Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Long Walk

By: Brian Castner

Narrated by: Brian Castner

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.

Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would... Read more

Twelve Patients

By: Eric Manheimer

Narrated by: Eric Manheimer

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and highlights the complex mind-body connection.

Using the plights of twelve very different patients--from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax... Read more

Vita di Bernardo di Chiaravalle

By: Giulio Barberis

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernardo di Chiaravalle, fu un monaco e abate francese cistercense, fondatore della celebre abbazia di Clairvaux e di altri monasteri. Viene venerato come santo dalla Chiesa cattolica. Canonizzato nel 1174 da papa Alessandro III, fu dichiarato Dottore della Chiesa, da papa Pio VIII nel 1830. Nel 1953 papa Pio XII gli dedicò l'enciclica Doctor... Read more

Mercury

By: Lesley-Ann Jones

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Revealing and intimate, based on more than 100 interviews with key figures in his life, this is the definitive biography of Queen front man Freddie Mercury, one of pop music’s best-loved and most complex figures.

A revealing, intimate look at the man who would be Queen.

As lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury’s unmatched... Read more

Final Victory

By: Stanley Weintraub

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When the 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already been in office longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic policies and the ongoing cost of World War II. Despite gravely... Read more

Monkey Mind

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety—America’s most common psychological complaint.We all think we know what being anxious feels like—it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern... Read more

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance®

By: Robert M. Pirsig & Peter Flannery

Narrated by: James Purefoy & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974. A powerful examination of how we live, as well as a... Read more

Explorations of Captain James Cook: An Introduction

By: John Lang

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain James Cook FRS RN (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the... Read more

Dan Gets a Minivan

By: Dan Zevin

Narrated by: Dan Zevin

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling and beloved tradition of Dave Barry, a coming-of-middle-age tale by Thurber finalist Dan Zevin, master of "Seinfeld-ian nothingness" (Time) about a man's inevitable transition into midlife and fatherhood. The least hip citizen of Brooklyn, Dan Zevin has a working wife, two small children, a mother who visits each week to... Read more

Michael Jackson - sein Leben, sein Werk

By: Thomas Gallasch

Narrated by: Thomas Galalsch & Sonia Derbali

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Jackson, der "King of Pop", starb am 25.Juni 2009 in Los Angeles. Er galt als einer der erfolgreichsten Musiker der Popgeschichte und hat Millionen Fans, überall auf der Welt. Dieses Hörbuch zeichnet das Leben des Popidols nach. Skizziert werden sowohl seine frühen Erfolge mit den Jackson Five als auch seine außergewöhnliche... Read more

Tomorrow I’m Dead

By: Būn Yom

Narrated by: Bill Chandler

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This is B┼½n Yom's story of his capture by the Khmer Rouge at fourteen-years-old—and the unmatched suffering, courage, and heroism that ensued.After three years as a killing-field slave, seventeen-year-old B┼½n Yom escaped from the Khmer Rouge and became a freedom fighter. Using his wisdom, courage, and infinite compassion, B┼½n rescued... Read more

Shattered

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king . . . and David Temple was a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach, he had a fairy-tale marriage to bright, vivacious Belinda Lucas, a teacher at the local high school who was so warm and popular her colleagues called her "The Sunshine... Read more

Guest of Honor

By: Deborah Davis

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family. The next morning, news that the president had dined with a black man—and former slave—sent shock waves through the nation. Although African Americans had helped build the White House and had worked for most of the... Read more

Kaffir Boy

By: Mark Mathabane

Narrated by: Mark Mathabane

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic story of life in apartheid South AfricaMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in... Read more

Dirk Bogarde In His Own Words

By: Dirk Bogarde

Narrated by: Dirk Bogarde

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating selection of extracts provides a vivid audio portrait of Dirk Bogarde, the award-winning actor and accomplished writer and artist who died in 1999.

Interviews include: Picture Parade, broadcast on BBC TV, 10 January 1961 (with Robert Robinson); The Movies, broadcast on BBC TV, 17 April 1967 (with Roger Hudson); Film Time,... Read more

The Receptionist

By: Janet Groth

Narrated by: Judith West

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker magazine. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum—watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous... Read more

Dynomite!

By: Jimmie Walker

Narrated by: Jimmie Walker

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in the South Bronx projects, Jimmie Walker made his way out of the perilous ghetto thanks to an ability to make people laugh. Performing in small clubs alongside friends such as Richard Pryor, Freddie Prinze, David Brenner, and Richard Lewis; opening for Black Panther rallies; and emceeing at the Apollo and for Motown tours, he was a... Read more

What Really Happened

By: Rielle Hunter

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. "One of the biggest political scandals of all time," "a fall from grace," "a modern-day tragedy"—it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the US government, and by supposed friends. There is, however, someone... Read more

The Letter

By: Marie Tillman

Narrated by: Marie Tillman

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A love story and an inspirational tale of recovery and self-discovery, Marie Tillman opens up for the first time about her marriage to ex-NFL star Pat Tillman, and her journey to rebuild her life after his death.

In 2003, Pat Tillman, serving in the US Army, hastily wrote a "just in case" letter to his wife, Marie. When he returned on leave... Read more

Amy, My Daughter

By: Mitch Winehouse

Narrated by: Mitch Winehouse & Rupert Farley

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse (“Rehab,” “Back to Black”)  is told by the one person most able to tell it—Amy’s closest advisor, her inspiration, and best friend: her father, Mitch. Amy, My Daughter includes exclusive, never-before-seen photos and... Read more

The Cornbread Mafia

By: James Higdon

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and
harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing
so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates
as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as
the Cornbread Mafia.



Author James Higdon—whose relationship... Read more

Life in the Ocean

By: Claire A. Nivola

Narrated by: Nicole Poole

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Claire A. Nivola has won multiple awards for her captivating books introducing historical figures to young audiences. In this critically acclaimed profile of noted oceanographer Sylvia Earle, listeners follow Sylvia as her childhood adventures in the Gulf of Mexico help inspire her life's work: discovering the secrets of... Read more

The Beautiful Fall

By: Alicia Drake

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion’s most beloved luminaries—Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant... Read more

Barack Obama

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 24 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking multigenerational biography, a richly textured account of President Obama and the forces that shaped him and sustain him, from Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, political commentator, and acclaimed biographer David Maraniss.

In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming... Read more