Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Evel

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon—and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel.

Evel Knievel was a high-flying daredevil, the father of extreme sports, the... Read more

Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Reaper

By: Christopher Crennen

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

McCormick (1809-1884) demonstrated a workable reaper in 1831 and spent the rest of his life improving the reaper, and expanding the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company with sales across the United States and around the world. McCormick's reapers had profound effects on the alleviation of U.S. and world hunger.aspenleafmedia.com Read more

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

By: John D. Rockefeller

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) founded the Standard Oil Company, revolutionized the oil business and, after adjusting for inflation, may have been the richest person in world history. Rockefeller's business practices were fiercely condemned, but he and Standard Oil had a policy of not responding to the attacks of critics. Random Reminiscences... Read more

A Bittersweet Season

By: Jane Gross

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents.

Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience—a widowed mother with mounting health problems, the attendant... Read more

Un Amico Italiano

By: Luca Spaghetti

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert

When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no idea how his life was about to change. She embraced his Roman... Read more

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By: Rob Lowe

Narrated by: Rob Lowe

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor Rob Lowe's memoir presents a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.

A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child... Read more

Teheran im Bauch - Wie meines Vaters Land mich fand (Ungekürzt)

By: Mathias Kopetzki

Narrated by: Mathias Kopetzki

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Berliner Schauspieler Mathias Kopetzki, aufgewachsen bei deutschen Adoptiveltern, entschließt sich mit über dreißig Jahren, nach Teheran zu reisen, um seinen leiblichen Vater und dessen streng muslimische Großfamilie kennenzulernen. Durch deren leidvolle Vergangenheit auch mit der eigenen konfrontiert, erlebt er den islamischen Gottesstaat... Read more

The Souvenir

By: Louise Steinman

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Louise Steinman has published essays and articles in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Salon. She has also led writing workshops and curates literacy programs. The Souvenir, a powerful, best-selling book, was a featured selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and others. Growing up, Louise Steinman never... Read more

Lovesick Blues

By: Paul Hemphill

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A sickly and awkward boy who turned into a country music legend, Hiram Williams had reinvented himself as Hank Williams and taken to alcohol by the age of 14. He was dead by the age of 29. Here, Paul Hemphill recounts the tortured life and whirlwind career of the hillbilly Shakespeare as only a fellow Southerner can. " . this is the finest work... Read more

A Rage for Glory

By: James Tertius De Kay

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author James Tertius de Kay recounts the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero in almost 70 years. De Kay draws on material unavailable to previous biographers to explore Decatur's extraordinary life. From his burning of the Philadelphia to his capture of the HMS Macedonian, Decatur... Read more

Redneck Riviera

By: Dennis Covington

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Southern author Dennis Covington was a National Book Award finalist. Redneck Riviera is the true story of Covington's bizarre encounters with a lawless band of gun-toting swamp-dwellers in Central Florida who've illegally claimed the two-and-a-half acres of land he inherited from his father. Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Lord Charnwood

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly ninety years, Lord Charnwood’s Abraham Lincoln has been the standard life history of the Great Emancipator. It has become one of the great classics of modern biography and has been read by millions.Charnwood describes the frontier life and continual self-education that developed Lincoln’s rare character and helped him to adapt to... Read more

Combat: The Civil War

By: Don Congdon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 29 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for.There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of... Read more

The Anti-Romantic Child

By: Priscilla Gilman

Narrated by: Priscilla Gilman

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“TheAnti-Romantic Child is remarkable. This haunting and lyrical memoir will bean invaluable and heartening guide to all who find themselves in similarsituations and indeed anyone confronting an unforeseen challenge.” —MarieBrenner, writer for Vanity Fair andauthor of Apples and Oranges
 
With an emotionally resonant combination of memoirand... Read more

Leaving Church

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail….I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” —Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words

“This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than LaMott and a better theologian than Norris. In a word, she is the... Read more

Idea Man

By: Paul Allen

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.

In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and... Read more

Ice

By: Ice-T & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Sister Souljah's No Disrespect, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Monster by Sanyika Shakur comes the definitive memoir from Ice-T, the acclaimed rapper and actor known for telling it like it is.He's a hip-hop icon credited with single-handedly creating gangsta rap. Television viewers know... Read more

Inside Delta Force

By: Eric L. Haney

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the hit television series The UnitDelta Force. They are the US Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside—until now. Here, a founding member of Delta... Read more

Captains of Industry

By: Paul Allen

Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, talks about his memoir, "Idea Man." Read more

Rosa Parks

By: Mary Hull

Narrated by: Darla Middlebrook

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks took a stand by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her defiance against an unjust system triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped spark the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Parks demonstrated the effectiveness of unified peaceful protests, and throughout her life she... Read more

Righteous Indignation

By: Andrew Breitbart

Narrated by: Jeremy Guskin

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent." -- Rush Limbaugh

Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to make sure the "liberally biased" major news outlets in this country cover all aspects of a story fairly. Breitbart is convinced that too many national stories... Read more

The Forgotten Founding Father

By: Joshua Kendall

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

America's own The Professor and the Madman: the story of Noah Webster, author of the first dictionary of American English-and a forgotten leader during a turning point in our nation's history.

Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but although there is much more to his story than that singular achievement, his... Read more

Two Kisses for Maddy

By: Matthew Logelin

Narrated by: Matthew Logelin

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife.

Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous... Read more

The Wilder Life

By: Wendy McClure

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder—a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places McClure has never been to yet somehow knows by heart. She traces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family—looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum... Read more