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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398239 to listen full audiobooks.Title: My Life with the ChimpanzeesAuthor: Jane GoodallNarrator: Jane GoodallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 44 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: For the first time ever unabridged and read by the author, this audiobook is a testimony of true humanity-filled with adventure, life lessons and hope for our world. From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees-intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear a surprising resemblance to our own. MY LIFE WITH THE CHIMPANZEES is a seminal work from one of the world's leaders on species conservation, and inspirational listening for all ages.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313653 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Monsoon Mansion: A MemoirAuthor: Cinelle BarnesNarrator: Cinelle BarnesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 2 minutesRelease date: May 1, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a familyâs rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her motherâs opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her fatherâs self-made success, it was a girlâs storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her motherâs terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelleâs fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truthâunderscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of familyâand what it takes to grow up.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325627 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Just the Funny Parts: ⊠And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boysâ ClubAuthor: Nell ScovellNarrator: Amy HohnFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 38 minutesRelease date: March 20, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: Youâve almost certainly laughed at Scovellâs jokesâyou just didnât know it until now. Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with David Letterman, Murphy Brown, NCIS, The Muppets, and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which she created and executive produced. In 2009, Scovell gave up her behind-the-scenes status when the David Letterman sex scandal broke. Only the second woman ever to write for his show, Scovell used the moment to publicly call out the lack of gender diversity in late-night TV writersâ rooms. âOne of the boysâ came out hard for âall of the girls.â Her criticisms fueled a cultural debate. Two years later, Scovell was collaborating with Sheryl Sandberg on speeches and later on Lean In, which resulted in a worldwide movement. Now Scovell is opening up with this fun, honest, and often shocking account. Scovell knows what itâs like to put words in the mouths of President Barack Obama, Mark Harmon, Candice Bergen, Bob Newhart, Conan OâBrien, Alyssa Milano, and Kermit the Frog, among many others. Through her eyes, youâll sit in the Simpson writersâ room⊠stand on the Oscar red carpet⊠pin a tail on Miss PiggyâŠbond with Star Trekâs Leonard Nimoy⊠and experience a Stephen King-like encounter with Stephen King. Just the Funny Parts is a fast-paced account of a nerdy girl from New England who fought her way to the top of the highly-competitive, male-dominated entertainment field. The book delivers invaluable insights into the creative process and tricks for navigating a difficult workplace. It's part memoir, part how-to, and part survival story. Or, as Scovell puts it, âItâs like Unbroken, but funnier and with slightly less torture.â
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325661 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.Author: Beverly BondNarrator: Beverly BondFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 42 minutesRelease date: February 27, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world. Fueled by the insights of women of diverse backgrounds, including Michelle Obama, Angela Davis, Shonda Rhimes, Misty Copeland Yara Shahidi, and Mary J. Blige, this book is a celebration of black womenâs voices and experiences that will become a collectorâs items for generations to come. Maxine Waters shares the personal fulfillment of service. Moguls Cathy Hughes, Suzanne Shank, and Serena Williams recount stories of steadfastness, determination, diligence, dedication and the will to win. Erykah Badu, Toshi Reagon, Mickalane Thomas, Solange Knowles-Ferguson, and Rihanna offer insights on creativity and how they use it to stay in tune with their magic. Pioneering writers Rebecca Walker, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Joan Morgan speak on modern-day black feminist thought. Lupita Nyongâo, Susan Taylor, and Bethann Hardison affirm the true essence of holistic beauty. And Iyanla Vanzant reinforces Black Girl Magic in her powerful pledge. Through these and dozens of other unforgettable testimonies, Black Girls Rock! is an ode to black girl ambition, self-love, empowerment, and healing. Pairing inspirational essays and affirmations with lush, newly commissioned and classic photography, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic and Rocking Our Truth is not only a one-of-a-kind celebration of the diversity, fortitude, and spirituality of black women but also a foundational text that will energize and empower every reader.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325594 to listen full audiobooks.Title: White like Her: My Familyâs Story of Race and Racial PassingAuthor: Gail LukasikNarrator: Bernadette DunneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 58 minutesRelease date: February 27, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her motherâs decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her motherâs fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her motherâs racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBSâs Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328376 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Long Way from HomeAuthor: Cathy GlassNarrator: Denica FairmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 30 minutesRelease date: February 22, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldnât have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didnât make sense. Until I learned what had happened. ⊠Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts the children were incarcerated in their cots. Their large eyes stared out blankly from emaciated faces. Some were obviously disabled, others not, but all were badly undernourished. Flies circled around the broken ceiling fans and buzzed against the grids covering the windows. The only toys were a few balls and a handful of building bricks, but no child played with them. The silence was deafening and unnatural. Not one of the thirty or so infants cried, let alone spoke.