Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Sex on the Moon

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Casey Affleck

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.
 
Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with... Read more

Inside Scientology

By: Janet Reitman

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest-growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World... Read more

A Big Little Life - Abridged

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Dean Koontz

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Si c'était à refaire - Abridged

By: Danielle Ouimet

Narrated by: Danielle Ouimet

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La vie de Danielle Ouimet a été tissée de coups de colère et de cris de révolte, de tendres amitiés et de passions amoureuses. Dans Si c'était à refaire..., elle raconte ses excès et ses fureurs, ses réussites et ses échecs, ses amours et ses passions. Read more

Dilema

By: Albert Cutie

Narrated by: Jorge Pupo

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Era un sacerdote catolico cuya relacion amorosa se convirtio en noticia de primera pagina. Ahora, cuenta su explosiva historia-en sus propias palabras . En este libro personal y altamente controversial, el Padre Alberto Cutie habla de la devastadora lucha entre las promesas que habia hecho como sacerdote y el amor por una mujer. Cutie, que ya... Read more

Clinging to the Wreckage

By: John Mortimer

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Creator of the mysteries starring the beloved English barrister, Horace Rumpole, John Mortimer paints a spirited portrait of his own colorful life in his quirky autobiography, Clinging to the Wreckage. With wit and style, he takes you from his austere childhood in a 1930s British boarding school to his successful dual career in law and writing... Read more

Geldof In Africa

By: Bob Geldof

Narrated by: Bob Geldof

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa.

Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. This is his personal diary. Unflinchingly honest, and stunningly illustrated with his own photographs, Geldof... Read more

All In

By: Gene Chizik

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

At 5–19, the odds against Gene Chizik leading Auburn to a national championship were staggering. But the odds were about to change. All In chronicles the remarkable journey of Gene Chizik, who in two short years went from being the much-maligned 5–19 coach of the Iowa State Cyclones to the undefeated AP SEC Coach of the Year of the 2010 national... Read more

Stoning of Sally Kern

By: Sally Kern

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about Sally Kern, District 84 House of Representatives member from Oklahoma, and her desire to see America return to the conservative principles that guided the nation's founders. In January 2008, the pastor's wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in Oklahoma City explaining that the founding fathers... Read more

Gifted Hands

By: Ben Carson, M.D. & Cecil Murphey

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more

How to Live

By: Sarah Bakewell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual. A nobleman, public official, and winegrower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them essays, meaning “attempts” or “tries.” He put... Read more

Portrait of a Monster

By: Lisa Pulitzer & Cole Thompson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. A 22-year-old Dutchman, Joran van der Sloot, was arrested in connection with the murder, only to be released after questioning. He admitted to being present for Holloway's death - but later recanted his statement. In 2010, on the five-year anniversary of Holloway's... Read more

Nothing Daunted

By: Dorothy Wickenden

Narrated by: Margaret Nichols & Dorothy Wickenden

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.

In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their... Read more

Gypsy Boy on the Run

By: Mikey Walsh

Narrated by: Mikey Walsh

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to finally belong. But Mikey quickly discovers that life in the... Read more

Against the Tide

By: Angus Kinnear & Raymond Todd

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The engrossing, moving biography of one of China's better-known Christians, the dedicated evangelist and gifted Bible teacher Watchman Nee. Read more

Money Makes Me Crazy!

By: Ted McLyman

Narrated by: Brandon Batchelar

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Apexx Behavioral Solutions CEO Ted McLyman presents a compelling story about how behavior drives money decisions and that the common wisdom about personal finance is wrong. Building on over thirty-five years of experience as a leader, educator, financial advisor and business owner McLyman offers a refreshing new approach to money management.... Read more

Cod

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Mark Kurlansky pleasantly surprised the world with this engaging best-seller that garnered rave reviews from critics and casual readers alike. His subject for this whimsical biography is the codfish, a species remarkable for its influence on humanity. Cod, Kurlansky argues, has driven economic, political, cultural and military thinking... Read more

A Tiger's Wedding

By: Isla Blair

Narrated by: Isla Blair

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The actress Isla Blair’s extraordinary, moving and uplifting story of her childhood in India and her separation from her parents.
Born in Bangalore India, during the fading days of the Raj, Isla grew up on a tea plantation managed by her father. She spent her early years in the lush, verdant hills of Kerala with her much loved older sister... Read more

Zero to Breakthrough

By: Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Before she was thirty years old, Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour had become a decorated naval aviator, Camp Pendleton's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year and Strongest Warrior winner, the first female African-American on Nashville's motorcycle police squad, and a member of the San Diego Sunfire professional women's football team. She's a force to be... Read more

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Jacobs

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave... Read more

I Am Not Myself These Days

By: Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly—a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a... Read more

I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl

By: Kelle Groom

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of fifteen, Kelle Groom found that alcohol allowed her to connect with people and explore intimacy in ways she'd never been able to experience before. She began drinking before class, often blacked out at bars, and fell into destructive relationships. At nineteen, already an out-of-control alcoholic, she was pregnant. Accepting the... Read more

First They Killed My Father

By: Loung Ung

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for... Read more

Wolf at the Door

By: Christine Warren

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sullivan Quinn didn't travel 3,000 miles from his native Ireland and his wolf pack just to chase rabidly after the most delectable quarry he's ever seen. Quinn is in America on a mission—to warn his Other brethren of a shadowy group willing to use murder and mayhem to bring them down. But one whiff of this Foxwoman's delicious honeysuckle... Read more