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Title: Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

Author: Mattie Kahn

Narrator: Eunice Wong

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Release date: June 13, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

NPR's Books We Love 2023 Glamour's 'The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far' Vogue's 'Best Books of 2023 (So Far)' Town & Country's 'The Best Books of 2023' A 'heartening inspiration'(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them.

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Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir

Author: Charlotte Gill

Narrator: Seema Doad

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'A Canadian masterpiece.'—Toronto Star An award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canada and the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke, feminist uprisings, racial alliances and divides, a divorce, multiple grudges, and plenty of bad fashion. The family implodes, but after twenty years of silence, father and daughter reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. Almost Brown is a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming book about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you? Tender and incisive, it is both a deeply personal memoir and an excavation into ethnicity, ancestry, and race—a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about identity today.

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Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education

Author: Malaina Kapoor, Sola Mahfouz

Narrator: Ariana Delawari

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.   “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996, the year the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backward on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men: fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life, deciding that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even the basic ability to add or subtract, she began to teach herself math and English in secret. She progressed rapidly., Within just two years she was already studying subjects such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum-computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it’s also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom.

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Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar

Narrator: Alix Dunmore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger.   In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history.

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Title: [French] - Et j'ai cessé de t'appeler papa

Author: Caroline Darian

Narrator: Ana Piévic

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Le 2 novembre 2020, Caroline Darian reçoit un appel de la police de Carpentras. Son père est en garde à vue. La saisie de son matériel informatique révèle l'impensable : depuis 2013, il drogue sa femme avant de la livrer, inconsciente, à des hommes, de tous les horizons et sans contrepartie. Caroline Darian, femme debout, raconte cette déflagration, le périlleux vertige de découvrir qu'une personne aimée, son père, est capable du pire. Elle alerte aussi sur la soumission chimique, quand l'armoire à pharmacie du foyer se transforme en arme préférée des violeurs... Une voix forte, exceptionnellement courageuse, qui révèle une autre facette des violences faites aux femmes. ©2022, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès

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Title: [German] - I'm Glad My Mom Died - Meine Befreiung aus einer toxischen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Jennette McCurdy

Narrator: Dagmar Bittner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Release date: June 2, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 31

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Jennette McCurdy erzählt herzergreifend und mit bitterem Humor von ihrem traumatischen Leben als ehemaliger Kinder-Star in iCarly und der krankhaften Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter Seit sie denken kann, wird Jennette von ihrer Mutter beherrscht, emotional erpresst und psychisch wie körperlich missbraucht. Das einzige, was Debra sich für ihre Tochter - aber vor allem für sich selbst - wünscht, ist Jennettes Erfolg als Fernseh-Star. Für Jennette beginnt ein Kreislauf aus Castings, Angstattacken und Selbsthass. Dann bekommt sie die Rolle als Sam Puckett in der Nickelodeon-Serie iCarly - eine Rolle, in der sie sich gedemütigt fühlt und Produzenten ausgesetzt ist, die ihre Macht missbrauchen. Als Debra an Krebs stirbt ist Jennette 21 Jahre alt und hat das Zentrum ihres Lebens verloren. Das einzige, worüber sie noch Kontrolle hat, ist ihr Essverhalten und die junge Frau stürzt ab in Essstörungen, Alkoholsucht und toxische Beziehungen. Einzig eine wegen ihrer Bulimie angefangene Therapie erweist sich als Jennettes Weg in die Freiheit. Es kostet sie Jahre um zu erkennen, was ihre Mutter ihr ein Leben lang angetan hat. Doch jetzt kann sie zum ersten Mal entscheiden, was sie selbst möchte, und es ist an der Zeit, die Kontrolle über ihre eigene Zukunft zu übernehmen.

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Title: [Portuguese] - Minha história escrita à mão - eu sou

Series: #1 of Minha história escrita à mão

Author: Ana Suarez

Narrator: Priscila Scholz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A felicidade para mim é como uma paisagem, que reúne alguns elementos deixando-a completa: Deus, Família, Saúde e Paz. Ana Suarez conta com detalhes a primeira parte da sua vida, desde a sua infância simples no interior de Goiás até alcançar lugares que ela nunca havia sonhado. Ana acredita que uma história bem contada pode salvar vidas, pois podemos achar uma inspiração na naquela história ou avaliar fatos que podem nos ajudar a não cometer os mesmos erros ou mesmo achar uma solução que parecia tão difícil ou impossível quando estamos no 'olho do furacão'. Este livro pode tirar você da zona de conforto e talvez te faça pensar na sua infância, na adolescência, nos momentos alegres e nos possíveis bloqueios emocionais, que você tenha. Ou este livro pode na sua simplicidade apenas servir de inspiração para você experimentar coisas novas na sua vida.

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Title: [Spanish] - Los sueños de la niña de la montaña: (Narrado por la autora)

Author: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Narrator: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento supe que, para cambiar mi vida y la de las mujeres indígenas, debía transformar la ley más importante de mi país. Desde entonces, mi lucha ha sido para que los pueblos indígenas y afro no sean considerados menores de edad y para que las mujeres no sean personas de segunda. En este viaje he logrado modificar la Constitución de mi estado, cambiar la Constitución de México y que la onu adoptara mi iniciativacontra el sexismo y la discriminación. Pero lo que más me enorgullece es que he podido decirles a las niñas que tienen derecho a ser quienes quieran, a que su origen no defina su destino y a que pueden cumplir sus sueños, tal como lo hizo esta niña de las montañas.

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Title: Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

Author: Maia Weinstock

Narrator: Eva Wilhelm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world. As a girl in New York City in the 1940s, Mildred 'Millie' Dresselhaus was taught that there were only three career options open to women: secretary, nurse, or teacher. In Carbon Queen, science writer Maia Weinstock describes how, with curiosity and drive, Dresselhaus defied expectations and forged a career as a pioneering scientist and engineer. Dresselhaus made highly influential discoveries about the properties of carbon and other materials and helped reshape our world in countless ways—from electronics to aviation to medicine to energy. She was also a trailblazer for women in STEM and a beloved educator, mentor, and colleague. Her path wasn't easy. Her graduate adviser felt educating women was a waste of time. But Dresselhaus persisted, finding mentors in Nobel Prize–winning physicists Rosalyn Yalow and Enrico Fermi. Eventually, Dresselhaus became one of the first female professors at MIT, where she would spend nearly six decades. Weinstock explores the basics of Dresselhaus's work in carbon nanoscience accessibly and engagingly, describing how she identified key properties of carbon forms, leading to applications that range from lighter, stronger aircraft to more energy-efficient and flexible electronics.

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Title: In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

Author: Lindsey Wade

Narrator: Patricia Santomasso

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In 1986, a young girl in Tacoma, Washington, Jennifer Bastian, went out for a bike ride in a local park and never came home. Later her body was found, mutilated and lifeless, but the case went cold, and Jennifer's killer was free. The senseless killing of an innocent girl left an indelible black cloud over Tacoma for three decades and was seared into the memory of young Lindsey Wade, also from Tacoma, who went on to become the detective who would crack the case. Horrifying crimes against women and girls motivated Wade's twenty-one-year law enforcement career and ignited her relentless pursuit of justice for victims. Journey with Detective Wade as she investigates shocking sex crimes and homicides in the Tacoma area, where she has been crucial in bringing new DNA evidence into each cold case. From serial rapists to cold-blooded killers, Wade never backs down from the challenges these investigations present—even adding Ted Bundy's DNA to the national database. At the heart of every lead and DNA test throughout the book, Lindsey's desire to find Jennifer Bastian's murderer never relents.