Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield. A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of The Beatles, Prince, or David Bowie. Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power. At once one of the most beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized, Taylor Swift is known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hits—the most public of stars, yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffield’s Dreaming the Beatles, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It Author: Latonya Yvette Narrator: Latonya Yvette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Through essays with stunning photography, the beloved multimedia storyteller and author of Woman of Color shares the powerful lessons she’s learned about creating a home that honors the past and celebrates the future. “A generous, three-dimensional portrait that inspires the reader to reflect on their own sense of home and belonging.”—Rio Cortez, New York Times bestselling author of The ABCs of Black History “Home is a reflection of what we inherit.” Grappling with the state of the world over the last few years—the global pandemic, climate change, threats to women’s rights, constant racial violence—LaTonya Yvette began to contemplate the concept of home. What does it mean to cultivate safety when it is constantly under threat? How can we nurture joy and peace within the spaces where we spend most of our precious time? Who can we turn to for guidance along the way? In Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It, Yvette explores these kinds of questions as she takes readers through the journey of her own rediscovery of home. In eleven meditative essays, accompanied by 25 beautiful photographs taken over the course of writing the book, Yvette illustrates how the act of homemaking can be revolutionary, liberating—and one of the most powerful expressions we have of self- and community care. Woven throughout the book is the story of the nearly 200-year-old house in upstate New York that Yvette bought and painstakingly renovated, with the aim of creating a safe space for BIPOC communities. The house—Yvette’s ultimate expression of home—provides her greatest lessons. Both visual feast and emotional salve, Stand in My Window demonstrates that home truly is what you make of it—in mind, body, soul, and in the thoughtfully curated spaces we can build for ourselves anywhere. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains photographs from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life Author: Karen M. Dunak Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona, from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-century pop culture and she remains an object of public fascination today. Drawing on a range of sources—from articles penned for the women's pages of local newspapers, to esteemed national periodicals, to fan magazines, and film—Our Jackie evaluates how media coverage of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis changed over the course of her public life. Jackie's interactions with and framing by the American media reflect the changing attitudes toward American womanhood. Over the course of four decades, Jackie was alternatively praised for her service to others, and pilloried for her perceived self-interest. In Our Jackie, Karen M. Dunak argues that whether she was portrayed as a campaign wife, a loyal widow, a selfish jet-setter, or a mature career woman, the history of Jackie's highly publicized life demonstrates the ways in which news, entertainment, politics, and celebrity evolved and intertwined over the second half of the twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unruled Body: A Poet’s Memoir Author: Ani Gjika Narrator: Ani Gjika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire. Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time when everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother who helped raise her, grappling with a new language, and isolated from aging parents who are trying in their own ways to survive. When she meets a young man whose mind leans toward writing, as hers does, Ani falls in love—at least, she thinks it's love. Set across Albania, Thailand, India, and the US, An Unruled Body is a young woman's journey to selfhood through the lenses of language, sexuality, and identity, and how she learns to find freedom of expression on her own terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/826291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mexicanas que hicieron historia Author: Pedro J. Fernández Narrator: Yezz Martínez, Karen Alicia Martínez, Pedro J. Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ¡Un hermoso libro que no te puedes perder! ¿Ya habías escuchado hablar de la serie de Mexicanas que hicieron historia? Esta bellísima edición especial recoge la vida de cincuenta mexicanas importantes de la historia. Aquí te cuento un poco más acerca de ellas para que te adentres en su infancia, en su juventud y conozcas lo que alcanzaron en sus distintas épocas: desde ser grandes escritoras o políticas, así como cantantes o científicas.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: THE ONE Author: Kris Vallay Narrator: Kris Vallay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 1, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir with a twist. You want to hear this story! You know the feeling when your wildest dreams always seem to come with the biggest fears? Follow Kris as she takes you on a deeply personal yet widely resonant (and somewhat spicy!) journey through all that is love, life, sex and dating. You will laugh. You will cry. You might be a little turned on. You will definitely find yourself asking what it takes to find the One. Inspirational personal growth and self help at its finest!