Biography Collection

El 15 de mayode 2017 fue asesinado en Culiacán el periodista Javier Valdez Cárdenas, autor de una serie de libros excepcionales para entender el fenómeno del narco y el voraz crecimiento de la delincuencia organizada en México.

Periodista valiente y puntual, crítico hasta el extremo con la realidad de nuestro país, su trabajo logró reconocimiento internacional y, sobre todo, por una pluma vibrante, conmovedora, profundamente humana.

Learn about the early lives and exciting careers of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, and Bono. The Rock Box! celebrates the musicians who have made us sing along to their songs for decades.

An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction.

In this biography designed for children, your child will learn all about their football hero in a way that's enjoyable and easy to understand. We dive deep into the player's upbringing with the situations and circumstances that made them the player they are today. The highs, the lows, and everything in between. If your child loves football, we can assure you that they’ll love the My Football Hero Series. From the feedback we’ve received, we recommend that the ideal age group for these books are between eight and 13 years of age.

The book features a great collection of America’s founding fathers and mothers, whose contribution to the fight for independence, human rights, democracy, and proper governance will never be forgotten!

本书选取了老舍先生的一些经典散文和中短篇作品。这些作品多取材于人们的日常生活，通过平凡的场景反映普遍的社会冲突，挖掘对人民生存、命运的思考。这些文章或描写城市平民的生活轨迹，或书写知识分子的生活趣事，或描摹各地的风土人情，其作品充满生活情趣，其文笔细致入微，极尽渲染之笔触，更贯穿着老舍先生一贯的幽默风格，让人从轻快诙谐之中体味人生哲思

The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War II. Based on interviews with numerous veterans from across the spectrum of wartime experience, the book documents and reflects upon one of the most gruesome times in history. From anti-partisan warfare in the French mountains and atrocities in East Prussia to the experience of a Norwegian concentration camp, the accounts include rarely heard stories from a range of people caught up in the war.

From the author of the Prison Days series comes the next chapter of life behind bars. These are the personal stories of prisoners as they negotiate day-to-day life behind the walls of a maximum-security facility. Listen to their tales as they try and fit in, adjust, and survive one of the toughest places on earth.

This audiobook bundle includes five Old Testament titles from The Beginner’s Bible....

A horrific event at the age of 17 left Rhonda continually searching for something or someone to fill the dark chasm of her heart. Tears seemed to puddle around her wherever she went. However, she learned to carefully hide herself in a masquerade put on for the outside world, allowing her to project that all was well with her soul even as the slow decay continued from within. Those who find themselves pretending will be drawn to the answers her story presents. But it was God who worked to lift the veil from Rhonda’s eyes.

Six true crime authors come together to present the second annual Serial Killers True Crime Anthology, which depicts 13 horrific cases of serial homicide told in detail. Each case will take the listener from the background of the serial killer to the crime scene, investigation, trial, and sentencing.

The incredible story of the two most high-profile Italian cases in recent history: the story of the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades, and the Amanda Knox case.

In this audiobook set of four true crime books, you will learn about men who performed acts so cruel, inhumanely heartless, and unfathomable that their names will never be forgotten. This collection includes four of the world’s most well-known serial killers: Edmund Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Robert Berdella, and Ted Bundy.

With no fear of taking risks, Susan Binkley embarked on a difficult spiritual journey that started with nothing but a powerful dream one night in 1995—a dream she had clearly intercepted, which was surely intended for someone else. After all, the dream was about helping women and children, and Susan did not particularly care for either. Shortly after, however, she found herself on an unexpected journey that completely changed her life and heart.

Over the years Joanna Lumley has kept private notebooks, filled with her favourite writings, thoughts and quotes. Now, for the first time, she opens her Book of Treasures to share some of her many and varied jottings with listeners. This collection of favourite writings, interspersed with narration from Joanna, features the lines of her favourite authors, from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, pearls of wisdom that she has heard or read, and nuggets of trivia and miscellanea that have made her happy.

In this series of stories, you will encounter attractive actors, stunning fashion models, handsome artists, a suave British aristocrat, the activist and founder of a London gay paper, and a charismatic and very persistent millionaire. Also there are some really fantastic kissers! I mean exceptionally good!

How did companies like Facebook, PayPal, Oracle, and Google get started? Who built the internet as we know it now? What are their stories? How did these tech giants turn innovation into a global technological empire? You’ll learn it all and more with The Tech Billionaires Collection!

Although he is one of the world's most popular authors who continues to thrill and chill readers and listeners of all ages, Edgar Allan Poe's life is as enigmatic as his sudden, unexplained death. In a quest for solutions to the mysteries surrounding the poet's life and work, a group of Poe devotees founded the Poe Shrine in 1922. This body included the world's most prolific Poe collector, a psychiatrist who believed Poe was clairvoyant, and the grandson of Poe's worst enemy.

When you're born with a vagina and a set of boobs, life can be complicated. In this intoxicating collection of essays, writer and college senior Tatiana Pérez explores the complexities of womanhood. From struggling to love her body to putting up with bad sex - Tati writes about it all with shameless candor and a raunchy sense of humor that won't quit. Boys are welcome to listen along, but this one's #forthegirls.

A collection of coast-to-coast murder and mayham, including these unabridged short stories: "Vaudeville" by Whitley Strieber, read by Roddy McDowell; "Lucky Day" by Mary Higgins Clark, read by Betsy Palmer; "Starstruck" by Jon A. Breen, read by James Stacy; "Snookered" by Gerald Tomlinson, read by David Birney; "It Was Bad Enough" by Ron Goulart, read by Arte Johnson and Gee Whiz; "My Lovely" by Betty Buchanan, read by Joan Rivers.