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Jeannette Walls is a writer and journalist.Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she graduated with honors from Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia University. She published a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book was adapted into a film and released to theaters in August, 2017.

Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle

Half Broke Horses

The Silver Star

Dish

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Entertainment & Celebrities

Politics & Activism

Anthologies & Short Stories

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a

Stephen King

Salem's Lot

On Writing

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Needful Things

Bag of Bones

Joe Hill

Strange Weather

Full Throttle

Owen King

Poetry

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. Maya Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (1969) which was nominated for a National Book Award and called her magnum opus. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Letter to My Daughter

And Still I Rise (Unabridged Selections)

Mom & Me & Mom

The Heart of a Woman

Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development

Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature

Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is a British actor known for his roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Prick Up Your Ears, Boogie Nights, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Spider-Man 2, Maverick, Species, Not Without My Daughter, Chocolat, Frida, Steamboy, The Hoax, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Da Vinci Code, The Little Traitor, An Education, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Rango.He starred as DDA / Detective Ricardo Morales on the NBC police/courtroom drama Law & Order: LA and as Roger opposite Dawn French in the BBC television sitcom Roger & Val Have Just Got In.

Alfred Molina

World War Z: The Complete Edition

Leonardo da Vinci

The Chopin Manuscript

The Starling Project

The Copper Bracelet

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Psychology & Mental Health

Travel & Tourism

Health & Wellness

Travel Writing & Commentary

Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic

Eat, Pray, Love

Committed

Education & Learning

Words, Language & Grammar

With a famed and storied career that has spanned more than six decades, Dan Rather has earned his place as one of the world’s best-known journalists. He has interviewed every president since Eisenhower and, over that time, personally covered almost every important dateline in the United States and around the world. Rather joined CBS News in 1962. He quickly rose through the ranks, and in 1981 he assumed the position of Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News—a post he held for twenty-four years. His reporting across the network helped turn 60 Minutes into an institution, launched 48 Hours as an innovative news magazine program, and shaped countless specials and documentaries. Upon leaving CBS, Rather returned to the in-depth repo

Dan Rather

Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime

What Unites Us

Rather Outspoken

Essays

Audio Performances & Dramatizations

LGBTQ+

Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence

David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist and radio contributor.Sedaris came to prominence in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries." He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. Each of his four subsequent essay collections, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004), and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) have become New York Times Best Sellers.As of 2008, his books have collectively sold seven million copies. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North

David Sedaris

Calypso

Me Talk Pretty One Day

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Lincoln in the Bardo

Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, is an Academy Award-winning English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen, she has starred in more than 80 films; including Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora, Mission: Impossible and Mrs Dalloway. Redgrave was proclaimed by Tennessee Williams to be "the greatest living actress of our times" and she remains the only British actress to ever have won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild awards. She was also the recipient of the 2010 Baft

Vanessa Redgrave

The Year of Magical Thinking

The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Three Cups of Tea

The Tempest

In the Country of Last Things

Classics

Children's Audiobooks

Social Sciences

Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy culture blog, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK and essays editor for The Rumpus. She teaches writing at Eastern Illinois University. Her first book, Ayiti, is a collection of fiction and nonfiction about the Haitian diaspora experience. Her novel, An Untamed State, will be published by Grove Atlantic and her essay collection, Bad Feminist, will be published by Harper Perennial, both in 2014.

Roxane Gay

Hunger

Ayiti

Not That Bad

The New York Times Book Review

Lindy West

Shrill

The Witches Are Coming

Shit, Actually

History

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Edward Herrmann

Unbroken

The Boys in the Boat

Einstein

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

The Tommyknockers

History & Culture

Asia

Computers & Technology

World

Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British writer, journalist and broadcaster who resides in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. As an author, Simon Winchester has written or contributed to over a dozen nonfiction books and authored one novel, and his articles appear in several travel publications including Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic. In 1969, Winchester joined The Guardian, first as regional correspondent based in Newcastle upon Tyne, but was later assigned to be the Northern Ireland Correspondent. Winchester's time in Northern Ireland placed him around several events of The Troubles, including the events of Bloody Sunday and the

Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman

The Perfectionists

The Men Who United the States

Krakatoa

Pacific

Anderson Cooper

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

Vanderbilt

Dispatches from the Edge

Gloria Vanderbilt

Obsession

Erotica

Dani Shapiro

Inheritance

Devotion

Hourglass

Slow Motion

Still Writing

Augusten Burroughs born Christopher Robison, son of poet and writer Margaret Robison and younger brother of John Elder Robison.Burroughs has no formal education beyond elementary school. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, he was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. He had also stopped drinking. The book was published one year later. Burroughs remains sober to this day. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. It is cur

Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors

Lust & Wonder

This Is How

Toil & Trouble

Personal Development

Holidays & Celebrations

Baseball & Softball

Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

A native of East Providence, RI—Ron McLarty is a veteran actor, accomplished playwright, prolific audiobook narrator and acclaimed novelist.McLarty is also noted for his body of work as one of the country’s leading audiobook narrators having done over 100 titles including the narration of books authored by Stephen King, Danielle Steel, Richard Russo, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, David Baldacci and Scott Turow, among many others.He lives in New York City with his wife, the actress Kate Skinner.

Ron McLarty

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)

Memory Man

The Innocent: A Novel

Zero Day

Action & Adventure

Arts & Entertainment

Architecture

Australia & Oceania

Outdoors & Nature

Science

Science & Engineering

Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country

At Home

The Body

One Summer

A Walk in the Woods

Megyn Kelly

Settle for More

Katy Tur

Unbelievable

Tom Foreman

My Year of Running Dangerously

True Crime

Narrator Barbara Caruso is an accomplished actress and critically acclaimed audiobook narrator. A graduate of Londons prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she was a featured player in the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has played starring roles on Broadway and in theaters across the country. She won the Alexander Scourby Reader of the Year Award for her performances of young adult fiction, and has more than one hundred Recorded Books narrations to her credit.

Barbara Caruso

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Life and Other Inconveniences

Green River, Running Red

The History of Love

Katie Couric

Going There

You Don't Look Your Age

The Best Advice I Ever Got

Women

Elizabeth Vargas

Between Breaths

Jeremy Guskin

Righteous Indignation

Impulse

Tricks

The Family

C Street

Teen & Young Adult

Politics & Social Sciences

Christianity

Religion & Spirituality

Philosophy

Military

Europe

Africa

Ralph Cosham, a narrator with dozens of fine performances of British classics including The Wind in the Willows and The Time Machine, also records as Geoffrey Howard, whose long audiography of titles includes works by C.S. Lewis. Ralph, as Cosham or Howard, has performed more than 100 audiobooks while keeping an active stage career in regional theater. Changing careers from British journalist to actor in the 1970s, Ralph has been recording for nearly 15 years.Cosham also recorded under the name Geoffrey Howard.(source: Dreamscape)