Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Prime Time

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for... Read more

Benjamin Franklin Wealth and Wisdom

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Kent Mackamy

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Two classics of the American spirit together on audio for the first time!
The Way to Wealth, originally a preface to the 1758 edition of Franklin's beloved Poor Richard's Almanack, presents a brief fable of a local wise man, Father Abraham, quoting Poor Richard to an eager crowd. In this inspiring tale, Franklin steps out of the past and shares... Read more

Bedpans And Bobby Socks

By: Barbara Fox

Narrated by: Emma Tate

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'

Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend and fellow nurse Pat in tow, she left the dismal British winter behind, and embarked on an... Read more

Angel in the Rubble

By: Genelle Guzman-McMillan

Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after twenty-seven hours and her journey from desperation to a miraculous salvation.

In this moving true story, Genelle Guzman-McMillan reveals her harrowing experience trapped inside the collapsed Tower One on 9/11. Buried beneath concrete and steel for over a day,... Read more

For the Love of Physics

By: Warren Goldstein & Walter Lewin

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"You have changed my life" is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. "I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes," wrote one such fan. When Lewin's lectures were made available online,... Read more

Raising a Soul Surfer

By: Cheri Hamilton & Rick Bundschuh

Narrated by: Pam Turlow

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A shark attack is no match for God's plan and providence. When 13-year-old surfer Bethany Hamilton lost her arm in a shark attack, the media spotlight turned her quiet life upside down. Many wondered how this rising star would find the inner strength to press on and realize her pro surfing ambitions. Would she be able to adapt her surfing style... Read more

Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Michael Kumpfmüller

Narrated by: Christian Brückner

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Kafkas letzte Liebe Auf der Basis von Briefen und Biographien erzählt Michael Kumpfmüller eine Liebesgeschichte, die den Leser anrührt und ergreift und die aus dem fernen Dichter Franz Kafka, den Menschen Franz macht, der leben möchte und lieben und dem langsam sogar das Schreiben entgleitet im langen, langen Kampf um eine Liebe, die ihm vorher... Read more

Not Of This World

By: Aurelio F. Barreto III

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young boy, Aurelio F. Barreto III fled communist Cuba with his family to search for the American Dream. But making his first million in his twenties only led the young inventor to realize he could not buy the kind of life he was searching for. Read what finally got Aurelio's attention, and how God used his lifes' failures and challenges in... Read more

A Year and Six Seconds

By: Isabel Gillies

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A Year and Six Seconds opens on the winter day Isabel Gillies arrives in Manhattan, two young sons in tow, after her husband has left her; she's moving back in with her parents until she can figure out what to do next.



In scene after sweet, hilarious scene, Gillies exposes her attempts to feel strong and lovable and to cross items off a... Read more

Riding in Cars With Boys

By: Beverly Donofrio

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Unable to attend college, Beverly lost interest in everything but riding around in cars, drinking, smoking and rebelling against authority.After her teenage marriage failed, Bev found herself at an elite New England university, books in one arm, child on the other. Then, furnished with ambition, dreams and $500, she took herself and her son to... Read more

The Ledge

By: Jim Davidson & Kevin Vaughan

Narrated by: Jim Davidson

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy. On their descent, Jim Davidson fell through an ice bridge on Rainier's northeast flank, plunging eighty feet into a narrow crevasse inside the Emmons Glacier and dragging Mike Price in after him. Mike fell to... Read more

It Looked Different on the Model

By: Laurie Notaro

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone's favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it's in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal bind or in her neighborhood after she's shamefully exposed at a holiday party by delivering a low-quality rendition of "Jingle Bells." Notaro makes misstep after... Read more

I Wonder as I Wander

By: Langston Hughes & Arnold Rampersad

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.

His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur... Read more

The Big Sea

By: Langston Hughes & Arnold Rampersad

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the... Read more

The Long Journey Home

By: Margaret Robison

Narrated by: Debra Monk

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The mother of best-selling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, Margaret Robison offers her own version of the events so famously chronicled in her sons' much-talked about works. From one view, Margaret and her husband John's life together began with a sheen of normality: he a successful academic and she an artist, poet, and... Read more

The Life of St. Augustine

By: F. W. Farrar DD, FRS

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

St. Augustine was the greatest Western philosopher for 1,000 years and a dominant influence on the history of Christian theology. From his conversion in 386 to his death in 430, he remained a great teacher, church statesman, and polemical theologian. St. Thomas Aquinas was one of many scholars influenced by Augustine’s theories. Four hundred of... Read more

My Life, My Way

By: Cliff Richard

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Cliff Richard OBE is the biggest-selling artist of all time, selling over 250 million records around the world since he burst onto the music scene in 1958. But how has he kept his appeal all these years? In a world fuelled by drink, sex and drugs, he is perennially attractive without any of those things that keep other singers' profiles... Read more

Foster Kid

By: Paul Barber

Narrated by: Paul Barber

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After the death of his mother, Paul and his brothers and sister spent the rest of their childhoods in a succession of children's and foster homes where they found themselves at the mercy of adults more interested in their own welfare than providing a loving home.

Paul left care at the age of sixteen, and three years later landed his first... Read more

Mister Undercover - Abridged

By: Alex Caine

Narrated by: Matthias Christian Rehrl

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über 25 Jahre lang schleuste sich Alex Caine als Informant in kriminelle Gangs ein. Er gab sich als Biker, Fotograf oder Eventveranstalter aus, wurde Mitglied bei den Bandidos, infiltrierte die Hells Angels, legte russischen Mafiosi und einer asiatischen Dealerbande das Handwerk. Für jeden Auftrag zog er um, wechselte seine Identität, manchmal... Read more

Fire and Rain

By: David Browne

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter who's just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their... Read more

Finding Everett Ruess

By: David Roberts

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.

“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a... Read more

My Dog Tulip

By: J. R. Ackerley

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought himself a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd named Tulip. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the "ideal friend" he had been seeking in vain for years.My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of... Read more

Rompiendo El Silencio

By: Andrea Cheer, Melissa Diaz, Maria Castilla, Jul...

Narrated by: Irma Bello

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

oNo hay escritoras jovenes en Colombia? oSolo tenemos muchas y buenas poetas? Las preguntas vienen al caso porque en las antologias de relatos ellas no aparecen y escasean las novelas de mujeres menores de 40 anos. Sin embargo, pensamos que aqui, como en muchas partes, tenia que haber jovenes narradoras. Las buscamos durante meses, las... Read more

A Spectacle of Dust

By: Pete Postlethwaite

Narrated by: Philip Jackson

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After routine early appearances in small parts for television programmes such as THE PROFESSIONALS, Postlethwaite's first success came with the... Read more