Southern Memoirs

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    • Stories from a South African Childhood
    • By: Trevor Noah
    • Narrated by: Trevor Noah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 215,051 ratings
    • Comedian Trevor Noah offers listeners a glimpse into his childhood during apartheid in South Africa in this award-winning memoir.

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    • Tales from My Momma's Southern Table: A Memoir and Cookbook
    • By: Rick Bragg
    • Narrated by: Rick Bragg
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • From the beloved, best-selling author of All over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, his mother....

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    • From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
    • By: Sandra B. Tooze
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Levon is the dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm - the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of The Band....

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    • The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went Through Fire to Find Her Way Home
    • By: Edie Wadsworth
    • Narrated by: Lisa Larson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • For a long time, Edie thought she had escaped. It started in an Appalachian trailer park, where a young girl dreamed of becoming a doctor. But every day Edie woke up to her reality....

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    • The Last Years
    • By: Charles Bracelen Flood
    • Narrated by: Michael Anthony
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • Robert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender....

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    • A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings
    • By: Leanne Morgan
    • Narrated by: Leanne Morgan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 564 ratings
    • The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it’s like to be a woman today—from rebelling against the latest diet trends to dealing with perimenopausal mean girls and attending rock concerts in middle age.

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    • Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
    • By: John N. Herbers
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance....

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 864 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • By: Bruce Catton
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Series: Grant, Book 2
    • Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy....

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
    • By: Valerie Bauerlein
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Valerie Bauerlein
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.

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    • Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
    • By: J. Drew Lanham
    • Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham....

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    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

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    • A Southern Memoir
    • By: Frances Mayes
    • Narrated by: Frances Mayes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia....

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    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

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    • The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and The Roots of Southern Rap
    • By: Brad "Scarface" Jordan, Benjamin Meadows Ingram - with
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top - and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance....

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