised in an evangelical household by her beloved grandmother and mother, Macy Halford eventually leaves Dallas for a career in journalism in New York City. She has only the devotional to remind her of her religious past - and learns quickly that, though the book sells nearly a million copies a year, no one she knows there has heard of it. Finally, excavating her spiky relations with her upbringing, she quits her coveted job at The New Yorker in order to look more deeply into the background of the devotional - with its daily selection from the sermons and writings of the Scottish evangelical preacher Oswald Chambers - wrestling with who Chambers really was, what ideas informed his teaching and beliefs, and why the book means so much to her. Halford interweaves her own story with that of the Chambers family: Oswald, who died ministering to British soldiers in Egypt in World War I, and his devoted wife, who spent her life publishing his speeches, sermons, and books. The result is that Halford has penned a captivating and candid memoir about what it means to be a Christian, a reader, and a seeker in the 21st century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Cerphe's Up Subtitle: A Musical Life with Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, CSNY, and Many More Author: Cerphe Colwell, Stephen Moore Narrator: Cerphe Colwell, Susan Colwell Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 02-01-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Cerphe's Up is an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a renowned rock radio broadcaster for more than 45 years in Washington, DC. Cerphe shares his life as a rock radio insider in rich detail. His story includes promotion and friendship with a young unknown Bruce Springsteen; his years at radio station WHFS 102.3 as it blossomed in a new freeform format; candid interviews with Little Feat's Lowell George, Tom Waits, Nils Lofgren, Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steven Van Zandt, Robert Plant, Danny Kortchmar, Seldom Scene's John Duffey, and many others; hanging out with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, John Entwistle, Jackson Browne, and many more; testifying on Capitol Hill with friend Frank Zappa during the "Porn Rock" hearings; and managing the radio syndication of both G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Stern. Player listings and selected performances at legendary DC music clubs Childe Harold and Cellar Door are also chronicled. Cerphe's Up is both historically significant and a fun, revealing ride with some of the greatest rock-and-roll highfliers of the 20th century. Cerphe's Up belongs on the list of every rock fan, musician, and serious music scholar.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: James Baldwin, an Original Author: Gloria Steinem Narrator: Marianne Fraulo Format: Unabridged Length: 30 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An interviewer once asked James Baldwin what he would say if a man from Mars suddenly appeared and asked, "What are you?" "At the time I left the country in 1948," he replied, "I would have answered your man from Mars by saying 'I am a writer'...Now I think I'd say to him: 'I am a writer with a lot of work to do and wondering if I can do it!'" A portrait of the singular author at 40, Gloria Steinem's James Baldwin, an Original finds Baldwin between rehearsals for his Broadway play, Blues for Mister Charlie, a tragedy loosely based on the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, as he attempts to get his vision from page to stage uncompromised - and wrestles with his growing fame as a writer and activist. James Baldwin, an Original was originally published in Vogue, July 1964. Cover design by Adil Dara.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Quicksand Subtitle: What It Means to Be a Human Being Author: Henning Mankell Narrator: Sean Barrett Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-17 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met but wish I had. I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years. It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life. And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss. Critic Reviews: "Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit." (Alexander McCall Smith, New Statesman) "An extraordinary book.... Profoundly moving." (The Guardian) "Quicksand defines life not by its ending but by the creative and humanitarian content that filled - and fulfilled - Mankell's life.... The essays sharpen with resounding poignancy." (Financial Times)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Selected Letters of Norman Mailer Author: Norman Mailer, J. Michael Lennon - editor Narrator: David de Vries Format: Unabridged Length: 29 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 11-30-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A genuine literary event - an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific - or more exposed - than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them deeply personal, keeping a copy of almost every one. Now the best of these are published - most for the first time - in one remarkable volume that spans seven decades and, it seems, several lifetimes. Together they form a stunning autobiographical portrait of one of the most original, provocative, and outspoken public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Compiled by Mailer's authorized biographer, J. Michael Lennon, and organized by decade, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer features the most fascinating of Mailer's missives from 1940 to 2007 - letters to his family and friends, to fans and fellow