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The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World by Stephen Mansfield

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695286 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695286] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World Author: Stephen Mansfield Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It began in Ireland in the mid 1700s. The water in Ireland, indeed throughout Europe, was famously undrinkable, and the gin and whiskey that took its place devastated civil society. It was a disease ridden, starvation-plagued, alcoholic age, and Christians like Arthur Guinness—as well as monks and even evangelical churches—brewed beer that provided a healthier alternative to the poisonous waters and liquors of the times. This is where the Guinness tale began. Now, 250 years and over 150 countries later, Guinness is a global brand, one of the most consumed beverages in the world. The tale that unfolds during those two and a half centuries has power to thrill audiences today: the generational drama, business adventure, industrial and social reforms, deep-felt faith, and the noble beer itself. 'Frothy, delicious, intoxicating and nutritious! No, I'm not talking about Guinness Stout—I'm talking about Stephen Mansfield's fabulous new book...The amazing and true story of how the Guinness family used its wealth and influence to touch millions is an absolute inspiration.' — Eric Metaxas, New York Times best-selling author 'It's a rare brew that takes faith, philanthropy and the frothy head of freshly-poured Guinness and combines them into such an inspiriting narrative. Cheers to brewmaster Stephen Mansfield! And cheers to you, the reader! You're in for a treat.' — R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator

The Penguin Book of Pirates by Hannah Masury

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692262 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692262] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penguin Book of Pirates Author: Hannah Masury Narrator: Jerome Harmann-Hardeman, Jaime Lamchick, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Katherine Howe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself A Penguin Classic Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists. Here, in a fascinating array of accounts that include trial transcripts, journalism, ship logs, and more, are the grit and patois of real maritime marauders like the infamous Blackbeard; the pirates who inspired Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, Stede Bonnet in Max’s Our Flag Means Death, and the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride; the astoundingly egalitarian multi-ethnic and multilingual crews that became enmeshed in historical horrors like the slave trade; and lesser-known but no less formidable women pirates, many of whom disguised themselves as men. By turns brutal, harrowing, and inspiring, these accounts of the “radically free” sailors who were citizens more of the oceangoing world than of any nation on land remind us of the glories and dangers of the open seas and the seductive appeal of communities forged in resistance. *This audiobook contains a downloadable PDF that includes explanatory endnotes from the book.

Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World Author: Will Cockrell Narrator: Pete Simonelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author). Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like. It’s an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can kill; an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination; and a place where the rich exploit local Sherpas while padding their egos—and social media feeds. There’s some truth to these clichés, but they’re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. is the definitive account of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late eighties, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, ninety percent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—Everest, Inc. foregrounds the colorful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. As professional climber and author Freddie Wilkinson says, “Whether you are thinking about taking a crack at the world’s highest peak or are simply an armchair mountaineer trying to make sense of the complex dynamics driving the modern Everest industry, Everest, Inc. should be required reading.”

Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past by Graeme Lawson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694996 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694996] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past Author: Graeme Lawson Narrator: Graeme Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 4, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in 60 detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from the present day back to the dawn of time, long-lost music is here reconstructed as we enter the worlds of its makers. We feel a child's delight at playing with a water-filled pot that chirps like a bird in Peru in 700 AD; we appreciate the challenge of a soldier sending signals by trumpet along Hadrian's Wall; we hear the chiming of 64 bells buried in a tomb in 5th century China. Graeme Lawson leads us on a grand tour of the world's greatest musical discoveries, revealing that music is part of our DNA - not just in its role as pastime, entertainment or religious expression but also in how we commemorate our pasts and communicate with each other. It shapes all our lives and identities. Filling past silences with a treasure hoard of forgotten sounds and voices, Sound Tracks is an enthralling, astonishing alternative history of humanity. ©2024 Graeme Lawson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689503 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689503] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle Author: Anna Shechtman Narrator: Anna Shechtman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse. In this fascinating work—part memoir, part cultural analysis—she excavates the hidden history of the crossword and the overlooked women who have been central to its creation and evolution, from the “Crossword Craze” of the 1920s to the role of digital technology today. As she tells the story of her own experience in the CrossWorld, she analyzes the roles assigned to women in American culture, the boxes they’ve been allowed to fill, and the ways that they’ve used puzzles to negotiate the constraints and play of desire under patriarchy. The result is an unforgettable and engrossing work of art, a loving and revealing homage to one of our most treasured, entertaining, and ultimately political pastimes. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.