Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield. A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of The Beatles, Prince, or David Bowie. Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power. At once one of the most beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized, Taylor Swift is known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hits—the most public of stars, yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffield’s Dreaming the Beatles, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It Author: Latonya Yvette Narrator: Latonya Yvette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Through essays with stunning photography, the beloved multimedia storyteller and author of Woman of Color shares the powerful lessons she’s learned about creating a home that honors the past and celebrates the future. “A generous, three-dimensional portrait that inspires the reader to reflect on their own sense of home and belonging.”—Rio Cortez, New York Times bestselling author of The ABCs of Black History “Home is a reflection of what we inherit.” Grappling with the state of the world over the last few years—the global pandemic, climate change, threats to women’s rights, constant racial violence—LaTonya Yvette began to contemplate the concept of home. What does it mean to cultivate safety when it is constantly under threat? How can we nurture joy and peace within the spaces where we spend most of our precious time? Who can we turn to for guidance along the way? In Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It, Yvette explores these kinds of questions as she takes readers through the journey of her own rediscovery of home. In eleven meditative essays, accompanied by 25 beautiful photographs taken over the course of writing the book, Yvette illustrates how the act of homemaking can be revolutionary, liberating—and one of the most powerful expressions we have of self- and community care. Woven throughout the book is the story of the nearly 200-year-old house in upstate New York that Yvette bought and painstakingly renovated, with the aim of creating a safe space for BIPOC communities. The house—Yvette’s ultimate expression of home—provides her greatest lessons. Both visual feast and emotional salve, Stand in My Window demonstrates that home truly is what you make of it—in mind, body, soul, and in the thoughtfully curated spaces we can build for ourselves anywhere. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains photographs from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life Author: Karen M. Dunak Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona, from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-century pop culture and she remains an object of public fascination today. Drawing on a range of sources—from articles penned for the women's pages of local newspapers, to esteemed national periodicals, to fan magazines, and film—Our Jackie evaluates how media coverage of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis changed over the course of her public life. Jackie's interactions with and framing by the American media reflect the changing attitudes toward American womanhood. Over the course of four decades, Jackie was alternatively praised for her service to others, and pilloried for her perceived self-interest. In Our Jackie, Karen M. Dunak argues that whether she was portrayed as a campaign wife, a loyal widow, a selfish jet-setter, or a mature career woman, the history of Jackie's highly publicized life demonstrates the ways in which news, entertainment, politics, and celebrity evolved and intertwined over the second half of the twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/826291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mexicanas que hicieron historia Author: Pedro J. Fernández Narrator: Yezz Martínez, Karen Alicia Martínez, Pedro J. Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ¡Un hermoso libro que no te puedes perder! ¿Ya habías escuchado hablar de la serie de Mexicanas que hicieron historia? Esta bellísima edición especial recoge la vida de cincuenta mexicanas importantes de la historia. Aquí te cuento un poco más acerca de ellas para que te adentres en su infancia, en su juventud y conozcas lo que alcanzaron en sus distintas épocas: desde ser grandes escritoras o políticas, así como cantantes o científicas.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: THE ONE Author: Kris Vallay Narrator: Kris Vallay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 1, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir with a twist. You want to hear this story! You know the feeling when your wildest dreams always seem to come with the biggest fears? Follow Kris as she takes you on a deeply personal yet widely resonant (and somewhat spicy!) journey through all that is love, life, sex and dating. You will laugh. You will cry. You might be a little turned on. You will definitely find yourself asking what it takes to find the One. Inspirational personal growth and self help at its finest!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine Geschichte des Römischen Reiches in 21 Frauen (Ungekürzt) Author: Emma Southon Narrator: Christiane Nothofer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das Römische Reich endlich aus weiblicher Sicht. Lasst uns das Drehbuch des Römischen Reiches zerreißen: Genug von Brüdermördern, Frauenräubern und Kriegsspektakel! Die Geschichte Roms ist so viel mehr: Mit Emma Southon entdecken wir, wie die Sexarbeiterin Hispala Faecenia eine Verschwörung aufdeckt, wir lernen die klügste Geschäftsfrau von Pompeji kennen, während wir die wunderbare Aussicht auf den Vesuv genießen (was kann da schon schiefgehen?), und wir begleiten Septimia Zenobia, die - nachdem sie mit ansehen musste, wie inkompetente, psychopathische und inkompetent-psychopathische Kaiser das Imperium fast zerstörten - das einzig Logische tut: Sie erklärt sich selbst zur Kaiserin ... Southon folgt 21 Frauen in Krieg, verbotener Liebe und Naturkatastrophen (sowie der einen oder anderen bacchantischen Orgie) und zeigt uns ein neues Gesicht des Reiches, das wir so gut zu kennen glaubten. 'Southon zeigt, wie Frauen unglaublich häufig aus der römischen Geschichte getilgt wurden ... Römische Frauen waren immer da - jetzt müssen wir dafür sorgen, dass ihre Geschichten erzählt werden.' BBC History 'Wo war Emma Southon, als ich römische Geschichte studierte?' Laura Shepperson 'Klug, frech und erfrischend feministisch. Dieses Buch verdient einen Platz in den Regalen der Bibliotheken, um die patriarchalischen Sachbuchsammlungen auszugleichen. Wir brauchen mehr Geschichtsschreibungen wie diese.' Booklist 'Emma Southon hat die erstaunliche Fähigkeit, alles, was man über die römische Geschichte zu wissen glaubte, auf den Kopf zu stellen, neu auszurichten und neu zu zeigen, während sie einen gleichzeitig zum Lachen bringt, weil sie, offen gesagt, urkomisch ist. 'Eine Geschichte des Römischen Reiches in 21 Frauen' ist das Geschichtsbuch, von dem ich nicht wusste, dass ich es brauche - ein sofortiger Klassiker.' Jane Draycott 'Dies ist nicht nur ein Buch über das Leben historischer Frauen, sondern eines über die Geschichte des Frauseins.' The Times Literary Supplement

