Explore New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

Author: Suze Rotolo

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: July 14, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dylan was finding his voice and she was his muse. A shy girl from Queens, Suze was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists, growing up at the dawn of the Cold War. It was the age of McCarthy and Suze was an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. She found solace in poetry, art, and music—and in Greenwich Village, where she encountered like-minded and politically active friends. One hot July day in 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, then a rising musician, at a concert at Riverside Church. She was seventeen, he was twenty; they were both vibrant, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation. A Freewheelin' Time is a hopeful, intimate memoir of a vital movement at its most creative. It captures the excitement of youth, the heartbreak of young love, and the struggles for a brighter future in a time when everything seemed possible.

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Title: Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders

Author: Leslie Bruce, Brandi Glanville

Narrator: Brandi Glanville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Fans have been waiting for Brandi’s scoop on one of the biggest divorces of the decade since her husband of eight years abandoned her and their two sons to marry country-singer LeAnn Rimes. Not only does Brandi spill the beans about her side of the split, but the lovable housewife also shares the incredible wild ride that took her from a life in the ghetto to Hollywood’s most elite circles. For the first time, Brandi talks about how she escaped a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Sacramento and stumbled into a successful modeling career that swept her into a world of Paris Fashion Weeks, private jets, and uncircumcised penises. Before she knew it, Brandi was the perfect Hollywood trophy wife—at least until her marriage exploded. Today, the refreshingly filter-free housewife and unapologetic mom is the newest full-time cast member of Bravo’s juggernaut franchise, where she often elicits raised eyebrows and gossip from her costars for her refusal to be the scorned ex-wife, to be bullied, to change her sarcastic sense of humor, or—on most occasions—to wear a bra. Sassy, raunchy, and compulsively listenable, Drinking and Tweeting perfectly captures Brandi’s open-book attitude, as she dishes about everything from her DUI, her cheating ex, her one-night stands, and the secret plastic surgery that made her “seventeen” again.

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Title: Before Chappaquiddick: The Untold Story of Mary Jo Kopechne and the Kennedy Brothers

Author: William C. Kashatus

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Release date: June 1, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Cape Cod. Mary Jo Kopechne, a twenty-eight-year-old former staffer for Kennedy’s brother Robert, died in the crash. The scandal that followed demeaned Kopechne’s reputation and scapegoated her for Ted Kennedy’s inability to run for the presidency instead of acknowledging her as an innocent victim in a tragedy that took her life. William C. Kashatus’s biography of Mary Jo Kopechne illuminates the life of a politically committed young woman who embodied the best ideals of the sixties. Arriving in Washington in 1963, Kopechne soon joined the staff of Robert F. Kennedy and committed herself to his vision of compassion for the underprivileged, social idealism tempered by political realism, and a more humane nation. Kashatus details her work as an energetic and trusted staffer who became one of the famed Boiler Room Girls at the heart of RFK’s presidential campaign. Shattered by his assassination, Kopechne took a break from politics before returning as a consultant. It was at a reunion of the Boiler Room Girls that she accepted a ride from Edward Kennedy—a decision she would pay for with her life. The untold—and long overdue—story of a promising life cut short, Before Chappaquiddick tells the human side of one of the most memorable scandals of the 1960s.

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Title: [German] - Der Salzpfad

