Nonfiction Biography

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    • Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
    • By: Amy Morin
    • Narrated by: Amy Morin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,473 ratings
    • Now, for the first time, Morin expands upon the 13 Things from her viral post and shares her tried-and-true practices for increasing mental strength....

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    • A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
    • By: Rebecca Frankel
    • Narrated by: Natalie Pela
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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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 5,408 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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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,824 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
    • By: Mark Shaw
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,259 ratings
    • Was TV star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Questions abound....

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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,724 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh.

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    • The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
    • By: Selwyn Raab
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 33 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,967 ratings
    • Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the Mafia into an underworld empire....

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    • Curious Adventures of a CSI
    • By: Dana Kollmann
    • Narrated by: Kate Zane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Unveiling the process and science of crime scene investigation in all its fascination, Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand takes you into the strange world behind the yellow tape, offering a truly eye-opening perspective on the day-to-day life of a CSI....

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    • A True Story of Childhood Trauma
    • By: Barbara GODIN
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • True Story of Childhood Trauma Can I Come Home Now? In this heart-wrenching yet empowering memoir, author Barbara takes readers on a harrowing ...

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
    • By: John Railey
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the summer of 1967, 19-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound....

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    • The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
    • By: Georgia Bragg
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Best-selling author Georgia Bragg delights young people with her quirky characters and unique subject matter....

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    • Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
    • By: Russell Freedman
    • Narrated by: Sharon Washington
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In the 1930s, Black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. With help from Eleanor Roosevelt, she did just that and became an activist for civil rights....

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • Nonfiction, 1970-2015
    • By: Jim Harrison
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism—some never before published....

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    • An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
    • By: Gary C. Schroen
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history....

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