The real-life Alex Vause from the show Orange Is the New Black tells her story for the first time in this memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
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Author:Wolters, ClearySummary: -
Author:Rapinoe, MeganSummary:An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space...
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Author:Van Warner, RickSummary:When Rick Van Warner found himself searching abandoned buildings and dangerous streets looking for his missing son, he had no idea that the synthetic, pill-form heroin that had snared his teen was already killing so many. In the years...
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Author:Burford, Michelle, Purdy, AmySummary:Amy Purdy reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder.
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Author:Lamb, Christina, Mustafa, NujeenSummary:This is the true story of Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude and hope.
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Author:Leite, DavidSummary:Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David Leite looks back at the highs and lows of his life: from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in...
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Author:Summary:Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting...
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Author:Gold, HerbertSummary:From a revered writer of the Beat Generation, a "tour de force" that contemplates aging-and how to make the most of it (Booklist). In this energetic, optimistic memoir, Herb Gold looks back on his life not with regret or...
- Author:Fox, Michael J.Summary:
This program is read by Michael J. Fox. A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly,...
- Author:Wilson, Edward O.Summary:
In this memoir, Edward O. Wilson describes for the first time both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped to define.
- Author:Nicholson, DeanSummary:
When thirty-year-old Dean Nicholson set off from Scotland to cycle around the world, his aim was to learn as much as he could about our troubled planet. But he hadn't bargained on the lessons he'd learn from his unlikely...
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Author:McCrae, LindsaySummary:An unprecedentedly intimate portrait of an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, by a Bafta Award-winning BBC director of photography who observed these extraordinary birds for a year. Generously illustrated with the author's...
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Author:Murfitt, Gigi Devine, Murfitt, GabeSummary:Gabe Murfitt as shares his story of learning to live in a uniquely formed body. Through Gabe's C.L.E.A.R. formula, you will discover how you can have: Courage to face life's challenges; Leadership that is encouraging and compassionate;...
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Author:Sellmair, Nikola, Teege, JenniferSummary:When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, discovers to her horror that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, she sets out on a quest to unearth and fully...
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Author:von Sothen, JohnSummary:A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be...
- Author:Smith, Daniel B.Summary:
We all think we know what being anxious feels like, but for forty million American adults, anxiety is an insidious condition that defines daily life. In this uplifting and very funny memoir, Daniel Smith articulates what it is like to...
- Author:Arsenault, KerriSummary:
" This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the...
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Author:Troupe, Quincy, Davis, MilesSummary:For the first time Miles Davis talks about his five-year silence, his drug problem and how he overcame it, the racism he encountered, and the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends...
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Author:MacEwen, GwendolynSummary:The island is shy and exuberant, savage and fair, bold yet self-effacing. It is a woman in heat, a man in despair, a blonde horse at sunset, a riot of fig trees, a flaking white salt bed, an arid garden of thyme and oregano, a hundred...
- Author:Nelson, WillieSummary:
The untold story of Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie, who, over the course of their lives together, supported each other through personal tragedies and triumphs and forged an unbreakable bond through their shared love of music...
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