FROM THE PUBLISHER: A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a mellifluous chorus celebrating the liberation, individuality, and joy of African women's multifaceted sexuality. Thanks to her blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. For this book, she spoke to more than 30 African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
Pub Date: 2022
Duration: 10 hrs, 15 mins
DD ISBN: 9798200957439
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Narrator Amber Dekkers guides listeners through the trials and tribulations of the relatively unknown writer Sanora Babb. Her life began with an abusive and impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado. As an adult in California, she associated with creatives such as Ray Bradbury, James Wong Howe, and Ralph Ellison. Her own writing, however, was often pushed aside and ignored. Dekkers' thoughtful narration takes listeners through Babb's complicated life, which included being blacklisted during the McCarthy era and her illegal (at the time) interracial relationships. Dekkers' emotionally balanced performance allows listeners to take in the life of a writer who sought joy even in tragedy.
Pub Date: 2025
Duration: 11 hrs, 45 mins
DD ISBN: 9798331958947
Publisher: Tantor Media
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
British narrator Catherine Bailey brings listeners neuroscientist Gina Rippon's exploration of the calamitous underdiagnosis of autism in girls and women. Braiding together the history of autism research, accounts of copious experiments, and the voices of autistic girls and women themselves, Rippon makes a powerful case that autism research has ignored its distinctive presentation in female subjects, leaving them isolated and voiceless. It's no small feat to render lively descriptions of scientific minutiae, but Rippon manages, and Bailey does her one better with her vocal delivery. Unflaggingly attentive to varied intonation and breath control such that each sentence lands nimbly, Bailey breathes life into it all, even alphanumeric strings of genetic code, inert on the printed page. Fascinating material, masterful delivery.
Pub Date: 2025
Duration: 9 hrs
DD ISBN: 9781668647943
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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