Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Coming Back Stronger

By: Drew Brees

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When a potentially career-ending shoulder injury left quarterback Drew Brees without a team—and facing the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over again—coaches around the NFL wondered, Will he ever come back? After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving more than 80 percent of the city underwater, many wondered,... Read more

Greatest Coach Ever

By: Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Coach John Wooden's teams won 10 NCAA mens basketball championships at UCLA and Sporting News magazine named him the greatest coach of all time. Yet decades after he retired and now after his passing, his wisdom capsulized so clearly in his famous Pyramid of Success continues to guide new generations of athletes, coaches, and people of all walks... Read more

This Is Not The Story You Think It Is...

By: Laura Munson

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura Munson's essay in the New York Times, about the time she was tested in a way she never anticipated, created a firestorm-now here's the whole story. When Laura Munson's essay was published, The New York Times was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the comment feature. Readers wrote in saying that they had sent the column... Read more

The Hearsts

By: William Randolph Hearst

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The founder of the largest US media empire, William Randolph Hearst, Sr. changed the face of American journalism forever. Hearst, Jr., with coauthor Casserly, tells the family’s story, from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. In a detailed, straight-forward, and earnest manner, the authors examine Hearst Sr.’s... Read more

Julius Caesar

By: J. F. C. Fuller

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has been idolized as a superman. While there is no doubt that Caesar was an extraordinary man, General Fuller points out that he was more extraordinary for his reckless ambition, matchless daring, and ruthless tyranny than for his skill as a military commander. Caesar continually had to extricate himself from... Read more

Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy," advises Benjamin Franklin, and he was a man who lived up to his own words. Franklin’s Autobiography, one of the most regarded works in early American literature, began as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but was soon transformed from reflective personal journaling into a work of... Read more

Must You Go?

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Multiple Narrators & Sandra D...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to the politician Hugh Fraser - but their union seemed inevitable from the moment they met: 'I would have found you somehow', Pinter told Fraser. Their... Read more

Lee

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrated by: Michael Anthony

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender at Appomattox. In fact, he lived only another five years, during which time he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South during the tempestuous postwar period.This is a moving and intimate account of those... Read more

Greatest Americans Series: Thomas Jefferson

By: Thomas Jefferson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Thus reads the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson – author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States,... Read more

Greatest Americans Series: Abraham Lincoln

By: Abraham Lincoln

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, with humility and gentle grit, guided his country through the most heart-wrenching experience in its national history – the Civil War. It is no wonder that he is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president, as the man’s character is told in his own words:... Read more

Greatest Americans Series: George Washington

By: George Washington

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Amidst all legend and lore surrounding America’s first president, the brilliant statesman George Washington’s character emerges in this engagingly narrated audiobook through his own words. In this key speech by the former army general, the qualities of integrity, humility, others-focused mission, and concern for human freedoms are clearly seen –... Read more

Greatest Americans Series: Geroge Washington's Farewell Address

By: George Washington

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“…a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection…and which appear to me all-important to... Read more

Chastened

By: Hephzibah Anderson

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson glimpsed her college boyfriend going into a jewelry store with a smiling blonde—and in that moment realized it had been years since a man told her he loved her. This discovery led her to question a decade of emotionally frustrating relationships with commitment-phobes. As she examined her... Read more

High Financier

By: Niall Ferguson

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking new biography, based on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of Siegmund Warburg, an extraordinary man whose austere philosophy of finance offers much insight today.



A refugee from Hitler's... Read more

Alone

By: Tere Duperrault Fassbender & Richard Logan

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A tanker steaming through the deep Northwest Providence Channel of the Bahamas comes across a shocking sight: a lone dinghy carrying Captain Julian Harvey and the body of a young girl. They are all that remain of the ketch Bluebelle, a handsome sixty-foot sailing yacht chartered by the Duperrault family of Green Bay, Wisconsin. But their happy... Read more

Hero Found

By: Bruce Henderson

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In February 1966, U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over "neutral Laos." He crashed deep in territory controlled by North Vietnamese army regulars and the communist Pathet Lao, who would eventually capture him and hold him prisoner in a fortified jungle prisoner-of-war camp.



But German-born Dengler was no ordinary prisoner. Already a... Read more

Lives Like Loaded Guns

By: Lyndall Gordon

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the... Read more

Wilberforce

By: John Pollock

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Hull in 1759, William Wilberforce was destined to become one of Britain’s most influential statesmen, having been influenced himself by men like Whitefield, Wesley, and, most of all, John Newton. Chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in England, he was at the heart of British politics for... Read more

Literary Life

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Literary Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career. Relaying his early interest in writing that began with a creative writing class at Rice University, to a career that boasts over 40 novels and an Academy Award-winning screenplay, this intimate portrait of the... Read more

James Stewart

By: Donald Dewey

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans feel they know Jimmy Stewart—the charismatic boy next door filled with righteous conviction, the American ideal. But Jimmy Stewart the image often eclipsed James Stewart the actor and the man. In this penetrating in-depth biography, Donald Dewey delves beneath the earnest Capraesque persona and into the usually unremarked turmoil of the... Read more

My Life in Three Acts

By: Helen Hayes

Narrated by: James MacArthur

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Hayes, acclaimed “First Lady of the American Theatre,” has been on stage, screen, and television for more than fifty years. In that time she moved among the world’s most famous and talented, including Joan Crawford, William Randolph Hearst, Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Burton, Lillian Gish, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Gloria... Read more

Honus Wagner

By: Dennis DeValeria & Jeanne Burke DeValeria

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Honus Wagner, whose career in baseball stretched from 1895 to 1917, was the first American sports superstar of the twentieth century. One of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in its first year (1939), he was arguably the best shortstop in baseball history. His great career and the dawn of baseball as a popular... Read more

Still a Legend

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This book recounts the slugger Roger Maris' life before, during, and after his headline season of 1961, when the taciturn North Dakota native topped Babe Ruth's all-time record by hitting sixty-one home runs. From his youth as a star high-school athlete and American Legion baseball player, Maris's went on to play for the Cleveland Indians, the... Read more

Lay the Favorite

By: Beth Raymer

Narrated by: Phoebe Zimmermann

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-popping and hilarious joyride through the underworld of sports betting
 
Beth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos. In the meantime, she lived in a $17-a-night motel with her dog, Otis, and waited tables at a low-rent Thai restaurant. One day, one of her regular customers... Read more