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Bestsellers
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Crusade for Justice
- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....
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Important person, sing-song narration
- By Judith Evans on 03-05-22
By: Ida B. Wells, and others
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....
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Maybe it’s the narrator?
- By Andrea on 09-18-19
By: Sonia Purnell
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue
- Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
- By: Julie Satow
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.
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Read like a text book for fashion students.
- By JACKI on 06-24-24
By: Julie Satow
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
- One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Kate Moore
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today....
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Everyone should read this!
- By Lana S on 12-22-21
By: Kate Moore
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Normal Women
- Nine Hundred Years of Making History
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, and others
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history....
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Well researched
- By Tom Masters on 05-31-24
By: Philippa Gregory
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- By Cynthia on 09-18-16
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Crusade for Justice
- The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....
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Important person, sing-song narration
- By Judith Evans on 03-05-22
By: Ida B. Wells, and others
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....
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Maybe it’s the narrator?
- By Andrea on 09-18-19
By: Sonia Purnell
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue
- Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
- By: Julie Satow
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.
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Read like a text book for fashion students.
- By JACKI on 06-24-24
By: Julie Satow
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
- One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Kate Moore
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
From the best-selling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today....
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Everyone should read this!
- By Lana S on 12-22-21
By: Kate Moore
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Normal Women
- Nine Hundred Years of Making History
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, and others
- Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history....
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Well researched
- By Tom Masters on 05-31-24
By: Philippa Gregory
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- By Cynthia on 09-18-16
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On Our Best Behavior
- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
- By: Elise Loehnen
- Narrated by: Elise Loehnen
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Elise Loehnen explores the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered “good,” revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live....
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Autobiography in Disguise
- By Lindsey on 06-11-23
By: Elise Loehnen
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The Sisterhood
- The Secret History of Women at the CIA
- By: Liza Mundy
- Narrated by: Liza Mundy
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down....
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Have now purchased five copies of this book. It is so interesting and informative and well written.
- By Victoria on 11-05-23
By: Liza Mundy
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt
- The Women Who Created a President
- By: Edward F. O'Keefe
- Narrated by: Edward F. O'Keefe
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A dazzling and lyrical look at the making of one of America’s most remarkable presidents, The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt celebrates five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it....
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A fresh take on TR
- By Maria on 05-29-24
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Code Girls
- The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
- By: Liza Mundy
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Recruited by the US Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II....
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Just released, about 80% through this story
- By Roobah on 10-11-17
By: Liza Mundy
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Being Heumann
- An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect....
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A must read for everyone
- By Christopher A Cawthon on 09-28-20
By: Judith Heumann, and others
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The Ship of Dreams
- The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
- By: Mr. Gareth Russell
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the “stunning” (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift....
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One of my favorites
- By M. M. Jones on 04-13-20
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Heiresses
- The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
- By: Laura Thompson
- Narrated by: Laura Thompson
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface....
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Too much fluff
- By JESSICA BAUER on 09-02-22
By: Laura Thompson
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Women in the Picture
- What Culture Does with Female Bodies
- By: Catherine McCormack
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives....
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An excellent listen!
- By Lauren Asheim on 03-08-23
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall.
By: Alison Weir
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A Rome of One's Own
- The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
- By: Emma Southon
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of twenty-one extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient world....
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Excellent stories, needlessly foul language
- By ShamaLambaDingDong on 04-14-24
By: Emma Southon
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Unwell Women
- Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
- By: Elinor Cleghorn
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....
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Profound Read; A Sincere Stepping Stone to Understanding My Own Why
- By Nicole on 07-23-21
By: Elinor Cleghorn
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The Exceptions
- Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
- By: Kate Zernike
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles....
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Unbelievable
- By Lilit Garibyan on 06-05-23
By: Kate Zernike
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The Unwomanly Face of War
- An Oral History of Women in World War II
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia....
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the best book about war I've ever read
- By Swarmy Barnacles on 10-06-17
By: Svetlana Alexievich, and others
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The Dark Queens
- The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
- By: Shelley Puhak
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule....
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Fascinating & Long Overdue
- By Mary E Birdsong on 10-22-22
By: Shelley Puhak
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Lenin
- The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
- By: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bringing Lenin to life for the first time as a complex human being, Sebestyen casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history....
