Bios & Memoirs

Fully Functioning Human (Almost): Living in an Online/Offline World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Melanie Murphy
• Narrated By Melanie Murphy
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A warm, illuminating memoir full of wit and wisdom that doubles up as a life guide for millennials - by Irish YouTuber Melanie Murphy. Growing up in an online age, becoming an Internet sensation with half a million followers on her YouTube channel, Irish girl Melanie Murphy's journey has been far from ordinary. Here, in her first audiobook, she shares the ups and downs of her life.

Saffron Barker Vs Real Life: My perfectly filtered life (Sort of. But not really at all)

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Saffron Barker
• Narrated By Sarah Feathers
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YouTuber, social media star and real-life teenager Saffron Barker tells it like it is for people her age in this diary of her not so perfect life.... In a world of airbrushing and perfectly constructed social media lives, one girl is battling to make it through completely unfiltered (well, almost). Immerse yourself in Saffron Barker's wonderful, comical and often challenging universe as she slays her teenage years with flair and enthusiasm (sometimes).

Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
• Narrated By Neela Vaswani
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In 2014 Malala become the youngest ever person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, Malala tells her story - from her childhood in the Swat Valley to the shooting, to her recovery, and to new life in England.

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Josh Sundquist
• Narrated By Josh Sundquist

When I was 25 years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend. At the time, I was actually under the impression that I was in a relationship, so this bit of news came as something of a shock. Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down each of the girls he had tried to date since middle school and asked them straight up: What went wrong? The results of Josh's semiscientific investigation are in your hands.

Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Rachel Richards
• Narrated By Rachel Richards
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In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn't right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness. As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Narrated By Donna Postel

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? This riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology and enduring questions about who Mary Mallon really was. How did her name become synonymous with deadly disease?

The Wizard Of Oz (BBC Children's Classics)

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 3 mins)
• By L. Frank Baum
• Narrated By Dramatisation

Dorothy and her little dog Toto befriend the Tinman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion as they travel down the yellow brick road to the City of Emeralds. Maureen Lipman cackles splendidly as the Wicked Witch of the West in this acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of L. Frank Baum's famous and much-loved tale.

Band of Brothers

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Stephen E. Ambrose
• Narrated By Cotter Smith

In the summer of 1942, a band of citizen soldiers were brought together by the desire to be better than the other guy. At its peak, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 through Utah Beach, Market-Garden, the Bulge, and Hitler's Eagle's Nest, WWII historian Stephen Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company.

Kian and Jc: Don't Try This at Home!

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 12 mins)
• By Kian Lawley, Jc Caylen
• Narrated By Kian Lawley, Jc Caylen
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From personalities and entertainers Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen comes a completely wild and entirely true account of their rise to Internet fame: Kian and Jc: Don't Try This at Home! More than seven million YouTube subscribers, five million Twitter followers, and five million Instagram followers cannot wait for this sometimes hilarious, sometimes awkward, and always crazy collection of stories and interviews narrated by Kian and Jc themselves.

Vincent & Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Deborah Heiligman
• Narrated By Phil Fox

The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh defined both brothers' lives. As a confidant, champion, sympathizer, and friend, Theo financially and emotionally supported his older brother as the artistic but troubled Vincent struggled to find his path in life as both a painter and a man. Throughout that struggle, the brothers shared everything - swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions.

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Jazz Jennings
• Narrated By Jazz Jennings
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Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was much less knowledgeable about or accepting of the transgender community.

Matthew Espinosa: More Than Me

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 35 mins)
• By Matthew Espinosa
• Narrated By Matthew Espinosa
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You may think you know everything about multiplatform entertainer Matthew Espinosa - but he's here to tell you so much more in his debut book. You know Matthew is burning up the Internet with more than 18 million fans across YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You know about his starring role in the hit movie Be Somebody. And you know he makes you laugh every time. More Than Me tells you what you don't know, with Q&As and more that offer an inside look at Matthew's life and a new side of him that's hilarious and heartfelt.

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong - contributor
• Narrated By Hope Davis
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Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
• Narrated By Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer

It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of - so she chose it.

