Episodes

  • When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors

    When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
    Jan 25 2018
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    Title: When They Call You a Terrorist
    Author: Patrisse Khan-Cullors
    Narrator: Patrisse Khan-Cullors
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-25-18
    Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women - Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors - came together to form an active response to the systemic racism causing the deaths of so many African-Americans. They simply said: Black Lives Matter; and for that, they were labelled terrorists. In this empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and award-winning author and journalist Asha Bandele recount the personal story that led Patrisse to become a founder of Black Lives Matter, seeking to end the culture that declares Black life expendable. Like the era-defining movement she helped create, this rallying cry demands you do not avert your attention. With a foreword by Angela Davis.
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    6 hrs and 27 mins
  • A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise - Sandra Allen

    A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise - Sandra Allen
    Jan 23 2018
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    Title: A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise
    Author: Sandra Allen
    Narrator: Sandra Allen, Pete Simonelli
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-23-18
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he was "crazy", that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the '60s and '70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed her his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences over 60 single-spaced pages, the often incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a "true story" about being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic" and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise, Allen translates her uncle's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Lacing Bob's narrative with chapters providing greater contextualization, Allen also shares background information about her family, the culturally explosive time and place of her uncle's formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental health care in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable.
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    7 hrs and 18 mins
  • In a Heartbeat - Rosalie Ungar

    In a Heartbeat - Rosalie Ungar
    Jan 18 2018
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    Title: In a Heartbeat
    Author: Rosalie Ungar
    Narrator: Hannah Edelson
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-18-18
    Publisher: Wheatmark
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    Halfway through her 35-year bout with atrial fibrillation, Rosalie Ungar, at 62, has a heart attack while giving a presentation on heart-healthy foods. So starts the battle to take control of her atrial fib and newer heart issues. Told from the perspective of the patient, In a Heartbeat traverses the ups and downs of living and thriving with an irregular heart rhythm. Determined to question, challenge, and negotiate doctors' orders, Rosalie navigates changes in technology, pharmacology, and physicians' recommendations with a sharp wit and a tenacity for self-education - empowering herself and her listeners along the way.
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    4 hrs and 45 mins
  • The First Casualty - Peter Greste

    The First Casualty - Peter Greste
    Jan 18 2018
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    Title: The First Casualty
    Author: Peter Greste
    Narrator: Peter Greste
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-18-18
    Publisher: Audible Studios
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalism has become the new battleground. Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threatening national security, and enduring a sham trial, solitary confinement and detention for 400 days, Greste himself became a victim of the new global war on journalism. Wars have always been about propaganda, but today's battles are increasingly between ideas, and the media has become part of the battlefield. Extremists have staked a place in news dissemination with online postings, and journalists have moved from being witnesses to the struggle to a means by which the war is waged - which makes them a target. Having covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, as well as having spent time prison in Egypt, Greste is extremely well placed to describe in vivid detail what effect this has on the nature of reporting and the mind of the reporter. Based on extensive interviews and research, Greste shows how this war on journalism has spread to the West, not just in the murders at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo or the repressions of Putin's Russia, but Australia's metadata laws and Trump's phony war on 'fake news'. In this courageous, compelling, vital account, Greste unpicks the extent to which modern investigative journalism is under threat and the fraught quest - and desperate need - for truth in the age of terrorism.
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    11 hrs and 25 mins
  • Les yeux tristes de mon camion - Serge Bouchard

