Biographies and autobiographies

  • Hiking with Nietzsche : on becoming who you are

    Creator

    Kaag, John

    Abstract

    A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker, Friedrich Nietzsche. Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys-one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later and in quite different circumstances: as a husband and father. His wife and small child in tow, Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria, where Nietzsche routinely summered, and where he wrote his mysterious landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • Fieldwork : a forager's memoir

    Creator

    Regan, Iliana

    Abstract

    Not long after Iliana Regan's celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star-winning chef took a sharp turn north. Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka : a memoir

    Creator

    Golinkin, Lev.

    Abstract

    A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War, nine-year-old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases,

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC

    Not specified
  • Adversity for sale : ya gotta believe

    Creator

    Jeezy

    Abstract

    Read by the author - New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller - To Jeezy's legion of fans, his name is synonymous with hustle, grit, and the integrity to go out there and achieve your dreams. In his first book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, Jeezy shares never-before-heard stories of what it took for him to beat the odds and get out of the streets, his mindset he carefully honed to get an edge, and the lessons that changed his life and business.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Nashville

    Harpercollins Leadership

    Not specified
  • The awakening of HK Derryberry : my unlikely friendship with the boy who remembers everything

    Creator

    Bradford, Jim.

    Abstract

    2017 Audie winner: inspirational/faith-based non-fiction audiobook and Earphones Award from Audiofile Magazine - The Awakening of HK Derryberry is the inspiring story of the amazing relationship between a successful business executive and a young, disabled boy with a dismal future. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that friendship—for HK and himself. HK Derryberry came into the world with the odds stacked heavily against him. He was taken from his unmarried mother's womb three months prematurely when she was killed in a car wreck.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Grand Rapids

    Thomas Nelson

    [Nashville, TN]

    Thomas Nelson Publishers

    Not specified
  • I'm no philosopher, but I got thoughts : mini-meditations for saints, sinners, and the rest of us

    Creator

    Chenoweth, Kristin

    Abstract

    Read by the author with audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary - Aristotle. Socrates. Descartes. And now, Chenoweth. (How about some women, am I right?) From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, an inspiring high-design, colorful book featuring philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Grand Rapids

    Harper Celebrate

    Not specified
  • The showman : inside the invasion that shook the world and made a leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

    Creator

    Shuster, Simon

    Abstract

    Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access - Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety show in Ukraine to the muddy trenches of his war with Russia.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk

    Creator

    Hanna, Kathleen

    Abstract

    An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre - Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like Rebel Girl and Double Dare Ya are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from In Rebel Girl, Hanna's raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure

    Creator

    Kaiser, Meir Menachem

    Abstract

    A New York Times Critics' Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 - Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography - From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland - and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows. Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Not my father's son : a memoir

    Creator

    Cumming, Alan

    Abstract

    New York Times Bestseller - "Equal parts memoir, whodunnit, and manual for living . . . a beautifully written, honest look at the forces of blood and bone that make us who we are, and how we make ourselves." —Neil Gaiman In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    New York

    Harper Audio

    Not specified