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Great Biographies in Time
by Plutarch
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.
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Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Throughout Maya Angelou's life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a best-selling writer, good food has played a central role....
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Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story-and explain how his incredible mind works.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
Average Rating:  (4.5 Stars)
A dramatic autobiography of the great 19th century black leader and abolitionist.
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall
Formats: Audio CD ($19.98)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Jane Goodall's destiny has been blessed with faith, resolve, and purpose. From a little girl inspired by Tarzan...
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
Formats: Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($15.29)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing ~ Helen Keller
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Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching....
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (4.4 Stars)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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The Disappointment Artist
by Jonathan Lethem
Formats: Audio CD ($15.26)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
In a volume he describes as a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces, Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession....
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Magical Thinking
by Augusten Burroughs
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
A contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady....
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work...
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Learning to Sing
by Clay Aiken
Formats: Audio CD ($17.56)
Average Rating: (3.8 Stars)
When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star....
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The Guermantes Way, Part 1
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
In The Geurmantes Way, Volume 1 Marcel penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes...
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Lincoln's Letters
by Abraham Lincoln
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
This collection of Lincoln's letters gives us a glimpse into the inner self of a great American...
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The Guermantes Way, Part 2
by Marcel Proust
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
The Guermantes Way, Part 2, the third volume of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past, continues the story of Marcel's entry into the highest circles of French aristocracy. Having renewed his acquaintance with t
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The Education of Little Tree
by Forrest Carter
Formats: Audio CD ($19.76) | Digital Download ($15.37)
Average Rating: (2.8 Stars)
This tale about the upbringing of a half-Native American boy has sparked much debate over whether or not...
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia.
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Black Elk Speaks
by John G. Neihardt
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
Explore the origins of Native American culture and humankind's sacred role in nature through this...
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Copy This!
by Paul Orfalea
Formats: Digital Download ($19.95)
Copy This!, Paul Orfalea's inspiring personal story of turning lessons into lemonade, may be the most unusual business memoir ever published.
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Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
by Michael Palin
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how individually the Pythons went their separate ways.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.99)
Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
by Tucker Max
Formats: Digital Download ($16.67)
I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, is a collection of first-person tales of sex, alcohol, and mayhem that transport the reader into Tucker's comical, perverse, and oftentimes surreal world.
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Jimi Hendrix: An Audio Biography
by Jimi Hendrix
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
You`ve heard his musical genius, now experience Jimi in his own words.
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The Life of an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.
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Lost! On a Mountain in Maine
by Donn Fendler
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Over 50 years ago, 12-year-old Donn Fendler became lost on Mount Katahdin - the highest mountain...
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