Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Heart Earth

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig had only a vague memory of his mother until he discovered a cache of her letters. They revealed a passionate, can-do woman who loved the lilting rhythm of words. A moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig's Heart Earth highlights his childhood before his mother's death and eloquently... Read more

Screw It, Let's Do It

By: Sir Richard Branson

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Branson is an iconic businessman. In Screw It, Let's Do It, he shares the secrets of his success and the invaluable lessons he has learned over the course of his remarkable career. As the world struggles with the twin problems of global recession and climate change, Richard explains why it is up to big companies like Virgin to lead the... Read more

Knowing Jesse

By: Marianne Leone

Narrated by: Marianne Leone

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse's mother, Marianne Leone, chronicles her... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mississippi River, known as “America’s river,” and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain’s steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century.A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life... Read more

Hillary Rodham Clinton

By: Dennis Abrams

Narrated by: Beth Richmond

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hillary Rodham Clinton is an informative introduction to the life of this remarkable woman. The former first lady and Yale Law graduate was destined for political life. She brought her intelligence and drive to numerous projects during her husband's presidency in the 1990s. In 2000, she campaigned for the U.S. Senate as a representative from New... Read more

Fidel y Raul, mis hermanos, la historia secreta

By: Juanita Castro

Narrated by: Tatiana Vecino

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro relata la vida de una familia y unos acontecimientos que cambiaron para siempre la historia de America Latina. Como nadie mas podia hacerlo, Juanita nos adentra en el mundo familiar de los Castro, desde su infancia y juventud hasta las nuevas generaciones, pasando por la gesta contra Batista, la Revolucion y el posterior desencanto de... Read more

Reading Jackie

By: William Kuhn

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie mines... Read more

Young Mandela

By: David James Smith

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nelson Mandela is well known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world’s elder statesman—the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent twenty-seven years in prison before becoming the first black president of South Africa.But Nelson Mandela was not always... Read more

King of Capital

By: David Carey & John E. Morris

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone, and a financial revolution, King of Capital is the greatest untold success story on Wall Street.



In King of Capital, David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and "barbarians at the gate" into... Read more

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Anthony

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, wrote: "Papa…doesn't like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he couldn't bear to hear any one talk but himself, but that he could listen to himself talk for hours without getting tired, of course he said this in joke, but I've no dought [sic] it was founded... Read more

Two Years before the Mast

By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to... Read more

Tramp for the Lord

By: Corrie ten Boom & Jamie Buckingham

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hiding Jewish refugees during WWII landed Corrie ten Boom in a German concentration camp. Released after ten months, she tramped the world with a burning desire to tell others that Jesus is a reality, that He lives, that He is victor. Join Corrie on a world-wide trip that could only have been planned by God. Read more

Amazing Love

By: Corrie ten Boom

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Corrie ten Booms amazing personal courage and her ability to share the reality of Jesus Christ have made her writings continually popular, and the Corrie ten Boom Library has become a source of inspiration for thousands of readers. Now with two new additions to the library, readers will continue to enjoy this beloved authors words of wisdom.... Read more

Hope Unseen

By: Scotty Smiley

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Blindness became Captain Scotty Smiley's journey of supreme testing. As he lay helpless in the hospital, he resented the theft of his dreams, but with his wife's love and the support of family and friends, Scotty's response became God's transforming moment. Since the moment he forced his way through nurses and cords to take a simple shower, he... Read more

Weaving Dreams

By: Tami Longaberger

Narrated by: Mary Kae Irvin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Tami Longaberger, CEO of The Longaberger Company, offers readers a glimpse of her unique 'American Dream.' Whether sharing memories of her impoverished childhood in Appalachia or accounts of reaching out to business women of the Middle East, Longaberger evokes a balanced nostalgia for the sweetness of the past comingled with a passionate call... Read more

Almost a Celebrity

By: James Whale

Narrated by: James Whale

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget the wannabes. Discount the twenty-something reality-TV stars. Here, for a change, is the story of someone who's actually lived a life... and it makes for one hell of a listen.

'Almost a Celebrity' is the no-holds-barred autobiography of radio megastar James Whale, a man who, for over thirty years, has never been afraid to say the... Read more

Robert Enke - Ein allzu kurzes Leben

By: Ronald Reng

Narrated by: Matthias Brandt

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Robert Enke am 10. November 2009 starb, berührte sein Schicksal Deutschland weit über die Welt des Fußballs hinaus. Denn an seinem Leben hatte die Öffentlichkeit in ganz besonderer Weise Anteil genommen: Nur wenige Monate vor seinem Selbstmord war er nach dem Tod seiner ersten Tochter zum zweiten Mal Vater geworden. Acht Monate später hätte... Read more

Dear Mr Bigelow

By: Frances Woodsford

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting selection of weekly 'pen-pal' letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Pier Approach Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower, living on Long Island, New York. Frances Woodsford and Commodore Paul Bigelow never met, and there was no romance - she was in her forties... Read more

The Next Big Story

By: Rose Arce & Soledad O'Brien

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Story is our medium. It's how we connect emotionally with our viewers. And it's how we make sense of our world....When we talk about a 'big story,' we're really talking about what resonates with people, what matters to them.... And I think when it comes to our national narrative, what we need to realize is that we're all contributing to the... Read more

Wait for Me!

By: Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the... Read more

Colonel Roosevelt

By: Edmund Morris

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 24 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post

This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book... Read more

Humorists

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history. Now, Johnson turns his impressive intellect and piercing... Read more

Kardashian Konfidential - Abridged

By: Kim, Khloe, Kourtney Kardashian

Narrated by: Kim, Kourtney, Khloe Kardashian

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Confessions of life as a Kardashian sister—stuffed with family stories, advice, beauty tips and exclusive gorgeous full color photos, personal snapshots and the inside scoop on their life growing up into the gorgeous Dash Dolls The stars of not one but two #1 reality television shows, and frequent cover girls on all the weekly celebrity... Read more

Pirates of Barbary

By: Adrian Tinniswood

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone—if not for today's frightening headlines of robbery and kidnapping on the high seas. Pirates have existed since the invention of commerce itself, but they reached the zenith of their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the... Read more