Famous Audiobooks of Biography Memoir

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Title: School on Heart's Content Road

Author: Carolyn Chute

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2008-01-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Carolyn Chute has been heralded as a passionate voice of the underclass, earning comparisons to William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O'Connor. Now, Chute returns to the unforgettable town of Egypt, Maine, and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of another group of lives on the margins of our society. The School on Heart's Content Road begins with the story of Mickey Gammon, a fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from home by his half-brother. Alone, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement and its leader, a man known to many as the The Prophet. A rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and local goods, the Settlement is demonized by the media as a compound of sin, and its true nature remains foreign to outsiders. It is at the Settlement where Mickey's life collides with that of another deserted child, six-year-old Jane - a cunning, beautiful girl of mixed race, whose mother is in jail on trumped up drug charges. Secret Agent Jane prowls the Settlement in her heart-shaped sunglasses, imagining that her childish plans to bring down the community will reunite her with her mother. As they struggle to adjust to their new, complex surrogate family, Mickey and Jane witness the mounting unrest within the Settlement's ranks, which soon builds to a shocking and devastating crescendo. Vehement and poetic, The School on Heart's Content Road questions the nature of family, culture, and authority in an intensely diverse nation. It is an urgent plea from those who have been shoved to the fringes of society, but who refuse to be silenced.

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Title: Peter Cottontail

Author: Amanda Stephens

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2008-01-01

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Genres: Kids, General

Publisher's Summary:

Oh no! Someone has stolen all the Easter eggs! Peter Cottontail hatches a plot to save Easter in this heartwarming holiday classic.

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Title: Living

Author: Annie Dillard

Narrator: Laurence Luckinbill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2007-10-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

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Title: Mr Wray's Cash Box

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2007-01-01

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Mr. Reuben Wray, a retired actor who has had little public success, flees Stratford-upon-Avon fearing pursuit by the police. He arrives in Tidbury in the Marsh and sets up shop teaching elocution. Two local villains notice he carries a rather large cash box and attempt to steal the contents. When their plans come to naught and they exact their revenge Mr. Wray is left devastated and it takes Annie, his granddaughter, and her intended, Martin, to rectify the situation. It is Squire Colebatch however, an ex patron of Reubens, who brings the perfect ending to this wonderful Christmas whimsy. Wilkie Collins was a good friend of Charles Dickens and like that great man he was a radical freethinker with a passion for the rights of the common man and a disdain for Victorian convention. Both men had a love for the theatre and performed Collins novel The Frozen Deep [also an Assembled Stories title] as a play, once by Royal Command.The authors love of mystery, the works of Shakespeare and his sympathy for the plight of the lower orders come together in this quixotic and very heartwarming tale.

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Title: Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Saddleback Educational Publishing

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2006-09-01

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing

Genres: Drama, Shakespeare

Publisher's Summary:

A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in mythical Athens. The theme of the story is that love has no laws and is blind and unpredictable. William Shakespeare wrote many great comedies and tragedies. This story, an entertaining fantasy, takes the reader through a romantic farce on a midsummer's eve, during a time of great rejoicing amongst the elves and fairies who live in the woods. Puck, Oberon, Theseus, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Bottom, and Lysander are just a few of the characters in this timeless, world-famous comedy.

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Title: Paid in Blood

Author: Mel Odom

Narrator: Kevin King

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2006-05-01

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Listeners with an interest in crime scene investigation will be gripped as a crack team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents investigates crime scenes around the world. Will Coburn and his NCIS team of agents are hunting for a missing body stolen from a crime scene and suspect a government cover up may be in the works. It’s a race against time while the nuclear submarine they are on sinks to the bottom of the Ocean.

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Title: Missions of California

Author: William Henry Hudson

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2006-01-04

Publisher: Thought Audio

Genres: History, Americas

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of the expedition in 1769, whose objective was the political and spiritual conquest of the great Northwest coast of the Pacific. Among the members of the expedition was the now famous, Father Junipero Serra, who was significant in establishing the Famous Missions of California.

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Title: House of Scorta

Author: Laurent Gaude

Narrator: Daniel Oreskes, Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2006-01-01

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of France's most prestigious literary prize, set in the unforgiving south of Italy, this is an epic tale of love, lies, and a family's disgrace.

Spanning five generations, the Scorta family saga begins in 1870 with Rocco Scorta Mascalzone, the bastard product of a rape and a notorious scoundrel. Burdened by a legacy of infamous crimes and forsaken loves, its lineage doomed to struggle, the Scortas nevertheless are blessed: with pride and a relentless faith in their own power. Their wealth lies in their memories and their collective belief in the pursuit of happiness.

In a narrative both lyrical and linear, Laurent Gaudé interweaves a compelling story with a timeless message and the recollections of old Carmela as she delivers her final confession to the family priest, exposing the Scortas' most deeply buried secret.

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Title: Moment of Truth

Author: Lisa Scottoline

Narrator: Kate Burton

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2005-07-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller

Publisher's Summary:

Attorney Jack Newlin comes home one evening to find his wife, Honor, dead on the floor of their elegant dining room.Convinced that he knows who killed her - and determined to hid the truth - Jack decides to make it look as though he did it. Staging the crime scene so that the evidence incriminates him, he then calls the police. And to hammer the final nail in his coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary Di Nunzio, employed at the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato and Associates.

Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary may turn out to be his only mistake.

Though inexperienced, Mary doubts Jack's confession and begins to investigate the crime. Her ethics and instincts tell her she can't defend a man who wants only one thing - to convict himself. Or can she? Smarter, gutsier, and more determined than she has any right to be, Mary decides to stock with the case. With help from the most unexpected sources, she sets out to prove what really happened - because as any lawyer knows, a case is never as simple as it seems.

And nothing is ever certain until the final moment of truth.

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Title: Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox

Author: Jonathan B. Tucker

Narrator: Patrick Cullen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2005-06-25

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

Smallpox was a terrifying human scourge. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left survivors disfigured for life. This riveting book tells the story of smallpox, of efforts to eradicate it, and of the dangers it still poses today.