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Title: Mercedes Sosa - More Than A Song

Author: Anette Christensen

Narrator: Les Horovitz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Release date: August 12, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The Argentine folk singer and social activist, Mercedes Sosa, was a world-class performer, whose influence went far beyond the borders of music. Blacklisted as being one the most dangerous people to the regime in Argentina in the 1970s, she became the underground reference point for the poor and oppressed, and an icon of democracy who fought South America's dictators with her voice. Nicknamed, "The Voice of the Voiceless," Sosa emerged as a legend and a much-loved mother of Latin America.With her powerful voice and compelling stage presence, the Argentine folk singer, Mercedes Sosa, was a world-class performer, whose influence went far beyond the borders of music. Blacklisted as being one the most dangerous people to the regime in Argentina in the 1970s, she became the underground reference point for the poor and oppressed, and an icon of democracy who fought South America's dictators with her voice. Alongside her lifelong career, which earned her four Grammy Awards, Sosa also worked as Goodwill Ambassador for the children in Latin America and in the Caribbean, and was granted the prestigious position of Vice President of the Earth Council. Nicknamed, "The Voice of the Voiceless," Sosa emerged as a legend and a much-loved mother of Latin America. Although Mercedes Sosa was one of the most recognized artists in international music, and collaborated with musicians ranging from Luciano Pavarotti, Sting and Joan Baez, she remained an unsung hero outside of Latin America. However, now ten years after her death, Sosa's legacy continues to shine. Her example of integrity and solidarity lives on and make her a role model who points out the path to a more emphatic and compassionate world. But how did a girl raised in a poor Indian working class family gain such influence? Mercedes Sosa - More than a Song explores the secret behind Sosa's remarkable impact and reveals how her upbringing, political circumstances and personal tragedies formed her life and her career. Now, ten years after her death, Sosa's legacy continues to shine. Her example of integrity and solidarity lives on and make her a role model who points out the path to a more emphatic and compassionate world. Her story calls out for the best in all of us. You are about to meet a woman who will inspire you by her courage and authenticity. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: [Italian] - Mercedes Sosa - La Leggenda

Author: Anette Christensen

Narrator: Maurizio Mosetti

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Release date: August 11, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

