Author Memoirs

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    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In the summer of 2003, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, was devastated when four young residents were viciously slain. But when a killer came knocking....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,630 ratings
    • In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....

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    • The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • By: Caroline Fraser
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,201 ratings
    • The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series....

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    • The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
    • By: Nancy Milford
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself....

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    • By: Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Henderson - contributor
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. A complex and puzzling true-crime story....

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    • By: Tobias Wolff
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 706 ratings
    • First published in 1989, this memoir has become a classic of the genre....

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    • A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • In the weeks that followed Mary's death, the grief-stricken family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned with colchicine....

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    • How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
    • By: John Kiriakou
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners....

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    • Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault
    • By: Jennifer Storm
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Storm
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sexual assault, addiction, and other traumatic experiences can leave both physical and emotional scars. For Jennifer Storm, these scars serve as a reminder - both of the darkness and suffering she once experienced, and of how far she has come....

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    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 832 ratings
    • Dave Eggers scored a worldwide phenomenon with this memoir that topped national best-seller lists and has since become a staple for summer reading and book clubs....

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    • By: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From 1918 to 1941, even as she penned masterpiece upon masterpiece, Virginia Woolf kept a diary. She poured into it her thoughts, feelings, concerns, objections, interests, and disappointments -resulting in 26 volumes that give unprecedented insight into the mind of a genius....

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    • A Memoir of the Craft
    • By: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-00
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,189 ratings
    • Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly....

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    • The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births)....

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    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

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    • A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
    • By: Ruth Kluger, Lore Segal - foreword
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A controversial best seller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • Neglected for years, A Tramp Abroad sparkles with Mark Twain’s shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture....

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    • C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
    • By: Humphrey Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature....

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    • Landscapes of a Western Mind
    • By: Ivan Doig
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West....

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    • By: Richard Flanagan
    • Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times.

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