Biographies and autobiographies

  • The in-between : unforgettable encounters during life's final moments

    Creator

    Vlahos, Hadley

    Abstract

    New York Times Bestseller. Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments in this "brilliant" (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir. "This extraordinary book helps dispel fear around death and dying—revealing it to be a natural part of our soul's evolution." - Laura Lynne Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Signs and The Light Between Us. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • I love Russia : reporting from a lost country

    Creator

    Kostyuchenko, Elena

    Abstract

    * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage." - Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts. To be a journalist is to tell the truth.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • How not to kill yourself : a portrait of the suicidal mind

    Creator

    Martin, Clancy

    Abstract

    An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there's always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, "I'm Still Here." "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Differ we must : how Lincoln succeeded in a divided America

    Creator

    Inskeep, Steve

    Abstract

    An instant New York Times bestseller. A compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln's political acumen, illuminating a great politician's strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyer Abraham Lincoln wrote a note to his best friend, the son of a Kentucky slaveowner. Lincoln rebuked his friend for failing to oppose slavery. But he added: "If for this you and I must differ, differ we must," and said they would be friends forever.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Paris : the memoir

    Creator

    Hilton, Paris

    Abstract

    Paris Hilton: As You've Never Heard Her Before. ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller***. From the woman who is credited for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, "brand" driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there is so much more to Paris Hilton than you might believe. I was born in New York City on February 17, 1981, three days after Valentine's Day. From the time I was a toddler, my brain skipped and flickered with the chemical imbalance of ADHD.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • A living remedy : a memoir

    Creator

    Chung, Nicole

    Abstract

    A New York Times Notable Book. Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Booklist, USA Today, Elle, Good Housekeeping, New York Times, Electric Literature, Today. From the bestselling author of All You Can Ever Know comes a searing memoir of family, class, and grief—a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Astor : the rise and fall of an American fortune

    Creator

    Cooper, Anderson

    Abstract

    The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • An unfinished love story : a personal history of the 1960s

    Creator

    Goodwin, Doris Kearns

    Abstract

    Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • Thunderclap : a memoir of art and life and sudden death

    Creator

    Cumming, Laura

    Abstract

    Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker. Winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize for Nonfiction. Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women's Prize for Nonfiction.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified
  • Romney : a reckoning

    Creator

    Coppins, McKay

    Abstract

    New York Times Bestseller! In this illuminating and "scoop-rich biography...the tell-all tales rush forth" (Los Angeles Times) offering a "penetrating analysis of the ongoing Republican civil war through the eyes of one of its last embattled centrists" (Publishers Weekly). Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump's GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified