American Women Biographies

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,328 ratings
    • 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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    • Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
    • By: Julie Satow
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • 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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    • A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
    • By: Zarna Garg
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 04-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir—from narrowly escaping an arranged marriage in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife.

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    • The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
    • By: Katie Rogers
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray, Katie Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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    • The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    • By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Farah Jasmine Griffin’s father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
    • By: Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott - Introduction by
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nicole Chung
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets....

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    • By: Issa Rae
    • Narrated by: Issa Rae
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,031 ratings
    • "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be."....

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    • Clara Barton and the Civil War
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a 39-year-old woman who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency....

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    • A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
    • By: Tara Roberts
    • Narrated by: Tara Roberts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This searing memoir by a National Geographic explorer recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean—and find her place in the world.

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    • Dangerous Women - True Crime Stories
    • By: Gregg Olsen
    • Narrated by: Karen Peakes
    • Series: Dangerous Women - True Crime Stories
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • At 5:02 p.m. on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband, Bruce, was having a seizure....

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    • Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories
    • By: Gregg Olsen
    • Narrated by: Karen Peakes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife, Sharon, arrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something’s off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff and cold, while charismatic Sharon has her husband wrapped around her finger....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.

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    • An American Journey
    • By: Kamala Harris
    • Narrated by: Kamala Harris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,293 ratings
    • The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in an Oakland, California, community that cared deeply about social justice. In The Truths We Hold, she reckons with the big challenges we face together.

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,757 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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