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knockout: A Memoir Author: Mia Kang Narrator: Mia Kang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At age twenty-seven, and more than a decade into her modeling career, Mia Kang found herself in Thailand, standing at the edge of a Muay Thai gym thousands of miles from her New York apartment, watching fighters she didn’t know spar and sweat. As she stood there, something primal came over her—the desire to fight. What began as a short vacation to escape the toxic world of modeling became the start of an incredible journey that would forever change Kang’s relationship to food, to her body, and to her own sense of self.Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, a master’s degree holder, and a Muay Thai practitioner. However, beneath her success is the story of a woman who once lived and died by her weight. In her first book, Knockout, Kang opens up about her struggles with bullying, drug addiction, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts, and how she ultimately eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redefine her sense of self-worth.In a charming, fierce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her life and implores women to seek confidence and live outside the mold of what they’ve been taught is “feminine.” With the strength of one who has fought and survived, Mia shares the lesson that’s kept her going through it all: to not let anyone else dictate who you are supposed to be.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julia Child’s Kitchen: The Design, Tools, Stories, and Legacy of an Iconic Space Author: Paula J. Johnson Narrator: Jacques Pépin, Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Julia Child's 20' x 14' kitchen was a serious workspace and recipe-testing lab that exuded a sense of mid-century homey comfort. Now, it has been on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, for most of the past twenty years. Between lively narrative and detailed commentary on Julia's favorite kitchen gadgets, Julia Child's Kitchen illuminates the stories behind the room's design, use, significance, and legacy, showing how deeply Julia Child continues to influence food today. The kitchen contains more than one thousand parts and pieces—tools, appliances, utensils, furniture, artwork, knick-knacks, books, and bits of whimsy—all reflecting Julia's status as an accomplished chef, gastronome, delightful cooking teacher, television trailblazer, women's advocate, mentor, and generous, jovial friend. The kitchen's layout, design, and contents reflect Julia's philosophy of cooking as well as a period of social and cultural change in the United States, providing a platform for exploring such post-World War II themes as shifting attitudes about gender roles and domesticity or the tension between tradition and innovation regarding culinary tools, materials, cooking, and food itself. This book, a beautiful tribute to Julia Child's legacy, will be a must-listen for every home cook and Julia Child fan.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias Author: Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley Narrator: Susana Ballesteros, Fabiola Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough. En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las memorias que tanto tiempo llevaba preparando. Un mes después, Lisa Marie fallecía, dejando al mundo sin la posibilidad de escuchar su historia en sus propias palabras. Nunca llegarían a descubrir a la mujer apasionada, alegre, cariñosa y complicada que Riley tanto quería y añoraba. Riley recogió las cintas que su madre había grabado para el libro, se tumbó en su cama, y escuchó a Lisa Marie contar historia tras historia sobre cómo solían estrellar coches de golf en los jardines de Graceland, sobre el amor incondicional que le profesaba su padre, sobre el tiempo que pasaban en la planta de arriba, solos los dos. Y sobre cómo tuvieron que sacarla a la fuerza del cuarto de baño mientras corría chillando hacia su cuerpo, inerte en el suelo. Sobre su vida con su madre en Los Ángeles, donde pasaba de un colegio a otro, acumulando expulsiones, siempre metida en líos. Sobre la especial relación con Danny Keough, que se prolongó durante toda su vida, sobre su matrimonio con Michael Jackson y todo lo que tenían en común. Sobre la maternidad. Sobre los abismos de la adicción. Sobre la tristeza que la acechaba constantemente. Riley supo que tenía que cumplir el deseo de su madre y compartir esos recuerdos, incandescentes y dolorosos, con el mundo. Para permitir que la conozcamos por fin. Este libro extraordinario está compuesto tanto de la voz de Lisa Marie como de la de Riley, una madre y una hija comunicándose incluso después de la muerte para intentar curarse la una a la otra. Profundamente conmovedora e intensamente reveladora, Desde aquí a lo desconocido es una obra inigualable: las últimas palabras de la única hija de una auténtica leyenda.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Bossin: Von der Hood an die Spitze des Musikbusiness - Mein Weg zum Erfolg in 20 Rules Author: Marina Buzunashvilli, Nina Sternburg Narrator: Marina Buzunashvilli Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: October 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Marina Buzunashvilli gilt als eine der einflussreichsten Größen im deutschen Musikbusiness, ihr Weg an die Spitze aber war alles andere als leicht. Aufgewachsen in Kreuzberg, war ihr Umfeld geprägt von Gewalt und Verbrechen. Einzig ihre Liebe zur Musik ermöglichte ihr den Aufstieg, gegen alle Widerstände. Heute ist Marina Director of PR bei Sony Music Germany, war maßgeblich daran beteiligt, den Deutschrap von Kool Savas, Xatar oder Haftbefehl groß zu machen und arbeitet regelmäßig mit Künstlern wie Robbie Williams und Adele zusammen. Erstmals erzählt sie jetzt ihre ganze Geschichte und teilt die 20 Rules, die sie zum Erfolg geführt haben. Ein faszinierender Blick hinter die Kulissen des Musikgeschäfts und ein Leitfaden für alle, die ein erfolgreiches, selbstbestimmtes Leben führen wollen – egal was andere davon halten!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dorothy Parker in Hollywood Author: Gail Crowther Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before. Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated' Author: John L. Smith Jr. Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated,' writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail's spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail's colorful correspondence with a contextual narrative. In this priceless documentation of one of the most important periods of world history she comments on the varied personalities she encountered and, while her husband was away from home serving in the Continental Congresses and as a diplomatic envoy in Europe, she wrote him frequently about their home in Massachusetts, their family, national and local politics, and, during the early years of the war, crucial information concerning revolutionary activities around Boston. She was an advocate for education for women, a shrewd businesswoman, and had an unrivaled political acumen. This major biography of Abigail is a riveting, revealing portrait of a remarkable woman that listeners will find very relatable—and one that transforms how she is perceived.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings Author: Leanne Morgan Narrator: Leanne Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it’s like to be a woman today—from rebelling against the latest diet trends to dealing with perimenopausal mean girls and attending rock concerts in middle age.   For a long time, no one pulling the strings in the comedy world thought that a woman over fifty from rural Tennessee could make it in the industry. But Leanne Morgan has defied the odds, reaching millions with her musings on hormones, low-rise britches, Weight Watchers, and her opposites-attract relationship with her husband, Chuck.   In her charming southern accent, Morgan brings readers inside her quest to find her voice after spending many years trying to figure out what that meant. Along the way, we learn how she grew up as a butcher’s daughter, landed a husband with health insurance, honed her stand-up technique selling jewelry at house parties, embraced the glories of aging, and surrendered to the comfort of wearing big flesh-toned panties.   