This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood

Toxic Striving: Why Hustle and Wellness Culture Are Leaving Us Anxious, Stressed, and Burned Out―and How to Break Free by Paula Freedman-Diamond PsyD

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812565 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812565] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toxic Striving: Why Hustle and Wellness Culture Are Leaving Us Anxious, Stressed, and Burned Out―and How to Break Free Author: Paula Freedman-Diamond PsyD Narrator: Stefanie Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 24, 2024 Genres: Mental Health & Psychology Publisher's Summary: Do you strive to have the perfect body, the perfect relationship, the perfect diet and wardrobe, the perfect job, and the perfect life? If so, you are far from alone. Isn't it time we say, enough? In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist Paula Freedman offers a clear path to help you move beyond toxic striving and instead turn inward for guidance. Using a combination of evidence-based tools and strategies grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and intuitive eating, you'll gain the insight needed to reconnect with your true values, reclaim your physical and mental health, develop unwavering self-compassion and confidence, and live by your own rules. You'll also find profound and practical guidance to: ● Identify how and when you stopped trusting your own mind, body, and emotions ● Set goals that align with your personal values—instead of society’s expectations ● Develop skills to defuse from restrictive and self-punishing thoughts, so you can be kinder to yourself If you're exhausted from the daily grind and fed up with feeling like you aren't enough—it's time to look within yourself. From now on, you are the expert on you.

Co-Creating with the Universe by Alan Cohen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822600 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822600] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Co-Creating with the Universe Author: Alan Cohen Narrator: Alan Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: God is already within you. Join Alan Cohen as he takes you deep into the wise, peaceful foundations of the Universe. Here, you are poised to manifest your deepest desires.

The Rest Is Memory by Lily Tuck

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/828703 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/828703] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rest Is Memory Author: Lily Tuck Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 57 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: THE HEARTBREAKING STORY OF A YOUNG CATHOLIC GIRL TRANSPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ BECOMES A RASHOMON-LIKE RONDO BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST NOVELISTS. First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel, which frames Czeslawa’s story within the epic tragedy of six million Poles who perished during the German occupation. A decade prior to writing The Rest Is Memory, Tuck read an obituary of the photographer Wilhelm Brasse, who took more than 40,000 pictures of the Auschwitz prisoners. Included were three of Czeslawa Kwoka, a Catholic girl from rural southeastern Poland. Tuck cut out the photos and kept them, determined to learn more about Czeslawa, but she was only able to glean the barest facts: the village she came from, the transport she was on, that she was accompanied by her mother and her neighbors, her tattoo number, and the date of her death. From this scant evidence, Tuck’s novel becomes a remarkable kaleidoscopic feat of imagination, something only our greatest novelists can do. “Beautifully written, all the while instilling a sense of horror” (Susanna Moore), Tuck’s language swirls about, yet not a word is out of place. The subtly rotating images tumble out at us, accelerating as we learn about Czeslawa’s tragic stay in Auschwitz, the lives of real people such as the barbaric Commandant Rudolf Höss; his unconscionable wife, Hedwig; the psychiatrist and child rescuer Janusz Korczak; and the mordant Polish short story writer Tadeusz Borowski. Although we are certain of Czeslawa’s fate, we have no choice but to keep turning the pages, thoroughly mesmerized by Tuck’s near otherworldly prose. In Lily Tuck’s hands, The Rest Is Memory becomes an unforgettable work of historical reclamation that rescues an innocent life, one previously only recalled by a stark triptych of photographs. “The Rest Is Memory is a literary resurrection, as shattering as it is astonishing. Lily Tuck has done the impossible; from darkness and hideous cruelty, she has woven an unforgettable paean to hope, to life, to justice.”—Junot Diaz

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755331 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755331] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Author: Naomi Wood Narrator: Lynsey Beauchamp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: For fans of American Housewife and the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity. CONTAINS “COMORBIDITIES,” WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY PRIZE In my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had started to notice my bad energy, and I began to follow it, wondering where it would take me . . . A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate therapy session for working mothers. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised home movie. A pregnant film director plots revenge on the actress who betrayed her. An ex-wife deliberately causes conflict at her ex-husband’s wedding. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things illuminates the lives of malicious, subversive, and untamed women. Exploring failed sisterhood, dubious parenting, and the dark side of modern love, this powerful and funny collection exposes how society wants women to behave, and shows what happens when they refuse.

Real Fake Hauntings by Isa Medina

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812629 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812629] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Real Fake Hauntings Series: #4 of Good Bad Magic Author: Isa Medina Narrator: Amanda Stribling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Paranormal Publisher's Summary: Pumpkins, witches, and murder. It's a haunted Halloween! Halloween has arrived in Olmeda, and someone's celebrating by leaving bloody pentagrams all over the city. As the resident official witch, it's my job to figure out what the pentagrams mean and if they're more of a threat than a prank. Extra points if I find out who did it before they ruin the best holiday of the year, one I plan on spending with Ian. But finding the culprit is harder than expected—nobody saw anything and there's no shortage of suspicious paranormals. In the words of my new personal motto: everyone is a suspect. Things get even more complicated when I find one of my suspects dead. In my shop. Big Mistake. The gloves are off now, and good luck to whoever is wreaking havoc in my town, because Hell hath no fury like a good witch bent on maintaining her shop's reputation while saving Halloween!