08/27/2026
This week, we lost two amazing pop culture icons, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. We will certainly miss them, but their legacy lives on in our collection, which features several titles narrated by Parton and Curry themselves.
The book Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones (DB 133565) is a beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive.
In his memoir Vagabond (DB 133317), Tim Curry takes readers behind-the-scenes of his rise to fame from his early beginnings as a military brat to his formative years in boarding school and university, to the moment when he hit the stage for the first time. He goes in-depth about what it was like to work on some of the most emblematic works of the 20th century, constantly switching between a camera and a live audience. He also explores the voicework that defined his later career and provided him with a chance to pivot after surviving a catastrophic stroke in 2012.
You can find these titles and more on BARD, or request them from your librarian today.
All of our audiobooks, as well as our other braille and audio materials, are completely free for Arizonans that cannot read standard print due to low vision or blindness, physical disabilities, or reading disabilities.
For more information about us and the services we offer, call us at 602-255-5578 or visit azlibrary.gov/talkingbooks
