Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

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Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and B...

Julia Scheeres

Accused . . . Targeted . . . Sentenced . . .Wrongfully Imprisoned. Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a world-famous trial so bizarre that it defied all reason. Charged with a crime neither could fathom, let alone ...

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Published: Apr 2013

Unforgettable: A Mother and Son's Fin...

Scott Simon

"I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?" UNFORGETTABLE is a son's spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love b...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2015

You Must Remember This: Life and Styl...

Robert Wagner

The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden age With a career spanning more than five decades, few actors are more qualified to recount the glamorous Hollywood era of ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2014

I Suck at Girls

Justin Halpern

"Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello. Then it ain't the unknown anymore and it ain't scary. Or I guess it could be a shitload scarier." Fans of the #1 bestsell...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Something Like Beautiful: One Single ...

Asha Bandele

From the author of The Prisoner's Wife, a poetic, passionate, and powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and bec...

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Published: Jan 2010

This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming...

Augusten Burroughs

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books To say that Augusten Bur...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother...

Sue Monk Kidd

Unabridged CDs • 7 CDs, 8 hours A unique and profound spiritual memoir by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the...

Jay Mohr

Stand-up comedian, actor, and TV host Jay Mohr recounts his somewhat frustrating experience as a writer/performer on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE from 1993 to 1995. He talks about the difficulty of acclimating to the breakneck pace of the SNL ...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2004

Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Tr...

June Knights Nadle

After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother/undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all — at least all of what goes on before, during, and after life's ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries, she combines equ...

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Published: Sep 2006

Everything Is Perfect When You're a L...

Kelly Oxford

From her beginnings as a wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds, through her spirited adventures watching self-satisfying monkeys, throwing up on Chinese food deliverymen, and stalking Leo DiCaprio, here ar...

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Published: Jan 2014

Paris to the Moon (Read by the Author...

Adam Gopnik

Revisiting a recurring American obsession with the French city, the New Yorker writer takes a fresh look at modern Paris and what it means to Americans as he describes his own relationship with the City of Light. Read by the author.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2001

My Life as a Russian Novel: A Memoir

Emmanuel Carrere

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspense.

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

I am Hutterite: Audio Book on

Mary-Ann Kirkby

A fascinating memoir revealing the unique culture of the Hutterite religious community.I Am Hutterite takes readers into the hidden heart of the little-known Hutterite colony where author Mary-Ann Kirkby spent her childhood. When sh...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of ...

Phil Knight

In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminati...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2017

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoi...

Chester Nez

He is the only original World War II Navajo code talker still alive—and this is his story . . . His name wasn't Chestesr Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Antelope in the Living Room: The ...

Melanie Shankle

Welcome to the story of a real marriage. Marriage is simultaneously the biggest blessing and the greatest challenge two people can ever take on. It is the joy of knowing there is someone to share in your joys and sorrows, and the ch...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2014

House Rules: A Memoir

Rachel Sontag

At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal fights; disobedience meant humiliating...

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Published: Apr 2009

Application of Impossible Things: A N...

Natalie Sudman

This is an amazing true story of a female civilian employee of the Army Corps of Engineers in Basrah and Nasiriyah, Iraq. She was riding in a truck with other men when a roadside bomb destroyed the vehicle. Her body was so severely da...

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Published: Mar 2012

Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in th...

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her deci...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2010

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal...

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first no...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLong-listed for PEN Open Book AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, Real Simple, Buzzfeed, Jezeb...

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Published: Oct 2019

How to Get Run Over by a Truck

People often say, “I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck.” Katie actually was. On a sunny morning bike ride in Brooklyn, twenty-four-year-old Katie McKenna was forever changed when she was run over by an eighteen-wheeler. Be...

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Published: Oct 2016

Rude

Love her or hate her, Katie Hopkins is impossible to ignore, and this hilarious and revealing new book – part memoir, part handbook for the modern woman – is much the same.Laughing through the chapters of her life, she shares her ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2018

My Dog Tulip: Movie tie-in edition

J. R. Ackerley

Now a Major Motion PictureThe distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardlythought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middleage, he came into possession of a German shepherd. Tohis surprise, she turned out to be th...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2010

The Light of the World: A Memoir

Elizabeth Alexander

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRLE AWARDS FINALIST, AUTOBIOGRAPHYNew York Times BestsellerFirst Lady Michelle Obama's Favorite Book of 2015A New Yorker, NPR,Boston Globe,Publisher's Weekly, Newsday, Library Journal, People.com, Shelf Aware...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Light of the World: A Memoir

Elizabeth Alexander

In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 50. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grapplin...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2015

A Childhood at Cairnsmore: Growing up...

June Allen

A Childhood at Cairnsmore is the true story of a childhood spent on a sheep farm at the foot of the Ruahine Range in the 1920s and 1930s. It is rich with details of country life in New Zealand - the homestead, riding on horseback to s...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2014

From the Outside: My Journey Through ...

Ray Allen

New York Times BestsellerThe record-holding two-time NBA champion and recently inducted hall-of-famer reflects on his work ethic, his on-the-court friendships and rivalries, the great teams he's played for, and what it takes to hav...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2018

The Sum of Our Days

Isabel Allende

Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New Yor...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2020

Too Good To Be True

Benjamin Anastas

"It took a long time for me to admit I had failed," Anastas begins. Broke, his promising literary career evaporated, he's hounded by debt collectors as he tries to repair a life ripped apart by the spectacular implosion of h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012
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