Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women

Author: Angela Lomenzo

Narrator: Sara Sheckells

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Angela LoMenzo shares powerful real stories documented from interviews with a diverse group of accomplished women that encourages us to dig deep into our own creative lives! Women from all walks of life. Artists, musicians, authors, fashion designers, entrepreneurs, and others from a multitude of creative careers share their experiences with depression, bullying, infertility, cancer, assault, loss of loved ones, drug addiction, and many other issues women often do not have a safe space to talk about. These stories show you just how real life is. Powerful affirmations and true-life stories to empower you. This book is packed with words of wisdom from women who have both overcome adversity and achieved an authentic life honoring their individuality and freedom of personal expression. Their real stories illustrate that it is possible to live the life you have always desired now. Inside, you'll find: ● Words of wisdom from wildly creative women ● Raw and authentic interviews featuring stories by women redefining the role of a woman ● And much more!

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Title: Horse Barbie: A Memoir

Author: Geena Rocero

Narrator: Geena Rocero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers “Groundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like.”—Glamour (Women of the Year) WINNER OF THEM’S AWARD FOR LITERATURE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Book Riot, Elle, Esquire As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines’ highest-earning trans pageant queen. A year later, Geena moved to the United States where she could change her name and gender marker on her documents. But legal recognition didn’t mean safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. She became an in-demand model. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The high-stakes double life finally forced Geena to decide herself if she wanted to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself. A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.

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Title: [German] - Hannelore Kohl – Zwei Leben

Author: Patricia Clough

Narrator: Dagmar Heller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Release date: May 29, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Hannelore Kohl (1933–2001) war First Lady, Zeitzeugin und engagierte Ehrenamtlerin. Sie hat die deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte hautnah erlebt und als Frau des früheren Bundeskanzlers Helmut Kohl in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt. Doch Hannelore Kohl hatte auch eine zweite, private Seite, die sie in der Öffentlichkeit nie zeigen konnte. Patricia Clough hat mit vielen Wegbegleitern von Hannelore Kohl gesprochen und zeichnet in dieser Biografie das Bild einer starken Frau, die viel mehr war als nur Kanzlergattin. -

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Title: Truth Matters, Love Wins: A Memoir of Choosing Faith over Fear in the Face of False Accusations

Author: Alexandra J. Kuisis

Narrator: Alexandra J. Kuisis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Release date: May 24, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

*International Book Awards Finalist *Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite Truth Matters, Love Wins is both an astounding account of fighting false accusations in a slanted criminal justice system, and an uplifting testament to choosing faith, love, and personal growth in response to staggering betrayal. Alex's dedication to surviving her darkest hour will captivate and inspire you. A must-read for anyone curious about how to handle the pain and anger that accompanies life's most devastating curveballs, Truth Matters, Love Wins showcases the power of keeping love close when you know you have the truth on your side

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Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

Author: Isabella Bird

Narrator: Clare Wille

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.

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Title: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Author: Melissa L. Sevigny

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon's secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river's most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter's plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West.

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Title: [German] - Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter: Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz

Author: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker

Narrator: Sonja Szylowicki, Ilka Sehnert

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Release date: May 22, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz, gelesen von Sonja Szylowicki und Ilka Sehnert. Als Paula Modersohn-Becker am 20. November 1907 starb, gab es nur zwei Menschen, welche wussten, dass in diesem Tod eine große Künstlerin hinweg genommen wurde. Die beiden waren ihr Ehemann, der Maler Otto Modersohn, und der Bildhauer Bernhard Hoetger. Für alle andern Personen und Kreise, eingeschlossen der Worpsweder Künstlerkreis, zu dem die Verstorbene äußerlich dazugehörte, war sie eine begabte Malerin neben anderen gewesen; für manche vielleicht auch nur ein irregeleitetes Talent. Das bedeutende malerische Werk, das die Verstorbene hinterließ, setzte sich in nachfolgenden Jahren, in Bewusstsein und Urteil der künstlerisch maßgebenden Öffentlichkeit immer stärker und umfassender durch. In den knapp 14 Jahren, in denen sie künstlerisch tätig war, schuf sie 750 Gemälde, etwa 1000 Zeichnungen und 13 Radierungen, die die bedeutendsten Aspekte der Kunst des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in sich vereinen. Aber auch ihre schriftlichen Hinterlassenschaften sind wichtige Zeugnisse ihres künstlerischen Werdegangs. Ganze fünfzehn Jahre umfassen ihre Briefe und Tagebucheinträge. Sie spiegeln genau jene Jahre, die ihren Werdegang als Mensch und Künstlerin vom jungen Mädchen aus bürgerlichem Hause bis zur selbstbewussten Malerin dokumentieren. In ihren privaten Aufzeichnungen und Briefen werden ihre Wünsche und Phantasien, ihre Zweifel und Unsicherheiten, aber auch ihr stark ausgeprägter künstlerischer Schaffensdrang eindrucksvoll erlebbar. Die Reihe words&music/audiolab verbindet ausgewählte literarische Texte aus aller Welt mit emotionaler Musik. Es entstehen vielleicht bisher ungeahnte Zugänge zum Textverständnis oder eröffnen im Zusammenspiel zwischen Inhalt, Klang und Form ganz neue Möglichkeiten des eigenen genussvollen Hörerlebens. Die Hörbuchfassung folgt der deutschen Erstausgabe: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz: Eine Künstlerin - Paula Becker-Modersohn. Briefe und Tagebuchblätter. Kurt Wolff Verlag A.-G. Berlin 1920. Der Originaltext wurde für dieses Hörbuch gekürzt und dramaturgisch eingerichtet. Coverabbildung: unter Verwendung eines Selbstbildnisses von Paula Modersohn-Becker: 'Selbstbildnis am 6. Hochzeitstag', 25. Mai 1906, Öl auf Karton. © Museen Böttcherstraße. Coverschrift: gesetzt aus der Fitzgerald. Musik: Suite Bergamasque, L.75: III. Clair de lune / Reflets dans l'eau / Sérénade à la Poupée / La Cathédrale Engloutie / Rêverie / Préludes, Buch 1 / Alle Kompositionen: Claude Debussy . Über die Sprecherinnen: Sonja Szylowicki, geboren in Kaiserslautern, studierte Schauspiel und Musical in Hamburg und Berlin. Festengagements führten sie an Stadttheater in Ost und West, so nach Wittenberg, Detmold, Aachen, Düsseldorf und Hamburg, wo sie viele Hauptrollen spielte. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren ist sie schwerpunktmäßig als Sprecherin aktiv, so kennt man ihre Stimme vom NDR-Hörfunk, aus TV-Dokumentationen, Werbespots, Hörspielen und Hörbüchern u.v.m. Sie liest bei Literaturveranstaltungen und gestaltet eigene Lesungen und Soloprogramme mit Musik. Ilka Sehnert, geboren 1963 in Magdeburg, studierte 1984-90 an der Hochschule für Musik 'Hanns Eisler' Berlin klassischen Gesang. Neben verschiedenen Opern-und Operettenpartien in Festengagements und mit Gastspielverträgen in Deutschland und der Schweiz kamen im Laufe der Jahre zunächst Musical- und später Schauspielrollen dazu. Spätestens hier entdeckte sie ihre Sprechstimme und die Lust, damit neben ihrer Bühnentätigkeit mehr anzufangen. Der Beginn war Synchron, und inzwischen ist sie neben ihrer Theaterarbeit auch als Sprecherin für verschiedene Formate von Werbung bis Doku tätig. Ihre besondere Liebe aber gehört dem Hörbuch.

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Title: Helicopter Heroine: Valérie André - Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire

Author: Charles Morgan Evans

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Valérie André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges. While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon. When the French medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped into military outposts, she volunteered, and when the service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and mechanical issues with the helicopters, André nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. After Indochina, she continued to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an advocate for women's integration into the French military. In 1975, she became the first female general in the French army, and at her retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000 hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit.

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Title: [German] - Die Schule des Lebens - Ein Geschenk des Himmels (ungekürzt)

Author: Sacide Göpferich

Narrator: Patrick Penot, Sacide Göpferich

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Sacide Göpferich - Als türkisches Gastarbeiterkind hat Sacide von klein auf immer nur die Unterschiede und Gegensätze von Türken, Deutschen, Christen und Moslems erzählt bekommen und erfahren - von beiden Seiten. Sie entschied sich dafür, nicht einfach blind die Meinung der anderen zu übernehmen, sondern ihre eigenen Erfahrungen zu machen. Indem sie sich von ihrer inneren Stimme führen ließ, entdeckte sie exakt das Gegenteil: viele Gemeinsamkeiten und Ähnlichkeiten. Heute erkennt sie, dass wir alle (nur) Menschen sind- und alle Kinder Gottes.

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Title: Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

Author: Alexandra Rimer

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison. Exhaustively researched by author Alexandra Rimer, this account draws on unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs, and letters to look below the surface of the Edison family during the Gilded Age from the little-known perspective of this female protagonist. Following his first wife’s death, Thomas Edison went in search of the next mother to his children and chose a wealthy twenty-year-old socialite from Ohio who was nineteen years his junior. What Mina did not know at the time was that Edison was a terrible father, completely neglecting his children and, ultimately, Mina herself. Absorbed in his work, he only interacted with his family at dinner, and sometimes not even then. The result was a dysfunctional family overseen by a saintly matriarch who went to great lengths to protect Edison’s reputation as well as that of his wayward children.