writers (including Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth), to political figures from Henry Kissinger to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and to such cultural icons as John Lennon, Marlon Brando, and even Monica Lewinsky. Here is Mailer the precocious Harvard undergraduate, writing home to his parents for the first time and worrying that his acceptances by literary magazines were "all happening too easy." Here, too, is Mailer the soldier, confronting the violence of war in the Pacific, which would become the subject of his masterly debut novel, The Naked and the Dead: "[I'm] amazed how casually it fits into...daily life, how very unhorrible it all is." Mailer the international celebrity pledges to William Styron, "I'm going to write every day, and like Lot's Wife I'm consigning myself to a pillar of salt if I dare to look back," while the 1980s Mailer agonizes over the fallout from his ill-fated friendship with Jack Henry Abbott, the murderer who became his literary protégé. ("The continuation of our relationship was depressing for both of us," he confesses to Joyce Carol Oates.) At last, he finds domestic - and erotic - bliss in the arms of his sixth wife, Norris Church ("We bounce into each other like sunlight"). Whether he is reflecting on the Kennedy assassination, assessing the merits of authors from Fitzgerald to Proust, or threatening to pummel William Styron, the brilliant, pugnacious Norman Mailer comes alive again in these letters. The myriad faces of this artist and activist, lover and fighter, public figure and private man, are laid bare in this collection as never before.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Set the Boy Free Author: Johnny Marr Narrator: Johnny Marr Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 11-03-16 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish immigrant parents and knew from an early age that he would be a musician. Forming his first band at 13, Marr spent his teenage years on the council estates of Wythenshawe playing guitar, devouring pop culture and inventing his own musical style. It wasn't until the early '80s, when Marr turned up on the doorstep of a singer named Steven Patrick Morrissey, that both a unique songwriting partnership and the group recognised as one of the most iconic bands of all time were formed. In 1983 The Smiths released their first single, and within a year their eponymous debut album reached number two in the UK chart, paving the way for mainstream and critical success on their own terms. For Marr, tensions within the band and desire for a wider musical scope led to his departure from The Smiths in 1987, ensuring the end of one of the most influential British groups of a generation. But this was just the beginning for Marr. From forming Electronic and The Healers to playing with Bryan Ferry, Talking Heads, Kirsty MacColl, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Bragg, Nile Rodgers and Bert Jansch to joining The Pretenders, Modest Mouse and The Cribs to recently collaborating with Hans Zimmer and receiving acclaim and worldwide success in his own right as a solo artist, Marr has never stopped. Here, for the first time, he tells his own side of the story. From roaming the streets of Manchester to constantly pushing musical boundaries as the most loved guitarist Britain has ever produced, Johnny Marr's memoir is the true history of music - told by one of its very own legends.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Missing Matisse Author: Pierre H. Matisse Narrator: Jean Brassard Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 11-01-16 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An artful journey of discovery in the search for true identity and truth. Born into a famous family of artists, Pierre Matisse grew up immersed in the artistic life of Paris and the French Riviera, spending time with some of the most famous artists of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The man he knew as his grandfather, legendary artist Henri Matisse, gave him his first painting lesson and a strong desire to become a great artist in his own right. Being a Matisse was an important part of young Pierre's identity. So he was crushed and bewildered when at the outbreak of World War II his mother suddenly announced to her 12-year-old son, "You are no longer a Matisse." With no explanation, she changed her son's name and sent him away. So began Pierre's lifelong search to solve the mystery of his true identity. What had happened? Why had his family seemingly rejected him? Who was his real father? Those questions are the intriguing backdrop to this memoir of Pierre's fascinating and adventurous life on three continents. Spanning the insider art world of 1930s Paris, the battles of World War II, the occupation of France by the Nazis, Pierre's involvement with the French resistance, his postwar work restoring art and historical monuments, and his eventual decision to create a new life in North America, The Missing Matisse is a story of intrigue, faith, and drama as one man journeys to discover the truth about who he is - before it's too late.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lil Wayne Subtitle: A Biography Author: Sam Bailey Narrator: Sean Lenhart Format: Unabridged Length: 17 mins Language: English Release date: 10-25-16 Publisher: Sam Bailey Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Lil Wayne is an American hip-hop recording artist and author from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, at the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo The B.G.'z, alongside fellow New Orleans-based rapper Lil' Doogie. In 1996, Lil Wayne formed the southern hip hop group Hot Boys with his Cash Money label-mates Juvenile, Young Turk and Lil' Doogie (who now goes by B.G.). Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that same year. Most of the group's success came with their platinum-selling album Guerrilla Warfare (1999) and the 1999 single "Bling Bling". Along with being the flagship artist of Cash Money Records, Lil Wayne is also the CEO of his own label imprint, Young Money Entertainment, which he founded in 2005. Lil Wayne's solo debut album Tha Block Is Hot (1999) was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. His subsequent albums, Lights Out (2000) and 500 Degreez (2002), went on to be certified gold. Wayne reached higher popularity with his fourth album Tha Carter (2004), which was led by the single "Go D.J." and his appearance on Destiny's Child's Top 10 single "Soldier" that same year. The album was followed by Tha Carter II (2005), as well as several mixtapes and collaborations throughout 2006 and 2007. Wayne gained more prominence with his sixth album Tha Carter III (2008), which became his most successful album to date, with first-week sales of over one million copies in the United States. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and includes the hit singles "Lollipop", "A Milli" and "Got Money".

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Turner Subtitle: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner Author: Franny Moyle Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 10-25-16 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters. J. M. W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist. Turner was very much a man of his changing era. In his lifetime he saw Britain ravaged by Napoleonic wars, revived by the Industrial Revolution, and embark upon a new moment of imperial glory with the ascendancy of Queen Victoria. His own life embodied astonishing transformation. Born the son of a barber in Covent Garden, he was buried amid pomp and ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral. Turner was accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy at the height of the French Revolution, when a climate of fear dominated Britain. Unable to travel abroad, he explored at home, reimagining the landscape to create some of the most iconic scenes of his country. But his work always had a profound human element. When a moment of peace allowed travel into Europe, Turner was one of the first artists to capture the beauty of the Alps, to revive Venice as a subject, and to follow in Byron's footsteps through the Rhine country. While he was commercially successful for most of his career, Turner's personal life remained fraught. His mother suffered from mental illness and was committed to Bedlam. Turner never married but had several long-term mistresses and illegitimate daughters. His erotic drawings were numerous but were covered up by prurient Victorians after his death. Turner's late impressionistic work was held up by his Victorian detractors as examples of a creeping madness. Affection for the artist's work soured. John Ruskin, the greatest of all 19th-century art critics, did what he could to rescue Turner's reputation, but Turner's very last works confounded even his greatest defender. Turner humanizes this surprising genius while placing him in his fascinating historical context. Franny Moyle brilliantly tells the story of the man to give us an astonishing portrait of the artist and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Weegee Subtitle: The Autobiography Author: Weegee Narrator: Clay Lomakayu Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 10-05-16 Publisher: The Devault-Graves Agency Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography, brought back with complete and unabridged text by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, was written toward the end of Weegee's life before he was the photographic legend he is today. Here he tells the story of how an impoverished Jewish immigrant named Arthur Fellig from Zlothev, Austria, came to grips with one of the toughest cities in the world and made it his own. In wisecracking prose that is a match for his unblinking ferocity behind the camera, Weegee recounts his days of taking tintypes of kids on ponies and how this knowledge of the streets and neighborhoods of New York led to him being the first on the scene of the city's every murder, disaster, and heartbreak. In Weegee: The Autobiography the author candidly and without reserve tells listeners about documenting the grisly street executions by Murder, Inc., tenements up in flames, child killers, lovers in the back rows of movie theaters, and the sexual misadventures of streetwalkers, pimps, and transsexuals, all in a voice that had seen it all and loved it all. Fans of Weegee's photography will not want to miss his story, told in the way only Weegee himself could tell. The new Devault-Graves Digital Editions version of Weegee: The Autobiography contains a wealth of new material. An original Afterword by author and critic Ed Ward is included.