Contemporary Women Audiobooks | Fiction & Literature

Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family: her mother Florence is a mega-bestselling author, and her sister Jane is one of Hollywood's top producers. Jane has lived with her partner, Liz, for ten years, in a solid relationship. Florence, widowed but still radiant, has just begun a secret romance with a man twenty-four years her junior. And Coco, a law school dropout and the family black sheep, works as a dog walker, having fled life in the spotlight for the artsy northern California beach town of Bolinas. When Coco reluctantly agrees to house-sit in Jane's luxurious home, it turns out Jane's house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest: Leslie Baxter, a dashing but down-to-earth British actor who's fleeing a psycho ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldn't be more different. The attraction couldn't be more immediate. Suddenly Coco is seeing things differently: Leslie is not just a celebrity, he's a single dad to an adorable six-year-old girl. Her mother is a woman in love, with vulnerability and new insight. And Jane and Liz are about to take the bravest plunge of all - into parenthood. As Coco contemplates a future with one of Hollywood's hottest stars, as her mother and sister settle into their lives, old wounds are healed and new families are formed - all bonded by love. With wit and intelligence, Danielle Steel explores love in all its guises, taking us into the lives of three unusual but wonderfully real couples. One Day at a Time is at once moving, thought provoking, and utterly impossible to put down.

Danielle Steel (Author), Dan John Miller (Narrator)

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What I Did for Love

How did this happen? Georgie York, once the costar of America's favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating. What should a down-on-her-luck actress do? Not go to Vegas . . . run into her detestable former costar, dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard . . . and not get caught up in an ugly incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Before she knows it, Georgie has a fake marriage, a fake husband, and maybe (or not) a fake sex life. It's a paparazzi free-for-all, and Georgie's nonsupporting cast doesn't help. There's Bram's punk-nightmare housekeeper, Georgie's own pushy parent, a suck-up agent, an icy studio head with a private agenda, and her ex-husband's new wife, who can't get enough of doing good deeds and saving the world the bitch. As for Georgie's leading man, Bram's giving the performance of his life, but he's never cared about anyone except himself, and it's not exactly clear why. Two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright . . . and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Author), Julia Gibson (Narrator)

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Still Alice

An extraordinary debut novel about an accomplished woman who slowly loses her thoughts and memories to a harrowing disease -- only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease changes her life. As the inevitable descent into dementia strips away her sense of self, fiercely independent Alice struggles to live in the moment. While she once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must reevaluate her relationship with her husband, a respected scientist; her expectations of her children; and her ideas about herself and her place in the world. At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer's disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Ordinary People.

Lisa Genova (Author), Lisa Genova (Narrator)

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Single Sashimi

The third book in the Sushi series reunites four cousins---Lex, Trish, Jennifer, and Venus---for romance with the spice of ginger. In the world of video games, innovation is king. And Venus Chau has been reigning queen, one of the high-powered developers in the industry. But Venus also has a reputation for not being the easiest person to work with. After her massive weight loss at age twenty-five that turned her from a geeky blimp into JLo, CEO Drake Yu tried to force her to use her looks to benefit his company, and Venus has never forgiven him. Now Drake needs her expertise for his sister's startup and is asking for a second chance. Grandma bribes Venus to do this favor for Drake's wealthy family with an introduction to an investor for Venus's game development company. They form an uneasy truce for the next few months. But one wild youth group, a two-faced assistant, and Grandma's determined match-making threaten to make them both fail---or go insane. And Venus discovers that even a wounded heart can undergo a beautiful transformation ...

Camy Tang, Staci Richey (Author), Staci Richey, Zondervan Publishing (Narrator)

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Knit Two

Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota is now an 18 year old freshman at NYU, running the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce, for Darwin, newborn twins, for Lucie, being both a single mom and caregiver for her elderly mother, and for seventy-something Anita, marriage to her sweetheart Marty over the objections of her grown children. As Kate Jacobs returns to the world of Walker & Daughter, she's once again keyed into many of the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter and friend. Every woman who picks up this book will see themselves in its characters-the very thing that made The Friday Night Knitting Club such a huge word-of-mouth success. A true love letter to the power of women's friendships, and, of course, knitting, Knit Two is entertainment with a heart.

Kate Jacobs (Author), Carrington MacDuffie (Narrator)

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Meine 30 Lippenstifte und ich - Vom vierten Frühling und nicht abziehbaren Preisschildern

Meine 30 Lippenstifte und ich Vom vierten Frühling und nicht abziehbaren Preisschildern 'Verzweifeln auch Sie an den viel zu fest klebenden Preisschildern an Ihren neuen Schuhen? Und hüten Sie auch einen Schatz von mindestens 30 Lippenstiften - und benutzen doch nur einen? Dann verstehen wir uns und ich nehme Sie mit in mein Leben, das derzeit vom Kampf mit Bestellangeboten aus dem Internet oder der hektischen Suche meiner Lieben nach ultimativen Verjüngungsmethoden erschüttert wird. Ich freue mich auf Ihre Unterstützung in meinem Alltag als ganz normale Frau.' Ihre Sibylle Weischenberg

Sibylle Weischenberg (Author), Sibylle Weischenberg (Narrator)

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Gegensätze ziehen sich aus

Für Constanze und den Anwalt Anton ist es die ganz große Liebe gewesen. Aber: Kann man Romantik, Leidenschaft und das große Kribbeln auch im Alltag einer komplizierten Patchworkfamilien-Beziehung erhalten? Wie groß muss die Liebe sein, um mit aufdringlichen Exmännern, eifersüchtigen Töchtern und skrupellosen Rivalinnen fertig zu werden? Diese und weitere Tipps in Herzensangelegenheiten gibt die Müttermafia in ihrem neuen Hauptquartier - dem eigenen Schuhladen Pomp und Pumps.

Kerstin Gier (Author), Mirja Boes (Narrator)

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Ach, wär' ich nur zu Hause geblieben

Wie man Postkartentexte richtig deutet, warum es sinnvoll ist, die Sprache des Urlaubslandes zu sprechen, was man unter 'authentischem Ambiente' versteht und wer einem in der schönste Zeit des Jahres den letzten Nerv rauben kann... Kerstin Gier kennt auch die Antwort auf die Frage, warum sie eigentlich jedes Jahr wieder auf Reisen geht: Damit Sie mal wieder so richtig was zum Lachen haben!

Kerstin Gier (Author), Mirja Boes (Narrator)

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Die Patin

Wer sagt denn, dass 'Der Pate' immer alt, übergewichtig und männlich sein und mit heiserer Stimme sprechen muss? Warum sollte der Job nicht auch mal von einer Frau gemacht werden? Einer Blondine. Mit langen Beinen. Gestählt durch die Erziehung einer pubertierenden Tochter und eines vierjährigen Sohnes. Constanze ist 'die Patin' der streng geheimen Mütter-Mafia. Gegen intrigante Super-Mamis, fremdgehende Ehemänner und bösartige Sorgerechtsschmarotzer kommen die Waffen der Frauen zum Einsatz. Ein Angriff auf Ihre Lachmuskulatur.

Kerstin Gier (Author), Mirja Boes (Narrator)

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Die Mütter-Mafia

Es gibt sie, die perfekten Mamis und Bilderbuch-Mütter, die sich nur über Kochrezepte, Klavierunterricht und Kinderfrauen austauschen. Doch eigentlich sind sie der Albtraum jeder Vorstadtsiedlung. Dagegen hilft nur eins. Sich zusammenrotten und eine kreative Gegenbewegung gründen: die 'Mütter-Mafia?! Ab jetzt müssen sich alle braven Muttertiere warm anziehen ... Teil 1 der erfolgreichen 'Mütter-Mafia?-Trilogie

Kerstin Gier (Author), Mirja Boes (Narrator)

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A Good Woman

Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed on an April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic changed her family and her world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life. But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring grief caused by the secrets of her husband. Betrayed, and pursued by undeserved scandal, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, studying medicine and saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris - now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgotten... until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more time -- this time a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with life's experience, building a future filled with hope...out of the rich soil of the past.

Danielle Steel (Author), Jay O. Sanders (Narrator)

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Somebody Else's Daughter

Elizabeth Brundage (Author), Bernadette Dunne, Mark Bramhall (Narrator)

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Contemporary Women Audiobooks in Fiction & Literature