Memoirs and personal history
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Kitchen Confidential
Bourdain, AnthonyPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2001When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confide...
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Loretta Lynn : coal miner's daughter
Lynn, Loretta; Vecsey, GeorgeBooks on Tape 2010Loretta Lynn's classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry. Born into deep poverty, married...
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Life
Richards, Keith; Fox, JamesHachette Audio 2010 UnabridgedAs lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his o...
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In with the Devil : A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption
Keene, JamesBlackstone Publishing 2010 UnabridgedJimmy Keene grew up outside of Chicago and was destined for greatness on the football field. By the time he reached his twenties, he was rubbing shoulders with famous actors, porn...
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The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition
Frank, AnneListening Library 2010 UnabridgedDiscovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and...
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Son of Hamas : A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Hassan Yousef, Mosab; Brackin, RonTyndale House Publishers 2010 UnabridgedSince he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its...
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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
Scottoline, LisaMacmillan Audio 2010At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa shows the humorous side of life from a woman's perspect...
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Ecce Homo : How One Becomes What One Is
Nietzsche, FriedrichBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2009Ecce Homo, which is Latin for "behold the man," is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philoso...
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Wishful Drinking
Fisher, CarrieSimon & Schuster Audio 2009Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one...
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Anne Frank Remembered
Gies, Miep; Gold, Alison LeslieOasis Audio 2009She found Anne Frank's diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thous...
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Beautiful Boy : A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
Sheff, DavidBlackstone Publishing 2008 UnabridgedWhat had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son's dr...
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Lansing, AlfredBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2008This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance s...
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Born Standing Up : A Comic's Life
Martin, SteveSimon & Schuster Audio 2007 UnabridgedThe Emmy and Grammy Award-winner's candid, spectacularly amusing memoir of his years in stand-up In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he wa...
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Into the Wild
Krakauer, JonPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2007In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He...
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Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10
Luttrell, MarcusLittle, Brown 2007 -
A Long Way Gone
Beah, IshmaelMacmillan Audio 2008This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are so...
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Ackerman, DianeBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2008When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews...
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