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Title: [Spanish] - La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo

Author: Mariana Enriquez

Narrator: Mara Brenner

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Release date: September 4, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de «una limpia cocina literaria», en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada: la particular relación que tenía con su marido, Adolfo Bioy Casares; su cambiante y chismosa amistad con Jorge Luis Borges, que cenaba cada noche en su casa; sus presuntos romances con mujeres, como la poeta Alejandra Pizarnik o la madre del propio Bioy; sus perturbadoras premoniciones; sus ambiguos conflictos con la olímpica Victoria Ocampo, su hermana mayor. En este libro, Mariana Enriquez, a través de una enorme cantidad de fuentes bibliográficas y testimonios de amigos, críticos, parientes y albaceas de Silvina Ocampo, cuestiona los mitos, descorre el velo sobre los secretos y mira con una intensidad única la vida de quien vivió con el afán de permanecer oculta. El resultado es el retrato emocionante de una mujer entrañable y oscura, inteligente y suavemente perversa, dueña de una imaginación desaforada (y de unas piernas espectaculares), a quien hoy se considera una de las mejores cuentistas del Río de la Plata.

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Title: Make a Home Out of You: A Memoir

Author: Ginelle Testa

Narrator: Ginelle Testa

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success—and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she’s started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has fallen prey to anorexia, and has been sexually assaulted. And that’s only the beginning of her spiral down into addiction and disordered eating. As Ginelle progresses into young adulthood, she hits several substance-related bottoms. In her senior year of college, after blacking out and ending up naked in her dorm’s community shower, she goes to Alcoholics Anonymous to get sober. But steering clear of drugs and alcohol, she discovers, is not a cure-all—she still has a long way to go before she can truly heal. Raw, relatable, and powerful, Testa’s is a riveting tale of climbing up from rock bottom—and learning to make a home in oneself instead of in substances and other people.

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Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape

Author: Seana Smith

Narrator: Seana Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world.  With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear. Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood.  It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.

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Title: Lovely One: A Memoir

Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson

Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. “A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.   Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations.   Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.   Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.

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Title: [German] - Moidl: Eine unglaubliche Geschichte aus Tirol

Author: Hermann Egger

Narrator: Klaus G. Förg

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 29, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Moidl ist eine der Töchter des Hohenhauserbauern in Hintertux im Zillertal. Die enge Bindung an ihre Familie und ihren Hof ist ihr Lebenselixier und wird nur noch stärker, als verschiedene Schicksalsschläge die Hohenhauser treffen. Sie bleibt ledig und arbeitet tagtäglich von früh bis spät auf dem Hof. Auf einem Markt begegnet sie Hermann, der mit nur zwölf Jahren nach einer Arbeitsstelle sucht, um zu überleben; der Waisenknabe wird gehandelt wie ein Stück Vieh. Aus Mitleid und weil es bei den Hohenhausern an Arbeitskräften fehlt, nimmt sie ihn mit auf den Hof, wo er sich als fleißiger Arbeiter bewährt und zu einer Stütze für den Bauern Thomas und für Moidl wird. Als Thomas stirbt, muss Moidl mit 76 Jahren den Hof übernehmen. Bald stellt sich die Frage, wer ihn in Zukunft weiterführen wird. Für Moidl und ihre Vorfahren war es immer klar: Er muss in Familienbesitz bleiben … Hermann Egger schildert in diesem Buch zugleich einfühlsam und packend eine authentische Geschichte – die Geschichte seiner eigenen Familie.

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Title: In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic

Author: Alexandra A. Chan

Narrator: Rachel Yong

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound grief. Unable to find a way forward, she must either burn to ash or forge herself anew. Slowly, painfully, wondrously, Chan discovers that her father and ancestors have left threads of renewal in the artifacts and stories of their lives. Through a long-lost interview conducted by Roosevelt's Federal Writers' Project, a basket of war letters written from the Burmese jungle, a box of photographs, her world travels, and a deepening relationship to her own art, the archaeologist and lifelong rationalist makes her greatest discovery to date: the healing power of enchantment. In an epic story that travels from prerevolution China to the South under Jim Crow, from the Pacific theater of WWII to the black sands of Reynisfjara, Iceland, and beyond, Chan takes us on a universal journey to meaning in the wake of devastating loss, sharing the insights and tools that allowed her to rebuild her life and resurrect her spirit.

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Title: The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story

Author: Debrah Miceli, Greg Oliver

Narrator: Debrah Miceli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah 'Madusa' Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets . . . Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah's determination to persevere. Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women's belt . . . until being fired. In the rival WCW, Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV. Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink 'Queen of Carnage' t-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys. By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men. Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood. This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.

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Title: The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

Author: Roxana Spicer

Narrator: Roxana Spicer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name.  Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming.  Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now—perhaps forever—lost again.  The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history.

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Title: Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

Author: Camilla Townsend

Narrator: Ej Lavery

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cortés whatever he wanted out of her own self-interest. The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated. She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook. If she managed to make something more out of her life—and she did—it is difficult to say at what point she did wrong. In getting to know the trials and intricacies with which Malintzin's life was laced, we gain new respect for her steely courage, as well as for the bravery and quick thinking demonstrated by many other Native Americans in the earliest period of contact with Europeans. In this study of Malintzin's life, Camilla Townsend rejects all the previous myths and tries to restore dignity to the profoundly human men and women who lived and died in those days. She breathes new life into an old tale, and offers insights into the major issues of conquest and colonization, including technology and violence, resistance and accommodation, gender and power.

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Title: Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World

Author: Melissa Eddy

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2024

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

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