Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women

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Title: [German] - Adikou (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Raphaëlle Red

Narrator: Raphaëlle Red

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Eine Road-Novel über die Phantome der Vergangenheit, über Scham und über Wut und darüber, was es bedeutet, bei sich zu sein. Adikous Herkunft ist verschwommen, die Spuren ihrer Familiengeschichte sind verwischt, sie weiß nicht einmal, wie man ihren Namen richtig ausspricht. Dann, in einem drückend heißen Sommer, hält sie es in Paris nicht mehr aus. Adikou fliegt nach Lomé, Togo, dem Herkunftsort ihres Vaters, den sie nicht kennt. Wonach sie sucht, ist ihr nicht klar, die Fragen stellen die anderen, bei der Passkontrolle, in den Loméer Imbissen, den Unterkünften, dauernd: Wer ist dein Vater, bist du weiß oder schwarz oder beides, wie fühlt es sich an, als Frau alleine zu reisen, sprichst du Éwé, bist du Journalistin, was suchst du hier? Von Togo aus reist Adikou entlang der westafrikanischen Küste bis in die USA. Sie schafft sich ein Erbe aus Schlangenhäuten, Skylines und stickigen Nächten, erforscht Geschichte und Geschichten, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart - bis sie den Worten des verschwundenen Vaters lauschen kann.

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Title: [German] - Woher wir kamen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Ulrike Schweikert

Narrator: Ulrike Kapfer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Als sie bei der Testamentseröffnung ihres Vaters erfährt, dass sie ein Haus auf Cape Cod geerbt hat, fällt Jane aus allen Wolken. Was hat es mit diesem Haus auf sich und mit dem Stapel Briefe - auf Deutsch verfasst - aus dem Nachlass ihrer Mutter? Seit ihrem traumatischen Einsatz als Sanitäterin im Irakkrieg wird Jane von Albträumen geplagt. Selbst die Musik, die ihr einst alles bedeutete, hat sie aufgegeben. Die Tochter eines schwarzen US Marines und einer weißen Krankenschwester mit deutschen Wurzeln fühlte sich immer zerrissen, nirgends zugehörig. Während sie das Haus auf Cape Cod ausräumt, das ihren aus Deutschland ausgewanderten Großeltern gehörte, erschließt sie sich Stück für Stück die Geschichte ihrer Herkunft. Vor allem die Briefe berühren sie zutiefst. Sie schrieb ihr Großvater 1915 aus Bagdad an seine spätere Frau. Ein besonders dunkles Kapitel der Geschichte entblättert sich, aber auch die Geschichte einer großen Liebe ...

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Title: [Spanish] - Sin título (1977)

Author: Margarita Posada Jaramillo

Narrator: Margarita Posada Jaramillo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Extrarradio se complace en presentar la segunda novela de Margarita Posada, por fin en formato audio. Se trata de una narración franca sobre ese momento de la vida en que los roles de los padres y los hijos se invierten y son estos últimos los que deben hacerse responsables de los primeros. Magdalena, la protagonista, se ve en la obligación de cuidar a su padre, un hombre viejo y vulnerable por cuenta de una enfermedad degenerativa y terminal. Un hombre con un pasado que, a los ojos de su hija, parece imperdonable. A lo largo de la novela, Margarita y su padre harán una relación de los acontecimientos que marcaron sus vidas y sus relaciones. Una serie de sumas y restas cuyo resultado solo se puede obtener apelando a los sentimientos más profundos.

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Title: Bad Land

Author: Corinna Chong

Narrator: Tara Koehler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

A slow-burning story exploring the generational effects of repression and transgression, set against the raw, eerie landscape of the badlands Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's brother, Ricky, shows up unannounced on her doorstep, along with his daughter, Jez - a peculiar six-year-old with an unnerving vicious streak - upending Regina's quiet life. It's clear to Regina that something terrible has happened, though the truth won't come to the surface easily. After all, Regina and Ricky lived a childhood fraught with secrets buried as deep as the fossils in the desolate landscape around them. But this secret is one that cannot stay buried for long, and its exposure sets off a calamitous journey through the plains and mountains of Alberta's badlands to the coast of BC, forcing Regina to confront the brutality of family love and to question how far she is willing to go to preserve it. By turns thrilling and heartwarming, rife with gothic tension, and carried by fervent compassion, Bad Land is a story about the toxic nature of guilt, the fragility of memory, and the ways we shape our own versions of the truth in order to survive.

