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You’re Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447386 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447386] to listen full audiobooks. Title: You’re Embarrassing Yourself Author: Desiree Akhavan Narrator: Desiree Akhavan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: 'I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again' LENA DUNHAM 'Smart and funny … reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron’ GUARDIAN Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love. When it comes to shame, award-winning filmmaker and director Desiree Akhavan knows what she’s talking about – whether it’s winning the title of The Ugliest Girl at her high school, acquiescing to the nose job she was lovingly forced into by her Iranian parents, or losing her virginity to a cokehead she met in a support group for cutters. In You're Embarrassing Yourself, Desiree goes to the rawest places: the lifelong struggle to be at peace in one’s body, the search for home as the child of immigrants and the anxious underbelly of artistic ambition. With all the humour and vulnerability of Jennette McCurdy and the warmth and nuance of Jia Tolentino, You're Embarrassing Yourself is equal parts funny and heartfelt, charting an artist’s journey from outcast to overnight indie darling, to (somewhat) self-aware adult woman. The result is a book that captures the pathetic lows and euphoric highs of our youth, and how to survive them, in a voice that is unmistakably, unapologetically Desiree’s.

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415096 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415096] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Author: Michael Newton Narrator: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, David Monteath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 1 minute Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by David Monteath and Gabrielle Nellis-Pain. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Newton. 'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients' - Dorothy Scarborough This new selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre. From Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story' through to Edith Wharton's 'Afterword', this collection covers all of the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, Newton places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.

The Cape Doctor by E. J. Levy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419226 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419226] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cape Doctor Author: E. J. Levy Narrator: Mary Jane Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A "gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man’s journey from penniless Irish girl to one of most celebrated and accomplished figures of his time (Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for Me).   Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Perry’s journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town, Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives.   E. J. Levy’s enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive.

Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429280 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429280] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Narrator: Heida Reed, Richard Goulding, Jade Anouka, Clarke Peters, Richard Armitage, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: A celebration of the great speeches of world history and cultural life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious. Some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. The speakers themselves vary from empresses and conquerors to rock stars, novelists and sportsmen, dreamers and killers, from Churchill and Elizabeth I to Stalin and Genghis Khan, and from Michelle Obama and Cleopatra to Ronald Reagan, Nehru, and Muhammad Ali. All human drama is here: from the carnage of battlefields to the theatre of courtrooms, from table talk to audiences of millions, from desperate last stands to orations of triumph, from noble calls for liberation to genocidal rants, from foolish delusions and strange confessions to defiant resistance and heartbreaking farewells. Voices of History spans centuries, continents, and cultures. In the accessible and gripping style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these seventy speeches are essential reading and how they enlighten our past, enrich our present, and inspire--as well as hold warnings for--our future.

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424518 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424518] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia Author: Tony Horwitz Narrator: Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: “A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—The New York Times Book Review NATIONAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz's 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for the first time. With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of the 1990s, to offer startling, honest close-ups of the Middle East. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the sands of the Sudan to the souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Careening through fourteen countries, including the Sudan, Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan, Horwitz travels light, packing a keen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and chutzpah in overwhelming measure. This wild and comic tale of misadventure reports on a fascinating world in which the ancient and the modern collide.