Equal parts warm and hilarious, this book is a must-read by one of comedy’s rising stars—reminding you that every time life leaves you asking “What in the world?!,” something good is bound to come out of it someday.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement Author: Ana Elena Correa Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ''There are many women like Belén whose names we don’t know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman’s fight for justice.''—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Foreword by Margaret Atwood The heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage—an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights. In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache—and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage—without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation’s repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide. Belén’s imprisonment is a glaring example of how women’s health care has become increasingly criminalized, putting the most vulnerable—BIPOC, rural, and low-income—women at greater risk of prosecution. Belén’s cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas—not one more—symbolized by thousands of demonstrators around the globe donning white masks, the same kind of mask Belén wore when leaving prison. The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021.  In this gripping and personal account of the case and its impact on local law, Ana Correa, one of Argentina’s leading journalists and activists, makes clear that what happened to Belén could happen to any woman—and that we all have the power to raise our collective voices and demand change. Translated by Julia Sanches

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir Author: Daisy Hernández Narrator: Daisy Hernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa.  These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy Author: Megan Williams Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer. It's not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering twins born via IVF at twenty-nine weeks. As the twins grow and test her endlessly, she feels she is failing. She needs a win. During a grueling application process, Megan measures herself against the other candidates and confronts the normative notions of what it is to be a good mother. The paralyzing fear that she is a bad mother looms large in her head, as does the real possibility that she might not make the cut at the Academy. With its intertwined narratives of police recruitment and motherhood, the memoir provides an unflinching journalistic view of big-city law enforcement, set atop a personal journey during which Megan learns gratitude and makes peace with a motherhood far different from the dream sold to her by our culture.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Submit Author: Sonnet Narrator: Alice Carax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The shocking and illuminating memoir of an anonymous submissive immersed in the BDSM community, reckoning with the divide between our desires and the expectations and strictures that keep us from pursuing them.  Sonnet is a writer. She is a professional with a wide network of important people. She is athletic, creative and successful. She always remembers to send Christmas cards.   Sonnet also likes to be caned. She likes to be humiliated. She likes to go into a room blindfolded with ten strangers and have them do whatever they want to her.   Sonnet likes whatever you tell her she likes.   This is the secret memoir of a submissive. A vivid, electric, stunning account of how one woman gets her kicks. It is all true.   This is an experience that can’t be missed, all we ask is that you SUBMIT…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Author: Sonia Purnell Narrator: Louise Brealey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes – on both sides of the Atlantic - remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today. At age 20 Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law became a “secret weapon” during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler. After the war, she helped to transform Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli into Italy’s ‘uncrowned king’ on the international stage and after moving to the US brought a struggling Democratic party back to life, hand-picking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency. Picked as Ambassador to France, she deployed her legendary subtle powers to charm world leaders and help efforts to bring peace to Bosnia, playing her part in what was arguably the high-water mark of American global supremacy. There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics, culture, and fashion whose lives she did not touch, including the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Aly Khan, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem, Ed Murrow, and Frank Sinatra. Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, KINGMAKER re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of Pamela Harriman's life through images.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe Author: Shohini Ghose Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions. In each chapter, Ghose explores a scientific topic and explains how the women featured revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy. In doing so, she also addresses particular aspects of women's experiences in physics and astronomy: in the chapter on time, for instance, we learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; in the chapter on space exploration, we learn of Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; and in the chapter on subatomic particles, we learn of Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri, who contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe. Her Space, Her Time is a story of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership, and overcoming invisibility that will leave a lasting impression on any listener curious about the rule-breakers and trendsetters who illuminated our understanding of the universe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wilde Stille (Ungekürzt) Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das Leben entwickelt sich selten so, wie wir es planen. Raynor Winn und ihr Mann Moth erlebten dies hautnah, als sie mitten im Leben alles verloren und sich auf die rund 1000 Kilometer lange Wanderung entlang des South West Coast Path begaben. Nach dieser Wanderung haben sich die beiden in einer kleinen Stadt an der englischen Küste niedergelassen und versuchen, sich wieder an das Leben mit einem Dach über dem Kopf zu gewöhnen. In Ihrem zweiten Buch 'Wilde Stille' erzählt Raynor Winn: - wie die Wanderung ihr Leben verändert hat; - wie es dem Ehepaar gelingt, wieder ein 'normales' Leben zu führen; - was Raynor bewegte, ihr erstes Buch zu schreiben; ... und wie ihr Leben weitergeht. Natürlich hält das Leben neue Herausforderungen für das Ehepaar bereit. Werden sich Ray und Moth trotz aller Schwierigkeiten ein neues Abenteuer zutrauen? Hören Sie die Fortsetzung ihrer bewegenden Geschichte!