Showing results by publisher "audible originals" in Biographies & Memoirs

Nakkiah and Miranda are angry, young, vocal, Aboriginal and very, very funny. Join them on their journey, starting with a lesson on teatime etiquette in London where it all began, as they follow the debutante trail and discover that First Nations women across the globe have made this tradition their own. Nakkiah and Miranda ask: can beauty, poise and politeness actually empower them? Or is it better to get angry and start shouting?

Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem in New York City, Baldwin would become an author and activist of international renown—one whose legacy has continued long beyond his death in 1987. Who was James Baldwin? How did he become the master of multiple literary genres and a champion for some of the era’s most notable political and social causes? And how is his influence still being felt today?

The first Olympic women's marathon and the battle for the right to run.

If any artist could brag about his contribution to the pop culture canon, it’s Smokey Robinson. His career is filled with so many “he was there” moments it’s a wonder he doesn’t recall them with the swagger of a conquering hero: songwriting and singing as a teenager in Detroit; co-founding Motown Records with Berry Gordy; creating 26 Top 40 hits with his group The Miracles; helping to spark racial integration of popular music in the 1960s; discovering hitmakers like Diana Ross and the Supremes; penning tunes for a jaw-droppingly diverse group of artists.

What’s it like to parent a child in transition? Inspired by the acclaimed podcast How to Be a Girl, this is a highly personal and beautifully narrated memoir by Marlo Mack recounting the journey she’s been on since her three-year-old declared he should have been born a girl. And Mack agrees to the child’s request to be a girl.

It’s 2006. After a string of rejections from men who tell her they could never, ever, ever see her “that way,” awkward third-grade teacher Micaela Blei signs up for a mysterious course called “The Divine Feminine,” and feels like she might have found the key to the perfect life. Turns out if you’re an A student, you can get an A in anything–including men. Pretty soon she’s learning to "conjure" her desires with vision boards, flirtations, and even a daring jumbotron viewing party for her, ahem ... "divine center."

Séptima temporada del éxitoso podcast original: ¿Por qué matamos? . Crímenes reales, diversos, dentro de la geografía española. Casos ya sentenciados sucedidos en las últimas décadas, trabajados con rigor, explicados con técnicas narrativas específicas y con un punto sociológico, como su título sugiere, intentando entender a través de la serie por qué los humanos matamos a humanos.

How do you explain Liz Phair? Looking at her career, the word fearless seems the right place to start. In Never Said Nothing, the latest in Audible’s Words + Music series, Phair charts her unlikely journey from making her first record - one that’s now ensconced on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” - to a trial by fire (she’d never set foot on stage before its release), to even more improbably, a second and a third, maybe fourth act, depending on how one counts these things.

Manchmal dauert es nur neun Minuten. Manchmal braucht es einen 45 Meter langen Tunnel. Oder einfach nur ein durchtrenntes Datenkabel – und plötzlich sind hundert Kilo Gold verschwunden. Oder eine Madonna. Oder gleich ein ganzes Milliardenunternehmen. In Fette Beute geht es um echte Einbrüche, verschwundene Kunst, Bargeld in Plastiktüten und antikes Gold in Rucksäcken. Um Schneeballsysteme, Fluchtautos und spektakuläres Schweigen vor Gericht.

A leading light on the alternative and indie music scene for nearly 40 years, Jeff Tweedy is a master of the art in the artifice of songwriting. In this volume, Tweedy introduces listeners to the people, occasions, and frames of mind that have inspired but don’t necessarily populate the iconic songbooks of bands Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, and Tweedy.

Carlos Santana’s Light, Spirit, and Soul is a rhythmic journey into the places, spaces, artists, and music that have inspired and informed one of popular music’s most successful artists by any measurable standard. He’s not an entertainer. He’s a communicator of a language that speaks directly to the molecules of listeners across space and time. These are his Words + Music.

Rhiannon Giddens possesses the power to express herself and the human experience like few others. Journey with the inimitable folk musician and MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient as the celebrated artist examines the multitude of influences and identities that have led her to a life "nestled in the nexus” - defined and further made whole by the sum of her parts.

Some people amass artwork. For others, it's stamps. But why would you want to collect the possessions of a serial killer?

Expectativas Delirantes é um projeto original da Audible, apresentado pela atriz, humorista e criadora de conteúdo Valentina Bandeira. Ao longo da temporada, Valen faz um mergulho sincero na sua formação amorosa e na maneira como essa fundação resultou em desencantos e desilusões românticas em série.

"Konbanwa, c'est Louis-San. Je vous présente Jiken, ma nouvelle série audio dans laquelle je vous raconte des faits réels effroyables au Japon. Dans cette série je n'ai pas seulement voulu vous décrire des histoires terrifiantes, mais j'ai surtout voulu vous les faire vivre. Des meurtres, des disparitions, de la folie, de la manipulation... Beaucoup de faits qui reflètent les problèmes sociétaux japonais."

Billie Was a Black Woman is a four-part podcast series that refracts Black womanhood through the prism of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday - widely considered to be one of the most innovative artists of all time.

To The Woman is Audible UK's flagship podcast series for International Women's Day.

At once profoundly personal and far-reaching, Exit Interview with My Grandmother serves as a meditation on the beginning of a young woman’s life and the series of questions that arise from examining love, loss, family, memory, and death. Moving between cities and centuries, Meyersohn probes her family's Jewish history and her grandparents' relationships in part to decipher her own young queer relationships, but also to examine how we ought to behave in the face of a world riddled with uncertainty and doubt.

What did the Founding Fathers think about religion? And why did a group of practicing Protestants create a republic with widespread religious liberty? The 12 lectures included in this fascinating course provide multi-layered insights into the vision, philosophies, politics, and deep-seated faith of these brilliant leaders - in their own time, in their own words.

Indie-rock icon Aimee Mann is well acquainted with trauma and the transformative act of using it as a basis for artistic expression, but that doesn’t mean that she knows how or why it works. Mann goes on a journey of discovery to better understand the link between damage and why what we do with it matters.