Cultural Memoir

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Randall Woodfin, Edward T. Bowser
    • Narrated by: Randall Woodfin
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • Mayor Randall Woodfin draws upon the street wisdom of his generation's Southern rap music; the power of family, friends, and faith; and his education at the historically Black Morehouse College to preach the progress every corner of our nation clamors for right now.

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    • How I Revolutionized an Industry with the Golden Rule, from Soul Train to Wall Street
    • By: George E. Johnson, Hilary Beard - contributor
    • Narrated by: Wintley Phipps
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • George Ellis Johnson, the acclaimed self-made businessman, reveals his inspiring and captivating rise from humble beginnings to the top of the haircare industry.

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • A Memoir of My People
    • By: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
    • Narrated by: Christine Ann-Roche
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, We Will Be Jaguars is an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people.

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    • And Other Life Sentences
    • By: Richard Pryor
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,115 ratings
    • Richard Pryor journeys from his childhood in a family that worked in whore-houses and bars, through to his years in Hollywood - the money, the women, the drugs - and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Safiya Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms.

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    • Confessions of a Cuban Boy
    • By: Carlos Eire
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain differences....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.

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    • By: Edwidge Danticat
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • Award-winning, best-selling author Edwidge Danticat taps her exceptional storytelling gifts for this memoir of the two men who raised her....

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 632 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Taraji P. Henson
    • Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,482 ratings
    • Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood....

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    • A Family Memoir
    • By: Stella Suberman
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as "the Jew store"....

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    • True Stories of a Country Nurse in Scotland's Western Isles
    • By: Mary J. MacLeod
    • Narrated by: Gwen Hughes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,334 ratings
    • Recalling the classic works by James Herriot and the new British hit Call the Midwife, a nurse’s heartwarming adventures with her family while practicing in rural Scotland....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 565 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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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 93 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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