La cantante folk e attivista sociale argentina, Mercedes Sosa, era un' artista di livello mondiale, la cui influenza andava ben oltre i confini della musica. Nella lista nera come una delle persone più pericolose per il regime in Argentina negli anni '70, diventò il punto di riferimento sotterraneo per i poveri e gli oppressi e un'icona della democrazia che combatté i dittatori del Sud America con la sua voce. Soprannominata "La Voce dei Senza Voce", Sosa emerse come leggenda e madre molto amata dell'America Latina.Con la sua voce potente e la presenza coinvolgente sul palco, la cantante folk argentina, Mercedes Sosa, era una performer di livello mondiale, la cui influenza andava ben oltre i confini della musica. Nella lista nera come una delle persone più pericolose per il regime in Argentina negli anni '70, diventò il punto di riferimento sotterraneo per i poveri e gli oppressi e un'icona della democrazia che combatté i dittatori del Sud America con la sua voce. Soprannominata "La Voce dei Senza Voce", Sosa emerse come leggenda e madre molto amata dell'America Latina. Sebbene Mercedes Sosa fosse una degli artisti più conosciuti nella musica internazionale e abbia collaborato con musicisti che spaziavano da Luciano Pavarotti, Sting e Joan Baez, rimase un'eroina sconosciuta fuori dall'America Latina. Mercedes Sosa - La Leggenda, racconta il viaggio spirituale, politico e artistico della cantante ed esplora il segreto del notevole impatto di Sosa La narrazione offre un profilo psicologico che rivela come l'educazione, le circostanze politiche e le tragedie personali di Sosa abbiano dato forma alla sua vita e alla sua carriera. Mercedes Sosa è un esempio di integrità e solidarietà per molti che la vedono come un modello che indica la strada verso un mondo più empatico e compassionevole. Se ti piacciono le donne coraggiose e le storie non raccontate di sopravvivenza ed eroismo, allora adorerai questa significativa biografia. Supportata da Fabián Matus, figlio di Mercedes Sosa e presidente della Fondazione Mercedes Sosa. "Una prospettiva nuova e toccante sulla nostra amata Mercedes. È un tributo sincero e affettuoso in onore della vita di mia madre." Per oltre 8 anni, Christensen ha intrapreso oltre 7.000 ore di ricerca. Comprese la visione di documentari, la lettura di articoli, la comunicazione con la famiglia di Mercedes Sosa, gli amici e altre persone vicine all'artista. Oggi Christensen è un'esperta della vita di Mercedes Sosa, riconosciuta in tutto il mondo. Recensione editoriale: Nella prima metà del libro, l'autrice racconta il viaggio spirituale, politico e artistico di Sosa. Christensen scrive al presente, il che conferisce alla narrazione un'immediatezza non solo potente e avvincente, ma aiuta a dare vita a questa straordinaria donna. La scrittura stessa è chiara, non pretenziosa e spesso eloquente, proprio come la musica di Sosa. Ci sono momenti in cui la voce e la creatività dell'autrice si fondono con il materiale biografico, come spesso accade nella buona scrittura storica. È impossibile per un biografo sapere con certezza cosa sta pensando un soggetto, ad esempio, ma usando un buon metodo di ricerca insieme ad un istinto e un'empatia ben affinati, fornire questi pensieri al lettore può essere un'esperienza trascendente oltre che informativa. Christensen lo gestisce magnificamente e dipinge un ritratto che incorpora i colori della disperazione, del trionfo, dell'amore, della paura e di tutte le altre emozioni umane che definiscono una vita - in questo caso, la vita di una delle più grandi artiste rivoluzionarie contemporanee in America Latina. Questo è un libro bellissimo e spero che ottenga l'attenzione che merita. Il fatto che l'inglese sia una seconda lingua per l'autrice è notevole, di per sé. -Charles Musser, storico del cinema, documentarista, autore e professore di studi cinematografici e mediatici PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra

Author: Maria Noriega Rachwal

Narrator: Allegra Fullton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Release date: August 10, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play "masculine" instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra (MWSO) became the only all-women orchestra in Canadian history. Formed in 1940, the MWSO became the first orchestra to represent Canada in New York City's Carnegie Hall. The stories of those musicians are illuminated here, including the life of the incredible Ethel Stark, the co-founder and conductor of the MWSO.

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Title: [Spanish] - El año del pensamiento mágico

Author: Joan Didion

Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Unas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a través de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el duelo y la crónica de una supervivencia. El año del pensamiento mágico obtuvo el National Book Award en 2005. Reseñas: «Llena de detalles y de una deslumbrante honestidad [...], un retrato indeleble de la pérdida y el luto.» Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Un acto consumado de valentía literaria, una escritora reconocida por su claridad que nos permite entrar en su mente mientras esta se nubla por el luto.» Lev Grossman, Time «Un libro que, repitiendo el tópico, se lee 'como una novela' y cuya tensión sale de las entrañas de un ser herido pero dotado con una excepcional capacidad analítica y expresiva.» El Cultural «En una cultura donde la elaboración de los sentimientos [...] ha sido rescindida por una prohibición directa a través de la vergüenza o por el 'deber ético del goce' [...], el libro de Didion duplica el valor del testimonio y de la invitación que lanza a un mundo de bobos emocionales técnicamente competentes.» El Mundo «El libro es un intento de trascender el estupor y sinsentido en que nos deja sumidos el dolor cuando experimentamos la muerte de alguien muy cercano.» Eduardo Lago, Babelia, El País

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Title: Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins

Author: Artemis Leontis

Narrator: Suzanne Stroh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Release date: July 28, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Suzanne Stroh reveals the untold story of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek culture This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn. Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death. Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as 'the only ancient Greek I ever knew.'

