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Title: The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

Author: Eliza Frances Andrews

Narrator: Aundrea Cery

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865' is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction. Through Andrews' keen observations and personal reflections, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the domestic life, social upheavals, and the shifting political landscape of Georgia in this era. Her writing not only sheds light on the challenges and changes faced by individuals and communities but also provides a nuanced perspective on the broader societal implications of the war and its aftermath. As a document of historical record and personal endurance, Andrews' journal stands as a poignant testament to the resilience and complexity of the human spirit in times of national crisis.

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Title: [Spanish] - Así encontré la felicidad: Vivencias de una alemana que se enamoró en España

Author: Ingeborg Schlichting

Narrator: Raquel Romero Escrivá

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

¿Qué hizo que una chica de 21 años, que escuchaba jazz en el Hamburgo de moda, se lanzase a descubrir intrépidamente la aislada España de los 50? ¿Cómo eran entonces la Extremadura de los cortijos, la bahía de San Sebastián o la Gran Vía madrileña? ¿De qué modo «encajaron» en su vida la tortilla de patata, los toros o las verbenas? Con sentido del humor, curiosidad por los detalles y capacidad descriptiva, Ingeborg Schlichting aborda en Así encontré la felicidad la apasionante aventura de una joven mujer alemana que cruzó el continente europeo para enamorarse de una España llena de contrastes, costumbres y paisajes fascinantes. Unas páginas que retratan la evolución de la sociedad española en los últimos 75 años, salpicadas de anécdotas divertidas y conmovedoras y con la frescura y naturalidad que despliega como contertulia en el programa de radio Fin de Semana de la cadena Cope, dirigido por una de sus cuatro hijas, la periodista Cristina López Schlichting.

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Title: The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us

Author: Chimene Suleyman

Narrator: Chimene Suleyman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Release date: April 10, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

“[Suleyman’s] narration brings a palpably chilling authority to a story she shouldn’t have to tell.” — Vulture A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny. In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that the man she’d loved had gaslit, lied to, stolen from, and painfully betrayed her and many others. In this spellbinding memoir, Suleyman exposes one man's control over many women and the trauma he left behind and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite—and in spite of—him. With radiant prose and incisive observation, Suleyman questions society’s complicity in allowing those who would do women harm to flourish and contemplates why others remain silent witnesses by accepting and normalizing shameless behavior towards women. She demonstrates how women themselves are acculturated to perform prescribed roles of giver and nurturer, to be self-sacrificing and subordinate, and to bolster the egos of others by remaining silent and ignoring their own protective instincts. A soul-baring story, brilliant cultural critique, and celebration of the healing power of sisterhood, The Chain is a book for any woman who has questioned her relationship and buried her doubts, for any woman who can't quite identify the source of her unease and for any woman who has been sheltered by the fierce protection of her female friends.

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Title: [Portuguese] - #Bora Inspirar Volume 2: 17 histórias de liderança na transformação

Author: Cia. Empreendedora

Narrator: Cynthia Zaclis Rabinovitz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

O 2º volume do livro #Bora Inspirar traz uma coletânea de histórias que celebram a força, a criatividade e a resiliência de 17 mulheres em posições de liderança – histórias que se cruzaram a partir do envolvimento de cada uma delas com a AngelUs, uma rede de networking feminino cujo propósito maior é aumentar a representatividade feminina na liderança das empresas. Com histórias cativantes e inspiradoras, essa obra oferece uma visão multifacetada das jornadas de impacto dessas incríveis líderes em diferentes esferas da sociedade e apresenta mulheres que desbravaram seus próprios caminhos e se tornaram verdadeiras agentes de mudança em seus respectivos campos de atuação. As histórias revelam a importância da representatividade, da colaboração e da capacidade de adaptação como pilares essenciais para o sucesso e convidam os leitores a refletir sobre suas próprias escolhas, encorajando-os a desenvolver suas habilidades de liderança e a buscar sua própria transformação. Então, aproveite a leitura e #Bora Inspirar!

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Title: [Spanish] - Madre!

Author: Paz Padilla

Narrator: Paz Padilla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Release date: April 3, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Si existe un amor incondicional, ese es el de una MADRE! Están para lo bueno y para lo malo. Conocen nuestros secretos, nos escuchan y saben cuándo se necesita un abrazo, una risa o el mejor consejo…, aunque lo den de aquella manera. Tras el fenómeno editorial de El humor de mi vida, Paz Padilla vuelve a encogernos el corazón con este libro dedicado a Lola, su madre, describiendo con maestría el acompañamiento, la compasión, el amor y el humor; las herramientas que les han guiado ante los reveses de la vida. Un emocionante recorrido a través de tres generaciones donde evocamos a la madre de nuestra propia infancia, a la que nos ayuda cada día y a la que sigue en nuestro recuerdo, aunque ya no esté con nosotros. Un homenaje a todas las que dieron todo sin tener nada, para que las mujeres de hoy caminen libres. «A la sombra del árbol del paraíso, en una casa con tejado de uralita, se crio Lola, mi madre. Lo único que podía llevarse a la boca eran algunos caracoles y muchas risas. Cada día era una aventura y así nos enseñó a vivir».

