Difficult Memoirs

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jeannette Walls
    • Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,984 ratings
    • Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....

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    • By: Anonymous, Dr. Beatice Sparks - Edited by
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything. He was wrong....

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    • The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
    • By: Katherine May
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,818 ratings
    • An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down....

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    • By: Anonymous
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,103 ratings
    • Based on a 15-year-old's diary, Go Ask Alice is the intimate account of one girl's fatal journey into the world of drug addiction....

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    • The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
    • By: Alice Kessler-Harris
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Lillian Hellman was a giant of 20th-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway....

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    • A Life of Maud Gonne
    • By: Kim Bendheim
    • Narrated by: Owen Laheen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. Kim Bendheim has long been fascinated by Maud Gonne’s perplexing character, and here gives us an intensely personal assessment of her thrilling life....

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    • Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)
    • By: Kate Lebo
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of 26 lyrical essays that range from deeply personal to botanical, from culinary to medical, from humorous to philosophical....

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    • By: Anonymous
    • Narrated by: Em Eldridge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • The author of this diary began journaling on her 16th birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything....

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    • Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
    • By: Karen Karbo, Cheryl Strayed - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 803 ratings
    • Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Best-selling author Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations....

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    • By: Gabrielle Zevin
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Greer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps....

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    • By: Anonymous
    • Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, this heart-wrenching story chronicles a girl's fatal experience with testing her moral limits and the dangers of addiction....

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    • A Novel of World War II
    • By: Andrew Fukuda
    • Narrated by: Emily Ellet, Greg Chun
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In 1935, 10-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington, is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France - a girl....

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    • The Power of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys
    • By: Payam Zamani
    • Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • At the age of 16, he escaped persecution and made his way to America as a refugee. At 28, he secured a billion-dollar IPO. Today, he's redefining what it means to be an entrepreneur by building a new model of capitalism.

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    • By: Sarah Henstra
    • Narrated by: Matthew Gouveia, Tony Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 588 ratings
    • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters they write to one another....

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    • By: Cynthia Hand
    • Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, Erin Spencer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they’ve given Cass a life she wouldn’t trade for the world. She has everything she needs - but she has questions, too....

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    • A Life in Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
    • By: Eddie Piller, Paul Weller - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eddie Piller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Visceral and always entertaining, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time....

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    • By: Bryan Bliss
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Luke and Toby have always had each other's backs. But then one choice - or maybe it is a series of choices - sets them down an irrevocable path. We'll Fly Away weaves together Luke and Toby's senior year of high school with letters Luke writes to Toby later - from death row....

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