Womeness Reads | Mindfulness, Movement, & Community

The Book of Awakening

Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

By: Mark Nepo
Narrated by: Mark Nepo
Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Hailed as one of “Oprah’s Ultimate Favorite Things,” Mark Nepo’s bestselling “thinking person’s devotional” of inspirational stories and essays is now available from S&S Audio.

In this work, Mark Nepo invites listeners to explore their own inner core through the stories of ordinary people, political activists, artists, and spiritual teachers... Read more

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering and its role in creating compassion, love, and joy – all qualities of enlightenment. 

“Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth.”—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

In The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, now... Read more

The Book of Joy

Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

By: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Carlton Abrams, Francois Chau & Peter Francis James
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
 
The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The... Read more

The Alchemist

By: Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 4 hours

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER 120 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE • PUBLISHED IN 89 LANGUAGES “Teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation”A spellbinding audio presentation of the extraordinary bestseller, narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons–Discover the true... Read more

The Mountain is You

Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

By: Brianna Wiest
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and... Read more

She's Come Undone

By: Wally Lamb
Narrated by: Linda Stephens
Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

“This remains one of my favorite books. We meet Dolores Price at age 13 and stay with her until middle age. Along the way Dolores attempts various personas, deals with or avoids her various traumas, and tries to temper her wise-ass personality with her longing to be loved. Unpredictable, funny, and emotionally wrenching, She’s Come Undone is... Read more

All of This

A Memoir of Death and Desire

By: Rebecca Woolf
Narrated by: Rebecca Woolf
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

“Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.”—ROXANE GAY“Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”—JENNY LAWSON“Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...A provocative... Read more

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

By: Joanna Gaines
Narrated by: Emmie Kay Gaines & Joanna Gaines
Length: 3 minutes

In the #1?New York Times?bestseller,?The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure. The book, illustrated by Julianna Swaney, follows a group of children as they each build their very own hot-air balloons. As the kids work together,... Read more

Essentialism

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown
Narrated by: Greg McKeown
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

THE LIFE-CHANGING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD

“Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: How can we do less but accomplish more?”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again

Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.

Have... Read more

The Go-Giver

A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

By: Bob Burg & John Mann
Narrated by: Bob Burg & John Mann
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. . . . Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the... Read more

Never Split the Difference

Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

By: Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

This international bestseller, with more than 3 million copies sold, offers a field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom, in your community, or at home.Life is a series of negotiations, and negotiation is at the heart of collaboration—whether you are a business executive, a salesperson, a parent , a community... Read more

The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Abi Daré
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

“This year is overflowing with phenomenal debuts — including this one from Abi Daré. It tells the story of Adunni, a young girl in Nigeria whose dreams and ambition focus in on one thing: education. In a city where girls like her are looked down upon and considered unworthy, she comes to find that change can begin with even the smallest of... Read more

The 57 Bus

A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

“One of Austen's most ingenious pastiches of late-18th-century English culture. Primarily focusing on subtly dismantling the 'marriage plot' - the cultural confinement of women to marriage - Pride and Prejudice tells the enemies-to-lovers story of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, who both must overcome their enmity for one another. Featuring a... Read more

The Nature of Witches

By: Rachel Griffin
Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

CLARA DENSMORE is an EVERWITCH.

For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power peaking in the season of their birth. But their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, whose rare magic is tied to every season.

In autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It’s wild and volatile,... Read more

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #1

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

“Both fantasy novels explore relationships between humans and magical creatures. The characters are richly developed and both authors are masters at world building. Read more

All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

“A modern fable of finding purpose and partnership, disguised in the build-up to an epic confrontation between science and magic, over the fate of the world and humanity. Two children, lost and alone in the modern world, find each other and lose each other again and again, as they grow and think they hold the earth in the palms of their hands. A... Read more