Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Dog Days

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city for the country, and shares the unpredictable adventure of farm life. The border collies, the sheep, the chickens, the cat, the ram, and one surprisingly sociable steer named Elvis all contribute to the hum (and occasional roar) of Bedlam. On... Read more

A Good Dog

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his lifetime dog, Orson: a beautiful border collie-intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable. From the moment Katz and Orson meet, when the dog springs from his traveling crate at Newark airport and panics the baggage claim area, their relationship is deep,... Read more

Izzy & Lenore

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Katz is the New York Times best-selling author of numerous nonfiction tales of man's best friend. Here he presents the story of two dogs that profoundly affected his life and work. Skittish border collie Izzy pushes him into rewarding work with Hospice. And black lab Lenore's gentle spirit helps remind him why he wanted to work with animals... Read more

Saving Simon

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jon Katz got a call from an animal control officer about Simon, a neglected donkey who had been found on a failing farm in upstate New York, he wasn't expecting to add another animal to his already full life. But when he made the trek out to meet him, he couldn't help falling in love with the skinny, mangy donkey who had already suffered so... Read more

Soul of a Dog

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

With its endearing blend of humor, wisdom, and insight, Soul of a Dog by New York Times best-selling author Jon Katz illuminates the interaction between humans and animals. Although he features his ever-faithful border collie Rose, Katz also includes revealing observations about Mother the murderous barn cat, Elvis the doughnut-loving steer, and... Read more

Finding Me

By: Michelle Knight & Michelle Burford

Narrated by: Maria Cabezas

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world.... Read more

Stalin, Volume I

By: Stephen Kotkin

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 38 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is... Read more

Big Wig

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

By blending historical details with "amusing anecdotes that put flesh and blood on dry literary bones," best-selling kids author Kathleen Krull "knows exactly how to captivate her audience" (Publishers Weekly). In this playful look at hair, Krull draws upon centuries of hairy history-including the fake beards of Egyptian queens, the hair-filled... Read more

A Mighty Long Way

By: Carlotta Walls Lanier, Lisa Frazier Page & Bill...

Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell & Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the "Little Rock Nine," as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would... Read more

Black Mass

By: Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston's Italian mafia. But no one offered Boston protection from Whitey Bulger,... Read more

Book of Ages

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin' s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. Benjamin Franklin, who... Read more

Buffett

By: Roger Lowenstein

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 18 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists. The incredible landmark portrait of Warren Buffett's uniquely American life is now available in paperback, revised and updated... Read more

Then Came Life

By: Geralyn Lucas

Narrated by: Geralyn Lucas

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy dares all women who have had a stumble in life to harness their fighting spirit and stand back up with courage and optimism. One mastectomy, two C-sections, three pant's sizes, and lots of red lipstick later, Geralyn Lucas is dealing with the same issues as other women her age. Her miracle... Read more

Britney Spears

By: Norma Jean Lutz

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars series comes the story of Britney Spears, who began her career in the 1990s update of the Mickey Mouse Club. Read more

Unbowed

By: Wangari Maathai

Narrated by: Chinasa Ogbuagu

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman’s extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. “[Maathai’s] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance—and of the power of principled, passionate people to change... Read more

Paris 1919

By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 25 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were... Read more

Wheels of Change

By: Sue Macy

Narrated by: Meredith Orlow

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, Sue Macy's Wheels of Change offers young listeners an eye-opening account of how, beginning in the late 19th century, the bicycle helped change the course of women's history. Macy meticulously documents how women used the freedom of their newfound mobility to effect social... Read more

Strange Glory

By: Charles Marsh

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this... Read more

Wide-Open World

By: John Marshall

Narrated by: John Marshall

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

His twenty-year marriage was floundering. His two teenage kids were lost in cyberspace most of the time. He felt disconnected from his work, his family, his life. Which is when he had an idea: Let's volunteer our way around the world. John Marshall had read about the growth of voluntourism, and frankly, it was the only kind of extended trip he... Read more

Destined to Witness

By: Hans Massaquoi

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What would life be like for a black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi's life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler's regime. Hans is the son of a black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the... Read more

Crapalachia

By: Scott McClanahan

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger." -- New York Times Book Review "... Read more

Frederick Douglass

By: William McFeely

Narrated by: Robert Sevra

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning author McFeely captures the power and the contemplative nature of Douglass, while shedding light on the insecurities and humanity of the man himself. The power of this landmark biography lies in McFeely's ability to bring to life not only the charismatic man, but the age as well-detailing the struggle for emancipation in... Read more

Outlaw Journalist

By: William McKeen

Narrated by: William McKeen

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed author and journalism professor William McKeen chronicles the mesmerizing life of legendary Gonzo journalist and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson's childhood is detailed, along with his explosive relationship with his editors at Playboy and Rolling Stone, his drug use, his controversial persona, and... Read more

Custer

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry crafts works synonymous with the grandeur and beauty of the American West. Here McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little... Read more