Audiobooks with a Strong Female Lead
During the month of March, we recognize and give tribute to the numerous ways women have enriched our lives and the world we live in, both historically and presently.
To commemorate this, we are celebrating in the most appropriate way we know: by reading works written by and centering around female authors!
Genre: Mystery
Barbed Wire Heart
Details: Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. Duke McKenna's run more guns, cooked more meth, and killed more men than anyone around. Harley's been working for him since she was 16 - collecting debts, sweet-talking her way out of trouble, and dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural drug empire he's ...
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Genre: Mystery
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Details: Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights.
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Genre: Thriller and Suspense
Conviction
Details: The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life explodes starts off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone.
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Genre: True Crime
Buried Memories: The Bloody Crimes and Execution of the Texas Black Widow
Details: 1985, Gun Barrel City, Texas: Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, 48-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigat...
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Genre: Clean Romance
The Boyfriend Project
Details: Samiah never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: She's been catfished by a 3-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly, Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends", London and Taylor - have gone viral online. Now, the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next ...
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Genre: Steamy Romance
Yes & I Love You
Details: Everyone knows Miz Poppy, the vibrant reviewer whose commentary brightens the New Orleans nightlife. But no one knows Hollyn, the real face behind the media star...or the fear that keeps her isolated. When her boss tells her she needs to add video to her blog or she’ll lose her job, she's forced to rely on an unexpected source to help h...
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Genre: Literature and Fiction
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Details: Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. mKorede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace.
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Genre: Literature and Fiction
Such a Fun Age
Details: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket.
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Genre: Fantasy
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel
Details: Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits th...
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Genre: Science Fiction
Remote Control
Details: The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa - a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall.
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Genre: Biography and Memoir
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World
Details: Even in this time of rethinking women’s roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. When asked to name a genius, people mention Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs. As for great women? In one survey, the only female genius anyone listed was Marie Curie.
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Genre: Biography and Memoir
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Details: In the early 1900s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness—a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polit...
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