Childhood Memoir

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Lisbeth Zornig Andersen, Mark Mussari - translator
    • Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather....

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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 4,672 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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    • 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 258 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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    • Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
    • By: Holly Madison
    • Narrated by: Holly Madison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,745 ratings
    • The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion....

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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 120 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 memoir about homelessness through the eyes of a young girl
    • By: Nichole Carpenter
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 9-year-old Nichole and her parents are evicted from their home because both of her parents are addicted to heroin. With nowhere left to turn, they ...

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    • A Very Natural Childhood
    • By: John Lister-Kaye
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing....

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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 694 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 of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
    • By: Cea Sunrise Person
    • Narrated by: Cea Sunrise Person
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 986 ratings
    • In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counterculture family in the Canadian wilderness....

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    • A Memoir of Childhood, My Dad, and Deep Throat
    • By: Kristin Battista-Frazee
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Kristin Battista-Frazee was only four years old in 1974 when her father, Anthony Battista, was indicted by the federal government for distributing the now famous porn film Deep Throat....

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    • Pat Conroy
    • By: Katherine Clark
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016....

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    • By: Jennette McCurdy
    • Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 115,732 ratings
    • iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy shares her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

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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 17,826 ratings
    • Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....

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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 215,031 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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    • 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 70 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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    • And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
    • By: Drema Hall Berkheimer
    • Narrated by: Bailey Carr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Thomas F. Lee
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • The author recounts the simple adventures of his life as a young boy growing up during the Second World War and the brief postwar years, before ...

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    • Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery
    • By: Brianna Wiest
    • Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,593 ratings
    • 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....

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