Nonfiction Biography

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,566 ratings
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,689 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • By: Georgia Hunter
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,158 ratings
    • he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....

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    • Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
    • By: Amy Morin
    • Narrated by: Amy Morin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,456 ratings
    • Now, for the first time, Morin expands upon the 13 Things from her viral post and shares her tried-and-true practices for increasing mental strength....

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    • The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
    • By: Larry Loftis
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....

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    • The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
    • By: Mark Shaw
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,231 ratings
    • Was TV star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Questions abound....

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    • A Memoir and a Warning
    • By: Liz Cheney
    • Narrated by: Liz Cheney
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,995 ratings
    • In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....

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    • An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival
    • By: Misty Griffin
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,690 ratings
    • When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence....

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    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,092 ratings
    • For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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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 25,755 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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    • From the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
    • By: Robert Bagley III
    • Narrated by: Steve Cook
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,585 ratings
    • In this text, you will hear the word of God through this amazing document. We will take this amazing journey together and learn why this text is not an official book of the Bible....

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    • The Search for the Sons of Sam
    • By: Maury Terry
    • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 623 ratings
    • The true crime cult classic that inspired an upcoming Netflix documentary series and companion podcast, The Ultimate Evil follows journalist Maury Terry’s terrifying investigation into the true evil behind the Son of Sam murders....

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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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    • The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today
    • By: Shannon Bream
    • Narrated by: Shannon Bream
    • Series: Fox News Books Series
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 981 ratings
    • The women of the Bible lived timeless stories - by examining them, we can understand what it means to be a woman of faith....

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    • A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
    • By: Thomas C. Foster
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media....

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    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20,613 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....

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    • Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
    • By: John Railey
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • In the summer of 1967, 19-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound....

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