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Title: [German] - Ich bin mehr als Porno - Verhandlung mit seiner Sucht (ungekürzt)

Author: Anna Schatz

Narrator: Philipp Engelhardt, Anja Umland, Martha Kindermann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Anna Schatz beschreibt in diesem Buch, was eine Kombination aus Ratgeber und autobiografischem Roman ist, offen und schonungslos, die Geschichte von Isabel. Dabei nimmt sie Isabels Perspektive ein, die sie als Coachin begleitet hat. Isabel erzählt, wie Sie sich als Frau an der Seite eines pornosüchtigen Ehemannes gefühlt hat. Sie nimmt dabei kein Blatt vor den Mund und schildert die vielen schattenhaften Facetten dieser Sucht, die ihre Ehe jahrelang auf die Zerreißprobe stellte. Jede Beratungsstelle, die sie, nachdem sie erkannt hat, dass ihr Mann daran erkrankt ist, aufgesucht hat, riet ihr zu gehen und die Beziehung aufzugeben. Doch das wollte sie nicht und damit begann sie einen ganz eigenen Weg zu gehen. Isabel machte sich schlau über die Thematik der Sucht und einer möglichen Co-Abhängigkeit, so dass sie die typischen Fettnäpfchen zwar erlebte, doch stark und gesund durch diese Krise gehen konnte. Dennoch riet ihr jeder Mensch, dem sie ihre Situation offenbarte, sich zu trennen, außer ihre Coachin Anna. Doch Isabel Steg wollte diese Liebe nicht aufgeben. Passend zu jedem Kapitel ihrer persönlichen Geschichte, liefert das Buch intensiv recherchierte fachliche Informationen und Handlungs- und Stabilisierungsmöglichkeiten, für den eigenen Alltag.

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Title: Almost Romance: A Memoir

Author: Nancy Balbirer

Narrator: Nancy Balbirer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Finding love is all a matter of timing in a surprising, complicated, and funny memoir by the author of A Marriage in Dog Years. When a mysterious woman summons Nancy Balbirer to a Russian restaurant in New York City, the near stranger’s shocking purple hair and even more shocking news send Balbirer simultaneously reeling back to her past and hurtling toward a future that, at almost fifty years old, she never dreamed possible. This romantic-comedy memoir tells the true story of how a pack of Hollywood television writers and the denizens of a fabled but cursed Manhattan apartment building helped the author and one of her best friends turn a thirty-two-year almost romance into a real one. Witty and heartfelt, Nancy Balbirer’s sublime memoir proves that love is possible anywhere, anytime, and at any age.

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Title: They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

Author: Neda Toloui-Semnani

Narrator: Neda Toloui-Semnani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2022

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow. Conflicted about her parents’ choices for years, Neda realized that to move forward, she had to face the past head-on. Through extensive reporting, journals, and detailed interviews, Neda untangles decades of history in a search for answers. Both an epic family drama and a timely true-life political thriller, They Said They Wanted Revolution illuminates the costs of righteous activism across generations.

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Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery

Author: Rachel Gotto

Narrator: Rachel Gotto

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted more… When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive. She had already lost far too much. She had already watched her brother succumb, at only twenty-eight, to cancer. She had already lost her beloved husband in a terrible scuba diving accident when she was six months pregnant. So she did the only thing she knew how to do. She fought for her life. This gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming tragedy and trauma charts one tenacious woman’s incredible fight to find light in the darkest of journeys. It is a life-affirming tale of positivity and hope in the face of the most difficult of human experiences.

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Title: The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur: The Woman Whose Goodness Changed Her Husband from Atheist to Priest

Author: Elisabeth Leseur

Narrator: Diana Cossi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Release date: July 19, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

This inspiring book gives you a splendid example of how to live as a Christian in a secular environment that can be indifferent or hostile to your Faith. For Elisabeth Leseur had two great loves: God, and her husband Felix. Felix loved Elisabeth as well; yet to their mutual sorrow, he couldn't share the life of the Spirit that Elisabeth cherished. Occasionally the happiness of their life together in upper-class Parisian society was shattered by Felix's frustration and impatience. How could such an intelligent woman waste her time, as he saw it, with ignorant superstitions? Sometimes he and his friends would even ridicule and mock her faith. But Elisabeth loved Felix too much to allow their home to degenerate into an emotional war zone. She realized that confrontations and arguments were useless; she chose instead to keep quiet and pray for Felix. In her secret diary, she recorded how she used his efforts to destroy her faith as means to grow in love for him and for God. Throughout their life together, it grieved Elisabeth to think that Felix might be separated from her for all eternity because of his rejection of God. For her, life in Heaven wouldn't be happy without him. Yet when she died prematurely, Felix was still an unbeliever. The story doesn't end there. When Felix found this diary, he discovered how Elisabeth's whole life bore witness to the truth of the God she loved. In time, Felix was transformed by the diary and his memories of Elisabeth. He became a Christian and, later, a priest. Now she may even be declared a saint. Elisabeth's diary and spiritual writings (all included in this one volume) map out for you a path to marital harmony and greater love for God - especially if you love someone who stands outside the Faith. Let Elisabeth's two great loves, and her faith and perseverance, inspire you now.

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Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley

Author: Annabel Abbs

Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen 'Eine kühne und starke Frau.' (Stylist)  Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau. England, 1912: Gefangen in ihrer Ehe, trifft Frieda den mittellosen, aber ehrgeizigen jungen Schriftsteller D. H. Lawrence. Ihre stürmische Liebe ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal. Und Frieda muss für ihren Mut, die Fesseln ihrer Zeit zu sprengen, einen hohen Preis zahlen.

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Title: [German] - Erlebnisse einer Landhebamme

Author: Rosalie Linner

Narrator: Rosalie Linner

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Was auf dem Land rund um die Geburt von Kindern so alles geschieht, wie sich eine beherzte Hebamme manchmal zum Wohle von Mutter und Kind in das Eheleben einmischen muss, welche Familie an weiteren Kindern besonders schwer trägt und wo trotz aller Mühsal doch Frieden und Harmonie herrschen, dies erzählt Rosalie Linner in einem neuen Band ihrer überaus beliebten Landhebammen-Geschichten. Alle Schilderungen beruhen auf den wahren Erlebnissen der Autorin. Und auch viele Jahre später empfand sie für viele Kinder noch eine besondere Fürsorge und nahm Anteil an deren weiterem Schicksal. Dieses Buch versammelt interessante und rührende Geschichten aus dem Alltag einer beherzten Frau, die im Laufe ihres langen Berufslebens über 1.600 Kindern auf die Welt geholfen hat.

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Title: [German] - Mein Leben als Landhebamme

Author: Rosalie Linner

Narrator: Rosalie Linner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2021

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Rosalie Linner hat mit ihren beiden Büchern 'Tagebuch einer Landhebamme' und 'Als Landhebamme unterwegs' viele begeisterte Leserinnen und Leser gefunden. Ihr drittes autobiographisches Werk enthält neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Texte über ihre Arbeit als Landhebamme. Die Autorin schildert darin nicht nur die Freuden und Leiden, sondern auch die Tücken, die ihr oft gar nicht einfacher Beruf mit sich brachte. Wir erfahren auch eine Menge über die Menschen, mit denen sie zu tun hatte; über die einfachen Lebensverhältnisse, über Ängste und Hoffnungen, über problematische und glückliche Ehen und natürlich über die Kinder, denen Rosalie Linner zum Leben verhalf. Ein Buch, das unterhaltsame Lektüre und zeitgeschichtliches Dokument zugleich ist.

