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Shot in the Heart: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER by Mikal Gilmore

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382273 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382273] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shot in the Heart: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Author: Mikal Gilmore Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 20, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A murder tale 'from inside the house where murder is born.' Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged. Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a black sheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates his story 'from inside the house where murder is born... a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave.' Shot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin.

Personal History: A Memoir by Katharine Graham

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303348 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303348] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Personal History: A Memoir Author: Katharine Graham Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 30 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER • The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate In this widely acclaimed memoir ('Riveting, moving...a wonderful book' The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling.   Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband—a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson—plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman’s union as she entered the profane boys’ club of the newspaper business.   As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251298 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251298] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall Series: #1 of Spike Milligan War Memoirs Author: Spike Milligan Narrator: Spike Milligan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 24 minutes Release date: February 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall written and read by Spike Milligan. 'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .' In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said'), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitus, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway'). Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese.

Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251299 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251299] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Monty: His Part in My Victory Series: #3 of Spike Milligan War Memoirs Author: Spike Milligan Narrator: Spike Milligan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Monty: His Part in My Victory written and read by Spike Milligan. 'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.''This could mean war...' The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced - boredom ('Christ, I just thought of Catford'), a cold ('In this weather?' 'Yed.'), moving camp ('It's a sort of Brighton with camels'), relaxing on the beach ('Life was golden, and we were the assayers'), moving camp again ('We're already somewhere else'), a visit to Carthage ('It's terrible, it's like Catford') and a perilous encounter with the gloriously endowed Mademoiselle Villion (''Help! massage,' I said weakly'). Against the odds, they survive and are sent at last to Italy to be killed...

On My Own: A Memoir by Diane Rehm

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251778 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251778] to listen full audiobooks. Title: On My Own: A Memoir Author: Diane Rehm Narrator: Diane Rehm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 2, 2016 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson’s) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed “on her own,” coping with the inevitable practical issues and, more important, with the profoundly emotional ones. What to do, how to react, reaching out again into the world—struggling to create a new reality for herself while clinging to memories of the past. Her focus is on her own roller-coaster experiences, but she has also solicited the moving stories of such recently widowed friends as Roger Mudd and Susan Stamberg, which work to expose the reader to a remarkable range of reactions to the death of a spouse. John’s unnecessarily extended death—he begged to be helped to die—culminated in his taking matters into his own hands, simply refusing to take water, food, and medication. His heroic actions spurred Diane into becoming a kind of poster person for the “right to die” movement that is all too slowly taking shape in our country. With the brave determination that has characterized her whole life, she is finding a meaningful new way to contribute to the world. Her book—as practical as it is inspiring—will be a help and a comfort to the recently bereaved, and a beacon of hope about the possibilities that remain to us as we deal with our own approaching mortality.