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README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384269 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384269] to listen full audiobooks. Title: README.txt: A Memoir Author: Chelsea Manning Narrator: Chelsea Manning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous transparency activists and trans women. In 2010, Chelsea Manning was working as an intelligence analyst for the US Army in Iraq. She disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. By far the largest leak in history, these documents revealed a huge number of diplomatic cables and footage of atrocities. She was sentenced to 35 years in military prison. The day after her conviction, Chelsea declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. She was sent to a male prison, spent much of that time in appalling conditions in solitary confinement and attempted suicide multiple times. In 2017, after a lengthy legal challenge and an outpouring of support, President Obama commuted her sentence. README.txt is a story of personal revolt, resilience and survival. Chelsea details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence in Oklahoma and in her mother's native Wales. She writes revealingly and movingly about a period of homelessness in Chicago, living under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in the US Army, and the experience of coming to terms with her gender identity and undergoing hormone therapy in prison. We witness her Kafkaesque trial and heroic quest for release. This powerful, courageous and observant memoir sheds light on the big themes of today - identity, authenticity, technology, the authoritarian state - and will stand as one of the definitive testaments of our digital, information-driven age. 'Chelsea Manning is the biggest hero that ever lived' Vivienne Westwood 'Searing ... uplifting ... redemptive' The New York Times 'Electrifying ... an insider confessional turned inside out for the 21st century' Washington Post © Chelsea Manning 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392060 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392060] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Author: Suleika Jaouad Narrator: Suleika Jaouad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 90 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 23 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review   “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.

Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere by Ree Drummond

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390257 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390257] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere Author: Ree Drummond Narrator: Ree Drummond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. In this relatable, charming book, Ree unveils real goings-on in the Drummond house and around the ranch. In stories brimming with the lively wit and humor found in her cookbooks and her bestselling love story, The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, Ree pulls back the curtain and shares her experiences with childbirth, wildlife, isolation, teenagers, in-laws, and a twenty-five-year marriage to a cowboy/rancher. A celebration of family life, love, and (mostly) laughter, Frontier Follies is a keepsake to curl up with, have a good laugh, and remember all that’s wonderful (and funny) about family. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds by Sunny Hostin, Charisse Jones

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386248 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386248] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds Author: Sunny Hostin, Charisse Jones Narrator: Sunny Hostin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice. “What are you?” has followed Sunny Hostin from the beginning of her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raised by teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence of her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic scholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workings of the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federal prosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into a successful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first national reporters to cover Trayvon Martin’s death—which her producers erroneously labeled “just a local story.”   Today, an inescapable voice from the top echelons of news and entertainment, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice and give a voice to the marginalized. In her signature no-holds-barred, straight-up style, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility and personal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she worked on as a prosecutor and during her time at CNN, Fox News, ABC and The View. Timely, poignant, and moving, I Am These Truths is the story of a woman living between two worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what’s right.

[Spanish] - I Am These Truths Yo soy estas verdades (Spanish edition): Memorias sobre la identidad, la justicia y mi vida entre mundos by Sunny Hostin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390819 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390819] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - I Am These Truths Yo soy estas verdades (Spanish edition): Memorias sobre la identidad, la justicia y mi vida entre mundos Author: Sunny Hostin Narrator: Gabriela Guraieb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 22, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Asunción «Sunny» Hostin, la célebre coanfitriona de The View, siempre sintió que pertenecía a diferentes mundos y que debía elegir uno de ellos. De madre puertorriqueña y padre afroamericano, dejó atrás la pobreza y los obstáculos de su niñez en el sur del Bronx gracias a una combinación de esfuerzo, algo de suerte y becas universitarias. Al acabar sus estudios de Derecho, se sumergió de lleno en el sistema de justicia criminal y ejerció como fiscal en Washington, D.C. Más adelante, apostó todos sus conocimientos para convertirse en periodista legal. Fue una de las primeras que cubrió el caso de Trayvon Martin, contra el criterio de sus productores, que lo consideraban una historia local. Hoy, Sunny Hostin es una de las voces ineludibles del mundo de las noticias y entretenimiento y aprovecha su enorme visibilidad para abogar por la justicia social y los marginados. En este libro, Sunny reflexiona sobre su lucha por tener hijos, sus dilemas personales y muchos de los casos de alto perfil en los que trabajó en CNN, Fox News, ABC y The View, siempre con ese estilo incisivo y «sin pelos en la lengua» que tan bien la define. Yo soy estas verdades son las conmovedoras memorias de una mujer que supo compaginar varios mundos sin abandonar las raíces de su identidad, y logró el éxito profesional sin renunciar a sus ideales. Sunny Hostin es la galardonada periodista, reportera y coanfitriona de The View. Anteriormente fue analista legal y presentadora en CNN. Ha escrito para Forbes Woman, Essence, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Latina y Ebony. Es neoyorquina de pura cepa y vive con su esposo y dos hijos en Westchester, Nueva York.