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Title: You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

Author: Elizabeth Becker

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Release date: February 23, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war   Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate   challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.   In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times.   What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war.

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Title: What an MBA Taught Me…: But My Kids Made Me Learn

Author: Bea Wray

Narrator: Nan Mcnamara

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Release date: February 16, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Unleash your hidden leadership skills with this powerful, heartfelt guide. Great business schools know that connection, more than curriculum, shapes great leaders. Every aspect of the experience intentionally maximizes relationship building. What an MBA Taught Me . . . But My Kids Made Me Learn is a sometimes hilarious, other times harrowing journey through Harvard Business School, twenty years of business experience, and the most important academy of all: parenting. Parenting? That's right. When Bea Wray returned to entrepreneurial work after six years as a full-time mom, she worried. What relevant skills could she bring to the corporate table? Yet her career took off as her interpersonal expertise soared. Perhaps family time can be a breakthrough, rather than a break from professional advancement. Psssst. 'Soft' skills are actually pretty hard . . . but they can be mastered. As kids demonstrate, we learn best when having fun. In this book, dozens of essential executive leadership lessons are carefully wrapped in humorous and heartfelt stories to inspire and encourage you.

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Title: Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light

Author: Liz Heinecke

Narrator: Moira Quirk

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Release date: February 16, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Part hidden history, part love letter to creative innovation, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a dancer, Loie Fuller, and a scientist, Marie Curie, brought together by an illuminating discovery. At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances and stunning theatrical effects. Credited today as the pioneer of modern dance, she was perennially broke, never took no for an answer, spent most of her life with a female partner, and never questioned her drive. She was a visionary, a renegade, and a loyal friend. In the early 1900s, she heard about Marie Curie's discovery of a glowing blue element and dreamed of using it to dazzle audiences on stage. While Loie's dream wouldn't be realized, her connection with Marie and their shared fascination with radium endured. Radiant is the true story of Marie Curie and Loie Fuller, two revolutionary women drawn together at the dawn of a new era by a singular discovery, and the lifelong friendship that grew out of their shared passion for enlightenment.

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Title: I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

Author: Sarah Kurchak

Narrator: Zura Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story,” how the process almost ruined her life and how she is now trying to recover. Growing up undiagnosed in small-town Ontario in the eighties and nineties, Kurchak realized early that she was somehow different from her peers. She discovered an effective strategy to fend off bullying: she consciously altered nearly everything about herself-from her personality to her body language. She forced herself to wear the denim jeans that felt like being enclosed in a sandpaper iron maiden. Every day, she dragged herself through the door with an elevated pulse and a churning stomach, nearly crumbling under the effort of the performance. By the time she was finally diagnosed with autism at twenty-seven, she struggled with depression and anxiety largely caused by the same strategy she had mastered precisely. She came to wonder, were all those years of intensely pretending to be someone else really worth it? Tackling everything from autism parenting culture to love, sex, alcohol, obsessions, and professional pillow fighting, Kurchak’s enlightening memoir challenges stereotypes and preconceptions about autism and considers what might really make the lives of autistic people healthier, happier, and more fulfilling.

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Title: The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones

Author: Larry Loftis

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Release date: February 9, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Girls. When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live “a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious” (Time). As the United States enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline’s life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. “[A] meticulously researched, beautifully crafted work of nonfiction that reads like a James Bond thriller” (Bookreporter), The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a spirited American woman who risked everything to serve her country.

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Title: Can You Hear Me Now?: How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose

Author: Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Narrator: Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING   In Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths. Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario, she hadn't really thought about the fact that Ottawa wasn't designed for someone like her. Celina soon found herself both making waves and breaking down, confronting at night, alone in her Ottawa apartment, all the painful beauty of her childhood and her troubled early adult life. She paid the price for speaking out about micro-aggressions and speaking up for her community and her riding, but she also felt exhilaration and empowerment. As she writes, 'This is not your typical leadership book where the person is placed in a situation and miraculously comes up with the right response for the wicked problem. This is the story of me falling in love, at last, with who I am, and finding my voice in the unlikeliest of places.'      Both memoir and leadership book, Can You Hear Me Now? is a funny, self-aware, poignant, confessional and fierce look at how failing badly and screwing things up completely are truly more powerful lessons in how to conduct a life than extraordinary success. They build an utter honesty with yourself and others that allows you to say things nobody else dares to say--the necessary things about navigating the places that weren't built for you and holding firm to your principles. And, if you do that, you will help build a world where inclusion is real. Just as Celina is now trying to do, in all her brilliance and boldness.

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Title: [Portuguese] - Narrativas Negras: Biografias ilustradas de mulheres pretas brasileiras

Author: Vivi Oliveira, Vanessa Carolina, Thaís Santos, Taís Espírito Santo, Tabatta Santos, Sílvia Barros, Sheila Martins, Sabrina Santos Souza, Raissa Lauana, Mariane Diaz, Mariana Oliveira, Maria Vitória, Márcia Gomes, Maíra Oliveira, Luiza Nasciutti, Luana Sim