    Les yeux tristes de mon camion - Serge Bouchard
    Jan 16 2018
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    Titre: Les yeux tristes de mon camion
    Auteur: Serge Bouchard
    Narrateur: Raymond Cloutier
    Format: Unabridged
    Durée: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    Langue: Français
    Date de publication: 01-16-18
    Éditeur: Audible Studios
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Résumé:
    Connaissez-vous Massasoit, le vieux sage de la nation wampanoag, Jean-Baptiste Faribault et Michel Laframboise, ces aventuriers canadiens-français qui ont bâti l'Ouest américain, ou l'oncle Yvan, revenu de la guerre alors que plus personne ne l'attendait, ou la tante Monique de Santa Monica? Saviez-vous qu'une vieille Honda était douée de parole, qu'une grande tortue sacrée vivait sur la rue Pie-IX, qu'un camion des années 1950 avait des yeux, et que ces yeux pouvaient parfois être tristes? Après C'était au temps des mammouths laineux (2012), voici de nouveau une trentaine de petits essais écrits avec cet art qui est la marque unique de Serge Bouchard, le timbre même de sa voix: un art qui est à la fois celui de l'anthropologue, nourri par une attention passionnée aux visages et aux récits inépuisables des humains, et celui du poète, confiant dans les pouvoirs révélateurs de l'imagination et du langage. Please note: This audiobook is in French.
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    6 hrs and 18 mins
  • Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The Third Year - Jada L. Roberts

    Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The Third Year - Jada L. Roberts
    Jan 15 2018
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    Title: Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The Third Year
    Author: Jada L. Roberts
    Narrator: Donna Soto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-15-18
    Publisher: Jada L. Roberts
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    If you haven't read the first and second books, Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The First Year and The Second Year, please do so, for this book is a continuation of those two books. This book starts with the third year living on the farm that Jake and Jada purchased to raise their children and to have a little piece of their own little paradise. But their paradise is not so peaceful as they would like. Can Jada and her family brave the terrorizing experiences that the creature has caused and live on the property in the mountains that they call paradise? The Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot series is a true story of one family's terrorizing encounter with an unknown creature lurking in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Notes on a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman - Claudia Turner

    Notes on a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman - Claudia Turner
    Jan 12 2018
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    Title: Notes on a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman
    Author: Claudia Turner
    Narrator: Erin Rieman
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-12-18
    Publisher: Claudia Turner
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of detaching from the daily grind and connecting with yourself, Claudia Turner shares an inspiring and intimate story of her two months living in a Salt Lake City hospital, awaiting the birth of her first daughter Dakota. While preeclampsia, a pregnancy illness, keeps her bedridden, Turner contemplates everything from the history of childbirth to witchcraft, introversion, existentialism, Parisian parenting tricks, and her husband's struggles with alcoholism. As a result, she discovers the depth and turbulence of her own mind while kept in the confines of a single hospital room. Curious about the nurses, the janitors, and her own restless brain, Turner becomes an introspective and humorous observer, offering a thoughtful and honest glimpse into the curious life of a pregnant woman. Written by Claudia Turner, and narrated by Erin Rieman, Notes on a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman is a touching exploration of patience and perspective, showing us how a a break from the world can bring us more connected to it, while providing a closer look into what it means to be fully alive.
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    7 hrs and 50 mins
  • Edokko - Isaac Shapiro

    Edokko - Isaac Shapiro
    Jan 12 2018
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    Title: Edokko
    Author: Isaac Shapiro
    Narrator: Isaac Shapiro
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-12-18
    Publisher: seasidepress.org
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

    Summary:
    In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow in 1896, and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler's national socialism on the rise, remaining in Berlin was for the newlyweds out of the question and they decided to continue their odyssey, first to Palestine, then China, to ultimately spend the World War II years in the relative safety of Japan. In 1931, they found themselves in Japan, where Isaac, son number four and author of this memoir, was born. A few years later, with World War II imminently looming, and the subsequent bombing of Pearl Harbor, their lives were disrupted once again. In 1944, the Yokohama shore was banned for foreigners and the Shapiro family, including their five children, were forced to move to Tokyo, where they survived endless hardships, among others the intensified strategic United States bombing campaigns on Tokyo. Operation Meetinghouse started March 9, 1945 and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. The Japanese later called the operation the Night of the Black Snow. During the subsequent American occupation of Japan, 14-year-old Isaac, being multilingual, was hired as an interpreter by John Calvin Munn, a United States Marine colonel, (later promoted to Lt. Gen.) who, when the war was over, paved the way for Isaac, or Ike as he soon became known, to immigrate to the United States. In the summer of 1946, Isaac landed in Hawaii, at the time a United States territory, altering the course of his life forever.
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    8 hrs and 13 mins