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My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Sissy Spacek
• Narrated By Sissy Spacek
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In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and absorbing grace and grit from her remarkable parents, who taught her that she could do anything.

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By The Waiter
• Narrated By Dan John Miller
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According to The Waiter, 80 percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining 20 percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths.

Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places.

With or Without You: A Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Domenica Ruta
• Narrated By Domenica Ruta
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Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites.

Farewell to Manzanar

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• Narrated By Jennifer Ikeda

Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp - with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton-twirling lessons, and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation's number-one hit: "Don't Fence Me In".

Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.

Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Carol Burnett
• Narrated By Carol Burnett

In this beautiful and poignant tribute to her late daughter, award-winning actress and New York Times best-selling author Carol Burnett presents a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life.

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jacob Tomsky
• Narrated By Jacob Tomsky
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Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back the curtain on the hospitality business.

If You Ask Me

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Betty White
• Narrated By Betty White

It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between. Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity. If You Ask Me mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty's candid take on everything....

Dispatches from the Edge

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Anderson Cooper
• Narrated By Anderson Cooper

Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.

They Made a Monkee Out of Me: The Only Authorized Story

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Davy Jones
• Narrated By Davy Jones

Davy Jones was a young aspiring actor when he was cast in a new television series called The Monkees. In this upbeat, entertaining autobiography, he recounts his career from its beginnings through the 1980s Monkees reunion and revival.

Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Andy Cohen
• Narrated By Andy Cohen

From a young age, Andy Cohen knew two things: He was gay, and he loved television. Now presiding over Bravo's reality-TV empire, he started out as an overly talkative pop-culture obsessive, devoted to Charlie's Angels and All My Children - and to his mother, who received daily letters from him while he was at summer camp, usually reminding her to tape the soaps. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that everyone didn't know that Andy was gay; still, he remained in the closet until college. Finally out, he embarked on making a career out of his passion for television.

Ten Years Later

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Hoda Kotb
• Narrated By Hoda Kotb
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Through years of perseverance, purpose, and passion, Hoda Kotb landed a spot with Kathie Lee on the Today show, won numerous journalism awards, and gained valuable life lessons. Now, after captivating audiences in her blockbuster memoir Hoda, she turns to stories about others who have undergone personal transformation against great odds. In Ten Years Later, Hoda chronicles six amazing stories by identifying a game-changing event in her subjects’ lives and then revisiting those lives a decade later.