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy Author: Ric Gillespie Narrator: J. Rodney Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. TIGHAR investigators had no agenda. They were not out to advocate, excuse, honor, or impugn. They saw the Earhart disappearance as an aviation accident and reasoned the answer to its cause and outcome should be discoverable if they could find, assemble, and analyze the relevant data. To understand why she died it was necessary to strip away the myths and sentimentality that have grown up over the years and examine the hard truths behind how Earhart's trip around the world came about and why it went so terribly wrong. The US Navy and Coast Guard were major players in the 1937 flight, disappearance, and search for Amelia Earhart, and in the aftermath. The story of the pressures and frustrations the services faced and the mistakes they made contain valuable lessons for today's commanders. Gillespie's first book, Finding Amelia—The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance (Naval Institute Press, 2006) chronicled what was known at that time. This new book updates the story with important new information from historical documents discovered since then and also provides extensive prequel and sequel narratives that complete the saga and give new perspective to the life and death of an American icon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Angels Author: Sharon Stevens Evans Narrator: Lisa S. Ware, George W. Sarris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: THE AMAZING TRUE STORY—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A true story full of drama, love, insurmountable odds, and miraculous triumph experienced by ordinary people who rose up to answer the call to help an innocent child, about one woman in particular who looked beyond her own limitations to say yes to the impossible. Sharon Stevens, twice divorced, barely making enough to support herself, would never claim to be an angel. Early in life, perilous situations were thrust upon her. As an adult, she gravitated toward adventure and spur-of-the-moment decisions that often put her on the precipice of disaster and kept her in the pathway of people who would take advantage of her. If your aim is to find fault with her, she would be an easy target, but look again. This diminutive hair stylist was not the person you would have chosen for such a monumental task with a life hanging in the balance—but God chose her, nonetheless. And where you or I would probably have done the very least we could do, Sharon said 'yes' to the impossible. She might never have stepped up and risked everything she had to help a complete stranger, but for the events that unfolded that unusually cool Kentucky August morning.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine Geschichte des Römischen Reiches in 21 Frauen (Ungekürzt) Author: Emma Southon Narrator: Christiane Nothofer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das Römische Reich endlich aus weiblicher Sicht. Lasst uns das Drehbuch des Römischen Reiches zerreißen: Genug von Brüdermördern, Frauenräubern und Kriegsspektakel! Die Geschichte Roms ist so viel mehr: Mit Emma Southon entdecken wir, wie die Sexarbeiterin Hispala Faecenia eine Verschwörung aufdeckt, wir lernen die klügste Geschäftsfrau von Pompeji kennen, während wir die wunderbare Aussicht auf den Vesuv genießen (was kann da schon schiefgehen?), und wir begleiten Septimia Zenobia, die - nachdem sie mit ansehen musste, wie inkompetente, psychopathische und inkompetent-psychopathische Kaiser das Imperium fast zerstörten - das einzig Logische tut: Sie erklärt sich selbst zur Kaiserin ... Southon folgt 21 Frauen in Krieg, verbotener Liebe und Naturkatastrophen (sowie der einen oder anderen bacchantischen Orgie) und zeigt uns ein neues Gesicht des Reiches, das wir so gut zu kennen glaubten. 'Southon zeigt, wie Frauen unglaublich häufig aus der römischen Geschichte getilgt wurden ... Römische Frauen waren immer da - jetzt müssen wir dafür sorgen, dass ihre Geschichten erzählt werden.' BBC History 'Wo war Emma Southon, als ich römische Geschichte studierte?' Laura Shepperson 'Klug, frech und erfrischend feministisch. Dieses Buch verdient einen Platz in den Regalen der Bibliotheken, um die patriarchalischen Sachbuchsammlungen auszugleichen. Wir brauchen mehr Geschichtsschreibungen wie diese.' Booklist 'Emma Southon hat die erstaunliche Fähigkeit, alles, was man über die römische Geschichte zu wissen glaubte, auf den Kopf zu stellen, neu auszurichten und neu zu zeigen, während sie einen gleichzeitig zum Lachen bringt, weil sie, offen gesagt, urkomisch ist. 'Eine Geschichte des Römischen Reiches in 21 Frauen' ist das Geschichtsbuch, von dem ich nicht wusste, dass ich es brauche - ein sofortiger Klassiker.' Jane Draycott 'Dies ist nicht nur ein Buch über das Leben historischer Frauen, sondern eines über die Geschichte des Frauseins.' The Times Literary Supplement

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Author: Sarah Labrie Narrator: Sarah Labrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Lit Hub's ''Most Anticipated'' * An Oprah Daily ''Best Book of Fall'' * An Esquire ''Best Memoir of the Year'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book for a Season of Change'' * A Zibby Owens ''Most Anticipated'' In this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as The Glass Castle and Memorial Drive, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good. On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal. Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past.