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 1,079 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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    • By: Micaela Blei
    • Narrated by: Micaela Blei
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • It’s 2006. After a string of rejections from men who tell her they could never, ever, ever see her “that way,” awkward third-grade teacher Micaela Blei signs up for a mysterious course called “The Divine Feminine,” and feels like she might have found the key to the perfect life.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Melissa Moore, Michele Matrisciani
    • Narrated by: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world. Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can.

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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 1,577 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 Memoir
    • By: Viola Davis
    • Narrated by: Viola Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40,662 ratings
    • In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond....

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    • By: Debra Moerke, Cindy Lambert
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 754 ratings
    • When Deb Moerke and her husband decided to become foster parents, they never imagined how their lives would change. And never did they imagine their worst nightmare coming true: Their five-year-old foster daughter, Hannah, murdered at the hands of her birth mom, Karen....

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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 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 520 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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    • 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 1,025 ratings
    • ​Diane von Furstenberg, entrepreneur and philanthropist, presents her words to live by....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 209 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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    • 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 765 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: 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 3,254 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 180 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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    • 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 458 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 Father, His Son, and the Ultimate American Tragedy
    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations. But in February 1972, an unthinkable tragedy occurred in the basement of their Nassau County residence....

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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 4,906 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 565 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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    • By: Karen Emilson
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 225 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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    • WINeuvers for WISHcraft
    • By: Helene Hadsell
    • Narrated by: Carolyn Wilman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her....

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    • A Personal Memoir
    • By: Telford Taylor
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Telford Taylor's book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century....

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