Listen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264701 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264701] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forward: A Memoir Author: Abby Wambach Narrator: Abby Wambach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ''Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor.'' —NPR ''Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves.''  —Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, New York Times Bestselling author of Lean In  “This is the best memoir I’ve read by an athlete since Andre Agassi’s Open.”  —Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible.  Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2015, the iconic soccer player captured the nation’s heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship.  Admired for her fearlessness and passion, Abby is a vocal advocate for women’s rights and equal opportunity, pushing to translate the success of her team to the real world. She has become a heavily requested speaker to a wide a range of audiences, from college students to executives at Fortune 500 companies. In Forward, Abby recounts her own decisions, wins, losses, and the pivotal moments that helped her become the world class athlete and leader she is today. Wambach’s book goes beyond the soccer field to reveal a soulful person grappling universal questions about how we can live our best lives, and become our truest selves. Written with honesty and heart, Forward is an inspiring blueprint for individual growth and a rousing call to action.

You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265720 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265720] to listen full audiobooks. Title: You'll Grow Out of It Author: Jessi Klein Narrator: Jessi Klein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In You'll Grow Out of It, 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 and beyond. These include her 'transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man,' attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called 'ma'am' and 'miss' ('miss sounds like you weigh 99 pounds'). Raw, relatable, and consistently hilarious, You'll Grow Out of It is a one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice.

Freedom: My Book of Firsts by Jaycee Dugard

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262727 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262727] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom: My Book of Firsts Author: Jaycee Dugard Narrator: Jaycee Dugard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 12, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 3.71 of Total 7 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Philip and Nancy Garrido, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment. In A Stolen Life Jaycee told the story of her life from her abduction in 1991 through her reappearance in 2009. Freedom: My Book of Firsts is about everything that happened next. “How do you rebuild a life?” Jaycee asks. In these pages, she describes the life she never thought she would live to see: from her first sight of her mother to her first time meeting her grownup sister, her first trip to the dentist to her daughters’ first day of school, her first taste of champagne to her first hangover, her first time behind the wheel to her first speeding ticket, and her first dance at a friend’s wedding to her first thoughts about the possibility of a future relationship. This raw and inspiring book will remind you that there is, as Jaycee writes, “life after something tragic happens…Somehow, I still believe that we each hold the key to our own happiness and you have to grab it where you can in whatever form it might take.” Freedom is an awe-inspiring memoir about the power we all hold within ourselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265134 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265134] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, 1884-1933 Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting intimate friendships with some of the great men and women of her times. This landmark biography provides a compelling new evaluation of one of the most inspiring women in American political history. Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, it presents an unprecedented portrait of a brave, fierce, passionate political leader of our century.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265135 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/265135] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938 Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 5, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. 'Engrossing' (Boston Globe). The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.