Biography & Memoir audiobooks
Amazing Women Leaders - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis, Sarah Wintermeyer ...
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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
View audiobookAmazing Women's Careers - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis, Sarah Wintermeyer ...
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing American Musicians - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Nicolas Bearde & Andrew Chaiken
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
It is hard to imagine life without music. We hear it constantly on the radio, TV, through our computers and iPods. However, as each song tells a story, there is often an even more amazing story behind the life of the musician. This unique audio collection from the Amazing People Club explores the life stories of five amazing musicians and... Read more
View audiobookAmazing American Politicians - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: J S Gilbert & Markus Hayes
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Scientists - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Charles Margerison & Mark Smith
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Florence Nightingale
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing Women in War - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Michelle Plum, Hannah Davis, Sarah Wintermeyer ...
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Maria Montessori
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Thomas Jefferson
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: J S Gilbert
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Elvis Presley
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Andrew Chaiken
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing American Women - Volume 1
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis & Sarah Wintermeyer
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
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
Meet Golda Meir
By: Charles Margerison
Narrated by: Hannah Davis
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Twain: Man in White
By: Michael Shelden
Narrated by: Andrew Garman
Length: 17 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this brilliant account of the legendary author's life. Drawing heavily on Twain's own letters and journals, Mark Twain: Man in White recounts both Twain's private family experiences and his larger-than-life public image. Read more
View audiobookCommand: George S. Patton
By: Steve Zaloga
Narrated by: Trevor White
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
A concise biography of the life of the legendary American field commander of World War II, George S Patton, Jnr.
George S. Patton, Jr. was the iconic American field commander of World War II, and is widely regarded as the US Army's finest practitioner of mechanized warfare. Having chased bandits in the Mexican border war of 1917, he led the first... Read more
The Price of Stones
By: Twesigye Jackson Kaguri & Susan Urbanek Linville
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An incredibly inspiring and thrilling book, this is the story of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, who grew up in rural southwestern Uganda, the son of an irascible small-time farmer and his loving wife. In spite of the family's poverty, Jackson succeeds and graduates from the national university with a calling to work in human rights that leads him to... Read more
View audiobookYou Don't Know Me
By: Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. & Mary Jane Ross
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.
Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving... Read more
Seven Dirty Words
By: James Sullivan
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred. A critical biography, Seven Dirty Words is an insightful (and, of course, hilarious) examination of Carlin's body... Read more
View audiobookOriginal Gangster
By: Frank Lucas
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In his own words, real-life American gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian Mafia's monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly... Read more
View audiobookPortrait of an Addict as a Young Man
By: Bill Clegg
Narrated by: Joshua Ferris
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life.
What is... Read more
Walking Papers
By: Francesco Clark
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Francesco Clark was a twenty-four-year-old with a bright future when he went to the Hamptons for the weekend. A nocturnal dive into the pool's shallow end changed everything.
Paralyzed from the neck down, doctors announced that he'd never move from his bed or breathe without assistance. But Francesco fought back. Within days, he was breathing on... Read more
Ritmo Al Exito
By: Emilio Estefan
Narrated by: Raul Duran
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Emilio Estefan llego a los Estados Unidos como refugiado cubano y se convirtio en uno de los productores mas exitosos en la historia de la musica. El tiene un sentido tan profundo de orgullo y herencia, que emana de cada cosa que toca. Para Emilio es importante la motivacion. Para el, la motivacion es mucho mas apremiante y urgente que la... Read more
View audiobookLetters To My Grandchildren
By: Tony Benn
Narrated by: Tony Benn
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.
The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made.
Certainly at my... Read more