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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madonna: A Rebel Life Author: Mary Gabriel Narrator: Elise Arsenault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 41 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In this riveting biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna. With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Devil's Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen Author: Jennifer Mcadam Narrator: Toni Frutin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: *A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR AUGUST 2023* ''[An] exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. . .'' — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter who took on the creators of the world’s biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict them The OneCoin global cryptocurrency fraud stole tens of billions of dollars from ordinary people around the world. Unlike Madoff or Enron, who relieved the world’s wealthiest investors of their cash, the exploiting genius of the OneCoin scam was targeting the poorest people in the world, the “unbanked”—those who struggled to live or get mainstream banking support. The arrogant assumption was that the downtrodden wouldn't have the means or will to fight back. They didn’t reckon on Jen McAdam—a teenage mother, young grandmother, and modern-day Erin Brockovich. Jen’s father left her £15,000 when he died: his savings from living a careful life in a small Scottish mining town. Jen wanted a safe investment for this money to fund a better life for her family. She was digitally savvy, and she had heard of people making fortunes with Bitcoin. When she saw the promotional material for OneCoin—the founder Dr. Ruja Ignatova featured in major reputable media outlets; videos of celebrity events; gushing video testimonials of people, just like Jen, who had changed their lives—she was entranced. Only months later, she realized she would never see her money again. Jen was one of the only victims worldwide to fight back. Despite terrifying attempts to shut down both her and her growing support groups, she fought tirelessly for justice for herself, her family and friends, and the millions around the world who lost everything, in some cases even their lives. This is a true David-and-Goliath story to give us all a message of hope about the power we as individuals can have, even when things seem hopeless.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker Author: Maryemma Graham Narrator: Kelechi Ezie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 33 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This first complete biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915–98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She was an artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and institution builder. Among the first to recognize the impact of black women in literature, Walker became a chief architect of what many have called the new Black South Renaissance. Her art was influenced early by Langston Hughes, her political understanding of the world by Richard Wright. Walker expanded both into a comprehensive view on art and humanism, which became a national platform for the center she founded in Mississippi that now bears her name.The House Where My Soul Lives provides a full account of Walker’s life and new interpretations of her writings before and after the publication of her most wellknown poem in the 1930s in Chicago. The book rejects the widely held view of Walker as the “angry black woman” and emphasizes what contemporary American culture owes to her decades of foundational work in what we know today as Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Public Humanities. She was fierce in her claim to be “black, female, and free” which gave her the authority to challenge all hierarchies, no matter at what cost. Based on never-before examined personal papers and interviews with those who knew Walker personally, this book is required reading for all readers of biographies of American writers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dream Author: Meverly Adjhei Benjamin Narrator: Bonnie Oakes Charron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 24, 2023 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: My Dream is a gripping novel that follows the struggles of one woman through adversity to be able to achieve her dream. This novel confronts real, dark issues and experiences; following a childhood of abandonment and hard work, this is a tale of perseverance and drive that takes her from the wards of a London hospital to the heart of the Middle East. Esther finds herself prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to be free of her pain. This is a story of love and faith; of despair and betrayal. It is a powerful example of a woman who nearly lost her dream, but who found it in the end. • A powerful exploration of love and faith • An interesting look at the process of working and volunteering in the Middle East. • Introduces issues about faith and belief in an immersive yet accessible manner. • An inspiring tale of how one woman can overcome adversity, that will move and inspire others.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564681 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uncultured: A Memoir Author: Daniella Mestyanek Young Narrator: Daniella Mestyanek Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: World Religions Publisher's Summary: 'It’s a dark story that forced me to think more expansively about what constitutes a cult.' —The New York Times' Ernesto Londoño 'Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox. Memoir readers will want to check this one out.' —Library Journal 'A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn’t always think she’d live to tell her story.' —The New York Times This program is read by the author. In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family’s first communes in Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Beholden to The Family’s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse—masked as godly discipline and divine love—and is forbidden from getting a traditional education. At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong. But she soon learns that her new world—surrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan—looks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind. Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hysterical: A Memoir Author: Elissa Bassist Narrator: Elissa Bassist Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Writer Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women in this medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry. Between 2016 and 2018, Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments. Bassist had what millions of American women had: pain that didn’t make sense to doctors, a body that didn’t make sense to science, a psyche that didn’t make sense to mankind. But then an acupuncturist suggested some of her physical pain could be caged fury finding expression, and that treating her voice would treat the problem. It did. Growing up, Bassist's family, boyfriends, school, work, and television had the same expectation for a woman’s voice: less is more. She was called dramatic and insane for speaking her mind; she was accused of overreacting and playing victim for having unexplained physical pain; she was ignored or rebuked like women throughout history for using her voice “inappropriately” by expressing sadness or suffering or anger or joy.   Because of this, she said “yes” when she meant “no”; she didn’t tweet #MeToo; and she never spoke without fear of being "too emotional." So, she felt rage, but like a good woman, repressed it. In Hysterical, Bassist explains how girls and women internalize and perpetuate directives about their voice, making it hard to emote or “just speak up” and “burn down the patriarchy.” But her silence hurt more than anything she could ever say. Hysterical is a memoir of a voice lost and found, and a primer on new ways to think about a woman’s voice, where it’s being squashed and where it needs amplification. Bassist breaks her own silences and calls on others to do the same—to unmute their voice, listen to it above all others, and use it again without regret.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America Author: Karen Cook Bell Narrator: L. Malaika Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acne: A Memoir Author: Laura Chinn Narrator: Laura Chinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happiness, and really aggressive acne.Despite having dirty-blonde hair and fair skin, Laura Chinn is mixed-race: the daughter of a Black father and a white mother, which on its own makes for some funny and insightful looks at identity. Laura’s parents were both Scientologists and nonconformists in myriad ways. They divorced early in Laura’s childhood, and she spent her teen years ping-ponging back and forth between Clearwater, Florida, and Los Angeles (with an extended stint in Tijuana for good measure). Laura lived alone and raised herself for long periods of time, but don’t worry! Her mom’s alcoholic boyfriend was always nearby to supervise. She also lost family members to horrific tragedies, started drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes when she was eleven years old, and dropped out of school when she was fifteen, all the while completely obsessed with and scarred by her severe acne condition.  This is not a sad story. There is Jell-O wrestling. There is an abnormal amount of dancing. There is information about whether you can drink gallons of sangria while taking unregulated Accutane acquired in Mexico. But mostly there is love, and ultimately there is redemption. Laura explores her trauma through anecdotes riddled with grit and humor, proving that in the face of unspeakable tragedy, it is possible to find success, love, and self-acceptance, zits and all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy Author: Damien Lewis Narrator: Damien Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the most highly-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all ‘negroes and Jews’.  Yet, instead of returning to America,  she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy.  