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Biographies & Memoirs
Audible’s collection of Biographies & Memoirs are written by famous, inspirational and interesting people from around the world. From engaging personal stories written (and read by) your favourite celebrity, to inspiring memoirs on overcoming adversity and the historic life and times of people who've changed the world, Audible has over 20,000 titles you can listen to.Most Popular
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If You Tell
- A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Number-one New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors....
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Must Read
- By Anonymous User on 15-01-2020
By: Gregg Olsen
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The Resilience Project
- Finding Happiness Through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
- By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Narrated by: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive....
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Hugh keep up the great work.
- By Paul on 01-12-2019
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In Bad Faith
- Inside a Secret Ultra-Orthodox Sect and the Brutal Betrayal It Tried to Hide
- By: Dassi Erlich
- Narrated by: Dassi Erlich
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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As a young girl growing up in a strict ultra-Orthodox family, Dassi's life was preordained - marry young, live a devout life and raise children within the Adass community's religious rules. This righteous path would keep her safe from the immodest, secular world just a few blocks away in Melbourne.
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The Power in Truth
- By docbourke on 20-06-2024
By: Dassi Erlich
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
- By: Jennette McCurdy
- Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy shares her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-2022
By: Jennette McCurdy
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Bits and Pieces
- My Mother, My Brother, and Me
- By: Whoopi Goldberg
- Narrated by: Whoopi Goldberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life....
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Whoopie, the daughter, sister,mother and actress.
- By Marjorie on 07-07-2024
By: Whoopi Goldberg
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The Year I Met My Brain
- A Travel Companion for Adults Who Have Just Found Out They Have ADHD
- By: Matilda Boseley
- Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future....
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There are better books out there.
- By misterg on 02-12-2023
By: Matilda Boseley
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If You Tell
- A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Number-one New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors....
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Must Read
- By Anonymous User on 15-01-2020
By: Gregg Olsen
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The Resilience Project
- Finding Happiness Through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
- By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Narrated by: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive....
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Hugh keep up the great work.
- By Paul on 01-12-2019
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In Bad Faith
- Inside a Secret Ultra-Orthodox Sect and the Brutal Betrayal It Tried to Hide
- By: Dassi Erlich
- Narrated by: Dassi Erlich
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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As a young girl growing up in a strict ultra-Orthodox family, Dassi's life was preordained - marry young, live a devout life and raise children within the Adass community's religious rules. This righteous path would keep her safe from the immodest, secular world just a few blocks away in Melbourne.
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The Power in Truth
- By docbourke on 20-06-2024
By: Dassi Erlich
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
- By: Jennette McCurdy
- Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy shares her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-2022
By: Jennette McCurdy
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Bits and Pieces
- My Mother, My Brother, and Me
- By: Whoopi Goldberg
- Narrated by: Whoopi Goldberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life....
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Whoopie, the daughter, sister,mother and actress.
- By Marjorie on 07-07-2024
By: Whoopi Goldberg
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The Year I Met My Brain
- A Travel Companion for Adults Who Have Just Found Out They Have ADHD
- By: Matilda Boseley
- Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future....
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There are better books out there.
- By misterg on 02-12-2023
By: Matilda Boseley
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I, Mick Gatto
- By: Mick Gatto, Tom Noble
- Narrated by: Simon Westaway
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Mick Gatto in his best-selling autobiography finally reveals the man behind the headlines. Gatto's unique position - of knowing all the players in the Gangland Wars but not being involved in drug trafficking - gave him a remarkable perspective to watch the battles unfold....
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“I haven’t ever done the wrong thing”
- By Anonymous User on 24-10-2019
By: Mick Gatto, and others
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Showing Up
- Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
- By: Nedd Brockmann, Hamish Blake - foreword
- Narrated by: Nedd Brockmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘through hell and back 10 times’ to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers....
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Amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-2023
By: Nedd Brockmann, and others
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Entrances and Exits
- By: Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld - foreword
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy genius.
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Yawn material
- By Anonymous User on 08-07-2024
By: Michael Richards, and others
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The Teacher's Pet
- By: Hedley Thomas
- Narrated by: Hedley Thomas
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas takes you behind the scenes with a blow-by-blow account of one of the most intriguing and enduring murder mysteries of our time....