Author: Raynor Winn

Narrator: Jutta Speidel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Release date: May 27, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'Haben wir einen Plan?' 'Natürlich, wir wandern, bis wir aufhören zu wandern, und vielleicht finden wir unterwegs so etwas wie eine Zukunft.'  'Das ist ein guter Plan.' Raynor und Moth, seit 32 Jahren ein Paar, verlieren durch zwei Schicksalsschläge in kürzester Zeit alles, ihre Farm in Wales, ihre Lebensgrundlage, ihre Gewohnheiten, ihr soziales Umfeld - ihr Zuhause. Mit zwei Rucksäcken machen sie sich auf den Weg, eigentlich in eine beängstigende Obdachlosigkeit, aber sie gehen los mit der Hoffnung, eine Lösung zu finden. Ihr Plan: den wildesten und längsten Küstenweg Englands zu wandern, den South West Coast Path. Auf 1000 km Zeit gewinnen, den Kopf frei zu bekommen und Kraft zu sammeln. Wie holt man sich das eigene Leben und die Würde zurück, wenn man so weit aus der Bahn geworfen wurde? Sie begegnen Vorurteilen und Ablehnung, doch zugleich entdecken sie auch das Glück ihrer Liebe und lernen Kraft aus der Natur zu schöpfen. In lakonisch knappen Dialogen und mit feiner Selbstironie erzählt Raynor Winn von diesem Trip an den unteren Rand der Gesellschaft. Jutta Speidel, die sich seit vielen Jahren mit ihrem Verein Horizont e.V. sozial engagiert, liegt das Thema Obdachlosigkeit sehr am Herzen. 1997 gründete sie neben ihrer schauspielerischen Tätigkeit den privat finanzierten Verein HORIZONT, der sich obdachlosen Kindern und deren Mütter annimmt und ihnen hilft neuen Mut fürs Leben zu fassen. Es war klar, daß sie die deutsche Stimme sein mußte!  'Das inspirierendste Buch des Jahres.' (The Times) 'Ein Reisebericht voller Menschlichkeit und Herzenswärme.' (Deutschlandfunk LESART) 'Eine wahre Geschichte über den Triumph der Hoffnung über die Verzweiflung und den Sieg der Liebe über alles andere.' (The Sunday Times)

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Title: You Are the Miracle!: How Being Hit by a Truck Saved My Life

Author: Grada Robertson

Narrator: Chelsea Stephens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Did the accident that almost took Grada Robertson’s life, actually save her life? Grada Robertson always considered herself to be blessed. Grada was only seventeen years old when she met her soul mate, Peter. By nineteen she was married and had migrated from Holland to live in Peter’s homeland, Tasmania, Australia. Grada lived her dream—homesteading at the ‘back of beyond’ with the love of her life, six children, a menagerie of farm animals, and surrounded by pure, uninterrupted nature. With an ever-curious mind, Grada studied at every opportunity. In 2000 she and Peter opened a wellness clinic in their back yard. Before long she became known as the ‘Sherlock Holmes of Healing’ in her local community. At the pinnacle of her life, Grada was hit by a truck—literally. During the near-death experience that followed, Grada had to make the decision to return to her body. She did, just in the nick of time, only to find that she was injured so badly it would take every ounce of her substantial willpower to recover. In the months that followed, Grada’s body and mind were riddled with so much suffering that death sometimes seemed a welcome option. As she began exploring her early life, Grada slowly realised the accident wasn’t a coincidence, but that she had subconsciously created similar circumstances to her childhood. From working with clients, Grada knew that physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse all have devastating effects both short and long-term. What she hadn’t realized was that her own childhood issues hadn’t been left behind in Holland, they had simply gone underground. If she refused to face them now she would die. Grada stunned everyone with the speed of her recovery, returning to work six months after the accident. She now teaches her mindset and energy medicine to help her thousands of clients recover from the most challenging conditions and turn their pain into personal power.

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Title: The Big J vs The Big C: Issues, Experiences and Poems in the Battle Against Breast Cancer

Author: Janine Booth

Narrator: Janine Booth

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Poet, author and activist Janine Booth was part of the ranting poetry movement of the eighties, performing as 'The Big J'. In late 2016, she discovered a strange indentation in her right breast and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. In this collection of candid journal extracts, poetry, meticulous research and substantive politics, Janine details her journey from detection and diagnosis, through surgery, to 'getting over it'. 'This book is a must for all health care workers - doctors, nurses, students, caterers, cleaners, porters - the team needed by patients facing The Big C.' - Dr Coral Jones, GP & Chair Hackney South and Shoreditch Labour Party 'A veritable paean to our (still free) National Health Service. Together with the added bonus of some fascinating political background and an insider's guide to terms. With poetry!' - Rhoda Dakar, songwriter, musician & activist 'Open, honest, entertaining, informative, but most of all a bloody good read!' - Michelle Rodgers, RMT National President 'I picked up this book expecting to be educated, entertained and amused. I put it down having ticked all of those boxes. The NHS is quite literally the best thing there is in the entire world. We must never stop fighting for it.' - Kate Smurthwaite, comedian & activist