In Agent Josephine best-selling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little known history of the famous singer's life. During the years of the war, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers—a cover for her spying work—she participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served: the US, the nation of her birth; France, the land that embraced her during her adult career; and Britain, the country from which she took her orders, as one of London’s most closely-guarded special agents. Baker’s secret war embodies a tale of unbounded courage, passion, devotion and sacrifice, and of deep and bitter tragedy, fueled by her own desire to combat the rise of Nazism, and to fight for all that is good and right in the world.   Drawing on a plethora of new historical material and rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters and journals, Lewis upends the conventional story of Josephine Baker, revealing that her mark on history went far beyond the confines of the stage.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548797 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pig Years Author: Ellyn Gaydos Narrator: Ellyn Gaydos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This captivating memoir is a “startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals” (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth. Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as “engrossing” and “a marvel.” As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge between loss and gain. Her debut memoir draws us into this precarious world, conjuring with stark simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and stark full moons, the sharp cold days lives near to the land. Joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Fields go barren and animals meet their end too soon, but then their bodies become food in a time-old human ritual. Seasonal hands are ground down by the hard work, but new relationships are formed, love blossoms and Gaydos yearns to become a mother. As winter’s dark descends, Pig Years draws us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are star-bright symbols of hope and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, even in the slaughter. In hardy, lyrical prose that recalls the agrarian writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, Gaydos asks us to bear witness to the work that sustains us all and to reconsider what we know of survival and what saves us. Pig Years is a rapturous reckoning of love, labor, and loss within a landscape given to flux.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/516530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Currently Between Husbands Author: Cathrine Mahoney Narrator: Cathrine Mahoney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Trust me, there is life and love (and plenty of laughter) after divorce, even when your ex is one of Australia’s highest profile sport stars. Actually, I Don’t Like Cricket Or Blow Jobs! (And to be honest, I suck at both.) Yes, that was what I originally wanted to call this book. But then I realised that some women like cricket. Also, reading this in front of your inquisitive seven-year-old could lead to some awkward conversations. So, in stepped Currently Between Husbands to save the day and any blushes.   Having a relationship in the spotlight is hard enough, but in Currently Between Husbands, Cathrine Mahoney details the unique experience of breaking up with one of Australia's highest profile sport stars. Even for a self-confessed over-sharer, the breakdown of her marriage to rugby league player Andrew Johns was more public than she was used to. In her first book, the writer, podcaster and publicist provides a self-deprecating and hilarious look at her life – from fashion mistakes and early crushes as a kid growing up in Wales, to her years working with some of the world's biggest stars at Sony Music, to navigating life and love as a ‘solo’ mum, and coming to terms with hitting the big 4-0. Currently Between Husbands is the equivalent of having a chat with your bestie over a drink or two, with all the inappropriate confessions, front bottom revelations and teary moments that entails. ‘Desperately funny, fearless and full of heart.’ Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss ‘Strap in. You’re in for a fabulous ride. And you’ll be wishing (like I was before I knew her) that she was your friend. It’s a bloody good book, and I didn’t want it to end.’ Amanda Keller OAM, radio and TV host ‘My all-time favourite movie is Bridget Jones’ Diary – to anoint a real-life version is a big deal – but Cathrine Mahoney is it Bridget to a tee. I’d pay to read a post it note she wrote, let alone a book. Cathrine’s ability to be funny, clever, relatable, self-deprecating and just so loveable is unlike anyone I’ve ever met.’ Erin Molan, TV presenter, radio host and writer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ma and Me: A Memoir Author: Putsata Reang Narrator: Putsata Reang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Putsata Reang's quiet narration of her beautiful, poignant memoir holds both deep compassion and raw pain. Reang's ability to capture both her own and her mother's histories, desires, and dreams--in her voice and her prose--is remarkable.' -AudioFile on Ma and Me This program is read by the author. 'A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope.' —Publishers Weekly, starred review 'This openhearted memoir . . . opens the door to include queer descendants of war survivors into the growing American library of love.” —Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby in her arms, Ma resisted the captain’s orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the child's life. “I had hope, just a little, you were still alive,” Ma would tell Put in an oft-repeated story that became family legend. Over the years, Put lived to please Ma and make her proud, hustling to repay her life debt by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, working steadfastly by Ma’s side in the berry fields each summer and eventually building a successful career as an award-winning journalist. But Put's adoration and efforts are no match for Ma's expectations. When she comes out to Ma in her twenties, it's just a phase. When she fails to bring home a Khmer boyfriend, it's because she's not trying hard enough. When, at the age of forty, Put tells Ma she is finally getting married—to a woman—it breaks their bond in two. In her startling memoir, Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom, Ma and Me is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love, debt, and duty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/516557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys Author: Miranda Seymour Narrator: Diana Quick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 12, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England. Rhys’s experiences of heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for her writing, forming an iconic ‘Rhys woman’ whose personality – vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry – was often mistaken, and still is, for a self-portrait. Many details of Rhys’s life emerge from her memoir, Smile Please and the stories she wrote throughout her long and challenging career. But it’s a shock to discover that no biographer – until now – has researched the crucial seventeen years that Rhys spent living on the remote Caribbean island of Dominica; the island which haunted Rhys’s mind and her work for the rest of her life. Luminous and penetrating, Seymour’s biography reveals a proud and fiercely independent artist, one who experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil – and yet was never a victim. I Used to Live Here Once enables one of our most excitingly intuitive biographers to uncover the hidden truth about a fascinatingly elusive woman. The figure who emerges for Seymour is powerful, cultured, self-mocking, self-absorbed, unpredictable and often darkly funny. Persuasive, surprising and compassionate, this unforgettable biography brings Jean Rhys to life as never before.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Author: A. J. Verdelle Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review) ''Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one that deserves to be amen'd forever.” —Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author ''Verdelle gives us the greatest gift—our beloved ancestor returned to us—generous and alive, remembered and revered. So grateful for this book in the world.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn ''If you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recognize the woman who emerges.'' —from Miss Chloe Toni Morrison, born Chloe A Wofford, was a towering figure in the world of literature when she entered A.J. Verdelle’s life. Their literary friendship was a young writer’s dream—simultaneously exhilarating, intimidating, fulfilling, and challenging. The relationship crossed generations, spanned several cycles in life, exhibited high and low notes, reached and dipped and found its way. Like many women friends, these two writers imagined and built a relationship that was responsive, inventive, and engaged. Miss Chloe powerfully situates the risks writers face and the freedom they find when they put Black women’s lives into words. Verdelle chronicles her grief at Morrison’s passing, and finds comfort in Morrison’s astute advice—wisdom Verdelle didn’t always recognize at the time. In this pensive and intricately lyrical book, Verdelle honors Morrison among the cultural greats, while illuminating and celebrating the power of language, legacy, and genius. A. J. Verdelle is the award-winning author of the novel, The Good Negress. She teaches Creative Writing at Morgan State University and at the MFA program at Lesley University.