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre azul y buenas noches Author: Samantha Flores, Antoine Rodríguez Narrator: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez, Samantha Flores, Oscar López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esta es la autobiografía de Samantha Flores, trans-activista mexicana, nacida en 1932 en Orizaba, Veracruz; fundadora de Laetus Vitae, la primera casa de día totalmente gratuita de la Ciudad de México, y de América Latina, para gente mayor LGBTQ+ Bautizada Vicente Aurelio, Samanthase encamina hacia los senderos de la masculinidad, por los cuales los tropiezos y las trampas son frecuentes: niño afeminado, sensible, es seducido, a sus doce años, por el atlético y viril David que le promete amor eterno en la iglesia de San José. Asus diecinueve años, deja Orizaba para emanciparse y liberarse en la Ciudad de México. Tras haber concluido sus estudios de hotelería, trabaja como recepcionista en varios hoteles, pero a Samantha le gusta el mundo de la farándula y de la diversión nocturna. Frecuenta los bares y antros de moda en los cuales circulan deseos y erotismos diversos. Ahí conoce a varias actrices y a la famosa Xóchitl, Reina travesti de la noche,gracias a quien Vicente empieza a convertirse en Samantha, en los años sesenta, cuando la categoría «transgénero» aún no existía. Esta autobiografía es una escritura a cuatro manos. Antoine Rodríguez fungió como técnico para grabar el relato oral de Samantha, editarlo y restituirlo fielmente con el léxico, la prosodia y el ritmoparticulares de la autobiógrafa. El epílogo da cuenta de los procesos de subjetivación de Samantha y propone una genealogía de las teorías acerca de las identidades trans. Esta autobiografía es el primer texto hispanoamericano de una mujer trans mayor de noventa años. «Samantha Flores es una leyenda viviente. Una mujer de la que todas deberíamos aprender. Samantha Flores deja en este libro muchas de las claves para que las mujeres trans tengamos vidas dignas.» -MORGANNA LOVE, cantante, actriz y autora de En el cuerpo correcto

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo Author: Mariana Enriquez Narrator: Mara Brenner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de «una limpia cocina literaria», en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada: la particular relación que tenía con su marido, Adolfo Bioy Casares; su cambiante y chismosa amistad con Jorge Luis Borges, que cenaba cada noche en su casa; sus presuntos romances con mujeres, como la poeta Alejandra Pizarnik o la madre del propio Bioy; sus perturbadoras premoniciones; sus ambiguos conflictos con la olímpica Victoria Ocampo, su hermana mayor. En este libro, Mariana Enriquez, a través de una enorme cantidad de fuentes bibliográficas y testimonios de amigos, críticos, parientes y albaceas de Silvina Ocampo, cuestiona los mitos, descorre el velo sobre los secretos y mira con una intensidad única la vida de quien vivió con el afán de permanecer oculta. El resultado es el retrato emocionante de una mujer entrañable y oscura, inteligente y suavemente perversa, dueña de una imaginación desaforada (y de unas piernas espectaculares), a quien hoy se considera una de las mejores cuentistas del Río de la Plata.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/804324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make a Home Out of You: A Memoir Author: Ginelle Testa Narrator: Ginelle Testa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success—and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she’s started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has fallen prey to anorexia, and has been sexually assaulted. And that’s only the beginning of her spiral down into addiction and disordered eating. As Ginelle progresses into young adulthood, she hits several substance-related bottoms. In her senior year of college, after blacking out and ending up naked in her dorm’s community shower, she goes to Alcoholics Anonymous to get sober. But steering clear of drugs and alcohol, she discovers, is not a cure-all—she still has a long way to go before she can truly heal. Raw, relatable, and powerful, Testa’s is a riveting tale of climbing up from rock bottom—and learning to make a home in oneself instead of in substances and other people.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Moidl: Eine unglaubliche Geschichte aus Tirol Author: Hermann Egger Narrator: Klaus G. Förg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Moidl ist eine der Töchter des Hohenhauserbauern in Hintertux im Zillertal. Die enge Bindung an ihre Familie und ihren Hof ist ihr Lebenselixier und wird nur noch stärker, als verschiedene Schicksalsschläge die Hohenhauser treffen. Sie bleibt ledig und arbeitet tagtäglich von früh bis spät auf dem Hof. Auf einem Markt begegnet sie Hermann, der mit nur zwölf Jahren nach einer Arbeitsstelle sucht, um zu überleben; der Waisenknabe wird gehandelt wie ein Stück Vieh. Aus Mitleid und weil es bei den Hohenhausern an Arbeitskräften fehlt, nimmt sie ihn mit auf den Hof, wo er sich als fleißiger Arbeiter bewährt und zu einer Stütze für den Bauern Thomas und für Moidl wird. Als Thomas stirbt, muss Moidl mit 76 Jahren den Hof übernehmen. Bald stellt sich die Frage, wer ihn in Zukunft weiterführen wird. Für Moidl und ihre Vorfahren war es immer klar: Er muss in Familienbesitz bleiben … Hermann Egger schildert in diesem Buch zugleich einfühlsam und packend eine authentische Geschichte – die Geschichte seiner eigenen Familie.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story Author: Debrah Miceli, Greg Oliver Narrator: Debrah Miceli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah 'Madusa' Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets . . . Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah's determination to persevere. Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women's belt . . . until being fired. In the rival WCW, Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV. Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink 'Queen of Carnage' t-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys. By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men. Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood. This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Author: Camilla Townsend Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cortés whatever he wanted out of her own self-interest. The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated. She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook. If she managed to make something more out of her life—and she did—it is difficult to say at what point she did wrong. In getting to know the trials and intricacies with which Malintzin's life was laced, we gain new respect for her steely courage, as well as for the bravery and quick thinking demonstrated by many other Native Americans in the earliest period of contact with Europeans. In this study of Malintzin's life, Camilla Townsend rejects all the previous myths and tries to restore dignity to the profoundly human men and women who lived and died in those days. She breathes new life into an old tale, and offers insights into the major issues of conquest and colonization, including technology and violence, resistance and accommodation, gender and power.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World Author: Melissa Eddy Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Notorious RBG, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on more than a decade’s worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy. Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new leader of the free world. With an entire hand gesture named after her (the “Merkel Diamond”) and celebrated in a viral meme for sparring with Trump, Angela Merkel spent a decade economically and politically revitalizing her country. The first woman chancellor of Germany and one of the longest-serving European leaders ever, Merkel’s quiet resolve, calculated confidence, and extreme privacy around her personal life have made her a feminist role model for the ages. Merkel’s Law is a revelatory look at an unlikely vanguard, and at the country she led for sixteen years. No one is better positioned than New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy to pull back the curtain on the woman who engineered Germany’s rise to wealth, power, and an economy worth 3.8 trillion in USD. Drawing upon an unparalleled well of sources close to Merkel, Merkel’s Law traces her childhood in East Germany as the daughter of a clergyman, her meteoric rise to power, and her more recent public acclaim—as well as the numerous setbacks she faced along the way both from political rivals and from men in her own party who scoffed at her ambition. Painting a portrait of a political genius, savvy businesswoman, and model for modern power, Merkel’s Law is not only the story of her life, but the lessons we can learn from it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Blew Up My Life And I've Never Been Happier Author: Amber James Narrator: Tiffany Magnuson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: I Blew Up My Life, And I've Never Been Happier by Amber James To the public eye, Amber James is living the dream. She is engaged to be married, boasts a six-figure salary, and spent the last decade interviewing the hottest celebrities in New York City. Yet beneath this dazzling facade, Amber wrestles with crippling perfectionism, a toxic relationship, and an insatiable ambition that leaves her deeply unsatisfied. As Amber teeters on the brink, a whirlwind of life-altering events - a global pandemic, a devastating loss, and a terrifying health scare - sweep her off her feet and force her to re-examine her life. Amber is presented with a life-altering question: Is she living to fulfill her happiness, or is she merely adhering to a checklist of success manufactured by societal expectations and settling? In her emotionally raw and unflinchingly honest memoir, Amber takes readers on an inspiring journey of courage, self-discovery, and transformation as she musters the bravery required to forge a road toward genuine joy. It’s a poignant tale that reminds us that sometimes, it’s only by letting go that we find the true path to happiness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schluss mit den Krümeln - Ich will den ganzen Kuchen - Von der Affäre zur Beziehung!: Ein ehrliches und aufschlussreiches Buch für Frauen, die nicht länger die Nummer zwei sein wollen. Author: Christine Zillmer Narrator: Birgit Eimermacher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 8, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Endlich Nummer Eins: Wie du deine Affäre in eine erfüllte Traumbeziehung verwandelst: Leidest du unter der ständigen Unsicherheit und den emotionalen Achterbahnfahrten, die eine heimliche Beziehung mit sich bringt? Wenn ihr euch trefft, seid ihr auf Wolke 7 und du spürst, dass ihr füreinander bestimmt seid, doch wenn er wieder in 'seinem' Leben ist, dauert es ewig, bis er deine Nachrichten beantwortet und du spürst die Distanz sowie das zermürbende Gefühl, nur die 'heimliche andere' zu sein? Du willst mehr als nur eine Affäre und wartest schon seit einer Ewigkeit darauf, dass er seiner Familie 'reinen Wein einschenkt', sich öffentlich zu dir bekennt und die Heimlichkeiten für immer ein Ende haben? Dann aufgepasst: Wenn du diese Umstände endgültig lösen möchtest, keine Lust mehr hast, in Ungewissheit zu leben, womöglich deine besten Jahre zu verschwenden und endlich die glückliche Beziehung mit ihm führen willst, die du verdienst … … dann ist dieser besondere Ratgeber dein Schlüssel für eine erfüllte und glückliche Traumbeziehung. Du lernst in diesem ehrlichen Ratgeber: - Wie du ihm das gibst, was er emotional wirklich(!) braucht, um sich für dich zu entscheiden. - Welche Verhaltensmuster dazu führen, dass du die ewige Nummer-2 bleibst und mit welchen einfachen Strategien du das zielsicher umkehrst, ohne dich zu verstellen. - Was sich Männer in Beziehungen insgeheim wünschen und wie du in seinen Augen zu der Frau wirst, ohne die er sich ein erfülltes Leben nicht mehr vorstellen kann. - Wie du die tieferen Beweggründe und Absichten hinter seinem Verhalten liest und herausfindest, ob er bereit dazu ist, sich dir voll und ganz zu widmen. - Welche Techniken und Übungen dich nachhaltig zu emotionaler Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit führen. Dein Weg zur Nummer Eins - Drei entscheidende Vorteile: ...Emotionale Kraftquelle: Nutze die Zeit des Wartens als Chance zur Selbstentwicklung und lerne, wie du innere Stärke und ein felsenfestes Selbstbewusstsein entwickelst. Erkenne deinen wahren Wert und tritt ihm gegenüber als unabhängige Partnerin auf, die weiß, was sie will. ...Lebensnahe Inspirationen: Lass dich von den realen Geschichten anderer 'Zweitfrauen' ermutigen. Erfahre, wie sie ihre Herausforderungen in einer Affäre lösen konnten und wie du dadurch deine eigene Traumbeziehung nach deinen Vorstellungen führst. ...Atemberaubende Zukunft: Durch die wirksamen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen dieses Buches verwandelst du deine heimliche Affäre zielsicher in deine Traumbeziehung, die du dir so sehr wünschst. Dabei erkennst du deinen eigenen Wert, setzt klare Grenzen und kreierst eine ehrliche Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe, die das Potenzial für die Ewigkeit hat. So wird die Traumbeziehung zur Wirklichkeit: Stell dir eine Zukunft vor, in der du in einer Beziehung lebst, die von Liebe, Respekt und tiefer Verbundenheit geprägt ist. Dieses Buch ist dein Wegweiser zu einem Leben, in dem du nicht nur gewählt, sondern wahrhaftig geschätzt wirst - eine Zukunft, in der jeder Tag mit der Gewissheit beginnt, dass du die Hauptrolle in deinem eigenen Liebesfilm spielst. Sichere dir jetzt dein Exemplar und werde mit Leichtigkeit zu seiner Nummer Eins!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany Author: Pamela D. Toler Narrator: Dede Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.” — William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. In The Dragon From Chicago, Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz’s years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941. At a time when women reporters rarely wrote front-page stories and her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a “freak,” Schultz pulled back the curtain on how the Nazis misreported the news to their own people, and how they attempted to control the foreign press through bribery and threats. Sharp and enlightening, Schultz's story provides a powerful example for how we can reclaim truth in an era marked by the spread of disinformation and claims of “fake news.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon. In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the couple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969-1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies. Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady’s 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominating a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro-choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: “People are my project.” The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents listeners with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House Author: Nancy Pelosi Narrator: Nancy Pelosi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: “Mother, get a life!” And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been. In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history—not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines, women who inspired her, and human rights activists who fought by her side. Pelosi took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day, warning early about the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government’s long record of misbehavior. This moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump, with whom she famously tangled, becoming a red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here, she reveals how she went toe-to-toe with Trump, leading up to January 6, 2021, when he unleashed his post-election fury on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation, never expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives—and her determined efforts to get the National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later, violence and fury would erupt inside Pelosi’s own home when an intruder, demanding to see the Speaker, viciously attacked her beloved husband, Paul. Here, Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for her and her family. The woman who has been lauded by her opposition as “the most powerful Speaker” ever shows us why she is not afraid of a good fight. The Art of Power is about the fighting spirit that has always animated her, and the historic legacy that spirit has produced.