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The I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here On Earth by Brenda Peterson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121196 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/121196] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here On Earth Author: Brenda Peterson Narrator: Brenda Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 20, 2015 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Brenda Peterson's unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author's childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived fierce "sword drill" competitions demanding total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions ("Will Rapture take the cat, too?") only to find that environmentalists with prophecies of doom can also be Endtimers. Peterson paints such a hilarious, loving portrait of each world that the reader, too, may want to be Left Behind.

My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. Bush by Doro Bush Koch

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201162 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201162] to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. Bush Author: Doro Bush Koch Narrator: Doro Bush Koch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation. Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis, Saddam Huessin, has been captured and executed. And while his son George W. Bush has left the White House, his grandson George P. Bush serves as the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. As author Doro Bush Koch did for the 2006 edition, she again has contacted hundreds of the late President's friends and associates, conducted scores of interviews with dignitaries; tapped the memories of family members, including her late mother, her four brothers, and of course, her late father himself; and collected new information from the former President's never-before released files. This memoir offers fascinating details about his tenure as head of the Republican National Committee during Watergate, Ambassador to the U.N., America's liaison to China, and Vice President for eight years under Ronald Reagan. Doro shows how the 41st President felt when two of his sons entered politics. She also sheds new light on the unlikely friendship with the President's once-rival Bill Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Distinguished by its many first-person accounts, never-before-published photos, and a foreword by the late Barbara Bush, My Father, My President is at once the history of a great man, and the chronicle of a rapidly changing nation.

A Dream So Big: Our Unlikely Journey to End the Tears of Hunger by Gregg Lewis, Steve Peifer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/156245 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/156245] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dream So Big: Our Unlikely Journey to End the Tears of Hunger Author: Gregg Lewis, Steve Peifer Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Dream So Big is the story of Steve Peifer, a corporate manager who once oversaw 9,000 computer software consultants, who today helps provide daily lunches for over 20,000 Kenyan school children in thirty-five national public schools, and maintains solar-powered computer labs at twenty rural African schools. Steve and his wife, Nancy, were enjoying a successful management career with one of America’s high tech corporate giants during the dot-com boom of the 1990’s when, in 1997, he and his wife Nancy discovered they were pregnant with their third child. Tragically, doctors said a chromosomal condition left their baby “incompatible with life.” The Peifers only spent 8 days with baby Stephen before he died. Seeking to flee the pain, Steve and Nancy began a pilgrimage that thrust them into a third-world setting where daily life was often defined by tragedy—drought, disease, poverty, hunger, and death. They didn’t arrive in the service of any divine calling, but the truth of their surroundings spoke to their troubled hearts. A short-term, 12-month mission assignment as dorm parents for a Kenyan boarding school turned this ordinary man into the most unlikely internationally recognized hero, and his story will inspire you to pursue similar lives of service.

Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island by Jack Perkins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159378 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159378] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island Author: Jack Perkins Narrator: Jack Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass.   Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast ofMaine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening.   In the busy years of Jack’s career inLos Angeleshe hadn’t felt the need for God. In their new, quiet, and difficult life, though, he began to rethink everything he thought he knew. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and their marriage, and discovering the rewards of a close-to-nature life, acknowledging that the hand guiding their blessed new lives was the hand of a gracious God who knew them long before they acknowledged him.

Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158466 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/158466] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir Author: Eddie Huang Narrator: Eddie Huang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 12 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People   “Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times   NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS   Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way, from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese, but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good: skate punks, dealers, hip-hop junkies, and sneaker freaks. This is the story of a Chinese-American kid in a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac blazing his way through America’s deviant subcultures, trying to find himself, ten thousand miles from his legacy and anchored only by his conflicted love for his family and his passion for food. Funny, moving, and stylistically inventive, Fresh Off the Boat is more than a radical reimagining of the immigrant memoir—it’s the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his destiny in the margins.   Praise for Fresh Off the Boat   “Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true.”—New York Times Book Review   “Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here. He does everything with style.”—Anthony Bourdain   “Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest.”—Chicago Tribune   “Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles.”—Interview   “Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won’t look or sound like anything that’s come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight.”—Bookforum