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Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions

Author: Tracy King

Narrator: Tracy King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative. Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.

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Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

Author: Mimi Zieman Md

Narrator: Mimi Zieman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.

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Title: The Hidden Package

Author: Claire Baum

Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie. The Hidden Package portrays Claire’s years spent in hiding and pays tribute to all those who played a part in saving her life and ensuring a future for the next generations of her family. Introduction by Carolyne Van Der Meer

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Title: American Flygirl

Author: Susan Tate Ankeny

Narrator: Hannah Choi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

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

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Title: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story

Author: Frances Kiernan

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life.' —O, The Oprah Magazine This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Mrs. Astor would use this legacy to benefit New York City. She would personally visit every grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her hundredth birthday, princes and presidents honored her, but in 2006 a grandson petitioned the courts to have his father removed as Brooke's guardian. Once again, an Astor court battle became the stuff of headlines.

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Title: [French] - Brûlée vive

Author: Souad

Narrator: Lola Creton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Souad a dix-sept ans, elle est amoureuse. Dans son village comme dans beaucoup d'autres, l'amour avant le mariage est synonyme de mort. « Déshonorée », sa famille désigne son beau-frère pour exécuter la sentence. Aux yeux de tous, cet homme est un héros. C'est ce que l'on appelle un « crime d'honneur ». Ce n'est en fait qu'un lâche assassinat. L'exécutant ne risque rien, il n'est presque jamais poursuivi, encore plus rarement condamné. Plus de cinq mille cas sont répertoriés chaque année dans le monde, bien d'autres ne sont jamais connus. Atrocement brûlée, Souad a été sauvée par miracle. Elle a décidé de parler pour toutes celles qui aujourd'hui risquent leur vie. Pour dire au monde la barbarie de cette pratique. Elle le fait au péril de sa vie car l'atteinte à « l'honneur » de sa famille est imprescriptible. Brûlée vive est un témoignage bouleversant, mais aussi un appel, afin de briser le tabou du silence insupportable qui recouvre la mort de ces femmes. Victimes de la loi des hommes. ©2003 Oh Éditions / XO Éditions

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Title: Middle of the Rainbow: How A Wife, Mother, And Two-Time Emmy Winner Managed To Find Herself

Author: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels

Narrator: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The blunt and honest memoirs of Emmy-winning actress Bonnie Bartlett Daniels. It’s the story of her 70-plus year career, and her struggles in the pre-#metoo and pre-feminist world. It’s also the rare and unique story of a 70-plus year marriage (with film, theatre and TV icon William Daniels.) In a full telling of her life, we learn that through years of psychoanalysis and, ultimately, thanks to motherhood, she was able to heal the scars left by her abusive father and learn to love her life as if it were a rainbow “with a pot of gold at both ends.”

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Title: [English] - When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom

Author: Rosalyn Rourke

Narrator: Rosalyn Rourke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering. Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem's life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true 'I,' a deeper part of herself that is free. The true 'I' is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person. Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter, and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa's, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa's weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa's unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.

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Title: Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse

Author: Denise Chong

Narrator: Denise Chong

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, a gripping story of a domestic assault that shocked the world, of the exercise of power and political influence, and of the Bangladeshi woman whose irrepressible spirit found light in sudden darkness. From the outside, Rumana seemed an unlikely victim of domestic abuse: married to a man of her own choosing and progressing in her career as a professor of international relations at Dhaka University. But in 2011, on return from graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, her husband attacked and blinded her in front of their young daughter. As Rumana's horrifying story garnered international headlines, and connections brought her to Vancouver in an attempt—ultimately futile—to restore her sight, her plight underscored the fact that there are no typical victims of intimate-partner violence.     Denise Chong goes behind the headlines to reveal the devolution of a love story into a tale of tyranny behind closed doors, and the pursuit of justice that proved all the more elusive during the rise of social media. Out of Darkness tells a globe-spanning narrative of loyalty, perseverance and a woman’s determination to face the future and rebuild a life with meaning.

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Title: The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

Author: Susan Page

Narrator: Susan Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A “smart, juicy, deeply reported” (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age of many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy? In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny. Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her heath. This is the “stunning” (Norah O’Donnell), “brilliantly written” (Andrea Mitchell) account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.