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Title: Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter's Quest for Justice

Author: Joanne Intrator

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions: 'Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?' Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did. Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings her into confrontation with yet another of her profound fears surrounding Germany and the Holocaust. Having to call on reserves of strength she's unsure she possesses, the author leans into her professional command of psychiatry, often overcoming flabbergasting obstacles perniciously dumped in her path. The depth and lucidity of psychological insight threaded throughout Summons to Berlin makes it an attention-grabbing standout among books on like topics. As a listener, you'll come away delighted to know just who Dr. Joanne Intrator is. You'll also finish the book cheering for her, because in the end, she proves far more than tough enough to satisfy her father's unnerving final demands.

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Title: Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics

Author: Mary Beth Rogers

Narrator: Mary Beth Rogers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victories—particularly the 1990 governor's race when, as campaign manager for Ann Richards, she did the impossible and put a Democratic woman in office. She also learned to absorb her losses—after all, she was a liberal feminist in America's most aggressively conservative state. Rogers's road to a political life was complex. Candidly and vulnerably, she shares both public and private memories of how she tried to maintain a rich family life with growing children and a husband with a debilitating illness. She goes on to provide an insider's account of her experiences as Richards's first chief of staff while weaving her way through the highs and lows of political intrigue and legislative maneuvering. Reflecting on her family heritage and nascent spiritual quest, Rogers discovers a reality at once sobering and invigorating: nothing is ever completely lost or completely won. It is a constant struggle to create humane public policies built on a foundation of fairness and justice—particularly in her beloved Texas.

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Title: Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Author: Janet Wallach

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE 'A compelling story that pulsates with the energy of a thriller'—The Wall Street Journal 'Suspense, élan and a generous helping of glamour: Think George Smiley in a mink-trimmed coat.'—The New York Times Book Review The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Born a privileged child of America’s Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother’s ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed at thirty-seven, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. She arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right. Sent to Moscow, she sneaked into Russia to observe the results of the Bolshevik Revolution. Although she carried press credentials she was caught and imprisoned as an American spy. Terrified when told her only way out was to spy for the Cheka, she became a double agent, aiming to convince the Russian rulers she was working for them while striving to stay loyal to her country. In Germany and Russia, Harrison saw the future—a second war with Germany, a cold war with the Soviets—but her reports were ignored by many back home. Over a decade, Harrison’s mysterious adventures took her to Europe, Baghdad, and the Far East, as a socialite, secret agent, and documentary filmmaker. Janet Wallach captures Harrison’s daring and glamour in this stranger-than-fiction history of a woman drawn to the impossible.

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Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir

Author: Calvin Miller

Narrator: Wayne Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

One man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand. Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all – his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable.

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Title: These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown

Author: Rebecca Rosenblum

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Release date: July 11, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

We all lived our own pandemics. For writer Rebecca Rosenblum, the pandemic meant watching and considering the city she loves. From milestones such as crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down.

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Title: The Real Queen Charlotte: Inside the Real Bridgerton Court

Author: Catherine Curzon

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Release date: July 11, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton's court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The unassuming young couple symbolized a new beginning, but soon those hopes began to sour. Charlotte and George's marriage lasted for nearly sixty years and produced more than a dozen children, but it was beset by unrest at home, war in the colonies, and the king's encroaching madness. As the royal couple battled against their critics, their political opponents, and sometimes their own family, Charlotte learned what it really meant to be queen. Locked in a bitter struggle with her eldest son for the king's future and with her daughters for their freedom, the timid young girl grew into an insular and domineering woman that few dared to cross. Shouldering the burden of family disputes, ambitious courtiers, and the care of the man she adored, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz presided over one of the most tumultuous eras that the monarchy has ever seen. This is the story of her extraordinary life.

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Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze

Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori

Author: Grazia Honegger Fresco

Narrator: Daria Esposito

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Release date: July 10, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le più entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche più malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti. Si ripercorrono qui le tappe della sua vita: dagli anni della formazione, segnati dalla difficoltà di essere una delle prime donne medico in Italia, all'esperienza dolorosa della maternità nascosta; dalle lotte femministe, che fondano in lei un nuovo senso di giustizia sociale e una nuova consapevolezza del ruolo della donna, all’impegno a favore dei bambini svantaggiati fino al suo innovativo progetto pedagogico, basato sulla valorizzazione delle risorse e della libertà del bambino. La presente edizione, rivista e aggiornata, accoglie numerose aggiunte, modifiche, correzioni e capitoli nuovi, grazie anche al prezioso contributo della bisnipote di Maria, Carolina Montessori.

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Title: My Journey to the World Cup: Updated Edition

Author: Sam Kerr

Narrator: Lisa Bailey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Release date: July 4, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World Cup. Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worldwide for her skills on the soccer pitch – but before she was Matildas captain and leading goal scorer for Chelsea, she was just an average Aussie kid who wanted to play AFL. This is her incredible football journey to the 2023 FIFA World Cup and beyond, from making the switch to soccer to becoming one of the best female strikers in the world. Sam gives us insights into what keeps her motivated, how she handles the pressures of life as a professional athlete and what she believes is really important in life. Inside you will find: - Sam’s most memorable World Cup moments - facts about the 2023 FIFA World Cup - everything you want to know about the Matildas - amazing facts about Sam – her early days, family life, teams, playing for Chelsea and the Matildas.

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Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir

Author: Beth Nguyen

Narrator: Beth Nguyen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Release date: July 4, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily • Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 “This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fractured by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is “a portrait of things left unsaid” (The New York Times), a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years—sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, some alone with her mother and others with the company of her sister—Beth tells an “unforgettable” (People) coming-of-age story that spans her childhood in the Midwest, her first meeting with her mother, and her own experience of parenthood.

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Title: Deer Grandma: Nine Short Stories About Deer, Deer Hunting, Family And Friendships

Author: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens

Narrator: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2023

Genres: Women

Publisher's Summary:

Setting of these nine short stories is east central Minnesota, time period is from 1964 to turn of the century. The first story describes the author, a young wife and avid outdoors woman, as she begins her journey hunting deer on the family farm. Through the decades going from mother to grandmother, her knowledge and skill as a naturalist and hunter grew along with love for the riverland and wooded acres she and her family call home. Family and friends join her on this journey. A poem written in 2008, The Land Remembers, ends the book, and describes what Deer Grandma has learned about belonging to the land.