Biography & Memoir audiobooks

An American Homeplace

By: Donald McCaig

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1960s Donald McCaig left his job at a hot New York advertising agency and his Greenwich Village apartment for a rustic farm in a remote county in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. This is McCaig's story of farming in contemporary America, a timely tribute to a dying way of life. Read more

Road Song

By: Natalie Kusz

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1969, Natalie Kusz and her family abandoned the city, packed up the car, and headed to Alaska. They ended up a hundred miles from Fairbanks in a dilapidated house surrounded by 258 acres of spruce, birch and willow-and no road. When the first winter came-with Mr. Kusz working in Prudhoe Bay, money running out, and temperatures 60 below-the... Read more

Cada dia mas fuerte

By: Thalia

Narrated by: Federica Sodi Miranda

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

La memoria intima de la famosisima cantante y actriz. Por primera vez, Thalia habla de sus experiencias, las tragedias y los exitos. "Como todos, yo tengo cosas que me impulsan y cosas que me jalan y obstaculizan. Con este libro, que esta lleno de un sentimiento de fortaleza y potencialidad, deseo impulsar nuestras vidas a la plenitud, y que... Read more

The Climb

By: Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Anatoli Boukreev's first-hand account of the worst human disaster in the history of Mt. Everest will hold listeners spellbound. A top-rated guide and high altitude climber, Boukreev dictated the raw and powerful details of this ill-fated trek from memories and notes recorded just five days after the catastrophe. In May of 1996, 33 people went up... Read more

A Venetian Affair

By: Andrea Di Robilant

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In the waning days of Venice's glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city's oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions... Read more

Core of Conviction

By: Michele Bachmann & Susan Ericksen

Narrated by: Michele Bachmann

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Michele Bachmann is one of the most compelling leaders in America. But despite all the magazine covers and cable television stories, most people don't know who she really is, where she comes from, or what she believes. So she decided to tell her own story and let the reader decide. As you'll learn in this fascinating memoir, Bachmann wasn't the... Read more

Being George Washington

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, offers a unique spin on the life and legacy of founding father George Washington.

IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW GEORGE WASHINGTON, THINK AGAIN.

This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers—yet changed the world forever.

His... Read more

Vita di San Francesco d'Assisi

By: Johannes Joergensen

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Johannes Joergensen, scrittore danese convertitosi al cattolicesimo, in seguito ad un suo lungo soggiorno ad Assisi scrisse nel 1907 questa sua biografia del Santo, attenta non solo alle fonti, ma penetrata di fede e di dolcezza nelle sue descrizioni della natura. Il successo di tale lavoro gli valse la nomina di cittadino onorario di Assisi.... Read more

My Long Trip Home

By: Mark Whitaker

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Whitaker's father, "Syl" Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot
pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and... Read more

Scratch Beginnings

By: Adam Shepard

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What can you get with twenty-five dollars and a dream?

Adam Shepard graduated from college feeling disillusioned by the apathy around him and was then incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's famous work Nickel and Dimed—a book that gave him a feeling of hopelessness about the working class in America. He set out to disprove Ehrenreich's... Read more

The Prisoner's Wife

By: Asha Bandele

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In her senior year of college, asha bandele and a group of other writers went to a prison to read their works for a Black History Month program. There, she met Rashid, a man who was serving 20 to life for murder, a man who spoke softly and wisely, a man who would become asha's soul mate. This is her account of a relationship that has thrived... Read more

Not the Last Goodbye

By: David Servan-Schreiber

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

I knew the prognosis. Sooner or later, it would come back. I could slow down the inevitable; I could gain a few years. But there was nothing I could do to make this cancer disappear forever. So this was it. This was the relapse. The Big One.Nineteen years after his original diagnosis, having taken up a worldwide mission toward hope and... Read more

My Friend Michael

By: Frank Cascio

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Cascio was a close friend of tragic superstar Michael Jackson for more than twenty-five years. In My Friend Michael, Cascio offers a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the Michael Jackson he knew. Filled with never-before-told stories and intimate details, My Friend Michael is the most candid, moving, and provocative portrait of... Read more

Drunken Angel

By: Alan Kaufman

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the post-traumatic stress disorder that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back. Son of a French Holocaust survivor, Kaufman was a drinker so mauled by his indulgences that it is a marvel he hung on long... Read more

How I Got This Way

By: Regis Philbin

Narrated by: Regis Philbin

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a beloved morning-show host (Live with Regis and Kelly), a nighttime game-show host (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and also as a fixture on national and local late-night talk shows. The irrepressible... Read more

Reshaping It All

By: Candace Cameron Bure

Narrated by: Candace Cameron Bure

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes recipes and a bonus CD with photos!Candace Cameron Bure first became known to millions as a costar on the hit ABC television series Full House. Today, like her brother Kirk Cameron, she is the rare Hollywood actor who is outspoken about her Christian faith and how it helps overcome certain obstacles. Bure’s healthy lifestyle has been... Read more

Then Again

By: Diane Keaton

Narrated by: Diane Keaton

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
—Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times
The Independent • Bookreporter
The Sunday Business Post

Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word... Read more

Shaq Uncut

By: Shaquille O'Neal

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Superman. Diesel. The Big Aristotle. Shaq Fu. The Big Daddy. The Big Shaqtus. Wilt Chamberneezy. The Real Deal. The Big Shamrock. Shaq.

You know him by any number of names, and chances are you know all about his legendary basketball career: Shaquille "Shaq" O'Neal is a four-time NBA champion and a three-time NBA Finals MVP. After being an... Read more

Gabby

By: Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

Narrated by: Mark Kelly

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"An extraordinary tale…of love, of unthinkable trauma, of a heroic partnership… Redefining for the world what it means to be a fighter.”—People

The New York Times bestseller by Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly—an incredibly inspiring story of adventure, public service, love, and overcoming tragedy. Now... Read more

One and Only

By: Anne Marie Santos & Gerald Nicosia

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart & Stephen Bowlby

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal Cassady, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of young would-be writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. But Neal and Jack initially didn’t like each other very... Read more

Warriors Don't Cry

By: Melba Pattillo Beals

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard—opposition so intense that... Read more

Pride of Family

By: Carole Ione

Narrated by: Carole Ione

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1937 and raised by her physician great aunt, chorus-line dancing grandmother, and glamorous murdermystery writing mother, psychotherapist Carole Ione knew more about the men in her family than she did about her secretive female forbearers. This critically acclaimed memoir is the lyrical fruit of an 18-year quest for her maternal roots.... Read more

Blue Box Boy - Abridged

By: Matthew Waterhouse

Narrated by: Matthew Waterhouse

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Highlights from Matthew Waterhouse’s acclaimed memoir, Blue Box Boy, read by the author. Read more

Yes Sister, No Sister

By: Jennifer Craig

Narrated by: Jennifer Craig

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'What is your name?' she asks, staring at me.
'Jennifer Ross.'
'Jennifer Ross, Sister. Well, Nurse Ross, you are dressed in the uniform of a nurse from the Leeds General Infirmary. Such a uniform is not worn with a cardigan. Take it off at once.'
'Yes Sister.' I can feel my face turn red.

A trainee nurse in the 1950s had a lot to bear. In Jennifer... Read more