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What a journey!
- By Anonymous User on 12-11-2023
By: Hedley Thomas
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Never Enough
- From Barista to Billionaire
- By: Andrew Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Wilkinson pulls back the curtain on the lives of the ultra-rich, sharing insights into building a successful business that has been called a “Berkshire Hathaway, but for internet companies,” and a surprising first-person account of what it's actually like to become a billionaire.
By: Andrew Wilkinson
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- By: Charles T. Munger
- Narrated by: Grover Gardener
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up," Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of 11 talks, delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway....
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First Review!
- By Anonymous User on 05-12-2023
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She Is Not Your Rehab
- One Man’s Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired
- By: Matt Brown
- Narrated by: Matt Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement....
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Thank you 🙏
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-2021
By: Matt Brown
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We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay
- (tips, tales, travels)
- By: Gary Janetti
- Narrated by: Gary Janetti
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe.
By: Gary Janetti
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Windswept & Interesting
- My Autobiography
- By: Billy Connolly
- Narrated by: Billy Connolly
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life....
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Hilarious, Honest and Definitely Interesting
- By Chuffers on 18-11-2021
By: Billy Connolly
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Surprisingly good
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2017
By: Jack Weatherford
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- By: C.G. Jung
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.
By: C.G. Jung
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Roger Rogerson
- From Hero Cop to Convicted Murderer – The Inside Story
- By: Duncan McNab
- Narrated by: Andrew Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Once one of the most highly decorated police officers in New South Wales, Rogerson would brag of the crims he killed. For too long, the whispers of corruption around him were ignored. But his unholy alliances with heroin dealers and underworld figures would eventually bring about his downfall.
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Boring storytelling. Couldn’t get past chapter 3
- By Mellissa Raphael on 28-04-2024
By: Duncan McNab
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Shoe Dog
- A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- By: Phil Knight
- Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Phil Knight - introduction
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands....
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- By You can’t afford not to buy it on 17-04-2018
By: Phil Knight
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Goldie
- A Lotus Grows in the Mud
- By: Goldie Hawn
- Narrated by: Goldie Hawn
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Goldie Hawn's life is an ongoing tableau of stories, and she has a born knack for telling them....
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Pure love
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-2024
By: Goldie Hawn
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Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
- By: Curtis 50 Cent Jackson
- Narrated by: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback—from tragic personal loss to massive success as cable’s highest-paid executive.
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Surprisingly great!
- By Anonymous User on 31-12-2020
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Lost Connections
- Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
- By: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety....
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Some good ideas, a lot of incomplete science.
- By Michael H on 17-06-2019
By: Johann Hari
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
- A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
- By: Maria Bamford
- Narrated by: Maria Bamford
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford comes a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems....
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Earnest expression of mental illness
- By Shilo 'Moonbeam' Starbright on 19-05-2024
By: Maria Bamford
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Mindhunter
- Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
- By: John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling....
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Riveting, hard to stop listening
- By Mhortop on 29-03-2024
By: John E. Douglas, and others
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This Much Is True
- By: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure....
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Wondeful, laugh-out-loud, and touching. And certainly honest.
- By Anonymous User on 19-09-2021
By: Miriam Margolyes
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A Stolen Life
- A Memoir
- By: Jaycee Dugard
- Narrated by: Jaycee Dugard
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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"In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things....
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To Jaycee
- By Michelle on 05-06-2016
By: Jaycee Dugard
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I Fight, You Fight
- Life Isn't About the Hand You're Dealt, but How You Choose to Play It
- By: Alex Noble
- Narrated by: Alex Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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I Fight, You Fight is the inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn’t about the hand you’re dealt, but how you choose to play it.
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Inspirational!
- By Anonymous User on 23-06-2024
By: Alex Noble
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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
- My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
- By: Ed Zwick
- Narrated by: Ed Zwick
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Though there are many factors behind such success, including luck and the contributions of his creative partner Marshall Herskovitz, he’s known to have a special talent for bringing out the best in the people he’s worked with, notably the actors....
By: Ed Zwick
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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
- By: Miranda Hart
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title!