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be Author: Tunde Oyeneyin Narrator: Tunde Oyeneyin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, comes an empowering, inspiring book about how she transformed grief, setbacks, and flaws into growth, self-confidence, and triumph—perfect for fans of Shonda Rhimes, Brene Brown, and Glennon Doyle. On any given day, thousands of devoted people clip into their bikes and have their lives changed by Tunde Oyeneyin. From her platform in a Peloton studio, she encourages riders with her trademark blend of positivity, empathy, and motivational “Tunde-isms,” to push themselves to their limits both on and off the bike. Now, fans and readers everywhere can learn about her personal journey, and discover how they too can “live a life of purpose, on purpose” with Speak, a memoir-manifesto-guide to life inspired by her immensely popular Instagram Live series of the same name. Taking us through each step of the SPEAK acronym—Surrender, Power, Empathy, Authenticity, and Knowledge—Oyeneyin shares the lessons she has learned about loss, love, body image, and how she has successfully created an intentional, joyful life for herself, offering an accessible blueprint for anyone looking to make a positive change in their lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change Author: Danica Roem Narrator: Danica Roem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. In wildly entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page takes readers from Danica's lonely, closeted, and at times operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a party she's helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more than a stump speech: it's an extremely inspiring manifesto about how it's possible to set fire to the stories you don't want to be in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone else--and rewrite your own future, whether that's running for politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as Danica does.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie Author: Julia Haart Narrator: Julia Haart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman’s escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group “An irresistible read . . . Written with great intensity and rare candor, Brazen is a story of longing for more and manifesting that vision.”—Tommy Hilfiger Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart’s life—what she wore, what she ate, what she thought—was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next twenty-three years, her marriage would rule her life. Eventually, when Haart’s younger daughter, Miriam, started to innocently question why she wasn’t allowed to sing in public, run in shorts, or ride a bike without being covered from neck to knee, Haart reached a breaking point. She knew that if she didn’t find a way to leave, her daughters would be forced into the same unending servitude that had imprisoned her. So Haart created a double life. In the ultra-Orthodox world, clothing has one purpose—to cover the body, head to toe—and giving any thought to one’s appearance beyond that is considered sinful, an affront to God. But when no one was looking, Haart would pore over fashion magazines and sketch designs for the clothes she dreamed about wearing in the world beyond her Orthodox suburb. She started preparing for her escape by educating herself and creating a “freedom” fund. At the age of forty-two, she finally mustered the courage to flee the fundamentalist life that was strangling her soul. Within a week of her escape, Haart founded a shoe brand, and within nine months, she was at Paris Fashion Week. Just a few years later, she was named creative director of La Perla. Soon she would become co-owner and CEO of Elite World Group, and one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry. Along the way, her four children—Batsheva, Shlomo, Miriam, and Aron—have not only accepted but embraced her transformation. Propulsive and unforgettable, Haart’s story is the journey from a world of no to a world of yes, and an inspiration for women everywhere to find their freedom, their purpose, and their voice. *Includes a downloadable PDF containing photos and end notes from the book

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers Author: Amy Schumer Narrator: Jennie Heddry, Angel Geden, Amanda P. Williams, Alysia Montano, Christy Turlington Burns, Emma Hansen, Ashley Graham, Amber Tamblyn, Emily Oster, Amy Schumer, Adenrele Ojo, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A wide range of women—actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth workers, physicians, and activists—share their experiences of becoming mothers in this multifaceted, moving, and revealing collection. Throughout her difficult pregnancy and following her frightening labor experience, Amy Schumer found camaraderie and empowerment in hearing birth stories from other women, including those of her friend Christy Turlington Burns. Turlington Burns’s work in maternal health began after she experienced a childbirth-related complication in 2003—an experience that would later inspire her to direct and produce the documentary feature film No Woman, No Cry, about the challenges women face throughout pregnancy and childbirth around the world. It is through Schumer and Turlington Burns’s conversations that the idea for Arrival Stories was born. By sharing their experiences, the contributors to Arrival Stories offer an informative and deeply affecting account of what it feels like when a woman first realizes she is a mother. This beautiful collection features essays by:  Serena Williams • Alysia Montaño • Abby G. Lopez • Amber Tamblyn • Shilpa Shah • Christy Turlington Burns • Emily Oster • Emma Hansen • Leslie Feist • Amanda Williams • Angel Geden • Adrienne Bosh • Latham Thomas • Rachel Feinstein • Ashley Graham • Jill Scott • Jennie Jeddry and Kim DeLise • La La Anthony • Shea Williams • Sienna Miller • Katrina Yoder • Amy Schumer Intimate and urgent, Arrival Stories offers a panoramic view of motherhood and highlights the grave injustices that women of color face in maternal healthcare. It is the perfect book for any expectant or new mother, or for anyone who knows and loves one.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Snatched: Trapped by a Woman to Be Sold to Men Author: Elizabeth Harper Narrator: Fiona Boylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: Groomed and procured by a woman, raped by several men and labelled ‘one of the most abused girl in Rotherham’, now Elizabeth Harper is fighting for answers as to why so many people paid to protect our children simply turned a blind eye. Aged just 15, lonely and bullied by her peers, Elizabeth ‘El’ Harper felt like an outcast. But then a chance encounter in the street with a friendly woman suddenly brought hope to her world. A friendship between El and this benevolent stranger blossomed, and life began to feel worth living again. As the months passed, El grew more and more distant from her family. One day, she didn’t return home to her parents at all … Snatched is the shocking true story of how a young girl was taken from the streets and groomed into Britain’s biggest sex-trafficking ring, all at the hands of a woman. It is also an inspiring account of how trauma can turn vulnerability to strength in the most extraordinary of ways.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Author: Fiona Sampson Narrator: Petrea Burchard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.' With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is an electrifying study in self-invention. Born in 1806, Barrett Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university, own property after marriage, or vote. And yet she seized control of her private income, defied chronic illness and disability, became an advocate for the revolutionary Italy to which she eloped, and changed the course of cultural history. Her late-in-life verse novel masterpiece, Aurora Leigh, reveals both the brilliance and originality of her mind, as well as the challenges of being a woman writer in the Victorian era. A feminist icon, high-profile activist for the abolition of slavery, and international literary superstar, Barrett Browning inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. Two-Way Mirror is the first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades. With unique access to the poet's abundant correspondence, Fiona Sampson holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lonely Hunter: How Our Search for Love Is Broken: A Memoir Author: Aimée Lutkin Narrator: Aimée Lutkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: When can we say we’ll be single forever—and that’s okay? One woman questions our society’s pathologizing of loneliness in this crackling, incisive blend of memoir and cultural reporting. “The Lonely Hunter challenged everything I assumed about the nature of loneliness and what it means to lead an authentic life.”—Doree Shafrir, author of Thanks for Waiting and Startup: A Novel ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Cosmopolitan One evening, thirtysomething writer Aimée Lutkin found herself at a dinner party surrounded by couples. When the conversation turned to her love life, Lutkin stated simply, “I don’t really know if I’m going to date anyone ever again. Some people are just alone forever.” Her friends rushed to assure her that love comes when you least expect it and to make recommendations for new dating apps. But Lutkin wondered, Why, when there are more unmarried adults than ever before, is there so much pressure to couple up? Why does everyone treat me as though my real life won’t start until I find a partner? Isn’t this my real life, the one I’m living right now? Is there something wrong with me, or is there something wrong with our culture? Over the course of the next year, Lutkin set out to answer these questions and to see if there really was some trick to escaping loneliness. She went on hundreds of dates; read the sociologists, authors, and relationship experts exploring singlehood and loneliness; dove into the wellness industrial complex; tossed it all aside to binge-watch Netflix and eat nachos; and probed the capitalist structures that make alternative family arrangements nearly impossible. Chock-full of razor-sharp observations and poignant moments of vulnerability, The Lonely Hunter is a stirring account of one woman’s experience of being alone and a revealing exposé of our culture’s deep biases against the uncoupled. Blazingly smart, insightful, and full of heart, this is a book for anyone determined to make, follow, and break their own rules.