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Whisperin Bill Anderson Subtitle: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music Author: Bill Anderson Narrator: Peter Cooper, Bill Anderson Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-16 Publisher: Bill Anderson Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is the revealing portrait of a prolific singer, songwriter, and performer of country music. Mega country music hits like "City Lights" (Ray Price), "Tips of My Fingers" (Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold, Steve Wariner), "Once a Day" (Connie Smith), "Saginaw, Michigan" (Lefty Frizzell), and many more flowed from his pen, making him one of the most decorated songwriters in music history. Then he came to a point in his career when he questioned if what he had to say mattered anymore. Music Row had changed, a new generation of artists and songwriters had transformed the genre, and the Country Music Hall of Fame member and Grand Ole Opry star was no longer relevant. By 1990, he stopped writing. Bad investments left him near bankruptcy, and his marriage was falling apart. In Nashville, he was a museum pieceseen only as a nostalgia act. Anderson was only in his 50s when he assumed he had climbed all the mountains he was intended to scale. But Anderson, a product of a long-gone Nashville, worked to reinvent himself, and this biography documents Anderson's 50-plus-year careera career he once thought unattainable. Today, thanks to the support of musical peers and friends who believed in him, he continues to forge the path of lyrical integrity in music, harnessing his ability to craft a song that tells a familiar story, grabs you by the heart, and moves you. Anderson is the only songwriter in country music history to have a song on the charts in each of the past seven consecutive decades. A six-time winner of the Song of the Year Award and recipient of the BMI Icon Award, he has taken home many CMA and ACM Award trophies and garnered multiple Grammy Award nominations. With anecdotes of Anderson interacting with the superstars of American music, including such legends as Patsy Cline, Vince Gill, and Steve Wariner, this book highlights Anderson's trajectory in the business and his influence on the past, present, and future of the genre. Includes bonus music tracks.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Don't Suck, Don't Die Subtitle: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt Author: Kristin Hersh Narrator: Kristin Hersh Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 09-30-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "Friend, asshole, angel, mutant," singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt "came along and made us gross and broken people seem...I dunno, cooler, I guess." A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded 17 critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, including About to Choke, North Star Deserter, and At the Cut. In 2006, NPR placed him in the top five of the 10 best living songwriters, along with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen. Chesnutt's songs have also been covered by many prominent artists, including Madonna, the Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Sparklehorse, Fugazi, and Neutral Milk Hotel. Kristin Hersh toured with Chesnutt for nearly a decade and they became close friends, bonding over a love of songwriting and mutual struggles with mental health. In Don't Suck, Don't Die, she describes many seemingly small moments they shared, their free-ranging conversations, and his tragic death. More memoir than biography, Hersh's book plumbs the sources of Chesnutt's pain and creativity more deeply than any conventional account of his life and recordings ever could. Chesnutt was difficult to understand and frequently difficult to be with, but, as Hersh reveals him, he was also wickedly funny and painfully perceptive. This intimate memoir is essential listening for anyone interested in the music or the artist. Cover photo by Danny Clinch.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sinatra and the Jack Pack Subtitle: The Extraordinary Friendship Between Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy - Why They Bonded and What Went Wrong Author: Michael Sheridan, David Harvey Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 08-15-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A New York Times best seller Frank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s gang. He had his own famed "Rat Pack", made up of hard drinking, womanizing individuals like himself - guys like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford - but the guy "Ol' Blue Eyes" really wanted to hang with was Lawford's brother-in-law, the real chairman of the board, John F. Kennedy. In Sinatra and the Jack Pack, Michael Sheridan delves deep into the acclaimed singer's relationship with the former president. He shares how Sinatra emerged from a working class Italian family and carved out a unique place for himself in American culture, and how Kennedy, also of immigrant stock, came from a privileged background of which the young Frank could only have dreamed. By the time the men met in the 1950s, both were thriving - and both liked the good life. They bonded over their mutual ability to attract beautiful women, male admirers, and adoring acolytes. They also shared a scandalous secret: each had dubious relationships with the mafia. It had promoted Frank's career and helped Kennedy buy votes. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had, over two decades, compiled detailed and damning dossiers on their activities. From all accounts the friendship thrived. Then, suddenly, in March 1962, Frank was abruptly ejected from JFK's gang. This unique volume tells why. It will release shortly after a television documentary inspired by the book airs, is filled with a beloved cast of characters, and is the compelling, untold story of a tumultuous relationship between two American icons. