Explore New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: Homesick: A Memoir

Author: Jennifer Croft

Narrator: Boris Dralyuk, Emily Sutton-Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Release date: January 28, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy’s first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of fifteen her life changes drastically and with tragic results.

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Title: Nancy Wake: World War Two’s Most Rebellious Spy

Author: Russell Braddon

Narrator: Nico Evers-Swindell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Release date: January 14, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

‘Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable’ —Sebastian Faulks This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of—as told to the author by the woman herself. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting. But when her husband was called up for military service, Nancy felt she had just as much of a duty to fight for freedom. By 1943, her fearless undercover work even in the face of personal tragedy had earned her a place on the Gestapo’s ‘most wanted’ list. Mixing armed combat with a taste for high living, Nancy frustrated the Nazis at every turn’whether she was smuggling food and messages as part of the underground Resistance or being parachuted into the heart of the war to lead a 7,000-strong band of Resistance fighters. The extraordinary courage of this unequalled woman changed the course of the war, and Russell Braddon’s vividly realised biography brings her incredible story to life. Revised edition: This edition of Nancy Wake includes editorial revisions.

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Title: [German] - Tierärztin

Author: Annelis Streun

Narrator: Sarah Judith Brüge

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Release date: December 8, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Während vieler Jahre führte Annelis Streun ihre Tierarztpraxis in der Nähe von Bern. Mit viel Herzblut betreute sie ihre Tierpatienten und auch die mit ihnen eng verbundenen Besitzer. Der Weg dorthin beschreibt eine ganz spezielle Lebensgeschichte mit nicht einfachen Widerständen, aber auch sehr viel positiven, schicksalshaften Fügungen auf der Zielgeraden. In diesem Hörbuch blickt Annelis Streun zurück auf lustige, spannende, manchmal auch schwierige und traurige Episoden aus ihrer Ausbildungszeit und dem Praxisalltag. Sie bietet damit nicht nur einen Einblick in einen vielseitigen, herausfordernden Beruf, sie macht auch Mut, seine Träume Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen.

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Title: How to Marry a Millionaire

Author: Rachita Kumar

Narrator: Rachita Kumar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Release date: October 28, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

If you have to marry then why not a millionaire. All things being equal chances of finding happiness with a rich person are much higher than marrying someone with little or no money. A person who has made his millions has some character and qualities that has made him rich. Rich people in most cases are disciplined, organized, intelligent, confident and generous. Don’t get dissuaded by people calling you a ‘Gold Digger’. Once you marry rich opinions will change very fast. To marry rich, you need a plan and strategy. This book will give you the knowledge you need to succeed in marrying a millionaire.

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Title: The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes

Author: Alya Mooro

Narrator: Alya Mooro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem best, free from any sort of restriction to do that, or fear of repercussions for doing so. Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her? Today, Mooro is determined to explore and explode the myth that she must identify either as ‘Western’ or as one of almost 400 million other ‘Arabs’ across the Middle East. Through countless interviews and meticulous research, as well as her own unique experience, Mooro gives voice to the Middle Eastern women who, like her, don’t fit the mould. Women under pressure to conform to society’s ideals of how a woman should look and behave, what she should want and be. Women who want to think and act and love freely, without feeling that every choice means ‘picking a side’. Women who are two things at once and, consequently, neither. Part memoir, part social exploration, this is a book for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.

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Title: [Russian] - Мэрилин Монро

Author: евгения белогорцева

Narrator: алла човжик

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Мэрилин Монро, самая знаменитая блондинка XX века, неотразимая, манящая, желанная... Она стала секс-символом эпохи, ее боготворили и проклинали, судачили о ее мужчинах, и прежде всего о бурном романе с президентом Джоном Кеннеди, шептались о причинах загадочной смерти. О пленительной кинозвезде и незаурядной женщине рассказывает эта книга

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Title: [Russian] - Фаина Раневская

Author: евгения белогорцева

Narrator: алла човжик

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

В Британской энциклопедии Фаина Раневская упомянута как одна из десяти лучших актрис XX столетия. Удивительно талантливая, она умела из самой маленькой роли сотворить шедевр. 'Подкидыш', 'Свадьба', 'Золушка', 'Человек в футляре', 'Мечта' – об этих фильмах, возможно, давно бы забыли, если бы в них не играла Раневская. Работа в кино ее прославила, фразы персонажей повторяла вся страна: чего стоит хотя бы знаменитая репликой 'Муля, не нервируй меня!', которой актрису много лет донимали восторженные поклонники. Об ее остроумии слагались легенды, афоризмы до сих пор в ходу, и зрительская любовь к Раневской никогда не иссякнет.