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story Author: Andrew Neiderman Narrator: Andi Arndt, Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this Edgar Award–nominated celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues. Yet, once she rose to international literary fame, she prided herself on her intense privacy. Now, The Woman Beyond the Attic aims to connect her personal life with the public novels for which she was famous. Based on Virginia’s own letters, and interviews with her dearest family members, her long-term ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman tells Virginia’s full story for the first time. Perfect for anyone hoping to learn more about the enigmatic woman behind one of the most important novels of the 20th century, The Woman Beyond the Attic will have you “transfixed” (Publishers Weekly) from the first page.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting For My Life: A Memoir About a Mother’s Loss and Grief Author: Mia St. John, Elaine Aradillas Narrator: Mia St. John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mia St. John has always been on top of her game. A five-time world champion boxer known as The Knockout because of her ability to level any opponent charging toward her, Mia spent two decades in the spotlight transforming her body into the ultimate fighting machine. But what most people don't know is that outside the ring, she was battling a lifetime of demons while struggling to keep her family together. Born to a Mexican mother and white father, she spent her young life feeling like an outsider while growing up in Idaho. She fled to California as soon as she was eighteen and left behind the abuse that came with an alcoholic father. Determined to show everyone she was a champion, Mia moved to Los Angeles to follow her dreams—and ended up meeting the love of her life, television star Kristoff St. John. Together, they created a beautiful family with their children, Julian and Paris, while doing their best to battle their own bouts with addiction. Mia's memoir takes listeners through her odyssey of grief and despair, but always the fighter, Mia gets up once again and shows the world how to face another day with dignity and determination to live the best life possible.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cultural life in the nineteenth century, as well as someone who confronted with unusual determination and bore the burden of being both a woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany. Rahel Levin Varnhagen was, Arendt writes, 'neither beautiful nor attractive . . . and possessed no talents with which to employ her extraordinary intelligence and passionate originality.' Arendt sets out to tell the story of Rahel's life as Rahel might have told it and, in doing so, to reveal the way in which intellectual and social assimilation works out in one person's destiny. On her deathbed Rahel is reported to have said, 'The thing which all my life seemed to me the greatest shame, which was the misery and misfortune of my life—having been born a Jewess—this I should on no account now wish to have missed.' Only because she had remained both a Jew and a pariah, Arendt observes, 'did she find a place in the history of European humanity.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Noches azules Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Susie Caraballo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un relato autobiográfico lleno de dolor y de belleza sobre la muerte de su hija, por la autora de El año del pensamiento mágico. «Durante las noches azules uno piensa que el día no se va a acabar nunca. A medida que las noches azules se acercan a su fin (y lo hacen, lo hacen siempre), uno experimenta un escalofrío literal, una visión de enfermedad, en el mismo momento de darse cuenta: la luz azul se está yendo, los días ya se están acortando, el verano se ha ido. Este libro se titula Noches azules porque en la época en que lo empecé a escribir sorprendí a mi mente volviéndose cada vez más hacia la enfermedad, hacia la muerte de las promesas, el acortamiento de los días, lo inevitable del apagamiento, la muerte de la luz. Las noches azules son lo contrario de la muerte de la luz, pero al mismo tiempo son su premonición.» Joan Didion En su celebrado libro El año del pensamiento mágico, Joan Didion contemplaba cómo los rituales que formaban parte de su vida cotidiana cambiaban drásticamente con la súbita muerte de su marido en 2003. Dos años después su única hija, Quintana Roo, moría a los treinta y nueve años de edad. En Noches azules Joan Didion hilvana instantáneas literariasy recuerdos olvidados sobre la vida y la muerte de su hija. Noches azules versa sobre lo que queda tras la pérdida de un ser querido. Críticas: «Poco a poco se va haciendo claro tanto para el lector como para Didion que sus reminiscencias no son solo una elegía a Quintana, sino también un lamento por el paso del tiempo.» Michiko Kakutami, The New York Times «Un clásico breve y sombrío.» Kirkusreviews.com

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cambiar de idea Series: #2 of Caballo de Troya 2019, Author: Aixa De La Cruz Narrator: Paula Iwasaki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Premio Euskadi de Literatura en castellano 2020 Aixa de la Cruz firma una adictiva y brutal crónica en primera persona sobre su paso a la treintena. Cambiar de idea es un giro radical en la escritura de su autora, un punto de inflexión idóneo para reflexionar sobre el paso a la edad adulta. ** Premio Euskadi de Literatura en castellano ** Premio Librotea Tapado 2020 ** Finalista Premio Dulce Chacón 2020 «He tardado diez años de lecturas, y fiestas, y conversaciones con las mejores mentes de mi época en entender que el avatar de hombre es el traje nuevo del emperador [...]. Mi propio y escasísimo caché como mujer que escribe se ha desmoronado desde que dejé de escribir como los chicos: con voces falsamente neutrales, con personajes que pasan de puntillas por su género y se hermanan desde la hiperviolencia y las parafilias. Eso es lo que los editores que no publican a mujeres quieren que escribamos las mujeres. Los editores que no publican a mujeres andan locos por publicar a mujeres que escriban de una determinada manera, para refrendar que la subjetividad masculina es la subjetividad universal. Sus autores pueden ser sentimentales e intimistas, pero sus autoras siempre estarán estancadas en la impostura de lo masculino.» A punto de cumplir los treinta, Aixa de la Cruz pone en marcha la escritura de unas memorias que recorren algunos de los momentos más significativos de su vida: desde el día en que una de sus mejores amigas sufre un fatídico accidente de coche hasta el divorcio de la autora;desde las consecuencias de escribir una tesis doctoral hasta sus relaciones sexuales con otras mujeres; desde una infancia en la que maduró sin un «biopadre» hasta su descubrimiento del feminismo. Cambiar de idea ofrece una escritura hipnótica que va mucho más allá de la simple exposición de la primera persona: el relato del yo sirve para vehicular agudas reflexiones sobre diferentes temas de calado social y para desplegar un estilo literario rico y combativo, que posiciona a Aixa de la Cruz no ya como una de las mejores narradoras de su generación, sinotambién -y sobre todo- como una pensadora brillante. La crítica ha dicho... «Un libro lúcido, lleno de fuerza y rabia, doloroso en su sinceridad.» Laura Freixas, La Vanguardia « Cambiar de idea es la obra de una gran narradora que además es una gran pensadora. En tiempos en los que el lector siempre tiene razón, Aixa de la Cruz nos saca de nuestras casillas porque ella misma lleva tiempo fuera. Su libro es la mejor demostración de que no hace falta estar de acuerdo con la teoría para estarlo con la práctica.» Javier Rodríguez Marcos, El País «Funciona todo, brilla, te lleva hasta el final como un tren en marcha que no se para.» Elizabeth Duval «De lo mejor que he leído de feminismo en primera persona. Quizás exagero, pero yo creo que está al nivel de Teoría King Kong.» Ernesto Castro «El diálogo metaliterario es, de por sí, formalmente fascinante.» Adrián Véitez, Zenda «Un brillante ensayo feminista para el perdón de los pecados o una oración millennial que nos invita a celebrar la vida como conflicto y como cambio.» Begoña Méndez, El Cultural

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La muerte de Virginia Author: Leonard Woolf Narrator: Beatriz Melgares, Eugenio Gómez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: La crónica de los años de entreguerras por el marido de Virginia Woolf. «Un libro hermoso y conmovedor escrito por quien mejor conocía a Virginia Woolf: su esposo, compañero de trabajo y sin duda, mejor amigo.» Alicia Giménez Bartlett Aunque más conocido entre nosotros por haber sido el esposo de la mítica escritora, Leonard Woolf fue, por derecho propio, una de las personalidades más notables de su tiempo. Editor, escritor y político, su polifacética e intensa vida contiene todo el esplendor y la tragedia del siglo XX, del que es sin duda uno de sus más conspicuos representantes En este bello y emocionante libro de memorias, Woolf, en el ocaso de su vida, recuerda el periodo de su vida comprendido entre 1939 y 1969, año de su muerte. Como anuncia ya el título, la evocación empieza con los últimos meses de vida de su mujer, Virginia, asolada por desequilibrios mentales, los esfuerzos por acabar su última novela y la ominosa amenaza de la invasión nazi, circunstancias que finalmente propiciaron el suicidio de la escritora, ahogada en el río Ouse En los siguientes capítulos, Woolf nos cuenta, con impecable compostura, su vida en la Inglaterra desolada de la segunda guerra mundial, su impresionante trabajo en la editorial que había creado con Virginia, la Hogarth Press, así como su importante e ímproba labor política en el seno del partido laborista, comprometido con una idea de civilización cuya ardiente defensa sigue tan vigente como el día en que fue formulada La crítica ha dicho: «Leonard es sensible, sensato y veraz. Ni exagera ni oculta. [...] Asomarnos por una ven tana a ese mundo, tonifica.» Luis Antonio de Villena, El Cultural «Escribir este libro magistral es una dura prueba de valentía y honestidad [...] y lo destina a la posteridad.» The Nation «Lo que debe ser una autobiografía, ni más ni menos.» New Yorker «Hay una sinceridad muy lúcida en la escritura de Leonard Woolf.» Leon Edel, Saturday Review «Un final espléndido para uno de los logros literarios más notables de nuestro tiempo.» New York Times Book Review «Con un estilo aparentemente sencillo, construye un libro hermoso y fascinante.» J. M. Edelstein, New Republic «Una persona compleja con mucho valor y buenos principios.» Wayne K. Chapman, Universidad de Clemson, Woolf Studies Annual