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lucky Ones: A Memoir Author: Zara Chowdhary Narrator: Zara Chowdhary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country’s unique Islamic heritage—“a must-read in our warring world today” (NPR) “A harrowing survivor’s tale, an important history lesson, and a desperate warning from someone who has seen the tragic effects of ethnic violence.”—Time In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India’s fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train fire claims the lives of sixty Hindu right-wing volunteers and upends the life of five million Muslims. Instead of taking her school exams that week, Zara is put under a three-month siege, with her family and thousands of others fearing for their lives as Hindu neighbors, friends, and members of civil society transform overnight into bloodthirsty mobs, hunting and massacring their fellow citizens. The chief minister of the state at the time, Narendra Modi, will later be accused of fomenting the massacre, and yet a decade later, will rise to become India’s prime minister, sending the “world’s largest democracy” hurtling toward cacophonous Hindu nationalism.    The Lucky Ones traces the past of a multigenerational Muslim family to India’s brave but bloody origins, a segregated city’s ancient past, and the lingering hurt causing bloodshed on the streets. Symphonic interludes offer glimpses into the precious, ordinary lives of Muslims, all locked together in a crumbling apartment building in the city’s old quarters, with their ability to forgive and find laughter, to offer grace even as the world outside, and their place in it, falls apart.   The Lucky Ones entwines lost histories across a subcontinent, examines forgotten myths, prods a family’s secrets, and gazes unflinchingly back at a country rushing to move past the biggest pogrom in its modern history. It is a warning thrown to the world by a young survivor, to democracies that fail to protect their vulnerable, and to homes that won’t listen to their daughters. It is an ode to the rebellion of a young woman who insists she will belong to her land, family, and faith on her own terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between Author: Gretchen Whitmer Narrator: Gretchen Whitmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.11 of Total 9 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot. When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good in other people. “Even the meanest person might have pretty eyes,” she would say. Nino’s words persuaded Whitmer to look for the good in any person or situation—just one of many colorful personal experiences that have shaped her political vision. (And, as Whitmer writes, one that resonated more than another piece of advice her grandmother offered, to “never part your hair in the middle.”) In this candid and inspiring book, Whitmer reveals the principles and instincts that have shaped her extraordinary career, from her early days as a lawyer and legislator and her 2018 election as governor of Michigan, to her bold and innovative actions as she led the state through a series of unprecedented crises. Her motto in politics, she writes, is to “get shit done.” Whitmer shares the lessons in resilience that steered her through some of the most challenging events in Michigan’s history, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, a five-hundred-year flood, the rise of domestic terrorism, and the fierce fight to protect reproductive rights. Along the way, she tells stories about the outsize characters in her family, her lifelong clumsy streak, the wild comments she’s heard on the campaign trail, her self-deprecating social media campaigns (including her star turn as a talking potato with lipstick), and the slyly funny tactics she deploys to neutralize her opponents. Written with Whitmer’s trademark sense of humor and straight-shooting style, True Gretch is not only a compelling account of her remarkable journey, but also a blueprint for anyone who wants to make a difference in their community, their country, or the world. It is a testament to the power of humor, perseverance, and compassion in the face of darkness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With and Without You Author: Kelsey Parker Narrator: Kelsey Bowden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “They say the first year is the hardest.” Kelsey Parker's world was turned upside down in the summer of 2020 when her husband Tom, singer in boyband The Wanted, was cruelly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Heavily pregnant with their second child and coping with her own heartache at losing her partner of 13 years, Kelsey remained a tower of strength and positivity for Tom during his darkest days. When traditional treatments stopped working, she spent hours researching alternative therapies to give her husband extra time with his young children Aurelia and Bodhi. Hope came late in 2021 when Tom's tumour became stable, but sadly his condition quickly deteriorated and on March 30, 2022, aged just 33, he died surrounded by his loyal wife, family and friends. With And Without You is her moving, deeply personal story of the first 12 months since Tom's tragic passing. An intimate diary of how she coped with a year of unwanted firsts – first birthdays, first Christmas, first Valentine's Day – all without the love of her life. It is the story of how she rebuilt her life, and bravely found a way to face the future. Since Tom's death, Kelsey has been an inspiration to many and a rock to the couple's children. She has sought to raise awareness of glioblastoma and has bravely campaigned for vital funds for more research into the disease. She has also found spirituality – following Tom's long held belief there is something greater than just one life. With And Without You is not only a story of coping with unimaginable heartbreak and grief, but how your love for someone you've lost can be turned into something positive and bring hope and light into your life as you carry on your journey without them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Daten is (nog steeds) k*t: Over dickpicks, dertigersdilemma's en daddy issues Author: Laura De Hoog Narrator: Judith Amsenga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Daten als dertiger is nét even anders, maar daten blijft k*t. Vlak voor haar dertigste verjaardag heeft Laura de Hoog alles op een rijtje: een leuke baan als contentcreator, fijne mensen om zich heen, een goede gezondheid en na een turbulent liefdesleven lijkt ze ook de man van haar dromen tegen het gespierde lijf te zijn gelopen. Lijkt, helaas, want haar prins op het witte paard galoppeert toch weg, en laat haar met een gebroken hart achter. En dus gaat Laura door met daten. Tenslotte is de beste manier om over iemand heen te komen onder iemand anders. In dit boek kun je álles maar dan ook álles, dus ook wat op TikTok gecensureerd wordt, lezen. Hoewel daten in je dertiger jaren wat nieuwe uitdagingen met zich mee blijkt te brengen – van (wel of geen) kinderen tot botox – blijft Laura even openhartig, herkenbaar en grappig als altijd. Laura de Hoog (1992) begon ooit een blog over haar liefdesleven, maar stapte na de zoveelste mislukte relatie over op TikTok waar ze in minivlogjes haar ongezouten mening geeft over wat ze in het dagelijks leven tegenkomt. Ondertussen is ze meer dan 300.000 volgers en een succesvol boek – Daten is k*t – verder.