Motherhood Memoir

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    • A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    • By: Gregg Olsen
    • Narrated by: Karen Peakes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25,903 ratings
    • Number-one New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,411 ratings
    • In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....

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    • By: Debra Moerke, Cindy Lambert
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 752 ratings
    • When Deb Moerke and her husband decided to become foster parents, they never imagined how their lives would change. And never did they imagine their worst nightmare coming true: Their five-year-old foster daughter, Hannah, murdered at the hands of her birth mom, Karen....

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    • A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
    • By: Nefertiti Austin
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In America, Mother = White. That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system....

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    • The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative
    • By: Keke Palmer
    • Narrated by: Keke Palmer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.

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    • By: Amanda Eyre Ward
    • Narrated by: Amanda Eyre Ward, Timothy Harrison Meckel
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • In embracing her son's world, Ward not only discovers a newfound appreciation for sneakers but also for the unique individual her son is becoming. Sneakerhead, ultimately, is a testament to the magic that unfolds when parents invest in understanding and encouraging their children's passions.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Maggie Smith
    • Narrated by: Maggie Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels....

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    • A Mother and Son's Journey of Adoption and Reunion
    • By: Diane Burke
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core....

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    • By: Sally Field
    • Narrated by: Sally Field
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,252 ratings
    • In this intimate, haunting, literary memoir read by the author, an American icon tells her story for the first time, in her own gorgeous words - about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey....

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    • A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
    • By: Taylor Harris
    • Narrated by: Iesha Nyree
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris’ round-cheeked, lively 22-month-old, wakes up listless, only lifting his head to gulp down water. She rushes Tophs to the doctor, ignoring the part of herself that tries to whisper that she’s overreacting....

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    • One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
    • By: Pamela Druckerman
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,468 ratings
    • The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here....

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    • A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
    • By: Emily C. Bloom
    • Narrated by: Emily C. Bloom
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Genevieve Kingston
    • Narrated by: Genevieve Kingston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen’s life and each of her birthdays until age thirty.

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    • A Letter to My Transgender Daughter
    • By: Carolyn Hays
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A Girlhood is a call to action, an ode to community, a plea for empathy, a hope for a better future. A Girlhood is a love letter to a child who has always known exactly who she is—and who is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up....

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    • A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy
    • By: Kate Swenson
    • Narrated by: Kate Swenson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 735 ratings
    • When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Erika J. Simpson
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • Growing up, Erika Simpson’s mother loomed large, almost biblical in her life. A daughter of sharecroppers, middle child of ten, her origin story served as a kind of Genesis. Her departure from home and a cheating husband, pursuing higher education along the way a kind of Exodus.

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    • The Real Story of My Mother and Me
    • By: Brooke Shields
    • Narrated by: Brooke Shields
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 899 ratings
    • Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life....

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    • Facing and Finding Yourself
    • By: Lisa Marchiano
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research to present a collection of fairytales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child from infancy through adulthood....

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    • How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me About the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
    • By: Stephanie Kiser
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Kiser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all . . .

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Tina Knowles
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
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    • Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, chronicles a life like none other. Enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering, Matriarch is a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

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