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unabashed Women: The Fascinating Biographies of Bad Girls, Seductresses, Rebels and One-of-a-Kind Women Author: Marlene Wagman-Geller Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A thrilling journey into the badass women whose non-conventional lives left their DNA on history. Amazing women with a story to tell. Join Mae West as she shakes up the entertainment industry with her wit and wisdom or create colorful art pieces with Yayoi Kusama that are larger than life itself. These women in history defied the expectations of conventional society to live the lives they chose, regardless of what others thought. Words of Wisdom. Society may have labeled these fierce femmes as rebels, badass, wild, or uppity. But, these amazing women still dared to be different. With an out-of-the-box perspective, you'll find inspiration from an array of fabulous females who will give you a lesson in being one-of-a-kind. Unabashed Women offers you: lessons on how to break the glass ceiling; biographies of trailblazing women from all walks of life; empowerment through famous females who dared to go against the grain; and discover the motivational women who found their voice and inspire you to do the same.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers Author: Crystal Downing Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Known for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C. S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke about faith and culture in revolutionary ways as she addressed the evergreen question of to what extent faith should hold on to tradition and to what extent it should evolve with a changing culture. Thanks to her unmatched wisdom, prophetic tone, and insistent strength, Dorothy Sayers is a voice that we cannot afford to ignore. Providing a blueprint for bridge-building in contemporary, polarizing contexts, Subversive shows how Sayers used edgy, often hilarious metaphors to ignite new ways to think about Christianity, shocking people into seeing the truth of ancient doctrine in a new light. Urging readers to reassess interpretations of the Bible that impede the cause of Christ, Sayers helps twenty-first-century Christians navigate a society increasingly suspicious of evangelical vocabularies and find new ways to talk and think about faith and culture. Ultimately, she will inspire believers, on both the right and the left, to evaluate how and why their language perpetuates divisive certitude rather than the hopeful humility of faith, and will show us all a better way forward.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Alejandra Pizarnik. Biografía de un mito Author: Patricia Venti, Cristina Piña Narrator: Paola Cohen Falah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date: November 25, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: La biografía definitiva de Alejandra Pizarnik, con nuevos materiales, documentos y entrevistados. Versión actualizada, ampliada y revisada de la única biografía de autora argentina sobre la poeta más disruptiva en idioma castellano del siglo XX. La obra y la influencia de Alejandra Pizarnik no dejan de crecer. Numerosos lectores en todo el mundo mantienen viva su literatura y cada vez más investigadores se dedican a estudiar a la aún hoy enigmática poeta. Cristina Piña escribió una primera versión de esta biografía hace treinta años y ahora, en colaboración con Patricia Venti, publican esta edición ampliada con una enorme cantidad de documentación nueva. Las autoras consultaron los diarios completos de la escritora, depositados en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Princeton, junto con sus cuadernos, borradores, correspondencia y trabajos plásticos; mantuvieron largas conversaciones con amigos de la poeta y, sobre todo, con su hermana, Myriam; viajaron a París para entrevistar a la familia de los hermanos del padre, Elías Pizarnik, uno de los cuales, Simón, alojó a Alejandra en varias ocasiones en la casa de Chatenay-Malabry durante su estadía de casi cuatro años en la ciudad. También tuvieron acceso a los papeles de Manuel Mujica Lainez y Silvina Ocampo en Princeton, y a los de Djuna Barnes, en la Universidad de Maryland, vinculados con la poeta. Alejandra Pizarnik. Biografía de un mito se suma a la edición de toda la obra de la escritora en el sello Lumen, junto a los volúmenes Poesía completa, Prosa completa y Diarios. Sobre la obra de Pizarnik se ha dicho... «Alejandra Pizarnik llega a la poesía argentina como una suerte de meteorito con luz propia, de esos que aparecen a veces en las hermosas noches del sur. Es hoy una poeta famosa -justamente famosa- y a la vez desconocida, porque como todos los grandes escritores no vive ni habita una sola voz, sino muchas voces, y muchas de esas voces han sido nubladas y silenciadas debido a la trayectoria dramática de su vida.» Ivonne Bordelois «Vos, ¿te das realmente cuenta de todo lo que me escribís? Sí, desde luego te das cuenta, y sin embargo no te acepto así, no te quiero así, yo te quiero viva, burra, y date cuenta que te estoy hablando del lenguaje mismo del cariño y la confianza -y todo eso, carajo, está del lado de la vida y no de la muerte. Quiero otra carta tuya, pronto, una carta tuya. (...) El poder poético es tuyo, lo sabés, lo sabemos todos los que te leemos; y ya no vivimos los tiempos en que ese poder era el antagonista frente a la vida, y esta el verdugo del poeta (...). Solo te acepto viva, solo te quiero Alejandra.» Julio Cortázar «'Tú querías una escritura total, sin límites, un naufragio en tus propias aguas, oh avara', escribió Pizarnik en Extracción de la piedra de locura. Su obra se despeña por ese borde filoso. Va del lenguaje concebido como opción simbólica (capaz de resucitar lo perdido) a lo semiótico, vale decir del lirismo al barroco, del sufrimiento al crimen, Y después, se queda a la intemperie, en esos paisajes sedientos donde ha estado siempre, sin moverse, el centro inubicable del poema, apurado por encontrar la cicatriz, para hacerla más roja, más estable.» María Negroni

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Precious Days: Essays Author: Ann Patchett Narrator: Ann Patchett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 53 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 12 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.   ''The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike.'' —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.  At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both.  A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.  From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556179 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre amigas: Correspondencia entre Hannah Arendt y Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 Author: Hannah Arendt, Mary Mccarthy Narrator: Laura Carrero Del Tío, Paula Iwasaki, Charo Soria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 18, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Cuando se cumplen cien años del nacimiento de Hannah Arendt, reeditamos un documento fundamental para entender no solo la obra y la vida de la gran pensadora alemana sino también la biografía moral, política e intelectual de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. La correspondencia que la autora de Eichmann en Jerusalén o Los orígenes del totalitarismo mantuvo a lo largo de veinticinco años con Mary McCarthy, una de las novelistas y ensayistas norteamericanas más brillantes del pasado siglo, constituye, en efecto, un diálogo inteligentísimo, edificante, ameno e iluminador sobre la historia y la cultura de Europa y Estados Unidos desde los años posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta las secuelas de los movimientos del 68, además del emotivo testimonio de una amistad -intensa y vibrante- entre dos de las mujeres más lúcidas de su tiempo. La crítica ha dicho... «Uno de los diálogos más inteligentes que se han dado en el siglo.» The New York Times «Un agudo diagnóstico de nuestro tiempo.» The Washington Post «Da testimonio de una delicada situación geopolítica, la que puso en relación a la hegemónica potencia estadounidense con una maltrecha Alemania que trataba de rehacerse —ya no solo materialmente, sino identitariamente— después de más de una década bajo el régimen nazi. [...] Amén del cuidadoso y lúcido análisis sociocultural, el volumen también da cuenta de la relación entre dos mujeres de gran y diversa inteligencia, capaces de iluminarse entre sí y de encontrar formas de discurso alternativas en una intimidad descapitalizada, abierta, honesta». Zenda «El vocabulario que empleó [Arendt] para pensar y narrar el mundo, sus reflexiones y esa escritura tan bella, tan suya, nos ayudan a interpretar lo que nos ocurre, aunque solo sea como simples enanos mirando el mundo a hombros de gigantes. Ella, desde luego, lo fue.» Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, Babelia «Hannah Arendt volvió a pensar el espacio público después de su destrucción y nosotros debemos volver a ella para prevenir que se destruya de nuevo.» Andreu Jaume «[McCarthy posee] una de las plumas más ágiles y más divertidamente corrosivas de la literatura anglosajona del siglo xx.» Fernando Schwartz, El País «Lo destacable de la escritura de McCarthy es esa nitidez de pensamiento,esa conciencia en estado de claridad que puede mirar a su alrededor sin dejar de verse a sí misma.» Lourdes Ventura, El Cultural «Discuten, se critican, se admiran, se leen, se echan de menos. Se cuentan sus problemas, sus altibajos, sus alegrías, sus relaciones personales. En fin, lo habitual entre dos amigas, pero con el ingenio, la espontaneidad y la fluidez que ambas empleaban en el oficio literario que ocupaba su existencia». Ana M. Serrano, Loff «El testimonio de una excelente y conmovedora amistad. [...] Un libro valioso y ameno.» Los Angeles Time

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El pequeño libro de las grandes feministas Author: Julia Pierpont Narrator: Romina Marcos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 18, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esta colección inspiradora honra a cien mujeres excepcionales a lo largo de la historia y de todo el mundo. En este luminoso volumen, la exitosa escritora del The New York Times, Julia Pierpont, narra biografías breves, vibrantes y sorprendentes de santas seculares, campeonas de la fuerza y el progreso: mujeres que sacudieron la tierra, rompieron techos e hicieron explotar los moldes. Entre ellas, se encuentran: Nina Simone Jane Austen Amelia Earhart Frida Kahlo Michelle Obama Sonia Sotomayor Pussy Riot Rosario Castellanos Nyayoi Kusama Las Hermanas Brontë Victoria Ocampo Simone De Beauvoir Safo Emily Dickinson Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz Madonna

