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Title: Submit

Author: Sonnet

Narrator: Alice Carax

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The shocking and illuminating memoir of an anonymous submissive immersed in the BDSM community, reckoning with the divide between our desires and the expectations and strictures that keep us from pursuing them.  Sonnet is a writer. She is a professional with a wide network of important people. She is athletic, creative and successful. She always remembers to send Christmas cards.   Sonnet also likes to be caned. She likes to be humiliated. She likes to go into a room blindfolded with ten strangers and have them do whatever they want to her.   Sonnet likes whatever you tell her she likes.   This is the secret memoir of a submissive. A vivid, electric, stunning account of how one woman gets her kicks. It is all true.   This is an experience that can’t be missed, all we ask is that you SUBMIT…

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Title: Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Author: Emily Witt

Narrator: Emily Witt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

“Haunting . . . [Witt] writes with such cool precision.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times 'The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency'—Emily Gould, The Cut A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2024 (SO FAR) • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her. In Health and Safety, Witt charts her immersion into New York City’s dance music underground. Emily would come to lead a double life. By day she worked as a journalist, covering gun violence, climate catastrophes, and the rallies of right-wing militias. And by night she pushed the limits of consciousness in hollowed-out office spaces and warehouses to music that sounded like the future. But no counterculture, no matter how utopian, could stave off the squalor of American politics and the cataclysm of 2020. Affectionate yet never sentimental, Health and Safety is a lament for a broken relationship, for a changed nightlife scene, and for New York City just before the fall. Sparing no one—least of all herself—Witt offers her life as a lens onto an era of American delirium and dissolution.

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Title: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg

Author: Herbie J Pilato

Narrator: Herbie J Pilato

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 16, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work ― from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award–winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones. This eclectic volume traces Rigg’s career as a renowned star of television, film, and the stage. The author includes insights from rare, archived interviews, encompassing both video dialogues conducted by the University of Kent and Oxford Union. The meticulously curated archival material is further complemented by equally rare  retrospections drawn from diverse media sources and hitherto unpublished accounts from the people who knew Rigg best, affording readers an unprecedented, all-encompassing glimpse into her private world. With exclusive commentary from Rupert Macnee (son of Riggs’s Avengers costar and dear friend Patrick Macnee); the show’s stunt coordinator/director Ray Austin; actors Samuel West, Bernie Kopell, Barbara Barrie, Juliet Mills, John Schuck, and Damon Evans; director Bruce Beresford; and documentarian David Naylor, among others, One Tough Dame delivers an in-depth perspective of a beloved, brave, brilliant, and trailblazing actor.

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Title: [German] - Wilde Stille (Ungekürzt)

Author: Raynor Winn

Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Das Leben entwickelt sich selten so, wie wir es planen. Raynor Winn und ihr Mann Moth erlebten dies hautnah, als sie mitten im Leben alles verloren und sich auf die rund 1000 Kilometer lange Wanderung entlang des South West Coast Path begaben. Nach dieser Wanderung haben sich die beiden in einer kleinen Stadt an der englischen Küste niedergelassen und versuchen, sich wieder an das Leben mit einem Dach über dem Kopf zu gewöhnen. In Ihrem zweiten Buch 'Wilde Stille' erzählt Raynor Winn: - wie die Wanderung ihr Leben verändert hat; - wie es dem Ehepaar gelingt, wieder ein 'normales' Leben zu führen; - was Raynor bewegte, ihr erstes Buch zu schreiben; ... und wie ihr Leben weitergeht. Natürlich hält das Leben neue Herausforderungen für das Ehepaar bereit. Werden sich Ray und Moth trotz aller Schwierigkeiten ein neues Abenteuer zutrauen? Hören Sie die Fortsetzung ihrer bewegenden Geschichte!

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Title: Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia

Author: Johanne Durocher

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.

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Title: Never Far Apart

Author: Ellen Foster, Kitty Salsberg

Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart. Introduction by Adara Goldberg

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Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds

Author: Abigail Heringer

Narrator: Abigail Heringer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips!But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as “the deaf girl.” And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that while being deaf is part of her identity, it doesn’t define her. Throughout her journey, marked by challenges and adversity, Abigail has grown into her own strongest advocate, discovering a new voice that is confident, fearless, and empowered—a voice that enables her to proudly reclaim the title of “the deaf girl” she once resisted and rewrite it as a testament to her resilience and strength.Hopeful, vulnerable, and uplifting, The Deaf Girl shares Abigail’s journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly. This memoir serves as an inspiring reminder for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or struggled to embrace their differences, showcasing that every voice is worthy of being heard. “The Deaf Girl is an incredibly moving and uplifting memoir. Abigail’s heartfelt and sincere reflections on growing up as an outsider and her journey to embrace her identity reveal a remarkable tale of resilience and courage … An inspiring book filled with hope.”—Cat Mathes, President & CEO of John Tracy Center

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Title: Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

Author: Laci Mosley

Narrator: Laci Mosley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. ​ From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn’t hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. “You see,” she writes, “everyone’s a scammer and everything’s a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn’t built for people like me. Scamming saved me and has taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world while looking out for myself, too.” In Scam Goddess, Laci recounts how her scammer instincts have guided her throughout her life—from a religious childhood in rural Texas, to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front, to swindling her way past the gatekeepers of Hollywood—recounting the greatest true-crime scam stories that inspired her along the way. Whether it’s by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, we’re all getting scammed. In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.

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Title: Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

Author: Anne Anlin Cheng

Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.

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Title: [Spanish] - Entre azul y buenas noches

Author: Samantha Flores, Antoine Rodríguez

Narrator: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez, Samantha Flores, Oscar López

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Release date: September 5, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Esta es la autobiografía de Samantha Flores, trans-activista mexicana, nacida en 1932 en Orizaba, Veracruz; fundadora de Laetus Vitae, la primera casa de día totalmente gratuita de la Ciudad de México, y de América Latina, para gente mayor LGBTQ+ Bautizada Vicente Aurelio, Samanthase encamina hacia los senderos de la masculinidad, por los cuales los tropiezos y las trampas son frecuentes: niño afeminado, sensible, es seducido, a sus doce años, por el atlético y viril David que le promete amor eterno en la iglesia de San José. Asus diecinueve años, deja Orizaba para emanciparse y liberarse en la Ciudad de México. Tras haber concluido sus estudios de hotelería, trabaja como recepcionista en varios hoteles, pero a Samantha le gusta el mundo de la farándula y de la diversión nocturna. Frecuenta los bares y antros de moda en los cuales circulan deseos y erotismos diversos. Ahí conoce a varias actrices y a la famosa Xóchitl, Reina travesti de la noche,gracias a quien Vicente empieza a convertirse en Samantha, en los años sesenta, cuando la categoría «transgénero» aún no existía. Esta autobiografía es una escritura a cuatro manos. Antoine Rodríguez fungió como técnico para grabar el relato oral de Samantha, editarlo y restituirlo fielmente con el léxico, la prosodia y el ritmoparticulares de la autobiógrafa. El epílogo da cuenta de los procesos de subjetivación de Samantha y propone una genealogía de las teorías acerca de las identidades trans. Esta autobiografía es el primer texto hispanoamericano de una mujer trans mayor de noventa años. «Samantha Flores es una leyenda viviente. Una mujer de la que todas deberíamos aprender. Samantha Flores deja en este libro muchas de las claves para que las mujeres trans tengamos vidas dignas.» -MORGANNA LOVE, cantante, actriz y autora de En el cuerpo correcto