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325657 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence GouldAuthor: Susan RonaldNarrator: Carol MondaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 15 minutesRelease date: February 20, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: From Susan Ronald, author of The Pirate Queen, comes a revealing new audiobook biography. With each sensational chapter, A Dangerous Woman documents the life of Florence Gould, a fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid her dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940âs Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris, aged eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frankâs millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars, like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence refused to go home. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for fleeing high-ranking Nazis. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum, New York University, and Cornell Medical School, among many others. It also earned her friends like EstĂ©e Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say âmoney doesnât care who owns itâ, Florenceâs life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325337 to listen full audiobooks.Title: In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and AtonementAuthor: JOHN HEMINWAYNarrator: JOHN HEMINWAYFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 36 minutesRelease date: February 13, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname âMama DaktariâââMother Doctor.â Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa was a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nicknameâthis one sinisterâwhile working as a âdoctorâ in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite oneâs past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324347 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Good Time to be a Girl: Donât Lean In, Change the SystemAuthor: Helena MorrisseyNarrator: Helena MorrisseyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 49 minutesRelease date: February 8, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it. âI absolutely love her, I think sheâs such a force for goodâ Pandora Sykes, The High Low In A Good Time to be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women. Making a powerful case for diversity and difference in any workplace, she shows how, together, we can develop smarter thinking and broader definitions of success. Gender balance, in her view, is an essential driver of economic prosperity and part of the solution to the many problems we face today. Her approach is not aimed merely at training a few more women in working practices that have outlived their usefulness. Instead, this book sets out a way to reinvent the game â not at the expense of men but in ways that are right and relevant for a digital age. It is a powerful guide to success for us all.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324212 to listen full audiobooks.Title: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with DeathAuthor: Maggie O'FarrellNarrator: Daisy DonovanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 54 minutesRelease date: February 6, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: 'I Am I Am I Am is a gripping and glorious investigation of death that leaves the reader feeling breathless, grateful, and fully alive. Maggie OâFarrell is a miracle in every sense. I will never forget this book.' âAnn Patchett An extraordinary memoirâtold entirely in near-death experiencesâfrom one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking. We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter--for whom this book was written--from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324202 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of WanderlustAuthor: Laura SmithNarrator: Laura SmithFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 22 minutesRelease date: February 6, 2018Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure in a memoir that 'pushes literary boundaries' (The Atlantic) At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. Laura wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge. Barbara Newhall Follett was a free-spirited trailblazer who published her first novel at 11, enlisted as a deck hand on a boat bound for the south China seas at 15 and was one of the first women to hike the Appalachian trail. Then in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, she walked out of her apartment on a quiet tree-lined street in Brookline, leaving behind a fraying marriage, and vanished without a trace. Obsessed by her story, Laura set off to find out what had happened. The Art of Vanishing is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? Searingly honest and written with a raw intensity, it will challenge you to rethink your most intimate decisions and may just upend your life.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323706 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery, and Ruin in the City of GoldAuthor: Stephen G. BloomNarrator: Peter BerkrotFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 10 minutesRelease date: February 6, 2018Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills. For the women who followed, their only choice was to support, serve, or submit. Inez Burns was different. She put everyone to shame with her dazzling, calculated, stone-cold ambition. Born in the slums of San Francisco to a cigar-rolling alcoholic, Inez transformed herself into one of Californiaâs richest women, becoming a notorious power-broker, grand dame, and iconoclast. A stunning beauty with perfumed charm, she rose from manicurist to murderess to millionaire, seducing one man after another, bearing children out of wedlock, and bribing politicians and cops along the way to secure her place in the San Francisco firmament. Inez ruled with incandescent flair. She owned five hundred hats and a closet full of furs, had two small toes surgically removed to fit into stylish high heels, and had two ribs excised to accentuate her hourglass figure. Her presence was defined by couture dresses from Paris, red-carpet strutting at the San Francisco Opera, and a black Pierce-Arrow that