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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities by Lisa Dickey, Herbie Hancock

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218255 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218255] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Herbie Hancock: Possibilities Author: Lisa Dickey, Herbie Hancock Narrator: Herbie Hancock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 23, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The warmly welcomed memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time   In Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on an extraordinary life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator who has spent a lifetime exploring a range of musical genres, and enriching each of them, Hancock has had an enormous influence on acoustic and electric jazz, R&B, funk, and hip-hop.  From his beginnings as a child prodigy to his early classic Blue Note recordings; from his work in Miles Davis’s second great quintet to his innovations as the leader of his own groundbreaking sextet; from era-defining classic albums like Head Hunters and River: The Joni Letters to his collaborations with artists like Wayne Shorter and Stevie Wonder, Hancock reveals the methods behind his ever-evolving musical genius. He discusses his influences, his happy marriage, and how his practice of Buddhism has inspired him both creatively and personally. Honest, enlightening, and as electrifyingly vital as its author, this is an invaluable contribution to jazz literature and an intimate, insightful portrait of a creative life.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218422 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218422] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 21, 2014 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America   Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.

Mr. Hockey: My Story by Gordie Howe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218423 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218423] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Hockey: My Story Author: Gordie Howe Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 14, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE DEFINITIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SPORTS LEGEND The NHL may never see anyone like Gordie Howe again. Known as Mr. Hockey, he led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and is the only player to have competed in the league in five different decades. In Mr. Hockey, the man widely recognized as the greatest all-around player the sport has ever seen tells the story of his incredible life... Twenty consecutive seasons among the top five scorers in the NHL. One hundred points after the age of forty. Playing for Team Canada with his two sons. Gordie Howe rewrote the record books. But despite Howe’s unyielding ferocity on the ice, his name has long been a byword for decency, generosity, and honesty off of it. Going back to Howe’s Depression-era roots and following him through his Hall of Fame career, his enduring marriage to his wife, Colleen, and his extraordinary relationship with his children, Mr. Hockey is the definitive account of the game’s most celebrated legacy, as told by the man himself.  FOREWORD BY BOBBY ORR INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Not My Father's Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218617 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218617] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not My Father's Son: A Memoir Author: Alan Cumming Narrator: Alan Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 30 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Equal parts memoir, whodunnit, and manual for living . . . a beautifully written, honest look at the forces of blood and bone that make us who we are, and how we make ourselves.”  --Neil Gaiman In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career. A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most fun people in show business” (Time magazine)—Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under the heavy rule of an emotionally and physically abusive father—a relationship that tormented him long into adulthood. When television producers in the UK approached him to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show in 2010, Alan enthusiastically agreed. He hoped the show would solve a family mystery involving his maternal grandfather, a celebrated WWII hero who disappeared in the Far East. But as the truth of his family ancestors revealed itself, Alan learned far more than he bargained for about himself, his past, and his own father. With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as a film, television, and theater star. At times suspenseful, deeply moving, and wickedly funny, Not My Father’s Son will make readers laugh even as it breaks their hearts.

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218420 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218420] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America Author: Linda Tirado Narrator: Linda Tirado Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of the eye-opening and controversial essay on poverty that was read by millions comes the real-life Nickel and Dimed, and Linda Tirado explains what it’s like to be working poor in America, and why poor people make the decisions they do.   We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like—on all levels.   In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why “poor people don’t always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.”