There Are Worse Things I Could Do by Adrienne Barbeau

There Are Worse Things I Could Do by Adrienne Barbeau

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53958 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53958] to listen full audiobooks. Title: There Are Worse Things I Could Do Author: Adrienne Barbeau Narrator: Adrienne Barbeau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 29, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Adrienne Barbeau never set out to be a sex symbol and she never planned on giving birth to twins when she was 51 but both those stories and a lot more are detailed in this witty, revealing memoir. From her early years as one of the first Go-Go girls in New York ("No one said Mafia out loud in those days. There was always the fear you wouldn't live to say anything else.") to starring on Broadway in Grease ("Alexander Cohen swore the only way we'd win a Tony was over his dead body") Adrienne tells tales about her two hit television series (Maude and Carnivale), her many television and feature films (The Fog, Escape From New York, Cannonball Run, Swamp Thing, Creepshow), and her singing career ("Doc Severinson and the band had been in the audience during my nude foray off-Broadway in Stag Movie").  With humour and fearlessness, she shares her romance with a superstar, her marriage to a famous film director, her marriage to a much younger man and her successful battle with infertility.

Julia Child: A Life by Laura Shapiro

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60547 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60547] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julia Child: A Life Author: Laura Shapiro Narrator: Julia Prud'homme Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in twentieth-century American culture. With a swooping voice, an incredible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child's unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American, right down to her little-known recipe for classic tuna fish casserole, Shapiro's Julia Child personifies her own most famous lessons, that learning how to cook means learning how to live.

Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors by Don Mann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115882 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115882] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors Author: Don Mann Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 28, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 3.56 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice. Only a handful of the elite men who make up the SEALs, the US Navy's best and bravest, survive the legendary and grueling selection process that leads to becoming a member of Team 6, a group so classified it technically does not even exist. There are no better warriors on Earth. Don Mann knows what it takes to be a brother in this ultra-selective fraternity. As a member of Seal Team Six for over eight years and a SEAL for over seventeen years, he worked in countless covert operations, operating from land, sea, and air, and facing shootings, decapitations, and stabbings. He was captured by the enemy and lived to tell the tale, and he participated in highly classified missions all over the globe, including Somalia, Panama, El Salvador, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. As a coordinator for several civilian SEAL training programs, and as a former Training Officer of SEAL Team Six, he was directly responsible for shaping the bodies and minds of SEALs who carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden. But to become a SEAL, Mann had to overcome his own troubled childhood and push his body to its breaking point -- and beyond. Inside Seal Team 6 is a high octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the world's most respected and feared combat unit.

Then Again by Diane Keaton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115745 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115745] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Then Again Author: Diane Keaton Narrator: Diane Keaton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue   ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times The Independent • Bookreporter The Sunday Business Post Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.   So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.   More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.

How I Got This Way by Regis Philbin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115886 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115886] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Got This Way Author: Regis Philbin Narrator: Regis Philbin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a beloved morning-show host (Live with Regis and Kelly), a nighttime game-show host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and also as a fixture on national and local late-night talk shows. The irrepressible “Reege” has regaled television audiences with his stories for more than half a century, but he’s saved the most hilarious, surprising, heartfelt, and inspiring tales for How I Got This Way. Both a fascinating show business memoir and a delightful primer for living the good life rolled into one, How I Got This Way is Reege being Reege, just the way we love him, as he shares the secrets to success and happiness that he has learned from his innumerable celebrity encounters, his close, personal friendships, and, of course,  his relationship with his loving wife and family.