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for listeners interested in history - books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times best seller or a national best seller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Accidental Life Subtitle: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers Author: Terry McDonell Narrator: Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 08-02-16 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 33 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A celebration of the writing and editing life as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are). You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated. In this revealing memoir, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he's known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny - playing "acid golf" with Hunter S. Thompson, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and Steve Jobs, working the European fashion scene with Liz Tilberis, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price. Here, too, is an expert's practical advice on how to recruit - and keep - high-profile talent; what makes a compelling lede; how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars; and how, in whatever format, on whatever platform, a good editor really works and what it takes to write well. Taking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today's digital landscape, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides, "Every time I run into Terry, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he's known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it's changed and where it's going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book." Critic Reviews: "Intelligent, entertaining, and chivalrous.... McDonell, founding editor of Outside magazine in 1977, has had tenures at or near the top of Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire and Sports Illustrated. Slashing costs and watching serious writers take buyouts felt [to him] 'like a great library was burning down.' But The Accidental Life is a fond book. It's a fan's notes from a man who, before the apocalypse, edited and often befriended many of his literary heroes.... He played touch football and ate oysters with James Salter; golfed while on LSD with Hunter S. Thompson and George Plimpton; canoed and drank with Peter Matthiessen; and helped explode an uptight dinner party alongside Edward Abbey.... McDonell's insistence on keeping the focus on his writers rather than himself has a humble appeal - this memoir is far from self-congratulatory. He writes winningly about his regrets [and] evokes the magazine-world heyday of lavish offices, drinks carts in the evening and expense-account hedonism. Some of the details will make freelance writers scream (I screamed, and I rarely write freelance any longer). The Accidental Life is a savvy fax from a dean of the old school." (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) "A great magazine editor is a Diaghilev commanding an executive desk, a miniature aircraft carrier from which ideas launch into the wild yonder.... Long-haulers are often the founders of publications that they infused with their personalities, ambitions, and pioneer spirit....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Frank Sinatra, My Father Subtitle: The Authorized Biography Author: Nancy Sinatra Narrator: Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 07-27-16 Publisher: Phoenix Books Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is the only authorized biography of the charismatic superstar, Frank Sinatra. Told by his daughter, Nancy Sinatra, with unabashed love and surprising candor, this memoir captures the understanding and depth of feeling that could only come from someone so closely linked. Accounts of her father's rise to fame as a hit singer, movie star, and international celebrity are as detailed as the stories of scandalous divorces, her brother's kidnapping, the false rumors of Mafia connections, and more. Listeners will treasure portions of this audio which feature actual recordings of Frank Sinatra, himself, relating the stories of his life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Florence Foster Jenkins Subtitle: The Inspiring True Story of the World's Worst Singer Author: Nicholas Martin, Jasper Rees Narrator: Katherine E. Kellgren Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 07-12-16 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 46 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing." Despite lacking pitch, rhythm, or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian parents, Florence was a talented young pianist, but her life was thrown into turmoil when she eloped with Frank Jenkins, a man twice her age. The marriage proved a disaster, and, in order to survive, Florence was forced to abandon her dreams of a musical career and teach the piano. Then her father died in 1909, and, newly installed in New York, she used a considerable inheritance to fund her passion. She set up a prestigious amateur music club and began staging operas. Aided by her English common-law husband, St Clair Bayfield, she worked tirelessly to support the city's musical life. Many young singers owed their start to Florence, but she, too, yearned to perform and began giving regular recitals that quickly attracted a cult following. And yet nothing could prepare the world for the astonishing climax of her career when, at the age of 76, she performed at the most hallowed concert hall in America. In Florence Foster Jenkins, Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees tell her extraordinary story, which inspired the film starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, directed by Stephen Frears.