Difficult Memoirs

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    • Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
    • By: Karen Karbo, Cheryl Strayed - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Best-selling author Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations....

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    • A Life of Maud Gonne
    • By: Kim Bendheim
    • Narrated by: Owen Laheen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. Kim Bendheim has long been fascinated by Maud Gonne’s perplexing character, and here gives us an intensely personal assessment of her thrilling life....

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    • A Life in Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
    • By: Eddie Piller, Paul Weller - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eddie Piller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Visceral and always entertaining, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time....

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    • By: Chris Moyles
    • Narrated by: Chris Moyles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Chris Moyles entertains eight million people each week on BBC Radio 1. Then he goes home and plays with an Xbox on his sofa, wearing only his underpants....

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    • A Novel of World War II
    • By: Andrew Fukuda
    • Narrated by: Emily Ellet, Greg Chun
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1935, 10-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington, is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France - a girl....

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    • The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
    • By: Alice Kessler-Harris
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Lillian Hellman was a giant of 20th-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway....

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    • By: Sarah Henstra
    • Narrated by: Matthew Gouveia, Tony Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters they write to one another....

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    • The Story of Bayard Rustin
    • By: Larry Dane Brimner
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • You may never have heard of him, but you've probably heard of the many people civil rights activist Bayard Rustin influenced....

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    • By: Anica Mrose Rissi
    • Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Caitlin Kelly, Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • The nail-bitingly intense story of a summer at camp that ends in a disturbing death—and depicts a powerful friendship that won’t ever be forgotten. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Broken Things....

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    • A Memoir That Explores the Depths of Methamphetamine and Drug Addiction
    • By: S.C. Sterling
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 1996, Scott was nineteen and lost in adulthood with an endless job and no future ambitions....

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    • The Power of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys
    • By: Payam Zamani
    • Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • At the age of 16, he escaped persecution and made his way to America as a refugee. At 28, he secured a billion-dollar IPO. Today, he's redefining what it means to be an entrepreneur by building a new model of capitalism.

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    • One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
    • By: Jasper Rees
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Jasper Rees fished his French horn out of the attic and sets himself a near-impossible target: to stand up in front of a paying audience and play a Mozart concerto....

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    • A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
    • By: Shannon Gibney
    • Narrated by: Shannon Gibney
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, a book woven from her true story of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee and fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth....

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    • By: A. B. Rutledge
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It's been three years since Miles fell for Vivian, a talented and dazzling transgender girl. Eighteen months since a suicide attempt left Vivian on life support. Now Miles knows it's time to figure out how to say goodbye....

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    • By: Cynthia Hand
    • Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, Erin Spencer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they’ve given Cass a life she wouldn’t trade for the world. She has everything she needs - but she has questions, too....

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