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A Country Road, A Tree: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Memorial Prize for Historical Fiction by Jo Baker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256520 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256520] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Country Road, A Tree: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Memorial Prize for Historical Fiction Author: Jo Baker Narrator: David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 5, 2016 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance... Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art. Praise for Jo Baker's LONGBOURN: 'Intoxicating' Guardian 'Engrossing' Sunday Times 'Audacious' New York Times

Terrible Virtue: A Novel by Ellen Feldman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256482 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256482] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Terrible Virtue: A Novel Author: Ellen Feldman Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today. The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be different. Trained as a nurse, she fought for social justice beside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists, and other progressives, eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against puritanical, patriarchal lawmakers, send her to prison again and again, force her to flee to England, and ultimately change the lives of women across the country and around the world. This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom. With cameos by such legendary figures as Emma Goldman, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, H. G. Wells, and the love of Margaret’s life, Havelock Ellis, this richly imagined portrait of a larger-than-life woman is at once sympathetic to her suffering and unsparing of her faults. Deeply insightful, Terrible Virtue is Margaret Sanger’s story as she herself might have told it.

Sisi: Empress on Her Own: A Novel by Allison Pataki

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256603 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256603] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sisi: Empress on Her Own: A Novel Series: #2 of Sisi Author: Allison Pataki Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sweeping historical novel that tells the dramatic story of Sisi, the empress of Austria-Hungary who fought for her family, her people, and her empire in a changing world “Irresistible—completely impossible to put down . . . Allison Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning book.”—Michelle Moran, bestselling author of Rebel Queen Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz not only with imperial waltzes and champagne but with temptations, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi finds solace at her estate outside Budapest, where she rides her beloved horses and enjoys visits from a man with whom she’s unwittingly become enamored. But tragic news brings the empressout of her fragile seclusion, forcing her to return to her capital and a world of gossip, envy, and sorrow where a dangerous fate lurks in the shadows.   Through love affairs and loss, dedication and defiance, Sisi struggles against conflicting desires: to keep her family together, or to flee amid the collapse of her suffocating marriage and the gathering tumult of the First World War. In an age of crumbling monarchies, the empress fights to assert her right to the throne beside her husband, to win the love of her people and the world, and to save an empire. But in the end, can she save herself? Featuring larger-than-life historic figures such as Bavaria’s “Mad King Ludwig” and the tragic Crown Prince Rudolf, and set against many of Europe’s grandest sites—from Germany’s storied Neuschwanstein Castle to England’s lush shires—Sisi brings to life an extraordinary woman and the romantic, volatile era over which she presided.

The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256044 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256044] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder Author: William Anderson, Laura Ingalls Wilder Narrator: Tish Hicks, John Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America’s most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder—a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal portrait of this revered American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and dealings with family, friends, and fans as never before. This is a fresh look at the adult life of the author in her own words. Gathered from museums and archives and personal collections, the letters span over sixty years of Wilder’s life, from 1894–1956 and shed new light on Wilder’s day-to-day life. Here we see her as a businesswoman and author—including her beloved Little House books, her legendary editor, Ursula Nordstrom, and her readers—as a wife, and as a friend. In her letters, Wilder shares her philosophies, political opinions, and reminiscences of life as a frontier child. Also included are letters to her daughter, writer Rose Wilder Lane, who filled a silent role as editor and collaborator while the famous Little House books were being written. Wilder biographer William Anderson collected and researched references throughout these letters and the result is an invaluable historical collection, tracing Wilder’s life through the final days of covered wagon travel, her life as a farm woman, a country journalist, Depression-era author, and years of fame as the writer of the Little House books. This collection is a sequel to her beloved books, and a snapshot into twentieth-century living.

Gone with the Mind by Mark Leyner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256400 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256400] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone with the Mind Author: Mark Leyner Narrator: Mark Leyner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: The blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's 'rare, true original voices' (Gary Shteyngart). Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, Gone with the Mind is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it. In this utterly unconventional novel -- or is it a memoir? -- Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shopping mall. The 'audience' consists of Mark's mother and some stray Panda Express employees, who ask a handful of questions. The action takes place entirely at the food court, but the territory covered in these pages has no bounds. A joyride of autobiography, cultural critique, DIY philosophy, biopolitics, video games, demagoguery, and the most intimate confessions, Gone with the Mind is both a soulful reckoning with mortality and the tender story of the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son. At once nostalgic and acidic, deeply humane, and completely surreal, Gone with the Mind is a work of pure, hilarious genius.