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The Art of Memoir

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir—delivered with her signature wit, insight, and candor.Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash... Read more

The Liars' Club

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com
 
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.

The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely... Read more

Tropic of Squalor

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liar’s Club and Lit.Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of... Read more

Now Go Out There

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of curiosity, compassion, and the surprising power of fear, based on the New York Times bestselling author and renowned professor’s 2015 commencement address at Syracuse University.“Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious & compassionate will save your ass.”Every year there are one or two commencement speeches that... Read more

Lit

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award FinalistMary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her beloved and... Read more

Cherry - Abridged

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Karr told the prize-winning tale of her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir. The Liar's Club rode the top of The New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, and publications ranging from The New Yorker to People picked it as one of the best books of the year. But it left... Read more

Wedding Bride and Doom

By: Mary Karnes

Narrated by: Jeannie Sheneman

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

California wedding planner, Kate Ludlow, moves back home to New England after her marriage implodes. In tow is her teen daughter Ellis, unhappy and nervous about the move. Suddenly, Kate's responsible for turning her part-time wedding planner gig into a full-time business. Kate's off to a good start, too, when she books the society wedding of... Read more