Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail by Niña Mata

[French] - Les Sœurs Livanos by Stéphanie des Horts

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/862764 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/862764] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Les Sœurs Livanos Author: Stéphanie des Horts Narrator: Heloise Chettle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 31, 2025 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Elles avaient tout : la beauté, l'intelligence, l'élégance, la fortune. En épousant les richissimes Onassis et Niarchos, elles ont cru atteindre leur idéal. Elles ignoraient que ces séducteurs, hommes d'affaires redoutables et ennemis jurés, ne vénéraient qu'un dieu : l'argent. L'amour n'était qu'une arme de plus au service de leur pouvoir. De New York et Paris aux somptueuses villas de la mer Egée en passant par Saint-Moritz, les sœurs Livanos illuminent les soirées de la jet-set. Elles se jalousent, s'adorent, se détestent tandis que leurs maris s'affrontent à coups de pétroliers, de palais, d'œuvres d'art, de manipulations politiques ou mondaines. Mais derrière les flashes des paparazzis et les sourires envoûtants de Jackie Kennedy, Maria Callas, Gianni Agnelli ou Marilyn Monroe, un drame se joue. Quatre fauves ont lié leur destin pour mieux se déchirer. Après le succès de Pamela, Stéphanie des Horts révèle, derrière l'apparente flamboyance, la cruauté d'un univers de démesure et de luxe.

Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail by Niña Mata

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782427 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782427] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail Author: Niña Mata Narrator: Amielynn Abellera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: January 28, 2025 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: Stand back, the girls are coming through: Learn about forty amazing Asian American women who have changed the course of history! From the big stage to the US Navy, from laboratories to the boardroom, from the Olympics to the pages in books, these girls and women lead every line. Bold, bright, and empowering profiles by Geisel Honor–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling artist Niña Mata place these incredible changemakers at the very front and inspire readers to tap into their own greatness. Perfect for fans of Little Leaders, Latinitas, Rebel Girls, Notable Native People, and other anthologies for children. Listeners will meet: Mary Tape · Umpeylia “Sugar Pie” DeSanto · Susan Ahn Cuddy · Sunisa “Suni” Lee · Zarina Hashmi · Cristeta Comerford · Anna May Wong · Grace Lee Boggs · Christine Ha · Kimora Lee Simmons · Vicki Manalo Draves · Amy Tan · Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu · Tammy Duckworth · Lucy Liu · Gyo Fujikawa · Kalpana Chawla · Helen Zia · Ny Sou Okon · Vera Wang · Geena Rocero · Patsy Mink · Gabriella Wilson (H.E.R.) · Dr. Erika Lee · Chloe Kim · Margaret Cho · Maya Lin · Yuri Kochiyama · Kristi Yamaguchi · Tye Leung Schulze · Ali Wong · Dr. Kazue Togasaki · Merritt Moore · Nicole Ponseca · Miyoshi Umeki · Joy Cho · Dorothy Toy · Ruby Ibarra · Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee · Kamala Harris. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

No Place to Bury the Dead: A Novel by Karina Sainz Borgo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763107 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763107] to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Place to Bury the Dead: A Novel Author: Karina Sainz Borgo Narrator: Maria McCann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: “[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the dead” —Los Angeles Times Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, a searing novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the border as a dreamlike purgatory bridging life and death. In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquite––a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs. Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear. While Visitación remains defiant in her mission to care for the dead, the cemetery she oversees is the focal point of a bitter land dispute with Alcides Abundio, the most feared landowner of the border. Caught in this power struggle, Angustias and Visitación–friends and sometimes rivals– stand their ground on a frontier where the law is dictated by violence; a surreal territory whose very nature blurs the boundaries between life and death. Exploring what we are capable of and how far we will go when we have nothing to lose, No Place to Bury the Dead confirms Karina Sainz Borgo’s importance amongst the voices of modern Latin American literature, merging thriller, western, and classic tragedy in an unforgettable and urgent novel that won the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize. Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer

Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life by Carol Orsborn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/831235 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/831235] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life Author: Carol Orsborn Narrator: Robin Douglas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Aging & Healthy Lifestyle Publisher's Summary: • Presents years of weekly inspiration and practices pointing the way forward through every conceivable mood, opportunity, and stumbling block on the spiritual journey through the second half of life • Includes quotes and stories by and about mystics, sages, and old souls from ancient through contemporary times who have walked this path before us • Shares insightful guidance on transforming loneliness to solitude, loss of identity to freedom, anger to self-protection, fear to faith, and envy to love Many of us navigating the years beyond midlife report high levels of self-acceptance, freedom, and joy, but there can also be bouts of second-guessing and regret as well as the occasional longing to be reminded that you’re not in this alone. Designed to be read weekly in two-year cycles, the 120 timeless readings in this book focus on the issues and concerns that arise among those who view aging as a path to spiritual culmination. Transforming loneliness to solitude, loss of identity to freedom, anger to self-protection, fear to faith, and envy to love, Orsborn’s wise and compassionate insights are seasoned by quotes and stories by and about mystics, sages, and old souls from ancient through contemporary times who illuminate the path to living a full life while embracing old age. The connecting thread is the reminder that you have what it takes to shift from reacting with fear to the challenges of aging, instead accepting these challenges in a spirit of gratitude as they help you grow not just old, but whole.

City of Night Birds: A Novel by Juhea Kim

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763109 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763109] to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Night Birds: A Novel Author: Juhea Kim Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK ''This story left me thinking about the ways we overcome setbacks and redefine what truly matters.'' - Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club December '24 Pick) A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past. She is unmoored in her old city as the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface: her loving but difficult mother, her absentee father, and the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall. One of those dancers, Alexander, is the love of her life, who transformed both Natalia and her art. The other is Dmitri, a dark and treacherous genius. When the latter offers her a chance to return to the stage in her signature role, Natalia must decide whether she can again face the people responsible for both her soaring highs and darkest hours. Painting a vivid portrait of the Russian ballet world, where cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics, and sublime artistry collide, City of Night Birds unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope. Mysterious and alluring, passionate and virtuosic, Juhea Kim’s second novel is an affecting meditation on love, forgiveness, and the making of an artist in a turbulent world.