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Untamed
- Written by: Glennon Doyle
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, best-selling author, and "patron saint of female empowerment" (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us....
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Not what I expected
- By Woman with Brain on 2020-03-11
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Educated
- A Memoir
- Written by: Tara Westover
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University....
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A Memoir
- By Vicki Anderson on 2018-09-14
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If I Knew Then
- Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
- Written by: Jann Arden
- Narrated by: Jann Arden
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Jann Arden - best-selling author, recording artist, and late-blooming TV star - is back with this funny, heartfelt, and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity, and freedom she's found at 57 are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash....
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I wish it was longer!!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-10-27
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My Own Words
- Written by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- Narrated by: Linda Lavin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America's most influential women....
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Understanidng RBG's role
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-18
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Wintering
- The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
- Written by: Katherine May
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down....
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Beautiful ode
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-27
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Becoming
- Written by: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her....
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I tried so hard to love this book...but couldn't..
- By Makizzo on 2019-01-28
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Untamed
- Written by: Glennon Doyle
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, best-selling author, and "patron saint of female empowerment" (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us....
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Not what I expected
- By Woman with Brain on 2020-03-11
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Educated
- A Memoir
- Written by: Tara Westover
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University....
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A Memoir
- By Vicki Anderson on 2018-09-14
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If I Knew Then
- Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
- Written by: Jann Arden
- Narrated by: Jann Arden
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Jann Arden - best-selling author, recording artist, and late-blooming TV star - is back with this funny, heartfelt, and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity, and freedom she's found at 57 are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash....
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I wish it was longer!!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-10-27
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My Own Words
- Written by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- Narrated by: Linda Lavin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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A fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America's most influential women....
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Understanidng RBG's role
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-18
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Wintering
- The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
- Written by: Katherine May
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down....
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Beautiful ode
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-27
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Becoming
- Written by: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her....
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I tried so hard to love this book...but couldn't..
- By Makizzo on 2019-01-28
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The Moment of Lift
- How Empowering Women Changes the World
- Written by: Melinda Gates
- Narrated by: Melinda Gates
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings - and especially for women? Because, when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. For the last 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live....
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And important read
- By Alina on 2020-12-24
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Year of Yes
- How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- Written by: Shonda Rhimes
- Narrated by: Shonda Rhimes
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived....
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#audible1 - Riveting stories & inspiration!
- By Anonymous User on 2018-09-17
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The Truths We Hold
- An American Journey
- Written by: Kamala Harris
- Narrated by: Kamala Harris
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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By reckoning with the challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in The Truths We Hold a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership....
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I hope she's elected President
- By Stix on 2019-03-18
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Alanis Morissette: Words + Music
- Written by: Alanis Morissette
- Narrated by: Alanis Morissette
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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A down-to-earth global pop star. A deeply spiritual, cerebral powerhouse. A famously outspoken introvert. For her millions of fans, and the few unacquainted, defining rock luminary Alanis Morissette is an exercise in dichotomies and nuance....
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A short visit with a busy artist.
- By Grantie on 2020-12-15
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers come a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....
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Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir)
- Written by: Glennon Doyle
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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The highly anticipated memoir by best-selling author Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage....
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There’s someone else like me
- By Sara D on 2020-03-01
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Cat and Nat's Mom Truths
- Embarrassing Stories and Brutally Honest Advice on the Extremely Real Struggle of Motherhood
- Written by: Catherine Belknap, Natalie Telfer
- Narrated by: Catherine Belknap, Natalie Telfer
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Hilarious best friends Cat and Nat created a massive online community of moms by sharing their ultra-real and just a bit R-rated dispatches from the mom trenches. Cat & Nat’s Mom Truths shares everything no one will tell you about having kids....
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Best book ever
- By Kim on 2020-05-13
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The Biggest Bluff
- How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
- Written by: Maria Konnikova
- Narrated by: Maria Konnikova
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor....
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all about me
- By Bart Blom on 2021-01-07
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Bravey
- Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
- Written by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Narrated by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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The Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, and writer Alexi Pappas shares what she’s learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams....
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Bossypants
- Written by: Tina Fey
- Narrated by: Tina Fey
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher....
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funny!
- By Deanna La Jambe on 2019-06-07
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What Happened
- Written by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history....
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Theirs always to side to a story!
- By shelby on 2018-02-20
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The Glass Castle
- A Memoir
- Written by: Jeannette Walls
- Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....
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Well
- By Caitlin on 2018-10-01
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Know My Name
- A Memoir
- Written by: Chanel Miller
- Narrated by: Chanel Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus....
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It’s heavy, but brilliant.
- By Anonymous User on 2019-11-17
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Pretty Mess
- Written by: Erika Jayne
- Narrated by: Erika Jayne
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Erika Jayne didn't make it this far by holding back. Now, in her first-ever memoir, the fan favorite star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills bares her heart, mind, and soul....
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Love!
- By Stephanie on 2018-03-23
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Just Kids
- Written by: Patti Smith
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy....
