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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359814 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Simple Dreams: A Musical MemoirAuthor: Linda RonstadtNarrator: Kathe MazurFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 13 minutesRelease date: December 15, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and â70s. Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and â70s. Linda Ronstadt was born into a musical family, and her childhood was filled with everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Mexican folk music to jazz and opera. Her artistic curiosity blossomed early, and she and her siblings began performing their own music for anyone who would listen. Now, in this beautifully crafted memoir, Ronstadt tells the story of her wide-ranging and utterly unique musical journey. Ronstadt arrived in Los Angeles just as the folkrock movement was beginning to bloom, setting the stage for the development of country-rock. As part of the coterie of like-minded artists who played at the famed Troubadour club in West Hollywood, she helped define the musical style that dominated American music in the 1970s. One of her early backup bands went on to become the Eagles, and Linda went on to become the most successful female artist of the decade. In Simple Dreams, Ronstadt reveals the eclectic and fascinating journey that led to her long-lasting success, including stories behind many of her beloved songs. And she describes it all in a voice as beautiful as the one that sang âHeart Like a Wheelââlonging, graceful, and authentic.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368624 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's MotherAuthor: Craig ShirleyNarrator: Kirsten PotterFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 59 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2019Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of historyâs most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washingtonâs first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington was entrenched in the Old World ways of her ancestors, dismissing the American experiment even as her son led the successful rebellion against the crown. During his youth, ambitious George dove into the hard-scrabble work of a surveyor and rose through the ranks of the fledgling colonial army, even as his overprotective mother tried to discourage these efforts. Maryâs influence on George was twofold. Though she raised her eldest son to become one of the worldâs greatest leaders, Mary also tried many times to hold him back. While she passed down her strength and individuality to George, she also sought to protect him from the risks he needed to take to become a daring general and president. But it was this resistance itself which fanned the spark of Georgeâs independence into a flame. The constant tug of war between the two throughout the early years helped define Georgeâs character. In Mary Ball Washington, New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley uncovers startling details about the inner workings of the Washington family. He vividly brings to life a resilient widow who singlehandedly raised six children and ran a large farm at a time when most womenâs duties were relegated to household matters. Throughout, Shirley compares and contrasts mother and son, illuminating the qualities they shared and the differences that divided them. A significant contribution to American history, Mary Ball Washington is the definitive take on the relationship between George and Mary Washington, offering fresh insight into this extraordinary figure who would shape our nationâand the woman who shaped him. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358562 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British historyAuthor: Holly KyteNarrator: Helen KeeleyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 2 minutesRelease date: November 28, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: âExtraordinaryâ Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, âmasculineâ when she should be âfeminineâ. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules. Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical unconventionality saw them defy the odds to forge their own paths. From the notorious cross-dressing thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to rebel slave Mary Prince and adventurer, industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these diverse characters redefined what a woman could be and what she could do in pre-twentieth-century Britain. Bold, inspiring and powerfully written, Roaring Girls tells the electrifying histories of women who, despite every effort to suppress them, dared to be extraordinary.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370666 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A MemoirAuthor: Deirdre BairNarrator: Suzanne TorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 50 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written a biography before. The next seven years of probing conversations, intercontinental research, singular encounters with Beckett's friends, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Bair to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. Where Beckett had been retiring and elusive, Beauvoir was domineering and all encompassing. Plus, there was a catch: Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived in the same neighborhood. Bair, who resorted to dodging one subject or the other by hiding out in the great cafés of Paris, learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the forceful and difficult Beauvoir required a radical change in approach and yielded another groundbreaking literary profile while also awakening Bair to an era of burgeoning feminist consciousness. Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives gives us an entirely new perspective on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers. It is also a warmly personal reflection on the writing life--its compromises, its joys, and its rewards.