Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

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Title: Concealed

Author: Esther Amini

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Release date: March 13, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.

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Title: [German] - Trinkerbelle: Mein Leben im Rausch

Author: Mimi

Narrator: Mimi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Release date: March 9, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

MIMI ist schön, begabt und erfolgreich – und aus der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft nicht wegzudenken. Mit ihrer lebenslustigen Art ist sie nicht nur ein beliebter Gast in den Talkshows, sondern auch für viele ein Vorbild. Doch was lange nur wenige wussten: Die sympathische Entertainerin betäubte ihren Schmerz und ihre Schuldgefühle fast 30 Jahre mit Alkohol und verlor regelmäßig die Kontrolle über ihr Leben. Sie wahrte nach außen den Schein – und wurde dabei immer kränker. Heute ist sie trockene Alkoholikerin und erzählt in ihrem Buch schonungslos offen von ihrem Leben mit der Volksdroge – und ihren Dämonen, die sie mit ihm zu bekämpfen glaubte. „Trinkerbelle“ ist die berührende und wahre Geschichte einer Frau, die nach jahrelangen Kämpfen endlich nüchtern werden durfte und seit Maria Himmelfahrt 2018 nicht mehr trinken muss. 'Ich habe fast dreißig Jahre zu den klassischen funktionalen Trinkerinnen gehört, wobei der Ausdruck funktional in diesem Zusammenhang immer auch ein bisschen seltsam klingt. Denn so richtig funktioniert hat eigentlich recht wenig in meinem Leben. Ich war vollgetankt und bin trotzdem immer auf Reserve gefahren. Mein Leben war durch die Sucht ein Konstrukt aus Lügen und Vertuschungen, aus körperlichen und seelischen Schmerzen, von denen ich niemandem erzählen konnte – weil ich dann hätte zugeben müssen, woher sie kommen. Ich wollte leben, aber ich wollte so nicht mehr weiterleben.“ MIMI

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Title: Overland Before the Hippie Trail

Author: Patricia Noble Sullivan

Narrator: Margie Valine, Nathan Agin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Release date: March 3, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a cholera epidemic in Iraq, staying in a palace in Pakistan, meeting a maharaja in India, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life, one in which they found a world that was not only large and varied, but filled with people who were curious, welcoming, and generous.

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Title: Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems

Author: Janet And Geoff Benge

Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Amy Carmichael stood on the deck of the steamer, waving good-bye once again to her old friend Robert Wilson. How could she have known she would never see him or the British Isles again? Amy was certain God had called her to India. Indeed! India would be home for the rest of her life. Amy's life was marked by a simple, determined obedience to God, regardless of circumstances. Her story and legacy are stunning reminders of the impact of one person who will fear God and nothing else. Driven by love and compassion, and sustained by faith and determination, Amy Carmichael defied the cruel barriers of India's caste system. The story of this young woman from Northern Ireland is a brilliant, sparkling example of God's love generously poured out to "the least of these among us."

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Title: [German] - Dorfschul-Rose: Historischer Roman

Author: Helga Harter

Narrator: Helga Harter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Von der Autorin gelesen. Historischer Roman nach einer wahren Geschichte aus der Zeit zwischen 1937 und 1948. Wie Schlesier im Westen eine neue Heimat suchen.

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Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Author: Chanrithy Him

Narrator: Kalean Ung

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity.' —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way 'worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child.' In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the 'killing fields.' She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

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Title: Under the Boab Tree

Author: Franceska Jordan

Narrator: Franceska Jordan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.

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Title: Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies

Author: Seth Curtis Beach

Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation. This audiobook contains biographies of: Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789–1867Mary Lovell Ware - 1798–1849Lydia Maria Child - 1802–1880Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802–1887Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810–1850Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1811–1896Louisa May Alcott - 1832–1888

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Title: [Spanish] - Sexo, Vino, Viajes

Author: María Paz Ruíz

Narrator: Adriana Galindo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 0 minutes

Release date: February 12, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

¿A quién no le gusta el sexo, el vino o los viajes? Combinarlos en un texto breve y con un estilo valiente, potente y fresco es prácticamente garantía de éxito. Efectivamente, el libro se lee fácilmente, con curiosidad e interés. Desde las primeras líneas descubrimos una narradora fuerte, leída y arriesgada con un discurso rico en imágenes personales, divertidas reflexiones y buen ritmo. Sexo, vino y viajes es un libro de crónicas, un conjunto de relatos en primera persona sobre diferentes experiencias vitales de la autora, en las cuales los hombres, el alcohol y diferentes ciudades del mundo juegan un papel importante. Con un orden que intenta ajustarse al cronológico, de cada etapa de su vida-viaje la autora selecciona momentos más o menos festivos, pero todos con un componente importante de afirmación personal, como por ejemplo cuando de niña le gustaba marcar su territorio orinando por las esquinas, de adolescente prefería hombres que la superaban en edad y experiencia o de adulta buscará parejas, hogares y ocupaciones tan fuera del sistema como sea posible. La colombiana María Paz pasa sus primeros años envuelta en la protección que la ofrece la posición acomodada de su familia y el mundo paralelo de los colegios privados, pero la curiosidad que desde siempre siente por su cuerpo, su sexo, su libertad y sus límites la van llevando a explorar por su cuenta el mundo exterior en cuanto llega a los catorce.

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Title: [Spanish] - Rosario Castellanos: Materia que arde

Author: Sara Uribe, Verónica Gerber Bicecci

Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Release date: February 9, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Este nudo que fui (inextricable de cóleras, traiciones, esperanzas, vislumbres repentinos, abandonos, hambres, gritos de miedo y desamparo y alegría fulgiendo en las tinieblas y palabras y amor y amor y amores) lo cortarán los años. Rosario Castellanos «Este libro es nuestro intento por recontar el relato que existe sobre Rosario Castellanos; escuchándola, pensándola desde sus palabras. Queríamos dotarlo, sobre todo, de preguntas. Conforme leíamos, audioleíamos y releíamos sus cartas, artículos, teatro, ensayos,cuentos, poemas y novelas, descubrimos a una escritora que no era la que habíamos conocido cuando fuimos adolescentes. No, no era la misma. Por eso, para compartir su vida y obra, abrimos un espacio para platicar con ella, para cuestionarla e interpelarla, y sugerir que ustedes también pueden hacerlo.»