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The Sugar Girls of Love Lane: Tales of Love, Loss and Friendship from Tate & Lyle's Liverpool Refinery by Nuala Calvi, Duncan Barrett

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488622 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488622] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sugar Girls of Love Lane: Tales of Love, Loss and Friendship from Tate & Lyle's Liverpool Refinery Author: Nuala Calvi, Duncan Barrett Narrator: Samantha Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In The Sugar Girls of Love Lane, Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Sugar Girls, tell the remarkable stories of those who worked at the famous Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool.   For over a hundred years until it closed in 1981, Henry Tate’s flagship sugar refinery at Love Lane dominated the Liverpool skyline – and was the beating heart of the local community. More than 10,000 workers passed through the doors of the factory during its lifetime, with some families counting four or even five generations of service. Young women leaving school in the post-war years were drawn by the good wages and the unrivalled social life that Tate & Lyle offered. When they arrived, they started at the very bottom, sweeping sugar off the floors, before graduating to packing and weighing by hand. The work was tough, with girls expected to stack heavy bags of sugar onto pallets five feet high, and by the end of the day their arms were aching and their stockings full of sugar dust. But, despite the hot, heavy work, they found their own ways of having fun, and the friendships they formed would last a lifetime. As well as the female friendships, many women met their future husbands at the factory, and expected their own children to follow in their footsteps. Barrett and Calvi's social history of the post-war era casts a warm and nostalgic look back at one of the most iconic factories in the north, bringing back a vanished era of hard work, community spirit and simple pleasures.

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492137 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492137] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop Author: Danyel Smith Narrator: Danyel Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano) “Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”—Oprah Daily ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers Weekly SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor (Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host (Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo.  Smith’s detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley.  Shine Bright is an overdue paean to musical masters whose true stories and genius have been hidden in plain sight—and the book Danyel Smith was born to write.

A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485948 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485948] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid Author: Peter Hennessy Narrator: Matthew Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the 'five giants' on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Hennessy examines the attack on the giants after the war and asks what the giants are now, and calls for 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-corona Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved in the decades after the Second World War. © Peter Hennessy 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022 THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

[German] - Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte by C.W. Ceram

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489056 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489056] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte Author: C.W. Ceram Narrator: Frank Arnold Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Versunkene Städte, sagenumwobene Schätze, rätselhafte Schriftzeichen: die Geschichte der Archäologie als packender Tatsachenroman. Wir entdecken Herkulaneum und Troja, Babylon und Ägypten, ja sogar die Stätten der Maya und Azteken. Endlich gibt es den Millionenbestseller für jung und alt in der aktualisierten Neuausgabe als Hörbuch. Frank Arnold (u.a. Audioguide zur Berliner Babylon-Ausstellung, Sprecher von Ilija Trojanows 'Der Weltensammler') interpretiert den Text lebendig und mitreißend.-

From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga by S. H. Fernando

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485006 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485006] to listen full audiobooks. Title: From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga Author: S. H. Fernando Narrator: S. H. Fernando, Clarke Peters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, features decades of unpublished interviews and unparalleled access to members of the group and their associates. This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Heralded as one of the most influential groups in modern music—hip hop or otherwise—WTC created a rap dynasty on the strength of seven gold and platinum albums that launched the careers of such famous rappers as RZA, GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and more. During the ‘90s, they ushered in a hip-hop renaissance, rescuing rap from the corporate suites and bringing it back to the gritty streets where it started. In the process they changed the way business was conducted in an industry known for exploiting artists. Creatively, Wu-Tang pushed the boundaries of the artform dedicating themselves to lyrical mastery and sonic innovation, and one would be hard pressed to find a group who's had a bigger impact on the evolution of hip hop. S.H. Fernando Jr., a veteran music journalist who spent a significant amount of time with The Clan during their heyday of the ‘90s, has written extensively about the group for such publications as Rolling Stone, Vibe, and The Source. Over the years he has built up a formidable Wu-Tang archive that  includes pages of unpublished interviews, videos of the group in action in the studio, and several notepads of accumulated memories and observations. Using such exclusive access as well as the wealth of open-source material, Fernando reconstructs the genesis and evolution of the group, delving into their unique ideology and range of influences, and detailing exactly how they changed the game and established a legacy that continues to this day. The book provides a startling portrait of overcoming adversity through self-empowerment and brotherhood, giving us unparalleled insights into what makes these nine young men from the ghetto tick. While celebrating the myriad accomplishments of The Clan, the book doesn't shy away from controversy—we're also privy to stories from their childhoods in the crack-infested hallways of Staten Island housing projects, stints in Rikers for gun possession, and million-dollar contracts that led to recklessness and drug overdoses (including Ol' Dirty Bastard's untimely death). More than simply a history of a single group, this book tells the story of a musical and cultural shift that started on the streets of Shaolin (Staten Island) and quickly spread around the world. Biographies on such an influential outfit are surprisingly few, mostly focused on a single member of the group's story. This book weaves together interviews from all the Clan members, as well as their friends, family and collaborators to create a compelling narrative and the most three-dimensional portrait of Wu-Tang to date. It also puts The Clan within a social, cultural, and historical perspective to fully appreciate their impact and understand how they have become the cultural icons they are today.  Unique in its breadth, scope, and access, From The Streets of Shaolin is a must-have for fans of WTC and music bios in general.