Biography & Memoir audiobooks
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
Rogers Hornsby
By: Charles C. Alexander
Narrated by: Ian Esmo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1920s Rogers Hornsby was the National League's foremost star, its biggest since Honus Wagner-and its principal answer to the American League's Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. He was a seven-time National League batting champion, and his 1924 average remains the major-league high for this century. From his Texas childhood until his death in 1962,... Read more
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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
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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
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Captive
By: Jere Van Dyk
Narrated by: Jere Van Dyk
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan
Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local... Read more
The Publisher
By: Alan Brinkley
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 21 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Henry Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit... Read more
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Laurence Olivier
By: Donald Spoto
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Laurence Olivier was the most famous actor of his century and one of the greatest of all time. His looks made him a matinee idol; his talent made him world-renowned as an actor, director, and producer. From his stage roles as Hamlet and Archie Rice to his screen roles as Heathcliff and Henry V, his range was unparalleled. But beneath the... Read more
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Restless Sleep
By: Stacy Horn
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Journalist Stacy Horn is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered program. In her enticing narrative The Restless Sleep, she sheds light on the dark world of the NYPD's real-life Cold Case Squad-a special command of detectives who take on the homicide cases that remain unsolved after their initial period of investigation. Those who comprise... Read more
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Role Models
By: John Waters
Narrated by: John Waters
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Role Models is filmmaker John Waters's self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the American playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to... Read more
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Amazing Women in War - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis, Sarah Wintermeyer ...
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Women in Medicine - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis & Sarah Wintermeyer
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A Man Called Peter
By: Catherine Marshall
Narrated by: Renee Ertl
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Filled with humor, wisdom and loving detail, the powerful story of Peter Marshall's life has touched the hearts and minds of millions of people. It’s a story about love—the love between a dynamic man and his God, and the tender love between a man and the woman he married. It is also the gripping adventure of a poor Scottish immigrant who became... Read more
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Furious Love
By: Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal... Read more
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Silent Running
By: James F. Calvert
Narrated by: Kevin Patrick
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this riveting personal account, an authentic American hero relives the perils and triumphs of eight harrowing patrols aboard one of America’s most successful World War II submarines. Courageous deeds and terror-filled moments as well as the endless maintenance work are vividly recalled in Calvert’s candid portrait.But Silent Running is more... Read more
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Every Man in This Village is a Liar
By: Megan K. Stack
Narrated by: Dana Green
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror.
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging... Read more
Blind Descent
By: James M. Tabor
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earth’s deepest cave—the supercave—remained undiscovered. This is the story of... Read more
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Meet Elvis Presley
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Andrew Chaiken
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Thomas Jefferson
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: J S Gilbert
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Christopher Columbus
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Markus Hayes
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet, and be inspired by, Christopher Columbus; the great explorer, colonizer and navigator, as he reveals his own incredible story. Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times for the Spanish Monarchy, opening the American continents, which would become the 'New World' of colonization for Europe. These voyages spread Christian... Read more
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Meet Charles Darwin
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Mark Smith
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Benjamin Franklin
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Josh Bergman
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet George Washington
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Josh Bergman
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Amelia Earhart
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Sarah Wintermeyer
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Mother Teresa
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Mother Teresa, one of the world's most famous humanitarians, who received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was posthumously beatified by the Pope. Get a very personal insight into the amazing missionary work she performed to help countless poverty-stricken adults and children. Be inspired by her amazing story as it comes to life through... Read more
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