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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350787 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350787] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare Author: Gabourey Sidibe Narrator: Gabourey Sidibe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny. This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe's life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, her gifted mother who fed the family by busking on the subway, and the psychic who told her she'd one day be 'famous like Oprah'. Gabby shows us round the Harlem studio apartment where she grew up, relives the debilitating depression that hit her at college, and reminisces about her first ever job as a phone sex 'talker' (less creepy than you'd think). With exhilaratingly honest (and often hilarious) dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight, This Is Just My Face will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different - and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true. 'Frank, funny, and insanely charming' Lena Dunham 'A read that lives up to the unforgettable attitude of its name' Glamour 'You're the BOMB, girl!' President Barack Obama © Gabourey Sidibe 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

You're Not Special: A (Sort-of) Memoir by Meghan Rienks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348941 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348941] to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're Not Special: A (Sort-of) Memoir Author: Meghan Rienks Narrator: Meghan Rienks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her first-ever (sort of) memoir, the beloved actor and YouTube sensation gets personal about everything from mental health to drunken debaucheries with this “brave, behind-the-webcam look at self-discovery” (Kirkus Reviews). As an only child raised in a town of less than 8,000 people and without a Starbucks in sight, Meghan Rienks has always been pretty good at entertaining herself. Then one day—cue the dramatic voiceover—her life changed forever. In 2010, Meghan was diagnosed with mononucleosis. Mono is basically just a really bad case of the flu, right? Wrong. To a party crazed sixteen-year-old, mono is social suicide. More than anything, it’s just plain boring. So, Meghan opened up her MacBook, used the webcam for something other than a bad Andy Warhol–style photobooth session, and recorded her first YouTube video. Since then, Meghan has shared the ups and downs of her life with the internet, documenting her teenage years for the whole world to see. Now that she’s (mostly) through her awkward stage, Meghan’s here to tell you that it gets better. You’re not alone in the thoughts you think. Sometimes a bad hair day feels worse than a punch in the gut and asking a boy out seems about as difficult as achieving that perfect dewy glow. But despite what you’ve been told, your problems are not unique, and somebody else has felt the way you feel right at this very moment. You’re not special. But you’re also not alone on the bumpy road to adulthood.

I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345469 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345469] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Author: Bassey Ikpi Narrator: Bassey Ikpi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 20, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/Collections In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy. A Bitch Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2019 • A Bustle 21 New Memoirs That Will Inspire, Motivate, and Captivate You • A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection • An Electric Lit 48 Books by Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019 • A Bookish Best Nonfiction of Summer Selection ''We will not think or talk about mental health or normalcy the same after reading this momentous art object moonlighting as a colossal collection of essays.”     —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy From her early childhood in Nigeria through her adolescence in Oklahoma, Bassey Ikpi lived with a tumult of emotions, cycling between extreme euphoria and deep depression—sometimes within the course of a single day. By the time she was in her early twenties, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. But beneath the façade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II. In I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying, Bassey Ikpi breaks open our understanding of mental health by giving us intimate access to her own. Exploring shame, confusion, medication, and family in the process, Bassey looks at how mental health impacts every aspect of our lives—how we appear to others, and more importantly to ourselves—and challenges our preconception about what it means to be ''normal.''  Viscerally raw and honest, the result is an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are—and the ways, as honest as we try to be, each of these stories can also be a lie.

Greetings from Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346594 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346594] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greetings from Bury Park Author: Sarfraz Manzoor Narrator: Sarfraz Manzoor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 30, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiration for Blinded by the Light, the smash Sundance hit and major motion picture. The acclaimed memoir about the power of Bruce Springsteen’s music on a young Pakistani boy growing up in Britain in the 1970s. Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he emigrated from Pakistan to Britain with his mother, brother, and sister. Sarfraz spent his teenage years in a constant battle, trying to reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in at school and at home. But it was when his best friend introduced him to the music of Bruce Springsteen that his life changed completely. From the age of sixteen on, after the moment he heard the harmonica and opening lines to “The River,” Springsteen became his personal muse, a lens through which he was able to view the rest of his life. Both a tribute to Springsteen and a story of personal discovery, Greetings from Bury Park is a warm, irreverent, and exceptionally perceptive memoir about how music transcends religion and race.

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Julie Sherman, David H. Hackworth

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350034 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350034] to listen full audiobooks. Title: About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Author: Julie Sherman, David H. Hackworth Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 40 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.51 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Called “everything a twentieth-century war memoir could possibly be” by the New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism. From age fifteen to forty, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation. From Korea to Berlin, from the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s story is that of an exemplary patriot, played out against the backdrop of the changing fortunes of America and the American military. It is also a stunning indictment of the Pentagon’s fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam conflict and of the bureaucracy of self-interest that fueled the war.