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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A Spy Named Orphan
by Roland Philipps; read by Jonathan Cowley
A Spy Named Orphan is the first full biography of one of the most intriguing and important spies of the twentieth century. Learn More
Reading the Man
by Elizabeth Brown Pryor; read by Jo Anna Perrin
Explained for the first time in the context of the young United States's tumultuous societal developments, Robert E. Lee's actions reveal a man forced to play a leading role in the formation of the nation at the cost of his private happiness. Learn More
Broadway
by Fran Leadon; read by Kevin Pariseau
Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the seventeenth-century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the twentieth century's Great White Way. Learn More
Love and Death in the Sunshine State
by Cutter Wood; read by Joe Barrett
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Learn More
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
by Michael Bennett; contributing author Dave Zirin; read by JD Jackson
Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable is a sports book for our times, a sports memoir and manifesto as hilarious as it is revealing. Learn More
Things That Helped
by Jessica Friedmann; read by Shiromi Arserio
In Things That Helped Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essays. Learn More
This Is How I Save My Life
by Amy B. Scher; read by Amy B. Scher
This Is How I Save My Life is a powerful and uplifting story of sheer determination for anyone who believes in—or doubts—the existence of miracles and the infinite power of self-healing when it seems like all hope is lost. Learn More
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
by Barbara K. Lipska; read by Emma Powell
As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. Learn More
Nine Irish Lives
by Mark Bailey; read by Alana Kerr Collins and Alan Smyth
In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish Americans. Learn More
Dressed Up for a Riot
by Michael Idov; read by Michael Idov
In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become. Learn More
Pryor Convictions
by Richard Pryor; read by JD Jackson
Richard Pryor journeys from his childhood in a family that worked in whore-houses and bars, through to his years in Hollywood—the money, the women, the drugs—and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Learn More
This Narrow Space
by Elisha Waldman; read by Barry Abrams
This Narrow Space is Elisha Waldman's deeply affecting and poignant memoir of the seven years he spent taking care of children—Israeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians; Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza—with one devastating thing in common: they had all been diagnosed with some form of pediatric cancer. Learn More
Saving Tarboo Creek
by Scott Freeman; read by Mike Chamberlain
In the proud tradition of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, Saving Tarboo Creek is both a timely tribute to our land and a bold challenge to protect it. Learn More
Tears of Salt
by Pietro Bartolo; Lidia Tilotta; read by David DeVries
Tears of Salt is both a lasting work of literature and an intimate portrait and fresh perspective on a signal crisis of our time. Learn More
Furnishing Eternity
by David Giffels; read by Eric Michael Summerer
From the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose, a vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots and seeking a father's wisdom through an unusual woodworking project—constructing his own coffin. Learn More
Mother of the Unseen World
by Mark Matousek; read by Sean Runnette
Mother of the Unseen World is a revealing exploration of Mother Meera, the Indian enlightener and mystic who embodies the Divine Feminine. Writing with her approval and cooperation, Mark Matousek, a longtime follower, has crafted a deeply moving and insightful book that takes us as close as possible to this remarkable woman, and to the experience of enlightenment. Learn More
A Long Strange Trip
by Dennis McNally; read by Sean Runnette
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s' counterculture. Learn More
Brutus
by Kathryn Tempest; read by Jennifer Dixon
A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin. Learn More
Gold Dust Woman
by Stephen Davis; read by Christina Delaine
2018 Voice Arts Award Nominee AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy and magnetism sparked new interest in this icon. At 68, she's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known, and the rare woman who's a real rock 'n' roller. Learn More
The Ghost
by Jefferson Morley; read by John Pruden
In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. Learn More
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