Narrator: Coletivo Narrativas Negras

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

COLETIVO NARRATIVAS NEGRAS Formado por ilustradoras, designers e escritoras, o Coletivo Narrativas Negras é o criador da obra Narrativas Negras – Biografias ilustradas de mulheres pretas brasileiras. O Coletivo Narrativas Negras é um projeto voluntário, inteiramente feminino e que tem como objetivo levar à população brasileira histórias de mulheres negras que participaram ou participam ativamente na construção política, social e cultural do país. Nosso objetivo é mostrar que nem só mulheres e homens brancos fizeram parte da história e que a comunidade negra feminina também lutou e luta ativamente para a construção de espaços de mais respeito e igualdade. O coletivo tem várias vertentes de atuação, como a produção textual em redes sociais e o desenvolvimento de oficinas e workshops, mas o destaque é o livro Narrativas Negras, idealizado pela designer Isadora Ribeiro dos Santos e que foi o ponto de partida para a criação do movimento. O projeto editorial contou com a participação de cerca de 70 mulheres voluntárias, entre escritoras e ilustradoras. Conheça quem são: Idealizadora: Isadora Ribeiro dos Santos Escritoras: Anna Carolina Cardoso, Bruna Emanuele, Bruna Silveira, Enilse Esperança, Carol Bicalho, Flávia Souza, Gau De Laet, Heloísa Santana, Júlia Rodrigues, Juliana Cavalli, Leticia Fiuza, Lídia De Paula, Luana Simonini, Luiza Nasciutti, Maíra Oliveira, Márcia Gomes, Maria Vitória, Mariana Oliveira, Mariane Diaz, Raissa Lauana, Sabrina Santos Souza, Sheila Martins, Sílvia Barros, Tabatta Santos, Taís Espírito Santo, Thaís Santos, Vanessa Carolina e Vivi Oliveira. Ilustradoras: Alda Gomes, Amanda Daphne, Amma, Ana Luisa Maisonnave, Anna Cunha, Áustria Fernandes, Beatriz Gabino, Bruna Melo, Daiely Gonçalves, Dani Fonseca, Dika Araujo, Fabiola Teixeira, Flávia Borges, Flávia Carvalho, Francisca Nzenze, Gabi Almeida, Gabriela Emmerich, Helena Butturini, Ina Gouveia, Isabella Souto, Isadora Ribeiro, Karen Couto, Lígia Mattos, Luísa Castro, Manoela Campos, Marcela Guimarães, Mariana Seragi, Mayara Smith, Mika, Millene Vilela, Nicolle Bustamante, Pamela Araújo, Prisca Paes, Rachel Gomes, Rayssa Da Penha, Soo Sakai, Suryara Bernadi, Theodora Moreira e Veri S.A.

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Title: Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

Author: Carole Boyce Davies

Narrator: L. Malaika Cooper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her political critique and activism. Claudia Cumberbatch Jones was born in Trinidad. In 1924, she moved to New York, where she lived for the next thirty years. She was active in the Communist Party from her early twenties onward. A talented writer and speaker, she traveled throughout the United States lecturing and organizing. In the early 1950s, she wrote a well-known column, 'Half the World,' for the Daily Worker. As the US government intensified its efforts to prosecute communists, Jones was arrested several times. She served nearly a year in a US prison before being deported and given asylum by Great Britain in 1955. Looking at the contents of the FBI file on Jones, Boyce Davies contrasts Jones's own narration of her life with the federal government's. Left of Karl Marx establishes Jones as a significant figure within Caribbean intellectual traditions, black US feminism, and the history of communism.

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Title: The Color of Beauty: The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore

Author: Alina Mitchell

Narrator: Laquita James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Ophelia DeVore boldly overcame tragedy and hardship to become the first black model in the United States of America. She possessed grace, finesse, intelligence, natural beauty, and courage. Being the first black graduate of the Vogue Modeling School, she eventually became a powerful business mogul, an exuberant entrepreneur, and a respected leader in her field. Her story is unique because she redefined 'beauty' in America. Throughout her life, she sought to prove to the world beauty could be found in every shade of color. The Ophelia DeVore Charm School and Grace Del Marco Modeling Agency served as a strong foundation for notables including Diahann Carroll, Richard Roundtree, Trudy Haynes, Helen Williams, Cicely Tyson, Susan Taylor, Audrey Smaltz, and many more. She regularly worked with fashion icons such as Christian Dior, Ralph Lauren, and Ceil Chapman. In a personal letter written on July 17, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., thanked DeVore for being a part of 'the great democratic crusade of our era.' Her inspirational story will move you to believe in yourself and achieve your dreams.

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Title: Lee Miller: A Life

Author: Carolyn Burke

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A trenchant yet sympathetic portrait of Lee Miller, one of the iconic faces and careers of the twentieth century. Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook—the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent during her lifetime. A sleek blond bombshell, Miller was part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as a leading Vogue model, close to Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso. Then, during World War II, she became a war correspondent—one of the first women to do so—shooting harrowing images of a devastated Europe, entering Dachau with the Allied troops, posing in Hitler’s bathtub. Burke examines Miller’s troubled personal life, from the unsettling photo sessions during which Miller, both as a child and as a young woman, posed nude for her father, to her crucial affair with artist-photographer Man Ray, to her unconventional marriages. And through Miller’s body of work, Burke explores the photographer’s journey from object to subject; her eye for form, pattern, and light; and the powerful emotion behind each of her images. A lush story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, independence and collaboration, Lee Miller: A Life is an astute study of a fascinating, yet enigmatic, cultural figure. This program includes a downloadable PDF that contains Lee Miller’s recipes for a dinner party, as assembled by Carolyn Burke.