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Si yo pude... ¡tú más! Author: Maria Antonieta Collins Narrator: Lina Franco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Cargada de motivación y su característica energía, María Antonieta Collins, una de las corresponsales de noticias más reconocidas de Latinoamérica, comparte la historia de su increíble transformación física y mental, los secretos que la llevaron a perder peso y el viaje en el que se embarcó para encontrar el autoestima, salud y felicidad que cambiaron su vida. María Antonieta Collins perdió seis tallas y más de 40 kilos gracias a una cirugía bariátrica y a un cambio radical en sus hábitos alimenticios por una vida más sana, ligera y feliz. Era pre-diabética, tomaba dos pastillas al día para la presión, una para el colesterol, y usaba la máquina de apnea del sueño y una aspirina diaria para prevenir los infartos. Mientras vivía el mejor momento de su carrera, disfrutando de los ratings más altos y viajando como corresponsal de noticias, María Antonieta Collins decidió cambiar radicalmente su vida y aprovechar nuevas oportunidades para convertirse en una mejor versión de sí misma.   Si yo pude…¡tú más! responde a las preguntas que millones de admiradores han planteado a María Antonieta sobre su asombrosa transformación, y será una fuente de inspiración para los lectores que estén en situaciones similares o cualquiera que desee cambiar su vida. María Antonieta comparte abiertamente su camino al éxito de manera fácil, informativa y entretenida, con la colaboración de su hija Antonieta y de los especialistas que la ayudaron a recorrer este camino de transformación. Los lectores reconocerán que todo tiene un lado positivo, y que renunciar a la esperanza nunca es una opción.   “María Antonieta Collins siembra una semilla de fuerza de voluntad que te va a hacer entender… que si ella pudo, nosotros también. […] Este libro es una invitación a ser feliz y, lo más importante, en cada página te dice claramente cómo…” Luz María Doria ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Filled with great motivation and the energy that characterizes her, María Antonieta Collins, one of Latin America's most renowned news correspondents, shares the story of her incredible physical and mental transformation, the secrets that drove her to lose weight, and the journey she underwent in order to find her self-esteem, a better health, and the happiness that changed her life. Maria Antoineta Collins lost six dress sizes and over 90 lbs. thanks to bariatric surgery and a radical change in her eating habits so that she could live a healthier, lighter, and happier life. She was pre-diabetic, had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and used the sleep apnea machine. While being at the height of her career, she decided to radically change her life and try to become a better version of herself. If I Did It, So Can You! answers the questions millions of fans and followers have asked about her amazing transformation, and it will be a source of inspiration for readers going through the same struggles or anyone who wants to change their life. Here, María Antonieta openly shares the path to success in an easy, informative, and entertaining way, with help from her daughter Antonieta and also from the specialists who helped her through the journey.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941–1995 Author: Patricia Highsmith Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 41 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks finally explores the riveting interior world of one of the most prolific and now canonical novelists of the twentieth century.Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of the real psychological turmoil behind her prose, the famously secretive Highsmith refused to authorize a biography, instead sequestering herself in her Switzerland home in her final years. After Highsmith’s death, her devoted editor Anna von Planta discovered her diaries and notebooks in 1995, tucked in a closet—with tantalizing instructions on how they should be read. For years thereafter, von Planta meticulously culled passages from over eight thousand pages to reveal the inscrutable figure behind the legendary pen. Beginning with her junior year at Barnard in 1941, Highsmith ritualistically kept a diary and notebook—the former to catalog her day, the latter to brainstorm stories and hone her craft. This volume weaves diary and notebook simultaneously, exhibiting precisely how Highsmith’s personal affairs seeped into her fiction—and how the sheer darkness of her imagination played out in her stories. Charming yet teetering on the egotistical, young “Pat” laid bare her dizzying social life in 1940s Greenwich Village, barhopping with Judy Holliday and Jane Bowles, among others. Alongside Flannery O’Conner and Chester Himes, she attended—at the recommendation of Truman Capote—the Yaddo artist colony in 1948, where she drafted Strangers on a Train. Published in 1950 and soon adapted by Alfred Hitchcock, this debut novel brought recognition and brief financial security, but left a heartsick Highsmith agonizing: “What is the life I choose?”Providing extraordinary insights into gender and sexuality issues in mid-twentieth-century America, Highsmith’s diaries convey her euphoria writing the lesbian romance The Price of Salt. Yet her sophomore novel would have to be published under a pseudonym, so as not to tarnish her reputation. Indeed, no one could anticipate that a novel depicting love between two women in the McCarthy era would have succeeded commercially.Seeking relief from America, Highsmith chronicled her peripatetic years in Europe, subsisting virtually on cigarettes and growing more bigoted and satirical with age. After a stay in Positano with a new lover, she reflected in her notebooks on being an expat, and gleefully conjured the unforgettable The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); it would be this sociopathic antihero who would finally solidify her lasting reputation. At once lovable, detestable, and mesmerizing, Highsmith put her turbulent life to paper for five decades, acutely aware there must be “a few usable things in literature.” A memoir as significant in our own century as Simone de Beauvoir’s writings were to another time, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks is an historic work that illuminates a woman’s rise against the conventional tide to unparalleled cinematic and literary prominence. “Pat Highsmith’s astonishing candor in the witness stand of her personal notebooks, and heartbreaking self-exposures in the jury box of her diaries, are like nothing else in American confessional literature.”—Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going There (read by Katie Couric) Author: Katie Couric Narrator: Katie Couric Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 17 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. ​For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she’s never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is.” Beginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism . . . challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. Couric talks candidly about adjusting to sudden fame after her astonishing rise to co-anchor of the TODAY show, and guides us through the most momentous events and news stories of the era, to which she had a front-row seat:  Rodney King, Anita Hill, Columbine, the death of Princess Diana, 9/11, the Iraq War . . . In every instance, she relentlessly pursued the facts, ruffling more than a few feathers along the way.  She also recalls in vivid and sometimes lurid detail the intense pressure on female anchors to snag the latest “get”—often sensational tabloid stories like Jon Benet Ramsey, Tonya Harding, and OJ Simpson. Couric’s position as one of the leading lights of her profession was  shadowed by the shock and trauma of losing her husband to stage 4 colon cancer when he was just 42, leaving her a widow and single mom to two daughters, 6 and 2. The death of her sister Emily, just three years later, brought yet more trauma—and an unwavering commitment to cancer awareness and research, one of her proudest accomplishments.  Couric is unsparing in the details of her historic move to the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News—a world rife with sexism and misogyny.  Her “welcome” was even more hostile at 60 Minutes, an unrepentant boys club that engaged in outright hazing of even the most established women.  In the wake of the MeToo movement, Couric shares her clear-eyed reckoning with gender inequality and predatory behavior in the workplace, and downfall of Matt Lauer—a colleague she had trusted and respected for more than a decade. Couric also talks about the challenge of finding love again, with all the hilarity, false-starts, and drama that search entailed, before finding her midlife Mr. Right.  Something she has never discussed publicly—why her second marriage almost didn’t happen.  If you thought you knew Katie Couric, think again. Going There is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom. In these pages, you will find a friend, a confidante, a role model, a survivor whose lessons about life will enrich your own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege Author: Heidi Ardizzone Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society. What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her. Ten years later, she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library collection and was a proto-celebrity in New York and the art world, renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships. Born to a family of free people of color, Greene changed her name and invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society. In her new world, she dined both at the tables of the highest society and with bohemian artists and activists. She also engaged in a decades-long affair with art critic Bernard Berenson. Greene is pure fascination—the buyer of illuminated manuscripts who attracted others to her like moths to a flame.