Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Bach, sa vie son oeuvre

By: John Mac

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jean-Sébastien Bach est né dans une illustre famille de musiciens allemands. Orphelin à 10 ans, Bach est un compositeur et un musicien reconnu comme étant l'un des plus grands compositeurs de tous les temps, par des hommes tels que Mozart et Beethoven. Ce disque est une biographie pour vous faire mieux connaître et aimer ce compositeur... Read more

Mozart, sa vie son oeuvre

By: John Mac

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Mozart n'a vécu que trente-cinq ans. Il nous a pourtant laissé plus de 600 œuvres, tout cela en commençant à composer à 5 ans. Génial compositeur mais homme tourmenté, confronté à des déceptions sentimentales, à des échecs professionnels, à des soucis d'argent, sa vie est un véritable roman, et nous allons le suivre à travers l'Europe du... Read more

The Father, the Son and the Ghostly Hole

By: Rory McGrath

Narrated by: Rory McGrath

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I remember thinking when I was about 14, “I hope God doesn't find out I'm an atheist”.'
This is Rory's story of being brought up a Catholic, going to Catholic school, being an altar boy; of the parents, priests, the nuns who taught him, the life and characters at his local Church. Until, that is, as a teenager in crisis, he abandons his faith... Read more

Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre

By: John Mac

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Que sait-on de Molière, l'auteur de théâtre le plus joué dans le monde ? Que ses œuvres ont traversé les siècles, grâce à la justesse des personnages qu'il a créés ? Qu'il sait déceler nos défauts d'hier et d'aujourd'hui avec humour ? Tour à tour auteur de farces, de comédies, puis jugé subversif par les dévots et la bonne société, n'oublions... Read more

Paris Hilton, une vie de star

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Lydie Lacroix

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris Hilton est une star à la renommée internationale, héritière des hôtels du même nom. Derrière la jet-seteuse se cache une femme d'affaires redoutable et une amie fidèle... que nous allons vous faire découvrir. Une biographie passionnante pour une star mondiale. Read more

Britney Spears, une vie de star

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Lydie Lacroix

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Britney Spears est une jeune chanteuse américaine de musique pop. Cette star est désormais plus connue de par sa vie privée chaotique, que grâce à ses talents artistiques... Une biographie qui reprend depuis sa naissance la vie de la chanteuse, jusqu'à nos jours. Read more

Lost in Language and Sound

By: Ntozake Shange

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lost in Language and Sound is a vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange: language, music, and dance. In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and... Read more

A Big Little Life

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life. A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerda, welcomed her into their home. She was superbly trained, but her greatest gifts couldn’t be taught: her keen... Read more

The Seamstress

By: Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Marlene Bernstein Samuels...

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up, Sara (Seren) Tuvel was the smartest, most ambitious girl in
her Romanian mountain village. When she won and accepted a scholarship
to a Gentiles-only Gymnasium, she was forced to make a decision that
would change her path forever. At thirteen, faced with a teacher's
anti-Semitism, Seren walked out of her classroom and into a new... Read more

Boy Alone

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Extraordinary… Greenfeld details what it is like to grow up next to a ‘beautiful’ boy with whom he can never play and never connect and who never returns his love, but who, nonetheless, is the most important fact of his life.”
— Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of Raising Cain “Beautiful and powerful …. A masterpiece of literature and memory.”... Read more

Jacqueline Kennedy

By: author

Narrated by: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy, ...

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, with this expansive illustrated book which includes interviews, recordings and other exclusive materials.

To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States.

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded... Read more

Sybil Exposed

By: Debbie Nathan

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

SYBIL: A name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward—about a woman named Sybil with sixteen different personalities. Sybil became both a pop phenomenon and a revolutionary force in the psychotherapy... Read more

Unfinished

By: Suzanne Gravelle

Narrated by: Gildan Author

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a true story of a woman who experienced such a profound awakening that she could no longer live the same life, the same way, again. She could no longer ignore the woman who was screaming to be set free from the ties that bound her to a life she no longer desired or recognized.

The transformation to become the woman she really... Read more

One Day at a Time

By: Susan Lewis

Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

She was only nine when her world fell apart. The struggle to understand took a lifetime.

In 1960s Bristol, Susan's family was like any other with its joys and frustrations, and fierce loyalties. Then tragedy struck and left a legacy that was to last a lifetime.

Susan was only nine when her mother died. A year later she was sent away to school. ... Read more

Beautiful

By: Katie Piper

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'

When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.

But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare ...

After being... Read more

The Dab of Dickens, The Touch of Twain, and The Shade of Shakespeare

By: Elliot Engel

Narrated by: Elliot Engel, Geoffrey Howard, Grover Gardner, ...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown—until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors,... Read more

MWF Seeking BFF

By: Rachel Bertsche

Narrated by: Annie Wood

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted... Read more

Meet Oskar Schindler

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet, and be inspired by, Oskar Schindler; the great saviour of persecuted Jews, as he tells his own incredible story. Following a complicated early life full of unsuccessful business ventures and several changes of jobs during the Great Depression, a job as a spy for the Abwehr that led to Schindler joining the Nazi Party in 1939. Seeking to... Read more

Cobb

By: Al Stump

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy in the 1890s, he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with the humiliation of the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s, he dared death, picked fights, refused to take his medicine, and drove off all his friends and admirers. He went to his deathbed alone, clutching a loaded pistol and a bag containing millions... Read more

Wild Swans

By: Jung Chang

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.

An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window... Read more

Here I Stand

By: Roland H. Bainton

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot and will not recant!…Here I stand.” This authoritative and inspiring story paints a vivid portrait of the crusader who spearheaded the Reformation. Considered one of the most readable biographies of Martin Luther, this volume looks at the German religious reformer and his influence on Western civilization.Martin Luther entered a... Read more

Always Running

By: Luis J. Rodriguez

Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully... Read more

James Madison

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in
American history, and his story—although all too often overshadowed by
his more celebrated contemporaries—is integral to that of the nation.
Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder:
collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting
... Read more

I Dared to Call Him Father

By: Bilquis Sheikh

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

How do I give myself to God completely? What happens when I do? This is a book for everyone who has ever asked these questions.I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman in Pakistan who faced these questions at the crossroads of her life and found the astonishing answers. Her unusual... Read more