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Title: Nothing Bad between Us: A Mennonite Missionary’s Daughter Finds Healing in Her Brokenness

Author: Marlena Fiol

Narrator: Pamela Almand

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

After being publicly humiliated in front of her entire close-knit Mennonite community, Marlena Fiol didn’t know how she would recover. Follow her journey from an abusive upbringing in Paraguay to escape, love, and loss in the United States and finally on to forgiveness and reconciliation. Discover a story of healing and personal transformation. Marlena’s childhood was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor for people with leprosy and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed to both be accepted in Paraguay and escape to somewhere new. In Nothing Bad between Us, follow Marlena’s journey as she takes control of her life and learns to be her authentic self, scars and imperfections included. Uncover inner peace—and inner strength. Nothing Bad between Us is a story of brokenness and eventual redemption that taps into our collective yearning for healing and forgiveness. As you read Marlena’s story, you will: Learn how to forgive yourself and others without giving up your personal growth and self-confidenceDiscover that transformation and redemption often exist even in the most broken parts of who you areFind out how to stand in your power, knowing that vulnerability won’t lead to your downfall, but to increasing courage, connection, and authenticityReaders of memoirs about family, self-healing, and the strength of a woman like The Glass Castle, Love Warrior, and Leaving the Witness will be captivated by Nothing Bad between Us.

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Title: The Kindness of Strangers

Author: Salka Viertel

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A memoir about showbiz in the early twentieth century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age. Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the New Yorker writer S. N. Behrman, 'a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the twentieth century. In all of them the author lived at the apex of their culture and artistic aristocracies. Her childhood . . . is an entrancing idyll. In Berlin, in Prague, in Vienna, there appears Karl Kraus, Kafka, Rilke, Robert Musil, Schoenberg, Einstein, Alban Berg. There is the suffering and disruption of the First World War and the suffering and agony after it, which is described with such intimacy and vividness that you endure these terrible years with the author. Then comes the migration to Hollywood, where Salka's house on Mabery Road becomes a kind of Pantheon for the gathered artists, musicians, and writers. It seems to me that no one has ever described Hollywood and the life of writers there with such verve.'

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Title: [German] - Crazy for Life: Verliebt ins Leben

Author: Corinna-Rosa Falkenberg

Narrator: Calvin Burke, Corinna-Rosa Falkenberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Release date: November 13, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Ein Buch mit vierzig persönlichen Erzählungen und Beobachtungen über die Liebe am Leben, verfasst für Hörer, die einen besonders inspirierenden und emotionalen Seelenspiegel suchen. Es ist ein Buch ohne mahnenden Zeigefinger, aber vielleicht dafür mit anregenden Erkenntnissen und Impulsen zum selbständigen Weiterdenken und für all die Leser geschrieben, die an einem Wendepunkt in ihrem Leben stehen.

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Title: [Spanish] - Cautiva en Arabia: La extraordinaria historia de la condesa Marga d'Andurain, espía y aventurera

Author: Cristina Morató

Narrator: Elisa Beuter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Release date: November 12, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

La extraordinaria historia de la condesa Marga d'Andurain, espía y aventurera en Oriente Medio, una mujer osada que llevó una vida digna de la mejor novela de aventuras. La condesa Marga d'Andurain protagonizó una vida propia de la mejor novela de aventuras. Nacida en el seno de una familia de la burguesía vascofrancesa, fue una mujer adelantada a su tiempo, rebelde y apasionada, que viajó a ciudades legendarias como El Cairo, Beirut, Damasco o el Tánger de entreguerras, donde llevó a cabo increíbles hazañas. Espió para los británicos, regentó junto a su marido un hotel en el desierto sirio y se propuso ser la primera occidental que entrara en la Meca. Para ello, ya divorciada, se casó con un beduino y se convirtió al islam. Su viaje al corazón de Arabia fue una auténtica pesadilla, al ser recluida en un harén y más tarde encarcelada en la terrible prisión de Yidda. Al abandonar Oriente Próximo, se dedicó al tráfico de opio en el Paris ocupado por los nazis y acabó sus días trágicamente en Tánger. Pero ¿quién era en realidad esta mujer fascinante? Gracias a su estrecha colaboración con Jacques d'Andurain, hijo menor de la condesa y héroe de la resistencia francesa, Cristina Morató ha podido reconstruir la azarosa vida de una mujer marcada por el escándalo y olvidada por la historia, que encontró en la aventura su razón de existir. Reseña: «Una historia digna de conocerse, en el mejor catálogo de mujeres audaces y adelantadas de su tiempo.» Qué leer

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Title: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

Author: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrator: Jacqueline Winspear

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.02 of Total 45

Ratings of Narrator: 4.93 of Total 14

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her Kentish childhood and her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation.After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather’s shellshock, her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents’ years living with Romani Gypsies; and Jacqueline’s own childhood working on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception.An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing is the story of a childhood in the English countryside, of working-class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.

