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.
From his time at Creem Magazine in the 1970s and '80s to the formation of the Angry Samoans in Los Angeles, and all the travels, trials, and tribulations that occurred after, Gregg Turner takes us through a wild ride of stories he's heard, stories he's lived, and some he may or may not have made up. Learn More
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as your guide, undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances—and an equally extraordinary group that have triumphed. Learn More
Resonant, smart, and beautifully written, Half Broke tears at the heart of what it takes to find wholeness after years of trauma and addiction and offers profound insight on how working with animals can satisfy our universal need for connection. Learn More
by Thomas Pecora with Jon Land & Lindsay Preston; read by Eric Jason Martin
A CIA security officer recounts a twenty-four-year career protecting America's intelligence personnel and senior USG Officials against a backdrop of the War on Terror. Learn More
The alarm that George Bird Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro's commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Learn More
The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest―and put American aviation on the map. Learn More
Seventeen-year-old long distance swimmer Lynne Cox was out training in the cold Pacific one morning when she became aware that an 18-foot baby gray whale was following her, apparently lost and separated from its mother, without whom it would surely die. Something so enormous as a mother whale 50 feet long suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific. . . . Learn More
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
Good Morning, Olive (named for one of the most beautiful and temperamental of Broadway's ghosts) is about the ghosts that haunt theatres in New York and around the world. Learn More
Zelda la Grange; read by Adjoa Andoh; introduction read by the author
A powerful, intimate portrait of the late South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela from the white Afrikaner woman who overcame her own upbringing and prejudice to serve as one of his private secretaries. Learn More
Prince as few have seen him, Gold Experience is a portrait of the artist from a dizzying array of angles, and based on exclusive interviews by one of the few writers who was regularly allowed access to Prince and his inner circle. Learn More
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