By: Miranda Hart
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Autobiography of a Yogi
- By: Paramahansa Yogananda
- Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....
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Superb Insight Into Indian Life and Spirituality
- By meredith on 29-06-2015
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Never Enough
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Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page.
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We all make mistakes in life. In this book, “The Greatest Mistakes in My Life,” I am sharing with you, the listener, some of my mistakes I made in my life. Of course, I made plenty of them, and hoping you will learn from my mistakes. You will gain wisdom and knowledge and apply them to your daily life. Even, if it is only one, I would have reached my goal touching your heart, the listener.
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Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been desperately, pretentiously in love with France, more specifically with the idea of France. To follow that love, he and his family move, nearly at random, to the small, rural, scratchy-hot village of Autignac in the south of the country, and he immediately thinks he’s made a terrible mistake.
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Some $65 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff’s epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme’s exposure. Others went to prison. But there has never been a satisfying accounting for how Bernie got away with so much, for so long. Until now. Shocking, infuriating, riveting (and at times absurdly funny), Madoff shows us how Bernie ensnared thousands of investors. As Behar’s dogged reporting over the last fifteen years makes clear, however, there aren’t many innocents left standing by the end of this tale.
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The Color of Everything is a thrilling tale of risk and adventure, written by a man who has done it all: he’s stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark and become the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter. But it is also the story of a tumultuous life--a stirring, lyrical memoir that captures the profound musings of a brilliant and unquiet mind grappling with the meaning of success, the cost of fame, addiction, and whether it is possible to outrun your demons.
By: Cory Richards
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My Glorious Defeats
- Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir
- By: Barrett Brown
- Narrated by: Barrett Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power.
By: Barrett Brown
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Tickling Sharks
- How We Sold Business on Sustainability
- By: John Elkington
- Narrated by: John Elkington
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Sustainability is going mainstream—but where did the story start? For decades, the traditional capitalist business model required growth at all costs. Business-as-usual guaranteed unsustainability. Now, in contrast, we see growing adoption of greener practices, but where did these ideas come from—and where are the linked movements headed? Drawing on a half century of experience since the early seventies, “Godfather of Sustainability” John Elkington explains how a series of societal pressure waves have helped to transform business, markets, and, ultimately, capitalism.
By: John Elkington
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Home and Alone
- By: Daniel Stern
- Narrated by: Daniel Stern
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Stern's connection with audiences is cemented in movies like Home Alone and City Slickers, and in his debut memoir, Home and Alone, he is the Everyman narrator on a ride into the human side of Hollywood. Experience what it's like driving Robert Redford in his Porsche at 100 mph, or stripping down for a nude scene in front of a group of strangers.
By: Daniel Stern
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More, Please
- On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
- By: Emma Specter
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food—its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world—as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.
By: Emma Specter
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To the Gorge
- Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Emily Halnon
- Narrated by: Emily Halnon
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She even went skydiving to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Emily, already an accomplished ultrarunner, decided to try to break the record for the Fastest Known Time by a woman on the Pacific Crest Trail's 460 miles across Oregon.
By: Emily Halnon
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Wingless Victory
- The Story of Sir Basil Embry's Escape from Occupied France in the Summer of 1940
- By: Anthony Richardson
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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During the course of his time in enemy territory he broke out from a column of prisoners while having a Nazi machine gun aimed at him, fought against his captors with stolen weapons, hid in stinking manure, and even posed as a member of the Irish Republican Army in order to throw his captors off the scent of his true identity.
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One Last Lunch
- A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
- By: Erica Heller - edited by
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi, Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?
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Riding with Reagan
- From the White House to the Ranch
- By: John R. Barletta, Rochelle Schweizer - with
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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John Barletta was a Vietnam veteran and Secret Service agent who spent over a decade with the Reagans, poised to give his own life at any moment to save the fortieth president of the United States. His superior riding skills made Barletta the perfect choice to protect Reagan during his frequent visits to the ranch. Over time, he got to know Reagan as few others did.
By: John R. Barletta, and others
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I Can Give You Anything but Love
- By: Gary Indiana
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments. With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary has composed literary and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post-summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality.
By: Gary Indiana