Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Sum It Up

By: Pat Head Summitt & Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Sally Jenkins

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the... Read more

Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee

By: Thomas J. Craughwell

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, nineteen-year-old James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along for a particular purpose—to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James's cooperation, Jefferson would grant his freedom.

Thus began one of the strangest... Read more

Extreme Frontiers

By: Charley Boorman

Narrated by: David John

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man.

Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick, dives through old shipwrecks in Tobermory and rides along Butch Cassidy's... Read more

C. S. Lewis - A Life

By: Alister McGrath

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis — A... Read more

How Many Camels Are There in Holland?

By: Phyllida Law

Narrated by: Phyllida Law

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The charming, funny successor to the hugely popular ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’, from the inimitable Phyllida Law. Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’ – which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years –... Read more

Storming The Falklands

By: Tony Banks

Narrated by: David Monteath

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty years after the Falklands War 'Secret Millionaire' Tony Banks is still haunted by his experiences in the South Atlantic. As a member of the crack Parachute Regiment his unit was the first to land on the Falklands and he fought in the bloody first and last battles of the war before liberating Port Stanley.

In this memoir Tony vividly... Read more

With or Without You

By: Domenica Ruta

Narrated by: Domenica Ruta

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice
 
Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and... Read more

Eighty Days

By: Matthew Goodman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The... Read more

Law and Disorder

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Mindhunter—former FBI agent John Douglas and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Mark Olshaker—comes an explosive look at how a high-profile murder case can test the limits of even the most seasoned investigator.For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite... Read more

Terrible Swift Sword

By: Joseph Wheelan

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H.
Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most
responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous
march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced
scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that
compelled... Read more

I,Win

By: Win Kelly Charles

Narrated by: Logan Russell

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

At age 24 I decided to tell my story. Writing this autobiography gave me the opportunity to pay tribute to my family members who are passionate about life and have instilled this passion in me. My parents' extraordinary support, encouragment, and pure love were my foundation as I navigated life, overcame obstacles, and achieved successes as a... Read more

Chanel Bonfire

By: Wendy Lawless

Narrated by: Wendy Lawless

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

By the time Wendy Lawless turned seventeen, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one . . .

Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't... Read more

American Isis

By: Carl Rollyson

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. Educated at Smith, she had an epically conflict-filled relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the Sturm und Drang of married life in the full glare of the world of English and American letters. Her poems were fought over,... Read more

Marco Polo and the Wonders of the East

By: Hal Marcovitz

Narrated by: Bill Brooke

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the Italian tourist who became the first European to completely cross Asia and document his experieces in a book, The Travels of Marco Polo Read more

Sojourner Truth

By: Peter Krass

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From Chelsea House's Black Americans of Achievement series comes this biography of the legendary anti slavery activist. Read more

The Age Edison

By: Ernest Freeberg

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other... Read more

The Last Best Cure

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife... Read more

The Soundtrack of My Life

By: Clive Davis

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Clive Davis

Length: 22 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana,... Read more

Don't Be a Donkey

By: Chadd McArthur

Narrated by: Chadd McArthur

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Don't be a Donkey is a true story about the life and career of Chef Chadd McArthur.
It is about the lessons, about both kitchen and life, that he learned while working for Gordon Ramsay. Eighteen hours a day, five days a week... when you work with a great chef and leader that much, his wisdom will rub off on you, and at times traumatize you.

The... Read more

Whitey

By: Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone.
 
Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is... Read more

Gifts Gratitude

By: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker

Narrated by: Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From writer to producer and speaker, Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker lives an interesting and creative life. From celebrities, spiritual leaders to Yogi's, she has been mentored by them all. As times become more uncertain, many great minds suggest we must change our thinking if we want to continue to exist as a species. This collection of sweet stories... Read more

The Love Affairs of Lord Byron

By: Francis Gribble

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lord Byron published Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, he woke up one moring to find himself famous. Not long after that, when the word of his separation from Lady Byron got out, he woke up one morning to find himself infamous. Ever since then, his name has been linked inextricably with great lyric poetry and great sexual scandal. Women found him... Read more

Lauryn Hill

By: Meg Greene

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstare series, this biography showcases the life of one of today's most popular singers. Read more

Cameron Diaz

By: Anne Hill

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This biography, from the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstars series, traces the rise to fame of one of today's most popular movie stars. Read more