Download Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: [German] - Mama!!: Wie es ist. Wie es war.

Author: Andrea Wolfmayr

Narrator: Andrea Wolfmayr

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Release date: February 4, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'Mama hat was Süßes. Und was Bitteres. Ihr Leben war süß, ihr Leben war bitter. Ihr Leben war arm, ihr Leben war unendlich reich.' (Andrea Wolfmayr) Andrea Wolfmayr legt hier ein Buch der Liebe vor … aber nicht nur der Liebe. Denn ganz so einfach lässt sich ein Buch, das eine Tochter für (oder über) ihre Mutter schreibt, nicht auf dieses eine Wort reduzieren. Es ist darüber hinaus auch ein Buch der Wut, der Trauer und des Entsetzens. Über den Tod und über das Leben. Der einzig richtige Titel für dieses Buch kann deshalb nur MAMA!! lauten. Mit zwei Rufzeichen.

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Title: [Spanish] - En busca de Dora Maar: Una artista, una libreta de direcciones, una vida

Author: Brigitte Benkemoun

Narrator: Fátima Sayyad

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Release date: February 3, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

La apasionante vida de una artista de vanguardia contada a partir del descubrimiento fortuito de una libreta de direcciones. En busca de un reemplazo para la agenda Hermès que ha perdido su marido, Brigitte Benkemoun compra una antigua en eBay. Casi idéntica a la original, con «el mismo cuero liso, pero más rojo, más suave, y con una pátina brillante», esconde en su interior una libreta de direcciones que data de 1951. Al hojearla, descubre con gran fascinación que los nombres que aparecen en sus veinte páginas (en la B, Breton, Braque y Balthus; en la C, Cocteau; en la E, Éluard...) son «los más grandes artistas de posguerra ordenados alfabéticamente», que pasan a ser el hilo conductor de este audiolibro. Benkemoun emprende entonces una búsqueda obsesiva y pronto averigua que la agenda perteneció a Dora Maar, la famosa Mujer que llora de Picasso y una artista brillante por derecho propio. La autora se embarca en un viaje de descubrimiento de dos años para contar la historia de una mujer provocativa, apasionada y enigmática, y el papel que cada una de aquellas figuras desempeñó en su vida. El resultado es un retrato único y deslumbrante de la artista y su mundo a través de instantáneas, escenas de fiestas e icónicos cafés, y fragmentos impactantes de su poesía y de la poesía escrita sobre ella. La crítica ha dicho: «Una de las felices sorpresas del final de la temporada literaria». Livres Hebdo «Poderoso y basado en una profunda investigación. El entusiasmo de la autora por el tema es contagioso». The New York Times «Una narrativa sinuosa en la que los capítulos están unidos por encuentros casuales y asociaciones de ideas. La autora descubre material de archivo fascinante y crea una vibrante galería de retratos». Times Literary Supplement «Este apasionante estudio de París y su vanguardia artística debería ser lectura obligada para los amantes del arte moderno y surrealista». Publishers Weekly «Historia del arte combinada con una obra detectivesca. ¿Puede haber algo más apasionante?». ARTnews «Deliciosamente mordaz, atractivo, fascinante, inteligente». LitHub «En la versión de Benkemoun de la historia del arte, visualizamos las habitaciones donde los pintores vivieron sus aventuras, los colores de sus uñas y el almuerzo especial que se servía en el café el día que Picasso cenaba con su amante y conoció a la siguiente. Un alegre recordatorio de quiénes fueron las personas detrás de ciertos nombres hoy icónicos». Hyperallergic «Es maravilloso el modo en que el encuentro casual con un objeto aparentemente insignificante da lugar a un mundo de descubrimientos y emoción personales, unaemoción que Benkemoun, en la mejor tradición surrealista y biográfica, logra transmitir». Reading in Translation

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Title: A Life in Words: Memoirs

Author: Ismat Chughtai

Narrator: Dilshad Khurana

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Along side vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to get an education and the struggle to find her own voice as a writer. The result is a compellingly readable memoir by one of the most significant Urdu writers of all time.

