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Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator! This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards. "Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He captures the Civil Rights leader's deep, resonant tone; deliberate ministerial intonation; and, during offstage moments, his world-weariness...

"Going into his 'why,' Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen." - AudioFile. This program is read by the author. A Most Anticipated Book by Time, The Associated Press, Goodreads, USA Today, and more! The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. "Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty.

This program is read by the author. "Kindhearted and approachable Winkler shines in his narration of his memoir commemorating 50 years of showbiz work...An engaging and endearing memoir by a genuine Hollywood treasure whose work spans generations." - Library Journal. From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole.

Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book. Diplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An apparent cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same. "I think that my father murdered my mother." That terrible belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother Carol's death when he was a child. Carol Blackstock died at age 24 in 1959—poisoned by arsenic—but the cause of her death remained shrouded in mystery for decades.

Instant National Bestseller. One of Canada's foremost authors and journalists offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today's Canada. John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform, and immigration. On his watch, First Nations on reserve obtained the right to vote and the federal government began to open up the North.

Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction - Finalist for the National Book Award. A dazzlingly inventive, deeply moving, intellectually bracing exploration of pain and beauty, private memory and public monument, art and complexity in contemporary Black life. "I wanted to write about silences and terror and acts that hover over generations, over centuries. I began by writing about my mother and grandmother." - from "Note 18" in Ordinary Notes.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year. Named one of the best books of the year by: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time. A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale.

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Please note: The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand and features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name Is Barbra audiobook. Barbra Streisand is, by any account, a living legend, a woman who, in a career spanning six decades, has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music.

A New York Times Notable Book - National Bestseller. A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist? "A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things." - Vanity Fair. "[Dederer] breaks new ground, making a complex cultural conversation feel brand new." - Ada Calhoun, author of Also a Poet.

National Book Award Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book. "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's greatest living writers" (Jonathan Lethem). "Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza's chronicle is both personal and political." - The Washington Post. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Electric Lit. October 18, 2019.