Personal Memoirs
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Accordion Eulogies
by Noé Álvarez; read by Asa Siegel
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Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Learn More
The Actor's Mindset
by Craig Archibald; foreword by Constance Wu; read by Craig Archibald and Constance Wu
Axiom Award
The Actor's Mindset: Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Business uniquely prepares actors to live full, successful lives as performing artists. While most acting books focus on either the art or the business of entertainment, Archibald looks at the entire picture of what it means to be an actor, focusing on the foundations of both the artist and the entrepreneur to guarantee a complete and fully functioning approach to a career. Learn More
After the Eclipse
by Sarah Perry; read by Emily Woo Zeller
Book Page Best of 2017 AudioFile Earphones Winner
After the Eclipse is a fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her ultimate mission to know the woman who gave her life. Learn More
Against the Wall
by Jenn Budd; read by Jenn Budd
Jenn Budd, the only former US Border Patrol agent to continually blow the whistle on this federal agency's rampant corruption, challenges us—as individuals and as a nation—to face the consequences of our actions. Her journey offers a vital perspective on the unfolding moral crisis of our time. She also gives harrowing testimony about rape culture, white privilege, women in law enforcement, LGBTQ issues, mental illness, survival, and forgiveness. Learn More
Alex's Wake
Martin Goldsmith; read by the author
This is a tale of two journeys—one, a journey from the ill-fated voyage of the SS St. Louis in 1939 to the death camp at Auschwitz; the other, a grandson’s journey of remembrance seventy years later. Learn More
Alfie and Me
by Carl Safina; read by Carl Safina
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity's relationship with the world. Learn More
All the Wrong Places
Phillip Connors; read by Adam Verner
The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years of flight. Learn More
All These Things That I've Done
by Matt Pinfield and Mitchell Cohen; read by Mike Chamberlain
"The most trusted opinion in rock music" (Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins), Matt Pinfield offers the ultimate music fan's memoir, a chronicle of the songs and artists that inspired his improbable career alongside some of the all-time greats, from The Beatles to KISS to U2 to The Killers. Learn More
All They Will Call You
by Tim Z. Hernandez; read by Tim Z. Hernandez
Combining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind Woody Guthrie's legendary song "Deportee." Learn More
All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung; read by Janet Song
2019 PEN America Literary Awards Longlist Indie Next List NPR Best of 2018 Library Journal Best Book 2018 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award
What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Learn More
Always Crashing in the Same Car
by Matthew Specktor; read by Matthew Specktor
Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. Learn More
Always Young and Restless
by Melody Thomas Scott & Dana L. Davis; read by Melody Thomas Scott & Elizabeth Scott
The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career. Learn More
Am I Alone Here?
by Peter Orner; read by Chris Abernathy
This National Book Critics Circle Award winner is "an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). Learn More
Amazing Gracie
Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff; read by Henry Leyva
It’s a love story. A story of salvation. And a rags-to-riches story about a dog—yes, a dog—who launched Three Dog Bakery. Learn More
American Sucker
David Denby; read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Learn More
Apology to the Young Addict
by James Brown; read by Charles Constant
Haunting and hopeful, Apology to the Young Addict is a reinvention of the recovery memoir and a lasting testimony from a master writing at his peak. Learn More
Architects of Self-Destruction
by John Gentile and Brad Logan; read by Brad Logan
Architects of Self-Destruction: An Oral History of Leftöver Crack traces the band's entire history by speaking to the band members themselves, fellow musicians, their fans, and of course, those that still hold a grudge against the LoC. Learn More
The Art of Waiting
by Belle Boggs; read by C.S.E. Cooney
Publishers Weekly Best Book Finalist PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility. In The Art of Waiting, Belle Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family. Learn More
At the Center of All Beauty
by Fenton Johnson; read by Sean Runnette
From Fenton Johnson, a profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude. Learn More
At the Helm
by John H. Dalton; read by Shawn Compton
John Dalton's life is an inspirational American success story. At the Helm traces his journey from modest beginnings in Louisiana to traveling the world and working across private and public sectors and four presidential appointments all culminating in his appointment as the 70th Secretary of the Navy. Learn More
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