Audiobooks Autobiography
Leda Billock
Some of us keep up with our favorite celebrities by following their Instagram or maybe even reading about them in the latest issue of Us Weekly or Star Magazine (so much royal family buzz!). But what if you actually got to sit down over a cup of coffee and listen to them tell their own story? While we unfortunately can't promise a face-to-face, we do have the next best thing: celebrity-narrated memoirs. From humble beginnings to the vulnerable tell-all and lessons learned, these audiobooks let you listen to the captivating stories straight from the source.
Bits and Pieces by Whoopi GoldbergFrom multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. This moving tribute from a daughter to her mother is a beautiful portrait of three people who loved each other deeply. Whoopi writes, "Not everybody gets to walk this earth with folks who let you be exactly who you are and who give you the confidence to become exactly who you want to be. So, I thought I'd share mine with you."
You Never Know by Tom SelleckThere are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way.
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal HefnerA raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman's stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner's final days.
Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul ScheerFrom award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self, featuring content exclusive to the audio edition, including excerpts from live shows and audio clips from home movies.
On Call by Anthony FauciThe memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents.
Tell Me Everything by Minka KellyMinka Kelly takes listeners behind the shiny silver-screen facade and reveals just how good an actress she really is. She has poured her soul into this audiobook, which ultimately tells a story of triumph over adversity, and how resilience and love are all we have in the end.
One Way Back by Christine Blasey FordThis is the real story behind the headlines and the soundbites, a complex, page-turning memoir of a scientist, a surfer, a mother, a patriot, and an unlikely whistleblower. Ford's experience shows that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power, she adds to a collective whole, causing "a ripple that might one day become a wave."
Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham ClintonRelease date: Sept. 17
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.
Get a free download of The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. Listen to the amazing autobiography of the early life of Helen Keller as she broke through her deaf-blind isolation from language with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan.
In this unabridged audio book, the great Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie tells his life story from his humble beginnings in a cottage in Scotland to his rise to vastly expand the American steel industry and his late life as a philanthropist.
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools...
When the end of my MFA program approached, along with another thesis reading, I thought I had a solution. After endless hours of practice, my method of repeating the words in my earbuds a quarter second after I heard them, adding inflection to the digital speech, worked pretty well.
With their latter point, I could not have disagreed more. Few of us like the sound of our own voice, but I have always found my own particularly unappealing. As much as its nasal timbre, my dislike might stem from the countless hours I have spent with it on all those microcassettes, sounding ridiculously pleased with stories I was still learning how to write.
The #OwnVoices movement emphasizes the need for stories from marginalized or underrepresented groups being written by members of that group, rather than someone without that lived experience. To that end, Godin began writing her book to dismantle false perceptions of blindness by the sighted world. She knew right away that she wanted to narrate the audiobook herself, unaware until weeks before the recording how many complications lay ahead for a blind narrator.
The questions became increasingly difficult. Did I have a typeface preference? Were there any recent books I found particularly attractive in design or format? Did I have a binding color preference? My initial thoughts: no, no, and what exactly is a binding color?
This was when I first began to ponder the audiobook. Whatever the audio equivalent was for a binding color, I probably would have a preference. The biggest decision, of course, involved the narrator, and long before the audio rights sold, the voice I heard when I fantasized about my ideal adaptation was not my own.
When I was finally able to share the news of my narrator, my enthusiasm was a far cry from the shame of my college roommate reading aloud from my senior thesis. Instead of stowing cartons of audiobooks inside a trunk under the bed of my dorm room, I write about them in a monthly column. Rather than hiding the disability I spent half my life trying to escape, the title of my memoir announces it to the world. And whether you read it with your eyes, ears, or fingers, the voice on every page remains my own.
The Apple Books app is free and there is no subscription. Audiobooks and ebooks are priced individually, and thousands of free audiobooks and ebooks are available. You can also sample audiobooks and ebooks for free while you browse.
Yes. Apple Books makes it easy to find the most anticipated audiobooks and ebooks. Search for the title and select the Pre-Order button to confirm the purchase. The title will be added to your library automatically once it is available. To preview upcoming releases, look for the Coming Soon section in the app.
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OverDrive/Libby is a collection of e-books, digital audiobooks, and digital magazines offered by the library. E-books, audiobooks, and magazines can be downloaded to your computer, tablet, (including Kindle), or mobile device for offline reading or listening.
Access Video Collection (by Films on Demand) offers thousands of high quality streaming videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
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TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books. TumbleBook Library can be read by you or read to you! Our collection includes storybooks, books in French and Spanish for language learning, read-along books, non-fiction books, puzzles and games, math stories and graphic novels.
Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive....
In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits....
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence....
The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone....
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