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Lenin totally took an extra piece of that cake.
- By John Gathly on 05-14-19
By: Victor Sebestyen
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The Last Madam
- A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
- By: Christine Wiltz
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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1916: Norma Wallace, age 15, arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution....
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pronunciations
- By lynda on 07-29-19
By: Christine Wiltz
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Tell Her Story
- How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
- By: Nijay K. Gupta, Beth Allison Barr - foreword
- Narrated by: Nijay K. Gupta
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders....
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Biblical exploration of women’s role in the Bible
- By Adam Shields on 08-18-23
By: Nijay K. Gupta, and others
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Femina
- A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
- By: Janina Ramirez
- Narrated by: Janina Ramirez
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the “Dark” Ages were anything but....
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Shallow discourse and presentation
- By Stig Mjolsnes on 06-25-23
By: Janina Ramirez
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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- By: Eleanor Janega
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....
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Get a Rosalie Gilbert book instead
- By Jennifer Martin on 07-11-23
By: Eleanor Janega
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Royal Witches
- Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
- By: Gemma Hollman
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Until the mass hysteria of the 17th century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare. However, four royal women, related in family and in court ties were accused of practicing witchcraft in order to kill or influence the king....
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Hard to listen to
- By donna bahr on 12-10-20
By: Gemma Hollman
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The Woman Who Would Be King
- Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
- By: Kara Cooney
- Narrated by: Kara Cooney
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Hatshepsut's failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king....
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Overt Agenda
- By Kindle Customer on 04-14-19
By: Kara Cooney
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Pride of a Nation
- A Celebration of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (An Official U.S. Soccer Book)
- By: Gwendolyn Oxenham, Julie Foudy - foreword, David Hirshey - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Gwendolyn Oxenham, Julie Foudy
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Telling the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team's story in expert prose, Pride of a Nation is a lavish tribute to one of the most beloved teams in sports, revisiting their historic four World Cup titles and four Olympic gold medals....
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Phenomenal Woman
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-22
By: Gwendolyn Oxenham, and others
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Lady Killers
- Deadly Women Throughout History
- By: Tori Telfer
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column "Lady Killers", this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages....
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I think the narrator really made this one for me
- By Michaela Rose on 09-29-22
By: Tori Telfer
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Anne Boleyn
- 500 Years of Lies
- By: Hayley Nolan
- Narrated by: Hayley Nolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In this electrifying exposé, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn’s life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression of a powerful woman....
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Very annoying narrator!
- By momo chan on 12-02-19
By: Hayley Nolan
New releases
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
- A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
- By: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong—warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, renowned math historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader, and richer than the narrative we think we know.
By: Kate Kitagawa, and others
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The Hidden Face of Eve
- Women in the Arab World
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Raghad Chaar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. She goes on to explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith.
By: Nawal El Saadawi
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall. But here Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence and created a richly researched and detailed portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
By: Alison Weir
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- By: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman
- The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
- By: Jill Burke
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?
By: Jill Burke
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman
- The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
- By: Jill Burke
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?
By: Jill Burke
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
- A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
- By: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong—warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, renowned math historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader, and richer than the narrative we think we know.
By: Kate Kitagawa, and others
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The Hidden Face of Eve
- Women in the Arab World
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Raghad Chaar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. She goes on to explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith.
By: Nawal El Saadawi
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall. But here Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence and created a richly researched and detailed portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
By: Alison Weir
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- By: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman
- The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
- By: Jill Burke
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?
By: Jill Burke
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman
- The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
- By: Jill Burke
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?
By: Jill Burke
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Being Eclipsed
- Women Under the 'Care' of the Patriarchy
- By: Dörthe Dolata
- Narrated by: Céire O'Donoghue
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Being Eclipsed describes women’s lives under the care of the Church and State in Ireland at the beginning of the mid-19th century throughout the 20th century. It gives an overview of women who had to turn to prostitution out of necessity in order to survive, and also on nuns who were put in charge of them under catholic church rule creating a double-standard.
