Download Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: [German] - Die Königsmacherin - Roman über die Mutter Karls des Großen

Author: Martina Kempff

Narrator: Martina Kempff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Ein packender Historienroman über eine außergewöhnliche Frau, die in den Geschichtsbüchern bisher nur eine Fußnote war – die Mutter Karls des Großen. Willensstark, ehrgeizig und manchmal skrupellos: das ist Bertrada von Laon. Als junge Frau im Frühmittelalter muss sie sich in einer von Männern dominierten Welt voller Intrigen, Verrat und Mord behaupten. Die kluge Bertrada schafft es, sich allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz zur Königin krönen zu lassen. Dann kommt ihr Sohn Karl zur Welt – und Bertrada ist entschlossen, ihm zur absoluten Macht zu verhelfen. Sie zieht im Hintergrund seiner Regentschaft die Fäden und schreckt vor nichts zurück...-

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Title: Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity

Author: Cristina Morató

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity. Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman, choosing a life of adventure, fame, sex, and scandal rather than submitting to the strictures of her era. Lola cast her spell on the European aristocracy and the most famous intellectuals and artists of the time, including Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and George Sand, and became the obsession of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She then set out for the New World, arriving in San Francisco at the height of the gold rush, where she lived like a pioneer and performed for rowdy miners before making her way to New York. There, her inevitable downfall was every bit as dramatic as her rise. Yet there was one final reinvention to come for the most defiant woman of the Victorian age—a woman known as a “savage beauty” who was idolized, romanticized, vilified, truly known by no one, and a century ahead of her time.

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Title: Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family

Author: Hannah Howard

Narrator: Hannah Howard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast. Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people—women who’ve carved a place for themselves in a punishing, male-dominated industry. Women whose journeys have inspired and informed Hannah’s own foodie quests. On trips that take her from Milan to Bordeaux to Oslo and then always back again to her home in New York City, Hannah spends time with these influential women, learning about the intimate paths that led them each toward fulfilling careers. Each chef, entrepreneur, barista, cheesemaker, barge captain, and culinary instructor expands our long-held beliefs about how the worldwide network of food professionals and enthusiasts works. But amid her travels, Hannah finds herself on a heart-wrenching private path. Her plans to embark on motherhood bring her through devastating lows and unimaginable highs. Hannah grapples with personal joy, loss, and a lifelong obsession with food that is laced with insecurity and darker compulsions. Looking to her food heroes for solace, companionship, and inspiration, she discovers new ways to appreciate her body and nourish her life. At its heart, this lovely and candid memoir explores food as a point of passion and connection and as a powerful way to create community, forge friendships, and make a family.

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Title: [German] - Meine Zeit als Landhebamme

Author: Rosalie Linner

Narrator: Rosalie Linner

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Rosalie Linner hat viel erlebt in der Zeit, da sie als Landhebamme insgesamt über 4000 Kindern ans Licht der Welt half. Eine Fülle von Geschichten, in denen Freud und Leid der Familien oft nah beieinander liegen, kennen viele bereits aus Bänden wie 'Tagebuch einer Landhebamme' oder 'Als Landhebamme unterwegs'. Für dieses Buch hat sie wiederum in Erinnerungen und Aufzeichnungen die interessantesten Begegnungen mit Müttern und Schwiegermüttern, Vätern und Großvätern und vor allem mit den Kleinsten gefunden und für ihre zahlreichen Leser niedergeschrieben.

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Title: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

Author: Joyce Johnson

Narrator: Samara Naeymi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: March 16, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were. As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first novel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of On the Road made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman’s adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.

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Title: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Author: Julia Cooke

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Release date: March 2, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. Finally, with Operation Babylift—the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon—the book’s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.

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Title: The Psychopath: A True Story

Author: Mary Turner Thomson

Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson, Leon Nixon, Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns—and putting a stop to his endless deception. Mary thought her story would end with the revelation that Will in fact had several families—and numerous children. But when she discovered that he had continued to prey on new victims, she vowed to turn his betrayal into a force for good. On her mission to protect these women and others, Mary also learned more about the psychopathy behind Will’s duplicitous behaviour. Teaming up with his newest fiancée in the US, Mary attempts to put an end to Will’s devastating activities. But will she and her fellow victims succeed in their ultimate goal: to bring down Will Jordan forever? Mary Turner Thomson began telling her story in her first book, The Bigamist. Now, in The Psychopath, she delves deeper into Will's betrayal, telling an entirely new story of how she moved on, and helped others do the same.

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Title: The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Author: Catherine Grace Katz

Narrator: Christine Rendel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 29, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.   Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman was a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt’s only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother Eleanor to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father’s most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to a post- war world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together. Narrated by Christine Rendel

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Title: Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Author: Adam Hochschild

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Release date: March 3, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes, scion of one of the legendary 400 families of New York high society. Together, this unusual couple joined the burgeoning Socialist Party and, over the next dozen years, moved among the liveliest group of activists and dreamers this country has ever seen. Their friends and houseguests included Emma Goldman, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Jack London, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears and led strikes of restaurant waiters and garment workers. She campaigned alongside the country’s earliest feminists to publicly defy laws against distributing information about birth control, earning her notoriety as “one of the dangerous influences of the country” from President Woodrow Wilson. But in a way no one foresaw, her too-short life would end in the same abject poverty with which it began. By a master of narrative nonfiction, Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner who was truly ahead of her time. Lisa Flanagan is an award-winning narrator, voice actor, stage director, improviser, opera librettist and classical singer. Her VO work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, Voice Arts Awards, and the 2019 Audie Award winner for Fantasy (Spinning Silver). She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her cats.

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Title: The Mother of the Brontës

Author: Sharon Wright

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Brontë. They were from different lands, different worlds almost. The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Brontë in Regency England, let alone falling passionately in love, were remote. Yet Maria and Patrick did meet, making a life together in the heartland of the industrial revolution. An unlikely romance and novel wedding were soon followed by the birth of six children. They included Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known. Yet Maria has remained an enigma while the fame of her family spread across the world. It is time to bring her out of the shadows.