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Title: Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

Author: Valerie Bertinelli

Narrator: Valerie Bertinelli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Release date: January 18, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 24

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on life at sixty and beyond. Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli’s life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on One Day at a Time and punishing herself in order to fit into the unachievable Hollywood mold. She struggled to make her marriage to Eddie Van Halen — the true love of her life — work, despite all the rifts the rock-star lifestyle created between them. She then watched her son follow in his father’s footsteps, right up onto the stage of Van Halen concerts, and begin his own music career. And like so many women, she cared for her parents as their health declined and saw the roles of parent and child reverse. Through mourning the loss of her parents, discovering more about her family’s past, and realizing how short life really is when she and her son lost Eddie, Valerie finally said, “Enough already!” to a lifelong battle with the scale and found a new path forward to joy and connection. Despite hardships and the pressures of the media industry to be something she’s not, Valerie is, at last, accepting herself: she knows who she is, has discovered her self-worth, and has learned how to prioritize her health and happiness over her weight. With an intimate look into her insecurities, heartbreaks, losses, triumphs, and revelations, Enough Already is the story of Valerie’s sometimes humorous, sometimes raw, but always honest journey to love herself and find joy in the everyday, in family, and in the food and memories we share. “This thoughtful, bighearted book is sure to be a hit with Bertinelli fans and those with an appetite for stories of hard-won self-acceptance. A warmly intimate memoir.”  – Kirkus Reviews   “In a series of brutally frank essays, Bertinelli looks back on the emotional struggles and triumphs of her life. By turns raw and inspiring, this contains a little bit of wisdom for everyone.”  – Publishers Weekly

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Title: The Call of The Kimberleys: A Life Well Loved

Author: Jocelyn Doran

Narrator: Jocelyn Doran

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Release date: January 17, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Growing up with all of the modern comforts of Sydney in the 1950s and 60s, young Jocelyn joins the glamorous life of an Ansett hostess flying around Australia’s vast country. On a holiday with a friend on a cattle station in the Kimberley, Jocelyn is awe struck by the magic, the colour and rugged remoteness of the Kimberley landscape. It is not only the Kimberley that captures Jocelyn’s attention; stockman, Timothy Doran, has ridden into her life. After many twists and turns upon the track, their love is finally fulfilled. So the romance with her handsome stockman blooms and the Kimberley continues to call.

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Title: Fortune Favors the Brave: An Extraordinary Memoir

Author: Kiri Westby

Narrator: Kiri Westby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

From inside an interrogation session with the Chinese Secret Police, a young American activist recounts her path into global human rights work—exploring critical lessons on privilege and compassion in the context of war and extreme suffering. When I was arrested by the Chinese military for launching a historic Tibetan Freedom protest, I knew every trial and lesson had been worth it—even if it meant facing a life in prison. After a childhood infused with esoteric Buddhist teachings, I was forged into a global activist through years of witnessing and collaborating in the dissent of women on the front lines of war. From villages in Nepal, to refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the streets of Bogota, Colombia, my initiation into human rights activism was raw and transformative. The bravery of those women bolstered me in my darkest hours of interrogation and torture by the Chinese Police, and it guides me now to share my true story—no matter the repercussions. This is not a tale the Chinese government wants told. During my years working in war zones, I often wondered if I’d have the courage to stand up to tyranny, to lay my life on the line to confront undeniable persecution. In 2007—on the slopes of Mt. Everest—I found out. Take a literary journey with me as I reveal the bumpy road I took to becoming my bravest self—learning to leverage a life of advantage, find a place for my own joy, and cultivate the courage needed to play a distinct role in history.