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Title: Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners

Author: Nick Duerden

Narrator: Melanie Crawley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2020

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

'A jaw-dropping investigation' – THE BOOKSELLER 'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' – THE GUARDIAN 'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant. I loved it.' – KIT DE WAAL Dishing the Dirt tells the jaw-dropping stories of London's house cleaners for the first time. Journalist Nick Duerden spoke to a vast array of domestic helps for this insightful, surprising and gripping non-fiction book. We hear from immigrants who clean suburban family homes to butlers who manage the homes of the super wealthy, and from joyful cleaners and entrepreneurs to escaped victims of human trafficking. Then there are women who dust nude and male cleaners who have to fight off wandering hands. And the crime scene cleaners. With the revelation of Maid by Stephanie Land and the cleaning tips of Mrs Hinch's Hinch Yourself Happy, Dishing the Dirt will turn all of your assumptions about cleaners upside down. About the Author Nick Duerden is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the i paper, and GQ. His books include Exit Stage Left, Get Well Soon: Adventures in Alternative Healthcare, A Life Less Lonely, and The Smallest Things. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. Extract Prologue. Clocking On It was as if she were invisible, like she wasn't even there. Or, perhaps more accurately, like she didn't really count, not in any tangible sense, this mostly silent domestic cleaner with the broken English whose back was perpetually stooped over the vacuum cleaner, the dustpan and brush, the damp mop; someone who likely knew her way around the utility room better than the homeowners themselves. Today, the wife was away on business, as she frequently was, but the husband wasn't here alone. The marital bed was not empty. 'A different woman,' she says. 'Younger.' And he didn't hide this from you, wasn't embarrassed, ashamed of parading his affair so brazenly under your nose? She shakes her head, and smiles tightly. 'No,' she says. 'No.' She was seemingly in his confidence, then, but not through any prior agreement, a finger to the side of the nose, and nor was he paying her for her silence, her implicit complicity. 'I don't think he even considered me,' she says. 'Or my reaction.' She was merely part of the furniture, a once-weekly presence in the house who mutely got on with her work as she always did, over three floors, three bedrooms and two bathrooms: the vacuuming, the polishing, the dusting... ... In the 1980s, both husbands and wives were now required to go out to work, to pursue careers. This left little time for domestic upkeep... There was no shortage of willing char ladies. In the 21st Century, we are willing to delegate more, specifically to pay others to do the work we'd rather not do ourselves, even if we cannot really afford it. A wave of cheap immigrant labour entered the UK between 2000 and 2020, especially from the new EU member states in eastern Europe. Better to pay a Magda from Poland, say, £30 a week to run the Hoover around the house for a few hours than to save the money for a rainy day. ... Those that clean for Londoners are a silent army. They bring order to our lives, they put out the bins, and relieve us of at least some of the myriad pressures of modern life. They are privy to our indiscretions, our peculiarities, our curious habits. They put up with us, which isn't always easy because some of us are complicated souls. But who are the members of these well-drilled regiments? What are their stories? Buy the book and start listening

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Title: [German] - HUNGER: Die Geschichte meines Körpers

Author: Roxane Gay

Narrator: Sabrina Gander

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Release date: April 22, 2019

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Hungers. Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Körpers. Es ist keine Geschichte des Triumphs. Es ist die eines Lebens, das in zwei Hälften geteilt ist. Es gibt das Vorher und das Nachher. Bevor sie zunahm und danach. Bevor sie vergewaltigt wurde und danach. Roxane Gay, eine der brillantesten, klügsten und aufregendsten weiblichen Stimmen der USA, erzählt eine Geschichte, die so noch nie geschrieben wurde: schonungslos offen, verstörend ehrlich und entwaffnend zart spricht sie über ihren »wilden und undisziplinierten« Körper, über Schmerz und Angst, über zwanghaftes Verlangen, zerstörende Verleugnung und Scham - „Ich war zerbrochen, und um den Schmerz dieser Zerbrochenheit zu betäuben, aß ich und aß und aß.“