delivered her everywhere. She threw outrageous parties on her sprawling, eight-hundred-acre horse ranch, a compound with servants, cooks, horse groomers, and trainers, where politicians, judges, attorneys, Hollywood moguls, and entertainers gamboled over silver fizzes. Inez was adored by the desperate women who sought her outâand loathed by the power-hungry men who plotted to destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurseâs uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. Inezâs illegal business bestowed upon her power and influenceâuntil a determined politician by the name of Edmund G. (Pat) Brownâthe father of current California Governor Jerry Brownâused Inez to catapult his nascent career to national prominence. In The Audacity of Inez Burns, Stephen G. Bloom, the author of the bestselling Postville, reveals a jagged slice of lost American history. From Inezâs riveting tale of glamour and tragedy, he has created a brilliant, compulsively readable portrait of an unforgettable woman during a moment when Americaâs pendulum swung from compassion to criminality by punishing those who permitted women to control their own destinies.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324290 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survivalAuthor: Anna RustonNarrator: Faye AdeleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 54 minutesRelease date: January 30, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 318 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 73Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now. Growing up in a deeply troubled family, fifteen-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies . . . each one stolen away from Anna at birth. Her salvation arrived thirteen years too late, but despite her shattered mind and body, Anna finally managed to flee. This is her harrowing, yet uplifting, true story of survival. Contains mature themes.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323744 to listen full audiobooks.Title: BRAVEAuthor: Rose McGowanNarrator: Rose McGowanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 46 minutesRelease date: January 30, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: ''My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same.'' -Rose McGowan A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto â A voice for generations Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood. In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done as a child, and into high-profile relationships. Every detail of her personal life became public, and the realities of an inherently sexist industry emerged with every script, role, public appearance, and magazine cover. The Hollywood machine packaged her as a sexualized bombshell, hijacking her image and identity and marketing them for profit. Hollywood expected Rose to be silent and cooperative and to stay the path. Instead, she rebelled and asserted her true identity and voice. She reemerged unscripted, courageous, victorious, angry, smart, fierce, unapologetic, controversial, and real as f*ck. BRAVE is her raw, honest, and poignant memoir/manifestoâa no-holds-barred, pull-no-punches account of the rise of a millennial icon, fearless activist, and unstoppable force for change who is determined to expose the truth about the entertainment industry, dismantle the concept of fame, shine a light on a multibillion-dollar business built on systemic misogyny, and empower people everywhere to wake up and be BRAVE. Includes two original songs by Rose McGowan.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322779 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young AmericaAuthor: Catherine KerrisonNarrator: Tavia GilbertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 3 minutesRelease date: January 30, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jeffersonâs three daughtersâtwo white and free, one black and enslavedâand the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE âą âBeautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jeffersonâs two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.ââThe New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slaveryâapparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant todayâand on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jeffersonâs Daughters âA fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jeffersonâs children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.ââUSA Today âA valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.ââThe Boston Globe âA thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.ââBookPage
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313723 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee RadziwillAuthor: J. Randy TaraborrelliNarrator: Ann Marie LeeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 17 minutesRelease date: January 30, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: 'Taraborrelli's gossipy narrative revels in luxurious decor, stunning outfits, and soap-operatic fights in this entertaining saga.' â Publishers Weekly A dazzling audiobook biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. âDo you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?â Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. âMoney and Power,â she would say. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They followed in their motherâs footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite âBlack Jackâ Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jacqueline Bouvier would marry John F. Kennedy Jr. and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world renowned architect and a British peer. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with both of Jackieâs husbands in addition to her own three marriagesâto an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother. Jackie, Janet & Lee will drop listeners directly into the gilded, tangled web of secrets surrounding one of the most recognizable families in American history. More Praise for Jackie, Janet & Lee: 'Riveting. For all the sisters' dramatics, the true star of this particular show is decidedly neither the directionless Lee nor the determined Jackie. It is, in fact, the third figure in the book: Janet Bouvier Auchincloss...Taraborrelli brings her to splendid renewed life. His trick of turning incidents into highly colored tableaus threaded with dialogue makes excellent use of well-trodden material.'â New York Times Book Review 'More gossipy than 'Page Six,' J. Randy Taraborrelli's latest celebrity biography, Jackie, Janet & Lee, compellingly narrated by Ann Marie Lee, bring you up close and personal with the ever fascinating, superrich and superpowerful clan of Janet Auchincloss...Though I started listening with a jaded ear, I found myself mesmerized by the intriguing, intricate details of the trials and tragedies in these women's lives.' â BookPage
