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    • A Family Memoir
    • By: Griffin Dunne
    • Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 785 ratings
    • Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jeannette Walls
    • Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,852 ratings
    • Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,132 ratings
    • David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

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    • A Memoir of the Craft
    • By: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-00
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,189 ratings
    • Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have....

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    • By: Lili Anolik
    • Narrated by: Lili Anolik, Emma Roberts
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

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    • By: Matt Haig
    • Narrated by: Matt Haig
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • At the age of 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.

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    • One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
    • By: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,925 ratings
    • She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

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    • Essays
    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,830 ratings
    • “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....

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    • A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
    • By: Cea Sunrise Person
    • Narrated by: Cea Sunrise Person
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 995 ratings
    • In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counterculture family in the Canadian wilderness....

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    • The World as Stage
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,856 ratings
    • William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,764 ratings
    • When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave....

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    • By: Maya Angelou
    • Narrated by: Maya Angelou
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,184 ratings
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      Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....

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    • Life in the Woods
    • By: Henry David Thoreau
    • Narrated by: Alec Sand
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,627 ratings
    • Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

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    • LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
    • By: Rick Emerson
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,405 ratings
    • In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....

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    • The Official Biography
    • By: Rob Wilkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....

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    • The Shape of My Early Life
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,530 ratings
    • In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity....

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    • A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
    • By: Laurence Leamer
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 942 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers....

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