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Privileged to have a glance
- By Lyndsey on 2020-08-15
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Yes Please
- Written by: Amy Poehler
- Narrated by: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please....
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Excellent book!
- By Client d'Amazon on 2018-01-29
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We Are the Luckiest
- The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
- Written by: Laura McKowen
- Narrated by: Laura McKowen
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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A frank, fresh, and empowering take on facing addiction, doing recovery, and savoring the joys of a new way of living....
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Changed my life
- By Anonymous User on 2020-02-03
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High Achiever
- The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
- Written by: Tiffany Jenkins
- Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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A raw and twisty, pause resisting memoir that sounds like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds....
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Definitely recommend!!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-09-03
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Le monstre
- Written by: Ingrid Falaise
- Narrated by: Ingrid Falaise
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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À dix-huit ans, j'ai quitté mon Québec, ma famille, mes amis, pour m'évader vers l'Afrique, lieu d'origine de mon prince charmant. Cette idylle a dégénéré, influencée en partie par les traditions et les coutumes d'une petite ville perdue à deux heures du Sahara....
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Sa propre faute
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-01-27
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Carry On, Warrior
- Thoughts on Life Unarmed
- Written by: Glennon Doyle Melton
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle Melton
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Anne Lamott meets Elizabeth Gilbert in this inspirational, side-splittingly funny exploration of the power of living with love, forgiveness, and honesty....
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Really Enjoyed It!
- By Sarah Crocker on 2017-10-26
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- Written by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....
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Great read!
- By Anonymous User on 2020-11-07
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Lean In
- Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
- Written by: Sheryl Sandberg
- Narrated by: Elisa Donovan
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business - has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family....
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Everyone should read this book!
- By Mary Briskin on 2017-12-10
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Wild
- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Written by: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again....
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Great story, but poor choice of narrator
- By Crystal D. on 2019-12-31
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To The Woman (Season 1)
- Written by: Scarlett Curtis
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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To The Woman is Audible UK’s flagship podcast series for International Women’s Day 2019. Hosted by National Book Award winner, Sunday Times best-selling author, activist and broadcaster Scarlett Curtis, this series celebrates extraordinary women of the world....
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What a beautiful reminder...
- By Deborah Murphy on 2020-08-28
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You'll Grow Out of It
- Written by: Jessi Klein
- Narrated by: Jessi Klein
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Jessi Klein offers - through an incisive collection of real-life stories - a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood....
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A Body, Undone
- Living On after Great Pain
- Written by: Christina Crosby
- Narrated by: Christina Crosby
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Body, Undone, Christina Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain....
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Professional Troublemaker
- The Fear-Fighter Manual
- Written by: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Narrated by: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit, warmth, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she's been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life....
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Melania and Me
- The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady
- Written by: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
- Narrated by: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In this candid and emotional memoir, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff takes you into Trump Tower and the White House to tell the funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with one of the most famous women in the world, a woman few people truly understand....
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Gutwrenching!
- By Gordana Elizabeth Moras on 2020-09-03
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A House in the Sky
- A Memoir
- Written by: Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett
- Narrated by: Amanda Lindhout
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In August 2008, Amanda Lindhout traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia - "the most dangerous place on Earth." On her fourth day in the country, she and her photojournalist companion were abducted....
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A difficult but important read
- By Anonymous User on 2020-04-23
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North of Normal
- A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
- Written by: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrated by: Cea Sunrise Person
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Sex, drugs, and...bug stew? Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness....
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A good story
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-28
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Mrs. Fenton's Journey
- Written by: Margaretta Pos
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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A glimpse into the life of Elizabeth Fenton appeared in print in 1901 when her early diaries of colonial life in India and arrival in Van Dieman's Land were edited and published in London. Now Mrs. Fenton's direct descendant, Tasmanian journalist Margaretta Pos, reveals the full story of Elizabeth Fenton's life, from her joyful but ultimately tragic life as a well-bred young Anglo-Irish wife in India to her new life as a wife, mother, and grandmother in the still-wild colony of Van Dieman's Land - Tasmania.
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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect
- How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
- Written by: Gabrielle Korn
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including internet feminism, impossible beauty standards in social media, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more.
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge
- The Author's Cut
- Written by: Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Narrated by: Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, '60s radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-PC passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her altered states "raw, like oysters".
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Ida B. the Queen
- Written by: Michelle Duster
- Narrated by: Michelle Duster
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator”. In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of a pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated - a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for White passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP.
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Lee Miller
- A Life
- Written by: Carolyn Burke
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook - the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent during her lifetime. A sleek blond bombshell, Miller was part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as a leading Vogue model, close to Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso. Then, during World War II, she became a war correspondent - one of the first women to do so.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers come a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These 12 pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure.
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Mrs. Fenton's Journey
- Written by: Margaretta Pos
- Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A glimpse into the life of Elizabeth Fenton appeared in print in 1901 when her early diaries of colonial life in India and arrival in Van Dieman's Land were edited and published in London. Now Mrs. Fenton's direct descendant, Tasmanian journalist Margaretta Pos, reveals the full story of Elizabeth Fenton's life, from her joyful but ultimately tragic life as a well-bred young Anglo-Irish wife in India to her new life as a wife, mother, and grandmother in the still-wild colony of Van Dieman's Land - Tasmania.