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother Daughter Story Author: Laura Davis Narrator: Laura Davis And Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Relationships & Intimacy Publisher's Summary: This riveting memoir by Laura Davis, author of The Courage to Heal, examines the endurance of mother–daughter love, how memory protects and betrays us, and the determination it takes to fulfill a promise when ghosts from the past come knocking. When she published The Courage to Heal in 1988, Laura Davis helped more than a million women work through the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. But her decision to go public with her grandfather’s incest deepened an already painful estrangement with her mother, Temme. Over the next twenty years, from a safe distance of 3,000 miles, Laura and Temme reconciled their volatile relationship and believed that their difficult past was behind them. But when Temme moves across the country to entrust her daughter with the rest of her life, she brings a faltering mind, a fierce need for independence, and the seeds of a second war between them. As the stresses of caregiving rekindle Laura’s rage over past betrayals, they threaten her intention to finally love her mother “without reservation.” Will she learn what it means to be truly open-hearted before it’s too late?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rooted in the Stars: One Woman's Path to Embodied Mysticism Author: Annette M. Hulefeld Narrator: Allen Robertson, Caroline Slaughter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 25, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: We come from a Source that is rooted in the stars—but we're planted on the Earth, with all of its loneliness and grief. So, how can we find our way back to that original wellspring? With her teachings that weave together the psychological and spiritual dimensions of life, Annette Hulefeld is a spiritual mentor for the modern age. As her own story reveals, many of us feel a pervasive sense of worthlessness because of separation from our own Divine nature; the split of our human nature from Soul. In a lively, engaging narrative, Hulefeld shows us how a girl who grew up Catholic in a family challenged with poverty, abuse, and mental illness found a mysticism that brings body and Soul together again. Rooted in the Stars is a timely and personal story that will resonate with everyone carving their own path to a modern spirituality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Befreit: Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss Author: Tara Westover Narrator: Ulrike Kapfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 20, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller, “Buch des Jahrzehnts' - 2010-2020 (Independent). Ausgewählt als Buch des Jahres von Amazon, The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, Economist, New Statesman, Vogue, Irish Times, Irish Examiner und Red Magazine. Von den Bergen Idahos nach Cambridge – der unwahrscheinliche 'Bildungsweg' der Tara Westover. Tara Westover war 17 Jahre alt, als sie zum ersten Mal eine Schulklasse betrat. Die Berge Idahos waren Taras Heimat, sie lebte als Kind im Einklang mit der grandiosen Natur, mit dem Wechsel der Jahreszeiten – und mit den Gesetzen, die ihr Vater aufstellte. Taras Vater war ein fundamentalistischer Mormone, vom baldigen Ende der Welt überzeugt und voller Misstrauen gegenüber dem Staat, von dem er sich verfolgt sah. Tara und ihre Geschwister gingen nicht zur Schule, sie hatten keine Geburtsurkunden, und ein Arzt wurde selbst bei fürchterlichsten Verletzungen nicht gerufen. Nichts war dieser Welt ferner als Bildung. Und doch fand Tara die Kraft, sich auf die Aufnahmeprüfung fürs College vorzubereiten, auch wenn sie quasi bei null anfangen musste. In diesem ergreifenden und wunderbar poetischen Hörbuch erfahren wir: -welche Entbehrungen und Grausamkeiten Tara erlebt, -wie sie überhaupt erst einmal ein Bewusstsein von sich selbst entwickelt und -wie sie sich aus einer ärmlichen, archaischen und von Paranoia und Gewalt geprägten Welt befreit. „Taras Prozess der Selbstfindung ist in „Befreit“ wunderschön gezeigt. Es ist die Art von Buch, das jedem gefallen wird, egal welches Genre Sie normalerweise wählen.“ – Bill Gates. Tara Westover (* 27. September 1986) ist eine US-amerikanische Historikerin und Schriftstellerin. Sie wurde bekannt durch ihre Autobiografie „Befreit: Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss“ und genannt als eine der einflussreichsten Personen des Jahres 2019.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist Author: Sesali Bowen Narrator: Sesali Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain so much from whatever she has to say.”—Charlene A. Carruthers, activist and author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements “Sesali perfectly vocalizes the inner dialogue, and daily mantras needed to be a Bad Bitch.”—Gabourey Sidibe, actor, director, and author of This is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare “A powerful call for a more inclusive and 'real' feminism.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Bowen writes from an authentic space for Black women who are often left out of feminist conversations due to respectability politics, but who are just as deserving of the same voice and liberation.”—Booklist (starred review) From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory, witty and insightful personal memoir, and cutting cultural analysis for an unforgettable, genre-defining debut. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness, queerness, fatness, friendship, poverty, sex work, and self-love.  Her love of trap music led her to the top of hip-hop journalism, profiling game-changing artists like Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, and Janelle Monae. But despite all the beauty, complexity, and general badassery she saw, Bowen found none of that nuance represented in mainstream feminism. Thus, she coined Trap Feminism, a contemporary framework that interrogates where feminism meets today's hip-hop. Bad Fat Black Girl offers a new, inclusive feminism for the modern world. Weaving together searing personal essay and cultural commentary, Bowen interrogates sexism, fatphobia, and capitalism all within the context of race and hip-hop. In the process, she continues a Black feminist legacy of unmatched sheer determination and creative resilience. Bad bitches: this one’s for you.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation Author: Rachel Cusk Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A masterly work of divorce and its consequences, Aftermath is a ruthless, rigorous record of the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos of separation. In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a “normal” life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all. Aftermath is a classic: a masterly work in which the author, at her most ruthless and rigorous, charts the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Entschleiert - Mein Ausbruch aus meiner radikal-islamischen Familie, mein Weg in die Freiheit (Ungekürzt) Author: Yasmine Mohammed Narrator: Merle Wasmuth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 30, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Yasmines Leben ist stellvertretend für so viele andere Frauen in radikal-islamischen Familien: Sie lebt in Kanada, einer westlichen Gesellschaft, doch zu Hause erlebt die intelligente, selbstbewusste junge Frau Entrechtung, Gewalt und religiösen Terror, vor allem durch ihren Stiefvater, einen hochrangigen Al-Quaida-Funktionär. Als er noch dazu übergriffig wird, klagt Yasmine ihn an, doch das Unfassbare geschieht: die Richterin lehnt die Klage wegen 'kultureller Unterschiede' ab. Was muss passieren, damit Frauen wie Yasmine beschützt werden?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist Author: Donna Morrissey Narrator: Donna Morrissey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS’ EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARD   A deeply personal account of love's restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a writer--told with charm and inimitable humour. When Donna Morrissey left the only home she had ever known, an isolated Newfoundland settlement, at age 16, she was ready for adventure. She had grown up without television or telephones but had absorbed the tragic stories and comic yarns of her close-knit family and community. The death of her infant brother marked the family, and years later, Morrissey suffers devastating guilt about the accidental death of her teenage brother, whom she'd enticed to join her in the oilfields. Her misery was compounded by her own misdiagnosis of a terminal illness, all of which contributed to crippling anxiety and an actual diagnosis of PTSD. Many of those events and themes would eventually be transformed and recast as fictional gold in Morrissey's novels. In another writer's hands, Morrissey's account of her personal story could easily be a tragedy. Instead, she combines darkness and light, levity and sadness into her tale, as her indomitable spirit and humour sustain her. Morrissey's path takes her from the drudgery of being a grocery clerk (who occasionally enlivens her shift with recreational drugs) to western oilfields, to marriage and divorce and working in a fish-processing plant to support herself and her two young children. Throughout her struggles, she nourishes a love of learning and language. Morrissey layers her account of her life with stories of those who came before her, a breed rarely seen in the modern world. It centers around iron-willed women: mothers and daughters, wives, sisters, teachers and mentors who find the support, the wind for their wings, outside the bounds given to them by nature. And it is a mysterious older woman she meets in Halifax who eventually unleashes the writer that Morrissey is destined to become. An inspiring and insightful memoir, Pluck illustrates that even when you find yourself unravelling, you can find a way to spin the yarns that will save you--and delight readers everywhere.