Biography & Autobiography - General

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Once Upon A Secret: The Story of My A...

Mimi Alford

After 40 years of silence and reflection comes a deeply personal and emotionally charged memoir of a woman's 18-month relationship with President John F. Kennedy when she was a college intern at the White House.From the Hardcover edit...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Mo...

Sally Bedell Smith

In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2012

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2007

At the Center of the Storm

George Tenet

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's ti...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

True Compass: A Memoir

Edward M. Kennedy

Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of ...

Michael J. Fox

There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challe...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2009

WAR

Sebastian Junger

In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times B...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

Teacher Man: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Angela's Ashes describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2005

Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”With striking in...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with...

Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore ete...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

Anna Quindlen

It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone, and became her. Then I began to like what I'd invented. And finally I...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

My Reading Life

Pat Conroy

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a vora­cious reader. He has for years ke...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2010

Jarhead

Anthony Swofford

A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry Marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his girlfriend's infidelity, his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his identity as a soldie...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

The Art of Intelligence

Henry A. Crumpton

DIVpA legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missionsFor a cru...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia ...

Bob Spitz

The definitive biography of Julia Child—with access to Julia's diaries and letters—written by the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed The Beatles and timed to Julia's 100th birthday.From Pasadena to Cambridge to New...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2012

Strength in What Remains: A Journey o...

Tracy Kidder

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the modern classics Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Soul of a New Machine returns with the extraordinary true story of a young man and his will to surviveIn this remarkable book, New York Time...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2009

I Am George Washington

Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine's famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck's Common Sense. Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation o...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken

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Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls's award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, tea...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2010

Resilience: Reflections on the Burden...

Elizabeth Edwards

The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2009

About Alice

Calvin Trillin

In a memorable, often whimsical tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the best-selling author of a Heckuva Job and Remembering Denny celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in the author's ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2006

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...

Steven Tyler

"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-daughtered, I've been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I'm a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the ba...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2011

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Li...

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's ITotal Recall is the candid story by one of the world's most remarkable actors, businessmen, and world leaders./PBorn in the small city of Thal, A...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood,' writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. 'Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.' Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catho...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2005

A Girl Named Zippy

Haven Kimmel

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed 'Zippy' for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ear...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

The Revolution: A Manifesto

Ron Paul

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

A Little Bit Wicked

Kristin Chenoweth

In this frank and funny memoir, the Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen shares her journey from small-town Oklahoma to big-time Broadway, vamping on what it takes to stand firmly on a foundation of family and faith… while we...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2009

Kitchen Privileges: Memoirs of a Bron...

Mary Higgins Clark

Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark writes about her early years, beginning with her Bronx childhood during the Depression with her widowed mother, to her own widowhood and the raising of her five children years later. She also writ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2002

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2016

Going Rogue: An American Life

Sarah Palin

One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin de...

Abridged CD
Published: Dec 2009
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