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, Darrell Dawsey Narrator: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 07-05-16 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run DMC keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today. As one-third of the legendary rap group Run DMC, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels - aka Legendary MC, The Devastating Mic Controller, and the King of Rock - had it all: talent, money, fame, prestige. While hitting number one on the Billboard charts was exhilarating, the group's success soon became overwhelming. A creative guy who enjoyed being at home alone or with his family, DMC turned to alcohol to numb himself, a retreat that became an addiction. For years he went through the motions. But in 1997, when intoxication could no longer keep the pain at bay, he plunged into severe depression and became suicidal. He wasn't alone. During the same period, suicide became the number-three leading cause of death among black people - a health crisis that continues to this day. In this riveting memoir, DMC speaks openly about his emotional and psychological struggles and the impact on his life and addresses the many reasons that led him - and thousands of others - to consider suicide. Some of the factors include not being true to who you are; feelings of loneliness, isolation, and alienation; and a lack of understanding and support from friends and family when it's needed most. He also provides essential information on resources for getting help. Revealing how even the most successful people can suffer from depression, DMC offers inspiration for everyone in pain - information and insight that he hopes can help save lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Fall of the House of Wilde Subtitle: Oscar Wilde and His Family Author: Emer O'Sullivan Narrator: John Telfer Format: Unabridged Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 06-02-16 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocating in 1848 a rebellion against colonialism. Proud, involved and challenging, she became a salon hostess and opened the Wildes' Dublin home at No. 1 Merrion Square to the public. Known as the most scintillating and stirring hostess of her day, she passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily. His father was Sir William Wilde, one of the most eminent men of his generation. Acutely conscious of injustices in the social order, Sir William laid the foundations for the Celtic renaissance in the belief that culture would establish a common ground between the privileged and the poor, Protestant and Catholic. But Sir William was also a philanderer, and when he stood accused of sexually assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his father's death, the Wildes moved to London, where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene. The one role that didn't suit him was that of the Victorian husband, as his wife, Constance, was to discover. For beneath the swelling forehead was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was unable to recognise when the party was over. The Fall of the House of Wilde for the first time places Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times and in the broader social, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive account, this is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, a man whose own fall from grace in a trial as public as his father's marked the end of fin de siècle decadence. Critic Reviews: "Emer O'Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature.... The meticulous scholarship and insight she brings are fantastically valuable. Not since Ellmann's masterly 1988 biography has a book been published that will be so warmly welcomed by those still held in thrill by the myth and reality of Oscar Wilde." (Stephen Fry)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: My Father, the Pornographer Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Chris Offutt Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 05-24-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: When Andrew Offutt died, his son, Chris, inherited a desk, a rifle, and 1,800 pounds of pornographic fiction. Andrew had been considered the "king of 20th-century smut", with a writing career that began as a strategy to pay for his son's orthodontic needs and soon took on a life of its own, peaking during the 1970s, when the commercial popularity of the erotic novel reached its height. With his dutiful wife serving as typist, Andrew wrote from their home in the Kentucky hills, locked away in an office no one dared intrude upon. Here he wrote more than 400 pornographic novels. The more he wrote, the more intense his ambition became and the more difficult it was for his children to be part of his world. Over the long summer of 2013, Chris returned to his hometown to help his widowed mother move out of his childhood home. As he began to examine his father's manuscripts, memorabilia, journals, and letters, he realized he finally had an opportunity to gain insight into the difficult, mercurial, sometimes cruel man he'd loved and feared in equal measure. Only in his father's absence could he truly make sense of the man and his legacy. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore Author: Dave Hill Narrator: Dave Hill Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 05-10-16 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to listen to again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men's room, or just about anywhere. It's your call, really. These days Dave has just the right amount of spare time to write books at home, preferably in his underwear, but things weren't always perfect. When he found himself pushing 30 while still living with his parents in Cleveland, unsuited for anything but what an "employment expert" vaguely called a career in "art, music, writing, or entertainment", he decided to visit some friends in New York for the weekend and never left. However, getting his life together wasn't as easy as he'd hoped, and even an illegally subletted, rent controlled fifth-floor walk-up studio apartment with a (for the most part) working toilet wasn't glamorous enough to erase the fact that his four siblings were all married with steady jobs and actual human offspring. And in recent years, Dave's father had grown tired of loaning him cash and living alone in the empty family home, neither of which made much sense to Dave, but whatever. Through the process of his father's eventual move to a retirement community, Dave and his dad bonded over the things in life that really matter: scorching-hot rock jams, the gluten allergy craze, 18-wheelers, Italian food (pizza and spaghetti), and whatever else could possibly be left after that. Meanwhile, Dave discovered his late-blooming manhood via experiences as disparate and dangerous as a visit to a remote Mexican prison, where he learned that people everywhere love the Eagles, and a martial arts class that pushed his resolve and his groin to their limits. In Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Hill's voice is sharp, carefree, and laced with just the right amount of profanity, and he is - seemingly despite himself - deeply empathetic as he portrays a difficult time in his family's life and grows up just enough to realize that maybe he and his dad aren't so different after all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe Subtitle: A Biography Author: Elaine Showalter Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 04-05-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to John Brown. But Samuel also wasted Julia's inheritance, isolated and discouraged her, and opposed her literary ambitions. Julia persisted and continued to publish poems and plays while raising six children. Authorship of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" made her celebrated and revered. But Julia was also continuing to fight a civil war at home; she became a pacifist, suffragist, and world traveler. She came into her own as a tireless campaigner for women's rights and social reform. Esteemed author Elaine Showalter tells the story of Howe's determined self-creation and brings to life the society she inhabited and the obstacles she overcame. Critic Reviews: "A rich life well deserving of reconsideration. Showalter provides a solid launching point." (Kirkus)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Sick Bag Song Author: Nick Cave Narrator: Nick Cave Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 03-03-16 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's journey with his band, the Bad Seeds, on a 22-day North American tour. Inspired by John Berryman's Dream Songs, it is an epic exploration of inspiration, creativity, loss, love and death. The book blends poetry, lyrics, memories, musings, flights of fancy and journal entries. The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled onto airline sick bags acquired during the internal flights taken by Cave during the tour. To some degree a companion piece to his feature doc 20,000 Days on Earth, The Sick Bag Song further explores and develops the mystique of Nick Cave.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sweet Dreams Are Made of This Subtitle: A Life in Music Author: Dave Stewart Narrator: Dave Stewart, Mick Jagger (Foreword) Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 02-09-16 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 61 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A no-holds-barred look into the remarkable life and career of the prolific musician, songwriter, and producer behind Eurythmics and dozens of pop hits. Dave Stewart's life has been a wild ride - one filled with music, constant reinvention, and the never-ending drive to create. Growing up in industrial Northern England, he left home for the gritty London streets of the '70s, where he began collaborating and performing with various musicians, including a young waitress named Annie Lennox. The chemistry between Stewart and Lennox was undeniable, and an intense romance developed. While their passion proved too much offstage, they thrived musically and developed their own sound. They called themselves Eurythmics and launched into global stardom with the massively popular album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). For the first time, Stewart shares the incredible, high-octane stories of his life in music - the drug-fueled adventures, the A-list collaborations and relationships, and the creative process that brought us blockbusters from Eurythmics like "Here Comes the Rain Again" and "Would I Lie to You" as well as Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More", No Doubt's "Underneath It All", Golden Globe winner "Old Habits Die Hard" with Mick Jagger, and many more. From great friendships and creative partnerships, including the group SuperHeavy along with Jagger, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, and A. R. Rahman, to inspired performances and intimate moments in the studio, Stewart highlights the musicians he admires and calls friends, from Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Elton John, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr to Bono, Bon Jovi, and Katy Perry. With a behind-the-scenes look at Stewart's innovative endeavors that keep him on the cutting edge of the music business, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This is a one-of-a-kind portrait of the creative heart of one of its most gifted and enterprising contributors.