Personal Biographies

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,067 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist....

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    • Adventures Inside the Secret Sisterhood of Manhattan Moms
    • By: Wednesday Martin Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,004 ratings
    • Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir....

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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 1,574 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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    • 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 105 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 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 499 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 687 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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    • 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 179 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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    • 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 167 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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    • 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 1,011 ratings
    • ​Diane von Furstenberg, entrepreneur and philanthropist, presents her words to live by....

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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 3,246 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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    • 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 3,216 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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    • Developing True Strength On and Off the Court
    • By: Jay Bilas
    • Narrated by: Jay Bilas
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • The popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness. If anyone knows tough, it’s Jay Bilas....

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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 909 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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    • 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 1,623 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nicole Chung
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 465 ratings
    • Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets....

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    • By: May Sarton
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton's pilgrimage inward....

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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 23 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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    • 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 4,656 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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    • A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption
    • By: Elizabeth Garrison
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 551 ratings
    • This raw, eye-opening memoir tells the powerful story of Elizabeth Garrison's fractured childhood, descent into teenage drug addiction, and struggle to overcome nearly insurmountable odds....

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