Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Dorothy L. Sayers

By: David Coomes

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Known to millions as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the bestselling author of a dozen detective novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was in reality a complex woman––moved, she said, by “a careless rage for life.” It is this complex Sayers, brilliant student, controversial apologist, witty, bawdy, intolerant of fools––the woman “terrified of... Read more

On the Right Track

By: Marion Jones & Maggie Greenwood-Robinson

Narrated by: Marion Jones

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a decade, Marion Jones was hailed as the "the fastest woman on the planet." At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, she became the first woman ever to win five medals at one Olympics. That same year, the Associated Press and ESPN named her Athlete of the Year. She was on the cover of Vogue and Time. She seemed to have it... Read more

The Little Red Guard

By: Wenguang Huang

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a city in central China, at a time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his... Read more

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

By: Simon Callow

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography... Read more

January First

By: Michael Schofield

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and harrowingly honest memoir, January First is the extraordinary story of a father's fight to save his child from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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Call of A Coward

By: Marcia Moston

Narrated by: Patty Fogarty

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

 "It's difficult to get your mind around trust. You just have to do it" Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his missions call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign mission's, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and... Read more

Dearie

By: Bob Spitz

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 25 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station.  And yet, that’s exactly what Julia Child did.  The... Read more

Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty

By: William Bligh

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized and mutinied on the return voyage. But a resentful crew, coupled... Read more

Grant

By: William McFeely

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 27 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning biography, William McFeely brings us a thoroughly compelling story of a tangled life. Having once said “a military life had no charms to me,” U.S. Grant entered West Point to get through the course, secure a detail for a few years as assistant professor of mathematics at the Academy, and afterwards obtain a permanent position as... Read more

Iron Man

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, Cal Ripken, Jr. succeeded in toppling baseball's most unbreakable streak of 2,130 consecutive games played. He has also won the 1982 Rookie of the Year Award, two American League MVP awards, an All-Star Game MVP award, two Gold Gloves, and a World Series title.This is the story of Junior's ascent to superstardom. What was it like... Read more

Vincent van Gogh

By: Julius Meier-Graefe

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh.Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a... Read more

Hudson Taylor

By: Marshall Broomhall

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Hudson Taylor is one of the most remarkable of Christianity's heroes. A gawky, determined Yorkshire boy of commonplace origins, mediocre education, and uncertain health, Hudson Taylor lived in the assurance that under God's direction he would someday evangelize China's 400,000,000 souls. Today he is remembered both as the founder of the... Read more

Jefferson Davis

By: William C. Davis

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 30 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved. Ranging over the complete span of his long life, it shows him as a hardworking Mississippi planter, a compassionate slave owner, a hero of the Mexican... Read more

Steven Spielberg

By: Joseph McBride

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 20 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The most successful director in movie history, Steven Spielberg has been responsible for such box-office blockbusters as Jurassic Park, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Indiana Jones trilogy. And yet throughout much of his career, Spielberg's work has been undervalued by critics who have questioned... Read more

Bette Davis

By: Barbara Leaming

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve. Off-camera, Bette Davis fought endless contractual battles with studios and survived four disastrous marriages, earning a larger-than-life reputation as an actress to be reckoned with. In this... Read more

The Master

By: John Pollock

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This absorbing narrative brings the New Testament story into fresh focus as seen through the eyes of the disciple John. Marvel anew at the miracle of the incarnation and its ever unfolding effects on earth, as John meets Jesus in Galilee, watches him die in Jerusalem, and then experiences the thrill of the empty tomb on that glorious first... Read more

The Convert

By: Deborah Baker

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam' s argument with the... Read more

A Life in the Twentieth Century

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 27 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is one of the finest historians of our age. A former special assistant to President Kennedy, he received the National Humanities Medal in 1998. In this first volume of memoirs Schlesinger turns a keen eye on his own remarkable life--from his Midwestern upbringing, through his... Read more

The Oath

By: Khassan Baiev

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Chechen rebels took Moscow theatergoers hostage in October 2002, it tragically highlighted the ongoing conflict between Russia and its breakaway republic, Chechnya-a war that has claimed an estimated 200,000 Chechen lives in the past decade. Yet the true nature of the debacle lies behind the headlines. In The Oath, a heroic Chechen doctor... Read more

Clark Gable

By: Jane Ellen Wayne

Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

To his fans, he was the king of Hollywood. To others, he was the embittered and alcoholic king of tragedy. In all shades of life, his character was epic.Gable's rise to idol stature was swift. He made close to one hundred films in his lifetime and achieved immortalization in the timeless epic, Gone with the Wind. Off-screen, the man who finally... Read more

Something Beautiful for God

By: Malcolm Muggeridge

Narrated by: Leonard Muggeridge & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the work that introduced Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the Western world. Malcolm Muggeridge paints a profound and moving portrait of a lady whose love for Christ and the needy has deeply impacted many a life—including the author’s. “For me,” says Muggeridge, “Mother Teresa of Calcutta embodies Christian love in action. Her face shines... Read more

All the Way

By: Michael Freedland

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Sinatra has been a legend in many people’s lifetimes. In the course of his long career of successes, failures, and even greater comeback triumphs, he has remained one of the most enduring performers in twentieth-century show business history. Michael Freedland’s biography gives a full portrait of this unorthodox singer’s life, from his... Read more

Paterno

By: Joe Paterno

Narrated by: Joe Vincent

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are the Paterno principles: the straight word from the curious quarterback and English major who went from Brooklyn to Brown to Penn State, who lost his way to law school and became instead America’s best-loved coach.With the help of a first-rate biographer and friend, Bernard Asbell, Joe Paterno tells his story, sharing his life’s... Read more

Jack

By: George Sayer

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Numerous biographies have been written about this great theologian, literary critic, and novelist, but we have found this to be the best.Sayer describes Lewis’ early years, hinting at childhood evidence of the brilliance and eccentricity that would later become Lewis’ hallmarks. He discusses Lewis’ academic career, his life-transforming... Read more