Biography • Memoir
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.
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Mukiwa
by Peter Godwin; read by Peter Godwin
The author shares his experiences as a white child growing up in an African colony rapidly collapsing into chaos, in a memoir of Africa seen through the eyes of a child as a magical, frightening place and then through the haunted eyes of an adolescent soldier. Learn More
OCME
by Bruce Goldfarb; read by Adam Barr
Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where good people fight the good fight amid the tragedies and absurdities of our age. Learn More
Alex's Wake
Martin Goldsmith; read by the author
This is a tale of two journeys—one, a journey from the ill-fated voyage of the SS St. Louis in 1939 to the death camp at Auschwitz; the other, a grandson’s journey of remembrance seventy years later. Learn More
The Secrets of Silence
by Shannon Malone Gonzalez; read by Sanya Simmons
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In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez examines the pervasive and often invisible forms of everyday policing that render black women's stories missing from official data, headlines, and community conversations. Learn More
There Is No Manual for This
by Ilyssa Goodman; read by Coleen Marlo
With great humor and frankness, Ilyssa Goodman offers insights on what having it all means in the twenty-first century. Learn More
How to Be a Tudor
Ruth Goodman; read by Heather Wilds
From an historian who advised on the BBCs Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England. Learn More
The End of the World as We Know It
by Robert Goolrick; read by Peter Berkrot
Beautifully written, often humorous, sometimes sweet, ultimately shocking, The End of the World as We Know It is a son's story of looking back with both love and anger at the parents who gave him life and then robbed him of it, who created his world and then destroyed it. Contains mature themes. Learn More
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik; read by Adam Gopnik
Weaving the magical with the mundane, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik offers a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. Learn More
Through the Children's Gate
Adam Gopnik; read by Adam Gopnik
By turns elegant and exultant, jubilant and poignant, Through the Children's Gate is a loving portrait of a family and their city. Learn More
The Saddest Words
by Michael Gorra; read by Joe Barrett
Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today. Learn More
Bagehot
by James Grant; read by Jonathan Cowley
The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds—banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist. Learn More
Sex Money Murder
by Jonathan Green; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and the violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx. Learn More
Midnight in Siberia
David Greene; read by the author
NPR host David Greene travels along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, capturing an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin. Learn More
There Is No Me Without You
Melissa Fay Greene; read by Julie Fain Lawrence
The National Book award finalist puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Learn More
How I Shed My Skin
Jim Grimsley; read by Henry Leyva
White people declared that the south would rise again. Black people raised a fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together. Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were over, but we were the ones who took the next step. History gave us a piece of itself. We made of it what we could. -Jim Grimsley Learn More
Slayers & Vampires
by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman; read by Julie McKay and James Patrick Cronin
From the bestselling authors of the critically acclaimed two-volume series The Fifty-Year Mission, comes Slayers & Vampires: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel. Learn More
The Receptionist (Digital Edition)
Janet Groth; read by Susanna Burney
Janet Groth’s seductive and entertaining look back at her 21 years (1957 to 1978—the William Shawn years) of lateral trajectory at America’s most literary of institutions. Learn More
The Receptionist
Janet Groth; read by Judith West
Janet Groth’s seductive and entertaining look back at her 21 years (1957 to 1978—the William Shawn years) of lateral trajectory at America’s most literary of institutions. Learn More
I Live a Life Like Yours
by Jan Grue; read by Graham Halstead
A brilliantly rendered essayistic autobiography from an award-winning Norwegian author about life in a vulnerable body. Learn More
Gandhi Before India
by Ramachandra Guha; read by Derek Perkins
Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Learn More
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