Feuding Fan Dancers
By: Leslie Zemeckis
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Some women capture our attention like no others. Faith Bacon and Sally Rand were beautiful blondes from humble backgrounds who shot to fame behind a pair of oversize ostrich fans, but with very different outcomes. Sally Rand would go on to perform for the millions who attended the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, becoming America's sweetheart.... Read more
View audiobookTank Rider
By: Evgeni Bessonov
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Honest and irrepressibly frank, these are the dramatic memoirs of a Russian officer on the Eastern Front, where he played his part in a clash of titans and witnessed the shuddering collapse of the Third Reich.
The cataclysmic battle of Kursk in 1943 put an end to Hitler's hopes of victory on the Eastern Front, and it was Evgeni Bessonov's first... Read more
In Deep
By: Linda Beckstrom & Angalia Bianca
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Angalia Bianca became one of Chicago's foremost authorities on violence interruption and prevention, receiving international recognition and a Resolution for Bravery from the City of Chicago, she was a criminal, a master manipulator, and a brilliant con artist. Bianca spent twelve years in prison for forgery, embezzlement, drug dealing,... Read more
View audiobookMake Something Good Today
By: Erin Napier & Ben Napier
Narrated by: Erin Napier & Ben Napier
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy, is within our grasp.
Long before their hugely popular TV show,... Read more
A Dream Called Home
By: Reyna Grande
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true.” —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street
From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer... Read more
Fame
By: Justine Bateman
Narrated by: Justine Bateman
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Entertainment shows, magazines, websites, and other channels continuously report the latest sightings, heartbreaks, and triumphs of the famous to a seemingly insatiable public. Millions of people go to enormous lengths to achieve Fame. Fame is woven into our lives in ways that may have been unimaginable in years past.And yet, is Fame even real?... Read more
View audiobookWe Are the Nerds
By: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside Reddit, the wildly popular, often misunderstood website that has changed the culture of the Internet.
Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet." It's the third most-visited website in the United States --... Read more
Son of a Critch
By: Mark Critch
Narrated by: Mark Critch
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A CBC TELEVISION SERIES
WINNER OF THE MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEMORIAL MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
A hilarious story of family, getting into trouble, and finding one's place in the world.
What could be... Read more
Song of a Nation
By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: Robert Harris
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée--the composer of "O Canada"--and the tumult of 19th-century North America.
The story of "O Canada" is one of the great unknowns of our collective lives. No longer. This formidable and gorgeously... Read more
The Evolution of Donald Trump
By: the Speech Resource Company
Narrated by: Robert Wikstrom
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Some refer to Donald Trump as the American success story. While expanding his interests in real estate, sports, and entertainment, he made a decision to run and ultimately win the office of President of the United States. Speeches include those made before and after entering politics—announcing his candidacy, on the campaign trail, nomination... Read more
View audiobookThirst
By: Scott Harrison
Narrated by: Scott Harrison
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water.
At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, models—repeat. But 10... Read more
Lo que no tiene nombre
By: Piedad Bonnett
Narrated by: Victoria De Hoyos
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la literatura? En este libro dedicado a la vida y la muerte de su hijo Daniel, Piedad Bonnett alcanza con las palabras los lugares más extremos de la existencia.
La naturalidad y la extrañeza conviven en sus páginas igual que en su mirada conviven la sequedad de la inteligencia y el latido más intenso de la... Read more
My Hitch in Hell, New Edition
By: Lester I. Tenney
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in... Read more
View audiobookRed Lipstick: The Men In My Life
By: Laxmi
Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The world keeps taunting him as girlish but the fact is that, biologically, he is a boy. And, he is always attracted to guys. Is Laxmi both a man and a woman? Or, perhaps, neither a man nor a woman? The first inklings and stirrings of lust that Laxmi remembers came from noticing big, strong arms, the hint of a guy's moustache over his lips,... Read more
View audiobookThis Stops Today
By: Gwen Carr
Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
After the death of her son, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island went viral, Gwen Carr’s life changed forever. The illegal choke hold that took Garner’s life has been seared into the public consciousness forever as the large black man struggled to breathe while a white policeman held him down on a hot... Read more
View audiobookBefore She Was Harriet
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson, January LaVoy, Bahni Turpin...
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout her lifetime Harriet Tubman was known by many names -- as General Tubman she was a Union spy, as Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad and as Minty she was a spirited slave. The reverse-chronological approach to the details of her life unfolds through memorable verse and lavish illustrations in this unique,... Read more
View audiobookNo Spin
By: Shane Warne & Mark Nicholas
Narrated by: Rhys Muldoon
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The leg-spinner who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five cricketers of the twentieth century. A sporting idol across the globe. A magnet for the tabloids. But the millions of words written and spoken about Shane Warne since his explosive arrival on the Test cricket scene in 1992 have only... Read more
View audiobookMy Life
By: Gloria Hunniford
Narrated by: Annie Farr
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
As one of Britain's best known TV and radio personalities, Gloria Hunniford requires little introduction. From chat show and current affairs host to presenter of consumer and lifestyle programmes, Gloria is one of the few broadcasters who can genuinely claim to embrace the spectrum of popular culture. Her elusive ability to communicate with... Read more
View audiobookYou've Been So Lucky Already
By: Alethea Black
Narrated by: Alethea Black
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of I Knew You’d Be Lovely comes an empowering and disarmingly funny memoir about grief and illness—and the wit and wisdom it takes to survive it.As a child, Alethea Black drifts between her father, a brilliant mathematician who is also her best friend, and her mother, a frank and outspoken woman on fire. After her... Read more
View audiobookUnsuitable Boy
By: Karan Johar
Narrated by: Gaurav Sajjanhar
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Karan Johar is synonymous with success, panache, quick wit, and outspokenness, which sometimes inadvertently creates controversy and makes headlines. KJo, as he is popularly called, has been a much-loved Bollywood film director, producer, actor, and discoverer of new talent. With his flagship Dharma Production, he has constantly challenged the... Read more
View audiobookAny Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
Narrated by: Leigh Sales
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after?
Dual Walkley Award-winner Leigh Sales investigates how ordinary people endure the unthinkable.
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular... Read more
Kuka Harry Potter?
By: Tomi Kontio
Narrated by: Juha-Pekka Mikkola
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Harry Potterin maailma kiehtoo juuri nyt. Tässä teoksessa etsitään vastauksia kysymyksiin: Millainen poika on Harry Potter ja millaista poikakuvaa Harry edustaa? Millaisia ovat tytöt Potterin ja fantasian maailmassa? Kuinka Potter-kirjoista tuli ilmiö ja kuinka se tuotteistettiin palvelemaan elokuvaa, fanikulttuuria ja musiikkia? Kirjassa... Read more
View audiobookJohnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
By: Leigh H. Edwards
Narrated by: Beth Richmond
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout his career, Johnny Cash was depicted — and depicted himself — as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues... Read more
View audiobookOn the Devil's Tail
By: Paul Martelli
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam.
Paul recounts his time at the... Read more