https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-top-rated-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-women--6573519https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/319/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we provide you with a rich resource. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and experience. You can listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices, making learning easier than ever. Don't miss the opportunity to improve yourself with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Lenny Littlehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8498d333957e32f0f497dd492113bd57.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-top-rated-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-women--6573519Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:25:26 +0000Lenny LittleLenny Littlefeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/319/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/319/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we provide you with a rich resource. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and experience. You can listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices, making learning easier than ever. Don't miss the opportunity to improve yourself with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heartbreak-is-the-national-anthem-how-taylor-swift-reinvented-pop-music-by-rob-sheffield--65150947https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730175Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stand-in-my-window-meditations-on-home-and-how-we-make-it-by-latonya-yvette--65150914https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775532Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-jackie-public-claims-on-a-private-life-by-karen-m-dunak--65150846https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817214Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-unruled-body-a-poet-s-memoir-by-ani-gjika--65150870https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795912Tue, 05 Nov 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mexicanas-que-hicieron-historia-by-pedro-j-fernandez--65150844https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/826291Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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:...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.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-one-by-kris-vallay--65150854https://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!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821034Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-more-good-flight-the-amelia-earhart-tragedy-by-ric-gillespie--65150864https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812521Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ordinary-angels-by-sharon-stevens-evans--65150863https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812604Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-eine-geschichte-des-romischen-reiches-in-21-frauen-ungekurzt-by-emma-southon--65150843https://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]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822050Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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...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]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-a-memoir-by-sarah-labrie--65150924https://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.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease 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:...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.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/knockout-a-memoir-by-mia-kang--65150856https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knockout: A Memoir Author: Mia Kang Narrator: Mia Kang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At age twenty-seven, and more than a decade into her modeling career, Mia Kang found herself in Thailand, standing at the edge of a Muay Thai gym thousands of miles from her New York apartment, watching fighters she didn’t know spar and sweat. As she stood there, something primal came over her—the desire to fight. What began as a short vacation to escape the toxic world of modeling became the start of an incredible journey that would forever change Kang’s relationship to food, to her body, and to her own sense of self.Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, a master’s degree holder, and a Muay Thai practitioner. However, beneath her success is the story of a woman who once lived and died by her weight. In her first book, Knockout, Kang opens up about her struggles with bullying, drug addiction, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts, and how she ultimately eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redefine her sense of self-worth.In a charming, fierce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her life and implores women to seek confidence and live outside the mold of what they’ve been taught is “feminine.” With the strength of one who has fought and survived, Mia shares the lesson that’s kept her going through it all: to not let anyone else dictate who you are supposed to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805258Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knockout: A Memoir Author: Mia Kang Narrator: Mia Kang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Knockout: A Memoir Author: Mia Kang Narrator: Mia Kang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At age twenty-seven, and more than a decade into her modeling career, Mia Kang found herself in Thailand, standing at the edge of a Muay Thai gym thousands of miles from her New York apartment, watching fighters she didn’t know spar and sweat. As she stood there, something primal came over her—the desire to fight. What began as a short vacation to escape the toxic world of modeling became the start of an incredible journey that would forever change Kang’s relationship to food, to her body, and to her own sense of self.Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, a master’s degree holder, and a Muay Thai practitioner. However, beneath her success is the story of a woman who once lived and died by her weight. In her first book, Knockout, Kang opens up about her struggles with bullying, drug addiction, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts, and how she ultimately eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redefine her sense of self-worth.In a charming, fierce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her life and implores women to seek confidence and live outside the mold of what they’ve been taught is “feminine.” With the strength of one who has fought and survived, Mia shares the lesson that’s kept her going through it all: to not let anyone else dictate who you are supposed to be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/julia-child-s-kitchen-the-design-tools-stories-and-legacy-of-an-iconic-space-by-paula-j-johnson--65150855https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julia Child’s Kitchen: The Design, Tools, Stories, and Legacy of an Iconic Space Author: Paula J. Johnson Narrator: Jacques Pépin, Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Julia Child's 20' x 14' kitchen was a serious workspace and recipe-testing lab that exuded a sense of mid-century homey comfort. Now, it has been on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, for most of the past twenty years. Between lively narrative and detailed commentary on Julia's favorite kitchen gadgets, Julia Child's Kitchen illuminates the stories behind the room's design, use, significance, and legacy, showing how deeply Julia Child continues to influence food today. The kitchen contains more than one thousand parts and pieces—tools, appliances, utensils, furniture, artwork, knick-knacks, books, and bits of whimsy—all reflecting Julia's status as an accomplished chef, gastronome, delightful cooking teacher, television trailblazer, women's advocate, mentor, and generous, jovial friend. The kitchen's layout, design, and contents reflect Julia's philosophy of cooking as well as a period of social and cultural change in the United States, providing a platform for exploring such post-World War II themes as shifting attitudes about gender roles and domesticity or the tension between tradition and innovation regarding culinary tools, materials, cooking, and food itself. This book, a beautiful tribute to Julia Child's legacy, will be a must-listen for every home cook and Julia Child fan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818384Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julia Child’s Kitchen: The Design, Tools, Stories, and Legacy of an Iconic Space Author: Paula J. Johnson Narrator: Jacques Pépin, Elizabeth Wiley...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Julia Child’s Kitchen: The Design, Tools, Stories, and Legacy of an Iconic Space Author: Paula J. Johnson Narrator: Jacques Pépin, Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Julia Child's 20' x 14' kitchen was a serious workspace and recipe-testing lab that exuded a sense of mid-century homey comfort. Now, it has been on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, for most of the past twenty years. Between lively narrative and detailed commentary on Julia's favorite kitchen gadgets, Julia Child's Kitchen illuminates the stories behind the room's design, use, significance, and legacy, showing how deeply Julia Child continues to influence food today. The kitchen contains more than one thousand parts and pieces—tools, appliances, utensils, furniture, artwork, knick-knacks, books, and bits of whimsy—all reflecting Julia's status as an accomplished chef, gastronome, delightful cooking teacher, television trailblazer, women's advocate, mentor, and generous, jovial friend. The kitchen's layout, design, and contents reflect Julia's philosophy of cooking as well as a period of social and cultural change in the United States, providing a platform for exploring such post-World War II themes as shifting attitudes about gender roles and domesticity or the tension between tradition and innovation regarding culinary tools, materials, cooking, and food itself. This book, a beautiful tribute to Julia Child's legacy, will be a must-listen for every home cook and Julia Child fan.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ashes-to-ink-a-memoir-by-lisa-lucca--65150840https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes to Ink: A Memoir Author: Lisa Lucca Narrator: Lisa Lucca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acceptance struggles to emerge from a cocoon of family secrets . . . After her parents' divorce in 1974, Lisa Lucca's idyllic Midwestern childhood is shattered when she learns her father is gay. Sworn to secrecy, she begins carrying the emotions of her family like a cracked bucket, making a mess as she embarks on a life of rebellious choices. Decades later, faced with the aftermath of her father’s death, Lisa revisits the complicated relationship she had with him, delving deeper into the stories she’s held about love, sexuality, and the family she comes from with a shimmering clarity that arises from her grief. A story of heartache and the power of forgiveness, Ashes to Ink shines a light on the challenges of living true to who we are. “Lisa Lucca weaves the past and present into a vividly written and important story with many layers: family secrets, fathers and daughters, love and sexuality, and at the core, forgiveness. What touched me most was the call to action to become the love of your own life. Read, learn, and become!”—Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling author]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834687Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes to Ink: A Memoir Author: Lisa Lucca Narrator: Lisa Lucca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes to Ink: A Memoir Author: Lisa Lucca Narrator: Lisa Lucca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acceptance struggles to emerge from a cocoon of family secrets . . . After her parents' divorce in 1974, Lisa Lucca's idyllic Midwestern childhood is shattered when she learns her father is gay. Sworn to secrecy, she begins carrying the emotions of her family like a cracked bucket, making a mess as she embarks on a life of rebellious choices. Decades later, faced with the aftermath of her father’s death, Lisa revisits the complicated relationship she had with him, delving deeper into the stories she’s held about love, sexuality, and the family she comes from with a shimmering clarity that arises from her grief. A story of heartache and the power of forgiveness, Ashes to Ink shines a light on the challenges of living true to who we are. “Lisa Lucca weaves the past and present into a vividly written and important story with many layers: family secrets, fathers and daughters, love and sexuality, and at the core, forgiveness. What touched me most was the call to action to become the love of your own life. Read, learn, and become!”—Laura Munson, New York Times bestselling author]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/memory-boxes-illuminating-a-path-to-happiness-by-yvonne-tomlinson--65150851https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/827312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memory Boxes: Illuminating a Path to Happiness Author: Yvonne Tomlinson Narrator: Yvonne Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Open up this memory box to reveal one woman's memoir of forced adoption, loss and self-loathing. Locked away for years, these memories have now found their voice as Yvonne Tomlinson bravely shares Memory Boxes with the world. Through raw honesty and unwavering courage, Yvonne invites readers to explore the contents of her memory boxes, revealing the resilience and strength that have carried her through the darkest of times. Join Yvonne on her healing journey as she explores the power of forgiveness and the unbreakable human spirit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/827312Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/827312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memory Boxes: Illuminating a Path to Happiness Author: Yvonne Tomlinson Narrator: Yvonne Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/827312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memory Boxes: Illuminating a Path to Happiness Author: Yvonne Tomlinson Narrator: Yvonne Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Open up this memory box to reveal one woman's memoir of forced adoption, loss and self-loathing. Locked away for years, these memories have now found their voice as Yvonne Tomlinson bravely shares Memory Boxes with the world. Through raw honesty and unwavering courage, Yvonne invites readers to explore the contents of her memory boxes, revealing the resilience and strength that have carried her through the darkest of times. Join Yvonne on her healing journey as she explores the power of forgiveness and the unbreakable human spirit.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-lisa-marie-presley-desde-aqui-a-lo-desconocido-memorias-by-riley-keough-lisa-marie-presley--65150849https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias Author: Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley Narrator: Susana Ballesteros, Fabiola Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough. En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las memorias que tanto tiempo llevaba preparando. Un mes después, Lisa Marie fallecía, dejando al mundo sin la posibilidad de escuchar su historia en sus propias palabras. Nunca llegarían a descubrir a la mujer apasionada, alegre, cariñosa y complicada que Riley tanto quería y añoraba. Riley recogió las cintas que su madre había grabado para el libro, se tumbó en su cama, y escuchó a Lisa Marie contar historia tras historia sobre cómo solían estrellar coches de golf en los jardines de Graceland, sobre el amor incondicional que le profesaba su padre, sobre el tiempo que pasaban en la planta de arriba, solos los dos. Y sobre cómo tuvieron que sacarla a la fuerza del cuarto de baño mientras corría chillando hacia su cuerpo, inerte en el suelo. Sobre su vida con su madre en Los Ángeles, donde pasaba de un colegio a otro, acumulando expulsiones, siempre metida en líos. Sobre la especial relación con Danny Keough, que se prolongó durante toda su vida, sobre su matrimonio con Michael Jackson y todo lo que tenían en común. Sobre la maternidad. Sobre los abismos de la adicción. Sobre la tristeza que la acechaba constantemente. Riley supo que tenía que cumplir el deseo de su madre y compartir esos recuerdos, incandescentes y dolorosos, con el mundo. Para permitir que la conozcamos por fin. Este libro extraordinario está compuesto tanto de la voz de Lisa Marie como de la de Riley, una madre y una hija comunicándose incluso después de la muerte para intentar curarse la una a la otra. Profundamente conmovedora e intensamente reveladora, Desde aquí a lo desconocido es una obra inigualable: las últimas palabras de la única hija de una auténtica leyenda.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824694Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias Author: Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley Narrator: Susana Ballesteros, Fabiola...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/824694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias Author: Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley Narrator: Susana Ballesteros, Fabiola Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough. En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las memorias que tanto tiempo llevaba preparando. Un mes después, Lisa Marie fallecía, dejando al mundo sin la posibilidad de escuchar su historia en sus propias palabras. Nunca llegarían a descubrir a la mujer apasionada, alegre, cariñosa y complicada que Riley tanto quería y añoraba. Riley recogió las cintas que su madre había grabado para el libro, se tumbó en su cama, y escuchó a Lisa Marie contar historia tras historia sobre cómo solían estrellar coches de golf en los jardines de Graceland, sobre el amor incondicional que le profesaba su padre, sobre el tiempo que pasaban en la planta de arriba, solos los dos. Y sobre cómo tuvieron que sacarla a la fuerza del cuarto de baño mientras corría chillando hacia su cuerpo, inerte en el suelo. Sobre su vida con su madre en Los Ángeles, donde pasaba de un colegio a otro, acumulando expulsiones, siempre metida en líos. Sobre la especial relación con Danny Keough, que se prolongó durante toda su vida, sobre su matrimonio con Michael Jackson y todo lo que tenían en común. Sobre la maternidad. Sobre los abismos de la adicción. Sobre la tristeza que la acechaba constantemente. Riley supo que tenía que cumplir el deseo de su madre y compartir esos recuerdos, incandescentes y dolorosos, con el mundo. Para permitir que la conozcamos por fin. Este libro extraordinario está compuesto tanto de la voz de Lisa Marie como de la de Riley, una madre y una hija comunicándose incluso después de la muerte para intentar curarse la una a la otra. Profundamente conmovedora e intensamente reveladora, Desde aquí a lo desconocido es una obra inigualable: las últimas palabras de la única hija de una auténtica leyenda.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-die-bossin-von-der-hood-an-die-spitze-des-musikbusiness-mein-weg-zum-erfolg-in-20-rules-by-marina-buzunashvilli-nina-sternbur--65150857https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Bossin: Von der Hood an die Spitze des Musikbusiness - Mein Weg zum Erfolg in 20 Rules Author: Marina Buzunashvilli, Nina Sternburg Narrator: Marina Buzunashvilli Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: October 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Marina Buzunashvilli gilt als eine der einflussreichsten Größen im deutschen Musikbusiness, ihr Weg an die Spitze aber war alles andere als leicht. Aufgewachsen in Kreuzberg, war ihr Umfeld geprägt von Gewalt und Verbrechen. Einzig ihre Liebe zur Musik ermöglichte ihr den Aufstieg, gegen alle Widerstände. Heute ist Marina Director of PR bei Sony Music Germany, war maßgeblich daran beteiligt, den Deutschrap von Kool Savas, Xatar oder Haftbefehl groß zu machen und arbeitet regelmäßig mit Künstlern wie Robbie Williams und Adele zusammen. Erstmals erzählt sie jetzt ihre ganze Geschichte und teilt die 20 Rules, die sie zum Erfolg geführt haben. Ein faszinierender Blick hinter die Kulissen des Musikgeschäfts und ein Leitfaden für alle, die ein erfolgreiches, selbstbestimmtes Leben führen wollen – egal was andere davon halten!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816775Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Bossin: Von der Hood an die Spitze des Musikbusiness - Mein Weg zum Erfolg in 20 Rules Author: Marina Buzunashvilli, Nina Sternburg...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Bossin: Von der Hood an die Spitze des Musikbusiness - Mein Weg zum Erfolg in 20 Rules Author: Marina Buzunashvilli, Nina Sternburg Narrator: Marina Buzunashvilli Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: October 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Marina Buzunashvilli gilt als eine der einflussreichsten Größen im deutschen Musikbusiness, ihr Weg an die Spitze aber war alles andere als leicht. Aufgewachsen in Kreuzberg, war ihr Umfeld geprägt von Gewalt und Verbrechen. Einzig ihre Liebe zur Musik ermöglichte ihr den Aufstieg, gegen alle Widerstände. Heute ist Marina Director of PR bei Sony Music Germany, war maßgeblich daran beteiligt, den Deutschrap von Kool Savas, Xatar oder Haftbefehl groß zu machen und arbeitet regelmäßig mit Künstlern wie Robbie Williams und Adele zusammen. Erstmals erzählt sie jetzt ihre ganze Geschichte und teilt die 20 Rules, die sie zum Erfolg geführt haben. Ein faszinierender Blick hinter die Kulissen des Musikgeschäfts und ein Leitfaden für alle, die ein erfolgreiches, selbstbestimmtes Leben führen wollen – egal was andere davon halten!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dorothy-parker-in-hollywood-by-gail-crowther--65150895https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dorothy Parker in Hollywood Author: Gail Crowther Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before. Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754925Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dorothy Parker in Hollywood Author: Gail Crowther Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dorothy Parker in Hollywood Author: Gail Crowther Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before. Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/russian-kamera-hranenia-by-nuta-federmesser--65150841https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829170 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Камера хранения Author: Нюта Федермессер Narrator: Нюта Федермессер Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Нюта Федермессер — известный российский общественный деятель, учредитель Благотворительного фонда помощи хосписам «Вера», на званного в честь ее мамы, врача Веры Васильевны Миллионщиковой, одной из основателей хосписного движения в России. Уже почти два десятилетия Нюта записывает все, что успевает за фиксировать из безумного списка событий и встреч, чтобы однажды остановиться, вернуться, перечитать, чтобы сохранить память. В книге «Камера хранения» собраны крохотные рассказы: заметки на полях, выдержки из дневника, попытки передачи сильных эмоций, записи собственных размышлений и воспоминаний, сны, мечты, путевые записки — о том, что близко и важно всем нам: о любви и печали, о накопившейся боли, о доброте и радости, о причинах своего раздражения и усталости, о счастье, о горечи разлук, о связи родителей и детей, о вере, нежности и сострадании.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829170Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829170 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Камера хранения Author: Нюта Федермессер Narrator: Нюта Федермессер Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829170 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Камера хранения Author: Нюта Федермессер Narrator: Нюта Федермессер Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Нюта Федермессер — известный российский общественный деятель, учредитель Благотворительного фонда помощи хосписам «Вера», на званного в честь ее мамы, врача Веры Васильевны Миллионщиковой, одной из основателей хосписного движения в России. Уже почти два десятилетия Нюта записывает все, что успевает за фиксировать из безумного списка событий и встреч, чтобы однажды остановиться, вернуться, перечитать, чтобы сохранить память. В книге «Камера хранения» собраны крохотные рассказы: заметки на полях, выдержки из дневника, попытки передачи сильных эмоций, записи собственных размышлений и воспоминаний, сны, мечты, путевые записки — о том, что близко и важно всем нам: о любви и печали, о накопившейся боли, о доброте и радости, о причинах своего раздражения и усталости, о счастье, о горечи разлук, о связи родителей и детей, о вере, нежности и сострадании.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unexpected-abigail-adams-a-woman-not-apt-to-be-intimidated-by-john-l-smith-jr--65150859https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated' Author: John L. Smith Jr. Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated,' writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail's spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail's colorful correspondence with a contextual narrative. In this priceless documentation of one of the most important periods of world history she comments on the varied personalities she encountered and, while her husband was away from home serving in the Continental Congresses and as a diplomatic envoy in Europe, she wrote him frequently about their home in Massachusetts, their family, national and local politics, and, during the early years of the war, crucial information concerning revolutionary activities around Boston. She was an advocate for education for women, a shrewd businesswoman, and had an unrivaled political acumen. This major biography of Abigail is a riveting, revealing portrait of a remarkable woman that listeners will find very relatable—and one that transforms how she is perceived.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795911Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated' Author: John L. Smith Jr. Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated' Author: John L. Smith Jr. Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman 'Not Apt to Be Intimidated,' writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail's spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail's colorful correspondence with a contextual narrative. In this priceless documentation of one of the most important periods of world history she comments on the varied personalities she encountered and, while her husband was away from home serving in the Continental Congresses and as a diplomatic envoy in Europe, she wrote him frequently about their home in Massachusetts, their family, national and local politics, and, during the early years of the war, crucial information concerning revolutionary activities around Boston. She was an advocate for education for women, a shrewd businesswoman, and had an unrivaled political acumen. This major biography of Abigail is a riveting, revealing portrait of a remarkable woman that listeners will find very relatable—and one that transforms how she is perceived.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pressing-stones-the-healing-journey-of-a-nazi-s-daughter-by-andrea-van-de-loo--65150842https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi's Daughter Author: Andrea van de Loo Narrator: Andrea van de Loo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 25, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born during WWII in the Netherlands, Andrea van de Loo experienced a traumatic childhood, with her father’s past as a member of the Nazi SS casting a long shadow over her life. Despite these challenges, she embarked on an inspirational journey toward healing and self-discovery. Her search for self took her across the globe, where she found solace, purpose, and community. Encompassing eighty years of the author’s life, The Pressing Stones guides readers through a deeply intimate and emotional journey, exploring family, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, motherhood, psychedelic therapy, addiction recovery, and the generational impacts of war. It also presents a personal portrait of life in Auroville, the “City of Dawn,” dedicated to the spiritual visions of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. This poignant portrayal of one woman’s courage and determination to follow her inner guidance, and overcome her childhood trauma, is a testament to the power of consciousness and the human spirit, inspiring readers to find their own paths toward healing and fulfillment. Andrea’s story illustrates how freedom, joy, peace of mind, and happiness are possible, as we face our deepest truths and emerge from our darkest tribulations.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821040Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi's Daughter Author: Andrea van de Loo Narrator: Andrea van de Loo Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi's Daughter Author: Andrea van de Loo Narrator: Andrea van de Loo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 25, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born during WWII in the Netherlands, Andrea van de Loo experienced a traumatic childhood, with her father’s past as a member of the Nazi SS casting a long shadow over her life. Despite these challenges, she embarked on an inspirational journey toward healing and self-discovery. Her search for self took her across the globe, where she found solace, purpose, and community. Encompassing eighty years of the author’s life, The Pressing Stones guides readers through a deeply intimate and emotional journey, exploring family, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, motherhood, psychedelic therapy, addiction recovery, and the generational impacts of war. It also presents a personal portrait of life in Auroville, the “City of Dawn,” dedicated to the spiritual visions of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. This poignant portrayal of one woman’s courage and determination to follow her inner guidance, and overcome her childhood trauma, is a testament to the power of consciousness and the human spirit, inspiring readers to find their own paths toward healing and fulfillment. Andrea’s story illustrates how freedom, joy, peace of mind, and happiness are possible, as we face our deepest truths and emerge from our darkest tribulations.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-happened-to-belen-the-unjust-imprisonment-that-sparked-a-women-s-rights-movement-by-ana-elena-correa--65150940https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement Author: Ana Elena Correa Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ''There are many women like Belén whose names we don’t know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman’s fight for justice.''—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Foreword by Margaret Atwood The heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage—an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights. In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache—and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage—without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation’s repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide. Belén’s imprisonment is a glaring example of how women’s health care has become increasingly criminalized, putting the most vulnerable—BIPOC, rural, and low-income—women at greater risk of prosecution. Belén’s cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas—not one more—symbolized by thousands of demonstrators around the globe donning white masks, the same kind of mask Belén wore when leaving prison. The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021.  In this gripping and personal account of the case and its impact on local law, Ana Correa, one of Argentina’s leading journalists and activists, makes clear that what happened to Belén could happen to any woman—and that we all have the power to raise our collective voices and demand change. Translated by Julia Sanches]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement Author: Ana Elena Correa Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement Author: Ana Elena Correa Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ''There are many women like Belén whose names we don’t know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman’s fight for justice.''—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Foreword by Margaret Atwood The heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage—an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights. In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache—and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage—without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation’s repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide. Belén’s imprisonment is a glaring example of how women’s health care has become increasingly criminalized, putting the most vulnerable—BIPOC, rural, and low-income—women at greater risk of prosecution. Belén’s cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas—not one more—symbolized by thousands of demonstrators around the globe donning white masks, the same kind of mask Belén wore when leaving prison. The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021.  In this gripping and personal account of the case and its impact on local law, Ana Correa, one of Argentina’s leading journalists and activists, makes clear that what happened to Belén could happen to any woman—and that we all have the power to raise our collective voices and demand change. Translated by Julia Sanches]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-in-the-world-a-southern-woman-s-guide-to-laughing-at-life-s-unexpected-curveballs-and-beautiful-blessings-by-leanne-morgan--65150922https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings Author: Leanne Morgan Narrator: Leanne Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it’s like to be a woman today—from rebelling against the latest diet trends to dealing with perimenopausal mean girls and attending rock concerts in middle age.   For a long time, no one pulling the strings in the comedy world thought that a woman over fifty from rural Tennessee could make it in the industry. But Leanne Morgan has defied the odds, reaching millions with her musings on hormones, low-rise britches, Weight Watchers, and her opposites-attract relationship with her husband, Chuck.   In her charming southern accent, Morgan brings readers inside her quest to find her voice after spending many years trying to figure out what that meant. Along the way, we learn how she grew up as a butcher’s daughter, landed a husband with health insurance, honed her stand-up technique selling jewelry at house parties, embraced the glories of aging, and surrendered to the comfort of wearing big flesh-toned panties.   Equal parts warm and hilarious, this book is a must-read by one of comedy’s rising stars—reminding you that every time life leaves you asking “What in the world?!,” something good is bound to come out of it someday.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752222Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings Author: Leanne Morgan Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752222 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings Author: Leanne Morgan Narrator: Leanne Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it’s like to be a woman today—from rebelling against the latest diet trends to dealing with perimenopausal mean girls and attending rock concerts in middle age.   For a long time, no one pulling the strings in the comedy world thought that a woman over fifty from rural Tennessee could make it in the industry. But Leanne Morgan has defied the odds, reaching millions with her musings on hormones, low-rise britches, Weight Watchers, and her opposites-attract relationship with her husband, Chuck.   In her charming southern accent, Morgan brings readers inside her quest to find her voice after spending many years trying to figure out what that meant. Along the way, we learn how she grew up as a butcher’s daughter, landed a husband with health insurance, honed her stand-up technique selling jewelry at house parties, embraced the glories of aging, and surrendered to the comfort of wearing big flesh-toned panties.   Equal parts warm and hilarious, this book is a must-read by one of comedy’s rising stars—reminding you that every time life leaves you asking “What in the world?!,” something good is bound to come out of it someday.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-cup-of-water-under-my-bed-a-memoir-by-daisy-hernandez--65150897https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir Author: Daisy Hernández Narrator: Daisy Hernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa.  These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792905Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir Author: Daisy Hernández Narrator: Daisy Hernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir Author: Daisy Hernández Narrator: Daisy Hernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa.  These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, y cariño—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom. A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-mom-like-that-a-memoir-of-postpartum-psychosis-by-aaisha-alvi--65150871https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mom Like That: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis Author: Aaisha Alvi Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A brave and lyrical exploration of motherhood and mental health . . . as terrifying as it is riveting.' —Susannah Cahalan, NYT bestselling author of Brain on Fire Early motherhood is supposed to be joyous, but for Aaisha Alvi those early days were ruined by terrifying thoughts about her baby and family. Her experience was the antithesis of everything she had ever been told about motherhood, far beyond the trials of breastfeeding or putting her baby to sleep. Aaisha did recover and began to enjoy motherhood. She was thrilled when she fell pregnant again. Sadly, that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and the psychosis returned. This time, however, she was blindsided by the unimaginable: voices urged her to stab her daughter and to harm innocent people. Aaisha felt evil, worthy of taking her own life. But each time she sought medical help, she was turned away. With unflinching honesty, Aaisha takes listeners beyond the vitriol and blame that is flung at women suffering from postpartum psychosis—particularly women of color. Hers is a clarion call for increased awareness of a condition that need never result in tragedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803899Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mom Like That: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis Author: Aaisha Alvi Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mom Like That: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis Author: Aaisha Alvi Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A brave and lyrical exploration of motherhood and mental health . . . as terrifying as it is riveting.' —Susannah Cahalan, NYT bestselling author of Brain on Fire Early motherhood is supposed to be joyous, but for Aaisha Alvi those early days were ruined by terrifying thoughts about her baby and family. Her experience was the antithesis of everything she had ever been told about motherhood, far beyond the trials of breastfeeding or putting her baby to sleep. Aaisha did recover and began to enjoy motherhood. She was thrilled when she fell pregnant again. Sadly, that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and the psychosis returned. This time, however, she was blindsided by the unimaginable: voices urged her to stab her daughter and to harm innocent people. Aaisha felt evil, worthy of taking her own life. But each time she sought medical help, she was turned away. With unflinching honesty, Aaisha takes listeners beyond the vitriol and blame that is flung at women suffering from postpartum psychosis—particularly women of color. Hers is a clarion call for increased awareness of a condition that need never result in tragedy.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-bad-mother-a-mother-s-search-for-meaning-in-the-police-academy-by-megan-williams--65150869https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy Author: Megan Williams Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer. It's not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering twins born via IVF at twenty-nine weeks. As the twins grow and test her endlessly, she feels she is failing. She needs a win. During a grueling application process, Megan measures herself against the other candidates and confronts the normative notions of what it is to be a good mother. The paralyzing fear that she is a bad mother looms large in her head, as does the real possibility that she might not make the cut at the Academy. With its intertwined narratives of police recruitment and motherhood, the memoir provides an unflinching journalistic view of big-city law enforcement, set atop a personal journey during which Megan learns gratitude and makes peace with a motherhood far different from the dream sold to her by our culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798148Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy Author: Megan Williams Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy Author: Megan Williams Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer. It's not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering twins born via IVF at twenty-nine weeks. As the twins grow and test her endlessly, she feels she is failing. She needs a win. During a grueling application process, Megan measures herself against the other candidates and confronts the normative notions of what it is to be a good mother. The paralyzing fear that she is a bad mother looms large in her head, as does the real possibility that she might not make the cut at the Academy. With its intertwined narratives of police recruitment and motherhood, the memoir provides an unflinching journalistic view of big-city law enforcement, set atop a personal journey during which Megan learns gratitude and makes peace with a motherhood far different from the dream sold to her by our culture.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/health-and-safety-a-breakdown-by-emily-witt--65150962https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Health and Safety: A Breakdown Author: Emily Witt Narrator: Emily Witt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Haunting . . . [Witt] writes with such cool precision.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times 'The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency'—Emily Gould, The Cut A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2024 (SO FAR) • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her. In Health and Safety, Witt charts her immersion into New York City’s dance music underground. Emily would come to lead a double life. By day she worked as a journalist, covering gun violence, climate catastrophes, and the rallies of right-wing militias. And by night she pushed the limits of consciousness in hollowed-out office spaces and warehouses to music that sounded like the future. But no counterculture, no matter how utopian, could stave off the squalor of American politics and the cataclysm of 2020. Affectionate yet never sentimental, Health and Safety is a lament for a broken relationship, for a changed nightlife scene, and for New York City just before the fall. Sparing no one—least of all herself—Witt offers her life as a lens onto an era of American delirium and dissolution.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739045Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Health and Safety: A Breakdown Author: Emily Witt Narrator: Emily Witt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Health and Safety: A Breakdown Author: Emily Witt Narrator: Emily Witt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Haunting . . . [Witt] writes with such cool precision.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times 'The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency'—Emily Gould, The Cut A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2024 (SO FAR) • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her. In Health and Safety, Witt charts her immersion into New York City’s dance music underground. Emily would come to lead a double life. By day she worked as a journalist, covering gun violence, climate catastrophes, and the rallies of right-wing militias. And by night she pushed the limits of consciousness in hollowed-out office spaces and warehouses to music that sounded like the future. But no counterculture, no matter how utopian, could stave off the squalor of American politics and the cataclysm of 2020. Affectionate yet never sentimental, Health and Safety is a lament for a broken relationship, for a changed nightlife scene, and for New York City just before the fall. Sparing no one—least of all herself—Witt offers her life as a lens onto an era of American delirium and dissolution.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/submit-by-sonnet--65150933https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Submit Author: Sonnet Narrator: Alice Carax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The shocking and illuminating memoir of an anonymous submissive immersed in the BDSM community, reckoning with the divide between our desires and the expectations and strictures that keep us from pursuing them.  Sonnet is a writer. She is a professional with a wide network of important people. She is athletic, creative and successful. She always remembers to send Christmas cards.   Sonnet also likes to be caned. She likes to be humiliated. She likes to go into a room blindfolded with ten strangers and have them do whatever they want to her.   Sonnet likes whatever you tell her she likes.   This is the secret memoir of a submissive. A vivid, electric, stunning account of how one woman gets her kicks. It is all true.   This is an experience that can’t be missed, all we ask is that you SUBMIT…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739379Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Submit Author: Sonnet Narrator: Alice Carax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Submit Author: Sonnet Narrator: Alice Carax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The shocking and illuminating memoir of an anonymous submissive immersed in the BDSM community, reckoning with the divide between our desires and the expectations and strictures that keep us from pursuing them.  Sonnet is a writer. She is a professional with a wide network of important people. She is athletic, creative and successful. She always remembers to send Christmas cards.   Sonnet also likes to be caned. She likes to be humiliated. She likes to go into a room blindfolded with ten strangers and have them do whatever they want to her.   Sonnet likes whatever you tell her she likes.   This is the secret memoir of a submissive. A vivid, electric, stunning account of how one woman gets her kicks. It is all true.   This is an experience that can’t be missed, all we ask is that you SUBMIT…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-s-that-girl-a-memoir-by-eve--65150920https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who's That Girl?: A Memoir Author: Eve Narrator: Eve Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, reaching number one on the Billboard 200, marking her as the third female rapper to ever obtain that position. She later made history again as the first recipient ever of the Grammy Award®for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for her platinum single “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” with Gwen Stefani. Following up with three chart-topping albums that made unrivaled waves in the world of hip-hop and music, as well as trailblazing moments in TV/film and fashion, Eve now looks back on her groundbreaking career. West Philadelphia was not for the faint of heart—Eve knows that better than anyone. However, she navigated those Philly streets (and later the rest of the world) seamlessly, though it was not without strength and resilience. She incorporates that unbridled ambition into every bar that she writes and every stage/set that she stands on. With a gritty realness that speaks to her style, she shares her experiences going from the Mill Creek Projects to Hollywood. In this memoir, Eve delves into her entrance as "Eve of Destruction" into a male-dominated hip-hop industry, the deeper story behind Scorpion that was never told until now, and the internal battle with her music, her label, and herself after Lip Lock.  This fearless, empowering, and inspirational memoir from hip-hop sensation Eve explores her rise to stardom as a female MC, her lasting legacy on pop culture and music, and her incredible yet enduring struggle balancing her personal life with her professional one.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754990Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who's That Girl?: A Memoir Author: Eve Narrator: Eve Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who's That Girl?: A Memoir Author: Eve Narrator: Eve Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, reaching number one on the Billboard 200, marking her as the third female rapper to ever obtain that position. She later made history again as the first recipient ever of the Grammy Award®for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for her platinum single “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” with Gwen Stefani. Following up with three chart-topping albums that made unrivaled waves in the world of hip-hop and music, as well as trailblazing moments in TV/film and fashion, Eve now looks back on her groundbreaking career. West Philadelphia was not for the faint of heart—Eve knows that better than anyone. However, she navigated those Philly streets (and later the rest of the world) seamlessly, though it was not without strength and resilience. She incorporates that unbridled ambition into every bar that she writes and every stage/set that she stands on. With a gritty realness that speaks to her style, she shares her experiences going from the Mill Creek Projects to Hollywood. In this memoir, Eve delves into her entrance as "Eve of Destruction" into a male-dominated hip-hop industry, the deeper story behind Scorpion that was never told until now, and the internal battle with her music, her label, and herself after Lip Lock.  This fearless, empowering, and inspirational memoir from hip-hop sensation Eve explores her rise to stardom as a female MC, her lasting legacy on pop culture and music, and her incredible yet enduring struggle balancing her personal life with her professional one.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kingmaker-pamela-harriman-s-astonishing-life-of-power-seduction-and-intrigue-by-sonia-purnell--65150917https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Author: Sonia Purnell Narrator: Louise Brealey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes – on both sides of the Atlantic - remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today. At age 20 Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law became a “secret weapon” during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler. After the war, she helped to transform Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli into Italy’s ‘uncrowned king’ on the international stage and after moving to the US brought a struggling Democratic party back to life, hand-picking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency. Picked as Ambassador to France, she deployed her legendary subtle powers to charm world leaders and help efforts to bring peace to Bosnia, playing her part in what was arguably the high-water mark of American global supremacy. There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics, culture, and fashion whose lives she did not touch, including the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Aly Khan, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem, Ed Murrow, and Frank Sinatra. Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, KINGMAKER re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of Pamela Harriman's life through images.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752246Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Author: Sonia Purnell Narrator: Louise Brealey Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue Author: Sonia Purnell Narrator: Louise Brealey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing – and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes – on both sides of the Atlantic - remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today. At age 20 Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law became a “secret weapon” during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler. After the war, she helped to transform Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli into Italy’s ‘uncrowned king’ on the international stage and after moving to the US brought a struggling Democratic party back to life, hand-picking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency. Picked as Ambassador to France, she deployed her legendary subtle powers to charm world leaders and help efforts to bring peace to Bosnia, playing her part in what was arguably the high-water mark of American global supremacy. There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics, culture, and fashion whose lives she did not touch, including the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Aly Khan, Kay Graham, Gloria Steinem, Ed Murrow, and Frank Sinatra. Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex, politics, yachts, palaces and fabulous clothes, KINGMAKER re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of Pamela Harriman's life through images.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-third-gilmore-girl-a-memoir-by-kelly-bishop--65150890https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 10 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more. Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life. Full of witty insights and featuring a special collection of personal and professional photographs, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 10 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more. Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life. Full of witty insights and featuring a special collection of personal and professional photographs, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/locker-room-talk-a-woman-s-struggle-to-get-inside-by-melissa-ludtke--65150873https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside Author: Melissa Ludtke Narrator: Melissa Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, twenty-six-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge's order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtke's gripping account of being at the core of this globally covered case that churned up ugly prejudices about the place of women in sports. Kuhn claimed that allowing women into locker rooms would violate his players' 'sexual privacy.' She weaves these public perspectives throughout her vivid depiction of the court drama overseen by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve on the federal bench. She recounts how her lawyer, F. A. O. 'Fritz' Schwarz, employed an ingenious legal strategy that persuaded Judge Motley to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to that of her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one woman's determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for women's rights.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802260Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside Author: Melissa Ludtke Narrator: Melissa Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 45...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside Author: Melissa Ludtke Narrator: Melissa Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, twenty-six-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge's order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtke's gripping account of being at the core of this globally covered case that churned up ugly prejudices about the place of women in sports. Kuhn claimed that allowing women into locker rooms would violate his players' 'sexual privacy.' She weaves these public perspectives throughout her vivid depiction of the court drama overseen by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve on the federal bench. She recounts how her lawyer, F. A. O. 