Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

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

The Man Who Couldn't Eat

By: Jon Reiner

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest. The medical... Read more

Start Something That Matters

By: Blake Mycoskie

Narrated by: Blake Mycoskie

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time.
 
What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the... Read more

The Wealth Cure

By: Hill Harper

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 7 hoursRead by TBDIn his second book for adults, the perennial New York Times- bestselling author helps readers discover how to put money in its place and use wealth-building as a tool for joy and fulfillment. Read more

Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother

By: Sue Johnston

Narrated by: Sue Johnston

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

'There was a lot that we kept from my mother. My dad would say to me as a teenager "Don't tell your mother." We couldn't face the disapproval.'

Sue Johnston always seemed to be disappointing her mother. As a girl she never stayed clean and tidy like her cousins. As she grew older, she spent all her piano lesson money on drinks for her mates down... Read more

What It Is Like to Go to War

By: Karl Marlantes

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling and award-winning Matterhorn comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war and the psychological and spiritual toll it takes on those who fight.“I wrote this book primarily to come to terms with my own experience of combat. So far—reading, writing, thinking—that has taken over thirty years.”In 1969, at the age of... Read more

Unmeasured Strength

By: Lauren Manning

Narrated by: Lauren Manning

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Unmeasured Strength is a survivor's awe-inspiring story of how Lauren Manning overcame tragedy and re-created herself as a wife, mother, and woman

She was a hardworking business woman, had a loving husband and an infant son, and a confidence born of intelligence and beauty. But on September 11, 2001, good fortune was no match for catastrophe.... Read more

In My Time

By: Dick Cheney

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a forty-year portrait of American politics and shares unyielding reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.

In his enlightening and provocative memoir—a stately page-turner with flashes of surprising... Read more

In My Time - Abridged

By: Dick Cheney

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a forty-year portrait of American politics and shares unyielding reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.

In his enlightening and provocative memoir—a stately page-turner with flashes of surprising... Read more

The Chicken Chronicles

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Alice Walker

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker is known worldwide for her moving literary fiction. In her memoir The Chicken Chronicles, Walker imparts insightful life lessons and wisdom inspired by her experiences with raising chickens. Through the years, her relationship with the creatures strengthened her connection to the natural world-and... Read more

Open Wide the Freedom Gates

By: Dorothy Height

Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, Dorothy Height is a heroine of the Civil Rights movement. At age 91 she takes listeners back through 70 explosive years in search of equality as a black and as a woman. Dr. Height recalls her childhood battles with racism, college in New... Read more

The Making of a Chef

By: Michael Ruhlman

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1996, writer Michael Ruhlman donned a chef’s jacket and entered the Culinary Institute of America, known as the Harvard of cooking schools, to learn the art of cooking. His vivid and eye-opening record of that experience, The Making of a Chef, takes us into the heart of this food-knowledge mecca. Here we meet a coterie of... Read more

Albert Einstein

By: Banesh Hoffmann

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable study is a model of what the biography of a scientist should be. Its author, a noted scientist himself, was a friend of and collaborator with Albert Einstein. On these pages, we come to know Albert Einstein as the “backward” child; the academic outcast; the reluctant world celebrity; the exile; the pacifist; the philosopher; the... Read more

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By: Alexandra Fuller

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandra Fuller won worldwide attention, popular acclaim, and critical accolades for her memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. This engaging follow-up explores Fuller's parents' childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple's experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same... Read more

The Path through the Trees

By: Christopher Milne

Narrated by: Peter Dennis

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“In my first book, The Enchanted Places,” Christopher Milne writes in his preface, “I was writing about my childhood, saying what I needed to say about Pooh and Christopher Robin. The present book is in a way a sequel, starting where the other left off. But, rather more than that, it is a complement, it is about the non-Pooh part of my life. It... Read more

Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but... Read more

Sleeping with the Enemy

By: Hal Vaughan

Narrated by: Susan Denaker & Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André Malraux

Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.

She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair.... Read more

Waiting for Snow in Havana

By: Carlos M. N. Eire

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other—but with certain differences. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact.



Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different... Read more

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By: Robert K. Massie

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A “masterful” (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great

“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

In July 1991, nine skeletons were... Read more

Ghost in the Wires

By: Kevin Mitnick

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country’s most powerful—and seemingly impenetrable—agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could.The suspenseful heart of the book... Read more

Auf entlegenen Posten

By: Roger Willemsen

Narrated by: Roger Willemsen

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Auf entlegenen Posten - Das Eine ist es, ein Buch öffentlich vorzulesen, gewissermaßen am Bettrand des Publikums sitzend. Dies ist eine nostalgische Tätigkeit, bei der man aber dem Text treu bleibt und die Arbeit des Schreibens nicht verrät. Das Andere ist es, ein Buch öffentlich zu erzählen. Dies ist ein suggestiver Vorgang, bei dem über der... Read more

Skyjack

By: Geoffrey Gray

Narrated by: Geoffrey Gray

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper’s 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century, by an author featured in D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, now streaming on Netflix

“Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh—a delectable adventure.”—Gay Talese

“I have a bomb here... Read more