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Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403840 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403840] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seeing Serena Author: Gerald Marzorati Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying meditation” (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women’s tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and—by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others—changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams’s influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter—from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women’s tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators—and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically—reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an “enlightening…keen analysis” (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415119 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415119] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir Author: Marina Warner Narrator: Marina Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith’s. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean. Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warner’s parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warner’s parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering.

Le Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424445 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424445] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Le Consent: A Memoir Author: Vanessa Springora Narrator: Anne-Marie Piazza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times  Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. Consent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children.  Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer ''...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch.'' -- The New Yorker ''Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity.'' -- The Times (London) ''[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways.'' -- Slate ''Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere.'' -- Los Angeles Review of Books ”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.” -- Publishers Weekly  ''Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation.'' -- Booklist ''A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer.'' -- Kirkus

Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419219 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419219] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coal Miner's Daughter Author: Loretta Lynn Narrator: Sissy Spacek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry. Reissued for the 40th Anniversary of the Oscar-winning, Sissy Spacek-starring film of the same name, Coal Miner's Daughter recounts Loretta Lynn's astonishing journey to become one of the original queens of country music. Loretta grew up dirt poor in the mountains of Kentucky, she was married at thirteen years old, and became a mother soon after. At the age of twenty-four, her husband, Doo, gave her a guitar as an anniversary present. Soon, she began penning songs and singing in front of honky-tonk audiences, and, through years of hard work, talent, and true grit, eventually made her way to Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry, eventually securing her place in country music history. Loretta's prolific and influential songwriting made her the first woman to receive a gold record in country music, and got her named the first female Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association. This riveting memoir introduces readers to all the highs and lows on her road to success and the tough, smart, funny, and fascinating woman behind the legend.

Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex by Hannah Morgan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430489 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430489] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex Author: Hannah Morgan Narrator: Una Byrne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse. Broken in mind, body and spirit and completely isolated from the rest of the world, Hannah thinks she’ll never find the strength to escape, until one day an opportunity arrives…