Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Beatles

By: Hunter Davies

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This worldwide bestseller is the biography that defined a band—and an era.As the friend and only authorized biographer of the most famous musical group in history, Davies had full access to the Beatles—including their family, friends, and colleauges—as well as their help and encouragement in writing this biography. He spent eighteen months with... Read more

The Reluctant Spy

By: John Kiriakou & Michael Ruby

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou's life in the CIA, stands as... Read more

Not My Boy!

By: Danelle Morton & Rodney Peete

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Like most fathers, I'd dreamt of doing all sorts of things with my son. I had so many plans, but when I was told my son was autistic, those plans seemed more like a fantasy. Well, eight years after that dreadful diagnosis, I am writing this book to let every father know that your plans for you and your son can still be a reality. It's just the... Read more

The Best of Friends

By: Mariana Pasternak

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a world of luxury and power, this is the tell-all story of two remarkable women and a friendship that changed both their lives forever.For more than two decades, Mariana Pasternak and Martha Stewart were nearly inseparable. They first met in Westport, Connecticut, two suburban wives with grand aspirations of their own. Their bond only... Read more

Overboard!

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In early May 2005, Captain Tom Tighe and first mate, Loch Reidy, of the sailboat Almeisan welcomed three new crew members, two men and a woman, for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. While Tighe and Reidy had made the journey countless times, the rest of the crew were paying-passengers learning about offshore sailing and looking for... Read more

The Media

By: Neal Cortell

Narrated by: Morton Dean

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran television reporter Neal Cortell tackles the subject of in The Media, Journalism in Crisis. With the help of renowned journalists, academics, regulators, and activists, The Media discusses the state of news that America awoke to each day included clearly delineated separation of reporting and editorial opinion, compared to the internet... Read more

Selbstzeugnisse - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

By: Martin Walser

Narrated by: Martin Walser & Denis Scheck

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Tagebücher von Martin Walser über die Jahre 1974-1978 sind beides: Selbstzeugnis und zeithistorisches Dokument. Sie gewähren Einblick in das schwierige Verhältnis von Autor und Kritiker. Der Tagebuchschreiber offenbart sich als Beobachter der eigenen Verletzbarkeit, aber auch als Zeitgenosse. Wie schon der vorherige Tagebuchband (1963-1973)... Read more

Every Day in Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.
 
Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in... Read more

The Big Picture

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of groundbreaking surgical procedures and a doctor who turns impossible hopes into joyous realities. But where does this incredible drive and focus come from? According to Dr. Carson himself, the answer is simple: The Big Picture.Every day when Dr. Carson went to work as a surgeon, he had to make... Read more

Courage and Consequence - Abridged

By: Karl Rove

Narrated by: Karl Rove

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America’s most brilliant political mastermind recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into George W. Bush’s White House.

Known as “the Architect” of George W. Bush’s presidency, Karl Rove’s access to Bush and view of his presidency is unparalleled. In this memoir, Rove takes the listener into the heart of Bush’s rise... Read more

A Country of Vast Designs

By: Robert W. Merry

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of... Read more

Imperfect Endings

By: Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoe FitzGerald Carter's mother decided to end her life—and asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision dragged on as her mother changed her methods and schedule, and the negotiations stirred up old memories, sibling rivalries, and questions about family loyalty.... Read more

Mrs. Adams in Winter

By: Michael O'Brien

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France that was then... Read more

Appetite for Life

By: Noël Riley Fitch

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 23 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the woman behind the apron in Noël Riley Fitch’s revealing biography of America’s favorite cook: Julia Child.A household name, Julia Child has entered the hearts of millions of Americans through their kitchens. Yet few know the richly varied private life that lies behind this icon. Fitch takes us from her exuberant youth through her years... Read more

Keeping the Feast

By: Paula Butturini

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and married in Rome four years later. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their Italian paradise to Warsaw and, while reporting on an uprising in Romania, John was shot and nearly killed by sniper fire. Although he recovered from his physical wounds in less... Read more

Noble Ways

By: Roy Noble

Narrated by: Roy Noble

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Known throughout Wales for his gentle self-deprecating sense of humour and brilliant TV and radio broadcasts, BBC presenter Roy Noble guides us through the "lay-bys" of his life; his warm, loving fifties Brynaman childhood; his college and teaching days; and his ultimate success in that most difficult of careers - showbusiness. A beautiful and... Read more

Cheerful Money

By: Tad Friend

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Tad Friend’s family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at a Smith college poetry contest judged by W. H. Auden, his mother came in second—to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the ’60s, their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Friend... Read more

Jesus

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Is Jesus relevant to us today?Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war. Yet few have ever held forth as movingly as Jesus on the need for peace, forgiveness, and mercy.Paul Johnson offers listeners a lively biography of the man who inspired one of the... Read more

Tammy Wynette

By: Jimmy McDonough

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Tammy Wynette was one of the great female singers of the twentieth century, an artist who could plumb the darkest corners of her heart and transform private grief into public drama. Bestselling biographer Jimmy McDonough tells the story of the small-town girl who grew up to be the woman behind the microphone and whose meteoric rise led to a... Read more

Trust the Dog

By: Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation & Gerri Hirshey

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From a pioneering guide dog organization comes the first book to explore one of the most profound and inspiring relationships between humans and animals.



In Trust the Dog, the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation introduces listeners to a group of extraordinary people who, thanks to their guide dogs, flourish in a world that assumes the ability to see.... Read more

My Family and Other Strangers - Abridged

By: Jeremy Hardy

Narrated by: Jeremy Hardy

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Exploring family history is an urge that has gripped the nation, and it has gripped Jeremy Hardy too. In My Family and Other Strangers he sets out on the road and on the world wide web to find out all he can about the Hardy clan.

His aim is to prove - or more likely disprove - his grandmother Becky's dubious claims that they are descended from... Read more

Arkansas Mischief

By: Jim McDougal & Curtis Wilkie

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As Bill Clinton’s political and business mentor, Jim McDougal—with his knowledge of embarrassing real-estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice—long haunted the White House. McDougal’s vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death and coauthored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, reveals the hidden intersections... Read more

Me, the Mob, and the Music

By: Martin Fitzpatrick & Tommy James

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows the hits: "Mony Mony," "I Think We're Alone Now," "Crimson and Clover," "Crystal Blue Persuasion." They are nuggets of rock and pop history. However, few know the unlikely story of how these hits came to be. Tommy James had been performing in rock bands in the Michigan area since the age of twelve. Prompted to record a few songs... Read more

Love Is the Best Medicine

By: Dr. Nick Trout

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A book guaranteed to touch anyone who has ever had a beloved pet… 
 
   From instant New York Times bestseller, Dr. Nick Trout comes another touching and heartfelt story from the front lines of veterinary medicine—the story of two dogs who forever changed the way he thought about life, death, fate and love.

   Helen is an older cocker spaniel found... Read more