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Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355143 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355143] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park Author: Conor Knighton Narrator: Conor Knighton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people our country has to offer NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY OUTSIDE When Conor Knighton set off to explore America's 'best idea,' he worried the whole thing could end up being his worst idea. A broken engagement and a broken heart had left him longing for a change of scenery, but the plan he'd cooked up in response had gone a bit overboard in that department: Over the course of a single year, Knighton would visit every national park in the country, from Acadia to Zion.   In Leave Only Footprints, Knighton shares informative and entertaining dispatches from what turned out to be the road trip of a lifetime. Whether he's waking up early for a naked scrub in a historic bathhouse in Arkansas or staying up late to stargaze along our loneliest highway in Nevada, Knighton weaves together the type of stories you're not likely to find in any guidebook. Through his unique lens, America the Beautiful becomes America the Captivating, the Hilarious, and the Inspiring. Along the way, he identifies the threads that tie these wildly different places together—and that tie us to nature—and reveals how his trip ended up changing his views on everything from God and love to politics and technology.   Filled with fascinating tidbits about our parks' past and reflections on their fragile future, this book is both a celebration of and a passionate case for the natural wonders that all Americans share.

To the Edge of Sorrow: A Novel by Aharon Appelfeld

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343628 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343628] to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Edge of Sorrow: A Novel Author: Aharon Appelfeld Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 14, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From 'fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust' (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters—escapees from a nearby ghetto—hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes its goals without losing its moral compass. And so when they're not raiding peasants' homes for food and supplies, or training with the weapons taken from the soldiers they have ambushed and killed, the partisans read books of faith and philosophy that they have rescued from abandoned Jewish homes, and they draw strength from the women, the elderly, and the remarkably resilient orphaned children they are protecting. When they hear about the advances being made by the Soviet Army, the partisans prepare for what they know will be a furious attack on their compound by the retreating Germans. In the heartbreaking aftermath, the survivors emerge from the forest to bury their dead, care for their wounded, and grimly confront a world that is surprised by their existence—and profoundly unwelcoming. Narrated by seventeen-year-old Edmund—a member of the group who maintains his own inner resolve with memories of his parents and their life before the war—this powerful story of Jews who fought back is suffused with the riveting detail that Aharon Appelfeld was uniquely able to bring to his award-winning novels.

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344623 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344623] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison Author: Ralph Ellison Narrator: John F. Callahan, Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 49 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 17, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.

The Inheritors: Stories Of Entrepreneurship And Success by Sonu Bhasin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361631 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361631] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inheritors: Stories Of Entrepreneurship And Success Author: Sonu Bhasin Narrator: Chintan Buddhadev Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Why did Harsh Mariwala leave his family business? Why did the Burman family quit the day-to-day operations of Dabur? How did the Dhingras turn a collapsing business into India's second-largest paint company? The Inheritors offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in Marico, Dabur, Keventers, Berger Paints, Select Group, Antara, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Luxor and Motilal Oswal. The book focuses on culture, family politics, ego battles, business rivalries and a lot more. And then, of course, there are the inheritors themselves-some take the businesses to even greater heights while others lead them to doom.

The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel by Thomas Keneally

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359165 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359165] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Paul Haley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Times Book Review) to this exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, set in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man—a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common. Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned Man has made his home alongside other members of his tribe. Complex and deeply introspective, he reveres tradition, loyalty, and respect for his ancestors. Willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good, the Learned Man cannot conceive that a man millennia later could relate to him in heart and feeling. In this “meditation on last things, but still electric with life, passion and appetite” (The Australian), Thomas Keneally weaves an extraordinary dual narrative that effortlessly transports you around the world and across time, offering “a hymn to idealism and to human development” (Sydney Morning Herald).