Biography

The Orchid Thief

Susan Orlean; read by Anna Fields

The Orchid Thief is the true story of John Laroche, an obsessed Florida plant dealer willing to go to any lengths to steal rare and protected wild orchids and clone them, all for a tidy profit. Learn More

Onward

Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon; read by Stephen Bowlby

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his first bestseller, the CEO of Starbucks recounts the story and leadership lessons behind the global coffee company’s comeback. Learn More

One and Only

Gerald Nicosia and Anne Marie Santos; read by Vanessa Hart and Stephen Bowlby

The Real Woman Behind Kerouac's MaryLou

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The story of Lu Anne Henderson, the woman who loved—and was loved by—Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. Learn More

Of Bears and Ballots

by Heather Lende; read by Karen White

The writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls “part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott,” now brings her quirky and compassionate take on holding local office. Learn More

Octavia E. Butler

by Chi-Ming Yang; read by Janina Edwards

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An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Learn More

NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies

NPR; hosted by Cokie Roberts

Audie Finalist
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

While the role of the first lady has changed dramatically over the course of the nation’s history, one thing remains constant: Americans have always been fascinated by the wives of the President. Learn More

Not a Game

by Kent Babb; read by Michael Butler Murray

Shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

Through extensive research and interviews with those closest to Iverson, acclaimed Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb gets behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of the hard-changing, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last. Learn More

Nobody's Girl Friday

by J. E. Smyth; read by Karen White

Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over forty percent of film industry employees were women, twenty five percent of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. Learn More

No Scrap Left Behind

by Teralyn Pilgrim; read by Teralyn Pilgrim

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The story of a mother's quest to end her family's food waste—and all the blunders that came with it. Learn More

No One Man Should Have All That Power

By Amos Barshad; read by Johnny Heller

An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control. Learn More

The Nine Lives of Pakistan

by Declan Walsh; read by Roger Clark

The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Learn More

Nine Irish Lives

by Mark Bailey; read by Alana Kerr Collins and Alan Smyth

In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish Americans. Learn More

Never a Lovely So Real

by Colin Asher; read by David Colacci

This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters. Learn More

My Quest for Health Equity

by David Satcher, MD, PhD; read by David Satcher, MD, PhD

In My Quest for Health Equity, Dr. Satcher takes an inspiring and instructive look inside his fifty-year career to shed light on the challenge and burden of leadership. Explaining that he has thought of each leadership role—whether in academia, community, or government—as an opportunity to move the needle toward health equity, he shares the hard-won lessons he has learned over a lifetime in the medical field. Learn More

My Fellow Americans

by Yuvraj Singh and Ted Widmer; read by Danny Campbell

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Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of the presidential inaugural addresses—from George Washington to Joseph Biden. Learn More

Mukiwa

by Peter Godwin; read by Peter Godwin

The author shares his experiences as a white child growing up in an African colony rapidly collapsing into chaos, in a memoir of Africa seen through the eyes of a child as a magical, frightening place and then through the haunted eyes of an adolescent soldier. Learn More

Muhammad

by Robert Spencer; read by Mike Chamberlain

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

In his latest book, historian and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer shows that there is no agreement in the earliest Islamic sources about the most fundamental details of Muhammad's life. Learn More

Mr. B

by Jennifer Homans; read by Cassandra Campbell

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man the New York Times called "the Shakespeare of dancing"—from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels. Learn More

Mothercare

by Lynne Tillman; read by Kim Niemi

For readers of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, and Simone de Beauvior's A Very Easy Death, Mothercare is an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden and drastically changed relationship with one's mother, and of the time and labor spent navigating the American healthcare system. Learn More

Mother of the Unseen World

by Mark Matousek; read by Sean Runnette

Mother of the Unseen World is a revealing exploration of Mother Meera, the Indian enlightener and mystic who embodies the Divine Feminine. Writing with her approval and cooperation, Mark Matousek, a longtime follower, has crafted a deeply moving and insightful book that takes us as close as possible to this remarkable woman, and to the experience of enlightenment. Learn More

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