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Author: Maureen Callahan Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.92 of Total 12 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, leaving a trail of ruin and death in each generation’s wake. Through decades of scandal after scandal—from sexual assaults to reputational slander, suicides to manslaughter—the family and their defenders have kept the Kennedy brand intact. Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys’ hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be. Drawing on years of explosive reportage and written in electric prose, Ask Not is a long-overdue reckoning with this fabled family and a consequential part of American history that is still very much with us. At long last, Callahan redirects the spotlight to the women in the Kennedys’ orbit, paying homage to those who freed themselves and giving voice to those who, through no fault of their own, could not.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Series: Part of Significations Author: Tiya Miles Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall, unable to read, and suffering from a brain injury, she managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell Author: Ann Powers Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her own invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice.” —From the introduction For decades, Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians—from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile—and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as—with the other arm—she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer’s childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell’s musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Along this journey, Powers’ wide-ranging musings on the artist’s life and career reconsider the biographer’s role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, Traveling illustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan. Kaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, Traveling is a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell canon, written by a biographer in full command of her gifts who asks as much of herself as of her subject.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below Author: Jane Kamensky Narrator: Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950–2015)—underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist—she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot “sex wars” cleaved feminism and realigned American politics; when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus; when the sex industry of the 1970s and ’80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire.The sexual revolution was Royalle’s war—even when other avowed feminists exited the field or became her opponents—and pornography emerged as the arena in which she would wage it. With the founding of her adult film company, Femme Productions, in 1984, Royalle became an owner of the means of pornographic production, infusing her sets with the ideals of labor feminism. Onscreen and off-, she was, by turns, exuberant and thoughtful, self-possessed and gleefully shameless. A trailblazer who lived along the cultural fault lines of her generation, she danced at Woodstock, marched for women’s liberation, survivedthe AIDS crisis, and became a talk show regular, interviewed by Phil Donahue, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Morton Downey Jr., Jane Pauley, and many others. As a performer, director, producer, and writer, she moved the needle of her industry. But she never transcended the politics of pleasure.With full access to Royalle’s remarkable archive, historian Jane Kamensky has spent years examining the intersection of Royalle’s life with the clashes that have defined her era—and ours. Deeply informed by these never-before-studied materials, Kamensky explodes the conventions of biography, with its assumptions about who makes history and how. Written with cinematic verve, Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution evokes Royalle’s times in their broadest contours as Kamensky traces the rise of an improbable heroine who broke the mold and was herself broken in turn.“A riveting, humane, and essential contribution to modern feminist history. Jane Kamensky has written a biography that reads like a novel, an astute intellectual work that recognizes and humanizes the role of sex workers in recent women’s movements. Thanks to this book, I am proud to recognize the place of Candida Royalle in my own lineage.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taylor: Era by Era: The Unauthorized Biography Author: Caroline Sullivan Narrator: Katelyn Levering Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography. We're all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album, she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas, and become one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her Eras Tour is on track to gross more than $1 billion by the time it concludes in December 2024, and her most recent studio album hit No. 1 in more than 25 countries. In this revealing and entertaining biography, author and music journalist Caroline Sullivan charts Taylor’s journey from budding country starlet to pop music phenomenon, encompassing her evolution as an artist, her high-profile relationships, and the stories behind her songs. Each of Taylor’s Eras is explored in depth, detailing her influences, her collaborators and the aesthetics that have become such a crucial part of her performance. Spanning her entire career, this is the most complete portrait yet of one of the most popular artists on the planet.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America Author: Cynthia A. Kierner Narrator: Kitty Hendrix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights—as Jane Spurgin did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family's lost property after the war was over. While providing listeners with stories of battles, horse-stealing, bigamy, and exile that bring the Revolutionary era vividly to life, this book also serves as an invaluable examination of the potentially transformative effects of war and revolution, both personally and politically.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma Author: Soraya Chemaly Narrator: Soraya Chemaly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The author of the “must-read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura Bates, author of Girl Up), Soraya Chemaly challenges us to adapt our thinking about how we survive in a world of sustained, overlapping crises. It is interdependence and nurturing relationships that truly sustain us, she argues. Based on comprehensive research and eye-opening examples from real-life, The Resilience Myth offers alternative visions of relational hardiness by emphasizing care for others and our environments above all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La reina de espadas Author: Jazmina Barrera Narrator: Klau Tenorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: «Mientras leo, tengo la sensación que me da la literatura que más me gusta: la de estar mirando a través de una ventana y ver de pronto sobre el cristal, como un espectro, mi propio reflejo.» Este libro nos presenta a una Elena Garro que quizás solo conocieron sus amigas más cercanas. Una Elena humana y, por lo tanto,falible y multifacética. Para trazar este magnífico retrato, Jazmina Barrera hila con rigor científico y sentido