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ Título: María Felix: La vida del cine mexicano [Maria Felix: The Life of Mexican Cinema] Autor: Online Studio Productions Narrador: uncredited Formato: Unabridged Duración: 1 hr and 7 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 12-18-15 Editor: Online Studio Productions Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 1 votos Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen del editor: ¿Quién no ha contemplado en alguna de las cintas del cine de oro mexicano a una mujer de aspecto bello y seductor, pero a la vez tan cruel y fría? "La Doña", como se la conoció gracias a su insuperable interpretación del personaje literario Doña Bárbara, era poseedora de una personalidad que no distaba mucho de la poderosa terrateniente a la que encarnaba. Y fue así como su imagen trascendió la pantalla grande y simbolizó a la mujer mexicana talentosa, cuya vida y amores hicieron correr ríos de tinta en la prensa de su tiempo. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Cast of Characters Subtitle: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker Author: Thomas Vinciguerra Narrator: Tony Pasqualini Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 11-09-15 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine, The New Yorker. From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, and brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor, Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius" and who once mailed a pair of his underwear to Walter Winchell, who had accused him of preferring to go bare bottomed under his slacks. Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist; and the enigmatic E. B. White - an incomparable prose stylist and Ross' favorite son - who married The New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than 12 personalities but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike. Many of these characters became legends in their own rights, but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker's inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about, and published in America. Cast of Characters may be the most revealing - and entertaining - book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement".

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Albert Camus: Elements of a Life Author: Robert Zaretsky Narrator: Daniel Galvez II Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 10-13-15 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris' Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor than he. Yet Camus was already recognized around the world as the voice of a generation - a status he had achieved with dizzying speed. He published his first novel, The Stranger, in 1942 and emerged from the war as the spokesperson for the Resistance and, although he consistently rejected the label, for existentialism. Subsequent works of fiction (including the novels The Plague and The Fall), philosophy (notably, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel), drama, and social criticism secured his literary and intellectual reputation. And then on January 4, 1960, three years after accepting the Nobel Prize, he was killed in a car accident. In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus' development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. The book was published by Cornell University Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau: Preaching and Practicing Transcendentalism Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Punch Audio, Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 10-02-15 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Includes inspirational quotes from both Emerson and Thoreau Includes Emerson's article about Thoreau's life in the August 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly Includes a Bibliography of their works and secondary works about them. "Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau In the mid-19th century, Romantic literature was still in full bloom across the West, but some American authors began producing literature that, while still Romantic, was unique enough to be considered a different genre. This new genre, Transcendentalism, focused on the spirituality of the self and nature, not rejecting religion outright but concentrating on pragmatism and the importance of individuals as the spiritual center of the cosmos. In addition to drawing upon the Age of Enlightenment, Transcendentalist authors also utilized the philosophy of Plato, who taught that self-fulfillment through attaining knowledge should be an individual's ultimate goal. The leader of Transcendentalism, and the man who ushered the movement's practices and literature, was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1007/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Determined Heart Subtitle: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein Author: Antoinette May Narrator: Susan Duerden Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 09-29-15 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The Determined Heart reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption. The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful stepmother and a jealous stepsister. When she meets the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love, and they elope with disastrous consequences. Soon she finds herself destitute and embroiled in a torturous love triangle as Percy takes Mary's stepsister as a lover. Over the next several years, Mary struggles to write while she and Percy face ostracism, constant debt, and the heartbreaking deaths of three children. Ultimately, she achieves great acclaim for Frankenstein, but at what cost?