{"id":10869,"date":"2019-07-11T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2019-07-09T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T12:10:22","slug":"extraordinary-life-stories-listen-up-audiobooks-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10869","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary life stories – listen up! #audiobooks for all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of us would say that we lead unexceptional lives. That’s why we’re so intrigued by celebrities and folks whose lives are anything but ordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, we get to listen in on the lifestories of superstars in the world of sport and the world of art, with two free audiobooks from AudioSYNC<\/a> (thanks again, publishers!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on a title below by Wednesday 17 July 2019, follow the easy directions at the AudioSYNC page, and you can keep the downloaded free audiobook on your device as long as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Becoming Kareem<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by Hachette Audio<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

US basketball legend recounts his life from boyhood in New York through his professional career and onward as an activist for social change, sharing the many lessons learned from his mentors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vincent and Theo<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by Deborah Heiligman<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read by Philip Fox<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by Dreamscape Media<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Van Gogh brothers shared dreams and heartaches throughout their lives, with Vincent leaving their family home to pursue his art and Theo later giving him a place to stay and work in Paris. Based on their lifetime of correspondence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What other biographies would you recommend?
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Most of us would say that we lead unexceptional lives. That’s why we’re so intrigued by celebrities and folks whose lives are anything but ordinary. This week, we get to listen in on the lifestories of superstars in the world of sport and the world of art, with two free audiobooks from AudioSYNC (thanks again, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[157,237,23],"tags":[90,163,124,130,75,105,16,18,120,44,96,166,186,111,6,8],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-diverse-books","category-nonfiction","tag-abandonment","tag-african-american","tag-art","tag-basketball","tag-brothers","tag-california","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-france","tag-friendship","tag-mental-health","tag-netherlands","tag-new-york","tag-non-us-artist","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/becoming-kareem-135546-sync2019-2168x2400.jpg?fit=480%2C531&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10876,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions\/10876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}