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The Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564532 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564532] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada Author: Michelle Good Narrator: Megan Tooley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER High Plains Book Award FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy FINALIST for the Indigenous Voices Award Longlisted for the First Nation Communities READ A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge. From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada. Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples. Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566826 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566826] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining Author: Rachel E. Cargle Narrator: Rachel E. Cargle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful testament to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building new ones that do. “Powerful . . . You will leave these pages changed for the better.”—Gabrielle Union, New York Times bestselling author of We’re Going to Need More Wine There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don’t work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. For activist, philanthropist, and CEO Rachel E. Cargle, reimagining—the act of creating in our minds that which does not exist but that we believe can and should—has been a lifelong process. Reimagining served as the most powerful catalyst for Cargle’s personal transformation from a small-town Christian wife to an incisive queer feminist voice of a generation. In A Renaissance of Our Own, we witness the sometimes painful but always inspiring breaking points in Cargle’s life that fostered a truer identity. These defining moments offer a blueprint for how we must all use our imagination—the space that sees beyond limits—to live in alignment with our highest values and to craft a world independent of oppressive structures, both personal and societal. Cargle now invites you to acknowledge ways of being that stem from societal expectations instead of your personal truth, and to embark on a renaissance of your own. She provides the very tools and prompts that she used to unearth her own truth, tools that opened her up to being a more authentic feminist and purpose-driven matriarchal leader.  A Renaissance of Our Own gives us the courage to look at the world and say “I want something different.” It serves as a reminder of the power and possibility of reimagining a life that feels right, all the way down to the marrow of your bones.

Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564593 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564593] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV Author: Rob Burley Narrator: Rob Burley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a major Channel 4 drama, Brian and Margaret A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider’s account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television ‘What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing’ – Andrew Neil ‘A delicious read’ – Emily Maitlis 'He writes beautifully' – Jeremy Paxman 'Very funny’ – Steve Coogan 'An excellent book' – James O'Brien 'He writes brilliantly' – Adam Buxton Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me? is a deliciously irreverent insider’s account of a career spent trying to get straight answers from politicians, offering a unique insight into the British political class during a time when no one appears to be telling the truth. This book is Rob Burley’s love letter to the political interview and, with the help of exclusive conversations with TV giants from Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Neil to Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis, it will take you inside the process like never before.

Merits of the Plague by Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568847 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568847] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merits of the Plague Author: Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo—survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to mention tens of millions of others throughout the medieval world. Holding up an eerie mirror to our own time, he reflects on the origins of plagues—from those of the Prophet Muhammad’s era to the Black Death of his own—and what it means that such catastrophes could have been willed by God, while also chronicling the fear, isolation, scapegoating, economic tumult, political failures, and crises of faith that he lived through. But in considering the meaning of suffering and mass death, he also offers a message of radical hope. Weaving together accounts of evil jinn, religious stories, medical manuals, death-count registers, poetry, and the author’s personal anecdotes, Merits of the Plague is a profound reminder that with tragedy comes one of the noblest expressions of our humanity: the practice of compassion, patience, and care for those around us. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567220 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567220] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives Author: Colin Grant Narrator: Colin Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I'm black, so you don't have to be,' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden he believed his parents' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different. This is a memoir told through a series of intimate intergenerational portraits. We meet Grant's mother Ethlyn, disappointed by working-class life in Luton, who dreams of returning to Jamaica; his father Bageye, a small-time criminal with a violent temper; his sister Selma, who refashioned herself as an African princess; his great uncle Percy, estranged from his family through his own pride. Each character we meet is navigating their own path. Each life informs Grant's own shifting sense of his identity. Collectively these stories build into poignant and insightful testimony of black British experience. Written the intrigue, nuance, beauty and wit of short stories, and with the veracity and painful revelation of memoir, I'M BLACK, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE is a unforgettable exploration of family, identity, race and generational change. © Colin Grant 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022