'Fritz' Schwarz, employed an ingenious legal strategy that persuaded Judge Motley to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to that of her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one woman's determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for women's rights.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/her-space-her-time-how-trailblazing-women-scientists-decoded-the-hidden-universe-by-shohini-ghose--65150847https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe Author: Shohini Ghose Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions. In each chapter, Ghose explores a scientific topic and explains how the women featured revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy. In doing so, she also addresses particular aspects of women's experiences in physics and astronomy: in the chapter on time, for instance, we learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; in the chapter on space exploration, we learn of Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; and in the chapter on subatomic particles, we learn of Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri, who contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe. Her Space, Her Time is a story of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership, and overcoming invisibility that will leave a lasting impression on any listener curious about the rule-breakers and trendsetters who illuminated our understanding of the universe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811960Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe Author: Shohini Ghose Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe Author: Shohini Ghose Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions. In each chapter, Ghose explores a scientific topic and explains how the women featured revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy. In doing so, she also addresses particular aspects of women's experiences in physics and astronomy: in the chapter on time, for instance, we learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; in the chapter on space exploration, we learn of Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; and in the chapter on subatomic particles, we learn of Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri, who contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe. Her Space, Her Time is a story of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership, and overcoming invisibility that will leave a lasting impression on any listener curious about the rule-breakers and trendsetters who illuminated our understanding of the universe.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-tough-dame-the-life-and-career-of-diana-rigg-by-herbie-j-pilato--65150852https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work ― from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award–winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones. This eclectic volume traces Rigg’s career as a renowned star of television, film, and the stage. The author includes insights from rare, archived interviews, encompassing both video dialogues conducted by the University of Kent and Oxford Union. The meticulously curated archival material is further complemented by equally rare  retrospections drawn from diverse media sources and hitherto unpublished accounts from the people who knew Rigg best, affording readers an unprecedented, all-encompassing glimpse into her private world. With exclusive commentary from Rupert Macnee (son of Riggs’s Avengers costar and dear friend Patrick Macnee); the show’s stunt coordinator/director Ray Austin; actors Samuel West, Bernie Kopell, Barbara Barrie, Juliet Mills, John Schuck, and Damon Evans; director Bruce Beresford; and documentarian David Naylor, among others, One Tough Dame delivers an in-depth perspective of a beloved, brave, brilliant, and trailblazing actor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809071Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work ― from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award–winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones. This eclectic volume traces Rigg’s career as a renowned star of television, film, and the stage. The author includes insights from rare, archived interviews, encompassing both video dialogues conducted by the University of Kent and Oxford Union. The meticulously curated archival material is further complemented by equally rare  retrospections drawn from diverse media sources and hitherto unpublished accounts from the people who knew Rigg best, affording readers an unprecedented, all-encompassing glimpse into her private world. With exclusive commentary from Rupert Macnee (son of Riggs’s Avengers costar and dear friend Patrick Macnee); the show’s stunt coordinator/director Ray Austin; actors Samuel West, Bernie Kopell, Barbara Barrie, Juliet Mills, John Schuck, and Damon Evans; director Bruce Beresford; and documentarian David Naylor, among others, One Tough Dame delivers an in-depth perspective of a beloved, brave, brilliant, and trailblazing actor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ordinary-disasters-how-i-stopped-being-a-model-minority-by-anne-anlin-cheng--65151000https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority Author: Anne Anlin Cheng Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739040Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority Author: Anne Anlin Cheng Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority Author: Anne Anlin Cheng Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scam-goddess-lessons-from-a-life-of-cons-grifts-and-schemes-by-laci-mosley--65150938https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes Author: Laci Mosley Narrator: Laci Mosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. ​ From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn’t hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. “You see,” she writes, “everyone’s a scammer and everything’s a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn’t built for people like me. Scamming saved me and has taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world while looking out for myself, too.” In Scam Goddess, Laci recounts how her scammer instincts have guided her throughout her life—from a religious childhood in rural Texas, to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front, to swindling her way past the gatekeepers of Hollywood—recounting the greatest true-crime scam stories that inspired her along the way. Whether it’s by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, we’re all getting scammed. In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739394Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes Author: Laci Mosley Narrator: Laci Mosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes Author: Laci Mosley Narrator: Laci Mosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. ​ From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn’t hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. “You see,” she writes, “everyone’s a scammer and everything’s a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn’t built for people like me. Scamming saved me and has taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world while looking out for myself, too.” In Scam Goddess, Laci recounts how her scammer instincts have guided her throughout her life—from a religious childhood in rural Texas, to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front, to swindling her way past the gatekeepers of Hollywood—recounting the greatest true-crime scam stories that inspired her along the way. Whether it’s by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, we’re all getting scammed. In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-far-apart-by-ellen-foster-kitty-salsberg--65150915https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Ellen Foster, Kitty Salsberg Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart. Introduction by Adara Goldberg]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Ellen Foster, Kitty Salsberg Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Ellen Foster, Kitty Salsberg Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart. Introduction by Adara Goldberg]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stolen-family-captive-in-saudi-arabia-by-johanne-durocher--65150911https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia Author: Johanne Durocher Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795956Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia Author: Johanne Durocher Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia Author: Johanne Durocher Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-deaf-girl-a-memoir-of-hearing-loss-hope-and-fighting-against-the-odds-by-abigail-heringer--65150876https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips!But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as “the deaf girl.” And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that while being deaf is part of her identity, it doesn’t define her. Throughout her journey, marked by challenges and adversity, Abigail has grown into her own strongest advocate, discovering a new voice that is confident, fearless, and empowered—a voice that enables her to proudly reclaim the title of “the deaf girl” she once resisted and rewrite it as a testament to her resilience and strength.Hopeful, vulnerable, and uplifting, The Deaf Girl shares Abigail’s journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly. This memoir serves as an inspiring reminder for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or struggled to embrace their differences, showcasing that every voice is worthy of being heard. “The Deaf Girl is an incredibly moving and uplifting memoir. Abigail’s heartfelt and sincere reflections on growing up as an outsider and her journey to embrace her identity reveal a remarkable tale of resilience and courage … An inspiring book filled with hope.”—Cat Mathes, President & CEO of John Tracy Center]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips!But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as “the deaf girl.” And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that while being deaf is part of her identity, it doesn’t define her. Throughout her journey, marked by challenges and adversity, Abigail has grown into her own strongest advocate, discovering a new voice that is confident, fearless, and empowered—a voice that enables her to proudly reclaim the title of “the deaf girl” she once resisted and rewrite it as a testament to her resilience and strength.Hopeful, vulnerable, and uplifting, The Deaf Girl shares Abigail’s journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly. This memoir serves as an inspiring reminder for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or struggled to embrace their differences, showcasing that every voice is worthy of being heard. “The Deaf Girl is an incredibly moving and uplifting memoir. Abigail’s heartfelt and sincere reflections on growing up as an outsider and her journey to embrace her identity reveal a remarkable tale of resilience and courage … An inspiring book filled with hope.”—Cat Mathes, President & CEO of John Tracy Center]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-wilde-stille-ungekurzt-by-raynor-winn--65150860https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wilde Stille (Ungekürzt) Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das Leben entwickelt sich selten so, wie wir es planen. Raynor Winn und ihr Mann Moth erlebten dies hautnah, als sie mitten im Leben alles verloren und sich auf die rund 1000 Kilometer lange Wanderung entlang des South West Coast Path begaben. Nach dieser Wanderung haben sich die beiden in einer kleinen Stadt an der englischen Küste niedergelassen und versuchen, sich wieder an das Leben mit einem Dach über dem Kopf zu gewöhnen. In Ihrem zweiten Buch 'Wilde Stille' erzählt Raynor Winn: - wie die Wanderung ihr Leben verändert hat; - wie es dem Ehepaar gelingt, wieder ein 'normales' Leben zu führen; - was Raynor bewegte, ihr erstes Buch zu schreiben; ... und wie ihr Leben weitergeht. Natürlich hält das Leben neue Herausforderungen für das Ehepaar bereit. Werden sich Ray und Moth trotz aller Schwierigkeiten ein neues Abenteuer zutrauen? Hören Sie die Fortsetzung ihrer bewegenden Geschichte!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816257Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wilde Stille (Ungekürzt) Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wilde Stille (Ungekürzt) Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das Leben entwickelt sich selten so, wie wir es planen. Raynor Winn und ihr Mann Moth erlebten dies hautnah, als sie mitten im Leben alles verloren und sich auf die rund 1000 Kilometer lange Wanderung entlang des South West Coast Path begaben. Nach dieser Wanderung haben sich die beiden in einer kleinen Stadt an der englischen Küste niedergelassen und versuchen, sich wieder an das Leben mit einem Dach über dem Kopf zu gewöhnen. In Ihrem zweiten Buch 'Wilde Stille' erzählt Raynor Winn: - wie die Wanderung ihr Leben verändert hat; - wie es dem Ehepaar gelingt, wieder ein 'normales' Leben zu führen; - was Raynor bewegte, ihr erstes Buch zu schreiben; ... und wie ihr Leben weitergeht. Natürlich hält das Leben neue Herausforderungen für das Ehepaar bereit. Werden sich Ray und Moth trotz aller Schwierigkeiten ein neues Abenteuer zutrauen? Hören Sie die Fortsetzung ihrer bewegenden Geschichte!]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-entre-azul-y-buenas-noches-by-samantha-flores-antoine-rodriguez--65150853https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre azul y buenas noches Author: Samantha Flores, Antoine Rodríguez Narrator: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez, Samantha Flores, Oscar López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esta es la autobiografía de Samantha Flores, trans-activista mexicana, nacida en 1932 en Orizaba, Veracruz; fundadora de Laetus Vitae, la primera casa de día totalmente gratuita de la Ciudad de México, y de América Latina, para gente mayor LGBTQ+ Bautizada Vicente Aurelio, Samanthase encamina hacia los senderos de la masculinidad, por los cuales los tropiezos y las trampas son frecuentes: niño afeminado, sensible, es seducido, a sus doce años, por el atlético y viril David que le promete amor eterno en la iglesia de San José. Asus diecinueve años, deja Orizaba para emanciparse y liberarse en la Ciudad de México. Tras haber concluido sus estudios de hotelería, trabaja como recepcionista en varios hoteles, pero a Samantha le gusta el mundo de la farándula y de la diversión nocturna. Frecuenta los bares y antros de moda en los cuales circulan deseos y erotismos diversos. Ahí conoce a varias actrices y a la famosa Xóchitl, Reina travesti de la noche,gracias a quien Vicente empieza a convertirse en Samantha, en los años sesenta, cuando la categoría «transgénero» aún no existía. Esta autobiografía es una escritura a cuatro manos. Antoine Rodríguez fungió como técnico para grabar el relato oral de Samantha, editarlo y restituirlo fielmente con el léxico, la prosodia y el ritmoparticulares de la autobiógrafa. El epílogo da cuenta de los procesos de subjetivación de Samantha y propone una genealogía de las teorías acerca de las identidades trans. Esta autobiografía es el primer texto hispanoamericano de una mujer trans mayor de noventa años. «Samantha Flores es una leyenda viviente. Una mujer de la que todas deberíamos aprender. Samantha Flores deja en este libro muchas de las claves para que las mujeres trans tengamos vidas dignas.» -MORGANNA LOVE, cantante, actriz y autora de En el cuerpo correcto]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813139Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre azul y buenas noches Author: Samantha Flores, Antoine Rodríguez Narrator: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez, Samantha Flores, Oscar...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre azul y buenas noches Author: Samantha Flores, Antoine Rodríguez Narrator: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez, Samantha Flores, Oscar López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esta es la autobiografía de Samantha Flores, trans-activista mexicana, nacida en 1932 en Orizaba, Veracruz; fundadora de Laetus Vitae, la primera casa de día totalmente gratuita de la Ciudad de México, y de América Latina, para gente mayor LGBTQ+ Bautizada Vicente Aurelio, Samanthase encamina hacia los senderos de la masculinidad, por los cuales los tropiezos y las trampas son frecuentes: niño afeminado, sensible, es seducido, a sus doce años, por el atlético y viril David que le promete amor eterno en la iglesia de San José. Asus diecinueve años, deja Orizaba para emanciparse y liberarse en la Ciudad de México. Tras haber concluido sus estudios de hotelería, trabaja como recepcionista en varios hoteles, pero a Samantha le gusta el mundo de la farándula y de la diversión nocturna. Frecuenta los bares y antros de moda en los cuales circulan deseos y erotismos diversos. Ahí conoce a varias actrices y a la famosa Xóchitl, Reina travesti de la noche,gracias a quien Vicente empieza a convertirse en Samantha, en los años sesenta, cuando la categoría «transgénero» aún no existía. Esta autobiografía es una escritura a cuatro manos. Antoine Rodríguez fungió como técnico para grabar el relato oral de Samantha, editarlo y restituirlo fielmente con el léxico, la prosodia y el ritmoparticulares de la autobiógrafa. El epílogo da cuenta de los procesos de subjetivación de Samantha y propone una genealogía de las teorías acerca de las identidades trans. Esta autobiografía es el primer texto hispanoamericano de una mujer trans mayor de noventa años. «Samantha Flores es una leyenda viviente. Una mujer de la que todas deberíamos aprender. Samantha Flores deja en este libro muchas de las claves para que las mujeres trans tengamos vidas dignas.» -MORGANNA LOVE, cantante, actriz y autora de En el cuerpo correcto]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-hermana-menor-un-retrato-de-silvina-ocampo-by-mariana-enriquez--65150879https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo Author: Mariana Enriquez Narrator: Mara Brenner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de «una limpia cocina literaria», en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada: la particular relación que tenía con su marido, Adolfo Bioy Casares; su cambiante y chismosa amistad con Jorge Luis Borges, que cenaba cada noche en su casa; sus presuntos romances con mujeres, como la poeta Alejandra Pizarnik o la madre del propio Bioy; sus perturbadoras premoniciones; sus ambiguos conflictos con la olímpica Victoria Ocampo, su hermana mayor. En este libro, Mariana Enriquez, a través de una enorme cantidad de fuentes bibliográficas y testimonios de amigos, críticos, parientes y albaceas de Silvina Ocampo, cuestiona los mitos, descorre el velo sobre los secretos y mira con una intensidad única la vida de quien vivió con el afán de permanecer oculta. El resultado es el retrato emocionante de una mujer entrañable y oscura, inteligente y suavemente perversa, dueña de una imaginación desaforada (y de unas piernas espectaculares), a quien hoy se considera una de las mejores cuentistas del Río de la Plata.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803306Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo Author: Mariana Enriquez Narrator: Mara Brenner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo Author: Mariana Enriquez Narrator: Mara Brenner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de «una limpia cocina literaria», en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada: la particular relación que tenía con su marido, Adolfo Bioy Casares; su cambiante y chismosa amistad con Jorge Luis Borges, que cenaba cada noche en su casa; sus presuntos romances con mujeres, como la poeta Alejandra Pizarnik o la madre del propio Bioy; sus perturbadoras premoniciones; sus ambiguos conflictos con la olímpica Victoria Ocampo, su hermana mayor. En este libro, Mariana Enriquez, a través de una enorme cantidad de fuentes bibliográficas y testimonios de amigos, críticos, parientes y albaceas de Silvina Ocampo, cuestiona los mitos, descorre el velo sobre los secretos y mira con una intensidad única la vida de quien vivió con el afán de permanecer oculta. El resultado es el retrato emocionante de una mujer entrañable y oscura, inteligente y suavemente perversa, dueña de una imaginación desaforada (y de unas piernas espectaculares), a quien hoy se considera una de las mejores cuentistas del Río de la Plata.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lovely-one-a-memoir-by-ketanji-brown-jackson--65150952https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovely One: A Memoir Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. “A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.   Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations.   Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.   Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovely One: A Memoir Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovely One: A Memoir Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. “A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.   Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations.   Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.   Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/going-under-a-memoir-of-family-secrets-addiction-and-escape-by-seana-smith--65150877https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape Author: Seana Smith Narrator: Seana Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world.  With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear. Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood.  It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793732Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape Author: Seana Smith Narrator: Seana Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape Author: Seana Smith Narrator: Seana Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world.  With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear. Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood.  It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/make-a-home-out-of-you-a-memoir-by-ginelle-testa--65150865https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/804324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make a Home Out of You: A Memoir Author: Ginelle Testa Narrator: Ginelle Testa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success—and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she’s started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has fallen prey to anorexia, and has been sexually assaulted. And that’s only the beginning of her spiral down into addiction and disordered eating. As Ginelle progresses into young adulthood, she hits several substance-related bottoms. In her senior year of college, after blacking out and ending up naked in her dorm’s community shower, she goes to Alcoholics Anonymous to get sober. But steering clear of drugs and alcohol, she discovers, is not a cure-all—she still has a long way to go before she can truly heal. Raw, relatable, and powerful, Testa’s is a riveting tale of climbing up from rock bottom—and learning to make a home in oneself instead of in substances and other people.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/804324Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/804324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make a Home Out of You: A Memoir Author: Ginelle Testa Narrator: Ginelle Testa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/804324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make a Home Out of You: A Memoir Author: Ginelle Testa Narrator: Ginelle Testa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born to an abusive mother and a drug-dealer father, Ginelle Testa is not exactly set up for success—and her early years are just as troubled as one might expect. By the end of her thirteenth year, she’s started experimenting with alcohol and drugs, has fallen prey to anorexia, and has been sexually assaulted. And that’s only the beginning of her spiral down into addiction and disordered eating. As Ginelle progresses into young adulthood, she hits several substance-related bottoms. In her senior year of college, after blacking out and ending up naked in her dorm’s community shower, she goes to Alcoholics Anonymous to get sober. But steering clear of drugs and alcohol, she discovers, is not a cure-all—she still has a long way to go before she can truly heal. Raw, relatable, and powerful, Testa’s is a riveting tale of climbing up from rock bottom—and learning to make a home in oneself instead of in substances and other people.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-moidl-eine-unglaubliche-geschichte-aus-tirol-by-hermann-egger--65150872https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Moidl: Eine unglaubliche Geschichte aus Tirol Author: Hermann Egger Narrator: Klaus G. Förg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Moidl ist eine der Töchter des Hohenhauserbauern in Hintertux im Zillertal. Die enge Bindung an ihre Familie und ihren Hof ist ihr Lebenselixier und wird nur noch stärker, als verschiedene Schicksalsschläge die Hohenhauser treffen. Sie bleibt ledig und arbeitet tagtäglich von früh bis spät auf dem Hof. Auf einem Markt begegnet sie Hermann, der mit nur zwölf Jahren nach einer Arbeitsstelle sucht, um zu überleben; der Waisenknabe wird gehandelt wie ein Stück Vieh. Aus Mitleid und weil es bei den Hohenhausern an Arbeitskräften fehlt, nimmt sie ihn mit auf den Hof, wo er sich als fleißiger Arbeiter bewährt und zu einer Stütze für den Bauern Thomas und für Moidl wird. Als Thomas stirbt, muss Moidl mit 76 Jahren den Hof übernehmen. Bald stellt sich die Frage, wer ihn in Zukunft weiterführen wird. Für Moidl und ihre Vorfahren war es immer klar: Er muss in Familienbesitz bleiben … Hermann Egger schildert in diesem Buch zugleich einfühlsam und packend eine authentische Geschichte – die Geschichte seiner eigenen Familie.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812279Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Moidl: Eine unglaubliche Geschichte aus Tirol Author: Hermann Egger Narrator: Klaus G. Förg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Moidl: Eine unglaubliche Geschichte aus Tirol Author: Hermann Egger Narrator: Klaus G. Förg Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Moidl ist eine der Töchter des Hohenhauserbauern in Hintertux im Zillertal. Die enge Bindung an ihre Familie und ihren Hof ist ihr Lebenselixier und wird nur noch stärker, als verschiedene Schicksalsschläge die Hohenhauser treffen. Sie bleibt ledig und arbeitet tagtäglich von früh bis spät auf dem Hof. Auf einem Markt begegnet sie Hermann, der mit nur zwölf Jahren nach einer Arbeitsstelle sucht, um zu überleben; der Waisenknabe wird gehandelt wie ein Stück Vieh. Aus Mitleid und weil es bei den Hohenhausern an Arbeitskräften fehlt, nimmt sie ihn mit auf den Hof, wo er sich als fleißiger Arbeiter bewährt und zu einer Stütze für den Bauern Thomas und für Moidl wird. Als Thomas stirbt, muss Moidl mit 76 Jahren den Hof übernehmen. Bald stellt sich die Frage, wer ihn in Zukunft weiterführen wird. Für Moidl und ihre Vorfahren war es immer klar: Er muss in Familienbesitz bleiben … Hermann Egger schildert in diesem Buch zugleich einfühlsam und packend eine authentische Geschichte – die Geschichte seiner eigenen Familie.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-traitor-s-daughter-captured-by-nazis-pursued-by-the-kgb-my-mother-s-odyssey-to-freedom-from-her-secret-past-by-roxana-spicer--65150990https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past Author: Roxana Spicer Narrator: Roxana Spicer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name.  Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming.  Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now—perhaps forever—lost again.  The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741780Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past Author: Roxana Spicer Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past Author: Roxana Spicer Narrator: Roxana Spicer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name.  Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming.  Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now—perhaps forever—lost again.  The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-woman-who-would-be-king-the-madusa-story-by-debrah-miceli-greg-oliver--65150878https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story Author: Debrah Miceli, Greg Oliver Narrator: Debrah Miceli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah 'Madusa' Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets . . . Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah's determination to persevere. Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women's belt . . . until being fired. In the rival WCW, Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV. Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink 'Queen of Carnage' t-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys. By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men. Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood. This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812320Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story Author: Debrah Miceli, Greg Oliver Narrator: Debrah Miceli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story Author: Debrah Miceli, Greg Oliver Narrator: Debrah Miceli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah 'Madusa' Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets . . . Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah's determination to persevere. Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women's belt . . . until being fired. In the rival WCW, Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV. Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink 'Queen of Carnage' t-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys. By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men. Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood. This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-the-garden-behind-the-moon-a-memoir-of-loss-myth-and-magic-by-alexandra-a-chan--65150867https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic Author: Alexandra A. Chan Narrator: Rachel Yong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound grief. Unable to find a way forward, she must either burn to ash or forge herself anew. Slowly, painfully, wondrously, Chan discovers that her father and ancestors have left threads of renewal in the artifacts and stories of their lives. Through a long-lost interview conducted by Roosevelt's Federal Writers' Project, a basket of war letters written from the Burmese jungle, a box of photographs, her world travels, and a deepening relationship to her own art, the archaeologist and lifelong rationalist makes her greatest discovery to date: the healing power of enchantment. In an epic story that travels from prerevolution China to the South under Jim Crow, from the Pacific theater of WWII to the black sands of Reynisfjara, Iceland, and beyond, Chan takes us on a universal journey to meaning in the wake of devastating loss, sharing the insights and tools that allowed her to rebuild her life and resurrect her spirit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813863Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic Author: Alexandra A. Chan Narrator: Rachel Yong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic Author: Alexandra A. Chan Narrator: Rachel Yong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound grief. Unable to find a way forward, she must either burn to ash or forge herself anew. Slowly, painfully, wondrously, Chan discovers that her father and ancestors have left threads of renewal in the artifacts and stories of their lives. Through a long-lost interview conducted by Roosevelt's Federal Writers' Project, a basket of war letters written from the Burmese jungle, a box of photographs, her world travels, and a deepening relationship to her own art, the archaeologist and lifelong rationalist makes her greatest discovery to date: the healing power of enchantment. In an epic story that travels from prerevolution China to the South under Jim Crow, from the Pacific theater of WWII to the black sands of Reynisfjara, Iceland, and beyond, Chan takes us on a universal journey to meaning in the wake of devastating loss, sharing the insights and tools that allowed her to rebuild her life and resurrect her spirit.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/malintzin-s-choices-an-indian-woman-in-the-conquest-of-mexico-by-camilla-townsend--65150883https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Author: Camilla Townsend Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cortés whatever he wanted out of her own self-interest. The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated. She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook. If she managed to make something more out of her life—and she did—it is difficult to say at what point she did wrong. In getting to know the trials and intricacies with which Malintzin's life was laced, we gain new respect for her steely courage, as well as for the bravery and quick thinking demonstrated by many other Native Americans in the earliest period of contact with Europeans. In this study of Malintzin's life, Camilla Townsend rejects all the previous myths and tries to restore dignity to the profoundly human men and women who lived and died in those days. She breathes new life into an old tale, and offers insights into the major issues of conquest and colonization, including technology and violence, resistance and accommodation, gender and power.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777176Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Author: Camilla Townsend Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Author: Camilla Townsend Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cortés whatever he wanted out of her own self-interest. The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated. She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook. If she managed to make something more out of her life—and she did—it is difficult to say at what point she did wrong. In getting to know the trials and intricacies with which Malintzin's life was laced, we gain new respect for her steely courage, as well as for the bravery and quick thinking demonstrated by many other Native Americans in the earliest period of contact with Europeans. In this study of Malintzin's life, Camilla Townsend rejects all the previous myths and tries to restore dignity to the profoundly human men and women who lived and died in those days. She breathes new life into an old tale, and offers insights into the major issues of conquest and colonization, including technology and violence, resistance and accommodation, gender and power.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/merkel-s-law-wisdom-from-the-woman-who-led-the-free-world-by-melissa-eddy--65150881https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World Author: Melissa Eddy Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Notorious RBG, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on more than a decade’s worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy. Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new leader of the free world. With an entire hand gesture named after her (the “Merkel Diamond”) and celebrated in a viral meme for sparring with Trump, Angela Merkel spent a decade economically and politically revitalizing her country. The first woman chancellor of Germany and one of the longest-serving European leaders ever, Merkel’s quiet resolve, calculated confidence, and extreme privacy around her personal life have made her a feminist role model for the ages. Merkel’s Law is a revelatory look at an unlikely vanguard, and at the country she led for sixteen years. No one is better positioned than New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy to pull back the curtain on the woman who engineered Germany’s rise to wealth, power, and an economy worth 3.8 trillion in USD. Drawing upon an unparalleled well of sources close to Merkel, Merkel’s Law traces her childhood in East Germany as the daughter of a clergyman, her meteoric rise to power, and her more recent public acclaim—as well as the numerous setbacks she faced along the way both from political rivals and from men in her own party who scoffed at her ambition. Painting a portrait of a political genius, savvy businesswoman, and model for modern power, Merkel’s Law is not only the story of her life, but the lessons we can learn from it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759005Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World Author: Melissa Eddy Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World Author: Melissa Eddy Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Notorious RBG, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on more than a decade’s worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy. Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new leader of the free world. With an entire hand gesture named after her (the “Merkel Diamond”) and celebrated in a viral meme for sparring with Trump, Angela Merkel spent a decade economically and politically revitalizing her country. The first woman chancellor of Germany and one of the longest-serving European leaders ever, Merkel’s quiet resolve, calculated confidence, and extreme privacy around her personal life have made her a feminist role model for the ages. Merkel’s Law is a revelatory look at an unlikely vanguard, and at the country she led for sixteen years. No one is better positioned than New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy to pull back the curtain on the woman who engineered Germany’s rise to wealth, power, and an economy worth 3.8 trillion in USD. Drawing upon an unparalleled well of sources close to Merkel, Merkel’s Law traces her childhood in East Germany as the daughter of a clergyman, her meteoric rise to power, and her more recent public acclaim—as well as the numerous setbacks she faced along the way both from political rivals and from men in her own party who scoffed at her ambition. Painting a portrait of a political genius, savvy businesswoman, and model for modern power, Merkel’s Law is not only the story of her life, but the lessons we can learn from it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/men-have-called-her-crazy-a-memoir-by-anna-marie-tendler--65151008https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* “This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties and the Lambda Literary Award winner In the Dream House A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women. In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression, and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, “There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.” In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs as all her friends were starting families. This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. Yet overwhelming and despairing as that can feel, Tendler ultimately offers a message of hope. Early in her stay in the hospital, she says, “My wish for myself is that one day I’ll reach a place where I can face hardship without trying to destroy myself.” By the end of the book, she fulfills that wish.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737419Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* “This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties and the Lambda Literary Award winner In the Dream House A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women. In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression, and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, “There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.” In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs as all her friends were starting families. This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. Yet overwhelming and despairing as that can feel, Tendler ultimately offers a message of hope. Early in her stay in the hospital, she says, “My wish for myself is that one day I’ll reach a place where I can face hardship without trying to destroy myself.” By the end of the book, she fulfills that wish.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-wilder-shore-the-romantic-odyssey-of-fanny-and-robert-louis-stevenson-by-camille-peri--65150971https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Author: Camille Peri Narrator: Jeanette Illidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE PICK “Engrossing . . . [A] richly researched and vivid double portrait.” —Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic “A love story, an adventure story, two literary biographies in one; A Wilder Shore is these things and more—and it's very, very good.” —Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Women Behind the Door The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect. Seeking creative freedom, inspiration, and better health for Louis, who battled chronic illness, they embarked on a whirlwind journey around the world, from the bohemian enclaves of Europe to the shores of Samoa, where they lived and joined the native islanders’ fight for independence from imperialist powers. Amid the currents of their stormy yet deeply loving relationship, Fanny wrote colorful accounts of her life, contributed to Louis’s work and kept him alive to pen classic novels such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that would go on to resonate with generations of readers. A portrait of two extraordinary people and a testament to the power of love to foster the human spirit, A Wilder Shore unfolds with all the richness and complexity of a timeless epic, capturing the resilience, courage, and devotion that sparked some of our most celebrated and enduring literary masterpieces.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734277Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Author: Camille Peri Narrator: Jeanette Illidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Author: Camille Peri Narrator: Jeanette Illidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE PICK “Engrossing . . . [A] richly researched and vivid double portrait.” —Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic “A love story, an adventure story, two literary biographies in one; A Wilder Shore is these things and more—and it's very, very good.” —Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Women Behind the Door The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect. Seeking creative freedom, inspiration, and better health for Louis, who battled chronic illness, they embarked on a whirlwind journey around the world, from the bohemian enclaves of Europe to the shores of Samoa, where they lived and joined the native islanders’ fight for independence from imperialist powers. Amid the currents of their stormy yet deeply loving relationship, Fanny wrote colorful accounts of her life, contributed to Louis’s work and kept him alive to pen classic novels such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that would go on to resonate with generations of readers. A portrait of two extraordinary people and a testament to the power of love to foster the human spirit, A Wilder Shore unfolds with all the richness and complexity of a timeless epic, capturing the resilience, courage, and devotion that sparked some of our most celebrated and enduring literary masterpieces.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-blew-up-my-life-and-i-ve-never-been-happier-by-amber-james--65150900https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Blew Up My Life And I've Never Been Happier Author: Amber James Narrator: Tiffany Magnuson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: I Blew Up My Life, And I've Never Been Happier by Amber James To the public eye, Amber James is living the dream. She is engaged to be married, boasts a six-figure salary, and spent the last decade interviewing the hottest celebrities in New York City. Yet beneath this dazzling facade, Amber wrestles with crippling perfectionism, a toxic relationship, and an insatiable ambition that leaves her deeply unsatisfied. As Amber teeters on the brink, a whirlwind of life-altering events - a global pandemic, a devastating loss, and a terrifying health scare - sweep her off her feet and force her to re-examine her life. Amber is presented with a life-altering question: Is she living to fulfill her happiness, or is she merely adhering to a checklist of success manufactured by societal expectations and settling? In her emotionally raw and unflinchingly honest memoir, Amber takes readers on an inspiring journey of courage, self-discovery, and transformation as she musters the bravery required to forge a road toward genuine joy. It’s a poignant tale that reminds us that sometimes, it’s only by letting go that we find the true path to happiness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810659Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Blew Up My Life And I've Never Been Happier Author: Amber James Narrator: Tiffany Magnuson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/810659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Blew Up My Life And I've Never Been Happier Author: Amber James Narrator: Tiffany Magnuson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: I Blew Up My Life, And I've Never Been Happier by Amber James To the public eye, Amber James is living the dream. She is engaged to be married, boasts a six-figure salary, and spent the last decade interviewing the hottest celebrities in New York City. Yet beneath this dazzling facade, Amber wrestles with crippling perfectionism, a toxic relationship, and an insatiable ambition that leaves her deeply unsatisfied. As Amber teeters on the brink, a whirlwind of life-altering events - a global pandemic, a devastating loss, and a terrifying health scare - sweep her off her feet and force her to re-examine her life. Amber is presented with a life-altering question: Is she living to fulfill her happiness, or is she merely adhering to a checklist of success manufactured by societal expectations and settling? In her emotionally raw and unflinchingly honest memoir, Amber takes readers on an inspiring journey of courage, self-discovery, and transformation as she musters the bravery required to forge a road toward genuine joy. It’s a poignant tale that reminds us that sometimes, it’s only by letting go that we find the true path to happiness.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-schluss-mit-den-krumeln-ich-will-den-ganzen-kuchen-von-der-affare-zur-beziehung-ein-ehrliches-und-aufschlussreiches-buch-fu--65150891https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schluss mit den Krümeln - Ich will den ganzen Kuchen - Von der Affäre zur Beziehung!: Ein ehrliches und aufschlussreiches Buch für Frauen, die nicht länger die Nummer zwei sein wollen. Author: Christine Zillmer Narrator: Birgit Eimermacher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 8, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Endlich Nummer Eins: Wie du deine Affäre in eine erfüllte Traumbeziehung verwandelst: Leidest du unter der ständigen Unsicherheit und den emotionalen Achterbahnfahrten, die eine heimliche Beziehung mit sich bringt? Wenn ihr euch trefft, seid ihr auf Wolke 7 und du spürst, dass ihr füreinander bestimmt seid, doch wenn er wieder in 'seinem' Leben ist, dauert es ewig, bis er deine Nachrichten beantwortet und du spürst die Distanz sowie das zermürbende Gefühl, nur die 'heimliche andere' zu sein? Du willst mehr als nur eine Affäre und wartest schon seit einer Ewigkeit darauf, dass er seiner Familie 'reinen Wein einschenkt', sich öffentlich zu dir bekennt und die Heimlichkeiten für immer ein Ende haben? Dann aufgepasst: Wenn du diese Umstände endgültig lösen möchtest, keine Lust mehr hast, in Ungewissheit zu leben, womöglich deine besten Jahre zu verschwenden und endlich die glückliche Beziehung mit ihm führen willst, die du verdienst … … dann ist dieser besondere Ratgeber dein Schlüssel für eine erfüllte und glückliche Traumbeziehung. Du lernst in diesem ehrlichen Ratgeber: - Wie du ihm das gibst, was er emotional wirklich(!) braucht, um sich für dich zu entscheiden. - Welche Verhaltensmuster dazu führen, dass du die ewige Nummer-2 bleibst und mit welchen einfachen Strategien du das zielsicher umkehrst, ohne dich zu verstellen. - Was sich Männer in Beziehungen insgeheim wünschen und wie du in seinen Augen zu der Frau wirst, ohne die er sich ein erfülltes Leben nicht mehr vorstellen kann. - Wie du die tieferen Beweggründe und Absichten hinter seinem Verhalten liest und herausfindest, ob er bereit dazu ist, sich dir voll und ganz zu widmen. - Welche Techniken und Übungen dich nachhaltig zu emotionaler Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit führen. Dein Weg zur Nummer Eins - Drei entscheidende Vorteile: ...Emotionale Kraftquelle: Nutze die Zeit des Wartens als Chance zur Selbstentwicklung und lerne, wie du innere Stärke und ein felsenfestes Selbstbewusstsein entwickelst. Erkenne deinen wahren Wert und tritt ihm gegenüber als unabhängige Partnerin auf, die weiß, was sie will. ...Lebensnahe Inspirationen: Lass dich von den realen Geschichten anderer 'Zweitfrauen' ermutigen. Erfahre, wie sie ihre Herausforderungen in einer Affäre lösen konnten und wie du dadurch deine eigene Traumbeziehung nach deinen Vorstellungen führst. ...Atemberaubende Zukunft: Durch die wirksamen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen dieses Buches verwandelst du deine heimliche Affäre zielsicher in deine Traumbeziehung, die du dir so sehr wünschst. Dabei erkennst du deinen eigenen Wert, setzt klare Grenzen und kreierst eine ehrliche Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe, die das Potenzial für die Ewigkeit hat. So wird die Traumbeziehung zur Wirklichkeit: Stell dir eine Zukunft vor, in der du in einer Beziehung lebst, die von Liebe, Respekt und tiefer Verbundenheit geprägt ist. Dieses Buch ist dein Wegweiser zu einem Leben, in dem du nicht nur gewählt, sondern wahrhaftig geschätzt wirst - eine Zukunft, in der jeder Tag mit der Gewissheit beginnt, dass du die Hauptrolle in deinem eigenen Liebesfilm spielst. Sichere dir jetzt dein Exemplar und werde mit Leichtigkeit zu seiner Nummer Eins!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796718Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schluss mit den Krümeln - Ich will den ganzen Kuchen - Von der Affäre zur Beziehung!: Ein ehrliches und aufschlussreiches Buch für Frauen,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schluss mit den Krümeln - Ich will den ganzen Kuchen - Von der Affäre zur Beziehung!: Ein ehrliches und aufschlussreiches Buch für Frauen, die nicht länger die Nummer zwei sein wollen. Author: Christine Zillmer Narrator: Birgit Eimermacher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 8, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Endlich Nummer Eins: Wie du deine Affäre in eine erfüllte Traumbeziehung verwandelst: Leidest du unter der ständigen Unsicherheit und den emotionalen Achterbahnfahrten, die eine heimliche Beziehung mit sich bringt? Wenn ihr euch trefft, seid ihr auf Wolke 7 und du spürst, dass ihr füreinander bestimmt seid, doch wenn er wieder in 'seinem' Leben ist, dauert es ewig, bis er deine Nachrichten beantwortet und du spürst die Distanz sowie das zermürbende Gefühl, nur die 'heimliche andere' zu sein? Du willst mehr als nur eine Affäre und wartest schon seit einer Ewigkeit darauf, dass er seiner Familie 'reinen Wein einschenkt', sich öffentlich zu dir bekennt und die Heimlichkeiten für immer ein Ende haben? Dann aufgepasst: Wenn du diese Umstände endgültig lösen möchtest, keine Lust mehr hast, in Ungewissheit zu leben, womöglich deine besten Jahre zu verschwenden und endlich die glückliche Beziehung mit ihm führen willst, die du verdienst … … dann ist dieser besondere Ratgeber dein Schlüssel für eine erfüllte und glückliche Traumbeziehung. Du lernst in diesem ehrlichen Ratgeber: - Wie du ihm das gibst, was er emotional wirklich(!) braucht, um sich für dich zu entscheiden. - Welche Verhaltensmuster dazu führen, dass du die ewige Nummer-2 bleibst und mit welchen einfachen Strategien du das zielsicher umkehrst, ohne dich zu verstellen. - Was sich Männer in Beziehungen insgeheim wünschen und wie du in seinen Augen zu der Frau wirst, ohne die er sich ein erfülltes Leben nicht mehr vorstellen kann. - Wie du die tieferen Beweggründe und Absichten hinter seinem Verhalten liest und herausfindest, ob er bereit dazu ist, sich dir voll und ganz zu widmen. - Welche Techniken und Übungen dich nachhaltig zu emotionaler Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit führen. Dein Weg zur Nummer Eins - Drei entscheidende Vorteile: ...Emotionale Kraftquelle: Nutze die Zeit des Wartens als Chance zur Selbstentwicklung und lerne, wie du innere Stärke und ein felsenfestes Selbstbewusstsein entwickelst. Erkenne deinen wahren Wert und tritt ihm gegenüber als unabhängige Partnerin auf, die weiß, was sie will. ...Lebensnahe Inspirationen: Lass dich von den realen Geschichten anderer 'Zweitfrauen' ermutigen. Erfahre, wie sie ihre Herausforderungen in einer Affäre lösen konnten und wie du dadurch deine eigene Traumbeziehung nach deinen Vorstellungen führst. ...Atemberaubende Zukunft: Durch die wirksamen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen dieses Buches verwandelst du deine heimliche Affäre zielsicher in deine Traumbeziehung, die du dir so sehr wünschst. Dabei erkennst du deinen eigenen Wert, setzt klare Grenzen und kreierst eine ehrliche Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe, die das Potenzial für die Ewigkeit hat. So wird die Traumbeziehung zur Wirklichkeit: Stell dir eine Zukunft vor, in der du in einer Beziehung lebst, die von Liebe, Respekt und tiefer Verbundenheit geprägt ist. Dieses Buch ist dein Wegweiser zu einem Leben, in dem du nicht nur gewählt, sondern wahrhaftig geschätzt wirst - eine Zukunft, in der jeder Tag mit der Gewissheit beginnt, dass du die Hauptrolle in deinem eigenen Liebesfilm spielst. Sichere dir jetzt dein Exemplar und werde mit Leichtigkeit zu seiner Nummer Eins!]]>185melncleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-well-trained-wife-my-escape-from-christian-patriarchy-by-tia-levings--65151020https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy Author: Tia Levings Narrator: Tia Levings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This gripping audiobook is a strong choice alongside books about high-demand religion, overcoming odds, and finding inner strength in impossible situations.'—Booklist (Starred Review) This program is read by the author. “Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.” Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles––a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, “keepers of the home.” Tia knew that to their neighbors her family was strange, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret lifestyle to police, doctors, teachers, or anyone outside of their church. Christians were called in scripture to be “in the world, not of it.” So, she hid in plain sight as years of abuse and pain followed. When Tia realized she was the only one who could protect her children from becoming the next generation of patriarchal men and submissive women, she began to resist and question how they lived. But in the patriarchy, a woman with opinions is in danger, and eventually, Tia faced an urgent and extreme choice: stay and face dire consequences, or flee with her children. Told in a beautiful, honest, and sometimes harrowing voice, A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable and timely memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712489Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy Author: Tia Levings Narrator: Tia Levings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy Author: Tia Levings Narrator: Tia Levings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This gripping audiobook is a strong choice alongside books about high-demand religion, overcoming odds, and finding inner strength in impossible situations.'—Booklist (Starred Review) This program is read by the author. “Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me.” Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles––a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, “keepers of the home.” Tia knew that to their neighbors her family was strange, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret lifestyle to police, doctors, teachers, or anyone outside of their church. Christians were called in scripture to be “in the world, not of it.” So, she hid in plain sight as years of abuse and pain followed. When Tia realized she was the only one who could protect her children from becoming the next generation of patriarchal men and submissive women, she began to resist and question how they lived. But in the patriarchy, a woman with opinions is in danger, and eventually, Tia faced an urgent and extreme choice: stay and face dire consequences, or flee with her children. Told in a beautiful, honest, and sometimes harrowing voice, A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable and timely memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dragon-from-chicago-the-untold-story-of-an-american-reporter-in-nazi-germany-by-pamela-d-toler--65151018https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany Author: Pamela D. Toler Narrator: Dede Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.” — William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. In The Dragon From Chicago, Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz’s years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941. At a time when women reporters rarely wrote front-page stories and her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a “freak,” Schultz pulled back the curtain on how the Nazis misreported the news to their own people, and how they attempted to control the foreign press through bribery and threats. Sharp and enlightening, Schultz's story provides a powerful example for how we can reclaim truth in an era marked by the spread of disinformation and claims of “fake news.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719263Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany Author: Pamela D. Toler Narrator: Dede Cordell Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany Author: Pamela D. Toler Narrator: Dede Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.” — William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. In The Dragon From Chicago, Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz’s years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941. At a time when women reporters rarely wrote front-page stories and her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a “freak,” Schultz pulled back the curtain on how the Nazis misreported the news to their own people, and how they attempted to control the foreign press through bribery and threats. Sharp and enlightening, Schultz's story provides a powerful example for how we can reclaim truth in an era marked by the spread of disinformation and claims of “fake news.”]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mysterious-mrs-nixon-the-life-and-times-of-washington-s-most-private-first-lady-by-heath-hardage-lee--65150988https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon. In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the couple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969-1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies. Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady’s 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominating a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro-choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: “People are my project.” The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents listeners with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon. In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the couple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969-1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies. Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady’s 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominating a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro-choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: “People are my project.” The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents listeners with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-art-of-power-my-story-as-america-s-first-woman-speaker-of-the-house-by-nancy-pelosi--65150921https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House Author: Nancy Pelosi Narrator: Nancy Pelosi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: “Mother, get a life!” And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been. In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history—not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines, women who inspired her, and human rights activists who fought by her side. Pelosi took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day, warning early about the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government’s long record of misbehavior. This moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump, with whom she famously tangled, becoming a red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here, she reveals how she went toe-to-toe with Trump, leading up to January 6, 2021, when he unleashed his post-election fury on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation, never expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives—and her determined efforts to get the National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later, violence and fury would erupt inside Pelosi’s own home when an intruder, demanding to see the Speaker, viciously attacked her beloved husband, Paul. Here, Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for her and her family. The woman who has been lauded by her opposition as “the most powerful Speaker” ever shows us why she is not afraid of a good fight. The Art of Power is about the fighting spirit that has always animated her, and the historic legacy that spirit has produced.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772673Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House Author: Nancy Pelosi Narrator: Nancy Pelosi Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House Author: Nancy Pelosi Narrator: Nancy Pelosi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance. When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: “Mother, get a life!” And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been. In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history—not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines, women who inspired her, and human rights activists who fought by her side. Pelosi took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day, warning early about the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government’s long record of misbehavior. This moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump, with whom she famously tangled, becoming a red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here, she reveals how she went toe-to-toe with Trump, leading up to January 6, 2021, when he unleashed his post-election fury on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation, never expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives—and her determined efforts to get the National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later, violence and fury would erupt inside Pelosi’s own home when an intruder, demanding to see the Speaker, viciously attacked her beloved husband, Paul. Here, Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for her and her family. The woman who has been lauded by her opposition as “the most powerful Speaker” ever shows us why she is not afraid of a good fight. The Art of Power is about the fighting spirit that has always animated her, and the historic legacy that spirit has produced.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wine-witch-on-fire-rising-from-the-ashes-of-divorce-defamation-and-drinking-too-much-by-natalie-maclean--65150943https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much Author: Natalie Maclean Narrator: Natalie Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career. Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humor, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food. Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine world's veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances. This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much Author: Natalie Maclean Narrator: Natalie Maclean Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much Author: Natalie Maclean Narrator: Natalie Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career. Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humor, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food. Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine world's veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances. This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pride-amid-prejudice-a-soldier-s-memoir-by-chief-warrant-officer-ret-d-necole-e-belanger-mmm-cd--65150868https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride Amid Prejudice: A Soldier's Memoir Author: Chief Warrant Officer (Ret’d) Necole E. Belanger MMM CD Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Chief Warrant Officer Necole Belanger created a professional persona that was no-nonsense and highly put-together. But the truth was much more complex. Necole's story is a tale of two lives, the CWO raised in a military family, and the woman coming to terms with her sexuality, in a time where the two could not coexist. A lesbian member of the military police during the LGBTQ Purge in the Canadian Armed Forces, Necole would achieve success and promotion in her career despite a near-constant struggle. But the higher she rose in rank within the Canadian Armed Forces, the less her voice was heard. When she should have had the most influence, she had none. When she'd finally earned a seat at the table, no one listened. Her life was dedicated to an institution that didn't return her loyalty. The result? Depression and drinking and a downward spiral, all hidden behind a mask. And then the courage to be honest and put the pieces of her life back together. Pride Amid Prejudice is the story of one woman's struggle to find a voice in a world determined to silence her. A journey of self-discovery through adversity, of resilience in the face of discrimination, and pride amid prejudice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800990Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride Amid Prejudice: A Soldier's Memoir Author: Chief Warrant Officer (Ret’d) Necole E. Belanger MMM CD Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/800990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride Amid Prejudice: A Soldier's Memoir Author: Chief Warrant Officer (Ret’d) Necole E. Belanger MMM CD Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Chief Warrant Officer Necole Belanger created a professional persona that was no-nonsense and highly put-together. But the truth was much more complex. Necole's story is a tale of two lives, the CWO raised in a military family, and the woman coming to terms with her sexuality, in a time where the two could not coexist. A lesbian member of the military police during the LGBTQ Purge in the Canadian Armed Forces, Necole would achieve success and promotion in her career despite a near-constant struggle. But the higher she rose in rank within the Canadian Armed Forces, the less her voice was heard. When she should have had the most influence, she had none. When she'd finally earned a seat at the table, no one listened. Her life was dedicated to an institution that didn't return her loyalty. The result? Depression and drinking and a downward spiral, all hidden behind a mask. And then the courage to be honest and put the pieces of her life back together. Pride Amid Prejudice is the story of one woman's struggle to find a voice in a world determined to silence her. A journey of self-discovery through adversity, of resilience in the face of discrimination, and pride amid prejudice.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lucky-ones-a-memoir-by-zara-chowdhary--65150996https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lucky Ones: A Memoir Author: Zara Chowdhary Narrator: Zara Chowdhary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country’s unique Islamic heritage—“a must-read in our warring world today” (NPR) “A harrowing survivor’s tale, an important history lesson, and a desperate warning from someone who has seen the tragic effects of ethnic violence.”—Time In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India’s fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train fire claims the lives of sixty Hindu right-wing volunteers and upends the life of five million Muslims. Instead of taking her school exams that week, Zara is put under a three-month siege, with her family and thousands of others fearing for their lives as Hindu neighbors, friends, and members of civil society transform overnight into bloodthirsty mobs, hunting and massacring their fellow citizens. The chief minister of the state at the time, Narendra Modi, will later be accused of fomenting the massacre, and yet a decade later, will rise to become India’s prime minister, sending the “world’s largest democracy” hurtling toward cacophonous Hindu nationalism.    The Lucky Ones traces the past of a multigenerational Muslim family to India’s brave but bloody origins, a segregated city’s ancient past, and the lingering hurt causing bloodshed on the streets. Symphonic interludes offer glimpses into the precious, ordinary lives of Muslims, all locked together in a crumbling apartment building in the city’s old quarters, with their ability to forgive and find laughter, to offer grace even as the world outside, and their place in it, falls apart.   The Lucky Ones entwines lost histories across a subcontinent, examines forgotten myths, prods a family’s secrets, and gazes unflinchingly back at a country rushing to move past the biggest pogrom in its modern history. It is a warning thrown to the world by a young survivor, to democracies that fail to protect their vulnerable, and to homes that won’t listen to their daughters. It is an ode to the rebellion of a young woman who insists she will belong to her land, family, and faith on her own terms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721837Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lucky Ones: A Memoir Author: Zara Chowdhary Narrator: Zara Chowdhary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 16,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lucky Ones: A Memoir Author: Zara Chowdhary Narrator: Zara Chowdhary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country’s unique Islamic heritage—“a must-read in our warring world today” (NPR) “A harrowing survivor’s tale, an important history lesson, and a desperate warning from someone who has seen the tragic effects of ethnic violence.”—Time In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India’s fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train fire claims the lives of sixty Hindu right-wing volunteers and upends the life of five million Muslims. Instead of taking her school exams that week, Zara is put under a three-month siege, with her family and thousands of others fearing for their lives as Hindu neighbors, friends, and members of civil society transform overnight into bloodthirsty mobs, hunting and massacring their fellow citizens. The chief minister of the state at the time, Narendra Modi, will later be accused of fomenting the massacre, and yet a decade later, will rise to become India’s prime minister, sending the “world’s largest democracy” hurtling toward cacophonous Hindu nationalism.    The Lucky Ones traces the past of a multigenerational Muslim family to India’s brave but bloody origins, a segregated city’s ancient past, and the lingering hurt causing bloodshed on the streets. Symphonic interludes offer glimpses into the precious, ordinary lives of Muslims, all locked together in a crumbling apartment building in the city’s old quarters, with their ability to forgive and find laughter, to offer grace even as the world outside, and their place in it, falls apart.   The Lucky Ones entwines lost histories across a subcontinent, examines forgotten myths, prods a family’s secrets, and gazes unflinchingly back at a country rushing to move past the biggest pogrom in its modern history. It is a warning thrown to the world by a young survivor, to democracies that fail to protect their vulnerable, and to homes that won’t listen to their daughters. It is an ode to the rebellion of a young woman who insists she will belong to her land, family, and faith on her own terms.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shifting-gears-coast-to-coast-on-the-trans-am-bike-race-by-meaghan-marie-hackinen--65150904https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race Author: Meaghan Marie Hackinen Narrator: Holly Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Meaghan Marie Hackinen's follow-up to her award-nominated debut South Away charts her unforgettable, twenty-five-day journey on the Trans Am Bike Race: a coast-to-coast ride across the entire North American continent from Oregon to Virginia. Without the aid of a support crew, Hackinen must rely entirely on her wits, ingenuity, and sheer determination to finish this extremely challenging feat. A sports story with a unique theme, Hackinen writes about the Trans Am Bike Race as a cultural whole, as she encounters consequences and unforeseen repercussions of an underground, unregulated athletic endeavor. Shifting Gears is another expertly-delivered travelogue and a thrilling glimpse into a world of athletes driven to impossible lengths.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798969Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race Author: Meaghan Marie Hackinen Narrator: Holly Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race Author: Meaghan Marie Hackinen Narrator: Holly Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Meaghan Marie Hackinen's follow-up to her award-nominated debut South Away charts her unforgettable, twenty-five-day journey on the Trans Am Bike Race: a coast-to-coast ride across the entire North American continent from Oregon to Virginia. Without the aid of a support crew, Hackinen must rely entirely on her wits, ingenuity, and sheer determination to finish this extremely challenging feat. A sports story with a unique theme, Hackinen writes about the Trans Am Bike Race as a cultural whole, as she encounters consequences and unforeseen repercussions of an underground, unregulated athletic endeavor. Shifting Gears is another expertly-delivered travelogue and a thrilling glimpse into a world of athletes driven to impossible lengths.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/true-gretch-what-i-ve-learned-about-life-leadership-and-everything-in-between-by-gretchen-whitmer--65150927https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between Author: Gretchen Whitmer Narrator: Gretchen Whitmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.11 of Total 9 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot. When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good in other people. “Even the meanest person might have pretty eyes,” she would say. Nino’s words persuaded Whitmer to look for the good in any person or situation—just one of many colorful personal experiences that have shaped her political vision. (And, as Whitmer writes, one that resonated more than another piece of advice her grandmother offered, to “never part your hair in the middle.”) In this candid and inspiring book, Whitmer reveals the principles and instincts that have shaped her extraordinary career, from her early days as a lawyer and legislator and her 2018 election as governor of Michigan, to her bold and innovative actions as she led the state through a series of unprecedented crises. Her motto in politics, she writes, is to “get shit done.” Whitmer shares the lessons in resilience that steered her through some of the most challenging events in Michigan’s history, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, a five-hundred-year flood, the rise of domestic terrorism, and the fierce fight to protect reproductive rights. Along the way, she tells stories about the outsize characters in her family, her lifelong clumsy streak, the wild comments she’s heard on the campaign trail, her self-deprecating social media campaigns (including her star turn as a talking potato with lipstick), and the slyly funny tactics she deploys to neutralize her opponents. Written with Whitmer’s trademark sense of humor and straight-shooting style, True Gretch is not only a compelling account of her remarkable journey, but also a blueprint for anyone who wants to make a difference in their community, their country, or the world. It is a testament to the power of humor, perseverance, and compassion in the face of darkness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765316Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between Author: Gretchen Whitmer Narrator: Gretchen Whitmer Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between Author: Gretchen Whitmer Narrator: Gretchen Whitmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.11 of Total 9 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot. When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you can always find something good in other people. “Even the meanest person might have pretty eyes,” she would say. Nino’s words persuaded Whitmer to look for the good in any person or situation—just one of many colorful personal experiences that have shaped her political vision. (And, as Whitmer writes, one that resonated more than another piece of advice her grandmother offered, to “never part your hair in the middle.”) In this candid and inspiring book, Whitmer reveals the principles and instincts that have shaped her extraordinary career, from her early days as a lawyer and legislator and her 2018 election as governor of Michigan, to her bold and innovative actions as she led the state through a series of unprecedented crises. Her motto in politics, she writes, is to “get shit done.” Whitmer shares the lessons in resilience that steered her through some of the most challenging events in Michigan’s history, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, a five-hundred-year flood, the rise of domestic terrorism, and the fierce fight to protect reproductive rights. Along the way, she tells stories about the outsize characters in her family, her lifelong clumsy streak, the wild comments she’s heard on the campaign trail, her self-deprecating social media campaigns (including her star turn as a talking potato with lipstick), and the slyly funny tactics she deploys to neutralize her opponents. Written with Whitmer’s trademark sense of humor and straight-shooting style, True Gretch is not only a compelling account of her remarkable journey, but also a blueprint for anyone who wants to make a difference in their community, their country, or the world. It is a testament to the power of humor, perseverance, and compassion in the face of darkness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carrie-carolyn-coco-my-friend-her-murder-and-an-obsession-with-the-unthinkable-by-sarah-gerard--65150884https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable Author: Sarah Gerard Narrator: Sarah Gerard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death?personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable?as “nuanced and subtly intimate” (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, Sunshine State.   On the night of September 28, 2016, twenty-five-year-old Carolyn Bush was brutally stabbed to death in her New York City apartment by her roommate Render Stetson-Shanahan, leaving friends and family of both reeling. In life, Carolyn was a gregarious, smart-mouthed aspiring poet, who had seemingly gotten along well with Render, a reserved art handler. Where had it gone so terribly wrong?   This is the question that has plagued acclaimed author Sarah Gerard and driven her obsessive pursuit to understand this horrific tragedy. In Sarah’s exploration of Carolyn’s life and death, she spent thousands of hours interviewing Carolyn's and Render’s friends and family, poring over court documents and news media, reading obscure writings and internet posts, and attending Carolyn’s memorials and Render’s trial.   What emerged from Sarah’s relentless instinct to follow a story and its characters to their darkest ends is a book that is at once a striking homage to Carolyn’s life, a chilling excavation of a brutal crime, and a captivating whydunit with a shocking conclusion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783017Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable Author: Sarah Gerard Narrator: Sarah Gerard Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable Author: Sarah Gerard Narrator: Sarah Gerard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death?personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable?as “nuanced and subtly intimate” (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, Sunshine State.   On the night of September 28, 2016, twenty-five-year-old Carolyn Bush was brutally stabbed to death in her New York City apartment by her roommate Render Stetson-Shanahan, leaving friends and family of both reeling. In life, Carolyn was a gregarious, smart-mouthed aspiring poet, who had seemingly gotten along well with Render, a reserved art handler. Where had it gone so terribly wrong?   This is the question that has plagued acclaimed author Sarah Gerard and driven her obsessive pursuit to understand this horrific tragedy. In Sarah’s exploration of Carolyn’s life and death, she spent thousands of hours interviewing Carolyn's and Render’s friends and family, poring over court documents and news media, reading obscure writings and internet posts, and attending Carolyn’s memorials and Render’s trial.   What emerged from Sarah’s relentless instinct to follow a story and its characters to their darkest ends is a book that is at once a striking homage to Carolyn’s life, a chilling excavation of a brutal crime, and a captivating whydunit with a shocking conclusion.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ottoline-morrell-life-on-the-grand-scale-by-miranda-seymour--65151024https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale Author: Miranda Seymour Narrator: Elaine Claxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and translated into fifteen languages, this seminal book provoked a rethinking of the traditional Bloomsbury narrative and the rewriting of some major biographies. For decades, Ottoline Morrell was grossly misunderstood. The artists and writers who benefited from her generous patronage and friendship helped to create the false and vicious image of a nymphomanical aristocrat with cultural aspirations. This landmark literary biography presents Morrell in an entirely new light, rightly setting her centre-stage as the brilliant and courageous lynchpin of the Bloomsbury group. She counted T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Siegfried Sassoon, Augustus John, Katherine Mansfield and W.B. Yeats among her closest friends and houseguests. A legendary and agonisingly protracted love-affair with Bertrand Russell never undermined this unlikely couple’s deep and understanding friendship. Ottoline’s loyalty to her own promiscuous husband survived public humiliation and private crises. Overhauling the long-held conventional view of Morrell as a victim, a creature of her class who was born to be exploited and derided by her wittier friends, Seymour repaints the world of the Bloomsberries and rescues the grand life of Ottoline Morrell from the depths of historical obscurity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703273Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale Author: Miranda Seymour Narrator: Elaine Claxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 22 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale Author: Miranda Seymour Narrator: Elaine Claxton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and translated into fifteen languages, this seminal book provoked a rethinking of the traditional Bloomsbury narrative and the rewriting of some major biographies. For decades, Ottoline Morrell was grossly misunderstood. The artists and writers who benefited from her generous patronage and friendship helped to create the false and vicious image of a nymphomanical aristocrat with cultural aspirations. This landmark literary biography presents Morrell in an entirely new light, rightly setting her centre-stage as the brilliant and courageous lynchpin of the Bloomsbury group. She counted T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Siegfried Sassoon, Augustus John, Katherine Mansfield and W.B. Yeats among her closest friends and houseguests. A legendary and agonisingly protracted love-affair with Bertrand Russell never undermined this unlikely couple’s deep and understanding friendship. Ottoline’s loyalty to her own promiscuous husband survived public humiliation and private crises. Overhauling the long-held conventional view of Morrell as a victim, a creature of her class who was born to be exploited and derided by her wittier friends, Seymour repaints the world of the Bloomsberries and rescues the grand life of Ottoline Morrell from the depths of historical obscurity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/with-and-without-you-by-kelsey-parker--65150960https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With and Without You Author: Kelsey Parker Narrator: Kelsey Bowden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “They say the first year is the hardest.” Kelsey Parker's world was turned upside down in the summer of 2020 when her husband Tom, singer in boyband The Wanted, was cruelly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Heavily pregnant with their second child and coping with her own heartache at losing her partner of 13 years, Kelsey remained a tower of strength and positivity for Tom during his darkest days. When traditional treatments stopped working, she spent hours researching alternative therapies to give her husband extra time with his young children Aurelia and Bodhi. Hope came late in 2021 when Tom's tumour became stable, but sadly his condition quickly deteriorated and on March 30, 2022, aged just 33, he died surrounded by his loyal wife, family and friends. With And Without You is her moving, deeply personal story of the first 12 months since Tom's tragic passing. An intimate diary of how she coped with a year of unwanted firsts – first birthdays, first Christmas, first Valentine's Day – all without the love of her life. It is the story of how she rebuilt her life, and bravely found a way to face the future. Since Tom's death, Kelsey has been an inspiration to many and a rock to the couple's children. She has sought to raise awareness of glioblastoma and has bravely campaigned for vital funds for more research into the disease. She has also found spirituality – following Tom's long held belief there is something greater than just one life. With And Without You is not only a story of coping with unimaginable heartbreak and grief, but how your love for someone you've lost can be turned into something positive and bring hope and light into your life as you carry on your journey without them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769365Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With and Without You Author: Kelsey Parker Narrator: Kelsey Bowden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With and Without You Author: Kelsey Parker Narrator: Kelsey Bowden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “They say the first year is the hardest.” Kelsey Parker's world was turned upside down in the summer of 2020 when her husband Tom, singer in boyband The Wanted, was cruelly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Heavily pregnant with their second child and coping with her own heartache at losing her partner of 13 years, Kelsey remained a tower of strength and positivity for Tom during his darkest days. When traditional treatments stopped working, she spent hours researching alternative therapies to give her husband extra time with his young children Aurelia and Bodhi. Hope came late in 2021 when Tom's tumour became stable, but sadly his condition quickly deteriorated and on March 30, 2022, aged just 33, he died surrounded by his loyal wife, family and friends. With And Without You is her moving, deeply personal story of the first 12 months since Tom's tragic passing. An intimate diary of how she coped with a year of unwanted firsts – first birthdays, first Christmas, first Valentine's Day – all without the love of her life. It is the story of how she rebuilt her life, and bravely found a way to face the future. Since Tom's death, Kelsey has been an inspiration to many and a rock to the couple's children. She has sought to raise awareness of glioblastoma and has bravely campaigned for vital funds for more research into the disease. She has also found spirituality – following Tom's long held belief there is something greater than just one life. With And Without You is not only a story of coping with unimaginable heartbreak and grief, but how your love for someone you've lost can be turned into something positive and bring hope and light into your life as you carry on your journey without them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dutch-flemish-daten-is-nog-steeds-k-t-over-dickpicks-dertigersdilemma-s-en-daddy-issues-by-laura-de-hoog--65150850https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Daten is (nog steeds) k*t: Over dickpicks, dertigersdilemma's en daddy issues Author: Laura De Hoog Narrator: Judith Amsenga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Daten als dertiger is nét even anders, maar daten blijft k*t. Vlak voor haar dertigste verjaardag heeft Laura de Hoog alles op een rijtje: een leuke baan als contentcreator, fijne mensen om zich heen, een goede gezondheid en na een turbulent liefdesleven lijkt ze ook de man van haar dromen tegen het gespierde lijf te zijn gelopen. Lijkt, helaas, want haar prins op het witte paard galoppeert toch weg, en laat haar met een gebroken hart achter. En dus gaat Laura door met daten. Tenslotte is de beste manier om over iemand heen te komen onder iemand anders. In dit boek kun je álles maar dan ook álles, dus ook wat op TikTok gecensureerd wordt, lezen. Hoewel daten in je dertiger jaren wat nieuwe uitdagingen met zich mee blijkt te brengen – van (wel of geen) kinderen tot botox – blijft Laura even openhartig, herkenbaar en grappig als altijd. Laura de Hoog (1992) begon ooit een blog over haar liefdesleven, maar stapte na de zoveelste mislukte relatie over op TikTok waar ze in minivlogjes haar ongezouten mening geeft over wat ze in het dagelijks leven tegenkomt. Ondertussen is ze meer dan 300.000 volgers en een succesvol boek – Daten is k*t – verder.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796764Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Daten is (nog steeds) k*t: Over dickpicks, dertigersdilemma's en daddy issues Author: Laura De Hoog Narrator: Judith Amsenga Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796764 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Daten is (nog steeds) k*t: Over dickpicks, dertigersdilemma's en daddy issues Author: Laura De Hoog Narrator: Judith Amsenga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Daten als dertiger is nét even anders, maar daten blijft k*t. Vlak voor haar dertigste verjaardag heeft Laura de Hoog alles op een rijtje: een leuke baan als contentcreator, fijne mensen om zich heen, een goede gezondheid en na een turbulent liefdesleven lijkt ze ook de man van haar dromen tegen het gespierde lijf te zijn gelopen. Lijkt, helaas, want haar prins op het witte paard galoppeert toch weg, en laat haar met een gebroken hart achter. En dus gaat Laura door met daten. Tenslotte is de beste manier om over iemand heen te komen onder iemand anders. In dit boek kun je álles maar dan ook álles, dus ook wat op TikTok gecensureerd wordt, lezen. Hoewel daten in je dertiger jaren wat nieuwe uitdagingen met zich mee blijkt te brengen – van (wel of geen) kinderen tot botox – blijft Laura even openhartig, herkenbaar en grappig als altijd. Laura de Hoog (1992) begon ooit een blog over haar liefdesleven, maar stapte na de zoveelste mislukte relatie over op TikTok waar ze in minivlogjes haar ongezouten mening geeft over wat ze in het dagelijks leven tegenkomt. Ondertussen is ze meer dan 300.000 volgers en een succesvol boek – Daten is k*t – verder.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ask-not-the-kennedys-and-the-women-they-destroyed-by-maureen-callahan--65151025https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Author: Maureen Callahan Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.92 of Total 12 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, leaving a trail of ruin and death in each generation’s wake. Through decades of scandal after scandal—from sexual assaults to reputational slander, suicides to manslaughter—the family and their defenders have kept the Kennedy brand intact. Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys’ hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be. Drawing on years of explosive reportage and written in electric prose, Ask Not is a long-overdue reckoning with this fabled family and a consequential part of American history that is still very much with us. At long last, Callahan redirects the spotlight to the women in the Kennedys’ orbit, paying homage to those who freed themselves and giving voice to those who, through no fault of their own, could not.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723282Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Author: Maureen Callahan Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed Author: Maureen Callahan Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4.92 of Total 12 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, leaving a trail of ruin and death in each generation’s wake. Through decades of scandal after scandal—from sexual assaults to reputational slander, suicides to manslaughter—the family and their defenders have kept the Kennedy brand intact. Now, in Ask Not, bestselling author and journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys’ hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be. Drawing on years of explosive reportage and written in electric prose, Ask Not is a long-overdue reckoning with this fabled family and a consequential part of American history that is still very much with us. At long last, Callahan redirects the spotlight to the women in the Kennedys’ orbit, paying homage to those who freed themselves and giving voice to those who, through no fault of their own, could not.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-the-summer-of-love-to-the-valley-of-the-moon-a-memoir-by-nancy-j-martin--65150893https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From the Summer of Love to the Valley of the Moon: A Memoir Author: Nancy J Martin Narrator: Carol Wrobleski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: San Francisco, 1967. A teenager comes of age during the Summer of Love at her rock & roll wedding. Her story relates the saga of life and relationships from then until the present through many lessons learned the hard way, until when, in 2005 she transitioned into yet another challenging marriage to the founder of an iconic winery in the Valley of the Moon. An inspirational narrative of one woman’s perseverance, creativity and stamina to overcome the cultural norms of patriarchy through years of controlling abuse and moving on through the learning curve of personal growth. The publication of this story was inspired and encouraged by the now prominent #MeToo Movement.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794628Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From the Summer of Love to the Valley of the Moon: A Memoir Author: Nancy J Martin Narrator: Carol Wrobleski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From the Summer of Love to the Valley of the Moon: A Memoir Author: Nancy J Martin Narrator: Carol Wrobleski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: San Francisco, 1967. A teenager comes of age during the Summer of Love at her rock & roll wedding. Her story relates the saga of life and relationships from then until the present through many lessons learned the hard way, until when, in 2005 she transitioned into yet another challenging marriage to the founder of an iconic winery in the Valley of the Moon. An inspirational narrative of one woman’s perseverance, creativity and stamina to overcome the cultural norms of patriarchy through years of controlling abuse and moving on through the learning curve of personal growth. The publication of this story was inspired and encouraged by the now prominent #MeToo Movement.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/night-flyer-harriet-tubman-and-the-faith-dreams-of-a-free-people-by-tiya-miles--65151028https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Series: Part of Significations Author: Tiya Miles Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall, unable to read, and suffering from a brain injury, she managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715823Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Series: Part of Significations Author: Tiya Miles Narrator: Janina Edwards Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Series: Part of Significations Author: Tiya Miles Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall, unable to read, and suffering from a brain injury, she managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1974-a-personal-history-by-francine-prose--65150995https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1974: A Personal History Author: Francine Prose Narrator: Francine Prose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony—give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s—the decade, as she memorably puts it, when American youth realized that the changes that seemed possible in the ’60s weren’t going to happen. A fascinating and ultimately wrenching book.”—Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed. During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers. The narrative is framed around the nights she spent with Russo driving manically around San Francisco, listening to his stories--and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship in New York. What happens to them mirrors the events and preoccupations of that historical moment: the Vietnam war, drugs, women's liberation, the Patty Hearst kidnapping. At once heartfelt and ironic, funny and sad, personal and political, 1974 provides an insightful look at how Francine Prose became a writer and artist during a time when the country, too, was shaping its identity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709891Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1974: A Personal History Author: Francine Prose Narrator: Francine Prose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 18,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1974: A Personal History Author: Francine Prose Narrator: Francine Prose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony—give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s—the decade, as she memorably puts it, when American youth realized that the changes that seemed possible in the ’60s weren’t going to happen. A fascinating and ultimately wrenching book.”—Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed. During her twenties, Francine Prose lived in San Francisco, where she began an intense and strange relationship with Tony Russo, who had been indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers. The narrative is framed around the nights she spent with Russo driving manically around San Francisco, listening to his stories--and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship in New York. What happens to them mirrors the events and preoccupations of that historical moment: the Vietnam war, drugs, women's liberation, the Patty Hearst kidnapping. At once heartfelt and ironic, funny and sad, personal and political, 1974 provides an insightful look at how Francine Prose became a writer and artist during a time when the country, too, was shaping its identity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rottenkid-a-succulent-story-of-survival-by-brigit-binns--65150951https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival Author: Brigit Binns Narrator: Brigit Binns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns's coming-of-age memoir—costarring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother—reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. In the old Hollywood of her childhood, Brigit seems to live in an elite world. But when her parents eventually divorce—her father flees and her mother sends her off to boarding school so she can more easily conduct her decades-long romance with a married California governor—Brigit racks up seven schools and a host of bad decisions before the age of sixteen. Marriage to an Englishman takes her across the pond and to professional cooking school. But when that life comes crashing down, she returns heartbroken and alone to Los Angeles eighteen years after vowing never to return. Here she thrives, cold pitching herself to top chefs as coauthor for their cookbooks. Peppered with humor and seasoned with optimism, Brigit's story is an entertaining tribute to female resilience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival Author: Brigit Binns Narrator: Brigit Binns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival Author: Brigit Binns Narrator: Brigit Binns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns's coming-of-age memoir—costarring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother—reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. In the old Hollywood of her childhood, Brigit seems to live in an elite world. But when her parents eventually divorce—her father flees and her mother sends her off to boarding school so she can more easily conduct her decades-long romance with a married California governor—Brigit racks up seven schools and a host of bad decisions before the age of sixteen. Marriage to an Englishman takes her across the pond and to professional cooking school. But when that life comes crashing down, she returns heartbroken and alone to Los Angeles eighteen years after vowing never to return. Here she thrives, cold pitching herself to top chefs as coauthor for their cookbooks. Peppered with humor and seasoned with optimism, Brigit's story is an entertaining tribute to female resilience.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-only-way-through-is-out-by-suzette-mullen--65150875https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Way Through Is Out Author: Suzette Mullen Narrator: Shawna Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “With candor and deep vulnerability, Mullen offers a compelling, honest, and hopeful memoir that examines the hidden truths involved in accepting our deepest wants and desires. The Only Way Through Is Out is a lesson to all of us on what great things can happen when we act with authenticity.”—Jessi Hempel, author of The Family Outing “I could not put this book down. Mullen shows us the search for one’s authentic self has no expiration date and is worth whatever it takes. This book is a glorious tale of tenacious courage that anyone searching for their own path in life will love.”—Jennifer Louden, national bestselling author of Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath the happy facade was a woman who watched her friends walk boldly through their lives and wondered what was holding her back from doing the same. Digging into her past, Suzette uncovered a deeply buried truth: she’d been in love with her best friend—a woman—for nearly two decades—and still was. Leaning into these “unspeakable” feelings would put Suzette’s identity, relationships, and life of privilege at risk—but she knew taking this leap might also provide her only chance to feel fully alive. Introspective, bittersweet, and empowering, The Only Way Through Is Out is both a coming-out and coming-of-age story, as well as a call to action for every human who is longing to live authentically but is afraid of the cost.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Way Through Is Out Author: Suzette Mullen Narrator: Shawna Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 18,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Way Through Is Out Author: Suzette Mullen Narrator: Shawna Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “With candor and deep vulnerability, Mullen offers a compelling, honest, and hopeful memoir that examines the hidden truths involved in accepting our deepest wants and desires. The Only Way Through Is Out is a lesson to all of us on what great things can happen when we act with authenticity.”—Jessi Hempel, author of The Family Outing “I could not put this book down. Mullen shows us the search for one’s authentic self has no expiration date and is worth whatever it takes. This book is a glorious tale of tenacious courage that anyone searching for their own path in life will love.”—Jennifer Louden, national bestselling author of Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath the happy facade was a woman who watched her friends walk boldly through their lives and wondered what was holding her back from doing the same. Digging into her past, Suzette uncovered a deeply buried truth: she’d been in love with her best friend—a woman—for nearly two decades—and still was. Leaning into these “unspeakable” feelings would put Suzette’s identity, relationships, and life of privilege at risk—but she knew taking this leap might also provide her only chance to feel fully alive. Introspective, bittersweet, and empowering, The Only Way Through Is Out is both a coming-out and coming-of-age story, as well as a call to action for every human who is longing to live authentically but is afraid of the cost.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/consent-a-memoir-by-jill-ciment--65150972https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consent: A Memoir Author: Jill Ciment Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo. “Few writers can tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it.” — The New York Times In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1996 memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility around a May-December romance. In the light of #metoo, with new understanding about the balance of power between an older man and an underage girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband’s death at ninety-three. This riveting book about art, memory, and morality asks many questions along the way: Does a story’s ending excuse its beginning? Does a kiss in one moment mean something else entirely five decades later? Can a love that starts with such an asymmetrical balance of power ever right itself? Suffused with the wisdom that comes with time, Consent is an author’s brave recasting of her life’s settled narrative, and an urgent read for women of all ages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720884Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consent: A Memoir Author: Jill Ciment Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consent: A Memoir Author: Jill Ciment Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo. “Few writers can tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it.” — The New York Times In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1996 memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility around a May-December romance. In the light of #metoo, with new understanding about the balance of power between an older man and an underage girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband’s death at ninety-three. This riveting book about art, memory, and morality asks many questions along the way: Does a story’s ending excuse its beginning? Does a kiss in one moment mean something else entirely five decades later? Can a love that starts with such an asymmetrical balance of power ever right itself? Suffused with the wisdom that comes with time, Consent is an author’s brave recasting of her life’s settled narrative, and an urgent read for women of all ages.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/traveling-on-the-path-of-joni-mitchell-by-ann-powers--65150968https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell Author: Ann Powers Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her own invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice.” —From the introduction For decades, Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians—from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile—and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as—with the other arm—she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer’s childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell’s musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Along this journey, Powers’ wide-ranging musings on the artist’s life and career reconsider the biographer’s role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, Traveling illustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan. Kaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, Traveling is a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell canon, written by a biographer in full command of her gifts who asks as much of herself as of her subject.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722532Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell Author: Ann Powers Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell Author: Ann Powers Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. “What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her own invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice.” —From the introduction For decades, Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians—from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile—and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as—with the other arm—she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer’s childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell’s musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Along this journey, Powers’ wide-ranging musings on the artist’s life and career reconsider the biographer’s role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, Traveling illustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan. Kaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, Traveling is a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell canon, written by a biographer in full command of her gifts who asks as much of herself as of her subject.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/candida-royalle-the-sexual-revolution-a-history-from-below-by-jane-kamensky--65150916https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below Author: Jane Kamensky Narrator: Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950–2015)—underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist—she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot “sex wars” cleaved feminism and realigned American politics; when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus; when the sex industry of the 1970s and ’80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire.The sexual revolution was Royalle’s war—even when other avowed feminists exited the field or became her opponents—and pornography emerged as the arena in which she would wage it. With the founding of her adult film company, Femme Productions, in 1984, Royalle became an owner of the means of pornographic production, infusing her sets with the ideals of labor feminism. Onscreen and off-, she was, by turns, exuberant and thoughtful, self-possessed and gleefully shameless. A trailblazer who lived along the cultural fault lines of her generation, she danced at Woodstock, marched for women’s liberation, survivedthe AIDS crisis, and became a talk show regular, interviewed by Phil Donahue, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Morton Downey Jr., Jane Pauley, and many others. As a performer, director, producer, and writer, she moved the needle of her industry. But she never transcended the politics of pleasure.With full access to Royalle’s remarkable archive, historian Jane Kamensky has spent years examining the intersection of Royalle’s life with the clashes that have defined her era—and ours. Deeply informed by these never-before-studied materials, Kamensky explodes the conventions of biography, with its assumptions about who makes history and how. Written with cinematic verve, Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution evokes Royalle’s times in their broadest contours as Kamensky traces the rise of an improbable heroine who broke the mold and was herself broken in turn.“A riveting, humane, and essential contribution to modern feminist history. Jane Kamensky has written a biography that reads like a novel, an astute intellectual work that recognizes and humanizes the role of sex workers in recent women’s movements. Thanks to this book, I am proud to recognize the place of Candida Royalle in my own lineage.