del humor una colección personal en torno a la escritora: fragmentos de sus obras de teatro, novelas, cuentos, diarios, cartas y entrevistas se trenzan con citas de documentales sobre su vida, algunas carpetas de los Elena Garro Papers del archivo de Princeton, y hasta sesiones de tarot, I Ching y astrología. Aquí no hay certezas ni juicios; lo que hay es el vaivén de una personalidad camaleónica, mirada por los ojos apasionados de una investigadora que se transforma conforme avanzan sus pesquisas. La observación aguda que caracteriza la pluma de Jazmina Barrera se alianza a su infinita curiosidad y a su prodigiosa memoria para regalarnos una serie de instantáneas de una gran escritora del siglo xx. Y al hacerlo, demuestra ser parte de ese mismo linaje. Elena Garro renace con la fuerza de una mirada feminista e inteligente, que resalta su peculiar forma de habitar el mundo y su capacidad de crearle nuevos sentidos a través de los diversostemas que la obsesionaron: el tiempo, la catástrofe, los gatos, la lucha campesina, las puestas en escena y los viajes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen (ungekürzt) Author: Kirsty Loehr Narrator: Pan Selle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 15, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ob bekannte Namen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich und Hildegard von Bingen oder bisher (zu Unrecht) unbekanntere wie die der andalusischen Prinzessin Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī, der:des Womanizer:in Catterina Vizzani, der chinesischen Intellektuellen Wu Zao oder der trans* Aktivistin Marsha P. Johnson, die am Stonewall-Aufstand beteiligt war: Kirsty Loehr versammelt sie und noch viele weitere queere Frauen in ihrem außergewöhnlichen Hörbuch feministischer Geschichtsschreibung. Nach dem Hören sehen wir die Welt in ihrem über Jahrhunderte stramm gezogenen heteronormativen Korsett mit neuen Augen. Witzig und frech im Ton spannt Kirsty Loehr einen kritischen Bogen von der Steinzeit bis heute - und eröffnet uns ein unglaubliches Panorama an queeren Frauen, die es unbedingt zu entdecken gilt. Buchvorlage: Kirsty Loehr, Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen. Aus dem Englischen von Janine Malz. Die Originalausgabe mit dem Titel 'A Short History of Queer Women' erschien 2022 bei Oneworld Publications, London. © Kirsty Loehr, 2022. Published by arrangement with Oneworld Publications. Die deutsche Ausgabe erschien 2024 im Aufbau Verlag. © Aufbau Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2024

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Author: Edward F. O'keefe Narrator: Edward F. O'keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Includes an exclusive audio postscript featuring archival recordings of the voices of the Roosevelts, including Theodore (one of the first US presidents to have his voice captured on audio), Eleanor, Edith, Corinne, and Alice. An “elegant and illuminating” (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His mother, Mittie, was witty and decisive, a Southern belle raising four young children in New York while her husband spent long stretches away with the Union Army. Theodore’s college sweetheart and first wife, Alice—so vivacious she was known as Sunshine—steered her beau away from science (he’d roam campus with taxidermy specimens in his pockets) and towards politics. Older sister Bamie would soon become her brother’s key political strategist and advisor; journalists called her Washington, DC, home “the Little White House.” Younger sister Conie served as her brother’s press secretary before the role existed, slipping stories of his heroics in Cuba and his rambunctious home life to reporters to create the legend of the Rough Rider we remember today. And Edith—Theodore’s childhood playmate and second wife—would elevate the role of presidential spouse to an American institution, curating both the White House and her husband’s legacy. A “graceful and powerful book” (Candice Millard) filled with “meticulous research [and] perceptive insights” (The New York Times), The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt celebrates these five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die zwei Wölfe: Jenseits des Fegefeuers Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brenda Leb wurde in ihrer Kindheit jahrelang von ihrem Vater sexuell missbraucht. 'Mein Weg aus dem Fegefeuer' war für die Autorin sehr steinig. Doch sie wurde stark, tolerant und glücklich. In diesem Buch erzählt sie von der Alzheimer Erkrankung ihres Vaters, der zwiespältigen Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter und wie sie am Arbeitsplatz in ein Burnout schlittert. Doch sie findet wieder Halt, erkennt ihr Potential, entdeckt ihre Kreativität. Bis sie der Verlust einer Liebe, die sie für unsterblich gehalten hat, und eine herbe Enttäuschung in eine tiefe Krise stürzen. Doch sie verbittert nicht, vertraut auf ihre Stärken, bleibt ihrem versöhnlichen Weg treu. Da hält das Leben für sie ein Geschenk bereit und während sich ein Kindheitstraum erfüllt, findet sie neues Glück, unbändige Lebensfreude und tiefe Erfüllung. 'Die zwei Wölfe' weist in eindrucksvoller Weise auf die dramatischen Folgen des Verdrängens hin. Nachdem Brenda als Einzige in ihrer Familie ihre traumatischen Erlebnisse in einer Psychotherapie aufgearbeitet hat, schenkt sie durch dieses Buch nicht nur wertvolle Einblicke in die eigene Seele.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story Author: Frances Kiernan Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life.' —O, The Oprah Magazine This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Mrs. Astor would use this legacy to benefit New York City. She would personally visit every grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her hundredth birthday, princes and presidents honored her, but in 2006 a grandson petitioned the courts to have his father removed as Brooke's guardian. Once again, an Astor court battle became the stuff of headlines.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Flygirl Author: Susan Tate Ankeny Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn't easy. In America, Hazel felt the oppression and discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. In China's field of male-dominated aviation she was dismissed for being a woman, and for being an American. But in service to her country, Hazel refused to be limited by gender, race, and impossible dreams. Frustrated but undeterred, she forged ahead and gave her all for the cause, achieving more in her short remarkable life than even she imagined possible. American Flygirl is the untold account of a spirted fighter and an indomitable hidden figure in American history. She broke every common belief about women. She challenged every social restriction to endure and to succeed. And against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hazel Ying Lee reached for the skies and made her mark as a universal and unsung hero whose time has come.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Middle of the Rainbow: How A Wife, Mother, And Two-Time Emmy Winner Managed To Find Herself Author: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Narrator: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The blunt and honest memoirs of Emmy-winning actress Bonnie Bartlett Daniels. It’s the story of her 70-plus year career, and her struggles in the pre-#metoo and pre-feminist world. It’s also the rare and unique story of a 70-plus year marriage (with film, theatre and TV icon William Daniels.) In a full telling of her life, we learn that through years of psychoanalysis and, ultimately, thanks to motherhood, she was able to heal the scars left by her abusive father and learn to love her life as if it were a rainbow “with a pot of gold at both ends.”