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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,307 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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    • 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 9,516 ratings
    • Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha...

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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 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Oliver Gloag
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Few would question that Albert Camus, novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Eileen Myles
    • Narrated by: Eileen Myles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 81 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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    • By: Ralph Manheim - translated, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Published in the 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles....

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    • The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
    • By: Kent Babb
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Through extensive research and interviews with those closest to Iverson, acclaimed Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb gets behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of the hard-changing, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last....

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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 937 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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