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757704Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below Author: Jane Kamensky Narrator: Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below Author: Jane Kamensky Narrator: Mia Barron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950–2015)—underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist—she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot “sex wars” cleaved feminism and realigned American politics; when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus; when the sex industry of the 1970s and ’80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire.The sexual revolution was Royalle’s war—even when other avowed feminists exited the field or became her opponents—and pornography emerged as the arena in which she would wage it. With the founding of her adult film company, Femme Productions, in 1984, Royalle became an owner of the means of pornographic production, infusing her sets with the ideals of labor feminism. Onscreen and off-, she was, by turns, exuberant and thoughtful, self-possessed and gleefully shameless. A trailblazer who lived along the cultural fault lines of her generation, she danced at Woodstock, marched for women’s liberation, survivedthe AIDS crisis, and became a talk show regular, interviewed by Phil Donahue, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Morton Downey Jr., Jane Pauley, and many others. As a performer, director, producer, and writer, she moved the needle of her industry. But she never transcended the politics of pleasure.With full access to Royalle’s remarkable archive, historian Jane Kamensky has spent years examining the intersection of Royalle’s life with the clashes that have defined her era—and ours. Deeply informed by these never-before-studied materials, Kamensky explodes the conventions of biography, with its assumptions about who makes history and how. Written with cinematic verve, Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution evokes Royalle’s times in their broadest contours as Kamensky traces the rise of an improbable heroine who broke the mold and was herself broken in turn.“A riveting, humane, and essential contribution to modern feminist history. Jane Kamensky has written a biography that reads like a novel, an astute intellectual work that recognizes and humanizes the role of sex workers in recent women’s movements. Thanks to this book, I am proud to recognize the place of Candida Royalle in my own lineage.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/taylor-era-by-era-the-unauthorized-biography-by-caroline-sullivan--65150945https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taylor: Era by Era: The Unauthorized Biography Author: Caroline Sullivan Narrator: Katelyn Levering Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography. We're all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album, she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas, and become one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her Eras Tour is on track to gross more than $1 billion by the time it concludes in December 2024, and her most recent studio album hit No. 1 in more than 25 countries. In this revealing and entertaining biography, author and music journalist Caroline Sullivan charts Taylor’s journey from budding country starlet to pop music phenomenon, encompassing her evolution as an artist, her high-profile relationships, and the stories behind her songs. Each of Taylor’s Eras is explored in depth, detailing her influences, her collaborators and the aesthetics that have become such a crucial part of her performance. Spanning her entire career, this is the most complete portrait yet of one of the most popular artists on the planet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769546Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taylor: Era by Era: The Unauthorized Biography Author: Caroline Sullivan Narrator: Katelyn Levering Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taylor: Era by Era: The Unauthorized Biography Author: Caroline Sullivan Narrator: Katelyn Levering Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography. We're all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album, she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas, and become one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her Eras Tour is on track to gross more than $1 billion by the time it concludes in December 2024, and her most recent studio album hit No. 1 in more than 25 countries. In this revealing and entertaining biography, author and music journalist Caroline Sullivan charts Taylor’s journey from budding country starlet to pop music phenomenon, encompassing her evolution as an artist, her high-profile relationships, and the stories behind her songs. Each of Taylor’s Eras is explored in depth, detailing her influences, her collaborators and the aesthetics that have become such a crucial part of her performance. Spanning her entire career, this is the most complete portrait yet of one of the most popular artists on the planet.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-shouldn-t-be-telling-you-this-but-i-m-going-to-anyway-by-chelsea-devantez--65151014https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway) Author: Chelsea Devantez Narrator: Chelsea Devantez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: "It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious, actually inspiring.” –Jon Stewart *A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM BUSTLE, GOODREADS, GOODREADS, SHEREADS, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE* A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her tumultuous upbringing and uproarious career path into Hollywood, featuring a bonus chapter exclusive to the audio edition. There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn’t be telling you. Many of them are in this book: some are embarrassing (like when she tried to break her three year spell of celibacy using a guide of seduction tips). Some are confessional (getting sentenced to the “hell hill” at Mormon church camp). Some are TMI (a series of outrageous doctor visits that ended with one doctor misdiagnosing her as “pregnant.” Woopsies!). Then there are things Chelsea really shouldn’t be telling you: like the time her biggest family secret was publicly outed, or about the drive-by shootings and the precipitating domestic violence she survived. Yet through it all, it’s the women in Chelsea’s life who kept her going – from the lowest points of her childhood when she and her mom had only $100 left to their name, all the way to her career highs as the Emmy-nominated Head Writer for The Problem with Jon Stewart and sensational podcaster deemed “the celebrity memoir whisperer” by her fans.  In I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, Chelsea centers each story around a different woman who shaped her life, taking us on a tour of friends and strangers, fictional characters and celebrities, heroes and villains who will destroy any Netflix algorithm for a “strong female lead.” Reading it will feel kinda like that moment at a party when your friend beckons you close, sloshes her martini around, and covertly whispers, “I really shouldn’t say this, but…”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718974Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway) Author: Chelsea Devantez Narrator: Chelsea Devantez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway) Author: Chelsea Devantez Narrator: Chelsea Devantez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: "It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious, actually inspiring.” –Jon Stewart *A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM BUSTLE, GOODREADS, GOODREADS, SHEREADS, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE* A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her tumultuous upbringing and uproarious career path into Hollywood, featuring a bonus chapter exclusive to the audio edition. There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn’t be telling you. Many of them are in this book: some are embarrassing (like when she tried to break her three year spell of celibacy using a guide of seduction tips). Some are confessional (getting sentenced to the “hell hill” at Mormon church camp). Some are TMI (a series of outrageous doctor visits that ended with one doctor misdiagnosing her as “pregnant.” Woopsies!). Then there are things Chelsea really shouldn’t be telling you: like the time her biggest family secret was publicly outed, or about the drive-by shootings and the precipitating domestic violence she survived. Yet through it all, it’s the women in Chelsea’s life who kept her going – from the lowest points of her childhood when she and her mom had only $100 left to their name, all the way to her career highs as the Emmy-nominated Head Writer for The Problem with Jon Stewart and sensational podcaster deemed “the celebrity memoir whisperer” by her fans.  In I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, Chelsea centers each story around a different woman who shaped her life, taking us on a tour of friends and strangers, fictional characters and celebrities, heroes and villains who will destroy any Netflix algorithm for a “strong female lead.” Reading it will feel kinda like that moment at a party when your friend beckons you close, sloshes her martini around, and covertly whispers, “I really shouldn’t say this, but…”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ambition-monster-a-memoir-by-jennifer-romolini--65150984https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ambition Monster: A Memoir Author: Jennifer Romolini Narrator: Jennifer Romolini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An “intimate, intensely resonant memoir about workaholism, unresolved trauma, and the ‘addictive nature of ambition’” (Harper’s Bazaar), this is an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of Drinking: A Love Story and Uncanny Valley. After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” But beneath this polished surface was a powder keg of unresolved trauma and chronic overwork. It was all about to blow. Ambition Monster is a gutsy and powerful look at workaholism, the lingering effect of childhood trauma, and the failures of our modern rat race. This is a Cinderella story of success and a brutal appraisal of the cost of capitalism—perfect for people pleasers, overachievers, and those whose traumas have driven them to be perfect, no matter the cost. “If you find yourself on the other end of burnout, trying desperately to figure out a new way forward—wow, is this book for you” (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730167Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ambition Monster: A Memoir Author: Jennifer Romolini Narrator: Jennifer Romolini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ambition Monster: A Memoir Author: Jennifer Romolini Narrator: Jennifer Romolini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An “intimate, intensely resonant memoir about workaholism, unresolved trauma, and the ‘addictive nature of ambition’” (Harper’s Bazaar), this is an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of Drinking: A Love Story and Uncanny Valley. After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” But beneath this polished surface was a powder keg of unresolved trauma and chronic overwork. It was all about to blow. Ambition Monster is a gutsy and powerful look at workaholism, the lingering effect of childhood trauma, and the failures of our modern rat race. This is a Cinderella story of success and a brutal appraisal of the cost of capitalism—perfect for people pleasers, overachievers, and those whose traumas have driven them to be perfect, no matter the cost. “If you find yourself on the other end of burnout, trying desperately to figure out a new way forward—wow, is this book for you” (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/into-my-hands-a-midwife-s-memoir-by-catherine-rae-shields--65150898https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into my Hands: A Midwife’s Memoir Author: Catherine Rae Shields Narrator: Catherine Rae Shields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Into My Hands' is an intimate and inspiring memoir that delves into the life of a passionate midwife, tracing her path from childhood to her fulfilling career in midwifery. This poignant narrative was born from a transformative moment in the author's early twenties, following a traumatic birth experience with her own daughter. It was then that she resolved to put an end to birth trauma and dedicate her life to supporting women during the sacred journey of childbirth. With a background as a labor and delivery nurse and a nurse-midwife, she embarked on a remarkable journey to achieve her mission. In her role, she went above and beyond to provide comfort, aid, and unwavering reassurance to mothers in their birthing moments. 'Into My Hands' is not only a personal account but also a tribute to the countless mothers she had the privilege to work with, as they generously share their own unique birth stories. This memoir beautifully captures the profound impact of having a midwife's skilled and caring hands present during childbirth. It's a testament to the strength, resilience, and the incredible bond that forms between midwives and the women they serve. Through this book, readers will gain a deep appreciation for the transformative power of compassionate care during one of life's most extraordinary experiences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789532Wed, 29 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into my Hands: A Midwife’s Memoir Author: Catherine Rae Shields Narrator: Catherine Rae Shields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/789532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into my Hands: A Midwife’s Memoir Author: Catherine Rae Shields Narrator: Catherine Rae Shields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Into My Hands' is an intimate and inspiring memoir that delves into the life of a passionate midwife, tracing her path from childhood to her fulfilling career in midwifery. This poignant narrative was born from a transformative moment in the author's early twenties, following a traumatic birth experience with her own daughter. It was then that she resolved to put an end to birth trauma and dedicate her life to supporting women during the sacred journey of childbirth. With a background as a labor and delivery nurse and a nurse-midwife, she embarked on a remarkable journey to achieve her mission. In her role, she went above and beyond to provide comfort, aid, and unwavering reassurance to mothers in their birthing moments. 'Into My Hands' is not only a personal account but also a tribute to the countless mothers she had the privilege to work with, as they generously share their own unique birth stories. This memoir beautifully captures the profound impact of having a midwife's skilled and caring hands present during childbirth. It's a testament to the strength, resilience, and the incredible bond that forms between midwives and the women they serve. Through this book, readers will gain a deep appreciation for the transformative power of compassionate care during one of life's most extraordinary experiences.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tory-s-wife-a-woman-and-her-family-in-revolutionary-america-by-cynthia-a-kierner--65150978https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America Author: Cynthia A. Kierner Narrator: Kitty Hendrix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights—as Jane Spurgin did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family's lost property after the war was over. While providing listeners with stories of battles, horse-stealing, bigamy, and exile that bring the Revolutionary era vividly to life, this book also serves as an invaluable examination of the potentially transformative effects of war and revolution, both personally and politically.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769105Tue, 28 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America Author: Cynthia A. Kierner Narrator: Kitty Hendrix Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America Author: Cynthia A. Kierner Narrator: Kitty Hendrix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights—as Jane Spurgin did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family's lost property after the war was over. While providing listeners with stories of battles, horse-stealing, bigamy, and exile that bring the Revolutionary era vividly to life, this book also serves as an invaluable examination of the potentially transformative effects of war and revolution, both personally and politically.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-editor-how-publishing-legend-judith-jones-shaped-culture-in-america-by-sara-b-franklin--65150970https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Author: Sara B. Franklin Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—finally gets her due in this “surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography” (Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem). At Doubleday’s Paris office in 1949, twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects—until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who’s who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Through her tenacious work behind the scenes, Jones helped turn these authors into household names, changing cultural mores and expectations along the way. Judith’s work spanned decades of America’s most dramatic cultural change—from the end of World War II through the civil rights movement and the fight for women’s equality—and the books she published acted as tools of quiet resistance. Now, based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers, and years of research, her astonishing career is explored for the first time in this “thorough and humanizing portrait” (Kirkus Reviews).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733573Tue, 28 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Author: Sara B. Franklin Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Author: Sara B. Franklin Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—finally gets her due in this “surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography” (Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem). At Doubleday’s Paris office in 1949, twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects—until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who’s who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Through her tenacious work behind the scenes, Jones helped turn these authors into household names, changing cultural mores and expectations along the way. Judith’s work spanned decades of America’s most dramatic cultural change—from the end of World War II through the civil rights movement and the fight for women’s equality—and the books she published acted as tools of quiet resistance. Now, based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers, and years of research, her astonishing career is explored for the first time in this “thorough and humanizing portrait” (Kirkus Reviews).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-war-we-won-apart-the-untold-story-of-two-elite-agents-who-became-one-of-the-most-decorated-couples-of-wwii-by-nahlah-ayed--65150899https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII Author: Nahlah Ayed Narrator: Nahlah Ayed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other. But not long after their hasty marriage, their love is tested by separation, by a titanic invasion—and by indiscretion. Writing in vivid, heart-stopping prose, Ayed follows Sonia as she plunges into Nazi-occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to throw off occupying Nazi forces, while at the same time participating in sabotage operations against them; and as Guy, in another corner of France, trains hundreds into a resistance army. Reconstructed from hours of unpublished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents, the story Ayed tells is about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportionately by the young. But more than anything, The War We Won Apart is a story about love: two secret agents who were supposed to land in enemy territory together, but were fated to fight the war apart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760792Tue, 28 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII Author: Nahlah Ayed Narrator: Nahlah...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII Author: Nahlah Ayed Narrator: Nahlah Ayed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other. But not long after their hasty marriage, their love is tested by separation, by a titanic invasion—and by indiscretion. Writing in vivid, heart-stopping prose, Ayed follows Sonia as she plunges into Nazi-occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to throw off occupying Nazi forces, while at the same time participating in sabotage operations against them; and as Guy, in another corner of France, trains hundreds into a resistance army. Reconstructed from hours of unpublished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents, the story Ayed tells is about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportionately by the young. But more than anything, The War We Won Apart is a story about love: two secret agents who were supposed to land in enemy territory together, but were fated to fight the war apart.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/modern-slave-a-vulnerable-girl-a-gang-of-vicious-men-a-shocking-true-story-of-survival-by-gaia-cooper--65151003https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Slave: A vulnerable girl. A gang of vicious men. A shocking true story of survival. Author: Gaia Cooper Narrator: Imogen Wilde Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to commit organised credit card fraud. Despite being placed in care – somewhere Gaia should feel safe – she is left even more vulnerable, and is horrifically abused and exploited by the men manipulating her. Will the authorities save Gaia – or will she have to save herself?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722430Thu, 23 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Slave: A vulnerable girl. A gang of vicious men. A shocking true story of survival. Author: Gaia Cooper Narrator: Imogen Wilde Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722430 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Slave: A vulnerable girl. A gang of vicious men. A shocking true story of survival. Author: Gaia Cooper Narrator: Imogen Wilde Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to commit organised credit card fraud. Despite being placed in care – somewhere Gaia should feel safe – she is left even more vulnerable, and is horrifically abused and exploited by the men manipulating her. Will the authorities save Gaia – or will she have to save herself?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/once-upon-a-time-the-captivating-life-of-carolyn-bessette-kennedy-by-elizabeth-beller--65150976https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Author: Elizabeth Beller Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, and USA TODAY BESTSELLER This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling author) reexamines her life and legacy as never before. Perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted. A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose short life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty. Amidst today’s cultural reckoning about the way our media treats women, Elizabeth Beller “reveals the true woman behind the mystery, and what a woman she turns out to be: fabulous, fierce, fashionable, flawed…formidable” (J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author). When she began dating America’s prince, Carolyn was thrust into an overwhelming spotlight filled with cruelly relentless paparazzi who reacted to her reserve with a campaign of harassment and vilification. To this day, she is still depicted as a privileged princess—icy, vapid, and drug-addicted. She has even been accused of being responsible for their untimely death, allegedly delaying take-off until she finished her pedicure. But now, the truth is finally unveiled. A fiercely independent woman devoted to her adopted city and career, Carolyn relied on her impeccable eye and drive to fly up the ranks at Calvin Klein in the glossy, high-stakes fashion world of the 1990s. When Carolyn met her future husband, John was immediately drawn to her strong-willed personality, effortless charm, and high intelligence. Their relationship would change her life and catapult her to dizzying fame, but it was her vibrant life before their marriage and then hidden afterwards, that is truly fascinating. Based on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with friends, family members, teachers, roommates, and colleagues, and featuring never-before-seen family photos, this comprehensive biography reveals a multifaceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720025Tue, 21 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Author: Elizabeth Beller Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Author: Elizabeth Beller Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, and USA TODAY BESTSELLER This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling author) reexamines her life and legacy as never before. Perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted. A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose short life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty. Amidst today’s cultural reckoning about the way our media treats women, Elizabeth Beller “reveals the true woman behind the mystery, and what a woman she turns out to be: fabulous, fierce, fashionable, flawed…formidable” (J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author). When she began dating America’s prince, Carolyn was thrust into an overwhelming spotlight filled with cruelly relentless paparazzi who reacted to her reserve with a campaign of harassment and vilification. To this day, she is still depicted as a privileged princess—icy, vapid, and drug-addicted. She has even been accused of being responsible for their untimely death, allegedly delaying take-off until she finished her pedicure. But now, the truth is finally unveiled. A fiercely independent woman devoted to her adopted city and career, Carolyn relied on her impeccable eye and drive to fly up the ranks at Calvin Klein in the glossy, high-stakes fashion world of the 1990s. When Carolyn met her future husband, John was immediately drawn to her strong-willed personality, effortless charm, and high intelligence. Their relationship would change her life and catapult her to dizzying fame, but it was her vibrant life before their marriage and then hidden afterwards, that is truly fascinating. Based on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with friends, family members, teachers, roommates, and colleagues, and featuring never-before-seen family photos, this comprehensive biography reveals a multifaceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-resilience-myth-new-thinking-on-grit-strength-and-growth-after-trauma-by-soraya-chemaly--65150905https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma Author: Soraya Chemaly Narrator: Soraya Chemaly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The author of the “must-read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura Bates, author of Girl Up), Soraya Chemaly challenges us to adapt our thinking about how we survive in a world of sustained, overlapping crises. It is interdependence and nurturing relationships that truly sustain us, she argues. Based on comprehensive research and eye-opening examples from real-life, The Resilience Myth offers alternative visions of relational hardiness by emphasizing care for others and our environments above all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753411Tue, 21 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma Author: Soraya Chemaly Narrator: Soraya Chemaly Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma Author: Soraya Chemaly Narrator: Soraya Chemaly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The author of the “must-read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura Bates, author of Girl Up), Soraya Chemaly challenges us to adapt our thinking about how we survive in a world of sustained, overlapping crises. It is interdependence and nurturing relationships that truly sustain us, she argues. Based on comprehensive research and eye-opening examples from real-life, The Resilience Myth offers alternative visions of relational hardiness by emphasizing care for others and our environments above all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-reina-de-espadas-by-jazmina-barrera--65150928https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La reina de espadas Author: Jazmina Barrera Narrator: Klau Tenorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: «Mientras leo, tengo la sensación que me da la literatura que más me gusta: la de estar mirando a través de una ventana y ver de pronto sobre el cristal, como un espectro, mi propio reflejo.» Este libro nos presenta a una Elena Garro que quizás solo conocieron sus amigas más cercanas. Una Elena humana y, por lo tanto,falible y multifacética. Para trazar este magnífico retrato, Jazmina Barrera hila con rigor científico y sentido del humor una colección personal en torno a la escritora: fragmentos de sus obras de teatro, novelas, cuentos, diarios, cartas y entrevistas se trenzan con citas de documentales sobre su vida, algunas carpetas de los Elena Garro Papers del archivo de Princeton, y hasta sesiones de tarot, I Ching y astrología. Aquí no hay certezas ni juicios; lo que hay es el vaivén de una personalidad camaleónica, mirada por los ojos apasionados de una investigadora que se transforma conforme avanzan sus pesquisas. La observación aguda que caracteriza la pluma de Jazmina Barrera se alianza a su infinita curiosidad y a su prodigiosa memoria para regalarnos una serie de instantáneas de una gran escritora del siglo xx. Y al hacerlo, demuestra ser parte de ese mismo linaje. Elena Garro renace con la fuerza de una mirada feminista e inteligente, que resalta su peculiar forma de habitar el mundo y su capacidad de crearle nuevos sentidos a través de los diversostemas que la obsesionaron: el tiempo, la catástrofe, los gatos, la lucha campesina, las puestas en escena y los viajes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778860Thu, 16 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La reina de espadas Author: Jazmina Barrera Narrator: Klau Tenorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La reina de espadas Author: Jazmina Barrera Narrator: Klau Tenorio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: «Mientras leo, tengo la sensación que me da la literatura que más me gusta: la de estar mirando a través de una ventana y ver de pronto sobre el cristal, como un espectro, mi propio reflejo.» Este libro nos presenta a una Elena Garro que quizás solo conocieron sus amigas más cercanas. Una Elena humana y, por lo tanto,falible y multifacética. Para trazar este magnífico retrato, Jazmina Barrera hila con rigor científico y sentido del humor una colección personal en torno a la escritora: fragmentos de sus obras de teatro, novelas, cuentos, diarios, cartas y entrevistas se trenzan con citas de documentales sobre su vida, algunas carpetas de los Elena Garro Papers del archivo de Princeton, y hasta sesiones de tarot, I Ching y astrología. Aquí no hay certezas ni juicios; lo que hay es el vaivén de una personalidad camaleónica, mirada por los ojos apasionados de una investigadora que se transforma conforme avanzan sus pesquisas. La observación aguda que caracteriza la pluma de Jazmina Barrera se alianza a su infinita curiosidad y a su prodigiosa memoria para regalarnos una serie de instantáneas de una gran escritora del siglo xx. Y al hacerlo, demuestra ser parte de ese mismo linaje. Elena Garro renace con la fuerza de una mirada feminista e inteligente, que resalta su peculiar forma de habitar el mundo y su capacidad de crearle nuevos sentidos a través de los diversostemas que la obsesionaron: el tiempo, la catástrofe, los gatos, la lucha campesina, las puestas en escena y los viajes.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-eine-kurze-geschichte-queerer-frauen-ungekurzt-by-kirsty-loehr--65150939https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen (ungekürzt) Author: Kirsty Loehr Narrator: Pan Selle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 15, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ob bekannte Namen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich und Hildegard von Bingen oder bisher (zu Unrecht) unbekanntere wie die der andalusischen Prinzessin Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī, der:des Womanizer:in Catterina Vizzani, der chinesischen Intellektuellen Wu Zao oder der trans* Aktivistin Marsha P. Johnson, die am Stonewall-Aufstand beteiligt war: Kirsty Loehr versammelt sie und noch viele weitere queere Frauen in ihrem außergewöhnlichen Hörbuch feministischer Geschichtsschreibung. Nach dem Hören sehen wir die Welt in ihrem über Jahrhunderte stramm gezogenen heteronormativen Korsett mit neuen Augen. Witzig und frech im Ton spannt Kirsty Loehr einen kritischen Bogen von der Steinzeit bis heute - und eröffnet uns ein unglaubliches Panorama an queeren Frauen, die es unbedingt zu entdecken gilt. Buchvorlage: Kirsty Loehr, Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen. Aus dem Englischen von Janine Malz. Die Originalausgabe mit dem Titel 'A Short History of Queer Women' erschien 2022 bei Oneworld Publications, London. © Kirsty Loehr, 2022. Published by arrangement with Oneworld Publications. Die deutsche Ausgabe erschien 2024 im Aufbau Verlag. © Aufbau Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776152Wed, 15 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen (ungekürzt) Author: Kirsty Loehr Narrator: Pan Selle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen (ungekürzt) Author: Kirsty Loehr Narrator: Pan Selle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 15, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ob bekannte Namen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich und Hildegard von Bingen oder bisher (zu Unrecht) unbekanntere wie die der andalusischen Prinzessin Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī, der:des Womanizer:in Catterina Vizzani, der chinesischen Intellektuellen Wu Zao oder der trans* Aktivistin Marsha P. Johnson, die am Stonewall-Aufstand beteiligt war: Kirsty Loehr versammelt sie und noch viele weitere queere Frauen in ihrem außergewöhnlichen Hörbuch feministischer Geschichtsschreibung. Nach dem Hören sehen wir die Welt in ihrem über Jahrhunderte stramm gezogenen heteronormativen Korsett mit neuen Augen. Witzig und frech im Ton spannt Kirsty Loehr einen kritischen Bogen von der Steinzeit bis heute - und eröffnet uns ein unglaubliches Panorama an queeren Frauen, die es unbedingt zu entdecken gilt. Buchvorlage: Kirsty Loehr, Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen. Aus dem Englischen von Janine Malz. Die Originalausgabe mit dem Titel 'A Short History of Queer Women' erschien 2022 bei Oneworld Publications, London. © Kirsty Loehr, 2022. Published by arrangement with Oneworld Publications. Die deutsche Ausgabe erschien 2024 im Aufbau Verlag. © Aufbau Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2024]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wrong-calamity-a-memoir-by-marsha-jacobson--65150912https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/784730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir Author: Marsha Jacobson Narrator: Marsha Jacobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate and compellingly honest memoir of a woman coming into her own after profound pain and grief. Grappling with neglect, eating disorders, domestic violence, single parenthood, and the contagiousness of trauma, The Wrong Calamity is a powerful story of calamity, discovery, and triumph. Marsha, a freshman lacking self-confidence, falls prey to a controlling man at college. Afraid to say no, she agrees to marry him and move to Japan, where she unexpectedly gets a job at Mattel Toys. As she becomes successful, her husband becomes more abusive. Back in America, she and their two toddlers escape from him in a dramatic police chase. Determined to succeed, she earns a Harvard MBA and builds a career, all while raising her girls and fending off her vengeful ex-husband. Later, she marries a former colleague. Their marriage is joyful—until his buried past reveals itself and shatters their marriage, her career, and many close relationships. With brave honesty, Marsha gives voice to the lived experience of grief and shares her insights on how she became resilient, rediscovered herself, and now has a happy, fulfilling life. The Wrong Calamity is a compelling and inspiring memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/784730Tue, 14 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/784730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir Author: Marsha Jacobson Narrator: Marsha Jacobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/784730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir Author: Marsha Jacobson Narrator: Marsha Jacobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate and compellingly honest memoir of a woman coming into her own after profound pain and grief. Grappling with neglect, eating disorders, domestic violence, single parenthood, and the contagiousness of trauma, The Wrong Calamity is a powerful story of calamity, discovery, and triumph. Marsha, a freshman lacking self-confidence, falls prey to a controlling man at college. Afraid to say no, she agrees to marry him and move to Japan, where she unexpectedly gets a job at Mattel Toys. As she becomes successful, her husband becomes more abusive. Back in America, she and their two toddlers escape from him in a dramatic police chase. Determined to succeed, she earns a Harvard MBA and builds a career, all while raising her girls and fending off her vengeful ex-husband. Later, she marries a former colleague. Their marriage is joyful—until his buried past reveals itself and shatters their marriage, her career, and many close relationships. With brave honesty, Marsha gives voice to the lived experience of grief and shares her insights on how she became resilient, rediscovered herself, and now has a happy, fulfilling life. The Wrong Calamity is a compelling and inspiring memoir.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-love-essays-on-friendship-by-lilly-dancyger--65151027https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Love: Essays on Friendship Author: Lilly Dancyger Narrator: Lilly Dancyger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space “A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—Elle Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancyger’s devotion to the women in her life took on a new urgency—a desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid sexuality to mothering and chosen family. Each essay in this incisive collection is grounded in a close female friendship in Dancyger’s life, reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire, and the many ways women create space for each other in a world that wants us small. Seamlessly weaving personal experience with literature and pop culture—ranging from fairy tales to true crime, from Anaïs Nin and Sylvia Plath to Heavenly Creatures and the “sad girls” of Tumblr—Dancyger’s essays form a kaleidoscopic story of a life told through friendships, and an expansive interrogation of what it means to love each other. Though friendship will never be enough to keep us safe from the dangers of the world, Dancyger reminds us that love is always worth the risk, and that when tragedy strikes, it’s our friends who will help us survive. In First Love, these essential bonds get their due.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703205Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Love: Essays on Friendship Author: Lilly Dancyger Narrator: Lilly Dancyger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Love: Essays on Friendship Author: Lilly Dancyger Narrator: Lilly Dancyger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space “A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—Elle Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancyger’s devotion to the women in her life took on a new urgency—a desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid sexuality to mothering and chosen family. Each essay in this incisive collection is grounded in a close female friendship in Dancyger’s life, reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire, and the many ways women create space for each other in a world that wants us small. Seamlessly weaving personal experience with literature and pop culture—ranging from fairy tales to true crime, from Anaïs Nin and Sylvia Plath to Heavenly Creatures and the “sad girls” of Tumblr—Dancyger’s essays form a kaleidoscopic story of a life told through friendships, and an expansive interrogation of what it means to love each other. Though friendship will never be enough to keep us safe from the dangers of the world, Dancyger reminds us that love is always worth the risk, and that when tragedy strikes, it’s our friends who will help us survive. In First Love, these essential bonds get their due.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/say-more-lessons-from-work-the-white-house-and-the-world-by-jen-psaki--65151026https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World Author: Jen Psaki Narrator: Jen Psaki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation’s interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her ability to break through the noise and successfully deliver her message. In her highly anticipated book, Psaki shares her journey to the Briefing Room and beyond, taking you along the campaign trail, to the State Department, and inside the White House under two Presidents. With her signature wit, Psaki writes about reporting to bosses from the hot-tempered Rahm Emanuel to the coolly intellectual Barack Obama to the surprisingly tenderhearted John Kerry. She also talks about her time working closely with President Joe Biden from the start of his administration to set a new tone for the country, restoring a sense of calm and respect for the role of the media in our Democracy. Since leaving the White House, Psaki’s star has continued to rise. She launched a highly rated show on MSNBC and was so successful that in just six months she was given an additional primetime Monday slot, ahead of Rachel Maddow. And Psaki’s work doesn’t end at the office. She is the mother of two young children and shares her stories about the journey of communicating as a parent: During one bedtime briefing, her young daughter asked the question, “Why do wars start?”, which Jen carefully explained and then got a follow up: “Have you ever seen a unicorn?” In Say More, Psaki explains her straightforward approach to communication, walking you through difficult conversations as well as moments where humor saves the day—whether it is with preschoolers, partners, or presidents. She addresses the best ways to give and receive feedback, how to connect with your audience, how to listen actively, and much more. Say More is the book Psaki wishes she had when she started her career, and is a trove of entertaining, essential lessons from one of the most prominent voices in American politics today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718447Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World Author: Jen Psaki Narrator: Jen Psaki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World Author: Jen Psaki Narrator: Jen Psaki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation’s interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her ability to break through the noise and successfully deliver her message. In her highly anticipated book, Psaki shares her journey to the Briefing Room and beyond, taking you along the campaign trail, to the State Department, and inside the White House under two Presidents. With her signature wit, Psaki writes about reporting to bosses from the hot-tempered Rahm Emanuel to the coolly intellectual Barack Obama to the surprisingly tenderhearted John Kerry. She also talks about her time working closely with President Joe Biden from the start of his administration to set a new tone for the country, restoring a sense of calm and respect for the role of the media in our Democracy. Since leaving the White House, Psaki’s star has continued to rise. She launched a highly rated show on MSNBC and was so successful that in just six months she was given an additional primetime Monday slot, ahead of Rachel Maddow. And Psaki’s work doesn’t end at the office. She is the mother of two young children and shares her stories about the journey of communicating as a parent: During one bedtime briefing, her young daughter asked the question, “Why do wars start?”, which Jen carefully explained and then got a follow up: “Have you ever seen a unicorn?” In Say More, Psaki explains her straightforward approach to communication, walking you through difficult conversations as well as moments where humor saves the day—whether it is with preschoolers, partners, or presidents. She addresses the best ways to give and receive feedback, how to connect with your audience, how to listen actively, and much more. Say More is the book Psaki wishes she had when she started her career, and is a trove of entertaining, essential lessons from one of the most prominent voices in American politics today.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-wasn-t-roaring-it-was-weeping-interpreting-the-language-of-our-fathers-without-repeating-their-stories-by-lisa-jo-baker--65151022https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories Author: Lisa-Jo Baker Narrator: Lisa-Jo Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended “Heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections . . . [a] bracing memoir.”—Kirkus Review “Important. Riveting. Unforgettable . . . a profoundly captivating story that can profoundly change your own story.”—Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author of WayMaker Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children—a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America’s own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past. Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family’s and a nation’s pain. Decades later, old wounds reopened when she found herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then did Baker realize that to go forward—to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—we must first go back. With a story that stretches from South Africa’s outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping is a courageous look at inherited hurts and prejudices, and a hope-filled example for all who feel lost in life or worried that they’re too off course to make the necessary corrections. Baker’s story shows that it’s never too late to be free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707071Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories Author: Lisa-Jo Baker Narrator: Lisa-Jo...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories Author: Lisa-Jo Baker Narrator: Lisa-Jo Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended “Heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections . . . [a] bracing memoir.”—Kirkus Review “Important. Riveting. Unforgettable . . . a profoundly captivating story that can profoundly change your own story.”—Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author of WayMaker Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children—a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America’s own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past. Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family’s and a nation’s pain. Decades later, old wounds reopened when she found herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then did Baker realize that to go forward—to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—we must first go back. With a story that stretches from South Africa’s outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping is a courageous look at inherited hurts and prejudices, and a hope-filled example for all who feel lost in life or worried that they’re too off course to make the necessary corrections. Baker’s story shows that it’s never too late to be free.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-is-a-burning-thing-a-memoir-by-nina-st-pierre--65151009https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707065 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir Author: Nina St. Pierre Narrator: Nina St. Pierre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.   Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.    Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain—reputed to be cosmic—in Northern California, Nina hoped life would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.   In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender—and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina’s writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707065Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707065 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir Author: Nina St. Pierre Narrator: Nina St. Pierre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707065 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir Author: Nina St. Pierre Narrator: Nina St. Pierre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.   Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.    Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain—reputed to be cosmic—in Northern California, Nina hoped life would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.   In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender—and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina’s writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-loves-of-theodore-roosevelt-the-women-who-created-a-president-by-edward-f-o-keefe--65150982https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Author: Edward F. O'keefe Narrator: Edward F. O'keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Includes an exclusive audio postscript featuring archival recordings of the voices of the Roosevelts, including Theodore (one of the first US presidents to have his voice captured on audio), Eleanor, Edith, Corinne, and Alice. An “elegant and illuminating” (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His mother, Mittie, was witty and decisive, a Southern belle raising four young children in New York while her husband spent long stretches away with the Union Army. Theodore’s college sweetheart and first wife, Alice—so vivacious she was known as Sunshine—steered her beau away from science (he’d roam campus with taxidermy specimens in his pockets) and towards politics. Older sister Bamie would soon become her brother’s key political strategist and advisor; journalists called her Washington, DC, home “the Little White House.” Younger sister Conie served as her brother’s press secretary before the role existed, slipping stories of his heroics in Cuba and his rambunctious home life to reporters to create the legend of the Rough Rider we remember today. And Edith—Theodore’s childhood playmate and second wife—would elevate the role of presidential spouse to an American institution, curating both the White House and her husband’s legacy. A “graceful and powerful book” (Candice Millard) filled with “meticulous research [and] perceptive insights” (The New York Times), The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt celebrates these five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719101Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Author: Edward F. O'keefe Narrator: Edward F. O'keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Author: Edward F. O'keefe Narrator: Edward F. O'keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Includes an exclusive audio postscript featuring archival recordings of the voices of the Roosevelts, including Theodore (one of the first US presidents to have his voice captured on audio), Eleanor, Edith, Corinne, and Alice. An “elegant and illuminating” (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His mother, Mittie, was witty and decisive, a Southern belle raising four young children in New York while her husband spent long stretches away with the Union Army. Theodore’s college sweetheart and first wife, Alice—so vivacious she was known as Sunshine—steered her beau away from science (he’d roam campus with taxidermy specimens in his pockets) and towards politics. Older sister Bamie would soon become her brother’s key political strategist and advisor; journalists called her Washington, DC, home “the Little White House.” Younger sister Conie served as her brother’s press secretary before the role existed, slipping stories of his heroics in Cuba and his rambunctious home life to reporters to create the legend of the Rough Rider we remember today. And Edith—Theodore’s childhood playmate and second wife—would elevate the role of presidential spouse to an American institution, curating both the White House and her husband’s legacy. A “graceful and powerful book” (Candice Millard) filled with “meticulous research [and] perceptive insights” (The New York Times), The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt celebrates these five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/by-the-time-you-read-this-the-space-between-cheslie-s-smile-and-mental-illness-her-story-in-her-own-words-by-cheslie-kryst-april-simpkins--65150936https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Author: Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins Narrator: Emana Rachelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life. The text read, “By the time you get this …” This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own words. When the world awoke on the morning of January 30, 2022, many were shocked to learn of the tragic death of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst. For most people, the news was unfathomable. How could a young woman in the prime of her life—a pageant queen, accomplished attorney, Extra correspondent, and tireless advocate for charity organizations—have been lost to the world so suddenly? By the Time You Read This shares the manuscript Cheslie wrote before her passing, her story in her own words—from the highest highs of passing two bar exams, winning Miss USA, and beginning an exciting career as an entertainment journalist to the lowest lows of heartbreak, betrayal, and persistent depression. When Cheslie’s mother, April Simpkins, picks up the narrative, she shares for the first time what she experienced in the aftermath of Cheslie’s suicide. When faced with such a devastating loss, how does a mother find a way to carry on? Whether you are someone who struggles to maintain your mental health, or you love someone who does, this book will share insight into a reality that impacts thousands of families every year—as well as provide hope for those who are left behind. Net proceeds from the book will be used to support the Cheslie C. Kryst Foundation, which is being founded in Cheslie’s honor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Author: Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Author: Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins Narrator: Emana Rachelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life. The text read, “By the time you get this …” This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own words. When the world awoke on the morning of January 30, 2022, many were shocked to learn of the tragic death of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst. For most people, the news was unfathomable. How could a young woman in the prime of her life—a pageant queen, accomplished attorney, Extra correspondent, and tireless advocate for charity organizations—have been lost to the world so suddenly? By the Time You Read This shares the manuscript Cheslie wrote before her passing, her story in her own words—from the highest highs of passing two bar exams, winning Miss USA, and beginning an exciting career as an entertainment journalist to the lowest lows of heartbreak, betrayal, and persistent depression. When Cheslie’s mother, April Simpkins, picks up the narrative, she shares for the first time what she experienced in the aftermath of Cheslie’s suicide. When faced with such a devastating loss, how does a mother find a way to carry on? Whether you are someone who struggles to maintain your mental health, or you love someone who does, this book will share insight into a reality that impacts thousands of families every year—as well as provide hope for those who are left behind. Net proceeds from the book will be used to support the Cheslie C. Kryst Foundation, which is being founded in Cheslie’s honor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-michelle-burford--65150918https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.   And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.   And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/duty-calls-lessons-learned-from-an-unexpected-life-of-service-by-dr-antonia-novello-md--65150896https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities. Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced and overcome and of shattering glass ceilings and opening doors for future generations of leaders. She shares her early battles with childhood illness and her desire to overcome stereotypes, while also chronicling her meteoric rise through various roles in the field of health care, leading to her service as the nation's top medical officer. In Duty Calls, listeners will learn about: ● Dr. Novello's early life and her struggles with congenital megacolon ● How she became the first female/first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States ● Her efforts to vaccinate and provide health care resources to her home in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ● Wisdom and insights Dr. Novello gained through her life experiences]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities. Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced and overcome and of shattering glass ceilings and opening doors for future generations of leaders. She shares her early battles with childhood illness and her desire to overcome stereotypes, while also chronicling her meteoric rise through various roles in the field of health care, leading to her service as the nation's top medical officer. In Duty Calls, listeners will learn about: ● Dr. Novello's early life and her struggles with congenital megacolon ● How she became the first female/first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States ● Her efforts to vaccinate and provide health care resources to her home in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ● Wisdom and insights Dr. Novello gained through her life experiences]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/abandoned-at-birth-searching-for-the-arms-that-once-held-me-by-janet-sherlund--65150885https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Author: Janet Sherlund Narrator: Janet Sherlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In Abandoned at Birth, Janet Sherlund explores the inherent need adopted children have for a sense of belonging and the pain and courage that is required to discover their true identity. Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience displacement and rupture from their mother and that trauma can impact an individual for a lifetime. Adoption can lead to feelings of loss and grief not just for the adoptee, but for the biological and adoptive parents as well. This startling fact comes vividly to life in Janet Sherlund’s heartbreaking memoir, Abandoned at Birth. In her literary debut, Janet Sherlund explores the complex issues so many adoptees and their parents grapple with, including the complicated emotions of rejection, loss, grief, denial, and shame. Sherlund, who was given up for adoption within days of her birth, shares her journey to fulfill her lifetime longing for connection with her family of origin, her instinctive ache for connection with her birth mother, and what it was like to have a “borrowed identity.” In poignant detail, Sherlund describes her quest to find out who she is, where she came from, and why she was given away. And she reveals the pain and courage required to discover one’s true identity. With five million adoptees in the U.S., many of whom are discovering their biological roots on DNA websites, Abandoned at Birth is the book for our time. The insight Sherlund derived from her journey will encourage and console others on the same path, while examining the inherent need of all of us to belong, and understand our origins, our culture, and our genetic roots.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263Tue, 07 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Author: Janet Sherlund Narrator: Janet Sherlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Author: Janet Sherlund Narrator: Janet Sherlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In Abandoned at Birth, Janet Sherlund explores the inherent need adopted children have for a sense of belonging and the pain and courage that is required to discover their true identity. Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience displacement and rupture from their mother and that trauma can impact an individual for a lifetime. Adoption can lead to feelings of loss and grief not just for the adoptee, but for the biological and adoptive parents as well. This startling fact comes vividly to life in Janet Sherlund’s heartbreaking memoir, Abandoned at Birth. In her literary debut, Janet Sherlund explores the complex issues so many adoptees and their parents grapple with, including the complicated emotions of rejection, loss, grief, denial, and shame. Sherlund, who was given up for adoption within days of her birth, shares her journey to fulfill her lifetime longing for connection with her family of origin, her instinctive ache for connection with her birth mother, and what it was like to have a “borrowed identity.” In poignant detail, Sherlund describes her quest to find out who she is, where she came from, and why she was given away. And she reveals the pain and courage required to discover one’s true identity. With five million adoptees in the U.S., many of whom are discovering their biological roots on DNA websites, Abandoned at Birth is the book for our time. The insight Sherlund derived from her journey will encourage and console others on the same path, while examining the inherent need of all of us to belong, and understand our origins, our culture, and our genetic roots.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-die-zwei-wolfe-jenseits-des-fegefeuers-by-brenda-leb--65150901https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die zwei Wölfe: Jenseits des Fegefeuers Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brenda Leb wurde in ihrer Kindheit jahrelang von ihrem Vater sexuell missbraucht. 'Mein Weg aus dem Fegefeuer' war für die Autorin sehr steinig. Doch sie wurde stark, tolerant und glücklich. In diesem Buch erzählt sie von der Alzheimer Erkrankung ihres Vaters, der zwiespältigen Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter und wie sie am Arbeitsplatz in ein Burnout schlittert. Doch sie findet wieder Halt, erkennt ihr Potential, entdeckt ihre Kreativität. Bis sie der Verlust einer Liebe, die sie für unsterblich gehalten hat, und eine herbe Enttäuschung in eine tiefe Krise stürzen. Doch sie verbittert nicht, vertraut auf ihre Stärken, bleibt ihrem versöhnlichen Weg treu. Da hält das Leben für sie ein Geschenk bereit und während sich ein Kindheitstraum erfüllt, findet sie neues Glück, unbändige Lebensfreude und tiefe Erfüllung. 'Die zwei Wölfe' weist in eindrucksvoller Weise auf die dramatischen Folgen des Verdrängens hin. Nachdem Brenda als Einzige in ihrer Familie ihre traumatischen Erlebnisse in einer Psychotherapie aufgearbeitet hat, schenkt sie durch dieses Buch nicht nur wertvolle Einblicke in die eigene Seele.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778900Mon, 06 May 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die zwei Wölfe: Jenseits des Fegefeuers Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die zwei Wölfe: Jenseits des Fegefeuers Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brenda Leb wurde in ihrer Kindheit jahrelang von ihrem Vater sexuell missbraucht. 'Mein Weg aus dem Fegefeuer' war für die Autorin sehr steinig. Doch sie wurde stark, tolerant und glücklich. In diesem Buch erzählt sie von der Alzheimer Erkrankung ihres Vaters, der zwiespältigen Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter und wie sie am Arbeitsplatz in ein Burnout schlittert. Doch sie findet wieder Halt, erkennt ihr Potential, entdeckt ihre Kreativität. Bis sie der Verlust einer Liebe, die sie für unsterblich gehalten hat, und eine herbe Enttäuschung in eine tiefe Krise stürzen. Doch sie verbittert nicht, vertraut auf ihre Stärken, bleibt ihrem versöhnlichen Weg treu. Da hält das Leben für sie ein Geschenk bereit und während sich ein Kindheitstraum erfüllt, findet sie neues Glück, unbändige Lebensfreude und tiefe Erfüllung. 'Die zwei Wölfe' weist in eindrucksvoller Weise auf die dramatischen Folgen des Verdrängens hin. Nachdem Brenda als Einzige in ihrer Familie ihre traumatischen Erlebnisse in einer Psychotherapie aufgearbeitet hat, schenkt sie durch dieses Buch nicht nur wertvolle Einblicke in die eigene Seele.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-mrs-astor-a-new-york-story-by-frances-kiernan--65150983https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story Author: Frances Kiernan Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life.' —O, The Oprah Magazine This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Mrs. Astor would use this legacy to benefit New York City. She would personally visit every grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her hundredth birthday, princes and presidents honored her, but in 2006 a grandson petitioned the courts to have his father removed as Brooke's guardian. Once again, an Astor court battle became the stuff of headlines.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730502Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story Author: Frances Kiernan Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story Author: Frances Kiernan Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life.' —O, The Oprah Magazine This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Mrs. Astor would use this legacy to benefit New York City. She would personally visit every grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her hundredth birthday, princes and presidents honored her, but in 2006 a grandson petitioned the courts to have his father removed as Brooke's guardian. Once again, an Astor court battle became the stuff of headlines.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-flygirl-by-susan-tate-ankeny--65150979https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Flygirl Author: Susan Tate Ankeny Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn't easy. In America, Hazel felt the oppression and discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. In China's field of male-dominated aviation she was dismissed for being a woman, and for being an American. But in service to her country, Hazel refused to be limited by gender, race, and impossible dreams. Frustrated but undeterred, she forged ahead and gave her all for the cause, achieving more in her short remarkable life than even she imagined possible. American Flygirl is the untold account of a spirted fighter and an indomitable hidden figure in American history. She broke every common belief about women. She challenged every social restriction to endure and to succeed. And against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hazel Ying Lee reached for the skies and made her mark as a universal and unsung hero whose time has come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738442Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Flygirl Author: Susan Tate Ankeny Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Flygirl Author: Susan Tate Ankeny Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn't easy. In America, Hazel felt the oppression and discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. In China's field of male-dominated aviation she was dismissed for being a woman, and for being an American. But in service to her country, Hazel refused to be limited by gender, race, and impossible dreams. Frustrated but undeterred, she forged ahead and gave her all for the cause, achieving more in her short remarkable life than even she imagined possible. American Flygirl is the untold account of a spirted fighter and an indomitable hidden figure in American history. She broke every common belief about women. She challenged every social restriction to endure and to succeed. And against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hazel Ying Lee reached for the skies and made her mark as a universal and unsung hero whose time has come.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-package-by-claire-baum--65150946https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie. The Hidden Package portrays Claire’s years spent in hiding and pays tribute to all those who played a part in saving her life and ensuring a future for the next generations of her family. Introduction by Carolyne Van Der Meer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie. The Hidden Package portrays Claire’s years spent in hiding and pays tribute to all those who played a part in saving her life and ensuring a future for the next generations of her family. Introduction by Carolyne Van Der Meer]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tap-dancing-on-everest-a-young-doctor-s-unlikely-adventure-by-mimi-zieman-md--65150941https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/learning-to-think-a-memoir-of-faith-superstition-and-the-courage-to-ask-questions-by-tracy-king--65150923https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative. Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative. Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dead-woman-pickney-a-memoir-of-childhood-in-jamaica-by-yvonne-shorter-brown--65150906https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica Author: Yvonne Shorter Brown Narrator: Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798852Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica Author: Yvonne Shorter Brown Narrator: Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/798852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica Author: Yvonne Shorter Brown Narrator: Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-brulee-vive-by-souad--65150888https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Souad a dix-sept ans, elle est amoureuse. Dans son village comme dans beaucoup d'autres, l'amour avant le mariage est synonyme de mort. « Déshonorée », sa famille désigne son beau-frère pour exécuter la sentence. Aux yeux de tous, cet homme est un héros. C'est ce que l'on appelle un « crime d'honneur ». Ce n'est en fait qu'un lâche assassinat. L'exécutant ne risque rien, il n'est presque jamais poursuivi, encore plus rarement condamné. Plus de cinq mille cas sont répertoriés chaque année dans le monde, bien d'autres ne sont jamais connus. Atrocement brûlée, Souad a été sauvée par miracle. Elle a décidé de parler pour toutes celles qui aujourd'hui risquent leur vie. Pour dire au monde la barbarie de cette pratique. Elle le fait au péril de sa vie car l'atteinte à « l'honneur » de sa famille est imprescriptible. Brûlée vive est un témoignage bouleversant, mais aussi un appel, afin de briser le tabou du silence insupportable qui recouvre la mort de ces femmes. Victimes de la loi des hommes. ©2003 Oh Éditions / XO Éditions]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Souad a dix-sept ans, elle est amoureuse. Dans son village comme dans beaucoup d'autres, l'amour avant le mariage est synonyme de mort. « Déshonorée », sa famille désigne son beau-frère pour exécuter la sentence. Aux yeux de tous, cet homme est un héros. C'est ce que l'on appelle un « crime d'honneur ». Ce n'est en fait qu'un lâche assassinat. L'exécutant ne risque rien, il n'est presque jamais poursuivi, encore plus rarement condamné. Plus de cinq mille cas sont répertoriés chaque année dans le monde, bien d'autres ne sont jamais connus. Atrocement brûlée, Souad a été sauvée par miracle. Elle a décidé de parler pour toutes celles qui aujourd'hui risquent leur vie. Pour dire au monde la barbarie de cette pratique. Elle le fait au péril de sa vie car l'atteinte à « l'honneur » de sa famille est imprescriptible. Brûlée vive est un témoignage bouleversant, mais aussi un appel, afin de briser le tabou du silence insupportable qui recouvre la mort de ces femmes. Victimes de la loi des hommes. ©2003 Oh Éditions / XO Éditions]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/middle-of-the-rainbow-how-a-wife-mother-and-two-time-emmy-winner-managed-to-find-herself-by-bonnie-bartlett-daniels-william-daniels--65150861https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Middle of the Rainbow: How A Wife, Mother, And Two-Time Emmy Winner Managed To Find Herself Author: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Narrator: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The blunt and honest memoirs of Emmy-winning actress Bonnie Bartlett Daniels. It’s the story of her 70-plus year career, and her struggles in the pre-#metoo and pre-feminist world. It’s also the rare and unique story of a 70-plus year marriage (with film, theatre and TV icon William Daniels.) In a full telling of her life, we learn that through years of psychoanalysis and, ultimately, thanks to motherhood, she was able to heal the scars left by her abusive father and learn to love her life as if it were a rainbow “with a pot of gold at both ends.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773522Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Middle of the Rainbow: How A Wife, Mother, And Two-Time Emmy Winner Managed To Find Herself Author: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Middle of the Rainbow: How A Wife, Mother, And Two-Time Emmy Winner Managed To Find Herself Author: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Narrator: Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, William Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The blunt and honest memoirs of Emmy-winning actress Bonnie Bartlett Daniels. It’s the story of her 70-plus year career, and her struggles in the pre-#metoo and pre-feminist world. It’s also the rare and unique story of a 70-plus year marriage (with film, theatre and TV icon William Daniels.) In a full telling of her life, we learn that through years of psychoanalysis and, ultimately, thanks to motherhood, she was able to heal the scars left by her abusive father and learn to love her life as if it were a rainbow “with a pot of gold at both ends.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/english-when-wisdom-arrives-from-imagined-unworthiness-to-freedom-by-rosalyn-rourke--65150903https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom Author: Rosalyn Rourke Narrator: Rosalyn Rourke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering. Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem's life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true 'I,' a deeper part of herself that is free. The true 'I' is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person. Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter, and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa's, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa's weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa's unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777991Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom Author: Rosalyn Rourke Narrator: Rosalyn Rourke Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom Author: Rosalyn Rourke Narrator: Rosalyn Rourke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering. Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem's life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true 'I,' a deeper part of herself that is free. The true 'I' is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person. Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter, and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa's, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa's weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa's unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rulebreaker-the-life-and-times-of-barbara-walters-by-susan-page--65151021https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters Author: Susan Page Narrator: Susan Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A “smart, juicy, deeply reported” (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age of many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy? In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny. Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her heath. This is the “stunning” (Norah O’Donnell), “brilliantly written” (Andrea Mitchell) account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703287Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters Author: Susan Page Narrator: Susan Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters Author: Susan Page Narrator: Susan Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A “smart, juicy, deeply reported” (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age of many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy? In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny. Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her heath. This is the “stunning” (Norah O’Donnell), “brilliantly written” (Andrea Mitchell) account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/out-of-darkness-rumana-monzur-s-journey-through-betrayal-tyranny-and-abuse-by-denise-chong--65151007https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse Author: Denise Chong Narrator: Denise Chong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, a gripping story of a domestic assault that shocked the world, of the exercise of power and political influence, and of the Bangladeshi woman whose irrepressible spirit found light in sudden darkness. From the outside, Rumana seemed an unlikely victim of domestic abuse: married to a man of her own choosing and progressing in her career as a professor of international relations at Dhaka University. But in 2011, on return from graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, her husband attacked and blinded her in front of their young daughter. As Rumana's horrifying story garnered international headlines, and connections brought her to Vancouver in an attempt—ultimately futile—to restore her sight, her plight underscored the fact that there are no typical victims of intimate-partner violence.     Denise Chong goes behind the headlines to reveal the devolution of a love story into a tale of tyranny behind closed doors, and the pursuit of justice that proved all the more elusive during the rise of social media. Out of Darkness tells a globe-spanning narrative of loyalty, perseverance and a woman’s determination to face the future and rebuild a life with meaning.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703561Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse Author: Denise Chong Narrator: Denise Chong Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse Author: Denise Chong Narrator: Denise Chong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, a gripping story of a domestic assault that shocked the world, of the exercise of power and political influence, and of the Bangladeshi woman whose irrepressible spirit found light in sudden darkness. From the outside, Rumana seemed an unlikely victim of domestic abuse: married to a man of her own choosing and progressing in her career as a professor of international relations at Dhaka University. But in 2011, on return from graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, her husband attacked and blinded her in front of their young daughter. As Rumana's horrifying story garnered international headlines, and connections brought her to Vancouver in an attempt—ultimately futile—to restore her sight, her plight underscored the fact that there are no typical victims of intimate-partner violence.     Denise Chong goes behind the headlines to reveal the devolution of a love story into a tale of tyranny behind closed doors, and the pursuit of justice that proved all the more elusive during the rise of social media. Out of Darkness tells a globe-spanning narrative of loyalty, perseverance and a woman’s determination to face the future and rebuild a life with meaning.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-war-time-journal-of-a-georgia-girl-1864-1865-by-eliza-frances-andrews--65150913https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 Author: Eliza Frances Andrews Narrator: Aundrea Cery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865' is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction. Through Andrews' keen observations and personal reflections, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the domestic life, social upheavals, and the shifting political landscape of Georgia in this era. Her writing not only sheds light on the challenges and changes faced by individuals and communities but also provides a nuanced perspective on the broader societal implications of the war and its aftermath. As a document of historical record and personal endurance, Andrews' journal stands as a poignant testament to the resilience and complexity of the human spirit in times of national crisis.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776061Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 Author: Eliza Frances Andrews Narrator: Aundrea Cery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 Author: Eliza Frances Andrews Narrator: Aundrea Cery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865' is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction. Through Andrews' keen observations and personal reflections, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the domestic life, social upheavals, and the shifting political landscape of Georgia in this era. Her writing not only sheds light on the challenges and changes faced by individuals and communities but also provides a nuanced perspective on the broader societal implications of the war and its aftermath. As a document of historical record and personal endurance, Andrews' journal stands as a poignant testament to the resilience and complexity of the human spirit in times of national crisis.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-asi-encontre-la-felicidad-vivencias-de-una-alemana-que-se-enamoro-en-espana-by-ingeborg-schlichting--65150880https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Así encontré la felicidad: Vivencias de una alemana que se enamoró en España Author: Ingeborg Schlichting Narrator: Raquel Romero Escrivá Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué hizo que una chica de 21 años, que escuchaba jazz en el Hamburgo de moda, se lanzase a descubrir intrépidamente la aislada España de los 50? ¿Cómo eran entonces la Extremadura de los cortijos, la bahía de San Sebastián o la Gran Vía madrileña? ¿De qué modo «encajaron» en su vida la tortilla de patata, los toros o las verbenas? Con sentido del humor, curiosidad por los detalles y capacidad descriptiva, Ingeborg Schlichting aborda en Así encontré la felicidad la apasionante aventura de una joven mujer alemana que cruzó el continente europeo para enamorarse de una España llena de contrastes, costumbres y paisajes fascinantes. Unas páginas que retratan la evolución de la sociedad española en los últimos 75 años, salpicadas de anécdotas divertidas y conmovedoras y con la frescura y naturalidad que despliega como contertulia en el programa de radio Fin de Semana de la cadena Cope, dirigido por una de sus cuatro hijas, la periodista Cristina López Schlichting.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775332Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Así encontré la felicidad: Vivencias de una alemana que se enamoró en España Author: Ingeborg Schlichting Narrator: Raquel Romero Escrivá...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Así encontré la felicidad: Vivencias de una alemana que se enamoró en España Author: Ingeborg Schlichting Narrator: Raquel Romero Escrivá Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué hizo que una chica de 21 años, que escuchaba jazz en el Hamburgo de moda, se lanzase a descubrir intrépidamente la aislada España de los 50? ¿Cómo eran entonces la Extremadura de los cortijos, la bahía de San Sebastián o la Gran Vía madrileña? ¿De qué modo «encajaron» en su vida la tortilla de patata, los toros o las verbenas? Con sentido del humor, curiosidad por los detalles y capacidad descriptiva, Ingeborg Schlichting aborda en Así encontré la felicidad la apasionante aventura de una joven mujer alemana que cruzó el continente europeo para enamorarse de una España llena de contrastes, costumbres y paisajes fascinantes. Unas páginas que retratan la evolución de la sociedad española en los últimos 75 años, salpicadas de anécdotas divertidas y conmovedoras y con la frescura y naturalidad que despliega como contertulia en el programa de radio Fin de Semana de la cadena Cope, dirigido por una de sus cuatro hijas, la periodista Cristina López Schlichting.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-chain-love-betrayal-and-the-sisterhood-that-heals-us-by-chimene-suleyman--65150958https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us Author: Chimene Suleyman Narrator: Chimene Suleyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “[Suleyman’s] narration brings a palpably chilling authority to a story she shouldn’t have to tell.” — Vulture A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny. In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that the man she’d loved had gaslit, lied to, stolen from, and painfully betrayed her and many others. In this spellbinding memoir, Suleyman exposes one man's control over many women and the trauma he left behind and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite—and in spite of—him. With radiant prose and incisive observation, Suleyman questions society’s complicity in allowing those who would do women harm to flourish and contemplates why others remain silent witnesses by accepting and normalizing shameless behavior towards women. She demonstrates how women themselves are acculturated to perform prescribed roles of giver and nurturer, to be self-sacrificing and subordinate, and to bolster the egos of others by remaining silent and ignoring their own protective instincts. A soul-baring story, brilliant cultural critique, and celebration of the healing power of sisterhood, The Chain is a book for any woman who has questioned her relationship and buried her doubts, for any woman who can't quite identify the source of her unease and for any woman who has been sheltered by the fierce protection of her female friends.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721929Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us Author: Chimene Suleyman Narrator: Chimene Suleyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood that Heals Us Author: Chimene Suleyman Narrator: Chimene Suleyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “[Suleyman’s] narration brings a palpably chilling authority to a story she shouldn’t have to tell.” — Vulture A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny. In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that the man she’d loved had gaslit, lied to, stolen from, and painfully betrayed her and many others. In this spellbinding memoir, Suleyman exposes one man's control over many women and the trauma he left behind and celebrates the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite—and in spite of—him. With radiant prose and incisive observation, Suleyman questions society’s complicity in allowing those who would do women harm to flourish and contemplates why others remain silent witnesses by accepting and normalizing shameless behavior towards women. She demonstrates how women themselves are acculturated to perform prescribed roles of giver and nurturer, to be self-sacrificing and subordinate, and to bolster the egos of others by remaining silent and ignoring their own protective instincts. A soul-baring story, brilliant cultural critique, and celebration of the healing power of sisterhood, The Chain is a book for any woman who has questioned her relationship and buried her doubts, for any woman who can't quite identify the source of her unease and for any woman who has been sheltered by the fierce protection of her female friends.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-bora-inspirar-volume-2-17-historias-de-lideranca-na-transformacao-by-cia-empreendedora--65150925https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - #Bora Inspirar Volume 2: 17 histórias de liderança na transformação Author: Cia. Empreendedora Narrator: Cynthia Zaclis Rabinovitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: O 2º volume do livro #Bora Inspirar traz uma coletânea de histórias que celebram a força, a criatividade e a resiliência de 17 mulheres em posições de liderança – histórias que se cruzaram a partir do envolvimento de cada uma delas com a AngelUs, uma rede de networking feminino cujo propósito maior é aumentar a representatividade feminina na liderança das empresas. Com histórias cativantes e inspiradoras, essa obra oferece uma visão multifacetada das jornadas de impacto dessas incríveis líderes em diferentes esferas da sociedade e apresenta mulheres que desbravaram seus próprios caminhos e se tornaram verdadeiras agentes de mudança em seus respectivos campos de atuação. As histórias revelam a importância da representatividade, da colaboração e da capacidade de adaptação como pilares essenciais para o sucesso e convidam os leitores a refletir sobre suas próprias escolhas, encorajando-os a desenvolver suas habilidades de liderança e a buscar sua própria transformação. Então, aproveite a leitura e #Bora Inspirar!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771032Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - #Bora Inspirar Volume 2: 17 histórias de liderança na transformação Author: Cia. Empreendedora Narrator: Cynthia Zaclis Rabinovitz...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - #Bora Inspirar Volume 2: 17 histórias de liderança na transformação Author: Cia. Empreendedora Narrator: Cynthia Zaclis Rabinovitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 4, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: O 2º volume do livro #Bora Inspirar traz uma coletânea de histórias que celebram a força, a criatividade e a resiliência de 17 mulheres em posições de liderança – histórias que se cruzaram a partir do envolvimento de cada uma delas com a AngelUs, uma rede de networking feminino cujo propósito maior é aumentar a representatividade feminina na liderança das empresas. Com histórias cativantes e inspiradoras, essa obra oferece uma visão multifacetada das jornadas de impacto dessas incríveis líderes em diferentes esferas da sociedade e apresenta mulheres que desbravaram seus próprios caminhos e se tornaram verdadeiras agentes de mudança em seus respectivos campos de atuação. As histórias revelam a importância da representatividade, da colaboração e da capacidade de adaptação como pilares essenciais para o sucesso e convidam os leitores a refletir sobre suas próprias escolhas, encorajando-os a desenvolver suas habilidades de liderança e a buscar sua própria transformação. Então, aproveite a leitura e #Bora Inspirar!]]>185boracleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-madre-by-paz-padilla--65150973https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Madre! Author: Paz Padilla Narrator: Paz Padilla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Si existe un amor incondicional, ese es el de una MADRE! Están para lo bueno y para lo malo. Conocen nuestros secretos, nos escuchan y saben cuándo se necesita un abrazo, una risa o el mejor consejo…, aunque lo den de aquella manera. Tras el fenómeno editorial de El humor de mi vida, Paz Padilla vuelve a encogernos el corazón con este libro dedicado a Lola, su madre, describiendo con maestría el acompañamiento, la compasión, el amor y el humor; las herramientas que les han guiado ante los reveses de la vida. Un emocionante recorrido a través de tres generaciones donde evocamos a la madre de nuestra propia infancia, a la que nos ayuda cada día y a la que sigue en nuestro recuerdo, aunque ya no esté con nosotros. Un homenaje a todas las que dieron todo sin tener nada, para que las mujeres de hoy caminen libres. «A la sombra del árbol del paraíso, en una casa con tejado de uralita, se crio Lola, mi madre. Lo único que podía llevarse a la boca eran algunos caracoles y muchas risas. Cada día era una aventura y así nos enseñó a vivir».]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768001Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Madre! Author: Paz Padilla Narrator: Paz Padilla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Madre! Author: Paz Padilla Narrator: Paz Padilla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Si existe un amor incondicional, ese es el de una MADRE! Están para lo bueno y para lo malo. Conocen nuestros secretos, nos escuchan y saben cuándo se necesita un abrazo, una risa o el mejor consejo…, aunque lo den de aquella manera. Tras el fenómeno editorial de El humor de mi vida, Paz Padilla vuelve a encogernos el corazón con este libro dedicado a Lola, su madre, describiendo con maestría el acompañamiento, la compasión, el amor y el humor; las herramientas que les han guiado ante los reveses de la vida. Un emocionante recorrido a través de tres generaciones donde evocamos a la madre de nuestra propia infancia, a la que nos ayuda cada día y a la que sigue en nuestro recuerdo, aunque ya no esté con nosotros. Un homenaje a todas las que dieron todo sin tener nada, para que las mujeres de hoy caminen libres. «A la sombra del árbol del paraíso, en una casa con tejado de uralita, se crio Lola, mi madre. Lo único que podía llevarse a la boca eran algunos caracoles y muchas risas. Cada día era una aventura y así nos enseñó a vivir».]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marilyn-monroe-by-barbara-leaming--65150994https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marilyn Monroe Author: Barbara Leaming Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the worlds of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and exciting periods in American culture. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents, Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life. For the first time, a master storyteller has put together all of the pieces and told Marilyn's story with the intensity and drama it so richly deserves. At the heart of this book is a sexual triangle and a riveting story of betrayal that has never been told before. You will come away filled with new respect for Marilyn's incredible courage, dignity, and loyalty, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745323Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marilyn Monroe Author: Barbara Leaming Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marilyn Monroe Author: Barbara Leaming Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the worlds of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and exciting periods in American culture. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents, Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life. For the first time, a master storyteller has put together all of the pieces and told Marilyn's story with the intensity and drama it so richly deserves. At the heart of this book is a sexual triangle and a riveting story of betrayal that has never been told before. You will come away filled with new respect for Marilyn's incredible courage, dignity, and loyalty, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vagabond-princess-the-great-adventures-of-gulbadan-by-ruby-lal--65150934https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan Author: Ruby Lal Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's 'un-Islamic' behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745342Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan Author: Ruby Lal Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan Author: Ruby Lal Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's 'un-Islamic' behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burnt-a-memoir-of-fighting-fire-by-clare-frank--65150931https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire Author: Clare Frank Narrator: Clare Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it's an unexpected one. It's about finding your home, even if you aren't immediately welcomed. And it's about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don't look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was seventeen years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn't look like her peers, who sported an Adam's apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she'd try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank's inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking listeners inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility. Burnt is an unforgettable memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire Author: Clare Frank Narrator: Clare Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire Author: Clare Frank Narrator: Clare Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it's an unexpected one. It's about finding your home, even if you aren't immediately welcomed. And it's about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don't look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was seventeen years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn't look like her peers, who sported an Adam's apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she'd try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank's inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking listeners inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility. Burnt is an unforgettable memoir.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-mariee-de-force-by-leila--65150887https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Mariée de force Author: Leila Narrator: Rachel Muniz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 25, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: En France, comme dans de nombreuses régions du monde, des adolescentes et des jeunes femmes sont encore contraintes d'accepter pour époux un homme qu'elles n'ont ni choisi, ni parfois même rencontré. Au nom de l'intérêt des parents. Leila avait 21 ans lorsque ses parents l'ont forcée à épouser un homme de quinze ans son aîné. Le mariage est arrangé au Maroc et enregistré légalement en France. Son mari, cet homme qu'elle n'aime pas, va la frapper et tenter de la soumettre. Avec un courage inouï, Leila se bat contre le poids de la tradition, pour conserver sa liberté et sa dignité. Aujourd'hui, Leila a divorcé de son mari, et livre son témoigne, pour que cesse cette horrible pratique.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760801Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Mariée de force Author: Leila Narrator: Rachel Muniz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 25, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Mariée de force Author: Leila Narrator: Rachel Muniz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 25, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: En France, comme dans de nombreuses régions du monde, des adolescentes et des jeunes femmes sont encore contraintes d'accepter pour époux un homme qu'elles n'ont ni choisi, ni parfois même rencontré. Au nom de l'intérêt des parents. Leila avait 21 ans lorsque ses parents l'ont forcée à épouser un homme de quinze ans son aîné. Le mariage est arrangé au Maroc et enregistré légalement en France. Son mari, cet homme qu'elle n'aime pas, va la frapper et tenter de la soumettre. Avec un courage inouï, Leila se bat contre le poids de la tradition, pour conserver sa liberté et sa dignité. Aujourd'hui, Leila a divorcé de son mari, et livre son témoigne, pour que cesse cette horrible pratique.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-feminismo-by-maria-elena-walsh--65150894https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El feminismo Author: María Elena Walsh Narrator: María Abadi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Todavía los movimientos de mujeres no habían eclosionado en la Argentina, cuando María Elena Walsh escribía y cantaba palabras incómodas, cuestionaba los rígidos roles asignados a mujeres y varones, y se manifestaba contra la misoginia y la violencia machista. Qué es el feminismo reúne buena parte de esos textos, lanzados desde diarios y revistas, columnas radiales, discos y escenarios. Escritos, compuestos o publicados a lo largo de unos cincuenta años -algunos inéditos-, son de sorprendente actualidad, la confirman como la referente intelectual que es para muchas generaciones de argentinos y la revelan, además, como una precursora y una feminista pionera. Cuando todavía no había aparecido en la Argentina el colectivo Ni una menos, ni habían salido a las calles miles de chicas reclamando por el fin del patriarcado, María Elena Walsh escribía, cantaba y pronunciaba palabras incómodas, cuestionaba los rígidos roles asignados a mujeres y varones, se resistía a lavar los platos por mandato y se manifestaba contra la misoginia y la violencia machista. El feminismo reúne los textos que, como piedras preciosas y filosas, lanzaba desde diarios y revistas, columnas radiales, discos y escenarios. Escritos a lo largo de cincuenta años -algunos inéditos-, son de sorprendente actualidad, la confirman como la referente intelectual que trasciende generaciones y la revelan, además, como pionera y precursora de la reciente eclosión de los movimientos de mujeres. Sin perder el humor y la paciencia, Walsh persuade con naturalidad y el alcance de su compromiso ético la ha convertido en un símbolo que enriquece y renueva el feminismo en la Argentina. «Quien no fue mujer / ni trabajador / piensa que el de ayer / fue un tiempo mejor / y al compás de la nostalgia / hoy bailamos por error». «Las mujeres, como los negros, los colonizados, la clase trabajadora, a medida que tomamos conciencia, menos queremos dádivas; queremos lo que nos pertenece por derecho y nos arrebatan día a día, es decir, todo. Las mujeres, que fuimos custodias de la vida -para que fuera rifada en guerras-, queremos más que nunca defenderla de los fabricantes de muerte. Pero según, cómo y cuándo lo determinemos nosotras». «El Movimiento de Liberación Femenina es una ideología revolucionaria, no exprimida de libracos apolillados, sino del cotidiano martirio de la mitad de la humanidad. Nace en las ferias y junto a las bateas, a la vera de las camillas de ginecólogos carniceros y a contrapelo de los viejitos célibes del Vaticano que vienen diagramando la conducta sexual según conviene a los intereses de los capitales y a las fluctuaciones del mercado bélico». «¿Educamos a nuestras niñas para que en el día de mañana (si lo hay) sean ociosas princesas del jet-set? ¿Las educamos para Heidis de almibarados bosques? ¿Las educamos para futuras cortesanas? ¿Las educamos para enanas mentales y superfluas 'señoras gordas'?».]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763845Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El feminismo Author: María Elena Walsh Narrator: María Abadi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 29 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763845 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El feminismo Author: María Elena Walsh Narrator: María Abadi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Todavía los movimientos de mujeres no habían eclosionado en la Argentina, cuando María Elena Walsh escribía y cantaba palabras incómodas, cuestionaba los rígidos roles asignados a mujeres y varones, y se manifestaba contra la misoginia y la violencia machista. Qué es el feminismo reúne buena parte de esos textos, lanzados desde diarios y revistas, columnas radiales, discos y escenarios. Escritos, compuestos o publicados a lo largo de unos cincuenta años -algunos inéditos-, son de sorprendente actualidad, la confirman como la referente intelectual que es para muchas generaciones de argentinos y la revelan, además, como una precursora y una feminista pionera. Cuando todavía no había aparecido en la Argentina el colectivo Ni una menos, ni habían salido a las calles miles de chicas reclamando por el fin del patriarcado, María Elena Walsh escribía, cantaba y pronunciaba palabras incómodas, cuestionaba los rígidos roles asignados a mujeres y varones, se resistía a lavar los platos por mandato y se manifestaba contra la misoginia y la violencia machista. El feminismo reúne los textos que, como piedras preciosas y filosas, lanzaba desde diarios y revistas, columnas radiales, discos y escenarios. Escritos a lo largo de cincuenta años -algunos inéditos-, son de sorprendente actualidad, la confirman como la referente intelectual que trasciende generaciones y la revelan, además, como pionera y precursora de la reciente eclosión de los movimientos de mujeres. Sin perder el humor y la paciencia, Walsh persuade con naturalidad y el alcance de su compromiso ético la ha convertido en un símbolo que enriquece y renueva el feminismo en la Argentina. «Quien no fue mujer / ni trabajador / piensa que el de ayer / fue un tiempo mejor / y al compás de la nostalgia / hoy bailamos por error». «Las mujeres, como los negros, los colonizados, la clase trabajadora, a medida que tomamos conciencia, menos queremos dádivas; queremos lo que nos pertenece por derecho y nos arrebatan día a día, es decir, todo. Las mujeres, que fuimos custodias de la vida -para que fuera rifada en guerras-, queremos más que nunca defenderla de los fabricantes de muerte. Pero según, cómo y cuándo lo determinemos nosotras». «El Movimiento de Liberación Femenina es una ideología revolucionaria, no exprimida de libracos apolillados, sino del cotidiano martirio de la mitad de la humanidad. Nace en las ferias y junto a las bateas, a la vera de las camillas de ginecólogos carniceros y a contrapelo de los viejitos célibes del Vaticano que vienen diagramando la conducta sexual según conviene a los intereses de los capitales y a las fluctuaciones del mercado bélico». «¿Educamos a nuestras niñas para que en el día de mañana (si lo hay) sean ociosas princesas del jet-set? ¿Las educamos para Heidis de almibarados bosques? ¿Las educamos para futuras cortesanas? ¿Las educamos para enanas mentales y superfluas 'señoras gordas'?».]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-make-herself-agreeable-to-everyone-a-memoir-by-cameron-russell--65151016https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir Author: Cameron Russell Narrator: Cameron Russell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Gripping . . . a call to action—and accountability—for the entire fashion industry.”—Marie Claire A bold memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to fashion “By elevating me for something I have no control over, the industry and economy signal to all women: there is almost nothing you can do or create that is as valuable as how you look.” Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a serious student with her sights set on college, not the runway. But modeling was a job that seemed to offer young women like herself unprecedented access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, “there are a million girls in line” who would eagerly replace her.  In her fierce and innovative memoir, Russell chronicles how she learned to navigate the dizzying space between physical appearance and interiority and making money in an often-exploitative system. Being “agreeable,” she found, led to more success: more bookings and more opportunities to work with the world’s top photographers and biggest brands. But as her prominence grew, Russell found that achievement under these conditions was deeply isolating and ultimately unsatisfying. Instead of freedom, she was often required to perform the role of compliant femme fatale, so she began organizing with her peers, helping to coordinate movements for labor rights, climate and racial justice, and bringing MeToo to the fashion industry.  Intimate and illuminating, How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone is a nuanced, deeply felt memoir about beauty, complicity, and the fight for a better world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736075Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir Author: Cameron Russell Narrator: Cameron Russell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir Author: Cameron Russell Narrator: Cameron Russell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Gripping . . . a call to action—and accountability—for the entire fashion industry.”—Marie Claire A bold memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to fashion “By elevating me for something I have no control over, the industry and economy signal to all women: there is almost nothing you can do or create that is as valuable as how you look.” Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: She was a serious student with her sights set on college, not the runway. But modeling was a job that seemed to offer young women like herself unprecedented access to wealth, fame, and influence. Besides, as she was often reminded, “there are a million girls in line” who would eagerly replace her.  In her fierce and innovative memoir, Russell chronicles how she learned to navigate the dizzying space between physical appearance and interiority and making money in an often-exploitative system. Being “agreeable,” she found, led to more success: more bookings and more opportunities to work with the world’s top photographers and biggest brands. But as her prominence grew, Russell found that achievement under these conditions was deeply isolating and ultimately unsatisfying. Instead of freedom, she was often required to perform the role of compliant femme fatale, so she began organizing with her peers, helping to coordinate movements for labor rights, climate and racial justice, and bringing MeToo to the fashion industry.  Intimate and illuminating, How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone is a nuanced, deeply felt memoir about beauty, complicity, and the fight for a better world.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/undercover-copper-one-woman-on-the-track-of-dangerous-criminals-by-danni-brooke--65150902https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals Author: Danni Brooke Narrator: Emma Carter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 14, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Previously published as The Girl for the Job Fast-paced and eye-opening, Undercover Copper is an exciting account of life as a covert investigator by Danni Brooke. For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. She was so successful at taking down criminals she was seconded to forces around the country. Whether she was infiltrating organized crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble. She loved the job, but the pressures of her work, and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother, were to take a toll on her personal life. In her honest, warm and gripping memoir, Danni also reveals why she left the police, how she found a new career (and love) on Channel 4’s Hunted – and why the thrill of covert work has seen her turn her talents to tracking down cyber criminals. What readers are saying about Danni Brooke's unputdownable life story: 'Absolutely brilliant read. I just love real life stories of police and being written by a female this was great!' 'I've enjoyed a lot of UK undercover/ MI5 audiobooks – and this one is right up there' 'There are only a few good books out there on the subject of undercover policing and this is one of them' 'Loved every minute of this book. Fascinating and gripping stories from her time as an undercover cop in a male dominated environment' 'There are some laugh out loud bits, shocking bits, sad parts and things to think . . . What a thrilling, full life Danni has led and still so young']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758420Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals Author: Danni Brooke Narrator: Emma Carter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals Author: Danni Brooke Narrator: Emma Carter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 14, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Previously published as The Girl for the Job Fast-paced and eye-opening, Undercover Copper is an exciting account of life as a covert investigator by Danni Brooke. For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. She was so successful at taking down criminals she was seconded to forces around the country. Whether she was infiltrating organized crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble. She loved the job, but the pressures of her work, and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother, were to take a toll on her personal life. In her honest, warm and gripping memoir, Danni also reveals why she left the police, how she found a new career (and love) on Channel 4’s Hunted – and why the thrill of covert work has seen her turn her talents to tracking down cyber criminals. What readers are saying about Danni Brooke's unputdownable life story: 'Absolutely brilliant read. I just love real life stories of police and being written by a female this was great!' 'I've enjoyed a lot of UK undercover/ MI5 audiobooks – and this one is right up there' 'There are only a few good books out there on the subject of undercover policing and this is one of them' 'Loved every minute of this book. Fascinating and gripping stories from her time as an undercover cop in a male dominated environment' 'There are some laugh out loud bits, shocking bits, sad parts and things to think . . . What a thrilling, full life Danni has led and still so young']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-brave-and-lovely-woman-mamah-borthwick-and-frank-lloyd-wright-by-mark-borthwick--65151013https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Mark Borthwick Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master's degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and taught at one of Germany's best schools for boys. