Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future by Vince Beiser

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future by Vince Beiser

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760963 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760963] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future Author: Vince Beiser Narrator: Vince Beiser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence — and how we can do better. An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic. These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology – that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage. Power Metal is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world.

A Sacred Magic: A Wild Hunt Novel by Yasmine Galenorn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802234 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802234] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sacred Magic: A Wild Hunt Novel Series: #9 of Wild Hunt Author: Yasmine Galenorn Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Paranormal Publisher's Summary: Ember's about to face the showdown of her life . . . Things are coming to a head with the Tuathan Brotherhood, and Ember finds herself right on the front lines. The goddess Brighid calls in her favor, sending Ember on a journey through the world of Annwn. Her quest? To find an ancient weapon that can turn the tide in the war against Nuanda and the Tuathan Brotherhood. But as Ember journeys to the Well of Tears, she must face not only the demons that inhabit the mystical forest, but her demons that haunt her blood heritage. Can she recover Brighid's Flame and put an end to the Tuathan Brotherhood? If she succeeds, Ember must face an enemy unlike any other she's ever battled. But, if she fails, the Brotherhood will permanently destroy the delicate balance of power between the Fae Courts and the rest of the world.

A True Story: The very first sci fi, written around 100AD by Lucian of Samosata

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824477 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824477] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A True Story: The very first sci fi, written around 100AD Series: #1 of Proto Sci-Fi Author: Lucian of Samosata Narrator: Charles Featherstone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The very first sci fi, written at the height of people making stuff up and pretending it was history (looking at you, Herodotus). Nice to see the art of the spoof is so old... A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Latin: Vera Historia or Latin: Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work. It is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare. It has been described as 'the first known text that could be called science fiction'. However, the work does not fit into typical literary genres: its multilayered plot and its characters have been interpreted as belonging to science fiction, fantasy, satire or parody, and have been the subjects of scholarly debate. - From the wiki:

[German] - Spellshop - Vom Zauber der kleinen Dinge (Ungekürzte Lesung) by Sarah Beth Durst

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812717 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812717] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Spellshop - Vom Zauber der kleinen Dinge (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Sarah Beth Durst Narrator: Mélanie Fouché Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 25, 2024 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: Romantasy meets Cosy Fantasy - Fantasy zum Wegträumen über Marmelade, Magie & jede Menge Zaubersprüche. Kiela hat es nicht so mit den Menschen - was als Bibliothekarin in der Hauptstadt des Reiches auch kein Riesenproblem ist. Doch als eine Revolution ausbricht und fast die gesamte Bibliothek ein Opfer der Flammen wird, flieht sie auf die abgelegene Insel, auf der sie aufgewachsen ist, und beginnt noch einmal ganz von vorne. Sie bezieht ein kleines, gemütliches Cottage, stellt die beste Marmelade her und lernt die Menschen vor Ort kennen. Mit dem durchaus attraktiven Seepferdchenzüchter von nebenan bahnt sich sogar so etwas wie eine ... Geschichte an. Doch auch fern der Hauptstadt gibt es Probleme, die nur schwer zu lösen sind. Zum Glück befinden sich in den Bücherkisten, die sie vor den Flammen retten konnte, einige nützliche Zaubersprüche, mit der sie die Dinge ins Lot bringen könnte. Wenn es nur nicht strengstens verboten wäre, sie anzuwenden. Für Hörer:innen von Travis Baldree, Heather Fawcett und T.J. Klune

What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement by Ana Elena Correa

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement Author: Ana Elena Correa Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ''There are many women like Belén whose names we don’t know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman’s fight for justice.''—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Foreword by Margaret Atwood The heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage—an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights. In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache—and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage—without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation’s repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide. Belén’s imprisonment is a glaring example of how women’s health care has become increasingly criminalized, putting the most vulnerable—BIPOC, rural, and low-income—women at greater risk of prosecution. Belén’s cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas—not one more—symbolized by thousands of demonstrators around the globe donning white masks, the same kind of mask Belén wore when leaving prison. The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021.  In this gripping and personal account of the case and its impact on local law, Ana Correa, one of Argentina’s leading journalists and activists, makes clear that what happened to Belén could happen to any woman—and that we all have the power to raise our collective voices and demand change. Translated by Julia Sanches