Con el CorazĂłn en la Mano
By: Frida Ojeda
Narrated by: Karina Castillo
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Este libro habla sobre nuestra vida terrenal y temporal como una pequeña parte de la historia de nuestra alma, nos recuerda que el aprendizaje de vida que estĂĄ impreso en el camino de todo ser humano, es el de la pĂ©rdida y que la realidad de la muerte es muchas veces, una idea que se mantiene en la teorĂa, y cuando una persona en la prĂĄctica ha... Read more
View audiobookRiding with Evil
By: Ken Croke & Dave Wedge
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamousâand infamously violentâPagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang.  Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the... Read more
View audiobookFearlessly Different
By: Mickey Rowe
Narrated by: Mickey Rowe
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Growing up, Mickey Rowe was told that he couldnât enter the mainstream world. He was iced out by classmates and colleagues, infantilized by well-meaning theatre directors, barred from even earning a minimum wage. Why? Because he is autistic. Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actorâs Journey to Broadwayâs Biggest Stage is Mickey Roweâs inspiring... Read more
View audiobookDick Turpin
By: William Harrison Ainsworth
Narrated by: Fernando SimĂłn
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Turpin (21 de septiembre de 1706, Hempstead, Essex - 7 de abril de 1739, York) apodado Dick fue un bandolero inglĂ©s del siglo XVIII. Su padre fue agricultor y posadero. Turpin aprendiĂł el oficio de carnicero y en 1728 se casĂł con Elizabeth Millington. Sin embargo, pronto se iniciĂł en actividades ilĂcitas, robando ganados para su... Read more
View audiobookThere Is Life After the Nobel Prize
By: Eric R. Kandel
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope not soon," Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard this.... Read more
View audiobookBarack Obama
By: Burton I. Kaufman
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Following his election, President Obama's supporters and detractors anticipated radical reform. As the first African American to serve as president, he reached the White House on a campaign promise of change. But, as Burton Kaufman explores in this insightful biography, Obama showed clear patterns of classical conservativism of an ideological... Read more
View audiobookThe Upstander
By: Jori Epstein
Narrated by: Jori Epstein
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
The stench of decay pierced the air aboard the boxcar of trapped Jews. "Why me?" fifteen-year-old Max asked himself, as a convoy rumbled from the Warsaw Ghetto to Majdanek death camp in May 1943.
The Nazis had destroyed the Glauben family's business, upended their rights, and ultimately decimated their neighborhood. The deluge of questions... Read more
Fierce Attachments
By: Vivian Gornick
Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.
Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter... Read more
Happy at Any Cost
By: Kirsten Grind
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, âa startling portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony Hsiehâ (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on his short life, untimely death, and what that means for our pursuit of happiness.
Tony HsiehâCEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and beloved... Read more
Campaign of the Century
By: Irwin F. Gellman
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election.
The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century, yet the accounts to date have been remarkably unbalanced. Far more attention... Read more
The Education of Augie Merasty
By: Joseph Auguste Merasty
Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Named the fourth most important âBook of the Yearâ by the National Post in 2015 and voted âOne Book/One Provinceâ in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant classic. A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie... Read more
View audiobookSanctuary
By: Patrick Barrett & Susy Flory
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades, his family rescued lost and forgotten donkeys in the Irish countryside.
He had no idea that one day, the donkeys would rescue him.
Patrick Barrett grew up on the back of a donkey. In the small village of Liscarroll, the young boy helped his family run a sanctuary for abandoned and abused donkeys. Struggling in school, Patrick only... Read more
A Knock at the Door
By: Ory Slonim
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The inside story of Israelâs secret negotiations to bring home their soldiers taken hostage by terrorist groups. Suppose one day, your son or husband, while serving in the military or working as a journalist, is taken hostage by a terrorist groupâand you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive or how to even make contact with the... Read more
View audiobookThe Perfect Other
By: Kyleigh Leddy
Narrated by: Kyleigh Leddy
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world.As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically,... Read more
View audiobookA Childhood
By: Harry Crews
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
âOne of the Finest Memoirs Ever Writtenâ âThe New Yorker
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The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South
A Penguin Classic
Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when âthe rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had... Read more
Raising Demons
By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children
In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jacksonâs four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the seams of their first house, Jacksonâs clan moves... Read more
The Bond King
By: Mary Childs
Narrated by: Mary Childs
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From the host of NPRâs Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever.
Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack... Read more
Caravan of Pain
By: Scott Alderman
Narrated by: Khristian Lee
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Brace yourself for a roller coaster thrill ride as you join the Tattoo the Earth 2000 summer tour of America, the most insane tour ever inflicted on a continent.Featuring twenty of metalâs biggest bands, including Metallica, Slipknot, and Slayer, plus Filip Leu, Sean Vasquez, and the worldâs best tattoo artists, these renegade outsiders pissed... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Side of Yet
By: Michelle D. Hord
Narrated by: Michelle D. Hord
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Memoir Prize for Books from Memoir Magazine and the Christopher Award
A âcontemplative, emotional, and spiritualâ (Shondaland) memoir about how resilience, hope, and defiant faith can lead to powerful transformation even amid our darkest hours.
Media executive Michelle D. Hord has suffered loss at almost every major phase in... Read more
Lessons from the Edge
By: Marie Yovanovitch
Narrated by: Marie Yovanovitch
Length: 17 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraineâa pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump.By the time she became US Ambassador to... Read more
View audiobookI Am Because We Are
By: Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
Narrated by: Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria. Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu â the importance of community over the individual â and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose... Read more
View audiobookNazis Knew My Name
By: Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Zoe Carides
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The âthought-provokingâŠmust-readâ (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindnessâin the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officerâs Wife.
In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and... Read more
Brilliance Beyond Borders
By: Chinwe Esimai
Narrated by: Chinwe Esimai
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
What if the traditional narrative about immigrant women--that those who come to the United States will succeed as long as they work hard, stay focused, and have supportive families--is a lie?Of the 73 million women in the US workforce, 11.5 million are foreign-born. The truth is--even in the midst of headlines and political debates about... Read more
View audiobookEl maestro Juan MartĂnez que estaba allĂ (The Maestro Juan MartĂnez, Who Was There)
By: Manuel Chaves Nogales
Narrated by: Marta Garcia Aller
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Tras una exitosa gira por los cabarets centroeuropeos, el bailaor de flamenco Juan MartĂnez y su pareja Sole fueron sorprendidos en Rusia por los hechos revolucionarios de febrero de 1917. Al no poder salir del paĂs, en San Petersburgo, MoscĂș y Kiev sufrieron las consecuencias de la RevoluciĂłn de Octubre y la sangrienta guerra civil que siguiĂł.... Read more
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