[German] - Das Erbe der Freiheit: Sturmtöchter Saga by Marie Caroline Bonnet

Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775547 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775547] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safe Harbor Author: Padma Venkatraman Narrator: Padma Venkatraman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 21, 2025 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: An uplifting novel in verse about an immigrant girl adjusting to life in the US through her love of nature, music, and poetry, by the award-winning author of The Bridge Home When Geetha and her mom move from India to Rhode Island after her parents’ divorce, they leave everything Geetha loves behind—her family, her friends, her dog, and all that’s familiar. As if that’s not hard enough, Geetha is bullied at her new school for her clothes, her food, and her English (who knew so many English words could be spelled or pronounced differently in the US—or just be altogether different!). She finds some solace in playing her flute and writing poetry, and even more when she meets Miguel, a kid with whom she has a lot in common, and the two of them help rescue an injured harp seal stranded on the beach. But Geetha can feel her anger building over lots of things—careless people who pollute the sea and hurt animals, and her mom for making her move. She’s never been so sad and angry. She can see a lot of her fears mirrored in the injured seal when she visits it at the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Center, and this broadens her understanding of survival skills. And when she and Miguel start a beach-clean-up venture, she’s surprised to find how many kind kids are out there. Geetha is torn as the time comes to let the seal go, knowing she’ll miss him, but wanting the best for him. She’s learning to live with mixed feelings and accept that while there will always be rough waters, there are plenty of safe harbors too.

[German] - Das Erbe der Freiheit: Sturmtöchter Saga by Marie Caroline Bonnet

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/851271 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/851271] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Erbe der Freiheit: Sturmtöchter Saga Series: #1 of Sturmtöchter Saga Author: Marie Caroline Bonnet Narrator: Christine Garbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 26, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Eine mutige junge Frau mit einem gut gehüteten Geheimnis … Der packende Auftakt einer historischen Liebesgeschichte Frankreich, 1688: Unter der tyrannischen Herrschaft ihres Dienstherrns sehnt sich die junge Magd Lianne schon lange nach Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung. Als sie eines Tages losgeschickt wird, um ein Schreiben abzuliefern, bietet sich ihr die einmalige Gelegenheit, endlich die Fesseln ihres vorbestimmten Schicksals abzuschütteln. Lianne ergreift die Chance der Flucht und landet als blinde Passagierin im Frachtraum eines Schiffes, wo sie dem charmanten Kaufmann Luc begegnet. Für einen Moment scheint das Glück zum Greifen nah, doch die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit sind hartnäckig: Ihr skrupelloser Dienstherr ist ihr auf der Spur und mit ihm ein verborgenes Familiengeheimnis, welches Liannes Welt ins Wanken bringt …

You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money with Ease by Dana Miranda

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769529 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769529] to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money with Ease Author: Dana Miranda Narrator: Dana Miranda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 24, 2024 Genres: Accounting & Finance Publisher's Summary: A simple, no‑stress guide to managing money—free of the toxic messages and shame baked into traditional personal finance advice. Track every dollar you spend. Check your account balances once a week. Always pay off your credit card bill in full. Make a budget—and stick to it. These are just a few of the edicts you'll find in virtually every personal finance book. But this kind of rigid, one‑size-fits‑all advice—usually written for and by wealthy white men (and a few women) with little perspective on the money struggles that many people face—is unrealistic, and only creates stress and shame.   As a financial journalist and educator, Dana Miranda is on a mission to liberate readers from budget culture: the damaging set of beliefs around money that rely on restriction, shame, and greed—much like diet culture does for food and bodies. In this long‑overdue alternative to traditional budgeting advice, Miranda offers a new approach that makes money easy for everyone, regardless of the numbers in their bank account.   Full of counterintuitive advice—like how to use debt to support your life goals, how to plan for retirement without a 401K, and how to take advantage of resources that exist to support those left behind by the forces of capitalism—You Don’t Need a Budget will empower readers to get money off their mind and live the lives they want.

The Voice that Thunders by Alan Garner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705961 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705961] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voice that Thunders Author: Alan Garner Narrator: Robert Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21, 2024 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES ‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ GUARDIAN In this rich collection of writings, spanning more than twenty years, Alan Garner, the Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, explores his interest in a dazzling range of subjects; from archaeology, myth and language, to education, literature, film, music and philosophy, as well as mental health and our most profound quest for the spiritual. The Voice That Thunders serves as an early poetic autobiography of one of England's best-loved but least public writers. These essays chart how, after hearing himself declared dead at the age of six, he went on to become the writer he is today: one drawing on the deep well of a rural working-class childhood and one inspired by a family of craftsmen who instilled in him the passion for excellence and innovation and humour that guides him to this day. Candid and illuminating, The Voice That Thunders is an enchanting collection from one of Britain’s greatest living writers. ‘A brilliant collection of essays’ INDEPENDENT

The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761430 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761430] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magnificent Ruins Author: Nayantara Roy Narrator: Deepa Samuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this "rare feast" of a novel, an Indian woman inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). Lila De is on the verge of a career breakthrough when she gets a call from her mother in Kolkata, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate–so she returns home after a decade with no contact. Her extended family isn’t so easy to win over, and to make matters worse, Lila is caught between her old boyfriend and her occasional lover–her star author–who suddenly wants to define the relationship.   As Lila come to terms with both past and present, suppressed family secrets emerge, culminating in a shocking act of violence. Lila has no choice but to finally address her family’s inherited custom of keeping everything under the surface.   Perfect for fans of Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane and All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, The Magnificent Ruins is an unforgettable novel about the millennial immigrant experience and the desire for belonging.