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368092 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Carrie Fisher: A Life on the EdgeAuthor: Sheila WellerNarrator: Saskia MaarleveldFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 20 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: 'Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's enthusiasm makes Weller's exhaustive research as engaging as fiction.' â AudioFile Magazine A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candidâand brilliantâCarrie Fisher In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Wellerâwith heart and a profound feeling for the timesâgave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Now she turns her focus to one of the most loved, brilliant, and iconoclastic women of our time: the actress, writer, daughter, and mother Carrie Fisher. Weller traces Fisherâs life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. Her mother was the spunky and adorable Debbie Reynolds; her father, the heartthrob crooner Eddie Fisher. When Eddie ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, the scandal thrust little Carrie Frances into a bizarre spotlight, gifting her with an irony and an aplomb that would resonate throughout her life. We follow Fisherâs acting career, from her debut in Shampoo, the hit movie that defined mid-1970s Hollywood, to her seizing of the plum female role in Star Wars, which catapulted her to instant fame. We explore her long, complex relationship with Paul Simon and her relatively peaceful years with the talent agent Bryan Lourd. We witness her startling leapâon the heels of a near-fatal overdoseâfrom actress to highly praised, bestselling author, the Dorothy Parker of her place and time. Weller sympathetically reveals the conditions that Fisher lived with: serious bipolar disorder and an inherited drug addiction. Still, despite crises and overdoses, her lifeâs workâas an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess, and a friendâwas prodigious and unique. As one of her best friends said, âI almost wish the expression âone of a kindâ didnât exist, because it applies to Carrie in a deeper way than it applies to others.â Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisherâs life, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge is an empathic and even-handed portrayal of a woman whoâas Princess Leia, but mostly as herselfâwas a feminist heroine, one who died at a time when we need her blazing, healing honesty more than ever.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369788 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden AgeAuthor: Sara WheelerNarrator: Sara WheelerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 38 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2019Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: With the writers of the Golden Age as her guidesâPushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among othersâSara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationÂalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the countryâs literary masters. With her, we see the fabled Trigorskoye (âthree hillsâ) estate that Pushkin frequented during his exile, now preserved in his honor. We look for Dostoevsky along the waters of Lake Ilmen, site of the only house the restless writer ever owned. We pay tribute to the single stone that remains of TolÂstoyâs birthplace. Wheeler weaves these writersâ lives and works around their historical homes, giving us rich portraits of the many diverse Russias from which these writers spoke. As she travels, Wheeler follows local guides, boards with families in modest homestays, eats roe and pelmeni and cabbage soup, invokes recipes from Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, learns the language, and observes the pattern of outcry and silence that characterizes life under Vladimir Putin. Mud and Stars gives us timely, witty, and deeply personal insights into Russia, then and now.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/354597 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super HornetAuthor: Hof Williams, Caroline JohnsonNarrator: Caroline JohnsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 13 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: 'Fans of military biographies and memoirs will enjoy this inside look at the experiences of a determined woman in the cockpit.' âBooklist A fresh, unique insiderâs view of what itâs like to be a woman aviator in todayâs US Navyâfrom pedicures to parachutes. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviator candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Operator. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and she was the first woman to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insiderâs view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator. This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged girl who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet Girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harmâs way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran. Some of the most memorable parts of the audiobook are about real life in training, in the air and in combatâhow do you deal with having to pee in a cockpit the size of a bumper car going 900 miles an hour? Not just a memoir, this audiobook also aims to change the conversation and to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women who are tempted to explore a life of adventure and service.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369096 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Janis: Her Life and MusicAuthor: Holly George-WarrenNarrator: Nina AriandaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 21 minutesRelease date: October 22, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplinâs first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasnât all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle downâbut couldnât, or wouldnât. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get awayâeven after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplinâs family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368039 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIAAuthor: Amaryllis FoxNarrator: Amaryllis FoxFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 10 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âFast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le CarrĂ© character landed in Eat Pray Love.' âThe New York Times Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master's program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where she created an algorithm that predicted, with uncanny certainty, the likelihood of a terrorist cell arising in any village around the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the president. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to 'the Farm,' where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a Glock, how to get out of flexicuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under non-official cover--the most difficult and coveted job in the field as an art dealer specializing in tribal and indigenous art and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent--an impossible to put down record of an extraordinary life, and of Amaryllis Fox's astonishing courage and passion.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368778 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (A Memoir)Author: Aarti Namdev ShahaniNarrator: Aarti Namdev ShahaniFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 39 minutesRelease date: October 1, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: 'This is simply a beautiful, moving memoir read exceptionally well by Shahani.' â AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author. Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queensâfrom India, by way of Casablancaâin the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan's most elite prep schools, and her dad, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country, even within a single family, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isnât a matter of good or evil; it's complicated. Ultimately, Here We Are is a coming-of-age story, a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She never expected they'd become best friends.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367198 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi GermanyAuthor: Peter FinnNarrator: Rebecca LowmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 11 minutesRelease date: September 24, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: A Washington Post Best Book of the Year The dramatic story of a South Carolina heiress who joined the OSS and became the first American woman in uniform taken prisoner on the Western frontâuntil her escape from Nazi Germany. Gertrude âGertieâ Legendre was a big-game hunter from a wealthy industrial family who lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. Her adventurous spirit made her the inspiration for the Broadway play Holiday, which became a film starring Katharine Hepburn. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Legendre, by then married and a mother of two, joined the OSS, the wartime spy organization that preceded the CIA. First in Washington and then in London, some of the most closely-held United States government secrets passed through her hands. In A Guest of the Reich, Peter Finn tells the gripping story of how in 1944, while on leave in liberated Paris, Legendre was captured by the Germans after accidentally crossing the front lines. Subjected to repeated interrogations, including by the Gestapo, Legendre entered a daring game of lies with her captors. The Nazis treated her as a âspecial prisonerâ of the SS and moved her from city to city throughout Germany, where she witnessed the collapse of Hitlerâs Reich as no other American did. After six months in captivity, Legendre escaped into Switzerland. A Guest of the Reich is a propulsive account of a little-known chapter in the history of World War II, as well as a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary woman.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369335 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Sontag: Her Life and WorkAuthor: Benjamin MoserNarrator: Tavia GilbertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 22 hours 7 minutesRelease date: September 17, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: The definitive portrait of one of the American Centuryâs most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of moneyâand when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animatedâand underminedâher writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to SarajevoâSontag is the first book based on the writerâs restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portraitâa great American novel in the form of a biography.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369255 to listen full audiobooks.Title: They Don't Teach ThisAuthor: Eniola AlukoNarrator: Eniola AlukoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 22 minutesRelease date: August 29, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. First class honors law degree. 102 appearances for England womenâs national football team. First female pundit on Match of the Day. UN Women UK ambassador. Guardian columnist. All of these achievements belong to Eni Aluko, who, with her forthcoming memoir They Don't Teach This, is keen to share her experiences, aiming to inspire readers to be the best possible versions of themselves. Aluko was appointed UN Women UK ambassador with a focus on promoting gender empowerment in 2016, and in October 2018 she was named by Marie Claire as one of ten Future Shapers Award Winners, recognising individuals who are changing womenâs futures for the better. She is currently playing football for Juventus in Italy and writing a weekly column for The Guardian. They Donât Teach This steps beyond the realms of memoir to explore themes of dual nationality and identity, race and institutional prejudice, success, failure and faith. It is an inspiring manifesto to change the way readers and the future generation choose to view the challenges that come in their life applying life lessons with raw truths of Eniâs own personal experience.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370351 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Queen Bess: An Unauthorized Biography of Bess MyersonAuthor: Jennifer PrestonNarrator: Suzanne TorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 22 minutesRelease date: August 20, 2019Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: This 'fascinating' biography details the rise of the first Jewish Miss America, TV star, and political playerâand the scandal that toppled her career (The New York Times). When Bess Myerson, the Bronx-born daughter of Jewish immigrants, was crowned Miss America in 1945, she was determined to break down gender barriers and be more than a beauty queen. Amid rampant anti-Semitism, she took advantage of her reign to call for an end to bigotry and hate. Then, after more than two decades as a glamorous television personality, Myerson took on corporate America, applying her celebrity as a consumer advocate to become an influential New York City political figure credited with helping elect Mayor Edward I. Koch. But behind the glittering public image, Myerson struggled with unhappy marriages. Then, in her early sixties, she found love with a much younger married man. The romance put her at the center of a political corruption scandal that led to federal charges brought by US Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, ending the reign of Queen Bess, New York's favorite daughter, after more than forty years. Award-winning investigative journalist Jennifer Preston reveals Myerson's fascinating life story in this engaging biography. Featuring interviews with Myerson herself and a new introduction from the author, Queen Bess remains the most comprehensive account of this ambitious and talented woman who inspired, entertained, and shocked millions.