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.
| Page: | Show per page |
| View as: Grid List |
Sort by
|
Living in Color
by Tommy Davidson; read by Tommy Davidson
In this revealing memoir, Tommy Davidson shares his unique perspective on making it in Hollywood, being an integral part of television history, on fame and family, and on living a life that has never been black and white—just funny and true. Learn More
Becoming Odyssa
by Jennifer Pharr Davis; read by Jennifer Pharr Davis
A must-listen memoir from the author of Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph. Learn More
Dear Mom and Dad
by Patti Davis; read by Emily Sutton-Smith
A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents. 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
American Journey
by Wes Davis; read by Mitch Crawford
The epic road trips―and surprising friendship―of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age. Learn More
The Auctioneer
Simon de Pury; read by Ralph Lister
2016 Voice Arts Award Nominee
In this eye-opening memoir, Simon de Pury, a distinguished auctioneer and art dealer, provides a lively account of his flashy career and today's soaring art market - revealing a jet-setting, powerful, and private club of elites who buy, sell, and collect the world’s most expensive art. Learn More
Ernest Hemingway
by Mary V. Dearborn; read by Tanya Eby
Washington Post Notable Book
The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant. Learn More
Five Nickels
by Jim "Boots" Demarest; read by Tom Parks
Five Nickels is the true story of Captain Steve Phillis, a decorated Air Force A-10 fighter pilot killed under heroic circumstances while trying to save his downed wingman on their thirtieth Desert Storm combat mission. Learn More
American Sucker
David Denby; read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Learn More
The Colony
by Sally Denton; read by Ann Richardson
An investigation into the November 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico—an event that drew international attention—The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon outpost. Learn More
What's Left Unsaid
by Melissa DeRosa; read by Melissa DeRosa
From the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomable fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of the most powerful women in New York State government history shares her gripping and candid story for the first time. Learn More
Driven
by Marcello Di Cintio; read by Roger Wayne
In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Marcello Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. Learn More
Gods of Wood and Stone
by Mark Di Ionno; read by LJ Ganser
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American Pastime—The Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Roth—two men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood. Learn More
Autumn in Venice
by Andrea di Robilant; read by P.J. Ochlan
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there—a vivacious eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Learn More
Ordinary Girls
by Jaquira Diaz; read by Almarie Guerra
Indie Next List Oprah Magazine's 33 Must-Read Books of Fall 2019
A fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. Learn More
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion; read by Barbara Caruso
This powerful and moving work is Didion's “attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity about life itself.” With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. Learn More
Vanishing Twins
by Leah Dieterich; read by Leah Dieterich
"It's like we're the same person. We finish each other's sentences. This is what we've been taught to desire and expect of love. But there's a question underneath that's never addressed: Once you find someone to finish your sentences, do you stop finishing them for yourself?" Learn More
Graced by Waters
by John Dietsch; foreword by Paul VanDevelder; read by Jim Denison
John Dietsch—fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It—explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss. Learn More
The Gamesmaster
by Flint Dille; read by Eric Michael Summerer
Flint Dille's memoir is an entertaining blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the exciting, groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age. Learn More
Chronic
by Rebecca Dimyan; read by Devon Sorvari
In this powerful debut, Rebecca Dimyan details her experience with endometriosis, a chronic disease which effects one in ten women worldwide. Learn More
| Page: | Show per page |
| View as: Grid List |
Sort by
|