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Title: [German] - Poesie ist Leben - Friederike Kempner

Author: Michael Schulte

Narrator: Peter Fricke, Dieter Mann, Judy Winter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'Es gibt zahllose schlechte Gedichte, man liest sie täglich in Feuilletons, Anthologien und höchst überflüssigen Verlagsprodukten, aber derart gekonnt schlecht dichten, das vermochte nur Friederike Kempner – in anderen Worten: sie ist einzigartig.' (Autor Michael Schulte)Friederike, die 1836 in Posen als Tochter jüdischer Eltern geboren wurde und später mit ihren Eltern nach Schlesien übersiedelte, arbeitete als Krankenpflegerin, engagierte sich immer wieder karitativ und verbrachte einen großen Teil ihrer Zeit damit Bittbriefe zu schreiben. Zum Beispiel an Kaiser Wilhelm I., dem sie die Einrichtung von Leichenhäusern vorschlug, damit künftig keine Scheintoten mehr bestattet würden. (Ein Problem, das im 18.und 19. Jh. auch Menschen wie J.W. Goethe oder E. A. Poe sehr erregte.) Neben all diesen ernsthaften Beschäftigungen fing Friederike Kempner mit etwa 30 Jahren – natürlich ebenfalls ernsthaft – an zu dichten. Zu unser aller Glück. Stürmisch ist die Nacht, Kind im Grab erwacht: 'Mutter, wo bist Du?' Überall ist's zu. Endlich stirbt das Kind, Froh die Engel sind!'-

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Title: The Story of My Life

Author: Helen Keller

Narrator: Amy J. Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Release date: November 23, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age seven to twenty-one. This edition includes letters and reports contributed by her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and the editor, John Albert Macy. Not only does her story demonstrate the challenges of becoming educated after losing her sight and hearing as a small child, but also a peek into the history of the world for a Deafblind person in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It depicts a young woman with an irrepressible determination to prove that she has the capacity to live a meaningful life beyond society's vision of her boundaries. Her wisdom and keen observations defy her age. Through her words, we see how much and how little life has changed since 1900; all of it from the perspective of one whose physical restraints most of us cannot truly comprehend. The supplemental information provides the additional context of the hurdles Helen Keller overcame to reach her accomplishments in life.

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Title: Wave Woman: The Life and Struggles of a Surfing Pioneer

Author: Vicky Heldreich Durand

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Release date: November 16, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Wave Woman is the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt was the granddaughter of Mormon pioneers who, after spending an active and athletic childhood in Salt Lake City, moved to Santa Monica with her family and enrolled at USC to study dental hygiene. Betty went on to elope with a man she hardly knew, and to have two daughters. In middle age, Betty finally followed her dream of living near the ocean; she moved to Hawaii and, at age forty-one, took up surfing. She lived and surfed at Waikiki during the golden years of the mid-1950s and was a pioneer surfer at Makaha Beach. She was competitive in early big-wave surfing championships and was among the first women to compete in Lima, Peru, where she won first place. Betty was an Olympic hopeful, a pilot, a mother, a sculptor, a jeweler, a builder, a fisherwoman, an ATV rider, and a potter who lived life her way, dealing with adversity and heartache on her own stoic terms. A love letter from a daughter to her larger-than-life mother, Wave Woman will speak to any woman searching for self-confidence, fulfillment, and happiness.

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Title: [Spanish] - Silencio administrativo: La pobreza en el laberinto burocrático

Author: Sara Mesa

Narrator: Sara Mesa

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

La bestial y desgarradora historia de una mujer sin techo. Un texto lúcido, contundente y revelador que incita a la reflexión y a la lucha por los derechos humanos más básicos. Esta es una historia real. La de una mujer sin hogar, discapacitada y enferma que trata de solicitar la renta mínima a la que tiene derecho según los optimistas mensajes de la administración y los medios. Pero el laberinto burocrático que debe recorrer para ello, los escollos y trabas con que tropieza y la crueldad de un sistema que exige más a quien menos tiene desembocan en la desesperación. Mientras tanto, los ciudadanos se quedan con la impresión contraria: hay montones de prestaciones y ayudas para los más pobres. «Privilegiados.» «Caraduras.» «Vagos.» Los prejuicios se acumulan. Este es uno de los comienzos de la aporofobia: el odio al pobre.