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and for her shocking murder at the renowned Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin. A Brave and Lovely Woman offers an important corrective to the narrative of Wright and Borthwick, a love story as American in character as it is Shakespearean in conclusion. Little of Wright's life and work has been left untouched by his many admirers, critics, and biographers. And yet the woman who stood at the center of his emotional life, Mamah Borthwick, has fallen into near obscurity. Mark Borthwick—a distant relative—recenters Mamah Borthwick in her own life, presenting a detailed portrait of a fascinating woman, a complicated figure who was at once a dedicated mother and a faithless spouse, a feminist and a member of a conservative sorority, a vivacious extrovert and a social pariah. Careful research and engaging prose at last give Borthwick, an obscure but crucial character in one of America's most famous tragedies, center stage.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738504Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Mark Borthwick Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright Author: Mark Borthwick Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master's degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and taught at one of Germany's best schools for boys. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and for her shocking murder at the renowned Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin. A Brave and Lovely Woman offers an important corrective to the narrative of Wright and Borthwick, a love story as American in character as it is Shakespearean in conclusion. Little of Wright's life and work has been left untouched by his many admirers, critics, and biographers. And yet the woman who stood at the center of his emotional life, Mamah Borthwick, has fallen into near obscurity. Mark Borthwick—a distant relative—recenters Mamah Borthwick in her own life, presenting a detailed portrait of a fascinating woman, a complicated figure who was at once a dedicated mother and a faithless spouse, a feminist and a member of a conservative sorority, a vivacious extrovert and a social pariah. Careful research and engaging prose at last give Borthwick, an obscure but crucial character in one of America's most famous tragedies, center stage.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/henrietta-szold-hadassah-and-the-zionist-dream-by-francine-klagsbrun--65150949https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream Author: Francine Klagsbrun Narrator: Dina Pearlman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, which quickly became one of the most successful of all Zionist groups. In her work with Hadassah, Szold used a combined ethical and pragmatic approach aimed at improving the lives of both Jews and Arabs. She later moved to Mandate Palestine to help shape education, health, and social services there. The pinnacle of her career came in her seventies, when she took on the task of directing the Youth Aliyah program, which rescued thousands of young people from the Nazis and resettled them in Palestine. Using Szold's copious letters, diaries, and essays, along with other archival documents, Francine Klagsbrun traces Szold's life and legacy with an eye to uncovering the person behind the Zionist icon. She reveals Szold as a complex human being who had to cope with controversy and criticism, a workaholic with an outsized sense of duty, and an idealist who fought for her beliefs even as she questioned her own abilities. With deep insight, Klagsbrun introduces listeners to this extraordinary woman, whose impact on women's lives as well as on education and health systems still resonates.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734696Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream Author: Francine Klagsbrun Narrator: Dina Pearlman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734696 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream Author: Francine Klagsbrun Narrator: Dina Pearlman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, which quickly became one of the most successful of all Zionist groups. In her work with Hadassah, Szold used a combined ethical and pragmatic approach aimed at improving the lives of both Jews and Arabs. She later moved to Mandate Palestine to help shape education, health, and social services there. The pinnacle of her career came in her seventies, when she took on the task of directing the Youth Aliyah program, which rescued thousands of young people from the Nazis and resettled them in Palestine. Using Szold's copious letters, diaries, and essays, along with other archival documents, Francine Klagsbrun traces Szold's life and legacy with an eye to uncovering the person behind the Zionist icon. She reveals Szold as a complex human being who had to cope with controversy and criticism, a workaholic with an outsized sense of duty, and an idealist who fought for her beliefs even as she questioned her own abilities. With deep insight, Klagsbrun introduces listeners to this extraordinary woman, whose impact on women's lives as well as on education and health systems still resonates.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unconventional-nancy-ruth-by-dr-ramona-lumpkin--65150930https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unconventional Nancy Ruth Series: Part of A Feminist History Society Book Author: Dr. Ramona Lumpkin Narrator: Margaret Lamarre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born into the prominent Jackman family, Nancy Ruth forged her own unique journey as a philanthropist, feminist politician, and activist. Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. From her religious ministry to rewriting Canada’s national anthem to make it gender-neutral, this outspoken, complicated woman has put her stamp on Canada’s public life. Her generous feminist philanthropy allowed numerous women’s organizations to flourish, and her talents for friendship and for controversy meant the work was serious but never dull. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women’s lives in Canada.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747504Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unconventional Nancy Ruth Series: Part of A Feminist History Society Book Author: Dr. Ramona Lumpkin Narrator: Margaret Lamarre Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unconventional Nancy Ruth Series: Part of A Feminist History Society Book Author: Dr. Ramona Lumpkin Narrator: Margaret Lamarre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born into the prominent Jackman family, Nancy Ruth forged her own unique journey as a philanthropist, feminist politician, and activist. Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. From her religious ministry to rewriting Canada’s national anthem to make it gender-neutral, this outspoken, complicated woman has put her stamp on Canada’s public life. Her generous feminist philanthropy allowed numerous women’s organizations to flourish, and her talents for friendship and for controversy meant the work was serious but never dull. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women’s lives in Canada.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/basque-euskal-herriko-40-emakume-egon-ginen-izan-ginen-by-cira-crespo--65150882https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Basque] - Euskal Herriko 40 emakume: Egon ginen, izan ginen Author: Cira Crespo Narrator: Gontzal Mendibil Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: LABURPENA: Kuxkuxeroa zara? Gustatzen zaizu zu jaio baino lehen zure herrian zer gertatu zen jakitea? Eta mota askoko jendea ezagutzea? Orduan, hau da zure liburua. Hemen ezagutuko dituzu gure gizarteari egindako ekarpenagatik erreferentzia diren Euskal Herriko emakumeak eta gizataldeak. Belaunaldi berrientzat erreferentzia diren eta jada hilik dauden emakume hauei historiak ez die merezi duten errekonozimendua eman. Eremu guztietako emakumeek lortu zituztenak ezagutaraziko dizkigute: idazleak, kazetariak, pedagogoak, bertsolariak, margolariak, argazkilariak, ilustratzaileak, sukaldariak. Ilustrazio deigarriak dituen liburua da eta teknika desberdinak erabili dira: akuarela, koloretako arkatzak, collage. Has zaitez emakume hauek ezagutzen, aho zabalik utziko zaituzte. IRAKURKETA ERRAZA bilduma, irakurtzeko eta ulertzeko zailtasunak dituzten pertsonei zuzenduta dago. Liburuetan hizkuntza erraza, zuzena eta egunerokoa erabiltzen da. Hizki handiak, bazter zabalak, ilustrazioak eta hitzen definizioak, koadroetan, erabiltzen dira.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760905Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Basque] - Euskal Herriko 40 emakume: Egon ginen, izan ginen Author: Cira Crespo Narrator: Gontzal Mendibil Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Basque] - Euskal Herriko 40 emakume: Egon ginen, izan ginen Author: Cira Crespo Narrator: Gontzal Mendibil Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: LABURPENA: Kuxkuxeroa zara? Gustatzen zaizu zu jaio baino lehen zure herrian zer gertatu zen jakitea? Eta mota askoko jendea ezagutzea? Orduan, hau da zure liburua. Hemen ezagutuko dituzu gure gizarteari egindako ekarpenagatik erreferentzia diren Euskal Herriko emakumeak eta gizataldeak. Belaunaldi berrientzat erreferentzia diren eta jada hilik dauden emakume hauei historiak ez die merezi duten errekonozimendua eman. Eremu guztietako emakumeek lortu zituztenak ezagutaraziko dizkigute: idazleak, kazetariak, pedagogoak, bertsolariak, margolariak, argazkilariak, ilustratzaileak, sukaldariak. Ilustrazio deigarriak dituen liburua da eta teknika desberdinak erabili dira: akuarela, koloretako arkatzak, collage. Has zaitez emakume hauek ezagutzen, aho zabalik utziko zaituzte. IRAKURKETA ERRAZA bilduma, irakurtzeko eta ulertzeko zailtasunak dituzten pertsonei zuzenduta dago. Liburuetan hizkuntza erraza, zuzena eta egunerokoa erabiltzen da. Hizki handiak, bazter zabalak, ilustrazioak eta hitzen definizioak, koadroetan, erabiltzen dira.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brave-ish-one-breakup-six-continents-and-feeling-fearless-after-fifty-by-lisa-niver--65150957https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty Author: Lisa Niver Narrator: Lisa Niver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Newlywed Lisa Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life. Feeling like a failure, pushing fifty, and moving home to her parents' house to start again from scratch, Niver started taking one tiny 'brave-ish' step at a time. These small hurdles led to the challenge of trying fifty new things before turning fifty. Niver found herself traversing the world on a journey of reinvention, personal growth, and discovering what it actually means to be 'brave.' While Brave-ish chronicles Niver's inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya and Mongolia this is more than a travelogue. Niver's story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance. Brave-ish inspires listeners to dream big, take risks, and embrace the unknown to create a life filled with wonder and excitement, even when courage seems elusive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745325Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty Author: Lisa Niver Narrator: Lisa Niver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty Author: Lisa Niver Narrator: Lisa Niver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Newlywed Lisa Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life. Feeling like a failure, pushing fifty, and moving home to her parents' house to start again from scratch, Niver started taking one tiny 'brave-ish' step at a time. These small hurdles led to the challenge of trying fifty new things before turning fifty. Niver found herself traversing the world on a journey of reinvention, personal growth, and discovering what it actually means to be 'brave.' While Brave-ish chronicles Niver's inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya and Mongolia this is more than a travelogue. Niver's story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance. Brave-ish inspires listeners to dream big, take risks, and embrace the unknown to create a life filled with wonder and excitement, even when courage seems elusive.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-in-liebe-pamela-by-pamela-anderson--65150926https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - In Liebe, Pamela Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Wagener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Popikone, Sexsymbol, Tierrechtsaktivistin, Schauspielerin, Sinnbild des Lebensgefühls der Neunzigerjahre – all diese Beschreibungen treffen zu. Allerdings werden sie dem Phänomen Pamela Anderson nicht gerecht. Die Frau, die von vielen allzu schnell als Baywatch-Nixe oder Playboy-Häschen abgetan wird, kann auf ein schillerndes Leben zwischen Glamour, Skandalen und dem Engagement für Minderheiten und Schutzlose zurückblicken. In ihrer offenherzigen Autobiografie erzählt sie von ihrer Kindheit in ärmlichen Verhältnissen und dem beschwerlichen Aufstieg zur weltweit bekannten Verfechterin von Frauenrechten und Emanzipation. Dabei kommen so unterschiedliche Themen zur Sprache wie Missbrauch, ihr turbulentes Eheleben, das brisante Sexvideo mit Mötley-Crüe-Schlagzeuger Tommy Lee und die Liebe für die Literatur. Pamela Anderson scheut sich nicht, ihre verletzliche, liebevolle und sensible Seite zu zeigen, die sie sich trotz aller Fehleinschätzungen und Anfeindungen bewahrt hat. Ihre Worte fesseln, bewegen, rütteln auf, klingen dabei aber wie im Gespräch mit einer guten Freundin geäußert, die man seit Jahren zum ersten Mal wiedersieht.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759015Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - In Liebe, Pamela Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Wagener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - In Liebe, Pamela Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Wagener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 21, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Popikone, Sexsymbol, Tierrechtsaktivistin, Schauspielerin, Sinnbild des Lebensgefühls der Neunzigerjahre – all diese Beschreibungen treffen zu. Allerdings werden sie dem Phänomen Pamela Anderson nicht gerecht. Die Frau, die von vielen allzu schnell als Baywatch-Nixe oder Playboy-Häschen abgetan wird, kann auf ein schillerndes Leben zwischen Glamour, Skandalen und dem Engagement für Minderheiten und Schutzlose zurückblicken. In ihrer offenherzigen Autobiografie erzählt sie von ihrer Kindheit in ärmlichen Verhältnissen und dem beschwerlichen Aufstieg zur weltweit bekannten Verfechterin von Frauenrechten und Emanzipation. Dabei kommen so unterschiedliche Themen zur Sprache wie Missbrauch, ihr turbulentes Eheleben, das brisante Sexvideo mit Mötley-Crüe-Schlagzeuger Tommy Lee und die Liebe für die Literatur. Pamela Anderson scheut sich nicht, ihre verletzliche, liebevolle und sensible Seite zu zeigen, die sie sich trotz aller Fehleinschätzungen und Anfeindungen bewahrt hat. Ihre Worte fesseln, bewegen, rütteln auf, klingen dabei aber wie im Gespräch mit einer guten Freundin geäußert, die man seit Jahren zum ersten Mal wiedersieht.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/clay-and-bones-my-life-as-an-fbi-forensic-artist-by-lisa-g-bailey--65150965https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist Author: Lisa G. Bailey Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up. Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disembodied heads of suicide bombers. But it was facial approximation—sculpting a face from the remnants of an unidentified victim's skull—that intrigued her the most. Bailey knew that if she could capture that person's likeness in clay, she just might help them be identified, and that might help law enforcement track down their killer. Bailey worked on hundreds of cases and grew to become a subject matter expert in the field. It was the most challenging and fulfilling work she could have imagined, and she never thought of leaving. But her life changed when she became the target of sexual discrimination and harassment. She was stunned when FBI management protected the abusers and retaliated with threats, slander, and an arsenal of lawyers. Trapped in an increasingly hostile work environment, and infuriated at the hypocrisy of the FBI's tactics, Bailey decided to fight back. Clay and Bones is a memoir with a mission, and a fascinating exploration into the surreal and satisfying work of a forensic artist.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722656Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist Author: Lisa G. Bailey Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist Author: Lisa G. Bailey Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up. Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disembodied heads of suicide bombers. But it was facial approximation—sculpting a face from the remnants of an unidentified victim's skull—that intrigued her the most. Bailey knew that if she could capture that person's likeness in clay, she just might help them be identified, and that might help law enforcement track down their killer. Bailey worked on hundreds of cases and grew to become a subject matter expert in the field. It was the most challenging and fulfilling work she could have imagined, and she never thought of leaving. But her life changed when she became the target of sexual discrimination and harassment. She was stunned when FBI management protected the abusers and retaliated with threats, slander, and an arsenal of lawyers. Trapped in an increasingly hostile work environment, and infuriated at the hypocrisy of the FBI's tactics, Bailey decided to fight back. Clay and Bones is a memoir with a mission, and a fascinating exploration into the surreal and satisfying work of a forensic artist.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-regina-geht-ihren-weg-ein-frauenschicksal-teil-2-hoffnung-by-eva-kreuzpaintner--65150937https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Regina geht ihren Weg: Ein Frauenschicksal: Teil 2: Hoffnung Author: Eva Kreuzpaintner Narrator: Marko Müller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Reginas Leben bleibt weiterhin turbulent: Sie versucht sich in diversen Berufen, liebt ihre Familie, ihre Freunde, gutes Essen und hin und wieder auch mal eine Zigarette oder ein Gläschen Prosecco oder Wein, obwohl sie wegen ihrer Medikamente eigentlich keinen Alkohol trinken sollte. Mit den Stimmen in ihrem Kopf kommt sie bis auf einen Zwischenfall ebenfalls gut klar – nur den Kontakt zu Wahrsager kann sie nicht lassen, was immer wieder zu Ärger mit ihrem Mann führt. Dann jedoch gelingt es Regina, eine Kur zu machen, auf der sie ähnlich Betroffene kennenlernt und für sich einen neuen Weg erkennt.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738889Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Regina geht ihren Weg: Ein Frauenschicksal: Teil 2: Hoffnung Author: Eva Kreuzpaintner Narrator: Marko Müller Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Regina geht ihren Weg: Ein Frauenschicksal: Teil 2: Hoffnung Author: Eva Kreuzpaintner Narrator: Marko Müller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Reginas Leben bleibt weiterhin turbulent: Sie versucht sich in diversen Berufen, liebt ihre Familie, ihre Freunde, gutes Essen und hin und wieder auch mal eine Zigarette oder ein Gläschen Prosecco oder Wein, obwohl sie wegen ihrer Medikamente eigentlich keinen Alkohol trinken sollte. Mit den Stimmen in ihrem Kopf kommt sie bis auf einen Zwischenfall ebenfalls gut klar – nur den Kontakt zu Wahrsager kann sie nicht lassen, was immer wieder zu Ärger mit ihrem Mann führt. Dann jedoch gelingt es Regina, eine Kur zu machen, auf der sie ähnlich Betroffene kennenlernt und für sich einen neuen Weg erkennt.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-chance-to-die-the-life-and-legacy-of-amy-carmichael-by-elisabeth-elliot--65150889https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael Author: Elisabeth Elliot Narrator: Elisabeth Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 14, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally to serve her Master. Bringing Amma to life through compelling biographical narrative, Elisabeth Elliot urges readers to examine the depths of their own commitment to Christ.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759738Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael Author: Elisabeth Elliot Narrator: Elisabeth Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael Author: Elisabeth Elliot Narrator: Elisabeth Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 14, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally to serve her Master. Bringing Amma to life through compelling biographical narrative, Elisabeth Elliot urges readers to examine the depths of their own commitment to Christ.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lieutenant-nun-the-true-story-of-a-cross-dressing-transatlantic-adventurer-who-escaped-from-a-spanish-convent-in-1599-and-lived-as-a-man-b--65151017https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man Author: Catalina De Erauso Narrator: Adriana Pascua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: THE TRUE STORY OF A CROSSDRESSING, TRANSATLANTIC ADVENTURER WHO ESCAPED FROM A SPANISH CONVENT IN 1599 AND LIVED AS A MAN—GAMBLING,FIGHTING DUELS, AND LEADING SOLDIERS INTO BATTLE Named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734606Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man Author:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man Author: Catalina De Erauso Narrator: Adriana Pascua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: THE TRUE STORY OF A CROSSDRESSING, TRANSATLANTIC ADVENTURER WHO ESCAPED FROM A SPANISH CONVENT IN 1599 AND LIVED AS A MAN—GAMBLING,FIGHTING DUELS, AND LEADING SOLDIERS INTO BATTLE Named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/elizabeth-renaissance-prince-by-lisa-hilton--65150969https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Kelly Birch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Game-changing . . . How history should be written.” — Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life [An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy.” — New York Times Book Review   Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “weak and feeble woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton’s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince—an expert in Machiavellian statecraft.  Elizabeth depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most accounts claim, challenging readers to reassess Elizabeth’s reign and the colorful drama and intrigue to which it is always linked. It’s a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized newly crowned queen, whose European contemporaries considered her to be the illegitimate ruler of a pariah nation, ultimately adapted to become England’s first recognizably modern head of state.   “Hilton transforms an irreverent, centuries-old vision of a ‘bewigged farthingale with a mysterious sex life’ into a resolute, steel-spined survivor who far surpassed Henry VII’s wildest hopes for his new dynasty.” — Publishers Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735714Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Kelly Birch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Kelly Birch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Game-changing . . . How history should be written.” — Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life [An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy.” — New York Times Book Review   Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “weak and feeble woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey, Hilton’s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince—an expert in Machiavellian statecraft.  Elizabeth depicts a queen who was much less constrained by her femininity than most accounts claim, challenging readers to reassess Elizabeth’s reign and the colorful drama and intrigue to which it is always linked. It’s a fascinating journey that shows how a marginalized newly crowned queen, whose European contemporaries considered her to be the illegitimate ruler of a pariah nation, ultimately adapted to become England’s first recognizably modern head of state.   “Hilton transforms an irreverent, centuries-old vision of a ‘bewigged farthingale with a mysterious sex life’ into a resolute, steel-spined survivor who far surpassed Henry VII’s wildest hopes for his new dynasty.” — Publishers Weekly]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wanderers-a-history-of-women-walking-by-kerri-andrews--65150964https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wanderers: A History of Women Walking Author: Kerri Andrews Narrator: Lauren Baldwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by these ten pathfinding women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720258Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wanderers: A History of Women Walking Author: Kerri Andrews Narrator: Lauren Baldwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wanderers: A History of Women Walking Author: Kerri Andrews Narrator: Lauren Baldwin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by these ten pathfinding women.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vanishing-of-carolyn-wells-investigations-into-a-forgotten-mystery-author-by-rebecca-rego-barry--65150935https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author Author: Rebecca Rego Barry Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) excelled at writing country house and locked-room mysteries for a decade before Agatha Christie entered the scene. In the 1920s, when she was churning out three or more books annually, she was dubbed “about the biggest thing in mystery novels in the US.” On top of that, Wells wielded her pen in just about every literary genre, producing several immensely popular children’s books and young adult novels; beloved anthologies; and countless stories, prose, and poetry for magazines such as Thrilling Detective, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. All told, Wells wrote over 180 books. Some were adapted into silent films, and some became bestsellers. Yet a hundred years later, she has been all but erased from literary history. Why? How? This investigation takes us on a journey to Rahway, New Jersey, where Wells was born and is buried; to New York City’s Upper West Side, where she spent her final twenty-five years; to the Library of Congress, where Carolyn’s world-class collection of rare books now resides; and to many other public and private collections where exciting discoveries unfolded. Part biography and part sleuthing narrative, The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells recovers the life and work of a brilliant writer who was considered one of the funniest, most talented women of her time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738880Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author Author: Rebecca Rego Barry Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author Author: Rebecca Rego Barry Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s. Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) excelled at writing country house and locked-room mysteries for a decade before Agatha Christie entered the scene. In the 1920s, when she was churning out three or more books annually, she was dubbed “about the biggest thing in mystery novels in the US.” On top of that, Wells wielded her pen in just about every literary genre, producing several immensely popular children’s books and young adult novels; beloved anthologies; and countless stories, prose, and poetry for magazines such as Thrilling Detective, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. All told, Wells wrote over 180 books. Some were adapted into silent films, and some became bestsellers. Yet a hundred years later, she has been all but erased from literary history. Why? How? This investigation takes us on a journey to Rahway, New Jersey, where Wells was born and is buried; to New York City’s Upper West Side, where she spent her final twenty-five years; to the Library of Congress, where Carolyn’s world-class collection of rare books now resides; and to many other public and private collections where exciting discoveries unfolded. Part biography and part sleuthing narrative, The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells recovers the life and work of a brilliant writer who was considered one of the funniest, most talented women of her time.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tea-on-the-blue-sofa-by-natasha-illum-berg--65150980https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tea on the Blue Sofa Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A compelling and poetic deep dive into the intricacies of a love cut short, 'Tea on the blue Sofa' dissects Natasha Illum Berg's reflections on her childhood in Sweden and her life in Africa. This autobiographical love letter is an ode to the beauty and brutality of life in which Natasha tries to come to terms with the violent loss of her great love. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel 'Floder af Rød' released in 1999 and her advocacy for African elephant protection through the Ivory Black Foundation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733584Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tea on the Blue Sofa Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 12 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tea on the Blue Sofa Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A compelling and poetic deep dive into the intricacies of a love cut short, 'Tea on the blue Sofa' dissects Natasha Illum Berg's reflections on her childhood in Sweden and her life in Africa. This autobiographical love letter is an ode to the beauty and brutality of life in which Natasha tries to come to terms with the violent loss of her great love. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel 'Floder af Rød' released in 1999 and her advocacy for African elephant protection through the Ivory Black Foundation.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-will-be-well-letters-to-my-daughter-by-natasha-illum-berg--65150977https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In a series of letters addressed to her daughter, Natasha Illum Berg reflects on her child's forthcoming journey into a world of love, death, and big game hunting. A gorgeous and powerful introduction to the beauty and brutality of the cycle of life, 'All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter' poetically examines life's greater values. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel 'Floder af Rød' released in 1999 and her advocacy for African elephant protection through the Ivory Black Foundation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733583Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In a series of letters addressed to her daughter, Natasha Illum Berg reflects on her child's forthcoming journey into a world of love, death, and big game hunting. A gorgeous and powerful introduction to the beauty and brutality of the cycle of life, 'All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter' poetically examines life's greater values. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel 'Floder af Rød' released in 1999 and her advocacy for African elephant protection through the Ivory Black Foundation.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks-by-jeanne-theoharis--65150954https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Author: Jeanne Theoharis Narrator: Judith West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians  Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721869Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Author: Jeanne Theoharis Narrator: Judith West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Author: Jeanne Theoharis Narrator: Judith West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians  Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/merze-tate-the-global-odyssey-of-a-black-woman-scholar-by-barbara-d-savage--65150955https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar Author: Barbara D. Savage Narrator: Machelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a 'sex and race discriminating world.' Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century. This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras. Barbara Savage's skilled rendering of Tate's story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate's life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women's history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722931Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar Author: Barbara D. Savage Narrator: Machelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar Author: Barbara D. Savage Narrator: Machelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a 'sex and race discriminating world.' Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century. This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras. Barbara Savage's skilled rendering of Tate's story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate's life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women's history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pauli-murray-s-revolutionary-life-by-simki-kuznick--65150932https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life Author: Simki Kuznick Narrator: Sara Ghebremichael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 19, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. Pauli Murray fearlessly rode freight trains dressed as a boy during the Great Depression and befriended First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt before embarking on a pioneering life of social activism, legal scholarship, and many firsts. In 1944, Pauli graduated first in her class at Howard University; in 1965, she was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in law from Yale University; in 1966, she was a founder of NOW, the first National Organization for Women; and in 1977, Pauli was the first Black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Pauli never faced a barrier she couldn't smash through, and her life as a feminist, civil rights lawyer, poet, author, activist, and priest paved the way for all to live a life of equality and purpose.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746212Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life Author: Simki Kuznick Narrator: Sara Ghebremichael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life Author: Simki Kuznick Narrator: Sara Ghebremichael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 19, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. Pauli Murray fearlessly rode freight trains dressed as a boy during the Great Depression and befriended First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt before embarking on a pioneering life of social activism, legal scholarship, and many firsts. In 1944, Pauli graduated first in her class at Howard University; in 1965, she was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in law from Yale University; in 1966, she was a founder of NOW, the first National Organization for Women; and in 1977, Pauli was the first Black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Pauli never faced a barrier she couldn't smash through, and her life as a feminist, civil rights lawyer, poet, author, activist, and priest paved the way for all to live a life of equality and purpose.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-road-to-tangible-hope-by-telile-yoseph--65150919https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road to Tangible Hope Author: Telile Yoseph Narrator: Janet Dean, Telile Yoseph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Now, having told my story, I feel that a huge burden has been lifted. My secrets are now in the open and I believe that no girl or woman in the world should have such dark secrets hiding in her heart. I want to encourage all women who are or have suffered the indignation of abuse to break free of the silence, live their lives with joy and look for ways to lift up others as well. Together, we can give voice to the voiceless, all over the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746214Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road to Tangible Hope Author: Telile Yoseph Narrator: Janet Dean, Telile Yoseph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road to Tangible Hope Author: Telile Yoseph Narrator: Janet Dean, Telile Yoseph Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Now, having told my story, I feel that a huge burden has been lifted. My secrets are now in the open and I believe that no girl or woman in the world should have such dark secrets hiding in her heart. I want to encourage all women who are or have suffered the indignation of abuse to break free of the silence, live their lives with joy and look for ways to lift up others as well. Together, we can give voice to the voiceless, all over the world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/odyssey-of-a-wandering-mind-the-strange-tale-of-sara-mayfield-author-by-jennifer-horne--65150967https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author Author: Jennifer Horne Narrator: Sara Sheckells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her. Finally, her mother and brother committed her to Bryce Hospital for the Insane, where she remained for the next seventeen years. Throughout her life, Mayfield kept journals, wrote fiction, and produced thousands of letters while nursing the ambition that had driven her since childhood: to write and publish books. During her confinement, Mayfield assiduously recorded her experiences and her determined efforts—sometimes delusional, always savvy—to overturn her diagnosis and return to the world as a sane, independent adult. At fifty-nine, she was released from Bryce and later obtained a decree of 'having been restored to sanity.' She went on to publish noteworthy literary biographies of the Menckens and the Fitzgeralds, finally achieving her quest to become the author of books and her own life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722649Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author Author: Jennifer Horne Narrator: Sara Sheckells Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author Author: Jennifer Horne Narrator: Sara Sheckells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her. Finally, her mother and brother committed her to Bryce Hospital for the Insane, where she remained for the next seventeen years. Throughout her life, Mayfield kept journals, wrote fiction, and produced thousands of letters while nursing the ambition that had driven her since childhood: to write and publish books. During her confinement, Mayfield assiduously recorded her experiences and her determined efforts—sometimes delusional, always savvy—to overturn her diagnosis and return to the world as a sane, independent adult. At fifty-nine, she was released from Bryce and later obtained a decree of 'having been restored to sanity.' She went on to publish noteworthy literary biographies of the Menckens and the Fitzgeralds, finally achieving her quest to become the author of books and her own life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/until-the-last-pickle-by-yuliya-patsay--65150950https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until the Last Pickle Author: Yuliya Patsay Narrator: Yuliya Patsay, A Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union, Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon, drafts caused pneumonia, and that Lenin was everyone’s benevolent grandpa. After trading pickled herring and Soviet winters for San Francisco fog and year-round produce (the real American dream!) she found herself occupying two parallel universes: the first grounded in her Soviet roots and the second in her burgeoning ‘Amerikanskiye’ beliefs. Irreverent, nostalgic and vulnerable, Until the Last Pickle, is a memoir replete with remembrances, anecdotes, and exactly 18 recipes. It’s an exploration of identity and belonging — at once, deeply personal and broadly relatable — told through the lens of one family’s “totally average” immigration journey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746221Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until the Last Pickle Author: Yuliya Patsay Narrator: Yuliya Patsay, A Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until the Last Pickle Author: Yuliya Patsay Narrator: Yuliya Patsay, A Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 11, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union, Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon, drafts caused pneumonia, and that Lenin was everyone’s benevolent grandpa. After trading pickled herring and Soviet winters for San Francisco fog and year-round produce (the real American dream!) she found herself occupying two parallel universes: the first grounded in her Soviet roots and the second in her burgeoning ‘Amerikanskiye’ beliefs. Irreverent, nostalgic and vulnerable, Until the Last Pickle, is a memoir replete with remembrances, anecdotes, and exactly 18 recipes. It’s an exploration of identity and belonging — at once, deeply personal and broadly relatable — told through the lens of one family’s “totally average” immigration journey.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-du-bist-nicht-so-wie-andre-mutter-die-geschichte-einer-leidenschaftlichen-frau-ungekurzt-by-angelika-schrobsdorff--65150942https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Du bist nicht so wie andre Mütter - Die Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (Ungekürzt) Author: Angelika Schrobsdorff Narrator: Adriana Altaras Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sie war so kompliziert wie ein Puzzle, das aus Tausenden Stücken zusammengesetzt ist - und ich mußte diese Teile finden und ineinanderfügen', schreibt Angelika Schrobsdorff über ihre Mutter. Die Teile, die sie benutzt, sind Briefe, Fotoalben, Erinnerungen von Freunden und für die spätere Zeit gemeinsam gelebtes Leben. Begonnen hat alles voller Harmonie in einem begüterten jüdischen Geschäftshaus im Berlin des Jahrhundertbeginns. Else Kirschner, sprühend vor Charme, mit dunklen Locken und leuchtenden Augen, liebte die rührend um sie besorgten Eltern, und sie liebte das Leben, das ihr Jahre des Wohlstands bescherte, angefüllt mit Theater und Konzerten, Ferien im Sommerhaus am See und großen Leidenschaften. Doch die Nazis setzen dem ein jähes Ende. Else, inzwischen mit dem preußischen Junker Erich Schrobsdorff verheiratet, flieht mit ihren beiden Töchtern nach Bulgarien ... Voller Leidenschaft, aber ohne Pathos, voller Mitgefühl und Bewunderung und dennoch mit kritischem Blick erzählt Angelika Schrobsdorff von den beiden Leben ihrer Mutter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737551Fri, 05 Jan 2024 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Du bist nicht so wie andre Mütter - Die Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (Ungekürzt) Author: Angelika Schrobsdorff Narrator: Adriana...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/737551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Du bist nicht so wie andre Mütter - Die Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (Ungekürzt) Author: Angelika Schrobsdorff Narrator: Adriana Altaras Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sie war so kompliziert wie ein Puzzle, das aus Tausenden Stücken zusammengesetzt ist - und ich mußte diese Teile finden und ineinanderfügen', schreibt Angelika Schrobsdorff über ihre Mutter. Die Teile, die sie benutzt, sind Briefe, Fotoalben, Erinnerungen von Freunden und für die spätere Zeit gemeinsam gelebtes Leben. Begonnen hat alles voller Harmonie in einem begüterten jüdischen Geschäftshaus im Berlin des Jahrhundertbeginns. Else Kirschner, sprühend vor Charme, mit dunklen Locken und leuchtenden Augen, liebte die rührend um sie besorgten Eltern, und sie liebte das Leben, das ihr Jahre des Wohlstands bescherte, angefüllt mit Theater und Konzerten, Ferien im Sommerhaus am See und großen Leidenschaften. Doch die Nazis setzen dem ein jähes Ende. Else, inzwischen mit dem preußischen Junker Erich Schrobsdorff verheiratet, flieht mit ihren beiden Töchtern nach Bulgarien ... Voller Leidenschaft, aber ohne Pathos, voller Mitgefühl und Bewunderung und dennoch mit kritischem Blick erzählt Angelika Schrobsdorff von den beiden Leben ihrer Mutter.]]>185rzt,ttercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/extraordinary-wing-women-true-stories-of-life-altering-world-changing-sisterhood-by-kimothy-joy--65151032https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood Author: Kimothy Joy Narrator: Deanna Anthony Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation. While researching her first book, That’s What She Said, Kimothy Joy discovered that the famous women she was profiling were not alone in their success. Each of them were propelled forward by a supporter—a wing woman—a sister, a mom, a best friend, a close confidant. The remarkable partnerships they shared were as multifaceted and complex as the individual women themselves.  Extraordinary Wing Women is Joy’s tribute to the importance of female camaraderie. This collection features 33 stories, each varying in length. Some will be familiar power duos—Oprah and Gayle, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Venus and Serena Williams. Others are less known though just as inspiring such as the friendship of Julia Child and her editor Avis DeVoto, Junko Tabei and her all-women mountaineering team, and the Mariposas—the Mirabel sisters who overthrew a dictator in the Dominican Republic. The women featured are from across the world and from diverse periods of history. They are activists, artists, scientists, politicians, athletes, musicians, writers, and more—role models for every woman. Joy dedicates Extraordinary Wing Women to the generations of women who are dismantling the myth that we must compete with one another to pursue and achieve our dreams. History and fiction have shown that we are stronger when we support one another. Joy hopes to inspire and teach us that we, too, have our own wings and can soar higher than ever before with our wing women beside us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709886Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood Author: Kimothy Joy Narrator: Deanna Anthony Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood Author: Kimothy Joy Narrator: Deanna Anthony Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation. While researching her first book, That’s What She Said, Kimothy Joy discovered that the famous women she was profiling were not alone in their success. Each of them were propelled forward by a supporter—a wing woman—a sister, a mom, a best friend, a close confidant. The remarkable partnerships they shared were as multifaceted and complex as the individual women themselves.  Extraordinary Wing Women is Joy’s tribute to the importance of female camaraderie. This collection features 33 stories, each varying in length. Some will be familiar power duos—Oprah and Gayle, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Venus and Serena Williams. Others are less known though just as inspiring such as the friendship of Julia Child and her editor Avis DeVoto, Junko Tabei and her all-women mountaineering team, and the Mariposas—the Mirabel sisters who overthrew a dictator in the Dominican Republic. The women featured are from across the world and from diverse periods of history. They are activists, artists, scientists, politicians, athletes, musicians, writers, and more—role models for every woman. Joy dedicates Extraordinary Wing Women to the generations of women who are dismantling the myth that we must compete with one another to pursue and achieve our dreams. History and fiction have shown that we are stronger when we support one another. Joy hopes to inspire and teach us that we, too, have our own wings and can soar higher than ever before with our wing women beside us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reading-jane-a-daughter-s-memoir-by-susannah-kennedy--65151002https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir Author: Susannah Kennedy Narrator: Marnye Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself. But then Jane at seventy-five, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of forty-five years of hidden diaries. Daring to 'read' Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora's Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy relives her life through her mother's eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719852Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir Author: Susannah Kennedy Narrator: Marnye Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir Author: Susannah Kennedy Narrator: Marnye Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself. But then Jane at seventy-five, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of forty-five years of hidden diaries. Daring to 'read' Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora's Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy relives her life through her mother's eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-por-que-volvias-cada-verano-by-belen-lopez-peiro--65150963https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Por qué volvías cada verano Author: Belén López Peiró Narrator: Belén López Peiró Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: El libro que terminó con el secreto alrededor del abuso y se convirtió en clave de cientos de denuncias. «Hay libros que son hechos. Este es uno: se puede leer como una novela, como una denuncia, como la propia construcción. Porque es todo eso: una novela polifónica, el relato de un abuso padecido en la adolescencia en manos de un hombre armado, un tío poderoso, el macho de la familia y del pueblo. Y un hecho: acá está la mujer que fue la nena que ese tipo quiso romper para su uso personal. Y está toda entera, fuerte, hablando de lo que da tanta vergüenza hablar. Escribiendo contra todos los que intentaron callarla. Contra sí misma, incluso, a veces. Este libro es una batalla: la que ganó Belén López Peiró iniciando un juicio, buscando asesoramiento legal en un sistema que no les prodiga justicia a las víctimas, contándoles a todos sus parientes y vecinos, obligándolos a ver lo que no querían ver. Y escribiendo, haciendo de su propia experiencia una obra exquisita, una intervención política poderosa. Y muy necesaria». Gabriela Cabezón Cámara La crítica dijo: «El mapa de aquello que nos sucede, por fin al completo. Imprescindible». Brigitte Vasallo «Para mí un libro definitivo sobre el abuso sexual, además del descubrimiento de una voz de la que quiero leer mucho más». Nuria Labari «No, no es un libro para disfrutar. Es un libro para entender, para empatizar, para hacer real lo que no muchas se atreven a decir en alto». Andra.eus «Por eso la forma de este libro es tan perfecta o precisa para abordar la violencia machista, porque consigue hacer emocionalmente muy palpable la complejidad del entramado que sostiene la impunidad, el ruido de los juicios de los otros en la cabeza de una víctima, cuando no hay jerarquías, ni valoraciones, ni justicia. Solo la nítida ajenidad de todos ante la experiencia propia de la vulnerabilidad». Gabriela Wiener, elDiario.es «Belén López Peiró relata el abuso sexual sin ambigüedades, pero con mucha literatura». Mauro Libertella]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733907Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Por qué volvías cada verano Author: Belén López Peiró Narrator: Belén López Peiró Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Por qué volvías cada verano Author: Belén López Peiró Narrator: Belén López Peiró Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: El libro que terminó con el secreto alrededor del abuso y se convirtió en clave de cientos de denuncias. «Hay libros que son hechos. Este es uno: se puede leer como una novela, como una denuncia, como la propia construcción. Porque es todo eso: una novela polifónica, el relato de un abuso padecido en la adolescencia en manos de un hombre armado, un tío poderoso, el macho de la familia y del pueblo. Y un hecho: acá está la mujer que fue la nena que ese tipo quiso romper para su uso personal. Y está toda entera, fuerte, hablando de lo que da tanta vergüenza hablar. Escribiendo contra todos los que intentaron callarla. Contra sí misma, incluso, a veces. Este libro es una batalla: la que ganó Belén López Peiró iniciando un juicio, buscando asesoramiento legal en un sistema que no les prodiga justicia a las víctimas, contándoles a todos sus parientes y vecinos, obligándolos a ver lo que no querían ver. Y escribiendo, haciendo de su propia experiencia una obra exquisita, una intervención política poderosa. Y muy necesaria». Gabriela Cabezón Cámara La crítica dijo: «El mapa de aquello que nos sucede, por fin al completo. Imprescindible». Brigitte Vasallo «Para mí un libro definitivo sobre el abuso sexual, además del descubrimiento de una voz de la que quiero leer mucho más». Nuria Labari «No, no es un libro para disfrutar. Es un libro para entender, para empatizar, para hacer real lo que no muchas se atreven a decir en alto». Andra.eus «Por eso la forma de este libro es tan perfecta o precisa para abordar la violencia machista, porque consigue hacer emocionalmente muy palpable la complejidad del entramado que sostiene la impunidad, el ruido de los juicios de los otros en la cabeza de una víctima, cuando no hay jerarquías, ni valoraciones, ni justicia. Solo la nítida ajenidad de todos ante la experiencia propia de la vulnerabilidad». Gabriela Wiener, elDiario.es «Belén López Peiró relata el abuso sexual sin ambigüedades, pero con mucha literatura». Mauro Libertella]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fierce-ambition-the-life-and-legend-of-war-correspondent-maggie-higgins-by-jennet-conant--65151041https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714179 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins Author: Jennet Conant Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. While the Herald Tribune exploited her feminine appeal—regularly featuring the photogenic 'girl reporter' on its front pages—it was Maggie's dogged determination, talent for breaking news, and unwavering ambition that brought her success from one war zone to another. Her notoriety soared during the Cold War, and her daring dispatches from Korea garnered a Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence—the first granted to a woman for frontline reporting. A star reporter, she became part of the Kennedy brothers' Washington circle, though her personal alliances and politics provoked bitter feuds with male rivals, who vilified her until her untimely death. Drawing on new and extensive research, journalist and historian Jennet Conant restores Maggie's rightful place in history as a woman who paved the way for the next generation of journalists, and one of the greatest war correspondents of her time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714179Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714179 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins Author: Jennet Conant Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714179 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins Author: Jennet Conant Narrator: Ej Lavery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. While the Herald Tribune exploited her feminine appeal—regularly featuring the photogenic 'girl reporter' on its front pages—it was Maggie's dogged determination, talent for breaking news, and unwavering ambition that brought her success from one war zone to another. Her notoriety soared during the Cold War, and her daring dispatches from Korea garnered a Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence—the first granted to a woman for frontline reporting. A star reporter, she became part of the Kennedy brothers' Washington circle, though her personal alliances and politics provoked bitter feuds with male rivals, who vilified her until her untimely death. Drawing on new and extensive research, journalist and historian Jennet Conant restores Maggie's rightful place in history as a woman who paved the way for the next generation of journalists, and one of the greatest war correspondents of her time.