Tag: Memoir

Free Download Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner, Robert Whitfield, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2004 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00026WURS | M4B@64 kbps / 8 hours and 17 minutes + EPUB | 113 Mb
When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at the age of 91 in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. The book was begun in 1939, but with the advent of World War II, Haffner had set it aside. His family made the decision to publish it, and the book became a best seller in Germany in 2002. Spanning the period from 1907 to 1933, it offers a unique perspective on how the average educated German grappled with the rise of Hitler, the growing influence of Nazism, and a rapidly changing society.
Haffner’s astute and compelling eyewitness accounts provide a broad overview of a country in a constant state of flux. He examines the pervasive influence of groups such as the Free Corps and the Hitler Youth movement that swept the nation. His own family’s financial struggles illustrate the disaster that befell many of Germany’s citizens during the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation devastated the country. The later peaceful but dangerously uninspiring Stresemann years contributed still further to Hitler’s rise to power. This is an invaluable chronicling of day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices.

Free Download Father and Son: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C83PP8F3 | 2023 | 12 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Jonathan Raban
Narrator: James Langton

Free Download Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY3PJH4W | 2023 | 7 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Sheila Johnson, Lisa Dickey
Narrator: Sheila Johnson
The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph-an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life. From humble beginnings as a schoolgirl and young violinist in Maywood, Illinois, Sheila Johnson rose to become one of the most accomplished businesswomen in America. A cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, she became an entrepreneur and philanthropist at the highest levels. But that success came at a painful personal cost. Sheila grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged her love of the arts and music. But her idyllic childhood ended at age sixteen when her beloved father announced he was leaving for another woman, an act that shattered her mother and destroyed Sheila’s trust. She vowed she’d never be in her mother’s position-dependent on a man for her sense of self-worth and for financial security.

Free Download How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW4VGPLF | 2023 | 16 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Rory Stewart
Narrator: Rory Stewart
From a great writer-legendary for his expeditions into some of the world’s most forbidding places-a wise, honest, and sometimes absurdist memoir of a most remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking point. Rory Stewart was an unlikely politician. He was best known for his two-year walk across Asia-in which he crossed Afghanistan, essentially solo, in the months after 9/11-and for his service, as a diplomat in Iraq, and Afghanistan. But in 2009, he abandoned his chair at Harvard University to stand for a seat in Parliament, representing the communities and farms of the Lake District and the Scottish border-one of the most isolated and beautiful districts in England. He ran as a Conservative, though he had no prior connection to the politics and there was much about the party that he disagreed with. How Not to Be a Politician is a candid and penetrating examination of life on the ground as a politician in an age of shallow populism, when every hard problem has a solution that’s simple, appealing, and wrong.

Free Download You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir About Wine, Life, and Cookies by Tamera Mowry-Housley, Legacy Lit
English | 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B2HQF6Y7 | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 5:15 h | 145 Mb
The beloved star of Sister, Sister and former co-host of The Real sheds her "good girl" image and inspires women to do the same in this powerful memoir.
A lighthearted and supremely entertaining memoir, You Should Sit Down for This is like spending the afternoon sharing tea, fresh baked cookies, and conversation with Tamera Mowry-Housley, the fun-loving, wisdom-sharing girlfriend we all need in our lives (always ready to top off your wine!). Most of us know Tamera Mowry-Housley as a beloved TV star-one‑half of the memorable duo on the hit show Sister, Sister and co-host of the FOX talk show The Real. Tamera’s spunky Sister, Sister character stole the hearts of millions, but the transition in the public eye from teen-girl star to grown woman with a family and thriving career wasn’t easy. Being raised in Hawaii as an army brat instilled in her the discipline needed to succeed and conquer her dreams, but she felt secluded and sheltered, and wondered if living on her own terms would ever be her reality. Then, she decided it would. Vowing to live true to herself, Tamera stopped letting other people define her, tapped into her faith, and tossed away negativity to hone her own happiness and create a unique path forward for herself. In this pink book of quirky advice and storytelling, she encourages everyone to do the same. A celebration of love, cookies, and the juicy parts of life, she’ll leave you feeling liberated and motivated to embrace the highs and lows of growing.

Free Download Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1KWZXH2 | 2023 | 16 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 884 MB
Author: Rory Stewart
Narrator: Rory Stewart
From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022’s breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider’s account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament. Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become.

Free Download Omega Farm: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY3Q2ZXC | 2023 | 7 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Martha McPhee
Narrator: Tracy Thorne
A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that’s been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother’s care and the sprawling, ramshackle property-a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees-she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will.

Free Download Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXTQ64TD | 2023 | 6 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Pidgeon Pagonis
Narrator: Pidgeon Pagonis
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth. Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls-a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why…until they uncovered the secret that had haunted their childhood. Bouncing between their Chicago home and the city’s children’s hospital, Pidgeon weathered a series of traumatic surgeries, fabrications, and misdirections.

Free Download Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZK2KTWX | 2023 | 9 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Padma Viswanathan
Narrator: Padma Viswanathan
From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person-all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story. Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip. Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after she returned to her usual life. But, that week, Phillip told her a story from his childhood that kept them connected for more than twenty years. Phillip was the son of a severe, abusive man named Harvey, a miner, farmer and communist. After Phillip’s mother left the family, Harvey advertised for a housekeeper-with-benefits. And so Del, the most glamorous and loving of stepmothers, stepped into Phillip’s life.

Free Download Holler Rat: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFBDT9RM | 2023 | 8 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Anya Liftig
Narrator: Anya Liftig
Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother’s upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore the contradictions and unanswered questions of her life. But when the world Anya was building for herself shattered, she was forced to reconcile where she’d come from with who she was and who she wanted to be.