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Title: [German] - All die kleinen Vogelherzen

Author: Victoria Lloyd-Barlow

Narrator: Katja Danowski

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Release date: September 11, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Makellose Fassaden und menschliche Abgründe: Sunday lebt mit ihrer sechzehnjährigen Tochter Dolly noch immer in dem Haus, in dem schon sie aufgewachsen ist. Sie ist anders als die meisten Menschen. An manchen Tagen isst sie ausschließlich weißes Essen und sie hat einen Ratgeber aus den Fünfzigern, der ihr in komplexen sozialen Situationen hilft. Sundays geordnetes Leben gerät jedoch aus den Fugen, als die charismatische Vita mit ihrem Mann nebenan einzieht. Gänzlich von der schillernden Person eingenommen, freunden die beiden Familien sich schnell an, gehen im Haus der anderen ein und aus. Sunday fühlt sich akzeptiert und geliebt wie selten zuvor. Auch Dolly ist zunehmend fasziniert von Vita. Genau hier liegt das Problem, denn was Sunday nicht ahnt: Unter der makellosen Fassade versteckt sich etwas Dunkles. Autismus trifft Spannungsliteratur: All die kleinen Vogelherzen ist gespickt mit feinen psychologischen Beobachtungen von Debütautorin Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow. Das HörErlebnis erscheint als digital only bei GOYALiT und wird eindrücklich von Katja Danowski gesprochen.

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Title: 3 Stories About - Women's Sexuality

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears. 01 - 3 Stories About - Women's Sexuality02 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield03 - The Giant Wisteria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman04 - The Storm by Kate Chopin

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Title: 3 Stories About - Mothers

Author: Fyodor Sologub, Guy De Maupassant, Barbara Baynton

Narrator: David Shaw-ParkerGhizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.01 - 3 Stories - Mothers02 - Mother Sauvage (La Mere Sauvage) by Guy de Maupassant03 - Hide and Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub04 - A Dreamer by Barbara Baynton

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Title: Albano's Daughter

Author: George Sand

Narrator: Janet Fullerlove

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 30 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin was born on the 1st July, 1804, in Paris, France, to an unconventional family who were from different classes—her father being from noble lineage whilst her mother from rather more modest origins. Following her father’s early death, Sand was raised by her aristocratic grandmother at the family estate in Nohant, which she later inherited at 17. The house and surrounding countryside was a profound influence on her writing which often highlighted pastoral themes and the natural world, particularly in her later, possibly most critically, acclaimed novels.Sand’s life and writings were unconventional and very progressive. At the age of 18, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, with whom she had two children. However, the marriage was unhappy, and Sand left in 1831, moving to Paris to pursue her literary ambitions. This point also marked her adoption of the pseudonym ‘George Sand’ to help her in the male dominated world of publishing. Her first major novel was ‘Indiana’ (1832). It was a critical success and there now followed a series of successful novels which established her as more famous and successful than Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac. Her writing, a blend of romance and realism, had an effortless spontaneity which neither sacrificed style or form and tackled the complexities of politics, society, and gender.Sand was a bohemian. She wore men's clothing, smoked cigars, and engaged in several high-profile romantic relationships including Prosper Mérimée and Frédéric Chopin.She was a staunch advocate for social justice, women's rights, and workers' welfare and championed democratic and socialist causes. As a Republican she supported the 1848 Revolution and was a member of the provisional government. Despite criticism for her lifestyle and feminist views she continued her literary career across novels, plays, essays, and memoirs. Her defiance of societal expectations and her commitment to social and gender equality continue to inspire readers and writers alike, cementing her place as a central figure in the history of French literature. George Sand died on 8th June,1876, at her childhood home in Nohant and was buried in the private graveyard there. She was 71.

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Title: One for the Money: The First Stephanie Plum Novel

Series: #1 of Stephanie Plum

Author: Janet Evanovich

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING NARRATED BY LORELEI KING! Discover where it all began—the first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (The Washington Post), from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty. Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She’s a product of the “burg,” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six. Out of work and out of money, Stephanie blackmails her bail-bondsman cousin Vinnie into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, el-primo bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Morelli’s the inamorato who charmed Stephanie out of her virginity at age sixteen. There’s still powerful chemistry between them, so the chase should be interesting…and could also be extremely dangerous.

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Title: [German] - Der alte Hof von Averøya – Zeit des Schicksals (Band 2)

Series: #2 of Emma aus Averøya

Author: Harriet Hegstad

Narrator: Svenja Pages

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Ein Leben voller Veränderungen ... Insgeheim träumt Emma davon, Malerin zu werden – als man sie zu ihrer Tante im nahegelegenen Kristiansund in die Lehre schickt, um Schneiderin zu werden, will sie dennoch das Beste daraus machen. Immerhin kann sie so dem Nachbarssohn Olav nahe sein, der ihr Herz höher schlagen lässt. Doch schon bald drängt sich ein Geheimnis aus der Vergangenheit vor ihr neues Glück – ein erschütterndes Ereignis, das Emma zum alten Familienhof in Averøya zurückzieht ... Die große Norwegen-Saga über einen Inselhof und die dramatischen Schicksale, die dort unter weitem, blauem Himmel ihren Lauf nehmen. Die große Norwegen-Saga über einen Inselhof und die dramatischen Schicksale, die dort unter weitem, blauem Himmel ihren Lauf nehmen. Der zweite Band dieser Familiensaga wird Fans von Ines Thorn und Charlotte Jacobi begeistern.