Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Destiny of the Republic

By: Candice Millard

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months... Read more

Dear Cary

By: Dyan Cannon

Narrated by: Dyan Cannon

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Withhonesty and heart-rending emotion, actress and filmmaker DyanCannon tells the story of her topsy-turvy relationship with Hollywood legendCary Grant. Cannon’s captivating narrative takes the reader behind the scenesof Hollywood’s Golden Age, inside America’s high court of glamour and notorietyin which Cary Grant was king. In his private life... Read more

Oink

By: Matt Whyman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris Hilton carries one around like a Chihuahua, while Posh and Becks own a pair. The minipig, for reasons unknown, has become the latest celebrity accessory, but what's it really like to invite little livestock into the living room?



Matt Whyman, a successful novelist, enjoys a quiet writer's life in the English countryside . . . until his... Read more

Following Atticus

By: Tom Ryan

Narrated by: Tom Ryan

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Following Atticus is the remarkable true story of a man and a dog embarking on the challenge of a lifetime. This is author Tom Ryan’s inspiring tale of how he and his miniature schnauzer companion, the “Little Buddha” Atticus M. Finch, attempted to scale all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four thousand foot White Mountains twice in the dead of... Read more

Hemingway's Boat

By: Paul Hendrickson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 22 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning historian and author, Paul Hendrickson here turns his attention to one of America's most cherished literary icons, Ernest Hemingway. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Hendrickson focuses on Hemingway's life in its twilight, just prior to his suicide, and the seemingly singular constant in the man's life: his boat,... Read more

Life Is Not a Stage

By: Florence Henderson

Narrated by: Florence Henderson

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.
Florence's father was a dirt-poor ... Read more

The Fear

By: Peter Godwin

Narrated by: Peter Godwin

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in what's now called Zimbabwe, journalist Peter Godwin returns to his homeland in 2008 after three decades of Robert Mugabe's brutal economic and human destruction. Hoping to "dance on Mugabe's political grave" in the wake of the tyrant's defeat at the polls, Godwin instead risks his life to secretly chronicle Mugabe's ruthless backlash of... Read more

From Pearl Harbor to Calvary

By: Mitsuo Fuchida & Florence DeShazer

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mitsuo Fuchida was a Captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service who is perhaps best known for leading the first air wave attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack working under the overall fleet commander Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. After World War II ended,... Read more

Billy Connolly's Route 66

By: Billy Connolly

Narrated by: James McPherson

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow much-loved Scottish comedian and bestselling author Billy Connolly across Route 66, on this unforgettable journey filled with music, modern history and hilarious stories.

Billy Connolly first dreamed of taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 when he heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest rock 'n' roll records of all time - and... Read more

The Necessary Aptitude

By: Pam Ayres

Narrated by: Pam Ayres

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'NEXT, I APPLIED TO WORK IN THE ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of documents and lumbered the staff with weeks of corrective work, I was shown the... Read more

The Royal British Legion - Abridged

By: Matt Croucher & The Royal British Legion

Narrated by: Keeley Hawes, Bernard Cribbins, Nicky Henson, S...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921. It is now the country’s leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependants. The RBL is behind the annual Poppy Appeal, the highest profile charity appeal in Britain. ... Read more

Lebenslauf (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Alice Schwarzer

Narrated by: Alice Schwarzer

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es gibt wohl kaum eine Person des öffentlichen Lebens in Deutschland, die über Jahrzehnte in einem solchen Übermaß Bewunderung und Aggressionen erfahren hat und erfährt wie Alice Schwarzer. Sie ist die Stimme in Deutschland für die Rechte der Frauen. Zugleich ist sie einer der herausragendsten Journalisten und Essayisten des Landes, Autorin... Read more

The Women of the Cousins' War

By: Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin & Michael Jones

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.

In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses... Read more

An Unquenchable Thirst

By: Mary Johnson

Narrated by: Mary Johnson

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

An unforgettable spiritual autobiography about a search for meaning that begins alongside one of the great religious icons of our time and ends with a return to the secular world
 
At seventeen, Mary Johnson saw Mother Teresa’s face on the cover of Time and experienced her calling. Eighteen... Read more

Spirit Junkie

By: Gabrielle Bernstein

Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“So long, Carrie Bradshaw—there’s a new role model for go-getting thirty-somethings. Gabrielle Bernstein is doling out inner peace and self-love for the postmodern spiritual set.”—Elle

Foreword by Marianne Williamson

Before she became a celebrated teacher and lecturer, Gabrielle Bernstein was going down a dangerous path. For years, Bernstein... Read more

Grand Pursuit

By: Sylvia Nasar

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd & Anne Twomey

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor... Read more

Here Comes Trouble

By: Michael Moore

Narrated by: Michael Moore

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Moore returns with his first major book in eight years -- a blend of memoir, history, and politics that only he could write.

"I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room... Read more

Love Times Three

By: Joe Darger, Alina Darger, Vicki Darger & Valeri...

Narrated by: James Lurie, Eliza Foss, Kathleen McInerney & K...

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From a familythat inspired Big Love’s story of Bill Henricksonand his three wives, this first-ever memoir of a polygamous family captures theextraordinary workings of a unique family dynamic, and argues forthe acceptance of plural marriage as an alternative lifestyle. Readers ofCarolyn Jessop’s Escape, Elissa Wall’s StolenInnocence, and James... Read more

Life Itself

By: Roger Ebert

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The best thing Mr. Ebert has ever written." - Janet Maslin, New York Times

"To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."

Roger... Read more

Happy Accidents

By: Jane Lynch

Narrated by: Jane Lynch & Carol Burnett

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1974, a fourteen-year-old girl in Dolton, Illinois, had a dream. A dream to become an actress, like her idols Ron Howard and Vicki Lawrence. But it was a long way from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, and it didn’t help that she’d recently dropped out of the school play, The Ugly Duckling. Or that the Hollywood casting... Read more

Mighty Be Our Powers

By: Leymah Gbowee

Narrated by: Kimberly Scott

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace PrizeAs a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage... Read more

Half a Life

By: Darin Strauss

Narrated by: Darin Strauss

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved in front of his... Read more

You Are Not Alone - Abridged

By: Jermaine Jackson

Narrated by: Jermaine Jackson Jr.

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This sophisticated, no-holds-barred biography of Michael Jackson by his brother Jermaine is filled with keen insight, rich anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes detail.

Older than Michael by four years, Jermaine knows the real Michael as only a brother can. In this raw, honest, and poignant account, he reveals Michael the private person, not Michael... Read more

Tagebuch einer Reise mit Alexander von Humboldt

By: Steven Jan van Geuns

Narrated by: Konrad Beikircher

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Während in Paris die Revolution tobt, die Menschenrechte ausgerufen werden und der Sturm auf Versailles stattfindet, reisen der zwanzigjährige Alexander von Humboldt und sein Freund Steven Jan van Geuns (22) im Herbst 1789 sechs Wochen lang durch Deutschland. Während der letzte große Universalgelehrte Europas naturhistorische Interessen... Read more