Biographies and autobiographies

  • Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the me too movement

    Creator

    Burke, Tarana

    Abstract

    "Tarana Burke, I just finished Unbound . Searing. Powerful. Needed!! Thank you." —Oprah This program is read by the author. From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words — me too — and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • Too famous : the rich, the powerful, the wishful, the notorious, the damned

    Creator

    Wolff, Michael

    Abstract

    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 dissects more of the major monsters, media whores, and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers, and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his disemboweling of the former president.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • The reckoning : our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal

    Creator

    Trump, Mary L.

    Abstract

    This program is read by the author. The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough : A diagnosis of America's national trauma, and a way to heal. The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • The power of women : a doctor's journey of hope and healing

    Creator

    Mukwege, Denis

    Abstract

    From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to reassure all survivors that, even if their psychological wounds may never fully heal, they can recover and thrive with the right care and support. Dr.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • Never say you can't survive

    Creator

    Anders, Charlie Jane

    Abstract

    From Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night , this is one of the most practical guides to storytelling that you will ever read. The world is on fire. So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • My body

    Creator

    Ratajkowski, Emily

    Abstract

    A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • Lightning down : a World War II story of survival

    Creator

    Clavin, Tom

    Abstract

    An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • Entertaining race : performing blackness in America

    Creator

    Dyson, Michael Eric

    Abstract

    This program is read by the author From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • The Churchill sisters : the extraordinary lives of Winston and Clementine's daughters

    Creator

    Trethewey, Rachel

    Abstract

    As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters , tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Not specified
  • Survival lessons

    Creator

    Hoffman, Alice

    Abstract

    Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she'd been living. Most significant-aside from the grueling physical ordeal she underwent-was the way it changed how she felt inside and what she thought she ought to be doing with her days. Now she has written the book that she needed to read then. In this honest, wise, and upbeat guide, Alice Hoffman provides a road map for the making of one's life into the very best it can be.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    HighBridge Audio

    Not specified