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Rabbit
By: Patricia Williams & Jeannine Amber
Narrated by: Patricia Williams
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature""An absolute must-read"" – Shondaland“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York Times They called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched... Read more
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Otto Binder
By: Bill Schelly
Narrated by: Derek Botten
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and predating Isaac Asimov's... Read more
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Marathon Woman
By: Kathrine Switzer
Narrated by: Kathrine Switzer
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently... Read more
Girls to the Front
By: Sara Marcus
Narrated by: Julie McKay
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement: the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America's gender landscape—and soundscape—forever. Author Sara Marcus, a cultural historian and critic who's written for Rolling Stone, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times,... Read more
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nina inquebrantable
By: Regina Calcaterra
Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
En la secuela tan esperada al best seller del New York Times Grabada en la arena, Regina Calcaterra se une a Rosie, su hermana menor, para relatar su historia desgarradora, aunque finalmente triunfante, de una niñez de abusos y supervivencia.La desgarradora historia de dos hermanas y su supervivencia, desde las calles de Long Island hasta las... Read more
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
By: Brian Southall
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A carefully crafted and collectible volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of a legendary and groundbreaking Beatles album. Expert Brian Southall's unique edition recounts the story behind the music and the cultural climate of 1967 when Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band debuted.
The "A-side" of this coolly curated title is all about the... Read more
Sargent's Women
By: Donna M. Lucey
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Sequestered in a... Read more
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Confidential Source Ninety-Six
By: C.S. 96 & Rob Cea
Narrated by: Rick Zieff
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A HARROWING JOURNEY INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DRUG CARTELS BY ONE OF THE TOP CRIMINAL INFORMANTS IN U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY.
The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named... Read more
The Longest Kill
By: Craig Harrison
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most wants to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes, and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, under intense pressure, he saved the lives of... Read more
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The Lonely Life
By: Bette Davis
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time, and updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death.
As Davis says in the opening lines of her classic memoir: "I have always been driven by some... Read more
This 'n That
By: Bette Davis
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1987, a collection of anecdotes as well as opinions pro and con on a wide range of subjects by legendary actress Bette Davis--now in ebook for the first time!
A woman of strong appetites and opinions, Bette Davis minces no words. In frank, no nonsense terms she talks about the stroke that nearly killed her, and inspires... Read more
Chancer
By: Donnie Kanter Winokur
Narrated by: Donnie Kanter Winokur
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
When a devastating diagnosis tears author Donnie Kanter Winokur’s family apart, a service dog may be their best hope to stay together.Donnie Kanter Winokur and her husband, Harvey, never could have imagined the heart-wrenching struggle that becomes their new reality after they decide to adopt two infants from Russia. As Iyal and Morasha grow, it... Read more
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Patrick Henry
By: Jon Kukla
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 17 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney and planter, and an outstanding orator in the movement for independence. A contemporary of Washington, Henry stood with John and Samuel Adams among the leaders of the colonial resistance to Great Britain that ultimately created the United States. The first governor of Virginia after independence, he... Read more
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The Futilitarians
By: Anne Gisleson
Narrated by: Anne Gisleson
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief.
Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own... Read more
Shooting Ghosts
By: Thomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret.) & Finbarr O'Reilly
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain & David H. Lawrence XVII
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score
A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls
"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors are so committed to transparency, admitting readers... Read more
Single, Gay, Christian
By: Gregory Coles
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Let’s make a deal, you and me. Let’s make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I’ll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. I’ll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and... Read more
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To Siri with Love
By: Judith Newman
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column ""To Siri with Love"" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple’s electronic personal assistant, Siri, helped Gus,... Read more
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Manchmal reitet mich der Teufel - Teil 1
By: Kelly Russel
Narrated by: Steffi Lindner
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Dies ist ein Buch der Nacht. Ich habe es geschrieben, wenn ich von meiner Arbeit als Prostituierte nach Hause gekommen bin und noch nicht schlafen konnte. Es ist ein Buch der Erinnerungen, der Geschichten, die ich erlebt habe, und der Geschichten, die ich von anderen afrikanischen Prostituierten gehört habe. So ist ein autobiografischer Roman... Read more
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Wild Things
By: Bruce Handy
Narrated by: Bruce Handy
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was published in Boston. Offering children gems of advice such as "Strive to learn" and "Be not a dunce," it was no fun at all. So how did we get from there to "Let the wild rumpus start"? And now that we're living in a golden age of children's literature,... Read more
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Beyond the High Blue Air
By: Lu Spinney
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lu Spinney’s twenty-nine-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, “he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,” writes his mother, “skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead…” He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma.Thus begins the... Read more
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Notes on a Foreign Country
By: Suzy Hansen
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing... Read more
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The Education of a Coroner
By: John Bateson
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Marin County, California is a study in contradictions. Its natural beauty attracts thousands of visitors every year, yet the county also is home to San Quentin Prison, one of the oldest and largest penitentiaries in the country. Marin ranks in the top one percent of counties nationwide in terms of affluence and overall health, yet it is far... Read more
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Another Kind of Madness
By: Stephen P. Hinshaw
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for eighteen years within his family—that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth,... Read more
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Suffering the Silence
By: Allie Cashel
Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years—but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called post-treatment Lyme syndrome, featuring the... Read more
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