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Title: My Life in Thirty Seven Therapies - From yoga to hypnosis and why voodoo is never the answer (Unabridged)

Author: Kay Hutchison

Narrator: Kay Hutchison

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Release date: March 27, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Kay Hutchison had a successful career, a beautiful home, and a loving husband until the day she woke up and said 'I'm leaving'. Why on earth did she walk away from it all and turn to a host of weird and wonderful treatments in search of answers to a question she couldn't even articulate? Part memoir, part guide, this is Kay's journey of self discovery.

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Title: The Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists, and First Ladies of Literature

Author: Becca Anderson

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 17, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The Women Who Wrote Their Way Into History A packed timeline of the greatest women writers: From the first recorded writer to current bestsellers, Becca Anderson takes us through time and highlights women who have left their mark on the literary world. This expansive compilation of women writers is a chance to delve deeper into the lives and works of renowned authors and learn about some lesser known greats, as well. Some of the many women writers you will love learning about are: Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Judy Blume, Rachel Carson, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Mead, Joyce Carol Oates, and many, many more. Explore every subject and literary form women writers have to offer: The works of these awesome women writers vary greatly―each is as unique and significant as the women who penned them. With the help of writers, editors, librarians, booksellers, and more, Anderson has crafted a must-read book for women of every background. Celebrate the impact women have made in our culture: This feminist book is a beacon of brilliance. It is the perfect gift for artists, intellectuals, and anyone who seeks to be inspired by words and profound lives. Most of all, it is a celebration of the journeys and accomplishments of women who have worked to have their voices heard in black and white letters across the world. Crack open The Book of Awesome Women Writers today, and you will find engaging chapters such as “Prolific Pens,” “Mystics and Madwomen,” and “Banned, Blacklisted, and Arrested”;a plethora of necessary new additions to your reading list; andconfirmation that the female voice is not only awesome, but an essential part of literary culture.If you enjoyed titles such as Girls Who Rocked the World, The Book of Awesome Women, and In the Company of Women, then you’ll love The Book of Awesome Women Writers.

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Title: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

Author: Jenn Shapland

Narrator: Jenn Shapland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Release date: March 10, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered—an icon and idol—alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America’s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love. Shapland is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Her curiosity gives way to fixation, not just with this newly discovered side of McCullers’s life, but with how we tell queer love stories. Why, Shapland asks, are the stories of women paved over by others’ narratives? What happens when constant revision is required of queer women trying to navigate and self-actualize in straight spaces? And what might the tracing of McCullers’s life—her history, her secrets, her legacy—reveal to Shapland about herself? In smart, illuminating prose, Shapland interweaves her own story with McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of our nation’s greatest literary treasures, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.

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Title: [German] - Männer sind auch nur Menschen - Warum es hilft, sie hin und wieder daran zu erinnern (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

Author: Nicole Staudinger

Narrator: Nicole Staudinger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Release date: March 2, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Selbst ist die Frau! Die Schlagfertigkeit von uns Frauen wird regelmäßig auf die Probe gestellt. Besonders dann, wenn die Männer in unserem Leben mal wieder das letzte Wort haben müssen und uns die Welt erklären wollen. Und wir? Lassen sie damit zu oft durchkommen. Dabei sind es nicht selten Ladys, die den Laden zusammenhalten und sich bei genauerem Hinsehen als wahre Superheldinnen des Alltags entpuppen. Höchste Zeit also, dass wir uns unserer stärksten Seiten bewusst werden und den Erklärbären dieser Welt das Tanzen beibringen! Ob im Beruf, der Familie, dem Privatleben oder im Alltag: Nicole Staudinger zeigt, wie Frau sich schlagfertig behauptet, ohne die Nerven oder die gute Laune zu verlieren.