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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure Author: Anne Innis Dagg Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour. Dagg was one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa (before Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey); her memoir captures her youthful enthusiasm for her journey, as well as her näiveté about the complex social and political issues in Africa. Once in the field, she recorded the complexities of giraffe social relationships but also learned about human relationships in the context of apartheid in South Africa and colonialism in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Kenya. Hospitality and friendship were readily extended to her as a white woman, but she was shocked by the racism of the colonial whites in Africa. Reflecting the twenty-three-year-old author's response to an "exotic" world far removed from the Toronto where she grew up, the book records her visits to Zanzibar and Victoria Falls and her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pursuing Giraffe is a fascinating account that has much to say about the status of women in the mid-twentieth century. The book's foreword by South African novelist Mark Behr (author of The Smell of Apples and Embrace) provides further context for and insights into Dagg's narrative.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Place: Making My Parents' American Dream Come True Author: Elizabeth Pipko Narrator: Elizabeth Pipko Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Think you know Elizabeth Pipko? Guess again. She's been described by many as a rising star in the Conservative movement, but how did she get here? And more importantly, did she ever plan to? In Finding My Place, Elizabeth takes us back to the beginning. As the daughter of immigrants and a proud religious Jew, Elizabeth dives into the core of what drives her: the sacrifices of her parents and grandparents and all that they had to endure to make sure that she had the opportunity to live the American dream. With an emphasis on her faith and her upbringing, where she pinpoints the lessons and moments that she knew would dictate her future, Elizabeth takes us on a journey that started long before she was even born. From heartbreak and injury, to triumph and recognition, to her start as a figure skater, a writer, a model, and eventually a political activist, Elizabeth takes us along on her journey of finding her place in the world of sports, fashion, Judaism, politics, and so much more. Finding My Place is the behind-the-scenes look at everything she has yet to tell the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength Within Author: Annie Pateman Narrator: Jane Bayly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 18, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1979, I was three months pregnant with my second child and in excruciating pain, pain I’d been dealing with every day for almost 15 months. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t stand, I couldn’t sleep. In just a year, I’d gone from being an active young woman to being almost entirely incapacitated. Everything was pain. Trying to find the cause was almost as bad as the diagnosis. At every turn, I was told nothing was wrong. Nobody was helping. Another three months passed and I went in for my six-month check-up with my obstetrician. He, too, told me everything was fine… but it definitely was not. I broke down in tears in his office. I couldn’t do it anymore. The agony was too much and I was at my wit’s end. He took me seriously and what happened next would change my life forever. After 18 months, I finally had a diagnosis - 1st April 1980 - It was a tumour the size of a tennis ball on my knee. It was Cancer. Almost in the same breath they said that I would have to have my leg amputated above the knee and oh by the way, he said, highly probable that I would lose the baby as it wouldn’t survive the trauma of the surgery. I was 26 years old and 26 weeks pregnant. After 40 years since diagnosis, I’m still here… and that wasn’t the only time I was told I had cancer. Yes, I’ve survived a lot, but I’m just like anyone else. The strength is within us all. You just have to reach for it. There is light at the end of the tunnel, even when you can’t see it. You just have to keep going, especially when it seems like you have nothing left.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462036 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outside In: A Political Memoir Author: Libby Davies Narrator: Marilla Wex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Libby Davies has worked steadfastly for social justice both inside parliament and out on the streets for more than four decades. At nineteen, Davies became a community organizer in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. She went on to serve in municipal and then federal politics, advancing to the role of Deputy Leader of the New Democratic Party. Davies looks back on her remarkable life and career with candid humour and heart-rending honesty. She addresses the challenges of her work on homelessness, sex workers' rights, and ending drug prohibition. She illuminates the human strengths and foibles at the core of each issue, her own as well as those of her colleagues and activist allies. Davies' astute political analysis offers an insider's perspective that never loses touch with the people she fights alongside. Outside In is both a political and personal memoir of Davies' forty years of work at the intersection of politics and social movements.