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Dumpster Doll by Michelle Moone, Michelle Mays

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484817 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484817] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dumpster Doll Author: Michelle Moone, Michelle Mays Narrator: Michelle Mays Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Michelle Mays was born into an abusive family in the Midwest. As she and her siblings cling to survival, the balance of family ties is weighed against alcoholism, drug abuse, abandonment, and despair. Hope dawns in the form of foster care, only to be deferred by multiple placements and a system not equipped to support the children it's meant to protect. Through powerful vignettes of a life disjointed, Mays's story is a journey of hope that is echoed in the experiences of thousands of children in the court and foster care systems today. Dumpster Doll is brave not because it is unique, but because it unflinchingly shines a light on family turmoil, flaws in judicial systems, and ultimately, the grit and tenacity that thousands of children exhibit each day just to make it through.

Do Right and Fear No One by Leslie Thomas Qc

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463833 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463833] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Do Right and Fear No One Author: Leslie Thomas Qc Narrator: Leslie Thomas Qc Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we are not a society that values human life.' Inspired from a young age to help the marginalised and voiceless, Leslie Thomas KC has dedicated his career to fighting for the underdog and holding the State to account. This intimate and personal record of some of the most significant, controversial and disturbing legal cases of the last fifty years lays bare the very heart of the law enforcement and judicial process. It's an unforgettable account of an idealistic and outspoken lawyer's coming of age as a Black man in London, and a powerful portrait of the lives of those he has fought for. From the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, to the deaths of Christi and Bobby Shepherd by carbon monoxide poisoning, the Birmingham Pub Bombings and the police shooting of Mark Duggan, Do Right and Fear No One present a blistering argument for a level playing field in the pursuit of justice.

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486009 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486009] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems Author: Warsan Shire Narrator: Warsan Shire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist “Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our James Baldwin.”—The New York Times Culture Desk LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly Mama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls. In Shire’s hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life, full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life, full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.

Awakening Artemis: Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature by Vanessa Chakour

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482617 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482617] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Awakening Artemis: Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature Author: Vanessa Chakour Narrator: Vanessa Chakour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A healing resource that blends practical plant-based knowledge with spiritual reconnection to show how respect for and communion with our natural world guides us toward healing.   Combining Vanessa's story of her own healing journey with practical plant-based knowledge, Awakening Artemis is rooted in the belief that healing happens through reclaiming an intuitive connection to ourselves, to the natural world, and to our own 'inner wild.'     Having experienced a series of physical traumas growing up--including chronic asthma, a car accident that fractured her back and neck, and sexual trauma--Vanessa pursued various approaches to therapeutic movement from martial arts to yogic practices and explored traditions honoring the mind-body connection while forging a path to recovery. Twenty years now into her journey to reconcile her daily routines with her yearning for greater purpose and connection, Vanessa shares the eclectic mix of elements that have brought her deeper self-awareness, a richer understanding of her place in the world, and the confidence and clear boundaries to truly connect with her loved ones.   Organized into five sections that move from the present moment to the forest edge, and into the healing darkness, each chapter focuses on a single plant: on their power to connect us to our bodies and our environment. Using storytelling from her own life, Vanessa connects the plants' power and characteristics to issues we all grapple to heal from and even to understand--from the alienating consequences of cultural appropriation to the intersection between a forest's mycelial network and the neural pathways of our brains. For those seeking to recognize the power and omnipresence of the natural world--from the mugwort sprouting in the city sidewalk to the majesty of a three-thousand-year-old yew in rural Scotland--and harness that to push into new realms of self-discovery, Awakening Artemis is an intimate, unforgettable resource capturing one woman's journey to heal her traumas that opens up a world of potential growth and healing for us all.

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny by Ai Weiwei

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492127 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492127] to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny Author: Ai Weiwei Narrator: David Shih Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION. Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Here, through the sweeping lens of his own and his father's life, Ai Weiwei tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years, from the Cultural Revolution to the modern-day Chinese Communist Party. Here is the story of a childhood spent in desolate exile after his father, Ai Qing, once China's most celebrated poet, fell foul of the authorities. Here is his move to America as a young man and his return to China, his rise from unknown to art-world superstar and international rights activist. Here is his extraordinary account of how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime. It's the story of a father and a son, of exceptional creativity and passionate belief, and of how two indomitable spirits enabled the world to understand their country. 'Engrossing...a remarkable story' Sunday Times 'A story of inherited resilience and self-determination' Observer 'A majestic and exquisitely serious masterpiece about his China... One of the great voices of our time' Andrew Solomon 'Intimate, unflinching...an instant classic' Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition © Ai Weiwei 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021