Come Fly The World
The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
By Julia Cooke
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Come Fly The World
“Come Fly the World is just the book my wander loving heart needed during this time when we haven’t been able to travel anywhere. I absolutely cannot recommend it enough for all my travel loving friends, aviation fans, and history buffs.”
Rayna, Garden District Book Shop
The Three Mothers
How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By Anna Malaika Tubbs
Narrated by: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
This program is read by the author.
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates... Read more »
Pay Up
The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
By Reshma Saujani
Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today.
We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is... Read more »
Hail Mary
The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League
By Britni De La Cretaz & Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
Narrated by: Kimberly Austin
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
In 1967, a Cleveland businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women's football team? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters. He recruited women to compete as a traveling football troupe; much to his surprise, he learned that women really wanted to play—and play hard. Hail Mary is the... Read more »
Girly Drinks
A World History of Women and Alcohol
By Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Girly Drinks
“Girly Drinks is a fun, feminist, and information account chronicling the immense impact women have had on society through making and consuming alcohol. From beer and ale, to whisky, to sake, to sorghum, this is an inclusive and culturally aware history. Full to the brim with riveting stories, you’ll savor every line. Grab a beverage and tuck in!”
Riona, Books & Books @ The Studios of Key West
Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
By Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more »
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 hours 47 minutes
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the... Read more »
The Secret History of Home Economics
How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
By Danielle Dreilinger
Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and... Read more »
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Crossing Press Feminist: Book #1
By Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more »
In Defense of Witches
The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
By Mona Chollet
Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.
Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique... Read more »
Maiden Voyages
Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
By Siân Evans
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Siân Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America.
During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women,... Read more »
The Soul of a Woman
By Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).
“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a... Read more »
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
By Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Hood Feminism
“Powerful. Important. Compulsively readable. Kendall’s narrative style is top notch - riveting and un-put-down-able. Not only is this a must read, it's a must pay attention. It's a must revisit and keep learning kind of book. Kendall dives deep and doesn't pull punches, but she doesn't seek to shame either. This is necessary reading for anyone who considers themselves a feminist. Because solidarity needs to be for ALL.”
Britt, Second Star to the Right
Vanguard
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
By Martha S. Jones
Narrated by: Mela Lee
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing... Read more »
Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By Olivia Campbell
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.
In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they... Read more »
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By Caroline Criado-Perez
Narrated by: Caroline Criado-Perez
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Invisible Women
“This book is as utterly fascinating as it is frustrating and eye-opening. I blew through it in a day and a half because I simply could not stop listening to it and appreciating with rising vexation Perez's breakdown of the data at every level of the world we live in today. This is a book I wish I could share with everyone and talk about to get the ball rolling on change.”
Jane, Rediscovered Books
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF... Read more »
When Women Invented Television
The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
“Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired prose. When Women Invented Television offers proof that what we watch is a reflection of who we are as a people.” —Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket GirlsNew York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia Jennifer... Read more »
The Women with Silver Wings
The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
By Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
“With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, women pilots went aloft to serve their nation. . . . A soaring tale in which, at long last, these daring World War II pilots gain the credit they deserve.”—Liza Mundy, New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls
“A powerful story of reinvention, community and ingenuity born out of... Read more »
Good and Mad
The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
By Rebecca Traister
Narrated by: Rebecca Traister
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” (Vanity Fair).
Long before Pantsuit Nation,... Read more »
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