Biography

Three Ordinary Girls

by Tim Brady; read by David de Vries

Three Ordinary Girls is an astonishing World War II story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Learn More

Toscanini

by Harvey Sachs; read by Paul Boehmer

On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life was unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians. Learn More

Totally Wired

by Andrew Smith; read by Adam Lofbomm

From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. Learn More

Two Trees Make a Forest

by Jessica J. Lee; read by Nancy Wu

One of The Guardian's Best Books of the Year

An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan, perfect for fans of Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations and William Finnegan's Barbarian Days. Learn More

Undaunted Mind

by Kevin J. Hayes; read by Brandon Pollock

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available August

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The Unexpected Guest

by Michael Konik; read by George W. Sarris

An inspirational memoir about a Los Angeles couple that takes in a homeless man, and the transformational effect the experience has on all three of their lives. Learn More

Up Jumped the Devil

by Bruce Conforth & Gayle Dean Wardlow; read by Leon Nixon

The result of over fifty years of research, Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Robert Johnson. Learn More

Up The Down Escalator

by Lisa Doggett; read by Lisa Doggett

A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Recounting before and after the discovery of her MS, she chronicles vexing symptoms while trying to be an attentive mother, wife, and a caring family doctor. Learn More

The Upstander

by Jori Epstein; foreword by Michael Berenbaum; read by Jori Epstein

Infused with raw emotion and vivid detail, this memoir relays holocaust survivor Max Glauben's powerful lifetime commitment to actively thwarting hate and galvanizing resilience. Max insists you, too, can transform your adversity into your greatest strength. Learn More

The View from My Foxhole

by William Swanson; read by Michael Butler Murray

The View from My Foxhole tells William Swanson's story of fighting in Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Learn More

Voices from the Confederacy

by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.; read by J. Rodney Turner

They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. Learn More

Voices of Our Time

Studs Terkel interviews

From the 1950s through 1997, Louis “Studs” Terkel, bestselling author of Hard Times, Working, The Great War, Coming of Age, and eight other books, hosted a daily one-hour show on WFMT Radio in Chicago. This nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning program was an ideal showcase for his curmudgeonly wit, his maverick opinions, and his genius as an interviewer.

The 48 interviews in this collection, span Terkel’s five decades on radio and encompass a wide range of entertainers, scientists, writers and thinkers, including Dorothy Parker, Pete Seeger, Bob Woodward, Simone de Beauvoir, and many more. Learn More

Washington's Circle

David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; read by David Drummond

George Washington was a singular, often aloof man who sought out the counsel of a few, trusted men to help him share his task of governing the new nation. In WASHINGTON'S CIRCLE, David and Jeanne Heidler introduce not just the president but the group of extraordinary men who advised him. Learn More

The Way They Were

by Robert Hofler; read by Paul Boehmer

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of The Way We Were, this intriguing and impeccably researched book is the first ever account of the making of the classic film starring Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford, revealing the full story behind its genesis and continued controversies, its many deleted scenes, its much-anticipated but never-filmed sequel, and the real-life romance that inspired this groundbreaking love story . . . Learn More

We Don't Know Ourselves

by Fintan O'Toole; read by Aidan Kelly

Winner 2021 An Post Irish Book Award

A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Learn More

We Tell Ourselves Stories

by Alissa Wilkinson; read by Alissa Wilkinson

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available May

In this riveting cultural biography, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking. Learn More

What Blest Genius

by Andrew McConnell Stott; read by John Lee

The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare's Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time. Learn More

What Is the Grass

by Mark Doty; read by Jonathan Yen

Effortlessly blending biography, criticism, and memoir, National Book Award–winning poet and bestselling memoirist Mark Doty explores his personal quest for Walt Whitman. 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

The White Blackbird

by Honor Moore; read by Stockard Channing

Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression. Learn More

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