Or What You Will by Jo Walton

The Dao De Jing: Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese by J H. Huang

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562548 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562548] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dao De Jing: Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese Author: J H. Huang Narrator: Joshua Chang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2 Genres: World Religions Publisher's Summary: A groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of Laozi’s The Dao De Jing, from the bestselling translator of The Art of War, promising to be the first English edition based on direct translation from the oldest known copies of the ancient Chinese text. One of the most significant and popular books in the history of human thought, and China’s earliest philosophical classic, The Dao De Jing has served for millennia as a brilliant guide to living healthily and happily, to treating the Earth with respect, and to understanding our place in the cosmos. The Dao is as vitally important to today’s world as it was during the Bronze Age, presenting us with clear and unexpectedly sane answers to some of the most pressing questions and challenges of our time. This beloved classic teaches us to become one with nature, with all people, and with the world; with the ultimate intention of illuminating the path to peace and promoting the conditions for harmony—within the self and in the greater world around us. Renowned translator J. H. Huang has spent over two decades researching the Dao, resulting in the most accurate translation to date based on the oldest known transcripts of the text. Huang’s translation is the first to incorporate four major archaeological findings, which have been preserved for millennia in ancient tombs, most of which were only discovered in the late twentieth century: the Guodian Chu slips, the Mawangdui silk texts, the Fu Yi version, and the Peking University bamboo slips. Huang argues that these key source materials “contextualize The Dao De Jing much in the same way the Dead Sea Scrolls illuminate the New Testament.” The result is a groundbreaking translation that offers readers the first opportunity in over two millennia to thoroughly comprehend all of the teachings contained in these eighty-one chapters.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Penalty Kiss by Annie Dyer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813388 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813388] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Penalty Kiss Series: #1 of Manchester Athletic Author: Annie Dyer Narrator: Dan Calley, Hannah Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Clean-living, wholesome, and with a constant smile plastered on her pretty face, Dee Jones is my antithesis. She's also what I'm told I need to polish my somewhat tarnished image—apparently being papped getting friendly with a fellow holiday maker on a sun lounger after your ex does a kiss-and-tell with the media isn't exactly what Manchester Athletic deems great publicity for their bad boy midfielder. A repair job is needed, and the club is hoping that the super shiny star player for the women's team can transfer some of her good-girl sunshine stardust on to me. But Dee hates me and I'm the last thing she wants to deal with right now, because Miss Dee has problems of her own. Problems that could score her an own goal. She's meant to be my penalty, but will she let me be her kiss instead?

[Spanish] - El informe de Brodie by Jorge Luis Borges

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824693 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824693] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El informe de Brodie Author: Jorge Luis Borges Narrator: Gerardo Prat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Un volumen que recoge once cuentos directos, desnudos y sencillos, fruto de la lenta madurez del gran escritor que es Borges. «En aquel momento sentí que algo estaba ocurriéndonos o, mejor dicho, que ya había ocurrido. De algún modo ya éramos otros.» Gran parte de estos cuentos giran en torno al cumplimiento de un destino que se repite y que suele prefigurar un enfrentamiento. A veces los protagonistas son los hombres, como en «El otro duelo» o «Guayaquil»; otras son sus armas: dos cuchillos que se buscan largamente hasta por fin encontrarse y pelear. También puede ocurrir, como en «Historia de Rosendo Juárez», que en ese enfrentamiento uno se convierta en espejo del otro, uno sea él mismo y su enemigo. O que, como le sucede a Brodie, el otro le produzca horror y fascinación. Once relatos en los que el autor dice haber encontrado su verdadera voz: «La ya avanzada edad me ha enseñado la resignación de ser Borges».

Or What You Will by Jo Walton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821691 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821691] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Or What You Will Author: Jo Walton Narrator: Emily Lawrence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But 'he' is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, seventy-three, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won't live forever, any more than any human does. And he's trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he's got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her.

The Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation: 2022 by Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Dele Adeyemo, Rinaldo Walcott, Natalie Diaz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676231 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676231] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation: 2022 Series: Part of The Alchemy Lecture Author: Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Dele Adeyemo, Rinaldo Walcott, Natalie Diaz Narrator: Angelique Lazarus, Christina Sharpe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways.     Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how “the environments that surround us condition the possibility of our being.” Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel O’otham) writes: “Like story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,” and asks, “What is the language we need to live right now?” Philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi (France) suggests there is no diasporic life “without the dynamics of fabulation, where we pass down, from generation to generation, the stories of our ancestors who walked barefoot for many months.” And cultural theorist Rinaldo Walcott (Canada) asks us to consider inheritances beyond white supremacist logics: “What might it mean to live a life, if we can’t risk desiring and working towards utopia?”     As each Alchemist considers the legacies of anti-colonial struggle, the future of the planet, and the textures of Black and Indigenous life, their essays speak to each other in multiple ways, creating something startling and revelatory: a vision of the world as it is, and as it could be.