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Grace of the Empire State by Gemma Tizzard

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788792 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788792] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace of the Empire State Author: Gemma Tizzard Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 28, 2025 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: In this breathtaking debut novel, a daring dancer must take her twin brother’s place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin. After the death of their father, it’s up to Grace O’Connell and her twin brother Patrick to support their family as the Great Depression takes its toll on New York City. When Grace is laid off from her dancing gig and Patrick is injured at work on the construction of the Empire State Building, desperation leaves them only one solution: Grace must disguise herself as Patrick and take his place on the half-built skyscraper. She soon proves herself as capable as any man on the steel, and her affection for the loyal men around her—especially Italian immigrant Joe—grows by the day. But when a terrible accident happens high above the city and Grace is the only one capable of saving her stranded colleague, she must make a split-second decision to risk everything or live with her conscience forever. Set against the backdrop of a city at a crossroads, this electrifying story is full of heart and hope, family and friendship, and the sacrifices we make for those we love.

How Grizzly Found Gratitude by Dennis Mathew

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/848445 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/848445] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Grizzly Found Gratitude Author: Dennis Mathew Narrator: Emma Andreasen Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 18, 2024 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: Gratitude, the attitude of being thankful, can get you through a bad day and sometimes, even a tough season in life. That is the simple yet profound message of How Grizzly Found Gratitude. In Dennis Mathew's third book, we meet a wandering and lost Grizzly who is heartbroken about missing home. Unexpectedly, he meets Bird and her friends, and they challenge him to rise above his circumstances and see the beauty all around him. With Bird's help, gratitude teaches Grizzly not to take anything for granted, the big or the small. In Dennis Mathew's How Grizzly Found Gratitude, young readers will learn to take an inventory of what they are grateful for, and to have a better life because of it.

The Rest Is Memory by Lily Tuck

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/828703 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/828703] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rest Is Memory Author: Lily Tuck Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 57 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: THE HEARTBREAKING STORY OF A YOUNG CATHOLIC GIRL TRANSPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ BECOMES A RASHOMON-LIKE RONDO BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST NOVELISTS. First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel, which frames Czeslawa’s story within the epic tragedy of six million Poles who perished during the German occupation. A decade prior to writing The Rest Is Memory, Tuck read an obituary of the photographer Wilhelm Brasse, who took more than 40,000 pictures of the Auschwitz prisoners. Included were three of Czeslawa Kwoka, a Catholic girl from rural southeastern Poland. Tuck cut out the photos and kept them, determined to learn more about Czeslawa, but she was only able to glean the barest facts: the village she came from, the transport she was on, that she was accompanied by her mother and her neighbors, her tattoo number, and the date of her death. From this scant evidence, Tuck’s novel becomes a remarkable kaleidoscopic feat of imagination, something only our greatest novelists can do. “Beautifully written, all the while instilling a sense of horror” (Susanna Moore), Tuck’s language swirls about, yet not a word is out of place. The subtly rotating images tumble out at us, accelerating as we learn about Czeslawa’s tragic stay in Auschwitz, the lives of real people such as the barbaric Commandant Rudolf Höss; his unconscionable wife, Hedwig; the psychiatrist and child rescuer Janusz Korczak; and the mordant Polish short story writer Tadeusz Borowski. Although we are certain of Czeslawa’s fate, we have no choice but to keep turning the pages, thoroughly mesmerized by Tuck’s near otherworldly prose. In Lily Tuck’s hands, The Rest Is Memory becomes an unforgettable work of historical reclamation that rescues an innocent life, one previously only recalled by a stark triptych of photographs. “The Rest Is Memory is a literary resurrection, as shattering as it is astonishing. Lily Tuck has done the impossible; from darkness and hideous cruelty, she has woven an unforgettable paean to hope, to life, to justice.”—Junot Diaz

How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management (series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Pliny

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795869 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795869] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management (series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) Series: Part of Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Author: Pliny Narrator: Graham Mack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of occupations, from merchant and doctor to architect and teacher. The Romans also enjoyed a relatively open society, where some could start from the bottom, work, invest, and grow rich. How to Make Money gathers a wide variety of ancient writings that show how Romans thought about, made, invested, spent, lost, and gave away money. The Roman elite idealized farming and service to the state but treated many other occupations with suspicion or contempt, from money lending to wage labor. But whatever their attitudes, pecunia made the Roman world go round. In the Satyricon, Trimalchio brags about his wealth. Seneca accumulated a fortune—but taught that money can't buy happiness. Eumachia inherited a brick factory from her father, married well, and turned to philanthropy after she was widowed. How to Make Money also takes up some of the most troubling aspects of the Roman economy, slavery and prostitution, which the elite deemed unrespectable but often profited from.

The Great Granny Gang by Judith Kerr

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809058 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809058] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Granny Gang Author: Judith Kerr Narrator: Geraldine McEwan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Humor Publisher's Summary: Here comes the fearless granny gang, The youngest eighty-two. They leap down from their granny van, And there’s nothing they can’t do! A gleeful celebration of why grannies are great! Through wonderfully rhythmical writing Judith Kerr OBE shows us that there is a lot more to this gang of grey-haired grannies than meets the eye! Full of charm and laugh-out-loud fun, this is a must for every child’s bookshelf.