The First Ladies by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Wicked Spirits: Mysteries, Spine Chillers and Lost Tales of the Supernatural by Tony Medawar

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634294 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634294] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wicked Spirits: Mysteries, Spine Chillers and Lost Tales of the Supernatural Author: Tony Medawar Narrator: Philip Bretherton, Sherry Baines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast live on the wireless, sometimes not even published at all – these are the stories you cannot find on even the dustiest of library shelves. This follow-up volume to the bestselling Ghosts from the Library resurrects forgotten tales of the supernatural by some of the most accomplished mystery authors of all time. Close the windows. Draw the curtains. Just don’t let the lights go out…

On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life by Ben Hutchinson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634307 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634307] to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life Author: Ben Hutchinson Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and thinkers to help us live more purposefully, more mindfully – more fully. Interweaving his own (mis-)adventures with those of authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Joan Didion, On Purpose proposes ten ways in which reading and writing encourage us to ask difficult questions, project our minds into the past and future, and see ourselves and others differently. Engaging, uplifting and aphoristic, this book is for anyone who has lost their sense of direction or wishes to radically transform the way they live.

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629224 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629224] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning Author: Sarah Weinman Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. Wesley Lowery writes about a lynching left unsolved for decades by an indifferent police force and a family’s quest for answers. Justine van der Leun reports on the thousands of women in prison for defending themselves from abuse. May Jeong reveals how the Atlanta spa shootings tell a story of America. Edited by acclaimed writer Sarah Weinman, and with an introduction by attorney and host of the Undisclosed podcast Rabia Chaudry, this anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America’s systemic harms and inequalities. And in doing so, it reveals how the genre of true crime can be a catalyst for social change. These works combine brilliant storytelling with incisive cultural examinations—and challenge each of us to ask what justice should look like. Evidence of Things Seen introduces the new classics of true crime. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown, Darlene Taylor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629228 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629228] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Author: Jericho Brown, Darlene Taylor Narrator: Janina Edwards, Cary Hite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy—reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit. How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator’s ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a poem or story or character? How do Black writers, when faced with questions of “authenticity,” dive deep into the essence of their lives and work to find the inherent truth? How We Do It addresses these profound questions. Not a traditional “how to” writing handbook, it seeks to guide rather than dictate and to validate the complexity and range of styles—and even how one thinks about craft itself. An outstanding list of contributors offer their insights on a range of important topics. Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown explores the lives personified in poetry, while Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey explores decolonizing enduring metaphors. National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy illuminates the pain of grief in all forms and how it can be revealed in the act of creation, and iconoclast Nikki Giovanni offers an elegiac declaration on language. New and previously published essays and interviews provide encouragement, examples, and templates, and offer lessons on everything from poetic form and plotting a story to the lessons inherent in the act of writing, trial & error, and finding inspiration in the works of others, including those of Toni Morrison, Shakespeare, and Edward P. Jones. A handbook and a reference tool, How We Do It is a thoughtful and welcome tool that offers direction to help Black artists establish their own creative practice while celebrating and widening the scope of the Black writer’s role in art, history, and culture. Contributors include Daniel Omotosho Black, Jericho Brown, Breena Clark, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, W. Ralph Eubanks, Curdella Forbes, Angela Flournoy, Ernest Gaines, Nikki Giovanni, Marita Golden, Ravi Howard, Terrance Hayes, Mitchell S. Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Charles Johnson, Tayari Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Tony Medina, E. Ethelbert Miller, Elizabeth Nunez, Carl Phillips, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Rion Amilcar Scott, Evie Shockley, Natasha Trethewey, Frank X Walker, Afaa M. Weaver, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacqueline Woodson, Tiphanie Yanique.

The First Ladies by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630974 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630974] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Ladies Author: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray Narrator: Tavia Gilbert, Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: The Instant New York Times Bestseller!  A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through tragedy and triumph.   When Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president, the two women begin to collaborate more closely, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality.   This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.