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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect
- How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
- Written by: Gabrielle Korn
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including internet feminism, impossible beauty standards in social media, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more.
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge
- The Author's Cut
- Written by: Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Narrated by: Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, '60s radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-PC passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her altered states "raw, like oysters".
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Ida B. the Queen
- Written by: Michelle Duster
- Narrated by: Michelle Duster
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator”. In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of a pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated - a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for White passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP.
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Lee Miller
- A Life
- Written by: Carolyn Burke
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook - the last of the many dramatic transformations she underwent during her lifetime. A sleek blond bombshell, Miller was part of a glamorous circle in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as a leading Vogue model, close to Edward Steichen, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso. Then, during World War II, she became a war correspondent - one of the first women to do so.
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers come a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These 12 pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure.
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The Doctors Blackwell
- How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
- Written by: Janice P. Nimura
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an MD. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.
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Fidelis
- A Memoir
- Written by: Teresa Fazio
- Narrated by: Teresa Fazio
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this coming-of-age story set in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, former Marine Corps officer Teresa Fazio struggles with her past, her sense of authority, and her womanhood. Anger stifles her fear and uncertainty. A forbidden affair placates her need for love and security. But emptiness, guilt, and nightmares plague Fazio through her deployment - and follow her back home.
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With Her Fist Raised
- Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
- Written by: Laura L. Lovett
- Narrated by: Sandra Sims
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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With Her Fist Raised is the necessary biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pivotal figure in women’s history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told. Historian Laura Lovett weaves together a biography of an activist who was intersectional to the core revealing a remarkable legacy that few have known until now.
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One Woman in the Himalayas
- Not Every Idea Is a Good Idea, but You Don't Know Until You Try
- Written by: Tracy Pawelski
- Narrated by: Tracy Pawelski
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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One Woman in the Himalayas recounts Tracy’s journey of unexpected twists and turns on Nepal’s famed Annapurna Circuit, one of the great treks in the world. She struggles with decisions that test her ability to adapt and think fast on her feet. This story is about finding the courage to continue even when things don’t go as you planned. Walk with Tracy on an ancient trading route past waterfalls and rice terraces; peek inside the oldest monastery in the Himalayas; and share the path with yak herders and Sherpas.
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Stronger than Sight
- Written by: Yvette Clarke
- Narrated by: Marie Wikle
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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How many of us really stop to think about a widow? I know I was guilty of never giving the term a second thought. When I used to hear that word, I would think of someone in the winter season of their life. It never dawned on me how widows can be as young as in their 20s. To be widowed is to feel a unique pain. Come with me as I share my journey on this road called "new widow". I pray that it helps express some hidden feelings and provides comfort to one's pain.
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The Bravest Voices
- A Memoir of Two Sisters' Heroism During the Nazi Era
- Written by: Ida Cook
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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This timeless memoir documents two sisters’ bravery leading up to WWII - a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity’s darkest hours.
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Bravey
- Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
- Written by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Narrated by: Alexi Pappas, Maya Rudolph - foreword
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When “Renaissance runner” (New York Times) Alexi Pappas - Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker, and writer - was four years old, her mother died by suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas’ life and setting her on a search for female role models. When her father signed his bereaved daughter up for sports teams as a way to keep her busy, female athletes became the first women Pappas looked up to, and her Olympic dream was born.
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Bevelations
- Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie
- Written by: Bevy Smith
- Narrated by: Bevy Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Bevy Smith was living what seemed like a glamorous dream as a fashion advertising executive, blazing a lucrative career for herself in the whitewashed magazine world. She jetsetted to Europe for fashion shows, dined and danced at every hot spot, and enjoyed a mighty roster of lovers. So it came as quite a shock to Bevy when one day, after arriving at her luxury hotel in Milan, she collapsed on the Frette bedsheets and sobbed. Years of rolling with the in-crowd had taken its toll. Her satisfaction with work and life had hit rock bottom.
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Aftershocks
- Written by: Nadia Owusu
- Narrated by: Nadia Owusu
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu comes a deeply felt memoir about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
- A Memoir
- Written by: Justine Cowan
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother’s elegance, in the upper-crust London accent she had never shed - and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. But beneath the polished veneer lay a fearsome, unpredictable temper that drove Justine from home the moment she was old enough to escape. Years later, when her mother sent her an envelope filled with secrets from a past that had never been spoken about, Justine buried it in the back of an old filing cabinet.
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From Miniskirt to Hijab
- A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
- Written by: Jacqueline Saper
- Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At 18 she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures.
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Miniskirts to Mayhem
- By Gayle on 2021-01-17
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American Daughter
- A Memoir
- Written by: Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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American Daughter is at once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on resilience, transcendence, and redemption. Stephanie's story is unique but its messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to rise above, heal, and forgive.