Southern Memoirs

Product List
    • Stories from a South African Childhood
    • By: Trevor Noah
    • Narrated by: Trevor Noah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 216,939 ratings
    • Comedian Trevor Noah offers listeners a glimpse into his childhood during apartheid in South Africa in this award-winning memoir.

    $24.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
    • By: Karen Branan
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A White man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a Black woman....

    $14.61 or free with your Plus trial

  • $29.90 or free with your Plus trial

    • A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the Volatile South
    • By: Carole Townsend
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Blood in the Soil is the first book about the investigation into the shooting of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and his country attorney in Gwinnett County, Georgia....

    $19.95 or free with your Plus trial

    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • A Southern Memoir
    • By: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Frances Mayes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia....

    $18.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 924 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • By: Erick Galindo, Roger Vela
    • Narrated by: Karla Souza
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • The close knit community in San Miguel de Allende Mexico was plagued by a string of sophisticated kidnappings for nearly a decade. When the police finally made an arrest the townspeople were shocked by who was accused of masterminding the criminal enterprise.

    Sale price: $7.99 (68% off)

    Regular price: $24.95

    Sale ends in

    • The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and The Roots of Southern Rap
    • By: Brad "Scarface" Jordan, Benjamin Meadows Ingram - with
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top - and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance....

    $17.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
    • By: Sandra B. Tooze
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Levon is the dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm - the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of The Band....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

  • $11.87 or free with your Plus trial

    • Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
    • By: J. Drew Lanham
    • Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

    $21.49 or free with your Plus trial

    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

    $17.19 or free with your Plus trial

    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

    $14.61 or free with your Plus trial

    • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    • By: David J. Garrow
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 34 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.....

    $24.04 or free with your Plus trial

    • By: Bruce Catton
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Series: Grant, Book 2
    • Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy....

    $29.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
    • By: Greg Renoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082 ratings
    • Van Halen - led by frontman extraordinaire David Lee Roth and guitar virtuoso Edward Van Halen - had the songs, the swagger, and the talent to turn the rock world on its ear....

    $15.47 or free with your Plus trial

    • Fighter pilot memoirs & accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies
    • By: Lionel Reid, Eduardo González
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What was it like to fly a MiG or Mirage in combat over Angola? Most books on the Angolan Bush War, especially those in English, present the South ...

    $12.00 or free with your Plus trial