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A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength by Mina Smallman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647582 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647582] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength Author: Mina Smallman Narrator: Sara Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 25, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday. Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Framed by Mina's experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole, A Better Tomorrow reflects on the lessons in strength, forgiveness and hope that life has taught her - from her difficult childhood, to her embrace of motherhood, her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England. Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina's beacon of hope. 'I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman' - Jess Phillips, MP 'Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm' - Guardian © Mina Smallman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

The Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain by Corinne Fowler

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650622 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650622] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain Author: Corinne Fowler Narrator: Corinne Fowler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 2, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton. Empire transformed rural lives: whether in Welsh sheep farms or Cornish copper mines, it offered both opportunity and exploitation. Fowler shows how the booming profits of overseas colonial activities directly contributed to enclosure, land clearances and dispossession. These histories, usually considered apart, continue to link the lives of their descendants now. To give an honest account, to offer both affection and criticism, is a matter of respect: we should not knowingly tell half a history. This new knowledge of our island stories, once gained, can only deepen Britons' relationship with their beloved landscape. ©2023 Corinne Fowler (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again by Robert Kagan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652398 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652398] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again Author: Robert Kagan Narrator: Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of democracy in the United States today. If Donald Trump loses the upcoming election, as he did in 2020, but refuses to accept the result, as he also did in the last election, he is likely to call on his millions of followers to repudiate the election results. It will be a short step from there to Republican-dominated states rejecting the legitimacy of the federal government and effectively seceding. The United States at that point will cease to be united, with grave consequences for both Americans and the world. In Rebellion, Kagan dives deeper than the op-eds and think pieces to explore the historical forces that have brought us to this moment—in particular the long history of opposition to liberalism, and to government, that has shaped America’s character from the time of the Revolution to today. Trump’s unique capacity to tap into that tradition of dissent and circumvent the American system has brought us to the edge of dissolution—not for the first time in our history but possibly the last. This is an elegant and deeply informed synthesis of history, contemporary politics, and ideas that sheds light on this crucial moment.

Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe by Jesse Watters

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657090 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657090] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe Author: Jesse Watters Narrator: Larry Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country? When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him: First, he liked these people. Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or other activists. They originated in personal drama. Most of these people didn’t need legislation. They needed a therapist. In Get It Together, the number one New York Times bestselling author and Fox News primetime host takes on Wokeism in a way no one else has. Through a series of (sometimes very) personal interviews with some of the most radical activists in the country, Watters discovers that these activists may be overlooking the most important change they need to make—within themselves. From activists working for climate change salvation, Black supremacy, and social justice to a professional cuddler and a transwoman who identifies as a wolf, Watters shows how many well-intentioned Americans have bought into causes invented and run by people who are illogical, emotional, and ill-informed. Through their stories, Watters uncovers common threads—childhood traumas, broken relationships, and a lack of introspection. What if the people obsessed with the end of the world are just hurting from how this one has treated them? What if that, rather than ideological disagreements, is the deeper root of our country’s political divide? Funny, fresh, and fascinating, Get It Together is sure to spark important conversations, and to inspire us to see one another not as political opponents, but as real and broken human beings.

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650871 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650871] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be a Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too Author: Ijeoma Oluo Narrator: Ijeoma Oluo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America. In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them? With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live. This book aims to not only be educational, but to inspire action and change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Be A Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.