Childhood Biography

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    • The Biography of a Place
    • By: Harry Crews, Tobias Wolff - foreword
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • A Childhood is the highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South.

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    • My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
    • By: Maureen Wood
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 806 ratings
    • A shocking true story about familial betrayal, horrifying secrets and when justice prevails....

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    • An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival
    • By: Misty Griffin
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,907 ratings
    • When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence....

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    • My Mother, My Brother, and Me
    • By: Whoopi Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Whoopi Goldberg
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,132 ratings
    • From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life....

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    • The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford
    • By: Marion Crawford, Jennie Bond - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Originally published in 1950, The Little Princesses was the first account of British Royal life inside Buckingham Palace as revealed by Marion Crawford, who served as governess to princesses Elizabeth and Margaret....

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    • Stories from a South African Childhood
    • By: Trevor Noah
    • Narrated by: Trevor Noah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 215,387 ratings
    • Comedian Trevor Noah offers listeners a glimpse into his childhood during apartheid in South Africa in this award-winning memoir.

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    • A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father
    • By: Laura Meer Barkley
    • Narrated by: Laura Meer Barkley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • The sweet-natured Laura Meer dreams of a superhero and spends days trying to provide for herself while being half-neglected by her parents, who couldn’t take good care even of themselves. Her father constantly tries to kill her mother, and the police refuse to help.

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    • The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
    • By: Jim Dent
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • In the 1930s and '40s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites - a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least 30 pounds per man, were the toughest football team around....

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    • How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World
    • By: Damon West
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • Sentenced to 65 years in a Texas prison, Damon West once had it all. He came from a great family, in a home full of God, love, support, and opportunities to reach any goal. A natural born leader, an athlete with good looks and charm, he appeared to be the all-American kid....

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    • The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told. An Inspirational Author Who Survived It.
    • By: Shy Keenan
    • Narrated by: Judy Mason
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 753 ratings
    • I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,562 ratings
    • Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century, 1951, in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, in the middle of the largest generation in American history, the baby boomers....

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    • Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
    • By: Irmgard A. Hunt
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader....

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    • By: Julie Salamon
    • Narrated by: Julie Salamon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Who am I? Who were these people who made me who I am? And, what was this place? Was it ever what I thought it was? For celebrated journalist and author Julie Salamon, these recently became central questions....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jeannette Walls
    • Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,904 ratings
    • Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....

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    • From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping
    • By: Paul Feeney
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950....

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    • A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
    • By: Jennifer Saginor
    • Narrated by: Kassidy Cortese
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began....

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    • A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
    • By: Aranka Siegal
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In 1939, nine-year-old Piri is happy to spend her spring vacation at her grandmother Babi’s house in the Ukrainian countryside....

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    • A Selection of His Own Stories Written and Read by Gerald Durrell
    • By: Gerald Durrell
    • Narrated by: Gerald Durrell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • These five stories, written and read by Gerald Durrell himself, are taken from his books Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Fillets of Plaice....

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    • How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
    • By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,188 ratings
    • The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults but also affects our physical health and overall well-being....

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    • Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
    • By: Jessica Willis Fisher
    • Narrated by: Jessica Fisher
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 809 ratings
    • Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher tells a lacerating story of finding her voice after two decades of silence and an unforgettable story of risk and faith....

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