Personal Biographies

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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 4,784 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: Wallo267, Iyanla Vanzant
    • Narrated by: Wallo267
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • Wallace “Wallo267” Peeples spent twenty years in and out of the prison system before restarting his life and catapulting himself to unforeseen levels of social impact, cultural influence, and success. Now he shares his story with the trademark honesty that’s made him an inspiration.

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    • By: Karen Emilson
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Twins David and Dennis Pischke's lives change forever when their father dies and a man damaged by the war arrives at their farm near the isolated town of Moosehorn, Manitoba. Boleslaw Domko quickly works his way into their lives and their mother's bed....

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    • The Secret to Life
    • By: Diane von Furstenberg
    • Narrated by: Diane von Furstenberg
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,017 ratings
    • ​Diane von Furstenberg, entrepreneur and philanthropist, presents her words to live by....

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    • A Personal Narrative
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • "If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life...

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    • A Custody Battle, a Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
    • By: Diane Fanning
    • Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive....

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    • The True Story of Two Friends & One Diagnosis
    • By: Mara Altman, Kat Alexander
    • Narrated by: Mara Altman, Kat Alexander
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In Episodes, lifelong best friends Kat and Mara take listeners on an unfiltered journey through friendship, mental illness, and survival. Kat, a successful professional, is preparing for marriage and motherhood. On her fourth round of IVF, it happened—a frantic call to Mara.

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    • By: Amanda Eyre Ward
    • Narrated by: Amanda Eyre Ward, Timothy Harrison Meckel
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • In embracing her son's world, Ward not only discovers a newfound appreciation for sneakers but also for the unique individual her son is becoming. Sneakerhead, ultimately, is a testament to the magic that unfolds when parents invest in understanding and encouraging their children's passions.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,631 ratings
    • In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....

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    • By: Edwin Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Rick Rohan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,251 ratings
    • First published in 1923, this lightly fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time....

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    • Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma
    • By: Karen Grassle
    • Narrated by: Karen Grassle
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc....

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    • A True Story
    • By: David Crow
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,218 ratings
    • Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow....

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    • By: Ulysses S. Grant
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,575 ratings
    • Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president....

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    • A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • In the weeks that followed Mary's death, the grief-stricken family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned with colchicine....

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    • A Personal History of the 1960s
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bryan Cranston
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 709 ratings
    • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband embarked upon in the last years of his life.

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    • A Personal History of Modern Ireland
    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society....

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    • A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
    • By: Emily C. Bloom
    • Narrated by: Emily C. Bloom
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology....

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    • A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
    • By: Ruth Kluger, Lore Segal - foreword
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A controversial best seller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival....

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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 115,981 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 of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
    • By: Liz Murray
    • Narrated by: Liz Murray
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 910 ratings
    • Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home....

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