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Title: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

Author: Lauren Redniss

Narrator: Nicola Barber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Release date: July 28, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley.  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINIALIST.  'Vivid and ethereal.' —New York Times  “Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read—part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.” — Malcolm Gladwell Radioactive is the mesmerizing, landmark biography of Marie Curie, by acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. Through brilliant storytelling, Redniss walks us through Curie’s life, which was marked by extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma—from her complex working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, to their discovery of two new scientific elements, to Pierre’s tragic death, to Marie’s two Nobel Prizes. A haunting and wondrous portrait of one of history's most intriguing figures, Radioactive is a stunning biography and a true work of art. Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss’s eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history’s most intriguing figures. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed

Author: Lorelei Shannon, Victoria Cosner Love

Narrator: Tiffany Morgan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Release date: July 28, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The truth behind the legend of New Orleans's infamous slave owner, madwoman, and murderess, portrayed in the anthology series, American Horror Story. On April 10, 1834, firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning Royal Street mansion of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. In the billowing smoke and flames they made an appalling discovery: the remains of Madame Lalaurie's chained, starved, and mutilated slaves. This house of horrors in the French Quarter spawned a legend that has endured for more than one-hundred-and-fifty years. But what actually happened in the Lalaurie home? Rumors about her atrocities spread as fast as the fire. But verifiable facts were scarce. Lalaurie wouldn't answer questions. She disappeared, leaving behind one of the French Quarter's ghastliest crime scenes, and what is considered to be one of America's most haunted houses.

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Title: Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself

Author: Linda A. Curtis

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years old. Like other Witnesses, she has been discouraged from pursuing a career, higher education, or even voting, and her friendships are limited to the Witness community. Then one day, at age thirty-three, she knocks on a door—and a coworker she deeply respects answers the door. To their mutual consternation she launches into her usual spiel, but this time, for the first time ever, the message sounds hollow. In the months that follow, Curtis tries hard to overcome the doubts that spring from that doorstep encounter, knowing they could upend her 'safe' existence. But ultimately, unable to reconcile her incredulity, she leaves her religion and divorces her Witness husband—a choice for which she is shunned by the entire community, including all members of her immediate family. Shunned follows Linda as she steps into a world she was taught to fear and discovers what is possible when we stay true to our hearts, even when it means disappointing those we love.

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Title: Tough Cookies: Leadership Lessons from 100 Years of the Girl Scouts

Author: Kathy Cloninger

Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Release date: July 20, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Untold numbers of American businesswomen received their first lessons in salesmanship, money management, customer relations, marketing and fulfillment selling Girl Scout cookies, but, as readers will learn, The Girl Scouts stand for much more than cookies and badges. In fact, there is no other organization remotely comparable in size, experience, and resources devoted to developing the leadership in girls than that of the GSUSA.   Defining the way the Girl Scouts do business, the business of leadership, Tough Cookies will capture the essence of the unique ways in which the GSUSA is run, and why it is so successful, inspiring readers everywhere. Telling the story for how the Girl Scouts organization adopted a set of fundamental principles for sustainingand buildinga 100-year old organization, Tough Cookies will demonstrate how the GSUSA have managed not only to transform themselves, but transform the rising generations of young women and the world they will inherit.

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Title: Queen of the Hurricanes: The Fearless Elsie MacGill

Series: #3 of A Feminist History Society Book

Author: Crystal Sissons

Narrator: Dawn Harvey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Release date: July 20, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. As chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company she oversaw the production of the Hawker Hurricane, and designed a series of modifications to equip the plain for cold weather flying. Her Maple Leaf trainer may still be the only plane ever to be completely designed by a woman. Elsie, a popular heroine of her time who inspired the comic book 'Queen of the Hurricanes' in the 1940s, later became an influential feminist activist. See https://secondstorypress.ca/teachers-guides for supplementary materials.