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unbroken-by-indrani-mukerjea--65151004https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbroken Author: Indrani Mukerjea Narrator: Indrani Mukerjea, Vasundhra Bose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: You've seen the headlines and heard the rumours. Now hear the story from the woman who was at the centre of it all. 25 AUGUST 2015 was to be a happy day for Indrani Mukerjea-a birthday celebration had been planned in the family. But everything changed when she was accosted by a group of officers of the Mumbai Police in plain clothes as she exited Anand Ashram that day. The charge: the murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora. As the news spread and more details unravelled, Indrani found herself in the middle of a sensational murder investigation. A fast-expanding list of suspects, the beginnings of a sinister plot, and the strong whiff of scandal-the media had smelt blood. And, soon, Indrani was under the merciless glare of journalists and television anchors, making her a household name. Accusations of filicide, broken marriages, a mighty business empire, the gilded lives of the rich and famous, powerful politicians, and a complicated family-this case had it all. As a constant feed of images and updates from the trial bombarded television screens across the country, people across the country grew more and more curious about this woman who was at the very heart of the controversy and stories swirling around. In her memoir, Unbroken, Indrani doesn't hold back. From her childhood in Guwahati, the time she spent in Calcutta in the 1980s to her meteoric rise as a media baron in Mumbai, the city of dreams, and finally, the 2460 days she spent in Byculla jail as prisoner number 1468-this is her journey, in her own words, for the very first time. Told with unflinching honesty, Indrani's memoir speaks to the fragility of human relationships, the devastating aftermath of betrayal and grief, and the power of human resilience, of a woman who despite it all remains unbroken.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729542Wed, 06 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbroken Author: Indrani Mukerjea Narrator: Indrani Mukerjea, Vasundhra Bose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbroken Author: Indrani Mukerjea Narrator: Indrani Mukerjea, Vasundhra Bose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: You've seen the headlines and heard the rumours. Now hear the story from the woman who was at the centre of it all. 25 AUGUST 2015 was to be a happy day for Indrani Mukerjea-a birthday celebration had been planned in the family. But everything changed when she was accosted by a group of officers of the Mumbai Police in plain clothes as she exited Anand Ashram that day. The charge: the murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora. As the news spread and more details unravelled, Indrani found herself in the middle of a sensational murder investigation. A fast-expanding list of suspects, the beginnings of a sinister plot, and the strong whiff of scandal-the media had smelt blood. And, soon, Indrani was under the merciless glare of journalists and television anchors, making her a household name. Accusations of filicide, broken marriages, a mighty business empire, the gilded lives of the rich and famous, powerful politicians, and a complicated family-this case had it all. As a constant feed of images and updates from the trial bombarded television screens across the country, people across the country grew more and more curious about this woman who was at the very heart of the controversy and stories swirling around. In her memoir, Unbroken, Indrani doesn't hold back. From her childhood in Guwahati, the time she spent in Calcutta in the 1980s to her meteoric rise as a media baron in Mumbai, the city of dreams, and finally, the 2460 days she spent in Byculla jail as prisoner number 1468-this is her journey, in her own words, for the very first time. Told with unflinching honesty, Indrani's memoir speaks to the fragility of human relationships, the devastating aftermath of betrayal and grief, and the power of human resilience, of a woman who despite it all remains unbroken.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jane-austen-the-true-story-of-the-life-times-of-the-great-author-by-liam-dale--65151012https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Austen: The True Story of the Life & Times of the Great Author Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Interested in Jane Austen's life but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hourly history tour of her remarkable story. Ever since her debut novel Sense and Sensibility was anonymously published in 1811, Jane Austen's work has enjoyed lasting popularity. Her themes of love, marriage, and money remain relevant today, often echoed in modern drama. Discover the extraordinary woman behind the beloved characters. Her seemingly quiet life as a country parson's daughter granted her remarkable insight into human nature, still resonating over two centuries later. This tour provides a condensed yet comprehensive look at: - Her family, early years, and relationships - Writings, experiences in Bath, and seaside pleasures - Financial challenges, relocations, and happier years - Literary successes and family tragedies - Her battle with illness, death, and lasting legacy Explore Jane Austen's life in this concise journey, with links for deeper research.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719313Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Austen: The True Story of the Life & Times of the Great Author Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Austen: The True Story of the Life & Times of the Great Author Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Interested in Jane Austen's life but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hourly history tour of her remarkable story. Ever since her debut novel Sense and Sensibility was anonymously published in 1811, Jane Austen's work has enjoyed lasting popularity. Her themes of love, marriage, and money remain relevant today, often echoed in modern drama. Discover the extraordinary woman behind the beloved characters. Her seemingly quiet life as a country parson's daughter granted her remarkable insight into human nature, still resonating over two centuries later. This tour provides a condensed yet comprehensive look at: - Her family, early years, and relationships - Writings, experiences in Bath, and seaside pleasures - Financial challenges, relocations, and happier years - Literary successes and family tragedies - Her battle with illness, death, and lasting legacy Explore Jane Austen's life in this concise journey, with links for deeper research.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/catherine-cookson-the-true-story-of-the-life-time-of-the-great-author-by-liam-dale--65150989https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine Cookson: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Interested in Catherine Cookson, the renowned author, but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for a concise, hourly history tour of her life. Catherine Cookson's name conjures images of a bygone era, as she masterfully depicted her North East England upbringing in her literary works. Often labeled a romantic novelist, her stories offer unique insights into Tyneside life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, transcending traditional love tales. Set against the industrial backdrop of South Shields' Dockyards, Coal Mines, and Northern factories, Cookson's resilient heroines defy poverty's grip. Characters like Kate Hannigan, Tilly Trotter, and Hannah Boyle inspire hope amid adversity that drove others to early graves or perilous paths. Cookson's heroines, strong and determined, often find love with heroic figures from different walks of life, contributing to her romantic reputation and unmatched book sales. Yet, fact sometimes outshines fiction. Explore Catherine Cookson's life: - Her birth, family, and challenging childhood - The Industrial Revolution's impact, alcoholism, and changing landscapes - Interwar years, workhouses, and her departure from the North East - World War II, her love story, miscarriages, and battles with depression - Characters like Kate Hannigan, The Fifteen Streets, and her relationship with her mother - Catherine Marchant, her return to the North East, and lasting legacy Unearth the captivating life and times of Catherine Cookson in this condensed historical journey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719308Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine Cookson: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catherine Cookson: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Interested in Catherine Cookson, the renowned author, but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for a concise, hourly history tour of her life. Catherine Cookson's name conjures images of a bygone era, as she masterfully depicted her North East England upbringing in her literary works. Often labeled a romantic novelist, her stories offer unique insights into Tyneside life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, transcending traditional love tales. Set against the industrial backdrop of South Shields' Dockyards, Coal Mines, and Northern factories, Cookson's resilient heroines defy poverty's grip. Characters like Kate Hannigan, Tilly Trotter, and Hannah Boyle inspire hope amid adversity that drove others to early graves or perilous paths. Cookson's heroines, strong and determined, often find love with heroic figures from different walks of life, contributing to her romantic reputation and unmatched book sales. Yet, fact sometimes outshines fiction. Explore Catherine Cookson's life: - Her birth, family, and challenging childhood - The Industrial Revolution's impact, alcoholism, and changing landscapes - Interwar years, workhouses, and her departure from the North East - World War II, her love story, miscarriages, and battles with depression - Characters like Kate Hannigan, The Fifteen Streets, and her relationship with her mother - Catherine Marchant, her return to the North East, and lasting legacy Unearth the captivating life and times of Catherine Cookson in this condensed historical journey.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-brontes-the-true-story-of-the-life-time-of-the-great-authors-by-liam-dale--65150987https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brontës - The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Authors Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Interested in delving into the lives of the Brontë Sisters but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hourly history tour of their extraordinary lives. The Brontë Sisters stand tall as one of literature's most illustrious families. Their timeless classics, including "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," continue to define English Literature. These novels grace bookstores, libraries, and digital platforms, captivating readers' hearts and minds. Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, along with their brother Branwell and father Patrick, left an indelible mark with their passionate narratives and soul-stirring poetry. Explore: - Patrick and Maria Brontë, and the birth of the Brontë siblings - The Brontës' relocation to Haworth, early losses, and education - Homesickness, the moors, and their governess roles - The creation of "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey," accompanied by Branwell's passing - Ongoing family hardships and the Brontës' rising renown - Charlotte's journey, her demise, and the enduring Brontë legacy]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719317Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brontës - The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Authors Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brontës - The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Authors Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Interested in delving into the lives of the Brontë Sisters but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hourly history tour of their extraordinary lives. The Brontë Sisters stand tall as one of literature's most illustrious families. Their timeless classics, including "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," continue to define English Literature. These novels grace bookstores, libraries, and digital platforms, captivating readers' hearts and minds. Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, along with their brother Branwell and father Patrick, left an indelible mark with their passionate narratives and soul-stirring poetry. Explore: - Patrick and Maria Brontë, and the birth of the Brontë siblings - The Brontës' relocation to Haworth, early losses, and education - Homesickness, the moors, and their governess roles - The creation of "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey," accompanied by Branwell's passing - Ongoing family hardships and the Brontës' rising renown - Charlotte's journey, her demise, and the enduring Brontë legacy]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marie-antoinette-the-true-story-of-the-life-time-of-the-infamous-queen-of-france-by-liam-dale--65150974https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marie Antoinette: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Infamous Queen of France Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Women in history, often queens born or married into power, have diverse narratives. Marie Antoinette, the renowned Queen of France, is a prominent figure who faced both admiration and criticism. Marie Antoinette is typically associated with luxury at Versailles while her subjects endured hardship, epitomized by the phrase "Let them eat cake." However, a deeper look reveals a complex story. In today's world, public figures, including royalty and politicians, endure media scrutiny and varying public opinions. Similarly, Marie Antoinette faced challenges in her time, which ultimately marred her historical reputation. Yet, contemporary historians are reevaluating her legacy, offering alternative perspectives. Discover: - Her life from beginning to end - Insights into her royal lineage - Factors influencing the French Revolution - The grandeur of Versailles - The intriguing diamond necklace affair - Marie Antoinette's final words before the guillotine - Her resting place]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719315Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marie Antoinette: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Infamous Queen of France Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marie Antoinette: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Infamous Queen of France Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Women in history, often queens born or married into power, have diverse narratives. Marie Antoinette, the renowned Queen of France, is a prominent figure who faced both admiration and criticism. Marie Antoinette is typically associated with luxury at Versailles while her subjects endured hardship, epitomized by the phrase "Let them eat cake." However, a deeper look reveals a complex story. In today's world, public figures, including royalty and politicians, endure media scrutiny and varying public opinions. Similarly, Marie Antoinette faced challenges in her time, which ultimately marred her historical reputation. Yet, contemporary historians are reevaluating her legacy, offering alternative perspectives. Discover: - Her life from beginning to end - Insights into her royal lineage - Factors influencing the French Revolution - The grandeur of Versailles - The intriguing diamond necklace affair - Marie Antoinette's final words before the guillotine - Her resting place]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/common-yet-uncommon-14-memorable-stories-from-daily-life-by-sudha-murty--65150961https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Common Yet Uncommon: 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life Author: Sudha Murty Narrator: Pallavi Bharti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox-to be filled with food-wherever she goes!Written in Sudha Murty's inimitable style, Common Yet Uncommon is a heartwarming picture of everyday life and the foibles and quirks of ordinary people. In the fourteen tales that make up the collection, Sudha Murty delves into memories of childhood, life in her hometown and the people she's crossed paths with. These and the other characters who populate the pages of this book do not possess wealth or fame. They are unpolished and outspoken, transparent and magnanimous.Their stories are tales of unvarnished humans, with faults and big hearts.Testament to the unique parlance of a small town, Common Yet Uncommon speaks a universal language of what it means to be human.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741394Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Common Yet Uncommon: 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life Author: Sudha Murty Narrator: Pallavi Bharti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Common Yet Uncommon: 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life Author: Sudha Murty Narrator: Pallavi Bharti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox-to be filled with food-wherever she goes!Written in Sudha Murty's inimitable style, Common Yet Uncommon is a heartwarming picture of everyday life and the foibles and quirks of ordinary people. In the fourteen tales that make up the collection, Sudha Murty delves into memories of childhood, life in her hometown and the people she's crossed paths with. These and the other characters who populate the pages of this book do not possess wealth or fame. They are unpolished and outspoken, transparent and magnanimous.Their stories are tales of unvarnished humans, with faults and big hearts.Testament to the unique parlance of a small town, Common Yet Uncommon speaks a universal language of what it means to be human.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-j-etais-sa-petite-prisonniere-by-jane-elliott--65151019https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - J'étais sa petite prisonnière Author: Jane Elliott Narrator: Laurence Wajntreter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Une enfance volée, une vie brisée : Un témoignage qui a bouleversé le monde entier. Jane n'a que 4 ans quand son cauchemar débute. Son beau-père, un homme violent et terrifiant, commence à abuser d'elle. Viols, coups et sadisme psychologique deviennent le quotidien de la fillette. Elle grandit en restant prisonnière d'une véritable maison des horreurs. Dans le voisinage, tout le monde sait ce qui se passe, mais personne ne dit rien, par lâcheté et par peur. Pour Jane, le cauchemar va durer 17 ans. Jusqu'au jour où elle trouve le courage de s'enfuir. Et de se rendre à la police pour dénoncer son bourreau. C'est alors seulement que, pour Jane, la vie va vraiment commencer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716469Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - J'étais sa petite prisonnière Author: Jane Elliott Narrator: Laurence Wajntreter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - J'étais sa petite prisonnière Author: Jane Elliott Narrator: Laurence Wajntreter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Une enfance volée, une vie brisée : Un témoignage qui a bouleversé le monde entier. Jane n'a que 4 ans quand son cauchemar débute. Son beau-père, un homme violent et terrifiant, commence à abuser d'elle. Viols, coups et sadisme psychologique deviennent le quotidien de la fillette. Elle grandit en restant prisonnière d'une véritable maison des horreurs. Dans le voisinage, tout le monde sait ce qui se passe, mais personne ne dit rien, par lâcheté et par peur. Pour Jane, le cauchemar va durer 17 ans. Jusqu'au jour où elle trouve le courage de s'enfuir. Et de se rendre à la police pour dénoncer son bourreau. C'est alors seulement que, pour Jane, la vie va vraiment commencer.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-s-what-she-said-from-the-stage-to-the-page-vol-1-by-arlene-hosea-karyl-wackerlin-heidi-cordes-jennifer-hays-schottland-leslie-ma--65150944https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That's What She Said: From the Stage to the Page, Vol. 1 Author: Arlene Hosea, Karyl Wackerlin, Heidi Cordes, Jennifer Hays Schottland, Leslie Marinelli, Genevieve Pilon, Jan Colarusso Seeley, Lana Branch, Amy Armstrong, Mary English Enright, Gianina Baker, Casey Wakefield, Uma Kailasam, Jill Pyrz, Kerry Rossow, Jenett Narrator: The Authors Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This book is a celebration of women's stories, and hopefully the first of many. What started as a one-night event in Champaign-Urbana, IL, has grown into annual storytelling events in multiple cities, showcasing dozens of remarkable women who shape their communities. As we celebrate the first ten years of 'That's What She Said,' we wanted to take a moment to look back on all the voices raised, the stories shared, the lives impacted. We wanted to get these stories out to even more women who can benefit from them. That's What She Said: From the Stage to the Page, Vol. 1 features stories by 16 women, developed originally for a live storytelling performance. These women were invited back to share their stories in our first ever published collection by the She Said Press. Each story is read by the author, allowing the listener to experience their unique voice and their powerful, yet relatable journey. These are real women sharing their extraordinatory stories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735762Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That's What She Said: From the Stage to the Page, Vol. 1 Author: Arlene Hosea, Karyl Wackerlin, Heidi Cordes, Jennifer Hays Schottland, Leslie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That's What She Said: From the Stage to the Page, Vol. 1 Author: Arlene Hosea, Karyl Wackerlin, Heidi Cordes, Jennifer Hays Schottland, Leslie Marinelli, Genevieve Pilon, Jan Colarusso Seeley, Lana Branch, Amy Armstrong, Mary English Enright, Gianina Baker, Casey Wakefield, Uma Kailasam, Jill Pyrz, Kerry Rossow, Jenett Narrator: The Authors Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This book is a celebration of women's stories, and hopefully the first of many. What started as a one-night event in Champaign-Urbana, IL, has grown into annual storytelling events in multiple cities, showcasing dozens of remarkable women who shape their communities. As we celebrate the first ten years of 'That's What She Said,' we wanted to take a moment to look back on all the voices raised, the stories shared, the lives impacted. We wanted to get these stories out to even more women who can benefit from them. That's What She Said: From the Stage to the Page, Vol. 1 features stories by 16 women, developed originally for a live storytelling performance. These women were invited back to share their stories in our first ever published collection by the She Said Press. Each story is read by the author, allowing the listener to experience their unique voice and their powerful, yet relatable journey. These are real women sharing their extraordinatory stories.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-reinas-de-leyenda-catalina-de-aragon-isabel-i-de-inglaterra-carlota-de-mexico-catalina-la-grande-y-la-emperatriz-cixi-by-cri--65150953https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Reinas de leyenda: Catalina de Aragón, Isabel I de Inglaterra, Carlota de México, Catalina la Grande y la Emperatriz Cixí Author: Cristina Morató Narrator: Charo Soria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Tras el éxito de Reinas malditas, regresa Cristina Morató con las fascinantes vidas de cinco reinas que dejaron su huella en la Historia. Los retratos oficiales que muestran a las reinas ataviadas con suntuosos vestidos y cubiertas de joyas ocultan unas vidas marcadas por las desdichas y las tragedias personales. Algunas de ellas se encontraban lejos del trono al nacer, pero consiguieron ceñir la corona por derecho propio y no por matrimonio. Isabel I de Inglaterra, hija de Ana Bolena, pasó de ser una princesa bastarda a dar nombre al glorioso siglo en que reinó; Catalina la Grande no dudó en ponerse al frente de un ejército para derrocar a su esposo y dirigir con mano firme el imperio ruso, mientras que la emperatriz Cixí entró en la Ciudad Prohibida como concubina y gobernó China oculta tras una cortina de seda. Hubo también reinas marcadas por la fatalidad que sobrevivieron en un mundo de intrigas: Catalina de Aragón, hija de los Reyes Católicos y primera esposa de Enrique VIII, fue una de las soberanas más amadas de Inglaterra. O la infeliz Carlota de México, una joven y culta princesa belga que se convirtió en emperatriz de México y perdió la razón tras el asesinato de su esposo, Maximiliano de Habsburgo. Déspotas, libertinas, desalmadas, arpías, locas... son solo algunos de los adjetivos que engrosaron la leyenda negra de estas cinco soberanas. Cristina Morató da voz en este libro a las mujeres de carne y hueso que alcanzaron el poder en un mundo de hombres gracias a su inteligencia, valor y fortaleza y nos descubre que los mejores reyes fueron reinas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731587Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Reinas de leyenda: Catalina de Aragón, Isabel I de Inglaterra, Carlota de México, Catalina la Grande y la Emperatriz Cixí Author: Cristina...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Reinas de leyenda: Catalina de Aragón, Isabel I de Inglaterra, Carlota de México, Catalina la Grande y la Emperatriz Cixí Author: Cristina Morató Narrator: Charo Soria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Tras el éxito de Reinas malditas, regresa Cristina Morató con las fascinantes vidas de cinco reinas que dejaron su huella en la Historia. Los retratos oficiales que muestran a las reinas ataviadas con suntuosos vestidos y cubiertas de joyas ocultan unas vidas marcadas por las desdichas y las tragedias personales. Algunas de ellas se encontraban lejos del trono al nacer, pero consiguieron ceñir la corona por derecho propio y no por matrimonio. Isabel I de Inglaterra, hija de Ana Bolena, pasó de ser una princesa bastarda a dar nombre al glorioso siglo en que reinó; Catalina la Grande no dudó en ponerse al frente de un ejército para derrocar a su esposo y dirigir con mano firme el imperio ruso, mientras que la emperatriz Cixí entró en la Ciudad Prohibida como concubina y gobernó China oculta tras una cortina de seda. Hubo también reinas marcadas por la fatalidad que sobrevivieron en un mundo de intrigas: Catalina de Aragón, hija de los Reyes Católicos y primera esposa de Enrique VIII, fue una de las soberanas más amadas de Inglaterra. O la infeliz Carlota de México, una joven y culta princesa belga que se convirtió en emperatriz de México y perdió la razón tras el asesinato de su esposo, Maximiliano de Habsburgo. Déspotas, libertinas, desalmadas, arpías, locas... son solo algunos de los adjetivos que engrosaron la leyenda negra de estas cinco soberanas. Cristina Morató da voz en este libro a las mujeres de carne y hueso que alcanzaron el poder en un mundo de hombres gracias a su inteligencia, valor y fortaleza y nos descubre que los mejores reyes fueron reinas.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-final-year-of-anne-boleyn-by-natalie-grueninger--65151038https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman. The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII's reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne's longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung. In late January 1536, Anne received news that her husband had been thrown from his horse in his tiltyard at Greenwich. Just days later, tragedy struck. As the body of Anne's predecessor, Katherine of Aragon, was being prepared for burial, Anne miscarried her son. The promise of a new beginning dashed, the months that followed were a roller coaster of anguish and hope, marked by betrayal, brutality, and rumor. What began with so much promise, ended in silent dignity, amid a whirlwind of scandal, on a scaffold at the Tower of London. Through close examination of these intriguing events considered in their social and historical context, listeners will gain a fresh perspective into the life and death of the woman behind the tantalizing tale.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman. The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII's reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne's longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung. In late January 1536, Anne received news that her husband had been thrown from his horse in his tiltyard at Greenwich. Just days later, tragedy struck. As the body of Anne's predecessor, Katherine of Aragon, was being prepared for burial, Anne miscarried her son. The promise of a new beginning dashed, the months that followed were a roller coaster of anguish and hope, marked by betrayal, brutality, and rumor. What began with so much promise, ended in silent dignity, amid a whirlwind of scandal, on a scaffold at the Tower of London. Through close examination of these intriguing events considered in their social and historical context, listeners will gain a fresh perspective into the life and death of the woman behind the tantalizing tale.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/barbie-and-ruth-the-story-of-the-world-s-most-famous-doll-and-the-woman-who-created-her-by-robin-gerber--65151029https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her Author: Robin Gerber Narrator: Karen Gundersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Barbie and her creator, the sharp-elbowed gal who built the biggest toy company, have a story to tell.” —Time Barbie and Ruth is the remarkable true story of the world’s most famous toy and the woman who created her. It is a fascinating account of how one visionary woman and her product changed an industry and sparked a lasting debate about women’s roles. At once a business book, a colorful portrait of an extraordinary female entrepreneur, and a breathtaking look at a cultural phenomenon, Barbie and Ruth is a must read for anyone who ever owned a Barbie doll. This is the entwined tale of two exceptional women. One was a voluptuous eleven-inch-tall beauty who debuted at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City and quickly became the treasure of 9 out of 10 American girls and their counterparts in 150 countries. She went on to compete as an Olympic athlete, serve as an air force pilot, work as a boutique owner, run as a presidential candidate, and ignite a cultural firestorm. The other was Ruth Handler, the tenth child of Polish Jewish immigrants. A brilliant, creative, ruthless, and passionately competitive visionary, Ruth was a mother and wife who wanted it all—a masterful entrepreneur who, together with her curvaceous plastic creation, changed American business and culture forever. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705479Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her Author: Robin Gerber Narrator: Karen Gundersen Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her Author: Robin Gerber Narrator: Karen Gundersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Barbie and her creator, the sharp-elbowed gal who built the biggest toy company, have a story to tell.” —Time Barbie and Ruth is the remarkable true story of the world’s most famous toy and the woman who created her. It is a fascinating account of how one visionary woman and her product changed an industry and sparked a lasting debate about women’s roles. At once a business book, a colorful portrait of an extraordinary female entrepreneur, and a breathtaking look at a cultural phenomenon, Barbie and Ruth is a must read for anyone who ever owned a Barbie doll. This is the entwined tale of two exceptional women. One was a voluptuous eleven-inch-tall beauty who debuted at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City and quickly became the treasure of 9 out of 10 American girls and their counterparts in 150 countries. She went on to compete as an Olympic athlete, serve as an air force pilot, work as a boutique owner, run as a presidential candidate, and ignite a cultural firestorm. The other was Ruth Handler, the tenth child of Polish Jewish immigrants. A brilliant, creative, ruthless, and passionately competitive visionary, Ruth was a mother and wife who wanted it all—a masterful entrepreneur who, together with her curvaceous plastic creation, changed American business and culture forever. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/9-lives-by-35-an-olympic-gymnast-s-inspiring-story-of-reinvention-by-mary-sanders--65151023https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 9 Lives by 35: An Olympic Gymnast's Inspiring Story of Reinvention Author: Mary Sanders Narrator: Mary Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Olympic gymnast and Cirque du Soleil acrobat Mary Sanders shares her incredible story of dedication and personal sacrifice that led to success and reinvention. Mary Sanders was handed an Olympic dream by her father from the moment she was born. Determined to follow in his footsteps, the young gymnast struggled through training setbacks, financial hardships, and personal rivalries, under a cloud of grief, to compete in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. But that achievement was only the beginning for a woman determined to reinvent herself and consistently raise her own standards for success. In this revealing memoir, Mary recounts her journey from Olympian to Cirque du Soleil acrobat to entertainment executive working for Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec while balancing life at home with two children. Through it all, no matter what obstacles are thrown in her path, Mary pushes forward, leaning on her faith, her family, and her enduring optimism to support her in each of her nine lives so far.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714416Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 9 Lives by 35: An Olympic Gymnast's Inspiring Story of Reinvention Author: Mary Sanders Narrator: Mary Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 9 Lives by 35: An Olympic Gymnast's Inspiring Story of Reinvention Author: Mary Sanders Narrator: Mary Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Olympic gymnast and Cirque du Soleil acrobat Mary Sanders shares her incredible story of dedication and personal sacrifice that led to success and reinvention. Mary Sanders was handed an Olympic dream by her father from the moment she was born. Determined to follow in his footsteps, the young gymnast struggled through training setbacks, financial hardships, and personal rivalries, under a cloud of grief, to compete in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. But that achievement was only the beginning for a woman determined to reinvent herself and consistently raise her own standards for success. In this revealing memoir, Mary recounts her journey from Olympian to Cirque du Soleil acrobat to entertainment executive working for Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec while balancing life at home with two children. Through it all, no matter what obstacles are thrown in her path, Mary pushes forward, leaning on her faith, her family, and her enduring optimism to support her in each of her nine lives so far.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/skid-dogs-by-emelia-symington-fedy--65150981https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skid Dogs Author: Emelia Symington-Fedy Narrator: Emelia Symington-Fedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of nineties rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of 'best' friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710709Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skid Dogs Author: Emelia Symington-Fedy Narrator: Emelia Symington-Fedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skid Dogs Author: Emelia Symington-Fedy Narrator: Emelia Symington-Fedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of nineties rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of 'best' friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mary-wollstonecraft-godwin-by-elizabeth-robins-pennell--65150959https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Series: Part of Famous Women Series Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Narrator: Joseph Tabler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Dusty Tomes Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885. Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1884. It is in the public domain. Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She has been called Britain’s first feminist. Her daughter Mary Shelley is the author of the novel Frankenstein (1818). This biography was written by Elizabeth Robin Pennell. It was her first book, written before she was thirty. She was married that year to illustrator/artist Joseph Pennell. She wrote many other books: including cycling travels in Europe, art and food criticism, biographies of painter/friend: James Whistler (painter of Whistler’s Mother), folklorist/uncle: Charles Godfrey Leland, and memoirs of her London salon. CONTENTS IntroductionCHAPTER I.— Childhood and Early Youth. 1759–1778CHAPTER II.— First Years of Work. 1778–1785CHAPTER III.— Life as Governess. 1786–1788CHAPTER IV.— Literary Life. 1788–1791CHAPTER V.— Literary Work. 1788–1791 CHAPTER VI. — “Vindication of the Rights of Women'CHAPTER VII.— Visit to Paris. 1792–1793CHAPTER VIII.— Life with Imlay. 1793–1794 CHAPTER IX.— Imlay’s Desertion. 1794–1795CHAPTER X.— Literary Work. 1793–1796CHAPTER XL— Retrospective. 1794–1796CHAPTER XII.— William GodwinCHAPTER XIII.— Life with Godwin: Marriage. 1796–1797CHAPTER XIV.— Last Months: Death Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721909Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Series: Part of Famous Women Series Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Narrator: Joseph Tabler Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/721909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Series: Part of Famous Women Series Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Narrator: Joseph Tabler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Dusty Tomes Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885. Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1884. It is in the public domain. Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She has been called Britain’s first feminist. Her daughter Mary Shelley is the author of the novel Frankenstein (1818). This biography was written by Elizabeth Robin Pennell. It was her first book, written before she was thirty. She was married that year to illustrator/artist Joseph Pennell. She wrote many other books: including cycling travels in Europe, art and food criticism, biographies of painter/friend: James Whistler (painter of Whistler’s Mother), folklorist/uncle: Charles Godfrey Leland, and memoirs of her London salon. CONTENTS IntroductionCHAPTER I.— Childhood and Early Youth. 1759–1778CHAPTER II.— First Years of Work. 1778–1785CHAPTER III.— Life as Governess. 1786–1788CHAPTER IV.— Literary Life. 1788–1791CHAPTER V.— Literary Work. 1788–1791 CHAPTER VI. — “Vindication of the Rights of Women'CHAPTER VII.— Visit to Paris. 1792–1793CHAPTER VIII.— Life with Imlay. 1793–1794 CHAPTER IX.— Imlay’s Desertion. 1794–1795CHAPTER X.— Literary Work. 1793–1796CHAPTER XL— Retrospective. 1794–1796CHAPTER XII.— William GodwinCHAPTER XIII.— Life with Godwin: Marriage. 1796–1797CHAPTER XIV.— Last Months: Death Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-own-story-by-emmeline-pankhurst--65151010https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Story Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Lillian Rachel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Emmeline Pankhurst was a fierce campaigner for the rights of women, enduring hardship, prison, and male entitlement in her fight for equality. Here, Pankhurst tells her story in her own words, describing how the girl of fourteen who attended her first suffragette meeting became a woman the world would remember as an unrelenting and courageous activist for the rights of women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719192Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Story Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Lillian Rachel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Story Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Lillian Rachel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Emmeline Pankhurst was a fierce campaigner for the rights of women, enduring hardship, prison, and male entitlement in her fight for equality. Here, Pankhurst tells her story in her own words, describing how the girl of fourteen who attended her first suffragette meeting became a woman the world would remember as an unrelenting and courageous activist for the rights of women.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-ano-del-pensamiento-magico-by-joan-didion--65151005https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El año del pensamiento mágico Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Nuria Pérez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 16, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Unas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a través de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el duelo y la crónica de una supervivencia. El año del pensamiento mágico obtuvo el National Book Award en 2005. Reseñas: «Llena de detalles y de una deslumbrante honestidad [...], un retrato indeleble de la pérdida y el luto.» Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Un acto consumado de valentía literaria, una escritora reconocida por su claridad que nos permite entrar en su mente mientras esta se nubla por el luto.» Lev Grossman, Time «Un libro que, repitiendo el tópico, se lee 'como una novela' y cuya tensión sale de las entrañas de un ser herido pero dotado con una excepcional capacidad analítica y expresiva.» El Cultural «En una cultura donde la elaboración de los sentimientos [...] ha sido rescindida por una prohibición directa a través de la vergüenza o por el 'deber ético del goce' [...], el libro de Didion duplica el valor del testimonio y de la invitación que lanza a un mundo de bobos emocionales técnicamente competentes.» El Mundo «El libro es un intento de trascender el estupor y sinsentido en que nos deja sumidos el dolor cuando experimentamos la muerte de alguien muy cercano.» Eduardo Lago, Babelia, El País]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720878Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El año del pensamiento mágico Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Nuria Pérez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El año del pensamiento mágico Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Nuria Pérez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 16, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Unas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a través de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el duelo y la crónica de una supervivencia. El año del pensamiento mágico obtuvo el National Book Award en 2005. Reseñas: «Llena de detalles y de una deslumbrante honestidad [...], un retrato indeleble de la pérdida y el luto.» Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Un acto consumado de valentía literaria, una escritora reconocida por su claridad que nos permite entrar en su mente mientras esta se nubla por el luto.» Lev Grossman, Time «Un libro que, repitiendo el tópico, se lee 'como una novela' y cuya tensión sale de las entrañas de un ser herido pero dotado con una excepcional capacidad analítica y expresiva.» El Cultural «En una cultura donde la elaboración de los sentimientos [...] ha sido rescindida por una prohibición directa a través de la vergüenza o por el 'deber ético del goce' [...], el libro de Didion duplica el valor del testimonio y de la invitación que lanza a un mundo de bobos emocionales técnicamente competentes.» El Mundo «El libro es un intento de trascender el estupor y sinsentido en que nos deja sumidos el dolor cuando experimentamos la muerte de alguien muy cercano.» Eduardo Lago, Babelia, El País]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alone-in-wonderland-by-christine-reed--65151040https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alone in Wonderland Author: Christine Reed Narrator: Christine Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Indie National Excellence Award for Nonfiction Category. Christine discovered long distance backpacking while surfing the internet at work. She decided that day to attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. One adventure led to another and a few years later she set out on the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park. Her Rugged Outdoors Woman persona started as a joke, a nod to the outdoor adventurer that she wished to be. But in the years since, she has come into her own as a backpacker, rock climber, and trail runner. This book is a testament to the decision to name who you want to be and make it so.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705013Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alone in Wonderland Author: Christine Reed Narrator: Christine Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 31,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705013 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alone in Wonderland Author: Christine Reed Narrator: Christine Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Indie National Excellence Award for Nonfiction Category. Christine discovered long distance backpacking while surfing the internet at work. She decided that day to attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. One adventure led to another and a few years later she set out on the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park. Her Rugged Outdoors Woman persona started as a joke, a nod to the outdoor adventurer that she wished to be. But in the years since, she has come into her own as a backpacker, rock climber, and trail runner. This book is a testament to the decision to name who you want to be and make it so.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/these-broken-roads-scammed-and-vindicated-one-woman-s-story-by-donna-marie-hayes--65150999https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman's Story Author: Donna Marie Hayes Narrator: Donna Marie Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Donna Hayes had fortitude and smarts. At the top of her game, thriving in New York City no less, her career was soaring on Wall Street, and she was starring in her own one woman show off Broadway. To be scammed by a man she had met on a dating app shocked and shamed her. In Jamaica as a child, death had come for Hayes three times. Each time she survived it. Every day she dreamed of going to America and joining her family. When she was fourteen, her mother sent for her. Donna's elation was soon offset by the challenges of her new life. From her mother's strict church to an early marriage, single motherhood, and a second disastrous and abusive marriage, when Donna escaped, she vowed to never again subject herself to relationships and people who harmed her. Then Hayes met the man of her dreams on a dating site. Before long, he proposed and tattooed her initials in large bold letters across his chest. But $177,000 later, it all fell apart. Hayes learned that she had been a target from the beginning. Suddenly, her financial independence was at risk. This is the story of how that woman rose yet again to find her power, making the scam the last run along the broken roads of her past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710750Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman's Story Author: Donna Marie Hayes Narrator: Donna Marie Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710750 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman's Story Author: Donna Marie Hayes Narrator: Donna Marie Hayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Donna Hayes had fortitude and smarts. At the top of her game, thriving in New York City no less, her career was soaring on Wall Street, and she was starring in her own one woman show off Broadway. To be scammed by a man she had met on a dating app shocked and shamed her. In Jamaica as a child, death had come for Hayes three times. Each time she survived it. Every day she dreamed of going to America and joining her family. When she was fourteen, her mother sent for her. Donna's elation was soon offset by the challenges of her new life. From her mother's strict church to an early marriage, single motherhood, and a second disastrous and abusive marriage, when Donna escaped, she vowed to never again subject herself to relationships and people who harmed her. Then Hayes met the man of her dreams on a dating site. Before long, he proposed and tattooed her initials in large bold letters across his chest. But $177,000 later, it all fell apart. Hayes learned that she had been a target from the beginning. Suddenly, her financial independence was at risk. This is the story of how that woman rose yet again to find her power, making the scam the last run along the broken roads of her past.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-woman-they-wanted-shattering-the-illusion-of-the-good-christian-wife-by-shannon-harris--65150991https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife Author: Shannon Harris Narrator: Shannon Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris's secular upbringing prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. Soon Joshua's bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye helped inspire a national purity movement, and Shannon's identity became 'pastor's wife.' The Woman They Wanted recounts Shannon's remarkable experience inside Big Church—where she was asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades—and her subsequent journey out of that world and into a more authentic version of herself. Entering conservative American Christianity was like being drawn out to sea, she writes, inexorable and all consuming. Slowly, her worldview was narrowed, her motivations questioned, her behavior examined, until she had been whittled down to an idealized version of femininity envisioned as an extension of her husband and the church. However, when Sovereign Grace Ministries fell apart due to leadership conflicts and Shannon found herself outside church circles for the first time in years, she heard her intuition calling to her again. As she began to shake off the fog of depression and confusion, that voice grew louder. In honoring it, she awakened to the realities in which she had been trapped and found her truest self.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703629Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife Author: Shannon Harris Narrator: Shannon Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife Author: Shannon Harris Narrator: Shannon Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris's secular upbringing prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. Soon Joshua's bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye helped inspire a national purity movement, and Shannon's identity became 'pastor's wife.' The Woman They Wanted recounts Shannon's remarkable experience inside Big Church—where she was asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades—and her subsequent journey out of that world and into a more authentic version of herself. Entering conservative American Christianity was like being drawn out to sea, she writes, inexorable and all consuming. Slowly, her worldview was narrowed, her motivations questioned, her behavior examined, until she had been whittled down to an idealized version of femininity envisioned as an extension of her husband and the church. However, when Sovereign Grace Ministries fell apart due to leadership conflicts and Shannon found herself outside church circles for the first time in years, she heard her intuition calling to her again. As she began to shake off the fog of depression and confusion, that voice grew louder. In honoring it, she awakened to the realities in which she had been trapped and found her truest self.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/princess-diana-by-liam-dale--65150986https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Explore the captivating life of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, through "Princess Diana: The True Story of the Life and Time of Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales". If you're curious about Princess Diana but don't have the time to dive into extensive biographies, let The History Journals take you on an hour-by-hour historical journey of her remarkable life. While fairy tales promise happily-ever-afters, real life often takes unexpected turns. Even amidst the spotlight of modern media, reality rarely unfolds exactly as planned. Such was the reality of Diana Spencer's life. Her journey was far from conventional, and her untimely death marked a poignant chapter in royal family history. However, as the years have passed, Diana's memory has transcended her lifetime, continuing to inspire each new generation. This hourly history tour offers a succinct yet insightful glimpse into the life of a woman whose impact and legacy have endured beyond her years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Explore the captivating life of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, through "Princess Diana: The True Story of the Life and Time of Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales". If you're curious about Princess Diana but don't have the time to dive into extensive biographies, let The History Journals take you on an hour-by-hour historical journey of her remarkable life. While fairy tales promise happily-ever-afters, real life often takes unexpected turns. Even amidst the spotlight of modern media, reality rarely unfolds exactly as planned. Such was the reality of Diana Spencer's life. Her journey was far from conventional, and her untimely death marked a poignant chapter in royal family history. However, as the years have passed, Diana's memory has transcended her lifetime, continuing to inspire each new generation. This hourly history tour offers a succinct yet insightful glimpse into the life of a woman whose impact and legacy have endured beyond her years.