Biography & Memoir audiobooks

J. D. Salinger

By: Kenneth Slawenski

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in the Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently researched"—a book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges." Filled with new information and... Read more

South

By: Sir Ernest Shackleton

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most... Read more

Symposium, the Apology, and the Allegory of the Cave

By: Plato

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together three of Plato's most enduring classics: the Symposium, the Apology, and the famous "Allegory of the Cave" from the Republic.



The Symposium, a dialogue on the nature and purpose of love centered around the ideals of beauty and goodness, is arguably the deepest inquiry of its kind in Western philosophy. The Apology,... Read more

All My Life

By: Susan Lucci

Narrated by: Susan Lucci

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous face in daytime drama history, Susan Lucci has held audiences spellbound for years as Erica Kane on ABC-TV’s All My Children—the sexy, sassy, beautiful “woman you love to hate.” Now, in this long awaited autobiography, she holds readers captive as the feisty, funny, authentic “woman you love to love.” In the tradition of Julie... Read more

Great Soul

By: Joseph Lelyveld

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the... Read more

A Passion for Life

By: Donald Spoto

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in England to socially ambitious parents, Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violet-eyed beauty of postwar America. Along the way, without training or counsel, she became an award-winning actress, dazzling audiences everywhere with spectacular performances.Spoto explores the gripping story of... Read more

Wild Bill Donovan

By: Douglas Waller

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan... Read more

The Making of a Royal Romance

By: Katie Nicholl

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

William and Harry was an overnight sensation when it was published a week before Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement announcement in November 2010. Now the author, a royal insider and the royal correspondent for the Daily Mail, has updated and added crucial material that completes the story of the fairytale romance. In addition to... Read more

Life, on the Line

By: Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by... Read more

Road to the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad,
Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This audiobook is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal... Read more

Lady Di

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Frances Spencer se convirtió en la princesa Diana al esposarse con el príncipe Carlos de Gales. Conocida internacionalmente como Lady Di. Durante su matrimonio con el príncipe Carlos de Gales, heredero de la Corona Británica, tuvo dos hijos, los príncipes Guillermo y Enrique. Su polémica y fatídica muerte, acaecida el 31 de agosto de 1997... Read more

Juan Pablo II

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Karol Józef Wojtyła1 , más conocido como Juan Pablo II, fue el 264.º papa de la Iglesia católica entre 1978 y 2005. Juan Pablo II ha sido aclamado como uno de los líderes más influyentes del siglo XX, recordándoselo especialmente por ser uno de los principales símbolos del anticomunismo y por su lucha contra la expansión del marxismo por lugares... Read more

El Che Guevara

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernesto Guevara, más conocido como "Che" Guevara. Fue uno de los ideólogos y comandantes que lideraron la Revolución Cubana entre 1953 y 1959, que desembocó en un nuevo régimen político en ese país. Guevara participó desde entonces y hasta 1965 en la organización del Estado cubano desempeñando varios altos cargos de su administración y de su... Read more

Mahatma Gandhi

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi fue un abogado, pensador y político indio. Recibió de Tagore el nombre honorífico de Mahatma. Desde 1918 estuvo abiertamente al frente del movimiento nacionalista indio. Instauró métodos de lucha social novedosos como la huelga de hambre, y en sus programas rechazaba la lucha armada y predicaba la Áhimsa como medio... Read more

Nelson Mandela

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Conocido en su país como Madiba, es abogado y político, fue el primer presidente de Sudáfrica elegido democráticamente mediante sufragio universal así como el líder del Umkhonto we Sizwe, el brazo armado del Congreso Nacional Africano (CNA). Estuvo 27 años en la cárcel, la mayoría de los cuales estuvo confinado en la prisión de Robben Island.... Read more

La Madre Teresa

By: Mediatek

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Nacida bajo el nombre de Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , cambia su nombre a Teresa cuando decide dedicarse a Dios. Biografía dramatizada de una de las mujeres que por más de 45 años atendió a pobres, enfermos, huérfanos y moribundos, al mismo tiempo que guiaba la expansión de su congregación, primeramente en la India y luego en otros países del mundo. Read more

A Place of Yes

By: Bethenny Frankel

Narrated by: Bethenny Frankel

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The four-time New York Times bestselling author, reality TV star, and “Mommy Mogul” Bethenny Frankel takes us on an empowering journey in A Place of Yes.

Bethenny Frankel’s no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is personality won over countless fans, and made her a nationally bestselling author and the star of her own hit Bravo show Bethenny Getting... Read more

The Wisdom of Each Other

By: Eugene H. Peterson

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating example of friendship as a vital way God answers our need for guidance, encouragement, affirmation, and correction.Most of the time, what we need to help us through the struggles in our lives is not the advice of an expert but the wisdom of a friend. Through this series of eloquent letters written to a life-long friend, author... Read more

The Taliban Shuffle

By: Kim Barker

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.

From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the “dry” city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11... Read more

Quantum Man

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize–winning physicist (and curious character) Richard Feynman.Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a... Read more

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs

By: Patrick K. O’Donnell

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs is a superbly told story of the men and women of the OSS. They helped write the book on special operations. I was struck by the similarity of the context of their stories to ones I've experienced in different combat situations. This book is a must-read for those in the special operations business today and... Read more

Branch Rickey

By: Jimmy Breslin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio whose... Read more

And Party Every Day

By: Larry Harris

Narrated by: Larry Harris

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Now it can be told! The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980, the landscape of American culture was a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence, and no person or company in that era was more emblematic of... Read more

Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada

By: Bruce McCall

Narrated by: Bruce McCall

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this subversively funny memoir, the acclaimed New Yorker humorist and Canadian expat Bruce McCall tells what it was like to grow up in Simcoe, Toronto, and Windsor, Ontario, crammed into shabby and close quarters with a family that was dysfunctional before the word had even been invented. Bruce McCall’s father was an inaccessible tyrant. His... Read more