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361660 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the worldAuthor: Edna Adan IsmailNarrator: Edna Adan IsmailFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 27 minutesRelease date: August 8, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: âThe Muslim Mother Teresaâ Huffington Post Winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all â for the women of Africa. Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. âThe Muslim Mother Teresaâ Huffington Post Edna Adan Ismail endured it all â for the women of Africa. Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somalilandâs people, especially its women. When she suffered the trauma of FGM herself as a young girl at the bidding of her mother, Ednaâs determination was set. The first midwife to practise in Somaliland, Edna became a formidable teacher and campaigner for womenâs health. As her country was swept up in its bloody fight for independence, Edna rose to become its First Lady and first female cabinet minister. She built her own hospital, brick by brick, training future generations in what has been hailed as one of the Horn of Africaâs finest university hospitals This is Ednaâs truly remarkable story.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360520 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and LongingAuthor: Elissa AltmanNarrator: Elissa AltmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 35 minutesRelease date: August 6, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: âIâm reading this book right now and loving it!ââCheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild How can a mother and daughter who love (but donât always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? âVibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord.ââPeople âA wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women.ââO: The Oprah Magazine After surviving a traumatic childhood in nineteen-seventies New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, settling in Connecticut with her wife of nearly twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent as a flĂąneur, traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdaleâs and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter. Now Elissa is forced to finally confront their profound differences, Ritaâs yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship. Motherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, moral obligation, the choices women make about motherhood, and the possibility of healing. Filled with tenderness, wry irreverence, and unforgettable characters, it is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again. Praise for Motherland âRarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.ââDani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359688 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the CounterAuthor: Jessica WraggNarrator: Billie Fulford-BrownFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 1 minuteRelease date: August 6, 2019Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: A memoir of coming of age behind the counter, exploring butchery as an art form and taking an incisive look at an industry on the brink. When sixteen-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery counter. Wragg was younger than many of her colleagues by decades and she was one of the few women on staff, struggling to earn her keep among colleagues who were reluctant to share the tricks of their trade with a novice. Breaking down carcasses by day, and studying animal anatomy by night, Wragg was soon hooked and determined to establish herself in an industry that is steeped in tradition, and often resistant to change. From the English countryside to the streets of London, Girl on the Block blends Wraggâs personal coming of age story with a lyrical exploration of her craft and a rich history of butchery. She also examines the modern meat industry and the ever-changing ideologies around ethical meat consumption, as an often-conflicted carnivore who has spent time in an abattoir and witnessed slaughter firsthand. A raw tour through one of the worldâs oldest, dirtiest, and most fascinating professions, Girl on the Block is Wraggâs tale of returning home with blood on her boots at the end of fourteen-hour days and finding her way in the end.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/366856 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Prognosis: A Memoir of My BrainAuthor: Sarah VallanceNarrator: Cat GouldFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 9 minutesRelease date: August 1, 2019Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: The searing, wry memoir about a womanâs fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury. When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes sheâs walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as sheâs led from work to the emergency room. By the end of the week, a neurologist delivers a devastating prognosis: Sarah suffered a traumatic brain injury that has caused her IQ to plummet, with no hope of recovery. Her brain has irrevocably changed. Afraid of judgment and deemed no longer fit for work, Sarah isolates herself from the outside world. She spends months at home, with her dogs as her only source of companionship, battling a personality she no longer recognizes and her shock and rage over losing simple functions sheâd taken for granted. Her life is consumed by fear and shame until a chance encounter gives Sarah hope that her brain can heal. That conversation lights a small flame of determination, and Sarah begins to push back, painstakingly reteaching herself to read and write, and eventually reentering the workforce and a new, if unpredictable, life. In this highly intimate account of devastation and renewal, Sarah pulls back the curtain on life with traumatic brain injury, an affliction where the wounds are invisible and the lasting effects are often misunderstood. Over years of frustrating setbacks and uncertain triumphs, Sarah comes to terms with her disability and finds love with a woman who helps her embrace a new, accepting sense of self.