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Seductive Pleasures of Audio Memoirs

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I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir By Boylan, Jennifer Finney Read by Boylan, Jennifer Finney 2008-03 - Tantor Media 9781400135967 Check Our Catalog From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir. I'm Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in the heart. Unabridged. 9 CDs. …More

Blue Blood By Conlon, Edward Narrated by Stechschulte, Tom 2004-12 - Recorded Books 9781419302909 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title With brio and a thrilling literary style, Conlon depicts his life on the force--from his first days walking a beat in the South Bronx to his ascent to detective. The pace is relentless, the stories hypnotic, the scope nothing less than grand. …More

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition By Twain, Mark Read by Gardner, Grover 2010-11 - Blackstone Audiobooks 9781441778420 Check Our Catalog …More

Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family By Volk, Patricia Read by Rosenblat, Barbara 2003-03 - Blackstone Audiobooks 9780786193288 Check Our Catalog Patricia Volk's delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you're never just hungry-your starving to death, and you're never just full-you're stuffed. Volk's family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when her great-grandfather introduced pastrami to America until 1988, when her father closed his garment center restaurant. All along, food was pretty much at the center of their lives. But as seductively as Volk evokes the food, Stuffed" is at heart a paean to her quirky, vibrant relatives: her grandmother with the "best legs in Atlantic City"; her grandfather, who invented the wrecking ball; her larger-than-life father, who sculpted snow thrones when other dads were struggling with snowmen. Writing with great freshness and humor, Patricia Volk will leave you hungering to sit down to dinner with her robust family-both for the spectacle and for the food. …More

Brother I’m Dying By Danticat, Edwidge 2007-09 - Recorded Books 9781428166318 Check Our Catalog From the best-selling author of "The Dew Breaker" comes a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart--her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph. …More

The Prince of Frogtown By Bragg, Rick Read by Bragg, Rick 2008-05 - Random House Audio 9780739368398 Check Our Catalog