Author Memoirs

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    • From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....

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    • The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood
    • By: John Glatt
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015, when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett....

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    • A Biography
    • By: David Leeming
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • This is a biography of James Baldwin, author, one-time preacher, and civil rights activist. He chose David Leeming, a close friend and colleague, to write his biography....

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    • By: Dorothy Wordsworth
    • Narrated by: Emma Fielding
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth's sister began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three years....

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    • By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • As you will see, age-old traditions, contemporary history and culture, and “big” human questions are key ingredients of Tolkien’s success. You will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more....

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    • The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders
    • By: Don Lasseter
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder that claimed at least 16 victims....

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    • How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
    • By: John Kiriakou
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners....

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    • A Life of John Steinbeck
    • By: William Souder
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy....

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    • The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
    • By: Guy de la Bédoyère
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire....

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    • By: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe....

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    • By: May Sarton
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton's pilgrimage inward....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
    • Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512 ratings
    • In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.....

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    • Life in Shakespeare’s London
    • By: Catharine Arnold
    • Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Globe Catherine Arnold takes the listener on a tour of Shakespeare's London, looking at how they shaped each other. Acting turned into a trade, and troupes of touring players perfected their craft....

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    • Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
    • By: Christine Woodside
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women, Libertarians on the Prairie is also the deconstruction of an American myth....

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    • By: Gloria Steinem
    • Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • A portrait of the singular author at 40, Gloria Steinem's James Baldwin, an Original finds Baldwin between rehearsals for his Broadway play....

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    • By: Kingsley Amis
    • Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes)....

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    • By: Alan Hollinghurst
    • Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.

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    • A Life
    • By: Laura Dassow Walls
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity....

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