Popular: A Memoir - Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Maya Van Wagenen
• Narrated By Lee Adams, Amber Faith
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Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at 'pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren't paid to be here,' Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: Spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise - meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself.

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Steve Sheinkin
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these documents had been commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Pamela S. Turner
• Narrated By Brian Nishii
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Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family - and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai.

You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Maya S. Penn
• Narrated By Maya S. Penn
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In You Got This!, Maya shares her incredible journey to becoming an artist, a designer, a philanthropist, and a business owner. She provides a creative blueprint for teens and young adults along with the tools she used to build an authentic, exciting, and connected life and offers creative prompts for cultivating success. So let your creativity and passion flow freely, and watch as your world transforms - it all starts with you!

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Phillip Hoose
• Narrated By Phillip Hoose, Michael Braun

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain.

Bob: No Ordinary Cat

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 12 mins)
• By James Bowen
• Narrated By Alistair McGowan

A special audio edition for children age 11 and above. "We are all given second chances every day of our lives, but we don't usually take them. Then I met Bob." James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change. Together James and Bob the cat faced the world - and won. A purrfectly true "tail" of love and friendship to make you smile!

Saffron Barker Vs Real Life: My perfectly filtered life (Sort of. But not really at all)

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Saffron Barker
• Narrated By Sarah Feathers
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

YouTuber, social media star and real-life teenager Saffron Barker tells it like it is for people her age in this diary of her not so perfect life.... In a world of airbrushing and perfectly constructed social media lives, one girl is battling to make it through completely unfiltered (well, almost). Immerse yourself in Saffron Barker's wonderful, comical and often challenging universe as she slays her teenage years with flair and enthusiasm (sometimes).

Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Martha Brockenbrough
• Narrated By Chris Ciulla

He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial America. Discover this founding father's incredible true story: his brilliant scholarship and military career; his groundbreaking and enduring policy, which shapes American government today; his salacious and scandalous personal life; his heartrending end. Richly informed by Hamilton's own writing, Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary is an in-depth biography of an extraordinary man.

Who Was Alexander Hamilton?

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 10 mins)
• By Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso
• Narrated By P. J. Ochlan
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Born in the British West Indies and orphaned as a child, Alexander Hamilton made his way to the American colonies and studied to become a lawyer. He joined a local militia during the American Revolution, rose to the rank of major general, and became the chief aide to General George Washington. After the war he became the first US secretary of the Treasury. He founded the Bank of New York and the New York Post newspaper.

Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Rachel Richards
• Narrated By Rachel Richards
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn't right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness. As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

Fully Functioning Human (Almost): Living in an Online/Offline World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Melanie Murphy
• Narrated By Melanie Murphy
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A warm, illuminating memoir full of wit and wisdom that doubles up as a life guide for millennials - by Irish YouTuber Melanie Murphy. Growing up in an online age, becoming an Internet sensation with half a million followers on her YouTube channel, Irish girl Melanie Murphy's journey has been far from ordinary. Here, in her first audiobook, she shares the ups and downs of her life.

Thalia Kids' Book Club: Rachel Renée Russell Dork Diaries

• ORIGINAL (56 mins)
• By Rachel Renée
• Narrated By Sonia Manzano

The author of Dork Diaries stops by to discuss her New York Times best-selling series with Sonia Manzano. The series follows Nikki Maxwell as she chronicles her life through hilarious stories and art in her illustrated diaries.

Serena Williams: Legends in Sports

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Matt Christopher
• Narrated By Cherelle Cargill

Serena Williams has been ranked number one in the world for tennis singles, won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, and won four Olympic gold medals. She is a powerful player and a fierce competitor. Learn more about the record-breaking athlete in this comprehensive and action-packed biography.

Michael Jackson: Ultimate Music Legend

• UNABRIDGED (37 mins)
• By Katherine Krohn
• Narrated By Intuitive

Michael Jackson's journey to fame began in 1966 at age eight, when he started singing with his brothers in the Jackson 5. In the early 1970s, he launched a solo career, accumulating a dozen number-one singles. His record-breaking album, Thriller, has sold an estimated 110 million copies worldwide. He won 17 Grammy awards and was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. In 2009, people of all ages mourned Michael's sudden death.