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moment: Standing Up to Bill Cosby, Speaking Up for Women Author: Andrea Constand Narrator: Tracey Hoyt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An inspiring story of resilience and bravery by the woman who became the linchpin of the case to bring Bill Cosby to justice. Andrea Constand did the right thing, not just for herself, but for more than sixty other women. When Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018, the verdict sent shock waves around the globe. Some were outraged that a beloved icon of family values, the man dubbed 'America's dad,' had been accused, let alone convicted. Others were stunned because they had waited so long to see justice; in accusations going back decades, more than sixty women recounted how they'd been drugged, raped, and assaulted at Cosby's hands. Andrea Constand is just one of these women, but her case could still be criminally prosecuted.   Constand's legal marathon required her to endure an excruciating civil suit, and two harrowing criminal trials. It was her deep sense of personal and social responsibility, fostered by her close-knit immigrant family and values earned through team sports, that gave her the courage to testify at the criminal trial--something she agreed to do not for herself, but for the more than sixty other women whose stories would never be told in court. Ultimately, Constand's testimony brought a powerful man to account. Cosby spent nearly three years in prison before his conviction was overturned on a procedural technicality in June 2021.   In The Moment, Constand opens up about the emotional and spiritual work she did to recover from the assault and the psychological regimen she developed to strengthen herself. She also gained a new understanding of the resiliency of human spirit, and the affirming knowledge that stepping up and doing the right thing, even when the outcome is uncertain, is the surest path to true healing. From the woman who has been called 'the true hero of #MeToo,' The Moment is a memoir about the moment a life changes, as hers did when she was assaulted; about the moment, nearly a decade later, when she stood up for victims without a voice and put herself through an arduous criminal trial; and about the cultural moment, signified by the #MeToo movement, that made justice and accountability possible.   A portion of the author’s proceeds of The Moment will go to the Hope, Healing and Transformation foundation.  https://hopehealing.ca

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eugeine Empress of the French Author: George P. Upton, Cole Bolchoz Narrator: Cole Bolchoz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 31, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: If one is a fan of the Dowager of Downton Abbey, then this book is one not to miss. Princess Eugenie of France was the original Lady Diana of Parisian-Revolutionary-Victorian Society. Her life was full of turmoil and triumphs, enduring anyone who has suffered to embrace her strength of character and compassion. This work was originally translated from Germany in 1910, ten years before her death. The Secondary Author has attempted to shed new light on her impact on European History. Though this attempt Is light indeed. Originally published by the late George P. Upton in 1910, the Widow Empress symbolized a passing but lasting Cultural Matriarch on European Culture. Eugenie introduced the high heeled riding boot to amazed ladies in France. Her fashion style was imitated by both European Royalty and the Bourgeoise throughout the Victorian Age. Yet her poignant life even Art could not reflect. With a New Introduction with new sources demonstrating the life and character of the Empress, readers are now in a better position to connect with the late Empress. For more than all the jewelry, pomp and circumstance of the Second French Republic, Eugenie remains a lady most of us would want to have tea with.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When I Was 40: Overcame Some Challenges, Still Learning and Growing Author: Charlene Stevens Jenkins Narrator: Whitney Belk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Release date: August 23, 2021 Genres: Relationships & Intimacy Publisher's Summary: I finally started writing WHEN I WAS 40: Overcame Some Challenges, Still Learning and Growing just before I turned 50. Around 2009 I had experienced quite a few memorable events, which prompted this title. I have taken pride in my accomplishments. I have had time to think about some decisions I made and challenges I faced. Many people in their 40's and 50's find themselves in a midlife crisis. Maybe something has happened, or something was done that caused a disruption in the home - a lost job, a lost business, bankruptcy, a failed marriage, a loved one's death, an empty nest, unfulfilled goals and dreams, and the list goes on. My disruption was a failed marriage. This book is about how God helped me through that time. He also had family, loved ones and prayer partners positioned to help me along the way. I have discovered that God doesn't waste any of my pain, even my self-inflicted pain. Each chapter describes my experience at age 40 and what I learned as I was reflecting and writing. Each chapter ends with reflection questions, the scriptures mentioned, a place to write what the reader has learned, along with a prayer. I have been very open and transparent because I finally learned to stop wearing masks. I feel like people need to know about my struggles so that they can discover how they can get through theirs. My goal is for this book to be a source of encouragement, inspiration and motivation for all who read it. Adults of all ages have told me that it has definitely helped them. In fact, I have all five-star reviews on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This book is great for individual or a group Bible study. Anyone who has failed in marriage or any relationship can experience recovery, healing and restoration. I wish there was a way to combine the motivational/inspirational tone with the emotional tone. Certain parts need one and certain parts need the other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Agripina: Primera emperatriz de Roma Author: Emma Southon Narrator: Karla Hernández Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 18, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Un libro muy recomendable y entretenido, donde la historiadora le gana siempre la partida a la feminista, y que hará las delicias de quienes busquen conocer más del mundo romano y los entresijos del Imperio.' —Qué Leer Esta es la historia de una mujer excepcional, cuyo atrevimiento al pisar esferas de poder reservadas a los hombres acabó costándole la vida. Una mujer a quien la historia y sus fuentes oficiales, escritas por y para hombres, han malinterpretado y vilipendiado sistemáticamente. Emma Southon rescata a Agripina la Menor, hermana, sobrina, esposa y madre de emperadores, y le devuelve el histórico papel central que efectivamente tuvo en cuatro generaciones de la política romana. Una biografía 'notable' y 'atrevida' (Publishers Weekly) de la mujer más extraordinaria de la antigua Roma, 'repleta de referencias a la cultura actual' (El País), y que, gracias a la cantidad de detalles tan jugosos como insospechados que reseña, se convierte una obra tan reveladora como entretenida.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Brief an meine Mutter Author: Waris Dirie Narrator: Ulrike Hübschmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 13, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Als Wüstenblume ist sie weltberühmt und eine Bestseller-Autorin geworden. 'Brief an meine Mutter' ist der berührende Erfahrungsbericht eines dramatischen Generationen-Konflikts und gleichzeitig Waris Diries persönlichstes Werk. Als Waris Dirie erfährt, dass ihre Mutter schwer erkrankt ist, zögert sie nicht, sie aus ihrem Heimatland Somalia für eine Operation in ihre Wahlheimat Wien zu holen. Die medizinische Versorgung in Somalia ist noch immer unzureichend, und in Europa kann geholfen werden. Gleichzeitig hofft Waris, dass sie endlich das Thema Beschneidung, das wie eine Wand zwischen Mutter und Tochter steht, ansprechen kann. Waris kann nicht verstehen, warum ihre Mutter sie als Kind beschneiden ließ. Doch die Mutter ist überzeugt, das Richtige getan zu haben, indem sie die Tradition der Beschneidung an ihrer Tochter durchführen ließ. Eine Aussöhnung findet nicht statt. Da beschließt Waris, ihrer Mutter nach deren Abreise einen langen Brief zu schreiben – um den Graben zwischen ihnen endlich zu überbrücken.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation Author: Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati Narrator: Marisa Dargahi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 12, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Hollywood to the Himalayas is the enlightening memoir of a reluctant spiritual seeker who finds much more than she bargained for when she travels to India. As a Stanford grad in the midst of getting her PhD in Psychology, Sadhvi Sarawati was comfortable with her life. Despite years of grappling with an eating disorder and trauma from her early childhood, she felt as if she was successfully navigating her way through early adulthood. When she agreed to travel to India to appease her husband—and because she loved the food—Sadhvi would have never imagined that she would be embarking on a journey of healing and awakening. Hollywood to the Himalayas describes Sadhvi’s odyssey towards divine enlightenment and inspiration through her extraordinary connection with her guru and renewed confidence in the pleasure and joy that life can bring. Now one of the preeminent female spiritual teachers in the world, Sadhvi recounts her journey with wit, honesty, and clarity and, along the way, offers teachings to help us all step onto our own path of awakening and discover the truth of who we really are—embodiments of the Divine. “Sadhviji models for us, at the deepest level, that in the true teaching of the spiritual traditions, healing and grace are always possible.” —Prince Ea, in the foreword to Hollywood to the Himalayas “Vivid and poetic…her journey is a river of love, compelling in its authenticity and unflinching honesty. …a must for anyone who is interested in exploring different paths to fulfilment and to the Creator.” —Jane Goodall “Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati is a great teacher of spirituality and consciousness. Her inspiring wisdom illuminates the path to healing, happiness, and inner peace.” —Deepak Chopra