A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’s legendary past in football. At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father — former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey — for the first time to a small town in...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Richardson, Jael EaleySummary: - Author:Seeger, PeteSummary:
This audio collection presents Pete Seeger's spoken words as he recounts his most engaging stories, narratives, and poems through musical traditions as diverse as African music, the blues, bluegrass, Celtic music, classical guitar, folk...
- Author:Johnson, MichaelSummary:
First there was Healing Shine: A Spiritual Assignment. Then, The Trials of Joe Ben Black. And now the life of the grandson of the great Otoe.... The Story of Blue: A Rope Horse. From the pen of Texas writer Michael Johnson, comes the...
- Author:O'Faolain, NualaSummary:
Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own...
- Author:Keller, HelenSummary:
When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher...
- Author:Grohl, DaveSummary:
Read by Dave Grohl. Features excerpts from five never before heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook. So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even...
- Author:Finkel, MichaelSummary:
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but...
- Author:Fleming, Thomas J.Summary:
Historian Thomas Fleming examines the battles that created American independence, revealing how the strategy of a professional army secured victory, independence, and a lasting peace for the young nation.
- Author:Settee, PriscillaSummary:
Personal recollections by a wide spectrum of Aboriginal women tell stories of injustice, racism, sexism, and genocide, but also of awakening, fierce struggles, and hope.
Âhkamêyimowak is a Cree word which embodies the strength...
- Author:Nickel, SandraSummary:
Before Vera Rubin discovered most of the universe, she was a girl who loved the night sky. She watched the Big Dipper circle the North Star. And when her eyelids grew heavy, she dreamed not about what she had seen, but about what she...
- Author:Livingston, BeckySummary:
When a brain tumour takes the life of Becky Livingston’s twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel, her life makes an unconventional turn. Rachel, an avid traveller, had one wish: to keep exploring the world.So, for twenty-six months...
- Author:Heard, ChristopherSummary:
This book is the product of a lifelong fascination with iconic hotels and tells of the people who have lived in them. Hotel living has always seemed exotic. Why did Claude Monet, Greta Garbo, Janis Joplin, Vladimir Nabokov, Howard...
- Author:Stewart, David O.Summary:
Over the span of four hot summer months, delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia hammered out what would be regarded as one of the most important documents in world history. But the drafting of the Constitution was...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
A poignant meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters-and the inescapable effects of time-from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L'Engle chronicles a season of...
- Author:Hinton, Anthony RaySummary:
"An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This program includes a forward written and read by Bryan Stevenson, and a bonus author commentary from Anthony...
- Author:Van Hemert, CarolineSummary:
Biologist Caroline Van Hemert tells the story of her journey from Washington state to high above the Arctic Circle--traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power--to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own...
- Author:Trussler, MichaelSummary:
In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confronting the...
- Author:Summerscale, KateSummary:
n June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the...
- Author:DyckFehderau, RuthSummary:
This is a collection of literary creative non-fiction stories of James Bay Cree First Nations people who are living with diabetes.
- Author:Coburn, Davin, Bakos, NadaSummary:
Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, this memoir shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of...
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