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From the creator of the New York Times best-selling Sad Animal Facts series, Brooke Barker, comes a quirky, hilarious memoir-in-essays about her journey from a childhood in the Mormon church to a Jewish adulthood, and all the wonder and weirdness of faith.

Die Audio-Dokumentation mit bislang ungehörten O-Tönen der jungen Christiane F. (15): "Auf der einen Seite wusste ich, dass irgendwann einmal ein Wendepunkt in meinem Leben kommen wird. Das heißt aber auch, dass ich eben vielleicht noch ein paar Mal auf die Schnauze fliegen muss bevor es soweit kommt." West-Berlin in den 70ern: In dem Gemisch aus Abschottung, Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Drogen entstehen Parallelgesellschaften mit einmaligen Möglichkeiten, aber auch neuen Gefahren.

Find Another Dream, written and performed by Maysoon Zayid, is the true story of how a Muslim Jersey girl with cerebral palsy creates her own path to stardom. The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, as a child she dreamed of one day dancing on Broadway. As a teen, a bubble-bursting choreographer told her to “find another dream”, so she set her sights on becoming a soap star, undeterred by the fact that the odds were against her.

Dead Dad Club is the lucid, prismatic memoir of Katie Moulton, a millennial music critic who grew up in a die-hard rock-and-roll family, about her father’s unexpected death from addiction shortly before her 17th birthday, and the music obsession she inherited from him that shaped her early adulthood. A quintessentially American tale about family, grief, identity, and dependency, set in the Midwest and scored in the writer’s imagination by the timeless Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Betsy LaQuanda Ross is a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot”, who makes regular visits to penitentiaries in order to boost the morale of her loved ones. When she is not sharing neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy illuminates our country’s cruel and unjust criminal justice system and its impact not only on the 2.3 million people behind bars, but also their family and friends.

Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, mother of Justin Trudeau, Canada's current Prime Minister, and international mental health advocate, brought her intimate staged performance, Certain Woman of an Age, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it was recorded live for Audible Theater. In this "fearless and vulnerable" (Chicago Tribune) one-woman show, Trudeau opens up - with refreshing candor - about her extraordinary life and her encounters with some of the most important icons of our time.

Christiane F. est le symbole d'une jeune génération qui a rompu avec la société normalisée pour atterrir dans la rue. En quoi ce monde parallèle, avec ses problèmes, ses bruits et ses lieux, était-il fascinant ? Pourquoi tant de jeunes gens ont-ils cherché un nouveau foyer dans les rues de la grande ville de Berlin ? Le documentaire audio suit la jeune Christiane F. depuis son déménagement à Berlin-Ouest jusqu'à sa dépendance à l'héroïne et la prostitution infantile.

Christiane F. est le symbole d'une jeune génération qui a rompu avec la société normalisée pour atterrir dans la rue. En quoi ce monde parallèle, avec ses problèmes, ses bruits et ses lieux, était-il fascinant ? Pourquoi tant de jeunes gens ont-ils cherché un nouveau foyer dans les rues de la grande ville de Berlin ? Le documentaire audio suit la jeune Christiane F. depuis son déménagement à Berlin-Ouest jusqu'à sa dépendance à l'héroïne et la prostitution infantile.

Seeking shelter after a bad break-up, host Laura Nagy falls into the bizarre and beautiful online world of ASMR, where strangers murmur sweet nothings to lonely listeners. But there's more than just comfort to be found here. How will these whispers crack her open, and what will they reveal? Are these anonymous voices all safe - or are there predators lurking here? A timely and powerful personal story, Pillow Talk is one woman’s journey into the heart of the internet and the truth of her own past.

2020 sin duda será recordado como el año en el que la humanidad se vio obligada a recluirse por la pandemia del Coronavirus. Audible ha querido dejar constancia de este momento excepcional a través de la correspondencia entre Isabel Coixet y Elisabet Benavent, dos mujeres que nos cuentan cómo están viviendo estos tiempos.

Cosa hanno in comune Elisa, una studentessa di 22 anni di San Donato Milanese che dedica il suo tempo libero all'attivismo e al volontariato, e Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, una principessa milanese vissuta nell'800 con una dote di ben 13 nomi? E Raja, una 18enne indiana che guida un tuk tuk, e Alfonsina Strada, la prima donna che corse il Giro d'Italia all'inizio del '900? Sono donne separate da migliaia di kilometri e da centinaia di anni, ma che in comune hanno una caratteristica specifica.