California Memoir

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    • A Memoir of Fighting Fire
    • By: Clare Frank
    • Narrated by: Clare Frank
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it's an unexpected one. It's about finding your home, even if you aren't immediately welcomed. And it's about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don't look like you fit in.

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    • A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
    • By: Thomas Fuller
    • Narrated by: Thomas Fuller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Thomas Fuller shares the incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated, their inspirational brotherhood, a fascinating portrait of deafness in America, and the indefatigable head coach who spearheaded the team....

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    • How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
    • By: Greg Renoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070 ratings
    • Van Halen - led by frontman extraordinaire David Lee Roth and guitar virtuoso Edward Van Halen - had the songs, the swagger, and the talent to turn the rock world on its ear....

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    • Lessons in Investigating Death
    • By: John Bateson
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • Ken Holmes worked in the Marin County Coroner's Office for 36 years, starting as a death investigator and ending as the three-term, elected coroner....

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    • Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
    • By: Julia Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 603 ratings
    • The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia....

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    • The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
    • By: Peter Houlahan
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 938 ratings
    • Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men - led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian - attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in US history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement....

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    • A Suburban Memoir
    • By: D.J. Waldie
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic....

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    • J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
    • By: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil....

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    • By: Brian C. Wilson
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Based on original research employing newly discovered documents, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words....

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    • Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
    • By: Emily Brady
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren, Sonny Warner, Erin Bennett, Will Collyer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture - one that marijuana built. Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a knowing grin. The name is infamous....

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    • By: Corey Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Rachel Newhouse disappeared on the night of November 12, 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California. Only months later, in the same town, Aundria Crawford lost her life in an act of unimaginable violence....

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    • Murder, Madness, and Twisted Justice in California
    • By: Karen Kingsbury
    • Narrated by: Kate Zane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A New York Times bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter chronicles the marriage between a Christian woman and an ex-con that ends in murder....

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    • The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons and a Horrifying Murder
    • By: Tina Dirmann
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, 20-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse....

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    • On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
    • By: Matthew Specktor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Specktor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment....

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    • My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It
    • By: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
    • Narrated by: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts....

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    • The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
    • By: David Leaf
    • Narrated by: Alex Knox, David Leaf
    • Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth, this groundbreaking study was both the first full-length book on the band and the first to recognize Brian Wilson as one of the most significant and influential artists of the twentieth century....

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    • Passion, Betrayal, and Murder in Southern California
    • By: Karen Kingsbury
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Two teens kill their friend, then befriend the girl's family to avoid suspicion. New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers a story full of twists, turns, betrayals, and confessions....

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    • From California to India, a True Story of Finding Everything When You Are Willing to Try Anything
    • By: Amy B. Scher
    • Narrated by: Amy B. Scher
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life....

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