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mary-queen-of-scots-by-liam-dale--65150975https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Delve into the captivating life and times of Mary Stuart of Scotland in "Mary Queen of Scots: The True Story of the Life & Time of Mary Stuart of Scotland." Among the few women in history who have endured the trials of time, the ill-fated tale of Mary Queen of Scots continues to captivate and intrigue. This 16th-century figure's story is one of enduring interest, a narrative that has woven its way through the centuries. Who was Mary Stuart, and how did her life shape the history of Great Britain? Uncover the intricate tale of her tumultuous relationship with her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, a relationship that ultimately sealed her tragic fate. In different circumstances, these two women might have been allies, but the course of events led to a very different outcome. When the Queen of England signed Mary's death warrant, the Queen of Scots, clothed in blood-red, faced her final moments beneath the executioner's axe. The saga of Mary Stuart serves as a riveting chapter in history, and this exploration provides a glimpse into the complexities of her life and her enduring impact on the annals of history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Delve into the captivating life and times of Mary Stuart of Scotland in "Mary Queen of Scots: The True Story of the Life & Time of Mary Stuart of Scotland." Among the few women in history who have endured the trials of time, the ill-fated tale of Mary Queen of Scots continues to captivate and intrigue. This 16th-century figure's story is one of enduring interest, a narrative that has woven its way through the centuries. Who was Mary Stuart, and how did her life shape the history of Great Britain? Uncover the intricate tale of her tumultuous relationship with her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, a relationship that ultimately sealed her tragic fate. In different circumstances, these two women might have been allies, but the course of events led to a very different outcome. When the Queen of England signed Mary's death warrant, the Queen of Scots, clothed in blood-red, faced her final moments beneath the executioner's axe. The saga of Mary Stuart serves as a riveting chapter in history, and this exploration provides a glimpse into the complexities of her life and her enduring impact on the annals of history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-mujer-que-soy-by-britney-spears--65151034https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La mujer que soy Author: Britney Spears Narrator: Carolina Ayala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 64 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ganadora del premio Goodreads Choice Award 2023 a la mejor memoria y autobiografía. Elegido como mejor libro del año 2023 por ELLE, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, The New Statesmen y The New Yorker, entre otros. «En sus memorias, Britney Spears se muestra más fuerte que nunca…» New York Times La mujer que soy es una historia valiente y asombrosamente conmovedora sobre la libertad, la fama, la maternidad, la supervivencia, la fe y la esperanza. En junio de 2021, el mundo entero escuchó hablar a Britney Spears en una audiencia pública. El impacto que causó al compartir su voz, su verdad, fue innegable, y cambió el rumbo de su vida y el de la de infinidad de personas. La mujer que soy revela por primera vez la increíble peripecia vital y la fuerza interior de una de las mejores artistas de la historia de la música pop. Escritas con una franqueza y un humor extraordinarios, las impactantes memorias de Spears ilustran el poder imperecedero de la música y el amor, y la importancia de que una mujer, por fin, cuente su propia historia, en sus propios términos. La crítica ha dicho: «Emotivo». Time «Impactante». Independent «Un milagro». Guardian «Conmovedor». Vogue «Britney Spears no esconde nada en estas memorias cortas, agridulces y extremadamente poderosas». Telegraph «En sus memorias, Britney Spears se muestra más fuerte que nunca… La mujer que soy presenta su historia de una forma tan limpia, tan cándida, que parece diseñado para leerse en una sentada. Es casi imposible salir de esta historia sin empatizar con Spears y sentir una rabia inmensa en su nombre. El resentimiento que dirige hacia las terribles circunstancias que ha sufrido a lo largo de más de una década se atenúa gracias a su constante e insistente optimismo». New York Times «Las explosivas confesiones de esta biografía han dado mucho que hablar… No obstante, mucho más interesantes son las sutiles confesiones que nos ofrece sobre sí misma… Spears siempre ha sido graciosa e inequívocamente auténtica, incluso cuando recuerda lo mal que la han tratado la mayoría de los hombres de su vida… [En estas memorias] puedes sentir cómo Spears recupera el poder que le arrebataron paso a paso. La mujer que soy es un digno acto de resurrección». Los Angeles Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708423Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La mujer que soy Author: Britney Spears Narrator: Carolina Ayala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La mujer que soy Author: Britney Spears Narrator: Carolina Ayala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 64 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ganadora del premio Goodreads Choice Award 2023 a la mejor memoria y autobiografía. Elegido como mejor libro del año 2023 por ELLE, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, The New Statesmen y The New Yorker, entre otros. «En sus memorias, Britney Spears se muestra más fuerte que nunca…» New York Times La mujer que soy es una historia valiente y asombrosamente conmovedora sobre la libertad, la fama, la maternidad, la supervivencia, la fe y la esperanza. En junio de 2021, el mundo entero escuchó hablar a Britney Spears en una audiencia pública. El impacto que causó al compartir su voz, su verdad, fue innegable, y cambió el rumbo de su vida y el de la de infinidad de personas. La mujer que soy revela por primera vez la increíble peripecia vital y la fuerza interior de una de las mejores artistas de la historia de la música pop. Escritas con una franqueza y un humor extraordinarios, las impactantes memorias de Spears ilustran el poder imperecedero de la música y el amor, y la importancia de que una mujer, por fin, cuente su propia historia, en sus propios términos. La crítica ha dicho: «Emotivo». Time «Impactante». Independent «Un milagro». Guardian «Conmovedor». Vogue «Britney Spears no esconde nada en estas memorias cortas, agridulces y extremadamente poderosas». Telegraph «En sus memorias, Britney Spears se muestra más fuerte que nunca… La mujer que soy presenta su historia de una forma tan limpia, tan cándida, que parece diseñado para leerse en una sentada. Es casi imposible salir de esta historia sin empatizar con Spears y sentir una rabia inmensa en su nombre. El resentimiento que dirige hacia las terribles circunstancias que ha sufrido a lo largo de más de una década se atenúa gracias a su constante e insistente optimismo». New York Times «Las explosivas confesiones de esta biografía han dado mucho que hablar… No obstante, mucho más interesantes son las sutiles confesiones que nos ofrece sobre sí misma… Spears siempre ha sido graciosa e inequívocamente auténtica, incluso cuando recuerda lo mal que la han tratado la mayoría de los hombres de su vida… [En estas memorias] puedes sentir cómo Spears recupera el poder que le arrebataron paso a paso. La mujer que soy es un digno acto de resurrección». Los Angeles Times]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-las-genealogias-by-margo-glantz--65150993https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las genealogías Author: Margo Glantz Narrator: Vero Garrido Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: «Margo Glantz ha sabido recrear toda la magia de estas vidas en su relato, [...] y, sobre todas las cosas, ha logrado crear una forma fluida y rigurosa, la única que admite el abismo genealógico.» -Sergio Pitol Toda inmigración conlleva una paradoja: la amenaza de la pérdida de las tradiciones y de valores propios para adaptarse a una cultura diferente; y la esperanza de continuar y evolucionar la cultura a la que se pertenece en un territorio ajeno al de nuestro nacimiento. Autobiografía familiar, Las genealogías rastrea los orígenes centroeuropeos de los Glantz, sigue los pasos de la forzada peregrinación, asiste al arraigo y al florecimiento en el suelo de México, todo desde la perspectiva fervorosa y asombrada de la autora, que da testimonio de la epopeya de los suyos y se suma a ella como protagonista. Un testimonio emotivo que recupera los orígenes de una familia judía en México.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718926Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las genealogías Author: Margo Glantz Narrator: Vero Garrido Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: October 26,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/718926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las genealogías Author: Margo Glantz Narrator: Vero Garrido Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: «Margo Glantz ha sabido recrear toda la magia de estas vidas en su relato, [...] y, sobre todas las cosas, ha logrado crear una forma fluida y rigurosa, la única que admite el abismo genealógico.» -Sergio Pitol Toda inmigración conlleva una paradoja: la amenaza de la pérdida de las tradiciones y de valores propios para adaptarse a una cultura diferente; y la esperanza de continuar y evolucionar la cultura a la que se pertenece en un territorio ajeno al de nuestro nacimiento. Autobiografía familiar, Las genealogías rastrea los orígenes centroeuropeos de los Glantz, sigue los pasos de la forzada peregrinación, asiste al arraigo y al florecimiento en el suelo de México, todo desde la perspectiva fervorosa y asombrada de la autora, que da testimonio de la epopeya de los suyos y se suma a ella como protagonista. Un testimonio emotivo que recupera los orígenes de una familia judía en México.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-jil-sander-eine-annaherung-ungekurzt-by-maria-wiesner--65151030https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Jil Sander – Eine Annäherung (ungekürzt) Author: Maria Wiesner Narrator: Irina Scholz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ÜBER ENTWÜRFE, DIE NICHT NUR DIE MODEWELT REVOLUTIONIERTEN Jil Sander ist die bekannteste Modedesignerin Deutschlands. In einer Zeit, in der Frauen nur mit Erlaubnis ihrer Ehemänner ein Konto eröffnen und arbeiten durften, begann sie Mode zu entwerfen, die nichts mehr mit den biederen Rollenbildern der Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahre gemein hatte. Mit ihren minimalistischen Entwürfen schuf Jil Sander den neuen Look der modernen berufstätigen Frau: lässig, erfolgreich, selbstbewusst. 1989 brachte Jil Sander ihre Firma an die Börse und wurde damit in Deutschland die erste Frau im Vorstand eines Aktienunternehmens. Sie selbst stand immer für die Glaubwürdigkeit ihrer Marke, deren Botschaft sich bis heute trägt. Ihre Entwürfe sind zeitlose Klassiker; Jil Sander selbst beindruckt durch ihre anhaltende Unaufgeregtheit und zielsicheres Understatement. Was können wir von ihr lernen? Mit Respekt und Bewunderung nähert sich die Journalistin Maria Wiesner Jil Sander und ihrem Lebenswerk. Ein Buch über eine Visionärin, die ihresgleichen sucht.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716914Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Jil Sander – Eine Annäherung (ungekürzt) Author: Maria Wiesner Narrator: Irina Scholz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716914 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Jil Sander – Eine Annäherung (ungekürzt) Author: Maria Wiesner Narrator: Irina Scholz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ÜBER ENTWÜRFE, DIE NICHT NUR DIE MODEWELT REVOLUTIONIERTEN Jil Sander ist die bekannteste Modedesignerin Deutschlands. In einer Zeit, in der Frauen nur mit Erlaubnis ihrer Ehemänner ein Konto eröffnen und arbeiten durften, begann sie Mode zu entwerfen, die nichts mehr mit den biederen Rollenbildern der Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahre gemein hatte. Mit ihren minimalistischen Entwürfen schuf Jil Sander den neuen Look der modernen berufstätigen Frau: lässig, erfolgreich, selbstbewusst. 1989 brachte Jil Sander ihre Firma an die Börse und wurde damit in Deutschland die erste Frau im Vorstand eines Aktienunternehmens. Sie selbst stand immer für die Glaubwürdigkeit ihrer Marke, deren Botschaft sich bis heute trägt. Ihre Entwürfe sind zeitlose Klassiker; Jil Sander selbst beindruckt durch ihre anhaltende Unaufgeregtheit und zielsicheres Understatement. Was können wir von ihr lernen? Mit Respekt und Bewunderung nähert sich die Journalistin Maria Wiesner Jil Sander und ihrem Lebenswerk. Ein Buch über eine Visionärin, die ihresgleichen sucht.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/out-at-the-plate-the-dot-wilkinson-story-by-lynn-ames--65151039https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story Author: Lynn Ames Narrator: Stephanie Németh-Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by itself would be impressive. The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it. Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate, told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703461Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story Author: Lynn Ames Narrator: Stephanie Németh-Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story Author: Lynn Ames Narrator: Stephanie Németh-Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by itself would be impressive. The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it. Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate, told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-a-way-taking-the-impossible-and-making-it-possible-by-siri-lindley--65150985https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding a Way: Taking the Impossible and Making it Possible Author: Siri Lindley Narrator: Siri Lindley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Siri Lindley wanted to be a world champion triathlete . . . even though she didn't know how to swim. She wanted to love and be loved . . . even though her father shunned her because she was gay. She wanted to savor every day and enjoy the life she'd made with her wife, her career, and her passion for horses . . . even though in November 2019 she was diagnosed with a rare—and usually fatal—form of acute myeloid leukemia. Every time Siri has faced what seemed impossible, she found a way to not only survive the situation, but to thrive within it. Today, she's cancer free, a triathlon world champion, happily married, and one of the most popular coaches and motivational speakers in the world. Finding a Way is her life-giving guide for listeners who are feeling stuck between the life they want to live and the life that they're living now. This book gives you the tools and strategies you need to find a way through your struggles and on to triumph. You have everything you need inside of you to do this. You get to go first in deciding what story you want to live in any moment. You get to go first in deciding what is possible for you, what you are capable of, and what life's challenges will mean for you.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705005Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding a Way: Taking the Impossible and Making it Possible Author: Siri Lindley Narrator: Siri Lindley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding a Way: Taking the Impossible and Making it Possible Author: Siri Lindley Narrator: Siri Lindley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Siri Lindley wanted to be a world champion triathlete . . . even though she didn't know how to swim. She wanted to love and be loved . . . even though her father shunned her because she was gay. She wanted to savor every day and enjoy the life she'd made with her wife, her career, and her passion for horses . . . even though in November 2019 she was diagnosed with a rare—and usually fatal—form of acute myeloid leukemia. Every time Siri has faced what seemed impossible, she found a way to not only survive the situation, but to thrive within it. Today, she's cancer free, a triathlon world champion, happily married, and one of the most popular coaches and motivational speakers in the world. Finding a Way is her life-giving guide for listeners who are feeling stuck between the life they want to live and the life that they're living now. This book gives you the tools and strategies you need to find a way through your struggles and on to triumph. You have everything you need inside of you to do this. You get to go first in deciding what story you want to live in any moment. You get to go first in deciding what is possible for you, what you are capable of, and what life's challenges will mean for you.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-schambereich-uber-sex-sprechen-ungekurzt-by-christine-koschmieder--65151001https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schambereich - Über Sex sprechen (ungekürzt) Author: Christine Koschmieder Narrator: Christine Koschmieder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Exkursion ins Sumpfgebiet unserer Seele Nach dem Erfolg von 'Dry' schreibt Christine Koschmieder über Sex und Intimität. Persönlich, mutig und lustig erkundet sie die Körpererfahrungen, die sie und andere Frauen im Lauf ihres Lebens gemacht haben. Gerade hat sie die Suchtklinik verlassen, da steht Christine Koschmieder vor einer neuen Herausforderung: Bisher hatte sie Sex meistens mit Hilfe von Alkohol. Aber wie lassen sich Intimität, Liebe und Sex ohne Betäubung erfahren? Und woher kommt ihre Angst vor Nähe eigentlich? Aus ihrer Biografie, aus unserer Kultur, oder ist sie einfach da? Mit 50 Jahren begibt sich Christine Koschmieder auf eine Exkursion ins 'Sumpfgebiet unserer Seele'. Sie besucht Freundinnen, Ex-Lover und eine Sexualtherapeutin. Sie befragt sich und andere nach Nacktheit und Erregung, Grenzsetzung, Pornographie, OnlyFans und Selbstermächtigung. Sie folgt den Spuren, die ihre Beziehungen hinterlassen haben. Am Ende weiß ihr Kopf fast alles, aber ihr Körper noch nicht. Und dann fängt das eigentliche Abenteuer der Intimität an. 'Ich hatte Sex, und ich habe drei Geburten und zwei Abtreibungen hinter mir. Ich kenne also meinen Körper. Was ich allerdings bis heute nicht gut kann: körperliche Nähe herzustellen und eine Sprache dafür zu finden. Das will ich jetzt ändern.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711138Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schambereich - Über Sex sprechen (ungekürzt) Author: Christine Koschmieder Narrator: Christine Koschmieder Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schambereich - Über Sex sprechen (ungekürzt) Author: Christine Koschmieder Narrator: Christine Koschmieder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Exkursion ins Sumpfgebiet unserer Seele Nach dem Erfolg von 'Dry' schreibt Christine Koschmieder über Sex und Intimität. Persönlich, mutig und lustig erkundet sie die Körpererfahrungen, die sie und andere Frauen im Lauf ihres Lebens gemacht haben. Gerade hat sie die Suchtklinik verlassen, da steht Christine Koschmieder vor einer neuen Herausforderung: Bisher hatte sie Sex meistens mit Hilfe von Alkohol. Aber wie lassen sich Intimität, Liebe und Sex ohne Betäubung erfahren? Und woher kommt ihre Angst vor Nähe eigentlich? Aus ihrer Biografie, aus unserer Kultur, oder ist sie einfach da? Mit 50 Jahren begibt sich Christine Koschmieder auf eine Exkursion ins 'Sumpfgebiet unserer Seele'. Sie besucht Freundinnen, Ex-Lover und eine Sexualtherapeutin. Sie befragt sich und andere nach Nacktheit und Erregung, Grenzsetzung, Pornographie, OnlyFans und Selbstermächtigung. Sie folgt den Spuren, die ihre Beziehungen hinterlassen haben. Am Ende weiß ihr Kopf fast alles, aber ihr Körper noch nicht. Und dann fängt das eigentliche Abenteuer der Intimität an. 'Ich hatte Sex, und ich habe drei Geburten und zwei Abtreibungen hinter mir. Ich kenne also meinen Körper. Was ich allerdings bis heute nicht gut kann: körperliche Nähe herzustellen und eine Sprache dafür zu finden. Das will ich jetzt ändern.']]>185ber,rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/russian-simvol-velikoj-epohi-lubov-orlova-by-aleksandr-hort--65150956https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Символ великой эпохи. Любовь Орлова Author: александр хорт Narrator: станислав федосов Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Народной артистке СССР Любови Петровне Орловой (1902 - 1975) довелось стать первой советской кинозвездой, любимицей нескольких поколений зрителей. В избытке наделённая красотой, талантом, обожанием публики и вниманием мужчин, она, тем не менее, не смогла избежать ни житейских драм, ни творческих неудач. Актриса тщательно оберегала свою жизнь от вмешательства посторонних, поэтому её биография по-прежнему хранит немало тайн. В своей книге писатель и журналист Александр Хорт рассказывает об Орловой без дешевой сенсационности, кропотливо составляя её портрет из мозаики документов, ролей и воспоминаний множества знавших её людей. Содержание: Введение Часть 1. В поисках самой себя Глава 1. Девочка из хорошей семьи Глава 2. Ошибка молодости Глава 3. Призрак оперетты Глава 4. Исчезнувшая американка Часть 2. Золушки на конвейере Глава 5. Поющий пастух и поющая молочница Глава 6. Грустные дни «Веселых ребят» Глава 7. «Цирк» приехал Глава 8. «Орловские рысаки» Глава 9. Кольцо и лампа Глава 10. Предшественница Артура Хейли Часть 3. Свет «Юпитеров» Глава 11. Марион Диксон развлекает купцов Глава 12. С запада на восток Глава 13. Невоеннообязанный полковник Глава 14. Дистиллированная «Весна» Глава 15. Ответы без вопросов Глава 16. Очаровательная шпионка Глава 17. Музыкальная история Глава 18. Русская, француженка, норвежка Глава 19. Небесная идея Глава 20. Морально устойчива Глава 21. Холостой выстрел Глава 22. Министр без портфеля Глава 23. Музей Орловой Хронология]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742753Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Символ великой эпохи. Любовь Орлова Author: александр хорт Narrator: станислав федосов Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Символ великой эпохи. Любовь Орлова Author: александр хорт Narrator: станислав федосов Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Народной артистке СССР Любови Петровне Орловой (1902 - 1975) довелось стать первой советской кинозвездой, любимицей нескольких поколений зрителей. В избытке наделённая красотой, талантом, обожанием публики и вниманием мужчин, она, тем не менее, не смогла избежать ни житейских драм, ни творческих неудач. Актриса тщательно оберегала свою жизнь от вмешательства посторонних, поэтому её биография по-прежнему хранит немало тайн. В своей книге писатель и журналист Александр Хорт рассказывает об Орловой без дешевой сенсационности, кропотливо составляя её портрет из мозаики документов, ролей и воспоминаний множества знавших её людей. Содержание: Введение Часть 1. В поисках самой себя Глава 1. Девочка из хорошей семьи Глава 2. Ошибка молодости Глава 3. Призрак оперетты Глава 4. Исчезнувшая американка Часть 2. Золушки на конвейере Глава 5. Поющий пастух и поющая молочница Глава 6. Грустные дни «Веселых ребят» Глава 7. «Цирк» приехал Глава 8. «Орловские рысаки» Глава 9. Кольцо и лампа Глава 10. Предшественница Артура Хейли Часть 3. Свет «Юпитеров» Глава 11. Марион Диксон развлекает купцов Глава 12. С запада на восток Глава 13. Невоеннообязанный полковник Глава 14. Дистиллированная «Весна» Глава 15. Ответы без вопросов Глава 16. Очаровательная шпионка Глава 17. Музыкальная история Глава 18. Русская, француженка, норвежка Глава 19. Небесная идея Глава 20. Морально устойчива Глава 21. Холостой выстрел Глава 22. Министр без портфеля Глава 23. Музей Орловой Хронология]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-power-of-days-a-story-of-resilience-dignity-and-the-fight-for-women-s-equity-by-celeste-mergens--65151035https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women's Equity Author: Celeste Mergens Narrator: Celeste Mergens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month. This set into motion a simple idea—combining a washable, long-lasting pad with taboo-breaking education—that became a catalyst for an unlikely global movement for equity. Written in short, evocative chapters, The Power of Days tells the story of Mergens's quest to rally a global response to elevate menstrual health, increase universal access to menstrual supplies, shatter stigma through education, and advocate for global policy change. Raised in poverty by a mentally ill parent, Mergens learned early on that building the life she wanted would take equal parts determination and humility, traits that led her to create the kinds of inclusive conversations and solutions she is known for around the globe. The challenges Mergens faced and the lessons she learned, personally and professionally, and the triumphs and resourcefulness of leaders all over the globe are illuminating to all who wish to make a difference and create a more equitable world. This enhanced audio recording features an audio-exclusive Q&A between Days for Girls cofounders Celeste and Don Mergens.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703628Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women's Equity Author: Celeste Mergens Narrator: Celeste Mergens Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women's Equity Author: Celeste Mergens Narrator: Celeste Mergens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month. This set into motion a simple idea—combining a washable, long-lasting pad with taboo-breaking education—that became a catalyst for an unlikely global movement for equity. Written in short, evocative chapters, The Power of Days tells the story of Mergens's quest to rally a global response to elevate menstrual health, increase universal access to menstrual supplies, shatter stigma through education, and advocate for global policy change. Raised in poverty by a mentally ill parent, Mergens learned early on that building the life she wanted would take equal parts determination and humility, traits that led her to create the kinds of inclusive conversations and solutions she is known for around the globe. The challenges Mergens faced and the lessons she learned, personally and professionally, and the triumphs and resourcefulness of leaders all over the globe are illuminating to all who wish to make a difference and create a more equitable world. This enhanced audio recording features an audio-exclusive Q&A between Days for Girls cofounders Celeste and Don Mergens.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-heart-of-a-cheetah-by-magatte-wade--65151033https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of A Cheetah Author: Magatte Wade Narrator: Magatte Wade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Experience the life story of Magatte Wade - the bold Senegalese entrepreneur and unflinching prosperity activist, determined to shape the destiny of her African homeland. In this riveting memoir, Wade challenges Africans to redefine their narrative, casting aside imposed inferiority to reclaim their innate brilliance. This is not a recounting of poverty and politics. It's an indictment of a world that views Africa as nothing more than a colonial chessboard, with charity acting as the block that keeps Africans stuck. The surprising truth: Africa’s problems are NOT due to colonialism, corruption, bad leadership, poor skills, or a lack of education. It’s something much bigger, and yet it’s only been visible to entrepreneurs… until now. Join the movement for Africa's rightful place in the 21st-century: fostering innovation, earning prosperity, and growing into an economic powerhouse. Wade's impassioned voice promises nothing less than the dawn of a new era, poised to reshape history, create prosperity and peace, and unleash Africa’s bright future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717271Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of A Cheetah Author: Magatte Wade Narrator: Magatte Wade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of A Cheetah Author: Magatte Wade Narrator: Magatte Wade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Experience the life story of Magatte Wade - the bold Senegalese entrepreneur and unflinching prosperity activist, determined to shape the destiny of her African homeland. In this riveting memoir, Wade challenges Africans to redefine their narrative, casting aside imposed inferiority to reclaim their innate brilliance. This is not a recounting of poverty and politics. It's an indictment of a world that views Africa as nothing more than a colonial chessboard, with charity acting as the block that keeps Africans stuck. The surprising truth: Africa’s problems are NOT due to colonialism, corruption, bad leadership, poor skills, or a lack of education. It’s something much bigger, and yet it’s only been visible to entrepreneurs… until now. Join the movement for Africa's rightful place in the 21st-century: fostering innovation, earning prosperity, and growing into an economic powerhouse. Wade's impassioned voice promises nothing less than the dawn of a new era, poised to reshape history, create prosperity and peace, and unleash Africa’s bright future.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-young-man-by-annie-ernaux--65151036https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Young Man Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time—together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703463Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Young Man Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Young Man Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time—together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-dance-to-live-a-biography-of-thalia-mara-by-carolyn-j-brown--65151031https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara Author: Carolyn J. Brown Narrator: Rebecca Avery Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Thalia Mara's story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During a tour in Europe and South America, she met her partner in dance and life, Arthur Mahoney, and they dazzled the world with their breathtaking performances during the 1930s and '40s. The two were named codirectors of Jacob's Pillow in 1947, gracing the cover of Life magazine that year. Later they started two schools of dance in New York City, but despite much success, they closed due to lack of funding. That misfortune, however, was Jackson's boon as it led Mara to the second phase of her career: reviving the Jackson Ballet Company and bringing the USA International Ballet Competition (IBC) to the state. Thalia Mara was recognized at the end of her life not only for the USA IBC's decision to locate in Jackson, but also for her efforts as a patron of the arts. Her extraordinary fundraising and planning attracted international performers to the city in the 1980s and '90s. To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara gives the first full account of a life devoted to the arts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709531Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara Author: Carolyn J. Brown Narrator: Rebecca Avery Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara Author: Carolyn J. Brown Narrator: Rebecca Avery Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Thalia Mara's story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During a tour in Europe and South America, she met her partner in dance and life, Arthur Mahoney, and they dazzled the world with their breathtaking performances during the 1930s and '40s. The two were named codirectors of Jacob's Pillow in 1947, gracing the cover of Life magazine that year. Later they started two schools of dance in New York City, but despite much success, they closed due to lack of funding. That misfortune, however, was Jackson's boon as it led Mara to the second phase of her career: reviving the Jackson Ballet Company and bringing the USA International Ballet Competition (IBC) to the state. Thalia Mara was recognized at the end of her life not only for the USA IBC's decision to locate in Jackson, but also for her efforts as a patron of the arts. Her extraordinary fundraising and planning attracted international performers to the city in the 1980s and '90s. To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara gives the first full account of a life devoted to the arts.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-coracao-de-atleta-renascendo-na-mesma-vida-uma-jornada-de-ousadia-superacao-e-conquistas-by-patricia-fonseca--65151011https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - CORAÇÃO DE ATLETA: Renascendo na mesma vida: Uma jornada de ousadia, superação e conquistas Author: Patricia Fonseca Narrator: Patricia Fonseca Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Fui tirando aos poucos a roupa bem devagar, enquanto ainda olhava para o espelho. E então me permiti chorar. Minhas mãos cobriram meu rosto e eu apoiei minhas costas nuas na parede fria de azulejos, deixando o desconforto gelado me abraçar ao me lembrar que ainda estava viva e fui escorregando até sentar no chão do banheiro. A água caía no chuveiro e minhas lágrimas lavavam a minha esperança. Chorava pela vida que queria ter. Pelos sonhos que não iria realizar. Pelos amores que não iria viver. Pelos filhos que não iria ter. O QUE EU VOU FAZER COM SEIS MESES DE VIDA?' Depois de quase três décadas de limitações impostas por um grave problema cardíaco, Patricia Fonseca via seu tempo se esgotar. Sua última esperança era um transplante; consegui-lo no prazo, porém, era algo que desafiava as probabilidades. Mas seu novo coração não sabia disso – e chegou no dia mais improvável de todos, possibilitando a ela escrever um novo futuro. A menina que não podia participar das aulas de Educação Física se tornou a primeira transplantada de coração triatleta do país, conquistando medalhas nas Olimpíadas dos Transplantados de 2019 e 2023. E a economista se transformou em voz poderosa na luta pela criação de uma cultura doadora no Brasil: além de palestrante e fundadora do Instituto Sou Doador, Patricia é coautora do Projeto de Lei Tatiane, que visa inserir o tema doação nas escolas de todo o país. O livro 'Coração de Atleta' é um relato emocionante de sua jornada de superações e conquistas – que ainda está longe de terminar...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703342Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - CORAÇÃO DE ATLETA: Renascendo na mesma vida: Uma jornada de ousadia, superação e conquistas Author: Patricia Fonseca Narrator: Patricia...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - CORAÇÃO DE ATLETA: Renascendo na mesma vida: Uma jornada de ousadia, superação e conquistas Author: Patricia Fonseca Narrator: Patricia Fonseca Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Fui tirando aos poucos a roupa bem devagar, enquanto ainda olhava para o espelho. E então me permiti chorar. Minhas mãos cobriram meu rosto e eu apoiei minhas costas nuas na parede fria de azulejos, deixando o desconforto gelado me abraçar ao me lembrar que ainda estava viva e fui escorregando até sentar no chão do banheiro. A água caía no chuveiro e minhas lágrimas lavavam a minha esperança. Chorava pela vida que queria ter. Pelos sonhos que não iria realizar. Pelos amores que não iria viver. Pelos filhos que não iria ter. O QUE EU VOU FAZER COM SEIS MESES DE VIDA?' Depois de quase três décadas de limitações impostas por um grave problema cardíaco, Patricia Fonseca via seu tempo se esgotar. Sua última esperança era um transplante; consegui-lo no prazo, porém, era algo que desafiava as probabilidades. Mas seu novo coração não sabia disso – e chegou no dia mais improvável de todos, possibilitando a ela escrever um novo futuro. A menina que não podia participar das aulas de Educação Física se tornou a primeira transplantada de coração triatleta do país, conquistando medalhas nas Olimpíadas dos Transplantados de 2019 e 2023. E a economista se transformou em voz poderosa na luta pela criação de uma cultura doadora no Brasil: além de palestrante e fundadora do Instituto Sou Doador, Patricia é coautora do Projeto de Lei Tatiane, que visa inserir o tema doação nas escolas de todo o país. O livro 'Coração de Atleta' é um relato emocionante de sua jornada de superações e conquistas – que ainda está longe de terminar...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-months-a-memoir-by-linda-mck-stewart--65150966https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 25 Months: A Memoir Author: Linda Mck Stewart Narrator: Michelle Bass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Linda Stewart has written a warm and strong life story that conveys to every reader the terrible trials and extraordinary joy that attend the caring of a loved one with Alzheimer's.' HOWARD DEAN, M.D. Former governor of Vermont 'With powerful prose Linda Stewart evokes a luminous portrait of a couple's slow dance with Alzheimer disease. 25 Months is the kind of book you want to read more than once, then pass along to friends who appreciate first rate writing and a tale well told.' JANIS JAQUTH Public Radio Commentator '...this solid, often poignant book..' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717266Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 25 Months: A Memoir Author: Linda Mck Stewart Narrator: Michelle Bass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 25 Months: A Memoir Author: Linda Mck Stewart Narrator: Michelle Bass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Linda Stewart has written a warm and strong life story that conveys to every reader the terrible trials and extraordinary joy that attend the caring of a loved one with Alzheimer's.' HOWARD DEAN, M.D. Former governor of Vermont 'With powerful prose Linda Stewart evokes a luminous portrait of a couple's slow dance with Alzheimer disease. 25 Months is the kind of book you want to read more than once, then pass along to friends who appreciate first rate writing and a tale well told.' JANIS JAQUTH Public Radio Commentator '...this solid, often poignant book..' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-captivity-among-the-sioux-indians-by-fanny-kelly--65150948https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians Author: Fanny Kelly Narrator: The Arc, Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians' is a memoir written by Fanny Kelly, recounting her harrowing experience as a captive among the Sioux tribe in the mid-19th century. Kelly's narrative provides a first-hand account of her capture, the challenges she faced during her captivity, and her eventual release. Through her vivid descriptions and personal insights, she sheds light on the complex relationships and cultural dynamics between the Native American tribes and the settlers during that period. The memoir begins with the dramatic story of Fanny Kelly's capture by a Sioux raiding party while traveling with her husband in 1864. She describes the fear and uncertainty she felt as she was separated from her husband and forced to adapt to the customs and lifestyle of her captors. Kelly's detailed observations offer readers a glimpse into the daily lives, rituals, and beliefs of the Sioux people, highlighting their resilience and resourcefulness in the face of adversity. Throughout her narrative, Fanny Kelly confronts the challenges of survival, including scarce resources, harsh weather conditions, and the constant threat of violence. She vividly portrays the emotions and struggles she experienced, as well as the moments of compassion and kindness she encountered among her captors. Kelly's memoir not only provides a personal account of her own captivity but also serves as a valuable historical document, shedding light on the complex interactions between Native Americans and European settlers during a pivotal time in American history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735796Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians Author: Fanny Kelly Narrator: The Arc, Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians Author: Fanny Kelly Narrator: The Arc, Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians' is a memoir written by Fanny Kelly, recounting her harrowing experience as a captive among the Sioux tribe in the mid-19th century. Kelly's narrative provides a first-hand account of her capture, the challenges she faced during her captivity, and her eventual release. Through her vivid descriptions and personal insights, she sheds light on the complex relationships and cultural dynamics between the Native American tribes and the settlers during that period. The memoir begins with the dramatic story of Fanny Kelly's capture by a Sioux raiding party while traveling with her husband in 1864. She describes the fear and uncertainty she felt as she was separated from her husband and forced to adapt to the customs and lifestyle of her captors. Kelly's detailed observations offer readers a glimpse into the daily lives, rituals, and beliefs of the Sioux people, highlighting their resilience and resourcefulness in the face of adversity. Throughout her narrative, Fanny Kelly confronts the challenges of survival, including scarce resources, harsh weather conditions, and the constant threat of violence. She vividly portrays the emotions and struggles she experienced, as well as the moments of compassion and kindness she encountered among her captors. Kelly's memoir not only provides a personal account of her own captivity but also serves as a valuable historical document, shedding light on the complex interactions between Native Americans and European settlers during a pivotal time in American history.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-predator-by-pat-e-robinson--65150992https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Predator Author: Pat E. Robinson Narrator: Danielle Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: THE PREDATOR written by PAT E. ROBINSON As a survivor of gut-wrenching inescapable domestic violence, Robinson has courageously stepped up to share her story in her book. She details the raw abusive, threatening actions and her distraught hopeless emotions that readers cannot help but feel alongside as she tells her story; many that may be relatable to readers. She had encountered violence in her own childhood but became emotionally resilient and fearless, until her life turned into a struggle when she met a man with a fatal attraction for her. Robinson was kidnapped, chained, beaten, sexually abused and controlled by this man’s remorseless evil nature. She was – desperate - broken - a woman who knew she would not be rescued after she found his arsenal of illegal weapons. Robinson encourages abuse victims to know that even in her darkest times, she learned what her faith in God could do for her. In fact, she credits her survival through the power of God’s love. While God encouraged Robinson to author her true story, she also received an encouraging word from best-selling novelist, Anna Quindlen. When asked about writing this book, Robinson said, “I wrote of my incredible personal experiences of the love of God with his restoration, that gave me peace, love, faith, and a hope and desire to help other victims.” Praise the Lord for giving me strength, courage, and patience to heal my hurt. And for His presence so near that showered me with His love and taught me to have faith in Him. I am so amazed with the Love of God and what He brought me through. Have faith, He will do it for you!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712629Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Predator Author: Pat E. Robinson Narrator: Danielle Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 19, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Predator Author: Pat E. Robinson Narrator: Danielle Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: THE PREDATOR written by PAT E. ROBINSON As a survivor of gut-wrenching inescapable domestic violence, Robinson has courageously stepped up to share her story in her book. She details the raw abusive, threatening actions and her distraught hopeless emotions that readers cannot help but feel alongside as she tells her story; many that may be relatable to readers. She had encountered violence in her own childhood but became emotionally resilient and fearless, until her life turned into a struggle when she met a man with a fatal attraction for her. Robinson was kidnapped, chained, beaten, sexually abused and controlled by this man’s remorseless evil nature. She was – desperate - broken - a woman who knew she would not be rescued after she found his arsenal of illegal weapons. Robinson encourages abuse victims to know that even in her darkest times, she learned what her faith in God could do for her. In fact, she credits her survival through the power of God’s love. While God encouraged Robinson to author her true story, she also received an encouraging word from best-selling novelist, Anna Quindlen. When asked about writing this book, Robinson said, “I wrote of my incredible personal experiences of the love of God with his restoration, that gave me peace, love, faith, and a hope and desire to help other victims.” Praise the Lord for giving me strength, courage, and patience to heal my hurt. And for His presence so near that showered me with His love and taught me to have faith in Him. I am so amazed with the Love of God and what He brought me through. Have faith, He will do it for you!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-force-behind-the-forces-stories-of-brave-indian-army-wives-by-swapnil-pandey--65151037https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Force Behind the Forces: Stories of Brave Indian Army Wives Author: Swapnil Pandey Narrator: Angira Mukherjee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Who continues to pay the costs of war long after our soldiers are gone?There are many stories of courageous heroes at the borders, but how much do we know about the women standing strong behind them?The Force behind the Forces is a collection of seven true stories of eternal love, courage and sacrifice. Written by an army wife, Swapnil Pandey, this book brings to light moving stories of unimaginable valour in the face of broken dreams, lost hopes and shattered families. It proves that bullets and bombs can only pierce the bodies of our soldiers, for their stories will live on in the hearts of these brave women forever, women who have dedicated their lives to the nation, without even a uniform to call their own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704932Tue, 30 May 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Force Behind the Forces: Stories of Brave Indian Army Wives Author: Swapnil Pandey Narrator: Angira Mukherjee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Force Behind the Forces: Stories of Brave Indian Army Wives Author: Swapnil Pandey Narrator: Angira Mukherjee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Who continues to pay the costs of war long after our soldiers are gone?There are many stories of courageous heroes at the borders, but how much do we know about the women standing strong behind them?The Force behind the Forces is a collection of seven true stories of eternal love, courage and sacrifice. Written by an army wife, Swapnil Pandey, this book brings to light moving stories of unimaginable valour in the face of broken dreams, lost hopes and shattered families. It proves that bullets and bombs can only pierce the bodies of our soldiers, for their stories will live on in the hearts of these brave women forever, women who have dedicated their lives to the nation, without even a uniform to call their own.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-look-at-me-ein-schwarzes-madchen-in-einer-weissen-welt-by-ana-milva-gomes--65150929https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Look at Me: Ein schwarzes Mädchen in einer weißen Welt Author: Ana Milva Gomes Narrator: Nora Schulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Why we matter Von Kindesbeinen an zieht es Ana Milva Gomes auf die Bühne. Mit außergewöhnlichem Talent, viel harter Arbeit und unbändigem Willen erkämpft sich die Tochter kapverdischer Immigranten erfolgreich Musical-Hauptrollen in »Mamma Mia!«, »Sister Act« oder »Cats«. Doch abseits des Scheinwerferlichts stößt die sympathische Künstlerin immer wieder an die Grenzen einer monochromen Gesellschaft. Nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter und dem medienwirksamen Tod des Afroamerikaners George Floyd erkennt sie, dass ihr Auftritt politischer ist als gewollt – und beginnt, ihre eigenen schmerzvollen Erfahrungen mit Diskriminierung zu reflektieren. Bewegend und ohne jede Anklage erzählt sie von beabsichtigtem und unbeabsichtigtem Rassismus, degradierenden Stereotypen und ihrer Verantwortung als schwarze Frau auf der Bühne – ein leidenschaftlicher Appell an die Gesellschaft für mehr Offenheit und ein bewusstes interkulturelles Miteinander.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751853Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Look at Me: Ein schwarzes Mädchen in einer weißen Welt Author: Ana Milva Gomes Narrator: Nora Schulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Look at Me: Ein schwarzes Mädchen in einer weißen Welt Author: Ana Milva Gomes Narrator: Nora Schulte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Why we matter Von Kindesbeinen an zieht es Ana Milva Gomes auf die Bühne. Mit außergewöhnlichem Talent, viel harter Arbeit und unbändigem Willen erkämpft sich die Tochter kapverdischer Immigranten erfolgreich Musical-Hauptrollen in »Mamma Mia!«, »Sister Act« oder »Cats«. Doch abseits des Scheinwerferlichts stößt die sympathische Künstlerin immer wieder an die Grenzen einer monochromen Gesellschaft. Nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter und dem medienwirksamen Tod des Afroamerikaners George Floyd erkennt sie, dass ihr Auftritt politischer ist als gewollt – und beginnt, ihre eigenen schmerzvollen Erfahrungen mit Diskriminierung zu reflektieren. Bewegend und ohne jede Anklage erzählt sie von beabsichtigtem und unbeabsichtigtem Rassismus, degradierenden Stereotypen und ihrer Verantwortung als schwarze Frau auf der Bühne – ein leidenschaftlicher Appell an die Gesellschaft für mehr Offenheit und ein bewusstes interkulturelles Miteinander.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/local-a-memoir-by-jessica-machado--65150997https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Local: A Memoir Author: Jessica Machado Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs. Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with what it means to be “local.” Feeling separate from the history and tenets of Hawaiian culture that have been buried under the continental imports of malls and MTV, Jessica often sees her homeland reflected back to her from the tourist perspective—as an uncomplicated paradise. Her existence, however, feels far from that ideal. Balancing her parents’ divorce, an ailing mother, and growing anxiety, Jessica rebels. She moves to Los Angeles, convinced she’ll leave her complicated family behind and define herself. Instead, her isolation only becomes more severe, and her dying mother follows her to California. For Jessica, the only way to escape is a reckless downward spiral. Interwoven with a rich and nuanced exploration of Hawaiian history and traditions, Local is a personal and moving narrative about family, grief, and reconnecting to the land she tried to leave behind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739178Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Local: A Memoir Author: Jessica Machado Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Local: A Memoir Author: Jessica Machado Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs. Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with what it means to be “local.” Feeling separate from the history and tenets of Hawaiian culture that have been buried under the continental imports of malls and MTV, Jessica often sees her homeland reflected back to her from the tourist perspective—as an uncomplicated paradise. Her existence, however, feels far from that ideal. Balancing her parents’ divorce, an ailing mother, and growing anxiety, Jessica rebels. She moves to Los Angeles, convinced she’ll leave her complicated family behind and define herself. Instead, her isolation only becomes more severe, and her dying mother follows her to California. For Jessica, the only way to escape is a reckless downward spiral. Interwoven with a rich and nuanced exploration of Hawaiian history and traditions, Local is a personal and moving narrative about family, grief, and reconnecting to the land she tried to leave behind.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/excuse-me-while-i-disappear-tales-of-midlife-mayhem-by-laurie-notaro--65151006https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem Author: Laurie Notaro Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything). Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting—the cracking noises coming from her new old body, receiving regular junk mail from mortuaries—Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com. That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear. And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720635Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem Author: Laurie Notaro Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem Author: Laurie Notaro Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything). Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting—the cracking noises coming from her new old body, receiving regular junk mail from mortuaries—Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com. That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear. And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-in-every-breath-ester-blenda-reporter-adventurer-pioneer-by-fatima-bremmer--65151015https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer Author: Fatima Bremmer Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists—a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever. Born in 1891 in Stockholm, Ester Blenda Nordström defied stereotypes from an early age. She wore trousers, smoked a pipe, and rode motorbikes, much to the chagrin of her esteemed family. As a young woman, she captivated the public as Sweden’s first investigative journalist. Ester’s real passion was uncovering the truth, which she did by inhabiting the lives of others. Under an assumed identity, she toiled as a Swedish milkmaid on a farm, lived for six months with the Indigenous Scandinavian Sami people, and journeyed to America alongside poor emigrants aspiring to a better life. She saved villages from starvation during the Finnish Civil War and joined an expedition to study volcanoes in Siberia. Her groundbreaking reports were received by a spellbound audience and would change journalism forever. But just as Ester’s star was rising, her forbidden love affair with a woman ended in heartbreak, nearly destroying her. Her spectacular adventures and untamed heart concealed an inner turmoil that threatened to silence her powerful voice, but Ester’s life and spirit were ultimately irrepressible. Life in Every Breath brings Ester’s story back to the fore—and showcases one of the most fascinating women of the twentieth century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714968Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer Author: Fatima Bremmer Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer Author: Fatima Bremmer Narrator: Laura Jennings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists—a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever. Born in 1891 in Stockholm, Ester Blenda Nordström defied stereotypes from an early age. She wore trousers, smoked a pipe, and rode motorbikes, much to the chagrin of her esteemed family. As a young woman, she captivated the public as Sweden’s first investigative journalist. Ester’s real passion was uncovering the truth, which she did by inhabiting the lives of others. Under an assumed identity, she toiled as a Swedish milkmaid on a farm, lived for six months with the Indigenous Scandinavian Sami people, and journeyed to America alongside poor emigrants aspiring to a better life. She saved villages from starvation during the Finnish Civil War and joined an expedition to study volcanoes in Siberia. Her groundbreaking reports were received by a spellbound audience and would change journalism forever. But just as Ester’s star was rising, her forbidden love affair with a woman ended in heartbreak, nearly destroying her. Her spectacular adventures and untamed heart concealed an inner turmoil that threatened to silence her powerful voice, but Ester’s life and spirit were ultimately irrepressible. Life in Every Breath brings Ester’s story back to the fore—and showcases one of the most fascinating women of the twentieth century.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-le-grand-jeu-by-molly-bloom--65150998https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Le grand jeu Author: Molly Bloom Narrator: Julie Basecqz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 1, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Les mémoires d'une reine du poker déchue ' Des élites de Hollywood aux clubs privés de Wall Street, mes aventures dans le milieu du poker underground ' Petite fille, Molly Bloom rêvait d'une vie sans contraintes, sans limites, une vie où elle n'aurait de comptes à rendre à personne – une vie où elle pourrait devenir elle-même. Pour finir par obtenir bien plus que ce qu'elle aurait pu imaginer. L'ex-princesse du poker, qui a eu pour clients des stars comme Leonardo DiCaprio ou Ben Affleck, des athlètes, des multimillionnaires, des politiciens ou encore des géants de la finance, se livre ici sans détours. Elle y décrit un monde glamour, privilégié et ultra secret, grâce auquel elle a gagné des millions, mené la grande vie toujours à la frontière de la légalité, et même tenu tête à la mafia russe et italienne – jusqu'à ce qu'elle rencontre un adversaire qu'elle n'a pas pu doubler : le gouvernement américain. L'histoire d'une femme prête à tout, qui a gravi les échelons un à un pour se faire sa place au soleil avant de voir son royaume s'effondrer, adaptée au cinéma avec Jessica Chastain.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707758Wed, 01 Jan 2020 09:54:17 +0000Lenny LittlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Le grand jeu Author: Molly Bloom Narrator: Julie Basecqz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Le grand jeu Author: Molly Bloom Narrator: Julie Basecqz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 1, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Les mémoires d'une reine du poker déchue ' Des élites de Hollywood aux clubs privés de Wall Street, mes aventures dans le milieu du poker underground ' Petite fille, Molly Bloom rêvait d'une vie sans contraintes, sans limites, une vie où elle n'aurait de comptes à rendre à personne – une vie où elle pourrait devenir elle-même. Pour finir par obtenir bien plus que ce qu'elle aurait pu imaginer. L'ex-princesse du poker, qui a eu pour clients des stars comme Leonardo DiCaprio ou Ben Affleck, des athlètes, des multimillionnaires, des politiciens ou encore des géants de la finance, se livre ici sans détours. Elle y décrit un monde glamour, privilégié et ultra secret, grâce auquel elle a gagné des millions, mené la grande vie toujours à la frontière de la légalité, et même tenu tête à la mafia russe et italienne – jusqu'à ce qu'elle rencontre un adversaire qu'elle n'a pas pu doubler : le gouvernement américain. L'histoire d'une femme prête à tout, qui a gravi les échelons un à un pour se faire sa place au soleil avant de voir son royaume s'effondrer, adaptée au cinéma avec Jessica Chastain.]]>185cleanfull