Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663063 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663063] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making It So: A Memoir Author: Patrick Stewart Narrator: Patrick Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Audie-Award Winners Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, MAKING IT SO, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life—from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim—proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself.

Exodus: The Shanghai Jews by Kate Mcall

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716329 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716329] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exodus: The Shanghai Jews Author: Kate Mcall Narrator: Michael Canavan, André Sogliuzzo, Anna Mathias, Shannon Cochran, Alan Shearman, Edita Brychta, Joanne Whalley, Arye Gross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 26 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Audie-Award Winners Publisher's Summary: As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China. In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors' own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land. Funding for this presentation is provided in part by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and The I. Michael Kasser Trust: Michael and Beth Kasser. Special thanks to Prof. Steve Hochstadt for his generosity in sharing his research and recordings to help create this work. Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2023. Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: Edyta Brychta as Lisbeth Loewenberg Michael Canavan as Herbert Greening Shannon Cochran as Ilse Greening Arye Gross as Gerard Kohbieter Anna Mathias as Trude Reisman Alan Shearman as Paul Reisman André Sogliuzzo as Ernest Culman Joanne Whalley as Melitta Colland. Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Recording Engineers: Mark Holden and Charles Carroll Sound Design: Mark Holden Editing and Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

This Terrible True Thing: A Visual Novel by Jenny Laden

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654726 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654726] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Terrible True Thing: A Visual Novel Author: Jenny Laden Narrator: Gail Shalan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Audie-Award Winners Publisher's Summary: In this heartbreaking multimedia debut—filled with drawings, poems, and journal entries—author Jenny Laden draws on her own experience to create a story of grief and transcendence, perfect for fans of Francesca Zappia and Jennifer Niven. Danielle Silver is a Philadelphia high school senior at the dawn of the ’90s. Ever since her parents split up, she has known her father was gay, but she never expected to be hit with the bombshell that he is HIV positive. As he sickens, and AIDS starts to claim the lives of his friends, Danielle searches for silver linings while trying to balance paralyzing fear, grief, her social life, and schoolwork—capturing all the feelings as adolescence and some hard facts collide. An Educator’s Guide is available: https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www.blackstoneaudio.com/docs/This%20Terrible%20True%20Thing_Education%20Guide.pdf

Tom Lake: A Novel by Ann Patchett

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640019 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640019] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tom Lake: A Novel Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Meryl Streep Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 472 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 158 Genres: Audie-Award Winners Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597911 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597911] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Lifeboat Author: Hazel Gaynor Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Audie-Award Winners Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Best Fiction Narrator in the 2024 Audie Awards Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war. In London, as the Blitz bombs rain down and the threat of German invasion looms, Lily Nicholls anxiously counts the days for news of her son and daughter’s safe arrival. But when disaster strikes in the Atlantic, Alice and Lily – one at sea, the other on land – will quickly become one another’s very best hope. The events of one night, and the eight unimaginable days that follow, will bind the two women together in unforgettable ways. Inspired by a remarkable true story, The Last Lifeboat is a gripping and triumphant tale of love, courage and hope against the odds. Praise for The Last Lifeboat ‘A journey into the worst hardships of war for two women … and yet throughout it is bathed in the warmth of love’ GILL PAUL ‘I loved this absorbing, heart-rending story and cared so much about the vivid, courageous characters. Superb storytelling’ TRACY REES ‘Gripping, devastating, tremendously moving … a tale of bravery and remarkable endurance, the kindness of strangers, and the power of hope’ JENNY ASHCROFT ‘I was utterly engaged … the characters brim with life, the plot is elegantly handled and the writing is terrific’ LIZ TRENOW ‘Totally absorbing, heartbreaking and heart-stopping’ CELIA REES ‘Endearing characters, terrific plot, and a superb sense of time and place made this riveting book unputdownable. I loved it’ PATRICIA SCANLAN ‘Historical fiction at it’s best, The Last Lifeboat completely swept me away, leaving me breathless with emotion. A must-read’ CARMEL HARRINGTON ‘A devastatingly beautiful tale of survival and courage’ AMANDA GEARD ‘Broke my heart and then mended it again’ KATE THOMPSON ‘A story of courage and triumph against the odds, this is historical fiction at its best’MY WEEKLY ‘A heart-wrenching read’ ANTONIA SENIOR, THE TIMES ‘This earth-shattering novel is both harrowing and hopeful’ Woman’s Own