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Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War by Marty Skovlund, Joe Kent

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545109 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545109] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War Author: Marty Skovlund, Joe Kent Narrator: Joe Kent, Marty Skovlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother.  Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as “operators.” Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as one of the best. Shannon served as a Navy cryptologic technician, responsible for signals intelligence and electronic warfare, but her proficiency with language set her apart. She was assigned to a unit so secretive that its name can’t even be printed here, where she worked clandestinely to hunt the most wanted terrorists in the world. Send Me is Shannon’s heroic life story, revealing the truth of both her work and the challenges she faced while trying to raise a family with her husband Joe, himself a Special Forces soldier. He and Shannon met in a war zone, their love forged during a special operations training course, their dedication spanning multiple combat deployments and the birth of their two boys. It is the legacy of an extraordinary woman who rose to the apex of the military, working with the most elite forces in the world, lifting the veil from the life of a Special Forces family to share their duty, sacrifice, and humanity. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544013 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544013] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands Author: Annie Worsley Narrator: Carolyn Bonnyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE ‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later. With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK.

Through the Groves: A Memoir by Anne Hull

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539868 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539868] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Through the Groves: A Memoir Author: Anne Hull Narrator: Anne Hull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author, “Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.” —Rick Bragg 'Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps the listener feel her every bump, bruise, and triumph.'- AudioFile A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father’s family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. “Look now,” her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. “It will all be gone.” But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous outsider from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. She dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman who ate in motel coffee shops, accompanied by her baton-twirling babysitter. As her sexual identity took shape, Hull knew the place she loved would never love her back and began plotting her escape. Here, Hull captures it all—the smells and sounds of a disappearing way of life, the secret rituals and rhythms of a doomed family, the casual racism of the rural South in the 1960s, and the suffocating expectations placed on girls and women. Vividly atmospheric and haunting, Through the Groves will speak to anyone who’s ever left home to cut a path of their own. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

Know Your Place by Faiza Shaheen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539736 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539736] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Know Your Place Author: Faiza Shaheen Narrator: Faiza Shaheen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The chance of Cameron and Johnson going to Oxford and becoming MPs was one in 10,000, whereas it was close to one in 10 million for me - 10 times more unlikely than getting struck by lightning. Why should anyone have to work 1,000 times harder to do the same thing as anyone else? And why would we set society up to work this way? Dr Faiza Shaheen is a self-confessed stats geek and social mobility success story: from a working class background, she got into Oxford and is now a leading statistician, ceo of CLASS thinktank, and a visiting professor at NYU. But when her mother died after her benefits were cut by austerity measures, she decided to embark on a career in politics. When she lost in the 2019 election to incumbent Iain Duncan Smith, Shaheen decided to reframe her story, and set her own narrative against the statistics she researches. The result is Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail - part memoir, part polemic, this is a personal and statistical look at how society is built, the people it leaves behind, and what we can do about it. For readers of Invisible Women and Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, this is a compelling and insightful read which will change the way we think about opportunity in Britain.

The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective by Liam Thomas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544453 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544453] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective Author: Liam Thomas Narrator: Liam Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The real Line of Duty. 'The first rule of covert surveillance is never disturb the environment. To be an undercover officer, you must watch and wait. Before that, though, is the question of identity. Embarking on a covert operation you first must decide who you are. Who will you be today?' Liam Thomas was an officer in the Met for over a decade, many of those years spent deep at the heart of Britain's most dangerous criminal enterprises in the murky world of undercover surveillance. Before him, his father had also been a police officer, a pillar of their small community. Fighting corruption was Liam's life. But the murky world of undercover work teaches him that justice is far from black and white - and a family secret reveals that corruption is closer to home than he had ever expected. The revelations push him to the edge of his sanity - and then he discovers that his bosses are investigating him... A thrilling memoir of a life lived amongst a world of corruption, justice and questionable loyalties, this book tells the real story of the police's line of duty. ©2023 Liam Thomas (P)2023 Penguin Audio