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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 832 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 17,885 ratings
    • Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....

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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 15,205 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: 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 12,139 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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    • 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 84 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 14,936 ratings
    • She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

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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 1,857 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 9,770 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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    • 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 1,842 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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    • How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay....

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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 1,630 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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    • By: Lili Anolik
    • Narrated by: Lili Anolik, Emma Roberts
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,186 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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    • Meditations After an Attempted Murder
    • By: Salman Rushdie
    • Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 498 ratings
    • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,563 ratings
    • Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century, 1951, in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, in the middle of the largest generation in American history, the baby boomers....

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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 944 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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