On the Frontlines of the Television War by Terry Irving - editor | Free Audiobook

Secret Slave by Anna Ruston | Free Audiobook

Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible [https://esound.space/audible] Title: Secret Slave Author: Anna Ruston Narrator: Faye Adele Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Tantor Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Summary: You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now. Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies.... each one stolen away from Anna at birth. Her salvation arrived 13 years too late, but despite her shattered mind and body, Anna finally managed to flee. This is her harrowing, yet uplifting, true story of survival. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@esound.space

This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins | Free Audiobook

Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible [https://esound.space/audible] Title: This Will Be My Undoing Author: Morgan Jerkins Narrator: Morgan Jerkins Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Harper Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Summary: From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today - perfect for fans of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists. Morgan Jerkins is only in her 20s, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn't afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be" - to live as, to exist as - a black woman today? This is a book about black women, but it's necessary listening for all Americans. Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized, with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle that are rarely acknowledged in our country's larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated world at large. Whether she's writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don't "see color"; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of "the fast-tailed girl" and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the "Black Girl Magic" movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. Contact: info@esound.space

Garbage Bag Suitcase by Shenandoah Chefalo | Free Audiobook

Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible [https://esound.space/audible] Title: Garbage Bag Suitcase Author: Shenandoah Chefalo Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Tantor Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Summary: Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug- and alcohol-addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming many adversities, Shen became part of the three percent of all foster care children who get into college, and the one percent who graduate. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman's journey to overcome her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system. Contact: info@esound.space

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition) by Harriet Ann Jacobs | Free Audiobook

Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible [https://esound.space/audible] Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition) Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Summary: Despite being born into slavery, Linda Brent enjoys a happy childhood - until the deaths of her parents and kind mistress leave her an orphan and the property of the lascivious Dr. Flint. Linda becomes the target of his unwanted advances, which she temporarily evades by bearing the children of another man. But when Dr. Flint threatens to sell her children unless she submits, Linda hatches a desperate plan to escape, working to secure her children's freedom as well as her own. Using the character Linda Brent to narrate her own life story, Harriet Ann Jacobs reveals the unparalleled struggles of an enslaved woman. Her harrowing account of perseverance and unimaginable bravery continues to enlighten and inspire to this day. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from iconic authors. Ideal for anyone who wants to hear a great work for the first time or revisit an old favorite, these new editions open the door to the stories and ideas that have shaped our world. Revised edition: Previously published as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. Contact: info@esound.space

On the Frontlines of the Television War by Terry Irving - editor | Free Audiobook

Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible [https://esound.space/audible] Title: On the Frontlines of the Television War Author: Terry Irving - editor, Yasutsune Hirashiki Narrator: Tetsuro Shigemastsu, Eric Pollins Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Summary: On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's 10 years in Vietnam - beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975 when he was literally thrown on one of the last flights out. His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls as the best of battle memoirs but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers who fought, bled, and died, and the reporters and photographers who went right to the frontlines to record their stories and memorialize their sacrifice. The great books about Vietnam journalism have been about print reporters, still photographers, and television correspondents, but if this was truly the first "television war", then it is time to hear the story of the cameramen who shot the pictures and the reporters who wrote the stories that the average American witnessed daily in their living rooms. An award-winning sensation when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book been completely re-created for an international audience. In 2008, the Japanese edition was published by Kodansha in two hardback volumes and titled I Wanted to Be Capa. It won the 2009 Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award - a prize usually reserved for much younger writers - and Kodansha almost doubled their initial print run to meet the demand. In that period, he was interviewed extensively, a documentary was filmed in which he returned to the people and places of his wartime experience, and a dramatization of his book was written and presented on NHK Radio. A Kodansha paperback was published in 2010 with an initial printing of 17,000 copies and continues to sell at a respectable pace. Contact: info@esound.space