Share in the childhood tales of A Girl Named Zippy. Hear Kenneth Branagh read Samuel Pepys' exuberant 17th-century diary. Be transformed by the extraordinary women of Half the Sky. You'll find these and other remarkable life stories under biography and memoir.
In Stand Up Straight and Sing!, Jessye Norman recalls in rich detail the strong women who were her role models, from her ancestors to family friends, relatives, and teachers. Learn More
by Melody Thomas Scott & Dana L. Davis; read by Melody Thomas Scott & Elizabeth Scott
The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career. Learn More
Elizabeth Pipko has been described by many as a rising star in the Conservative movement, but how did she get here? And more importantly, did she ever plan to? Learn More
by Scott Peeples & Michelle Van Parys; read by Daniel Henning
The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Edgar Allan Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. Learn More
When he died in 1930 aged twenty-six, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life. Learn More
A downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished World War II memoir and a box of letters from the French girl who saved him sets a veteran's daughter on a journey, sixty-five years later, to craft their intersecting stories—a true WWII tale of danger, courage, love, and escape. Learn More