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Title: [Russian] - Не жизнь, а сказка

Author: алёна долецкая

Narrator: алёна долецкая

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

О чём может рассказать первый главный редактор русского Vogue, русского Interview легендарная московская красавица и фам фаталь? О том, как выбирала духи и белый рояль? О том, как принцы пели серенады и делали подарки? Дочь знаменитого хирурга С. Я. Долецкого, внучка первого директора ТАСС Я. Г. Долецкого была и остаётся человеком, относящимся к жизни с глубокой иронией и пронзительной искренностью. Звёзды и скромные люди, закадычные друзья и заклятые подруги, гении и злодеи, настоящие мужчины и хлюпики, исторические личности и пустозвоны – все они герои новой книги Алёны Долецкой, решившейся на доверительную откровенность со своими читателями. Книга прочитана непосредственно Автором в атмосфере 'живого звука', позволяющей по достоинству оценить прелесть рассказа из первых уст с элементами импровизации.

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Title: [German] - Happy Aging: Ulrike Draesner erzählt ihre Wechseljahre

Author: Ulrike Draesner, Thomas Böhm, Klaus Sander

Narrator: Ulrike Draesner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Aus der Mitte ihres Lebens heraus erzählt Ulrike Draesner ihr Körperempfinden und ihr Altern als Frau. Anhand prägender Erlebnisse von der Kindheit über Pubertät, Zyklus, Mutterschaft bis zu den Wechseljahren schildert sie, zugleich souverän und intim, Erfahrungen und Veränderungsprozesse des weiblichen Körpers. Dabei reflektiert sie, ausgehend von ihrer Familiengeschichte, gesellschaftliche Konventionen im Umgang mit Sexualität und alternden Menschen und entwirft ein Bild der Wechseljahre als Aufbruch in ein 'blühendes Alter'.

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Title: Sign My Name to Freedom

Author: Betty Reid-Soskin

Narrator: Betty Reid-Soskin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Release date: February 5, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, women were looked at suspiciously by many for exercising their right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until she was in her mid-2s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the difficult times for Black Folk that immediately followed. In her lifetime, Betty has seen the nation begin to break down its race and gender biases, watched it nearly split apart in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras, and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. But far more than being merely a witness, Betty Reid Soskin has been an active participant with so many other Americans in shaping the country as we know it now. The child of Louisiana Creole parents who refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, she was raised in the Black Bay Area community before the great westward migration of World War II. After working in the civilian homefront effort in the war years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries by moving into a white community east of the Oakland hills. There she raised four children-one openly gay, one developmentally disabled-while working to end the prejudices against the family that existed among many of her neighbors. With Mel, she opened up one of the first Bay Area record stores in Berkeley both owned by African-Americans and dedicated to the distribution of African-American music. Her community organizing activities eventually led her to work as a state legislative aid, helping to plan the innovative Rosie the Riveter National Park in Richmond, California, then to a 'second' career at the Rosie Park as the oldest park ranger in the history of the National Park Service. In between, she used her talents as a singer and songwriter to interpret and chronicle the great social upheavals that marked the 196s. In 23, Betty displayed a new talent, writing, when she created the popular blog CBreaux Speaks. Now followed by thousands, her blog is a collection of Betty's sometimes fierce, sometimes gently persuasive, but always brightly honest story that weaves both the wisdom of the ages and the fresh enthusiasm of an always youthful mind into her long journey through an American and African-American life, as well as America's long struggle to both understand and cleanse its soul. Blending together selections from many of Betty's hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches collected throughout her long life, Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes.