Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: The Life Back

Author: Lisa Ann

Narrator: Lisa Ann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Release date: April 7, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of life after The Life. In December of 2014, Lisa Ann announced her retirement from the adult entertainment industry. She released her first book, The Life, in December of 2015. On New Year’s Eve, she received a phone call threatening her life—a call that came from inside her own home. For Lisa Ann, this was only the beginning of a terrifying year that would spiral completely out of control. In public, she was still entertaining her fans and maintaining her persona on her wildly popular Fantasy Sports Radio shows. In private, she descended through layer after layer of depression, isolation, fear, and darkness. But the more her life contracted physically—as she retreated into the small, quiet places where she could feel safe—the more her mind began to open. The force to be still created a silence that gave her room to listen. Room to learn. Room to change. And the chance to break free. The Life Back chronicles her three-year odyssey through terror, chaos, forgiveness—and becoming unstoppable.

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Title: [Spanish] - Política sin anestesia

Author: Mónica García

Narrator: Mónica García

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Médica, madre, mujer. Tres palabras que no solo eran un eslogan de campaña electoral, sino que definían a la persona que encarnaba la candidatura de Más Madrid a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Mónica García, anestesista del hospital público 12 de Octubre, fue arrastrada por las mareas que siguieron al 15M y entró en política, como tantos ciudadanos de a pie en aquel ciclo histórico. Mónica García nos narra en primera persona el largo camino que la llevó del quirófano a la Asamblea de Madrid; desde las reuniones familiares en las que se debatía sobre política hasta el resultado histórico en las elecciones que la convirtieron en líder de la oposición, pasando por grandes manifestaciones en defensa de la Sanidad Pública, campeonatos de atletismo o su experiencia de la maternidad. Y lo hace sin anestesia, sin enmascarar emociones tan dolorosas como las que aún le provoca el recuerdo de los pasillos de los hospitales colapsados, en los que afloraba la desesperación durante los peores momentos de la pandemia. Un testimonio honesto, no exento de ironía y humor, en el que ajusta cuentas con aquellos que fueron negligentes, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre la banalización de la política o la degradación del debate en una realidad que algunos tratan de convertir en un lugar cada vez más individualista y competitivo. Política sin anestesia es el relato vehemente y apasionado de una mujer dispuesta a poner alma, corazón y cerebro en la lucha por un mundo más solidario, más compasivo, más justo. Mejor.

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Title: Minnie: The remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback

Author: Marianne Van Velzen

Narrator: Ella James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches to ruins. Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback. 'Destined to become an outback classic' LIZ HARFULL, bestselling author of Women of the Land 'Minnie brings to life a gutsy, independent woman living a remarkable but simple life in the harshest of conditions' JULIET WILLS, author of The Diamond Dakota Mystery

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Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir

Author: Lorrie Potvin

Narrator: Cheri Maracle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman’s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from 'normal' and how 'coming out' became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin’s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult relationships when childhood foundations are rooted in violence and trauma, culminating with a triumphant account of fulfilling a long-time dream of buying land and building a home with her own hands. Ultimately, this memoir is a celebration of making art, telling stories, and of finding her birth father, a family of half siblings, and an Indigenous community whose presence she had always felt, but to which she never knew she belonged.

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Title: [Spanish] - Elena Garro:Los recuerdos sin porvenir: Retratos de dolor rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable

Author: Laura Ramos

Narrator: Yopa Ponce

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Retratos de dolor, rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable Pasan los años y la figura de Elena Garro crece por su grandeza literaria, por sus personajes apasionados y llenos de ternura inscritos en historias memorables con enorme carga histórica y existencial; por su inigualable mirada al deseo, al dolor, al abismo. Gracias a los estudiosos de la literatura hispanoamericana sabemos de su vida, sus amores, sus reclamos… y gracias a Laura Ramos sabemos cómo vivió los últimos años, cómo soportó la soledad y el olvido con su hija Helena Paz,cómo recordaban y conjuraban estas mujeres coléricas, furiosas, lastimadas, luminosas, ensoñadoras, llenas de lumbre y ternura. Elena Garro: los recuerdos sin porvenir es una obra única por su acercamiento frontal a la escritora y su hija por una editora que convivió con ellas los últimos años de su vida. Recorre las horas de penuria y rencor de estas mujeres, los momentos lamentables de hambre y vicio, el asedio de la enfermedad, el alcohol, la violencia doméstica y sus amados gatos: testigos de esta tragedia que sóloatemperaba la contemplación del cielo de México, las postales de París, las fotografías de Madrid, los anhelos de Buenos Aires. Entrar en estas páginas nos permite conocer detalles íntimos de Elena Garro y sus evocaciones de Bioy Casares, Rufino y Olga Tamayo, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Jünger y el eternamente amado/odiado Octavio Paz. Laura Ramos no juzga ni condena, sólo comparte sumaravillosa experiencia con la escritora magistral y sus intentos por ayudarla a sobrellevar el pantano donde vivió sus últimos tiempos; el libro es una aportación a la biografía de Elena Garro, condenada con su hija a ser un personaje maldito y perseguido, las páginas descubren vivencias totalmente inéditas de la escritora, una voz candorosa y furibunda que dejó siempre su sangre ardiente, rebelde y amorosa en cada uno de sus actos y sus escritos.

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Title: [German] - Meine Reise mit den Meeresschildkröten: Wie ich als Meeresbiologin für unsere Ozeane kämpfe

Author: Christine Figgener

Narrator: Lisa Rauen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Von einer, die auszog, die Schildkröten zu retten. Elegant gleiten sie durchs Wasser, legen Tausende Kilometer zurück und finden selbst Jahre später noch den Weg an die Strände ihrer Geburt. Meeresschildkröten sind faszinierende Urzeitwesen, und Christine Figgener macht sich seit Langem für ihre Erforschung und ihren Schutz stark. Expertenwissen einer engagierten Meeresbiologin. Nun nimmt sie uns mit auf eine Reise durch das Leben dieser Tiere und durch ihr eigenes. Sie erzählt eindrucksvoll von der Suche nach nistenden Weibchen an nächtlichen Karibikstränden oder von schwankenden Bootsfahrten auf dem Pazifik und beschreibt die Gefahren, denen sowohl Schildkröten als auch Schildkrötenforscher:innen ausgesetzt sind. Vor allem aber vermittelt sie ihre große Liebe für diese Wesen und steckt an mit ihrer Begeisterung und Leidenschaft. »Solange ich atme, werde ich versuchen, etwas zu bewegen!« Christine Figgener im TIME Magazine. Die Autorin ist ausgezeichnet als »TIME's Next Generation Leader«.

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Title: Family Lexicon

Author: Natalia Ginzburg

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking—when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives. Family Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. 'Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it],' Ginzburg tells us at the start. 'The places, events, and people are all real.'

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Title: The Liars' Club: A Memoir

Author: Mary Karr

Narrator: Mary Karr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com   The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation. The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny, lively, and un-put-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.

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Title: All of Me

Author: Anne Murray

Narrator: Anne Murray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid. “After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and catapulted into a strange new universe … If I thought for a moment that I was really in control of events, I was deluded.” Anne Murray An unflinching self-portrait of Canada’s first great female recording artist, All of Me documents the life of Anne Murray, from her humble origins in the tragedy-plagued coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to her arrival on the world stage. Anne recounts her story: the battles with her record companies over singles and albums; the struggle with drug- and alcohol-ridden band members; the terrible guilt and loneliness of being away from her two young children; her divorce from the man who helped launch her career, Bill Langstroth; and the deaths of two of her closest confidantes. The result is a must-read autobiography by Canada’s beloved songbird.

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Title: The Invention of Jane Harrison

Author: Mary Beard

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art, and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome—but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period—its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual 'influence' and 'movements,' Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.