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Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians by Amy-Jill Levine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369344 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369344] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians Author: Amy-Jill Levine Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Why Jesus’s historic and cultural influence makes him fascinating, provocative, and relevant for everyone, not only Christians. Two thousand years after his birth and death, Jesus of Nazareth continues to be of vital interest. Yet much of the scholarship around Jesus focuses on his religious significance. Jesus for Everyone examines his most famous teachings from a fresh perspective, exploring how they have continued to shape ethics and civilization in the West for two millennia. Even for those who reject faith, Jesus’s life and his philosophy are important to study, writes renowned biblical scholar and author Amy-Jill Levine, because of the insights they hold for us today. Poring through scripture, analyzing what historical scholarship has revealed about Jesus’s views on a number of subjects—including women—reveals surprising messages sure to be fascinating to all readers. Placing Jesus of Nazareth within his historical context, Levine brings him vividly into focus and invites everyone from faithful Christians, agnostics, and the most committed nonbelievers to appreciate his lasting impact on the modern world.

Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World by Elie Wiesel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390181 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390181] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World Author: Elie Wiesel Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s most honored and beloved teachers. “This posthumous collection encourages a path toward purpose and transcendence.” —The New York Times Book Review From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history. Here is the prophet Elisha, wonder-worker and adviser to kings, whose compassion for those in need is matched only by his fiery temper. Here is the renowned scholar Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, whose ingenuity in escaping from a besieged Jerusalem on the eve of its destruction by Roman legions in 70 CE laid the foundation for the rab­binic teachings and commentaries that revolutionized the practice and study of Judaism and have sustained the Jewish people for two thousand years of ongoing exile. And here is Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad Hasidism, languishing in a Czarist prison in 1798, the victim of a false accusation, engaging in theological discussions with his jailers that would form the basis for Chabad’s legendary method of engagement with the world at large.   In recounting the life stories of these and other spiritual seekers, in delving into the struggles of human beings trying to create meaningful lives touched with sparks of the divine, Wiesel challenges and inspires us all to fill our own lives with commitment and sanctity.

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386489 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386489] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Author: Robert D. Putnam Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger more unified nation. Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism—Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But we’ve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However as the twentieth century opened, America became—slowly, unevenly, but steadily—more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s disarray. In a “magnificent and visionary book” (The New Republic) drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again. He draws on inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community. This is Putnam’s most “remarkable” (Science) work yet, a fitting capstone to a brilliant career.

The Miracle Typist: The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home by Leon Silver

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390582 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390582] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Miracle Typist: The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home Author: Leon Silver Narrator: Robbie Mcgregor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 2, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war. Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s forces draw closer, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, the army is rife with anti-Semitism and Tolek is relentlessly tormented. As the Germans invade Poland, he is faced with a terrible dilemma: flee home to protect his family – and risk being shot as a deserter – or remain a soldier, hoping reports of women and children being spared by the occupying forces are true. What follows is an extraordinary odyssey that will take Tolek – via a daring escape from a Hungarian internment camp – to Palestine, where his ability to type earns him the title of ‘The Miracle Typist’, then on to fight in Egypt, Tobruk and Italy. A broken telegram from Klara, ending with the haunting words, ‘We trouble’, makes Tolek even more determined to find his way home and fulfil his promise. This heartbreakingly inspiring true story is brought vividly to life by Tolek’s son-in-law, Melbourne writer Leon Silver. ‘Incredible, heart-wrenching and inspirational.’ Better Reading

Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College by Jeff Hobbs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387437 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387437] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College Author: Jeff Hobbs Narrator: Gary Tiedemann, Tim Chiou, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Christian Barillas, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a “carefully observed journalistic account [that] widens our view of the modern ‘immigrant experience’” (The New York Times Book Review) as he closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college. Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In this “exceptional work of investigative journalism…laced with compassion, insight, and humor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Jeff Hobbs stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of being a young person confronting the future—both their own and the cultures in which they live—in contemporary America. Blending complex social issues with each individual experience, Hobbs takes us deep inside these boys’ worlds. The foursome includes Carlos, the younger son of undocumented delivery workers, who aims to follow in his older brother’s footsteps and attend an Ivy League college; Tio harbors serious ambitions to become an engineer despite a father who doesn’t believe in him; Jon, devoted member of the academic decathalon team, struggles to put distance between himself and his mother, who is suffocating him with her own expectations; and Owen, raised in a wealthy family, can’t get serious about academics but knows he must. Including portraits of secondary characters—friends, peers, parents, teachers, and girlfriends—this “uniquely illuminating” (Booklist) masterwork of immersive journalism is destined to ignite conversations about class, race, expectations, cultural divides, and even the concept of fate. Hobbs’s portrayal of these young men is not only revelatory and relevant, but also moving, eloquent, and indelibly powerful.