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Title: [German] - Tagebuch einer Landhebamme

Author: Rosalie Linner

Narrator: Rosalie Linner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Release date: November 4, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Diese Aufzeichnungen von Rosalie Linner über die Jahre 1943 bis 1980 spiegeln das weite Spektrum der Arbeit einer Landhebamme wider: Von freudig erwarteten, aber auch von unerwünschten Kindern ist die Rede, von der Freude und den Nöten in den Familien. Als in seiner Art einmaliges Zeit- und Alltagsdokument sowie als historisches Zeugnis eines ganzen Berufsstandes sind Frau Linners Aufzeichnungen gar nicht hoch genug einzuschätzen. Rosalie Linner schildert beeindruckende Fälle und Begebenheiten und geht dabei auch auf heute sehr aktuelle Themen und Fragen ein, wie zum Beispiel Adoptionen, Vaterschaftsprozesse, behinderte Kinder, Gewalt gegen Frauen und Kindesmissbrauch. Den Leser erwartet ein spannender Bericht. Dieses Hörbuch basiert auf der 5. Auflage, erschienen 1997 im Rosenheimer Verlagshaus und ist eine Sonderausgabe, die die beiden Bücher 'Tagebuch einer Landhebamme, 1943-1980' erstmals erschienen 1989, und 'Immer unterwegs. Erinnerungen einer Landhebamme', erstmals erschienen 1993, von Rosalie Linner enthält.

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Title: Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles, and a Whole Lot of Mail

Author: Caroline Clarke

Narrator: Caroline Clarke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Award-winning journalist and host of Black “Enterprise” Business Report Caroline Clarke’s moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother—Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole—and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed. While she wondered about her biological parents, she kept her curiosity in check, until a series of small health problems raised concerns about her genetic heritage and its consequences for her two children’s lives as well as her own. Though Spence-Chapin Family Service, the agency that handled her adoption, could not reveal the name of her birth mother, it was able to provide details that lead to a shocking truth. Caroline’s birth mother and her family were related to a friend. The woman who gave her life was none other than Carole “Cookie” Cole, the daughter of iconic crooner and pianist Nat King Cole. Drawing on details provided by the agency and her own investigative skills, Caroline embarked on a life-changing journey of discovery that stretched from coast to coast, forged through email, phone calls, and postcards. The constancy, volume, and intimacy of her steady correspondence with Cookie filled the days and distance between them. Through brief yet poignant messages squeezed onto three-inch open-faced squares, mother and daughter revealed themselves, sharing secrets, taking risks, and ultimately building a bond like no other. A heartfelt, inspiring tribute to both Caroline’s adoptive parents and her biological mother, Postcards from Cookie illuminates the enduring power of love to shape and guide our lives.

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Title: [German] - Besser spät als nie: Eine Liebeserklärung an das Alter

Author: Mechthild Grossmann, Dorothea Wagner

Narrator: Irina Wanka

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Kurzweilig, lustig, tiefgreifend und frech - Mechthild Grossmann nimmt dem Alter seinen Schrecken. (Büchermagazin) Alt werden - was bedeutet das wirklich in den großen und kleinen Momenten des Lebens? Mechthild Großmann genießt es – zumindest meistens. Bei ihr geht es um die wundervollen Freiheiten, die man dann hat. Und sie erzählt, wie egal Falten sind, warum alt zu werden auch bedeuten kann, sich plötzlich wie eine Studentin zu fühlen und wieso ein Spaziergang in einem roten Mantel ein großes Ja zum Leben sein kann. Sie berichtet, was gegen das blöde Bauchgefühl an Sonntagabenden hilft, was sie nach dem Tod eines Freundes tröstet, wie das mit dem Sex und der Liebe ist und wie sehr sie es genießt, plötzlich in aller Ruhe im Bett frühstücken zu können. Humorvoll und warmherzig hören wir, warum das Alter genau genommen die beste Zeit des Lebens sein kann. Dorothea Wagner, ihre Enkelin und Redakteurin bei der SZ, hat die Geschichten aufgeschrieben und Irina Wanka hat sie mit ihrer unnachahmlichen Stimme für Sie eingelesen.

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Title: Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure

Author: Anne Innis Dagg

Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author's response to an "exotic" world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book's foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg's narrative.

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Title: Falling Backwards: A Memoir

Author: Jann Arden

Narrator: Jann Arden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more - to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood, her bond with family, her struggle in the formative years and what keeps her so grounded in the whirlwind entertainment industry. Jann has always been true to herself, except for a minor lapse when she was young. Oh wait, wasn't that all of us? From the tender and honest to the laugh-out-loud funny, Jann's stories from home and from the road during her pre-celebrity years will take you to unexpected places, including high school parties in farmer's fields, sleepovers under the stars, hard-to-believe summer jobs and the time she was stuck upside down in a brick barbecue. She reminds us of the inestimable value to a child of having teachers who believe in you and wide open spaces to play. But with the good times come the bad (and not just the bad perm). Jann opens up about the darker side of her so-called prairie perfect nuclear family and the first signs that her eldest brother was a uniquely troubled young man. In the days when Jann was experiencing a lot of firsts - first school play, first home perm, first kiss - how lucky for all of us that she stole away to her basement and taught herself her first song on her mother's guitar. In addition to being an incredible musician and multi-award-winning lyricist, Jann is a natural writer and simply an inspiration. Jann will capture your heart - and keep you in stitches - with her powerful stories about coming of age as an artist and as a human being. Jann brings her wit and that infectious sparkle to everything she does. This book is no exception.