American Women Biographies

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    • Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
    • Auteur(s): Bell Hooks, Cornel West
    • Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
    • Durée: 8 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Border Story
    • Auteur(s): Aaron Bobrow-Strain
    • Narrateur(s): Frankie Corzo, Aaron Bobrow-Strain
    • Durée: 13 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Mexico, the nearby US border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had become one of the most heavily policed sites in America....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
    • Auteur(s): Carl Rollyson
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • American Isis is the first Plath biography benefiting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library, which includes 41 letters between Plath and Hughes....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Jason Emerson
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Durée: 6 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for 40 years....

    Prix courant: 23,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Biographies of Doris Day, Lucille Ball, and Shirley Temple
    • Auteur(s): Sophie Miller
    • Narrateur(s): Linda Sonrisa
    • Durée: 4 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The 20th century was a golden age during which women had ground-breaking impact in many fields including acting. Of these, three women stood out in particular. Doris Day, Lucille Ball, and Shirley Temple were just ahead of their time in many ways....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Marlene Wagman-Geller, Laurel Corona
    • Narrateur(s): Ann Richardson
    • Durée: 7 h
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou, and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. This book embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled within.

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Miki Brina
    • Narrateur(s): Sachi Lovatt
    • Durée: 8 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on US-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Stephanie Cham
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How did Tammy Duckworth become a Senator? Listeners will learn all about this great Asian American politician and the significant events in her life in this low-leveled biography....

    Prix courant: 3,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Kiyo Sato
    • Narrateur(s): Cindy Kay
    • Durée: 12 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored to build a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Great Asian Americans
    • Auteur(s): Stephanie Cham
    • Narrateur(s): Anonymous
    • Durée: 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How did Patsy Mink become a member of Congress? Listeners will learn all about this great Asian American politician and the significant events in her life in this low-leveled biography....

    Prix courant: 3,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
    • Auteur(s): Huda Al-Marashi
    • Narrateur(s): Jeed Saddy
    • Durée: 9 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Tender, honest, and irresistibly compelling, First Comes Marriage is the first Muslim American memoir dedicated to the themes of love and sexuality....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • Auteur(s): Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrateur(s): Pearl Hewitt
    • Durée: 26 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Katherine Johnson
    • Auteur(s): Joseph Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Taylor
    • Durée: 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Did you know that NASA uses mathematics for space travel? Meet Katherine Johnson, one of the first African-American and female mathematicians who worked for NASA.

    Prix courant: 1,43$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Susan Mary Alsop
    • Auteur(s): Caroline De Margerie
    • Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
    • Durée: 6 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-11-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An American aristocrat - a descendant of founding father John Jay - Susan Mary Alsop (1918–2004) with husband, Joe Alsop, brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Kat Chow
    • Narrateur(s): Kat Chow
    • Durée: 9 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • For fans of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief and the search for meaning from a singular new talent as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Annie Dillard
    • Narrateur(s): Tavia Gilbert
    • Durée: 8 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard’s poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s....

    Prix courant: 17,12$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
    • Auteur(s): Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 5 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class Black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Women in Sports
    • Auteur(s): Esther Porter
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Serena Williams is a standout professional tennis player. Learn about her childhood and her rise to becoming a tennis superstar....

    Prix courant: 3,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
    • Auteur(s): Carrot Quinn
    • Narrateur(s): Erin Spencer
    • Durée: 9 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit