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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She Got Up Off the Couch
Haven Kimmel; read by Haven Kimmel
Picking up where A Girl Named Zippy left off, Haven Kimmel crafts a tender portrait of her mother, a modestly heroic woman who took the odds that life gave her and somehow managed to win. 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
Self-Portrait in Black and White
by Thomas Chatterton Williams; read by Thomas Chatterton Williams
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. Learn More
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
Alan Cutler; read by Grover Gardner
How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme. Learn More
The Search for Reagan
by Craig Shirley; read by Bob Johnson
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Never before has anyone explored the mind, soul, and heart of Ronald Reagan. The Search for Reagan explores the challenges and controversies in Reagan's life and how he successfully dealt with each, depicting a man who was never as conservative as some conservatives wanted him to be, but rather as conservative as he was comfortable being—a man who wanted to win on his own terms and integrity. Learn More
Schlesinger
by Richard Aldous; read by Norman Dietz
Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian is the first major biography of preeminent historian and intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining figure in Kennedy's White House. Learn More
The Scandalous Lady W
by Hallie Rubenhold; read by Pearl Hewitt
It was the divorce that scandalized Georgian England . . . She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicized divorces in history. 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
Save Room for Pie
Roy Blount Jr.; read by the author
Roy Blount, Jr., is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called "a work of art" (The New York Times Book Review). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. Learn More
Satellite Boy
by Andrew Amelinckx; read by Patrick Lawlor
Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the "other Space Race" that gave birth to the modern communication age. Learn More
Sargent's Women
by Donna M. Lucey; read by Elizabeth Wiley
The fascinating backstories of four women painted by John Singer Sargent come alive in this seductive, multilayered biography. Learn More
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
by James H. Cone; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
In this powerful and passionate memoir—his final work—James H. Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those—like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow—who had no voice. 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
Ruthie Fear
by Maxim Loskutoff; read by Corey M. Snow
In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley. Learn More
Russell Rules
Bill Russell with David Falkner; read by Rif Hutton
More than any other sports figure of the modern era, Bill Russell combined sheer athletic dominance with a depth of character that truly set him apart, both on and off the basketball court. Learn More
Running with Raven
by Laura Lee Huttenbach; read by Allyson Ryan
In 1975 Robert “Raven” Kraft, a high school dropout and aspiring songwriter, made a New Year’s Resolution to run eight miles on Miami’s South Beach each evening. Over 125,000 miles later, he has not missed one sunset. Learn More
Running
Jen A. Miller; read by Randye Kaye
Growing up, Jen Miller hated running. For her, running was only ever going to be conditioning for soccer or punishment for softball. It was never going to be done by choice and it was never going to be fun. Fast forward fifteen years, though, and you can't drag Jen off the road. Learn More
Rock Stars on the Record
by Eric Spitznagel; read by Michael Butler Murray
An all-star lineup of rock-n-rollers—from Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell to Suzi Quatro and Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire—relay the uproariously wild, sentimental, and unexpected pre-stardom stories behind their favorite records. Learn More
The Road Bends
by Sami Yaffa with Tommi Liimatta; read by Sami Yaffa
Sami Yaffa is a bass guitar legend, an icon of the rock world, and an uncompromising walker of his own way, who rose to prominence as the bassist of the mythical Hanoi Rocks. This is his story. Learn More
Rhythm Man
by Stephanie Stein Crease; read by James Fouhey
The first comprehensive biography of the Swing Era's pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader. Learn More
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