Literary Memoir

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ethan Gallogly
    • Narrated by: Jake Hunsbusher
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Trail is a moving story of how nature helps us find what’s missing in our lives. The tale begins with Gil, who in the wake of his father’s death and recently fired from his job, agrees to accompany his father’s old hiking partner Syd on a month-long trek on the John Muir Trail....

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    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Series: Kopp Sisters, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,308 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

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    • The Poets Life
    • By: Sarah Ruden
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil’s own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct the life of Rome’s greatest poet....

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    • The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
    • By: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir....

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    • By: Arthur Golden
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,530 ratings
    • Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha...

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    • The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
    • By: Anne Boyd Rioux
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Since its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women has been one of America's favorite stories. Professor Anne Boyd Rioux, who read it in her 20s, tells us how Louisa May Alcott came to write the book and drew inspiration for her story from her own life....

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    • By: Jack Kerouac
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • Written seven years before The Town and the City officially launched his writing career, this novel marks the pivotal point at which Jack Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method....

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    • A Literary Memoir
    • By: Mary Jumbelic M.D.
    • Narrated by: Mary Jumbelic M.D.
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Mary Jumbelic has been obsessed with death since the loss of her father when she was 13. The sudden departure of her dad, the mother left behind, and her position as an only child led her to grow up quickly. Yet the why and how of her father's death plagued her.

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    • On Blackness and Being
    • By: Christina Sharpe
    • Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake"....

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    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • The last years of King Charles IX's reign in France were dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. Queen Margot begins in 1572 with the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henri de Navarre...

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    • By: Helene Hanff
    • Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat, John Franklyn-Robbins
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 946 ratings
    • When Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find books through Marks and Co., Booksellers, she begins a 20-year love affair with Frank Doel....

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    • A Second Memoir
    • By: Larry McMurtry
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In Literary Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career....

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    • On Writers and Drinking
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nikki Grimes
    • Narrated by: Nikki Grimes
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse....

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    • By: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 715 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Tosca Lee
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • From the author of the New York Times best-selling Iscariot comes an award-winning novel that poses the question: if a demon came up to you and offered to tell his story, would you listen? Find out more....

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