Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Simon Wiesenthal

By: Tom Segev

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.

Like most Jews in Eastern Europe... Read more

Bob Dylan In America

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: Sean Wilentz

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an... Read more

Even Silence Has an End

By: Ingrid Betancourt

Narrated by: Margaret Nichols

Length: 21 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Ingrid Bettancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Read more

Leonard Bernstein

By: Barry Seldes

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York... Read more

A Journey - Abridged

By: Tony Blair

Narrated by: Tony Blair

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour’s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years... Read more

JLS - Abridged

By: JLS

Narrated by: JLS

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a no.1 album selling over 1.5 million copies, three no. 1 singles, two Brit awards, two MOBO awards, a sell-out UK tour and a no. 1 bestselling book, it has been quite a year for JLS! Download the audiobook and hear their full story so far and discover what life is like as the UK's hottest boy band! In this, the first... Read more

Shattered

By: Frank Pastore & Ellen Vaughn

Narrated by: Frank Pastore

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Frank Pastore stepped onto the mound in Dodger Stadium to throw another fastball—something he’d done thousands of times since childhood. But this time was different. The batter connected and the ball came rocketing back to the mound, shattering not only Frank’s pitching elbow—but also his dream of getting “rich and... Read more

Remembering Spike Milligan

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Spike Milligan

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Comic icon Spike Milligan recollects highlights from his stellar career. The comic genius of Spike Milligan changed the face of radio comedy through 'The Goon Show'. Here Milligan chooses and introduces classic clips from his astonishing career: readings from his books 'Puckoon' and 'Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall', poems, songs,... Read more

Confessions of an Alien Hunter

By: Seth Shostak

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the first Martian “canals” were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated sky-gazers, night travelers, and television watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believe in extraterrestrials, and many are convinced they’ve visited Earth. A fair number of scientists also suspect that aliens exist, and for decades... Read more

Remembering Willie Rushton

By: Willie Rushton

Narrated by: Willie Rushton & Barry Cryer

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Career highlights from one of this country’s funniest satirists and comedy men. Willie Rushton’s career spanned decades, from the cutting edge satire of television’s 'That Was The Week That Was' to the razor-sharp punnery and verbal wizardry of Radio’s 'I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue'. Actor, writer, lyricist and veteran satirist, this is Rushton at... Read more

Summer at Tiffany

By: Marjorie Hart

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you remember the best summer of your life?New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first... Read more

The Enchanted Places

By: Christopher Milne

Narrated by: Peter Dennis

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Christopher Milne’s first autobiography, which was followed by Part 2—The Path through the Trees. From his much publicized childhood on Cotchford Farm to his war experiences, his marriage, and his proprietorship of a successful bookshop in a small English town, the life of the famous author’s son was one of much joy and some pain. It was... Read more

God and Football

By: Chad Gibbs

Narrated by: Chad Gibbs

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of 8, Chad Gibbs attended his first Southeastern Conference football game. Since then he has been in a constant battle to not let his love of all things pigskin consume him. As a Christian, Gibbs knows he cannot serve two masters, but at times his faith is overwhelmed by his fanaticism. He is not alone.In 2008 over six million... Read more

The Sugar King of Havana

By: John Paul Rathbone

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swaths of the... Read more

The Real Diana

By: Colin Campbell

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“When I met Diana at a mutual friend's house in 1990, I was astonished by her conduct … she was the antithesis of circumspect. Throwing caution and reserve to the wind, she said that she wanted me to write the truth about her life ‘because I feel as if the whole fairy tale is crushing whatever's left of the real me … If you’d just write about... Read more

The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

By: Thomas Fleming

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming offers a compelling, intimate look at the founders—George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison—and the women who played essential roles in their lives.From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel... Read more

Mustaine

By: Dave Mustaine & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Tom Wayland

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From his early, crazy days as a founding member of Metallica, Dave Mustaine has seen and experienced everything in the world of rock n’ roll. From his young triumphs and ignominious ouster from the band for his hard-partying ways to his later rule over Megadeth, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, Mustaine tells it all.... Read more

Through a Dog's Eyes

By: Jennifer Arnold

Narrated by: Jennifer Arnold

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
 
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special needs. Arnold has developed a... Read more

More Davids Than Goliaths

By: Harold Ford, Jr.

Narrated by: Harold Ford, Jr.

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his father’s Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and in... Read more

Composed

By: Rosanne Cash

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her... Read more

Let's Take the Long Way Home

By: Gail Caldwell

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In Let's Take the Long Way Home, Pulitzer Prize—winning author Gail Caldwell offers a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life and her extraordinary friendship with Caroline Knapp, the author of Drinking: A Love Story.



In her younger years, Caldwell defined herself by rebellion and independence, a passion for books, and an... Read more

Churchill's Empire

By: Richard Toye

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example exists than Churchill's resolve to stand alone against a more powerful Hitler in 1940 while the world's democracies fell to their... Read more

Fat Girl

By: Judith Moore

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"I am fat," begins Judith Moore's unflinching account of her life. As she describes her obsessions with food, struggles with self image and troubled relationships, she refuses to become an object of pity. Moore is the recipient of two NEA grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her previous book, also a memoir, was a New York Times Notable Book of... Read more

Forever Young

By: Robert Huber & William Sylvester Noonan

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the iconic image of a little boy saluting his father's casket to his tragic death at age thirty- eight, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was never far from the public eye. Now the friend who John was flying to see the night he died reveals the private man behind the public myth. Billy and John shared summers in Hyannisport and formed a bond in the... Read more