Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Kennedy Detail

By: Gerald Blaine & Lisa McCubbin

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Even today, almost five decades after John F. Kennedy was slain, the public continues to be captivated by the "Kennedy Curse" and new theories about what really happened on that fateful day in 1963. For nearly fifty years former Secret Service agent Clint Hill has lived with the unimaginable guilt of losing a president on his watch and has... Read more

Seabiscuit

By: Laura Hillenbrand

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more

Revival

By: Richard Wolffe

Narrated by: Richard Wolffe

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success. Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior aides engaged in a desperate struggle for... Read more

Hero - Abridged

By: Michael Korda

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Michael Korda, author of the New York Times bestselling Eisenhower biography Ike and the captivating Battle of Britain book With Wings Like Eagles, comes the critically-acclaimed definitive biography of T. E. Lawrence—the legendary British soldier, strategist, scholar, and adventurer whose exploits as “Lawrence of Arabia” created a legacy... Read more

Mother Teresa

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek

Narrated by: Julie Williams

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mother Teresa is an informative introduction to the famous Catholic nun. Mother Teresa is one of the most admired Nobel laureates of all time. Born in Eastern Europe of Albanian parents, she became a Catholic missionary nun in India when she was still a teenager. After teaching in a convent school in Calcutta for nearly two decades, in 1946 she... Read more

Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down - Abridged

By: Jo Brand

Narrated by: Jo Brand

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...

Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs, Jo recounts wild times on the comedy circuit, the attempts to tart her... Read more

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 29 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from... Read more

Brute

By: Robert Coram

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

From the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and... Read more

Talk Show

By: Dick Cavett

Narrated by: Dick Cavett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The legendary talk show host's humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known, and culture and politics today For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great... Read more

Decision Points

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

Decision Points - Abridged

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

King Ichan

By: Mark Stevens

Narrated by: Mark Stevens

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m like the gunfighter you hire to save the town. That gunfighter is there to do good…but he’ll only do what he does if he knows he’ll get paid for it.” – Carl Icahn

In this dramatic, deal-by-deal portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, bestselling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes of some of... Read more

Holy Ghosts

By: Gary Jansen

Narrated by: Gary Jansen

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town’s past.

Growing up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother—a devoutly... Read more

What We Have

By: Amy Boesky

Narrated by: Elizabeth London

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. All of the women in her family had died before the age of forty-five—from cancer—and she and... Read more

Sonia Sotomayor

By: Mario Szichman

Narrated by: Denisse Oller

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Sonia Sotomayor es la primera mujer de origen hispano que se convierte en la III juez de la Corte Suprema. Su origen Puertorriqueno y su gran capacidad para los estudios, en universidades como Yale, la catapultaron a tan importante puesto. En este libro, los editores de El diario la prensa y La opinion ofrecen una de las mas importantes... Read more

Learning to Die in Miami

By: Carlos M. N. Eire

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962—a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born.



In this enchanting new work, narrated in... Read more

Combat Swimmer

By: Robert A. Gormly

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The US Navy SEALs created a legend that would grow throughout the Vietnam War, earning an enemy bounty to anyone who could capture or kill one. As leader of the SEALs, Captain Robert A. Gormly tells his amazing story, taking us into some of the most hair-raising missions ever assigned.After a career including two tours of duty in Vietnam as well... Read more

Louisa May Alcott

By: Susan Cheever

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Apart from her bestselling Home Before Dark, a biography of her father, John Cheever, and My Name Is Bill, her penetrating portrait of the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Susan Cheever's most recent and major success, American Bloomsbury, was a hugely popular nonfiction narrative of the writers and artists (including Emerson, Thoreau, and the... Read more

They Call Me Baba Booey

By: Gary Dell'Abate & Chad Millman

Narrated by: Gary Dell'Abate

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on... Read more

Yo

By: Ricky Martin

Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

El artista Ricky Martin quien ha vendido mas de 60 millones de albumes en todo el mundo habla por primera vez sobre su infancia, sus comienzos musicales en el grupo Menudo, su busqueda de identidad durante el fenomeno de "Livin La Vida Loca", la aceptacion de su sexualidad, las relaciones en las que descubrio el amor y las decisiones que... Read more

Me

By: Ricky Martin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling memoir-now available as an enhanced paperback edition with a new Introduction and never-before- seen photos! In this New York Times bestseller, international superstar Ricky Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, opens up for the first time about memories of his early childhood, experiences... Read more

What a Difference a Dog Makes

By: Dana Jennings

Narrated by: Dana Jennings

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for every dog lover—a short, tender, and uplifting tale of a cancer survivor and the life lessons shared with him by his beloved family dog.

Our dogs come into our lives as “just the family pet,” but before we know it they become drinking buddies and fuzzy shrinks, playmates and Cheerios-munching vacuum cleaners, alarm clocks and... Read more

My Reading Life

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Pat Conroy

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.

Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading has been Conroy’s portal to the world, both to the farthest... Read more

Frank

By: James Kaplan

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 22 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs.

Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti­eth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori­ous in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. As Bob... Read more