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Title: Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

Author: Ruby Lal

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's 'un-Islamic' behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.

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Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire

Author: Clare Frank

Narrator: Clare Frank

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it's an unexpected one. It's about finding your home, even if you aren't immediately welcomed. And it's about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don't look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was seventeen years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn't look like her peers, who sported an Adam's apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she'd try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank's inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking listeners inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility. Burnt is an unforgettable memoir.

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Title: Marilyn Monroe

Author: Barbara Leaming

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 39 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the worlds of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and exciting periods in American culture. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents, Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life. For the first time, a master storyteller has put together all of the pieces and told Marilyn's story with the intensity and drama it so richly deserves. At the heart of this book is a sexual triangle and a riveting story of betrayal that has never been told before. You will come away filled with new respect for Marilyn's incredible courage, dignity, and loyalty, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy.

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Title: [French] - Mariée de force

Author: Leila

Narrator: Rachel Muniz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

En France, comme dans de nombreuses régions du monde, des adolescentes et des jeunes femmes sont encore contraintes d'accepter pour époux un homme qu'elles n'ont ni choisi, ni parfois même rencontré. Au nom de l'intérêt des parents. Leila avait 21 ans lorsque ses parents l'ont forcée à épouser un homme de quinze ans son aîné. Le mariage est arrangé au Maroc et enregistré légalement en France. Son mari, cet homme qu'elle n'aime pas, va la frapper et tenter de la soumettre. Avec un courage inouï, Leila se bat contre le poids de la tradition, pour conserver sa liberté et sa dignité. Aujourd'hui, Leila a divorcé de son mari, et livre son témoigne, pour que cesse cette horrible pratique.

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Title: [Spanish] - El feminismo

Author: María Elena Walsh

Narrator: María Abadi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Todavía los movimientos de mujeres no habían eclosionado en la Argentina, cuando María Elena Walsh escribía y cantaba palabras incómodas, cuestionaba los rígidos roles asignados a mujeres y varones, y se manifestaba contra la misoginia y la violencia machista. Qué es el feminismo reúne buena parte de esos textos, lanzados desde diarios y revistas, columnas radiales, discos y escenarios. Escritos, compuestos o publicados a lo largo de unos cincuenta años -algunos inéditos-, son de sorprendente actualidad, la confirman como la referente intelectual que es para muchas generaciones de argentinos y la revelan, además, como una precursora y una feminista pionera. Cuando todavía no había aparecido en la Argentina el colectivo Ni una menos, ni habían salido a las calles miles de chicas reclamando por el fin del patriarcado, María Elena Walsh escribía, cantaba y pronunciaba palabras incómodas, cuestionaba los rígidos roles asignados a mujeres y varones, se resistía a lavar los platos por mandato y se manifestaba contra la misoginia y la violencia machista. El feminismo reúne los textos que, como piedras preciosas y filosas, lanzaba desde diarios y revistas, columnas radiales, discos y escenarios. Escritos a lo largo de cincuenta años -algunos inéditos-, son de sorprendente actualidad, la confirman como la referente intelectual que trasciende generaciones y la revelan, además, como pionera y precursora de la reciente eclosión de los movimientos de mujeres. Sin perder el humor y la paciencia, Walsh persuade con naturalidad y el alcance de su compromiso ético la ha convertido en un símbolo que enriquece y renueva el feminismo en la Argentina. «Quien no fue mujer / ni trabajador / piensa que el de ayer / fue un tiempo mejor / y al compás de la nostalgia / hoy bailamos por error». «Las mujeres, como los negros, los colonizados, la clase trabajadora, a medida que tomamos conciencia, menos queremos dádivas; queremos lo que nos pertenece por derecho y nos arrebatan día a día, es decir, todo. Las mujeres, que fuimos custodias de la vida -para que fuera rifada en guerras-, queremos más que nunca defenderla de los fabricantes de muerte. Pero según, cómo y cuándo lo determinemos nosotras». «El Movimiento de Liberación Femenina es una ideología revolucionaria, no exprimida de libracos apolillados, sino del cotidiano martirio de la mitad de la humanidad. Nace en las ferias y junto a las bateas, a la vera de las camillas de ginecólogos carniceros y a contrapelo de los viejitos célibes del Vaticano que vienen diagramando la conducta sexual según conviene a los intereses de los capitales y a las fluctuaciones del mercado bélico». «¿Educamos a nuestras niñas para que en el día de mañana (si lo hay) sean ociosas princesas del jet-set? ¿Las educamos para Heidis de almibarados bosques? ¿Las educamos para futuras cortesanas? ¿Las educamos para enanas mentales y superfluas 'señoras gordas'?».