Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Sex, Mom, and God

By: Frank Schaeffer

Narrated by: Frank Schaeffer

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mom was a much nicer person than her God. There are many biblical regulations about everything from beard-trimming to menstruating. Mom worked diligently to recast her personal-hygiene-obsessed God in the best light.”

Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and... Read more

Down from Troy

By: Richard Selzer

Narrated by: Sam Gray

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Richard Selzer, the writer and surgeon whose best-selling works have enthralled millions of literary critics and discriminating readers, returns to his boyhood in 1930s Troy, New York in this powerful memoir of medicine, dreams, and death. Down from Troy evokes the distinct character of Depression-era Troy-the sooty streets, horse-drawn... Read more

Ser o no ser, !Esa es la jodienda!

By: Paquito D'Rivera

Narrated by: Paquito D'Rivera

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hijo de una encantadora modista de Santiago de Cuba y un habanerisimo padre musico que desde nino le inculco el amor a las artes y la pasion por la lectura. Paquito D'Rivera nacio en Marianao, La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948. De temperamento inquieto y caracter humoristico, el eclectico saxofonista, clarinetista, compositor y escritor, en 1067... Read more

Not Afraid of Life

By: Bristol Palin

Narrated by: Bristol Palin

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this personal memoir, Bristol Palin opens up for the first time ever, taking readers behind the scenes in her life, from growing up in Alaska to coming of age amid the media and political frenzy surrounding her mother’s political rise; from becoming a single mother while still a teenager to coping as her relationship with the baby’s father... Read more

It’s Not Me, It’s You! - Abridged

By: Jon Richardson

Narrated by: Jon Richardson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it’s one of a thousand things I miss about having someone around to take care of me. I have spent my entire adult life getting things... Read more

Behind the Palace Doors

By: Michael Farquhar

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been many things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificed everything for love, while others met a cruel fate at the edge of an axman's blade.



Behind the Palace Doors features stories covering every monarch,... Read more

We Thought You Would be Prettier

By: Laurie Notaro

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

She thought she'd have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years yet. But no—it's happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe "I'm going to kick his hair's ass" to the hapless Sears customer service rep on the receiving end... Read more

An Empire of Ice

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others... Read more

The Bucolic Plague

By: Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A happy series of accidents and a doughnut-laden escape upstate take Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his partner, Brent Ridge, to the doorstep of the magnificent (and fabulously for sale) Beekman Mansion. And so begins their transformation from uptight urbanites into the two-hundred-year-old-mansion-owning Beekman Boys. Suddenly Josh—a full-time New... Read more

The House in France

By: Gully Wells

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughter’s wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather—Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher—and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything.Gully Wells takes us into the... Read more

Holler If You Hear Me

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist. More than seventy-five million of his albums have sold worldwide, making him one of the bestselling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.Shakur also gained notoriety for his conflicts with the law... Read more

"There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me

By: Marie-Francoise Colombani & Eva Gabrielsson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story better than he can, and that is his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book.



The keys to the "Stieg Larsson phenomenon" all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. No one knew him like Gabrielsson. Here, she tells the story of their 30-year romance; of Stieg's lifelong struggle to... Read more

Berlin Diary

By: William L. Shirer

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent.CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940... Read more

Hannibal

By: Theodore Ayrault Dodge

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannibal is often considered the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train. Descending into Italy, he destroyed the main Roman army at Lake Trasimeno and came close to... Read more

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

By: Bob Lutz

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again. He launched a war against penny pinching, office politics, turf wars, and risk avoidance. After declaring bankruptcy during the recession of 2008, GM is back on track thanks to its embrace of Lutz's philosophy.



When Lutz got... Read more

See a Little Light

By: Bob Mould

Narrated by: Bob Mould

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited, full-force autobiography of American punk music hero, Bob Mould.

Bob Mould stormed into America's punk rock scene in 1979, when clubs across the country were filling with kids dressed in black leather and torn denim, packing in to see bands like the Ramones, Black Flag, and the Dead Kennedys. Hardcore punk was a riot of... Read more

Travels with Charley in Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Gary Sinise

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
 
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley,... Read more

Raspoutine

By: Alain Grumbach

Narrated by: Alain Grumbach

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Personnage mystique et dépravé, favori de la cour de Nicolas II, il joua un rôle politique influent dans les dix dernières années de la Russie tsariste. Né en Sibérie dans une famille de paysans, le jeune Grigori Iefimovitch adhéra à la secte chrétienne Khlysty (les "flagellants") et tira profit de ses voyages à l'Est, notamment au mont Athos en... Read more

Breaking Night

By: Liz Murray

Narrated by: Liz Murray

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and... Read more

Sarah Bernhardt

By: Alain Grumbach

Narrated by: Alain Grumbach

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Née en 1844, décédée en 1923, Sarah Bernhardt est considérée par beaucoup comme la plus grande tragédienne du XIXème siècle. Alain Grumbach retrace avec vivacité le parcours extraordinaire de cette femme que Victor Hugo surnommait "La voix d'or". Read more

The Honored Dead

By: Joseph Braude

Narrated by: Benson Simmonds

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete. The seeds of revolution, radicalism, and—possibly—reform are buried in the individual stories of millions... Read more

The Commitment

By: Dan Savage

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Savage—outspoken author of the column Savage Love—makes it personal.Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son, D.J., says his two... Read more

Nerd Do Well - Abridged

By: Simon Pegg

Narrated by: Simon Pegg

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged, 5 hoursRead by the authorThe unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, the star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek the movie. Read more

The Kennedys

By: Peter Collier & David Horowitz

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are the Kennedys? Are they the brilliant, heroic, extraordinary people their admirers believe them to be? Or are they arrogant, competitive, self-absorbed children of a willful and immensely rich patriarch, as their detractors claim? In fact, they are all of these things and more.Years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews with... Read more