By: Dörthe Dolata
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- By: Miranda Seymour
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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One name links Betrand Russell and Axel Munthe, Augustus John and Henry Lamb, H.H. Asquith and Duncan Grant, Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey. To some she was a lover, to others a confidant and adviser. To many she was a mother substitute. But wherever the phrase ‘Bloomsbury group’ is spoken, Lady Ottoline Morrell’s name is not far behind.
By: Miranda Seymour
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The Volunteers
- By: Lezlie Lowe
- Narrated by: Krista Wells
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Thoroughly researched and compellingly told, and with a dozen archival images, The Volunteers examines the untold stories of the hardworking women whose unpaid and unacknowledged labour won the Second World War.
By: Lezlie Lowe
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The Pride of the Lion
- By: J. M. Barlog
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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🆕 in audiobook! Book III in The Heart of the Lion series. The epic saga of the Plantagenet dynasty. 💥 This twisted tale of lies, deception, conspiracy, abduction, and murder fueled by greed, avarice, envy, and the lust for power during the reign of Richard the Lionheart concludes in the Pride of the Lion. 💥
By: J. M. Barlog
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Swimming Pretty
- The Untold Story of Women in Water
- By: Vicki Valosik
- Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty," said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers—none more so than synchronized swimmers, for whom Williams is often considered godmother. In this riveting history—the first of its kind—Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance, from vaudeville and dime museums to the Olympic arena.
By: Vicki Valosik
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A Biblical Argument for Women in Ministry and Leadership
- By: Ken Schenck
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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There is this rumor going around that the idea of women in ministry and leadership isn't biblical. Quite to the contrary, women play all the same roles in Scripture as men save one - and Jesus is the only one who has truly fulfilled that one. Join me on a whirlwind tour through Scripture as we meet Deborah the judge, prophetess, and supreme leader of Israel. We'll meet Huldah, whom the high priest needed to sort out Scripture for him. We'll meet Priscilla who discipled Apollos, Junia the apostle of Jesus, and Phoebe the deacon of the church at Cenchrea. We'll also learn that Paul, far from ...
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Cogent, concise, and faithful to Scripture
- By Liz on 06-23-24
By: Ken Schenck
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Izabela the Valiant
- The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
- By: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Rousseau, Joseph II, Marie-Antoinette and Tsar Alexander I, and earned her the enmity of Catherine the Great.
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Insight into a different age
- By Unhappy customer on 06-30-24
By: Adam Zamoyski
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Better Faster Farther
- How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
- By: Maggie Mertens
- Narrated by: Maggie Mertens, Lauren Fleshman - introduction
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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More than a century ago, a woman ran in the very first modern Olympic marathon. She just did it without permission. Award-winning journalist Maggie Mertens uncovers the story of how women broke into competitive running and how they are getting faster and fiercer every day—and changing our understanding of what is possible as they go.
By: Maggie Mertens
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Enid
- The Scandalous Life of a Glamorous Australian Who Dazzled the World
- By: Robert Wainwright
- Narrated by: Jess Tovey
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and dared walk a pet cheetah on a diamond collar through Hyde Park in London. In early twentieth-century society, when women were expected to be demure and obedient, the granddaughter of Hunter Valley wine pioneer Henry Lindeman waltzed through life to the beat of her own drum.
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Women of War Omnibus, Books 1-5
- By: History Nerds
- Narrated by: Ailish Jeffers
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Discover the awe-inspiring tales of courage, resilience, and determination in the "Women of War Omnibus - Books 1-5." This captivating collection brings to life the extraordinary journeys of five remarkable women who shaped history with their indomitable spirits.
By: History Nerds
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
- By: Susan Dalgety, Lucy Hunter Blackburn
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1980s, took on the political establishment - and changed the course of history. Through a collection of over thirty essays and photographs, some of the women involved tell the story of the five-year campaign to protect women's sex-based rights.
By: Susan Dalgety, and others
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The Sacred Feminine Through the Ages
- Voices of Visionary Women on Power and Belief
- By: Paula Marvelly
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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This is an exploration of feminine spirituality from the beginning of time to the present day. These extraordinary women have expressed their experiences of the agony and ecstasy of pursuing spiritual enlightenment through their poetry and prose, which is beautiful, inspirational, and very moving.
By: Paula Marvelly