Biography & Memoir Audiobooks

M.C. Richards (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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"1997 Grammy® Award nominee 1996 Listen Up Award—Best Humor Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors. Contents: This Man This Woman; Taking a Chance on Love; Bertha's Kitty Boutique: Cat Box Video; Greenwich Village Days; Cafe Boeuf: Secrets of the Kitchen; Beebopareebop: The Operation; Cowboys: The Second Lefty; Famous Celebrities: New Years Eve; Just One of Those Things; Chicken Little-Starring Tom Keith; Beebopareebop: The Dream; Adventures in Ethics; Guy Noir, Private Eye: Tony Rigatoni; Fred Farrell Animal Calls; How I Met George Gershwin; Little House on the Desert; Silver Lining: Cold Weather; Mel's Big Boy Buffet; Newt; La Influenza; Lutheran's On-Line; Silver Lining: Getting Older; The Ketchup Advisory Board; Bemidji Fishing Opener Song; Beebopareebop: The Contest Plus a bonus joke collection."

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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News from Lake Wobegon: Summer

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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Climbing Up on the Rough Side

"The long-awaited second audio recording by the Hopeful Gospel Quartet—Robin and Linda Williams, Kate MacKenzie, and Garrison Keillor—is old-time gospel singing at its best. Recorded live during broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, it features instrumentals by Butch Thompson, Chet Atkins, and others. Tracks: - Climbing Up On the Rough Side- He Knows How Much We Can Bear- Life Is a Ball Game- Calling My Children Home- How Great Thou Art- I am a Pilgrim- Take Me in Your Lifeboat- Touch of the Past- Count Your Blessings- Just a Closer Walk With Thee- Long As I Can See the Light- How I Got Over- I Bid You Goodnight"

Hopeful Gospel (Author), Kate Mackenzie (Narrator)

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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character

"One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest). Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife to exclaim: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!” In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist recounts in his inimitable voice his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums, and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Woven together with his views on science, Feynman’s life story is a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah."

Richard P. Feynman (Author), Raymond Todd (Narrator)

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People Are Like That: True Incidents That Illustrate the Instinctive Goodness of Mankind

"Submitted by readers of Catholic Digest, here are dozens of original accounts of true incidents that illustrate the compassion and kindness of which we all are capable. These real-life stories demonstrate the instinctive goodness of people and provide inspirational signposts of the humanity we all share. Listeners to this treasury will find these stories heartwarming, faith-affirming, and spiritually nourishing."

Teri Garr (Author), Teri Garr (Narrator)

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Political Incorrections: The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

"The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues from Comedy Central's hit show Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher. From Republicans to Democrats, politics to pop culture, nothing will be spared from Bill Maher's hilarious, 'politically incorrect' commentary in this collection of his most outrageous material. Whether you're liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, this witty, irreverent stab at the politics of the day will have you laughing as you listen!"

Bill Maher (Author), Bill Maher (Narrator)

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Exploded

"There are certain defining events that occur to people— the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was ' exploded' in Medford, Oregon. In this collection of performance essays, the centerpiece is ' Exploded' — Bodett' s recollections and reflections about a moment that had profound physical and psychological impact on his life."

Tom Bodett (Author), Tom Bodett (Narrator)

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Dr. Katz's Therapy Sessions

"From the producers of the runaway Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central animated TV series 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist' comes DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS-a hiply hilarious compilation of Dr. Katz's funniest sessions with his all-star cast of 'patients.' Based on Comedy Central's hit phenomenon 'Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist,' DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS lets us listen in on the hilarious sessions between the wry, downtrodden Dr. Katz (comedian/actor Jonathan Katz) and his roster of patients, whose voices are provided by such popular comedians as Gary Shandling, Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Anthony Clark, Janeane Garofalo, Carol Leifer, and more. Therapy has never been this funny! A truly witty audio program, DR. KATZ'S THERAPY SESSIONS will bring therapeutic laughter to all who listen!"

Jonathan Katz (Author), Jonathan Katz (Narrator)

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[Swiss German; Alemannic] - Gägsgüsi

"Peach Weber ist der Schweizer Komiker der ersten Stunde und wohl der Einzige, der in einem neuen Programm nicht alte Nummern mit sich herum schleppt. Nebst regelmässig ausverkauften Tourneen und an der Millionengrenze verkauften Tonträgern, gilt er als 'Gäx-Epizentrum' und lässt die Menschen zwei Stunden unbeschwert lachen. Eines der Highlights seiner Karriere wird 2027 sein, wenn er im 2x ausverkauften Hallenstadion in Zürich seinen Abschied feiern wird. Dass er mit dem längsten Vorverkauf im Guiness Buch der Rekorde einen Eintrag finden wird, ist eine weitere unglaubliche Geschichte dieses einmaligen Comedy-Originals."

Peach Weber (Author), Peach Weber (Narrator)

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The Sound of Creativity

Julia Cameron, Tim Wheater (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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Rewrites A Memoir

"Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys -- Neil Simon's plays and movies have kept many millions of people laughing for almost four decades. Today he is recognized not only as the most successful American playwright of all time, but also as one of the greatest. More than the humor, however, it is the humanity of Neil Simon's vision that has made him America's most beloved playwright and earned him such enduring success. Now, in Rewrites, he has written a funny, deeply touching memoir, filled with details and anecdotes of the writing life and rich with the personal experiences that underlie his work. What the listener of this warm, nostalgic memoir discovers, however, is that the plays, although grounded in Neil Simon's own experience, provide only a glimpse into the mind and soul of this very private man. Since Come Blow Your Horn first opened on Broadway in 1960, few seasons have passed without the appearance of another of his laughter-filled plays, and indeed on numerous occasions two or more of his works have been running simultaneously. But his success was something Neil Simon never took for granted, nor was the talent to create laughter something that he ever treated carelessly: it took too long for him to achieve the kind of acceptance -- both popular and critical -- that he craved, and the path he followed frequently was pitted with hard decisions. Some of the supporting players in the memoir include Sid Caesar, Jerry Lewis, Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, George C. Scott, and Mike Nichols. But always at center stage is his first love, his wife Joan, whose death in the early seventies devastated him, and whose love and inspiration illuminate this remarkable and revealing self-portrait. Rewrites is rich in laughter and emotion, and filled with the memories of a sometimes sweet, sometimes bittersweet life."

Neil Simon (Author), Neil Simon (Narrator)

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