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Morningless Mornings Author: Stefany Anne Golberg Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For Stefany Anne Golberg, the morning itself became a possibility she could no longer tolerate, so at age fourteen, she erased it all together. In a ranch house in a Vegas suburb, Golberg’s peculiar brand of insomnia lives alongside an ailing father, a professor on permanent leave from the local university. Her mother has moved out, her older brother has gone to college, and she is alone with the night, resisting the fundamental unit by which we measure our lives: the next day itself. Startling, poignant, and harrowing, Golberg’s voice is informed by an eclectic range of interests, from Bruegel to Jung, Loren Eiseley to Marina Tsvetaeva. Equal parts coming-of-age memoir, art history, and philosophical inquiry, My Morningless Mornings is a young person’s reckoning with consciousness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming Author: Myrna Loy, James Kotsilibas-Davis Narrator: Holly Palance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The actress recalls her long, rich, and varied career in Hollywood, on the stage, and as a political activist

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Love with George Eliot: A Novel Author: Kathy O’shaughnessy Narrator: Shiromi Arserio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 6, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never read it before. Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede’s fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of its mysterious writer. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman living with Lewes. Now Evans’ tremendous celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide people through the increasingly secular, rudderless century, and an icon to her progressive feminist peers—with whom she is often in disagreement. Public opinion shifts. Her scandalous cohabitation is forgiven. But this idyll is not secure and cannot last. When Lewes dies, Evans finds herself in danger of shocking the world all over again. Meanwhile, in another rudderless century, two women compete to arrive at an interpretation of Eliot as writer and as woman … Everyone who has thrilled at being shown the world anew by George Eliot will thrill again at her presence, complex and compelling, here.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/468734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Miss Fällig erzählt: 14 Kurzgeschichten gelesen von Clemens Ansorg Author: Dagmar Sulzenbacher Narrator: Clemens Ansorg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Miss Fällig's Wege sind skurril, kunstvoll und manchmal unergründlich. In diesen originellen Kurzgeschichten öffnen sich viele kleine Fenster zu einer kuriosen Welt, in der mysteriöse Tätowierungen ebenso vorkommen wie Braunbären oder buddhistische Mönche. Manche der 14 unterhaltsamen Kurzgeschichten sind zum Lachen, andere zum Weinen und wieder andere regen zum Nachdenken an. Nachdem diese Kurzgeschichten bisher tausende Leser online begeisterten, erscheinen sie nun erstmals als Hörbuch. Spannend und unverwechselbar gelesen von Clemens Ansorg. Geschrieben von Dagmar Sulzenbacher. Die Hörgalerie, 2020 © Dagmar Sulzenbacher Clemens Ansorg wurde am Thomas-Bernhard-Institut der Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg zum Schauspieler ausgebildet. Engagements hatte er bereits an vielen kleinen wie großen Bühnen, z.B. die Salzburger Festspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg, Residenztheater München, Landestheater Salzburg, Stadttheater Pforzheim - um nur einige zu nennen. Zuletzt probte er am Theater der Jugend in Wien wo er jetzt lebt und arbeitet. 'Miss Fällig erzählt' ist das zweite Hörbuch des jungen Verlags 'Die Hörgalerie' mit Sitz in Wien.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Me: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Author: Mrs Hinch Narrator: Mrs Hinch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Pre-order This Is Me and discover the true story of the real Sophie Hinchliffe for the very first time in her extraordinarily candid memoir From the No. 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author of Hinch Yourself Happy Well guys, here we are! What an absolute whirlwind of a journey this has been so far. So much has happened in the last couple of life-changing years and I'm so excited to share it with you all: my Hinchers. You have been right by my side for every step of the way and I honestly couldn't have done it without the amazing love and support from this incredible family we've built together. It's often felt like a fairy tale but it hasn't always been easy, and I'm going to let you in on the highs and the lows as well as my biggest fears and my darkest challenges. Because this book right here, is me. This is me: Soph - the wife, the mother and the person behind Mrs Hinch. So let's do this! Put your Hinch Lists to one side, get comfy and join me on the sofa with a cuppa. Welcome to my world. This is my story. © Sophie Hinchliffe 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020 'The sensation' Sun 'We're mad about Mrs Hinch' Vogue 'My new cleaning goddess' Daily Telegraph 'Doing for household chores what Marie Kondo did for tidying' Daily Mirror 'Mrs Hinch offers a reassuring structure for the day, a vision of domestic order' Guardian

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Are You Kidding Me?!: Chronicles of an Ordinary Life Author: Lesley Crewe Narrator: Lesley Crewe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 30, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For the first time, Cape Bretoner Lesley Crewe's finest newspaper columns are collected in one place. The bestselling novelist, columnist and humorist employs a sharp, versatile wit, anchored by a tender centre, to bring readers laughter and tears. Crewe celebrates life, and all its warts, in this side-splitting, heartwarming collection. .