This program includes an introduction read by the author. If you can judge an audiobook by its enemies, Too Famous could be an instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Wolff, MichaelSummary: - Author:Trump, Mary L.Summary:
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order...
- Author:Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, Ho, VanSummary:
After the Vietnam War, a young girl is left behind in the care of her grandmother when the rest of her family flees the new communist regime by boat. Once settled in North America, her parents will send for her; but in the meantime, Van...
- Author:Pedersen, DanSummary:
The founder of the US Navy Fighter Weapons School, "Topgun," shares the untold inside story of how he and eight other pilots revolutionized aerial combat and created a center for excellence and leadership, in a book timed to coincide...
- Author:Harold, HughinaSummary:
Hughina Harold paints a powerful picture of a world that no longer exists in this compelling account of her experiences as a young teacher and nurse on the remote Broughton Archipelago on British Columbia’s coast in the 1930s. Fresh...
- Author:Weihenmayer, ErikSummary:
Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. In this inspiring memoir, Weihenmayer speaks of the role his family played in his battle to break through the...
- Author:Simon, CarlySummary:
A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair-Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from...
- Author:Nygren, BruceSummary:
Many issues can strain a marriage relationship, but none is as challenging as a life-threatening illness. Every year, almost two hundred thousand women are diagnosed with breast cancer. When Racinda Nygren joined the ranks of these...
- Author:Simpson, JoeSummary:
The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety.
- Author:Patrick CôtéSummary:
Un homme ordinaire doué d'une détermination extraordinaire! Loin de se contenter uniquement de raconter ses exploits personnels et professionnels, l'auteur nous fait des suggestions concrètes qu'il accompagne de ses...
- Author:Laurin, RoxaneSummary:
Roxane Laurin a grandi à Québec puis à Montréal. Elle vit maintenant à Mont-Saint-Hilaire au Canada, quand ce n’est pas en Floride aux États-Unis. Photographe, par la suite comédienne et mannequin, femme d’affaires depuis de nombreuses...
- Author:Hunt, RobertSummary:
Townies is the sequel to Robert Hunt’s memoir Corner Boys and takes us back to the mean streets – and schools – of St. John’s in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a coming-of-age story about the friendships between young...
- Author:Monticone, UgoSummary:
Un tracé de voyage réussi empruntera mille détours, suggérés par le hasard et les rencontres. Pour transformer une mésaventure rocambolesque en expérience transformatrice, il suffit bien souvent d'être à l'écoute, disponible....
- Author:Rotschild-Galerkin, S. Z.Summary:
Ten-year-old Steve Rotschild learns to hide, to be silent, to be still – and to wait. He knows the sound of the Nazis’ army boots and knows to hold his breath until their footsteps recede. Rotschild takes us on a captivating journey...
- Author:Baker, G. Blaine, Janda, RichardSummary:
Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy,...
- Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by...
- Author:Cocuzzo, RobertSummary:
Arguably the greatest extreme skier to ever live, Doug Coombs pioneered hundreds of first descents down the biggest, steepest, most dangerous mountains in the world—from the Grand Teton “Otter Body” in Jackson Hole, to Mount Vinson, the...
- Author:Gunn, GenniSummary:
Tracks is a compilation of personal travel essays that range across three continents, from Italy, where Genni Gunn was born and spent her early years, to Canada and Mexico, and through Asia, where she has travelled many times, both...
- Author:Evans, WandaSummary:
When Jim Dunn got the heart-stopping call every parent dreads: "Your son has disappeared," and then saw his son's blood-splattered apartment, it set into motion a six-year nightmarish odyssey of desperate searches. Ahead...
- Author:Wilson, Hap, Wilson, Hap, Zschogner, IngridSummary:
In an age when "survival" shows permeate the media, noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live...
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