Personal Memoirs

A Moment in Time

Ralph Branca with David Ritz; read by Traber Burns

From the great Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca who gave up Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World,” comes an inspiring memoir that captures the golden era of baseball and offers a lesson in grace, character, and perseverance. Learn More

Eating with the Enemy

Robert Egan and Kurt Pitzer; read by Traber Burns

The extraordinary story of how a restless restaurant owner from a mobbed-up New Jersey town became an international diplomat to the world’s most isolated nation. Learn More

Horses Never Lie About Love

Jana Harris; read by Susanna Burney

When Jana Harris and her husband landed in Washington State, Harris realized that she could fulfill her lifelong dream of raising and riding horses. But in True Colors, her first broodmare, Harris got more than she bargained for: a complex, traumatized animal whose outsized personality would transform everyone around her, both human and equine. Learn More

Bad Dog

Martin Kihn; read by David Drummond

A hilarious, acerbic, utterly unleashed story about recovery, and about winning back years of squandered trust—two-legged and four-legged. Learn More

The Receptionist

Janet Groth; read by Judith West

Janet Groth’s seductive and entertaining look back at her 21 years (1957 to 1978—the William Shawn years) of lateral trajectory at America’s most literary of institutions. Learn More

Her: A Memoir

Christa Parravani; read by the author

Cosmopolitan Best Books of the Year Pick
A Library Journal Best of the Year Selection

In this haunting memoir of identity and love, photographer Parravani deconstructs the intense bonds between identical twins, as she struggles with the trauma of her charismatic sister’s self-destruction, and an unexpectedly rising tide of similar self-destruction in herself. Learn More

The Longest Road

Philip Caputo; read by Pete Larkin

New York Times bestseller
Indie Next List
AudioFile Best of Year Selection

One of the country’s greatest living writers completes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and reflects on what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as the United States of America. 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

Survival Lessons

Alice Hoffman; read by Xe Sands

One of America’s most beloved writers shares suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times. 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

My Accidental Jihad

Krista Bremer; read by Xe Sands

Indie Next List

Profoundly moving and often funny, this meditation on tolerance explores what it means to open our hearts to another culture and to embrace our own. Learn More

People We Meet: Unforgettable Conversations

NPR; hosted by David Greene

The beauty, genius and heroism of the human spirit shines throughout this collection of encounters with exceptional individuals, selected and presented by NPR personalities whose lives have been enriched by a single conversation. Learn More

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela

Zelda la Grange; read by Adjoa Andoh; introduction read by the author

A powerful, intimate portrait of the late South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela from the white Afrikaner woman who overcame her own upbringing and prejudice to serve as one of his private secretaries. Learn More

The Girl From Human Street

Roger Cohen; read by Simon Vance

An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author’s own family, that assays the impact of memory, displacement, and a pervasive sense of separateness. 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

The Year My Mother Came Back

Alice Eve Cohen; read by Alice Eve Cohen (the author)

Thirty years after her death, Alice?s mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs surgery, her eldest daughter decides to track down her birth mother, and the year Alice gets a daunting diagnosis. Learn More

How I Shed My Skin

Jim Grimsley; read by Henry Leyva

White people declared that the south would rise again. Black people raised a fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together. Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were over, but we were the ones who took the next step. History gave us a piece of itself. We made of it what we could. -Jim Grimsley Learn More

The Negotiator

George Mitchell; read by Norman Dietz

Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what he’s learned about the art of negotiation. Learn More

Molina

Bengie Molina and Joan Ryan; read by Henry Leyva

The inspiring true story of the poor Puerto Rican factory worker, Benjamin Molina Santana, who against all odds raised the greatest baseball dynasty of all time: Molina’s three sons—Bengie, José, and Yadier—have each earned two World Series rings, which is unprecedented in the sport, and Molina’s story is told by one of them, Bengie. Learn More

Bastards

Mary Anna King; read by Christina Delaine

In the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words, were great at making babies, but not so great at holding on to them. After her father leaves the family, she is raised among a commune of mothers in a low-income housing complex. Then, no longer able to care for the only daughter she has left at home, Marys mother sends Mary away to a small town in Oklahoma to live with her maternal grandparents, who have also been raising her older sister, Rebecca. When Mary is legally adopted by her grandparents, the result is a family story like no other. Because Mary was adopted by her grandparents, Marys mother, Patty, is legally her sister, while her brother, Jacob, is legally her nephew. Learn More

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