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359201 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Middle Matters: Why That (Extra)Ordinary Life Looks Really Good on YouAuthor: Lisa-Jo BakerNarrator: Lisa-Jo BakerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 24 minutesRelease date: July 23, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: The best-selling author of Never Unfriended opens up about midlife and what it feels like to have outgrown those teenage jeansâbut finally grown into the shape of our souls. âI want to give Lisa-Joâs book a standing ovation.ââAarti Sequeira, chef and TV personality Do you ever wonder how you woke up one day with all the responsibilities of a grown-up who secretly enjoys buying groceries in bulk, can no longer recognize the tween celebrities on the magazines at checkout, but is still surprised when a Starbucks barista calls you âmaâamââbecause your inside self is frozen in time to about twenty years ago? So does Lisa-Jo Baker. In these intimate reflections on midlife, Lisa-Jo invites us to get a good look at our middles and gives us permission to embrace themâbeyond what the media, the mirror, or the magazines say. Through gutsy, beautiful storytelling, she admits out loud what most of us are thinking about marriage, parenting, the bathroom scale, and how badly we all want to buy those matching Magnolia Market mugs. Her delicious stories come from not being afraid of who she is, because Lisa-Jo knows that the middle might be the best part of the love story of life, kids, faith, doubt, marriage, failure, wonder, and the muffin topâand that these are all good things. Sheâs not asking you to seize the day, just to make sure you actually see it for all its wildly ordinary glory. Welcome to the middle! Praise for The Middle Matters âWhat a thought-provoking collection of reflections and wisdom! Through personal stories about love, loss, and life in the middle, Lisa-Jo invites us to take a long look inside our own mindâs secret nooks and crannies, which arenât nearly as dark, scary, or ordinary as we might think.ââLayla Palmer, The Lettered Cottage blog âWith captivating wit, hard-won wisdom, and breathtaking honesty, Lisa-Jo has written a love letter to the delicious middle.ââMandy Arioto, president and CEO of MOPS International and author of Have More Fun âWith Lisa-Joâs guts as our unfettered guide, may we finally learn the sumptuous truth of our years: that a grilled cheese sandwich without the middle is just toast.ââErin Loechner, founder of OtherGoose and author of Chasing Slow âThank you, Lisa-Jo, for reminding women everywhere how important it is to find meaning in the midst of the confusing middle.ââJoy Prouty, artist and educator
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/351090 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Casting into the Light: Tales of a Fishing LifeAuthor: Janet MessineoNarrator: Janet MessineoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 8 minutesRelease date: July 2, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: Tales of a champion surfcaster: the education of a young woman hell-bent on following her dream and learning the mysterious and profound sport, and art, of surfcasting, on the island of Marthaâs Vineyard. Janet Messineo knew from the get-go that she wanted to become a great fisherman. She knew she was as capable as any man of catching and landing a huge fish. It took yearsâand many terrifying nights along on the beach in complete darkness, in search of a huge creature to pull out of the seaâfor her to prove to herself and to the male-dominated fishing community that she could make her dream real. Messineo writes of the object of her obsession: striped bass and how it can take a lifetime to become a proficient striped bass fisherman; of stripers as nocturnal feeders, hard-fighting, clever fish that under the cover of darkness trap bait against jetties or between fields of large boulders near shorelines, or, once hooked, rub their mouths against the rocks to cut the line. She writes of growing up in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Salem, New Hampshire, the granddaughter of textile mill workers, tagging along with her father and brother as they cast off of jetties; of going to art school, feeling from a young age the need to escape, and finding herself, one summer, on the Vineyard. She describes the series of jobs that supported her fishingâwaitressing at the Black Dog, Helios, and the Home Port, among other restaurants. She writes of her education in patience and the technique to land a fish; learning the equipmentâhooks, sinkers, her first squid jig; buying her first one-ounce Rebel lure. She re-created the thrill of fishing at night, of being buffeted by the islandâs harsh winds and torrential rains; the terror of hooking something mysterious in the darkness that might pull her into water over her head. She gives us a rich portrait of island life and writes of its history and of Chappaquiddickâs (it belonged to the Wampanoags, who originally called it Cheppiaquidneââseparate islandâ); of the Marthaâs Vineyard Derby: its beginning in 1946 as a way to bring tourism to the island during the offseason, and the Derbyâs growing into one of the largest tournaments in the world. Messineo describes her dream of becoming a marine taxidermist, of learning the craft and perfecting the art of it. She writes of the men sheâs fished with and the women who forged the path for others (among them, Lorraine âTootieâ Johnson, who fished Vineyard waters for more than sixty years, and Lori VanDerlaske, who won the Derby shore division in 1995). And she writes of her life commingled with fishingâher marriage to a singer, poet, activist; their adopting a son with Aspergerâs; and her teaching him to fish. She writes of the transformative power of fishing that helped her to shake off drugs and alcohol, and of her profound respect for fish as a magnificent animal. With eighteen of the authorâs favorite fish recipes, Casting into the Light is a book about following oneâs dreams and about the quiet reckoning with self in the long hours of darkness at the waterâs edge, with the sounds of the ocean, the night air, and the jet-black sky. *Includes a PDF of author Janet Messineoâs favorite fish recipes
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