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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Dinner in Camelot
by Joseph Esposito; read by Tom Perkins
Joseph A. Esposito recounts the famed White House dinner hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in April 1962. Learn More
Dianaworld
by Edward White; read by Josette Simon
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A fascinating new perspective on the life and afterlife of Diana, Princess of Wales, the planet's all-purpose cultural icon. Learn More
Diana's Boys
Christopher Andersen; read by Derek Partridge
Devoid of salacious gossip and groundless speculation, Diana's Boys is the first candid chronicle of the world's two most celebrated royals—and far more. Learn More
Devil in the Details
Jennifer Traig; read by Melinda Wade
The struggles and humiliations of adolescence are told in an unflinching, funny, surprisingly universal tale of one good Jewish girl's battle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Learn More
The Death of the Banker
by Ron Chernow; read by Michael Kramer
With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end. Learn More
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks; read by Mike Chamberlain & Amy Landon
Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. 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
The Deadly Path
by Peter J. Forcelli and Keelin MacGregor; read by Todd McLaren
Pete Forcelli did what members of the US Congress encourage government employees to do: he spoke up when he saw misconduct within the federal government. But choosing to be a whistleblower almost cost Forcelli his job, his possessions, and his reputation as a law enforcement official. Learn More
Dead Presidents
Brady Carlson; read by Tom Zingarelli
An entertaining exploration into the varied ways we remember and memorialize the American presidents. Learn More
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
by Sady Doyle; read by Chloe Cannon
Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula's Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. Learn More
Dawgs
by Diane Trull; read by Tiffany Morgan
How elementary-school teacher Diane Trull and her fourth graders started their own animal shelter is a story of dedication, commitment, and perseverance. In this eye-opening, deeply personal book, Trull describes the challenges they faced, from rescuing and caring for the animals to teaching children about compassion and responsibility, to facing local interests opposed to having a shelter in their town. Learn More
Daughter of the Dragon
by Yunte Huang; read by Rebecca Lam
A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Learn More
The Darkest Glare
by Chip Jacobs; read by Joel Richards
In The Darkest Glare, Chip Jacobs recounts a spectacular, noir-ish, true-crime saga from one of the deadliest eras in American history. You'll never gaze out windows into the dark again. Learn More
The Darién Gap
by Belén Fernández; read by Bianca Bryan
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In this book, journalist Belén Fernández travels through the Darién Gap to report on the dehumanizing and deadly stretch of land that has become a mass graveyard for migrants. Fernández's journey brings her into contact with refuge seekers, people smugglers, law enforcement officials, and many more whose stories bring life to a place overwhelmingly associated with death. Combining history, on-the-ground reporting, travelogue, memoir, and searing politico-economic analysis, she shines light on a largely made-in-the-USA crisis that has come to define our modern era. Learn More
Dannemora
by Charles A. Gardener; read by Jonathan Yen
In June 2015 two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's "North Country," launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Now Charles A. Gardner—a lifelong resident of the community and a former prison guard—tells the whole story from an insider's point of view. Learn More
Dancing Down the Barricades
by Matthew Frye Jacobson; read by Jonathan Yen
A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Learn More
Dance or Die
by Ahmad Joudeh; read by Neil Shah
A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. Learn More
The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman
by Niko Stratis; read by Niko Stratis
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. Learn More
Crystal Eastman
by Amy Aronson; read by Elizabeth Wiley
As the first biography of Crystal Eastman, this book gives renewed voice to a woman who spoke freely and passionately in debates still raging today—gender equality and human rights, nationalism and globalization, political censorship and media control, worker benefits and family balance, and the monumental questions of war, sovereignty, and freedom. Learn More
Cry Wilderness
by Frank Capra; read by Tim Campbell
Cry Wilderness is a recently discovered unpublished novel by the famed director, Frank Capra. Learn More
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