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323372 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Gratitude in Motion: A True Story of Hope, Determination, and the Everyday Heroes Around UsAuthor: Colleen Kelly AlexanderNarrator: Colleen Kelly AlexanderFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 12 minutesRelease date: January 16, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Kelly Alexander, a lifelong athlete, rode her bike home from work. She had survived both a diagnosis of lupus and brain surgery, had a fulfilling career, and was married at last to the love of her life. Everything was good as she coasted along, meeting the eyes of a truck driver as he approached the stop sign beside her. He didn't stop. The truck hit Colleen, running over her lower body with front and back tires and dragging her across the pavement. As she bled out in the street, nearby strangers surrounded her and the driver attempted to get away. An EMT herself, Colleen knew she had to stay awake. 'I've just been reconnected with my soulmate,' she told the medic. 'We want to have a baby. I can't die now. Please don't let me die.' Five weeks in a coma and twenty-nine surgeries later, Colleen survived. Rather than let the trauma and PTSD control her life, she became determined to find a way to make something positive from her pain. She decided she'd run again and dedicate her race medals to the everyday heroes around us, including the medical staff and blood donors who saved her life. Since then Colleen has run fifty races and completed forty triathlons, including four half-Ironman events. Now a spokesperson for the Red Cross, Colleen shares her incredible inspirational story to encourage others to take that first step forward.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313669 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime LondonAuthor: J.M. MaloneyNarrator: Annie AldingtonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 12 minutesRelease date: January 11, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Sisters of Battle Road by J. M. Maloney, read by Annie Aldington. In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Little did they know what was in store for them or how their lives would change. From the trials and tribulations of leaving London, the destructive horror of the Blitz and terrible family tragedy to tea dances, romance and the triumphs of making a new life in the country, The Sisters of Battle Road is the compelling true story of six ordinary girls who carved out a life in extraordinary wartime circumstances. Today, the six young girls â Mary, Anne, Sheila, Pat, Joan and Kath â are six remarkable women who have lived to tell their tale of sisterhood and its unbreakable bonds in the shadow of World War Two.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322881 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn AddictionAuthor: Erica GarzaNarrator: Joy OsmanskiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 52 minutesRelease date: January 9, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: âErica Garza has written a riveting, canât-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcoreâŠIn an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourseâŠGetting Off makes for a wild, timely readâ (Elle). A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed relationships and serial hook-ups with strangers, inevitable blackouts to blunt the shameâthese are not things we often hear women share publicly, and not with the candor, eloquence, and introspection Erica Garza brings to Getting Off. What sets this courageous and riveting account apart from your typical misery memoir is the absence of any precipitating trauma beyond the garden variety of hurt weâve all had to endure in simply becoming a personâreckoning with family, learning to be social, integrating what it means to be sexual. Whatever tenor of violence or abuse Ericaâs life took on through her behavior was of her own making, fueled by fear, guilt, self-loathing, self-pity, loneliness, and the hopelessness those feelings brought on as she runs from one side of the world to the other in an effort to break her habitsâfrom East Los Angeles to Hawaii and Southeast Asia, through the brothels of Bangkok and the yoga studios of Bali to disappointing stabs at therapy and twelve-steps back home. In these remarkable pages, Garza draws an evocative, studied portrait of the anxiety that fuels her obsessions, as well as the exhilaration and hope she begins to feel when she suspects she might be free of them. Getting Off offers a brave and necessary voice to our evolving conversations about addiction and the impact that internet culture has had on us allââa profoundly genuine, gripping story that any reader can appreciateâ (Vice). âIn reading Garzaâs insight into her own experiences, we better understand ourselvesâ (The New York Times Book Review).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320804 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One.Author: Ginger ZeeNarrator: Ginger ZeeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 48 minutesRelease date: December 5, 2017Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: WomenPublisher's Summary: ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range from misguided to dangerous, and her tumultuous professional path. This cyclone of stories may sound familiar to someâit's just that Ginger's personal tempests happened while she was covering some of the most devastating storms in recent history, including a ferocious tornado that killed a legend in the meteorology field. This book is for all the mistake makers who have learned to forgive others and themselvesâeven in the aftermath of man-made, or in this case Zee-made, disasters. It's a story that every young woman should read, a story about finding love and finding it in yourself. Beloved by Good Morning America's audience, Ginger is a daily presence for millions. Zee's gained fame for her social media presence which is as unfiltered as Natural Disasterâfrom baby barf to doggy doo-doo. She's shattered the glass ceiling for women in meteorology, but admits here first, she's the one natural disaster she couldn't have forecast.
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