Bios & Memoirs: On Being Human
A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
By: David Giffels / Narrated By: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
No I didn’t weep; but gosh! did I feel, or what?!
Travels with Albie: An American Journey
By: Peter Zheutlin / Narrated By: Gregg Rizzo
Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Looking to escape Political Commentary…? >Ooooops< -Still- it has a DOG in it!!!
A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances
By: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace / Foreword By: Simon Sinek / Narrated By: Bruce Deel
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
My first Listen of 2023, and pass the tissues please…!
The Madness of American Incarceration
Written and Narrated By: Christine Montross
Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
A most DEFinite slug to the gut—with the tiiiiiniest of glimmers of Hope at the end. And I DO mean TINY
A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
By: Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary / Narrated By: Ruth Coker Burks
Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
Moving, heartfelt, emotionally evocative, and I could go on. Let’s leave it at simply stunning.
The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
By: Luke Harding / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
Enlightened the first Listen morphs into, well, stunned for the second… Do give this a Listen
Pioneer in Racial Advancement
By: John M. Carroll / Narrated By: JD Jackson
Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
The man’s story is sooo good, sooo inspiring…!
A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife
By: Rodney Stotts, Kate Pipkin - contributor / Narrated By: James Fouhey
Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
Listen to the Universe; Lean into the Dream…!
How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place
By: David Sheff / Narrated By: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Listened to it twice cuz once, quite simply, was NOT enough.
By: Karl Harter / Narrated By: Dennis Holland
Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
From start to finish? Entertaining if you liked “48 Hours” and Court TV
(Abridged)
By: Chris Gardner / Narrated By: Andre Blake
Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
Soooo torn about this one! Would you respect me less were I to be as indecisive as to neither Yay nor Boo it?!
How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
Written and Narrated By: Jonathan Mooney
Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
A wonderful reminder to be Yourself, and NYAH! to the System!
The Power of Extravagant Tenderness
Written and Narrated By: Gregory Boyle
Length: 10 hrs
I prefer to say “Gosh”, but here? I HAVE to say it: Thank God for Gregory Boyle!
Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
Written and Narrated By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
One journalist’s obsession with one woman’s obsession…
Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Written and Narrated By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
Good enough but by no MEANS is this the experience of most Undocumented individuals…
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
By: Bill Bryson / Narrated By: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! …oops… wait… is it okay to laugh…?
Written and Narrated By: Kevin Tuerff
Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
Actionable steps to be taken if you’re feeling grateful around 9-11 anniversaries
A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
By: Michael Benfante / Narrated By: Chris Ruen
Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
Reluctantly giving this one a pass… There are better ways to handle PTSD, but ya gotta be honest, and ya gotta be brave
The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By: Robert W. Fieseler / Narrated By: Paul Heitsch
Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
More a testament to FINALLY remembering a tragedy than a story about a fire
Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD
Written and Narrated By: Christal Presley
Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
So very fragmented winds up being so very moving…
Written and Narrated By: Marcia Gay Harden
Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
Lovely, lyrical, just wondered when the heck her Mom was gonna get her Meeee Time…?
Memory, My Mother, and Me
By: Cathie Borrie / Narrated By: Jill Tucker, Cathie Borrie
Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
Sometimes lovely, sometimes heartbreaking—Bits and pieces strung together; it’s Life in all its desperate and gorgeous glory…
The Diaries of a Prisoner
Written and Narrated By: Chris Atkins
Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
Yes, it’s The Chris Show—but gosh is the tragedy funny, or what? And don’t we owe our fellow human beings more…?
Overcoming Unhappily Ever After
Written and Narrated By: Brittani Louise Taylor
Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
Oy Vey—Spoiler Alerts ahead cuz I think I’m gonna save ya some money and some time you’ll never get back…
A Memoir
Written and Narrated By: Bakari Sellers
Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
A look at Black working class rural America? I think not. A look at Bakari being an ambitious bit of a buffoon? Oh totally…
Written and Narrated By: Dan Rather
Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
Charming and folksy, even when touching on the traumatic and the tragic…
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Written and Narrated By: Joe Biden
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
First Listen? I thought too much on politics. Second Listen? Thank GOD—a decent human being in politics
By: James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum / Narrated By: James Dommek Jr.
Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
Tho’ a bit scattered and kinda sorta doesn’t wind everything up, ‘twas easy to listen to it all at one sitting… and be spooked!
By: Saroo Brierley / Narrated By: Vikas Adam
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
Not the most stellar writing in the world, but GOSH what a story!!!