Download Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: A Woman of Adventure: The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover

Author: Annette B. Dunlap

Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well as any man. The Quaker community of Whittier, California, where she lived as a teen, reinforced the egalitarian spirit of her upbringing. But history had other ideas for Lou Henry Hoover. For the first fifteen years of married life, Lou globe-trotted with her husband as he pursued a lucrative career in mining engineering and consulting. World War I not only changed the map of the world, it changed the map of the Hoovers’ marriage. Herbert Hoover’s Commission for the Relief of Belgium launched him into a political career that led to the White House. Lou, who detested the limelight, led a dual life: she supported her husband’s political career, managed their multiple households, and saw to the needs of their family. Behind the scenes, she pursued her own interests. History has long since forgotten the breadth of her achievements, but Lou Henry Hoover’s powerful legacy endures in the ongoing success of the Girl Scouts, the music and physical therapy degree programs at Stanford University, athletic opportunities for women, and the countless unknown men and women who received an education thanks to Lou’s anonymous financial support. Conveying Lou’s humor, personality, and intelligence, A Woman of Adventure takes a fresh look at the first lady who preceded Eleanor Roosevelt and her also-extraordinary accomplishments.

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Title: [Spanish] - Diario de una perdida

Author: Margarete Bohme

Narrator: Gabriela Garcia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Este libro supuso una conmoción en 1905. Margarete Böhme, escritora curtida en la novela popular, presentó al público una arriesgada y verosímil historia. Mediante el reflejo exacto del diario hallado de una joven, del que Böhme se presentaba como «editora», se daba noticia de una adolescente burguesa que se ve forzada, por las artimañas de un entorno hipócrita, a un episodio de prostitución. Desde un inicio, esta prototípica trama se vuelve totalmente original debido al pionero mecanismo que utilizó la autora –que motivó una fuerte polémica sobre el cariz y la legitimidad de su narración–. Además, presentaba un «exhaustivo inventario sobre el comercio sexual» –en palabras de Walter Benjamin– y fue tildada de pornográfica. Por último, impresionó al público –y todavía lo hace hoy– la fuerza insumisa y emancipatoria del dietario de la joven Thymian, que mostraba un nuevo camino expresivo ante la opresión del mundo femenino. Considerada como «la narración autobiográfica más notoria de principios del siglo xx y la más exitosa comercialmente», Diario de una perdida –aquí en nuestro idioma por primera vez– vendió millones de ejemplares, tuvo catorce traducciones y varias versiones en la gran pantalla –la llamativa película homónima de 1929, realizada por G. W. Pabst y protagonizada por una superestrella como Louise Brooks, hizo honor a su fama de superventas en toda Europa–. La persecución de la reivindicativa obra de Böhme en la Alemania nazi le acarreó un injusto olvido.

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Title: More Than One Thing Can Be True: a story of survival

Author: Caroline Brunne

Narrator: Caroline Brunne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In this work of deep reflection, insight, and vulnerability Caroline Brunne shares her story of becoming the woman she is today. From the shores of the picturesque island of Mauritius, to suburban Victoria, through to her childhood home in Queensland, deep in the heart of her life journey is her lived experience of trauma, the impact of childhood sexual abuse and her ongoing quest to support her fellow survivors to reduce the shame they may carry. With sensitivity around the subject of childhood sexual abuse, Caroline courageously discloses her truth while examining the complexities of trauma as she learns that more than one thing can be true. There is a strong message of hope and courage in Caroline’s story as she opens up conversations to enable opportunities for change, both in survivor support and in the space of child safety. Walk beside Caroline as she sheds the label of victim and claims her powerful voice as a survivor.

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Title: My Mother Next Door

Author: Diane Danvers Simmons

Narrator: Diane Danvers Simmons

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Release date: May 24, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

It’s hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it’s rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter—and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty. No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent, British coming-of-age story with a fresh take on maternal abandonment. In My Mother Next Door, she shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s while her narcissistic mother charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom. After living in America for decades and becoming a mother herself, Diane journeys back through the madness of her early years, coming to terms with a comical, painful family history but also celebrating the strength and humor it has given her to face the absurdity of life In trying to understand what drove her mother to become the woman next door, Diane discovers new respect, love, and even forgiveness: the root of our humanity.

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Title: Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

Author: Merilyn Simonds

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Release date: May 24, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman—a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her Swedish privilege and joined the Canadian Red Cross, visiting her northern Ontario patients by dogsled. When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five babies, Louise became nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets. Repulsed by the media circus, she retreated to her wilderness cabin, where she devoted herself to studying the birds that nested in her forest. Author of six books and scores of magazine stories, de Kiriline Lawrence and her 'loghouse nest' became a Mecca for international ornithologists. Lawrence was an old woman when Merilyn Simonds moved into the woods not far away. Their paths crossed, sparking Simonds's lifelong interest. A dedicated birder, Simonds brings her own songbird experiences from Canadian nesting grounds and Mexican wintering grounds to this deeply researched, engaging portrait of a uniquely fascinating woman.

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Title: [Spanish] - Puta feminista: Historias de una trabajadora sexual

Author: Georgina Orellano

Narrator: Georgina Orellano

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

«Nunca la prohibición es la solución y de eso las putas podemos dar cuenta». Un día la mujer cuyos hijos cuidaba le contó la verdad: Soy puta. Poco después le preguntó si quería atender a uno de sus clientes. Georgina Orellano calculó: con sus ingresos como niñera jamás podría superar la pobreza. Así que aceptó. En un rato ganó más que el salario mensual de su madre, empleada doméstica. En Puta feminista describe con brutal honestidad los códigos de la calle, los vínculos con los hombres y la violencia derivada de la clandestinidad. Pero, a la vez, detalla cómo la solidaridad y la ternura ayudan a superarla. Crónica sentimental, lo es también del despertar de la consciencia política, cuando reclama jubilación y obra social; cuando recupera la historia de la organización de lxs trabajadorxs sexuales que lidera; cuando enfrenta a la policía y discute con el patriarcado y cuando desafía a un sector poderoso del feminismo que propugna la abolición de la prostitución. La voz de este audiolibro es potente, rebelde, frontal. Es colectiva y singular. Una voz que pide que presten atención a la verdad que trae con ella.

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Title: Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

Author: Eliza Reid

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: May 17, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about women's powerful place in society and how increased fairness benefits everyone? Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women—the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Reid's own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become a first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar ('extraordinary women') to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as 'equal' than we may understand.

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Title: The Marrakesh Express: Helter Skelter!

Author: Norma Levine

Narrator: Norma Levine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 47 minutes

Release date: May 11, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

It is the early 70’s. Two best friends and a 2-year-old toddler (the future rock star Melissa Auf der Maur) set out in a red post office van on a 2000-mile drive from Hay-on-Wye in Wales to Marrakesh in North Africa. Their meandering journey changes abruptly when they meet two American drug dealers from Amsterdam on a secret intelligence mission, with a plentiful supply of pure black Afghan hash. Amidst the dope smoking world of gangster aristocrats and dislocated hippies, they gaze into the hidden worlds within ancient Venetian glass goulamine beads, and that’s when worlds collide. Helter Skelter!

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Title: [German] - Friede Springer

Author: Inge Kloepfer

Narrator: Senta Vogt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Vom Kindermädchen zu einer der einflussreichsten Frauen Deutschlands. Ausgezeichnet recherchiert beschreibt Inge Kloepfer das – zumindest zu Beginn – märchenhaft anmutende Leben der Friede Springer, die als Kindermädchen in das Haus von Axel Springer kam und wenig später seine Frau wurde. Wie Springer ein halbes Jahrhundert verbrachte und nach dem Tod ihres Mannes 1985 um sein Lebenswerk kämpfte, erfahren wir in diesem spannenden Hörbuch.-

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Title: Fly Girl: A Memoir

Author: Ann Hood

Narrator: Ann Hood

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant.In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world?and maybe, one day, write about it?Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and stay calm no matter what the situation.In the air, Hood found both the adventure she’d dreamt of and the unexpected realities of life on the job. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin and dined in front of the pyramids in Cairo, fended off passengers’ advances and found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike.As the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write?even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. Packed with funny, moving, and shocking stories of life as a flight attendant, Fly Girl captures the nostalgia and magic of air travel at its height, and the thrill that remains with every takeoff.