Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Roosevelts

By: Peter Collier

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Roosevelts is usually seen as a tale of two presidents—Theodore and Franklin—separated by time and politics, and of two families—the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches—that had little to do with each other. Collier and Horowitz paint an explosive new portrait which offers a completely unique view of America's longest lasting and... Read more

Tea with Hezbollah

By: Ted Dekker & Carl Medearis

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it really possible to love one's enemies?



That's the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel-and-glass high-rises of Saudi Arabia, then wound through the bullet-pocked alleyways of Beirut and... Read more

Six Great Scientists

By: J. G. Crowther

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Curie, Einstein: all of these geniuses had one thing in common. They had not only the imagination to conceive great ideas but also the integrity and determination to pursue and defend their science whatever the obstacles.In spite of resistance and sometimes persecution by societies reluctant to let go of old... Read more

The Spy Wore Red

By: Aline

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model would be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society to... Read more

Why I Stayed

By: Gayle Haggard

Narrated by: Gayle Haggard

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 2, 2006, Gayle Haggard’s life changed forever. That was the day that her husband, Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the President of the NAE, confessed to her the truth. In Why I Stayed, Gayle walks us through the choices she made in her darkest hours. On the day and in the months... Read more

Lit

By: Mary Karr

Narrated by: Mary Karr

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award FinalistMary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her beloved and... Read more

High Points and Lows

By: Austin Carty

Narrated by: Austin Carty

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In these funny and moving essays, Austin Carty traces his own stumbling journey toward adulthood and true faith, drawing on lessons from pop culture and Christianity. Whether he is failing miserably at his first real job as a nightclub gofer, explaining how Saved by the Bell has ruined our youth, or struggling to come to terms with the death of... Read more

The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire

By: John Phillip Santos

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Phillip Santos won immense acclaim for his book Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a finalist for the National Book Award. In this beautifully written new book, Santos tells of how a family-his mother's-erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions... Read more

A Question of Choice

By: Sarah Weddington

Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

"Starting with her years at the University of Texas Law School at Austin, Weddington, the attorney who won Roe v. Wade , traces the history of her involvement with this momentous Supreme Court case and its aftermath. She laments the ground that sometimes complacent pro-choice activists have lost since Roe v. Wade on issues like the 1989 Webster... Read more

Root and Branch

By: Rawn James, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting story of the two crusading lawyers who led the legal battle to end segregation, one case and one courtroom at a time.  

The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign. Root and Branch... Read more

Unlikely Allies

By: Joel Richard Paul

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamboyant and... Read more

A Mighty Long Way

By: Bill Clinton, Carlotta Walls Lanier & Lisa Fraz...

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

Just Don't Fall

By: Josh Sundquist

Narrated by: Josh Sundquist

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

At age nine, Josh Sundquist was diagnosed with cancer, and by age 10, he'd lost his leg to the illness. But Sundquist never faltered in his dream to ski in the Paralympics, and in 2006 he achieved his goal in Turin, Italy. Just Don't Fall is the remarkable and honest story of Sundquist's determination and grit in the face of long odds and tough... Read more

Louis D. Brandeis

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 35 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–an audio book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,... Read more

Marriage and Other Acts of Charity

By: Kate Braestrup

Narrated by: Kate Braestrup

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and commitment in Marriage and Other Acts of Charity.

As a... Read more

The Climb

By: Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the gripping true account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest. On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world—but things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions on the mountain, miscommunications, unexplainable delays, poor leadership, bad... Read more

Hero of the Pacific

By: James Brady

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a single night define a man's life?  From the summer of 1943 to early 1945, John Basilone was one of the most famous and admired people in America. As the first enlisted man to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, for extraordinary bravery under fire at Guadalcanal, he toured the nation with movie stars, shared podiums with mayors... Read more

An Unquiet Mind - Abridged

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison... Read more

Out of the Frying Pan - Abridged

By: Keith Floyd

Narrated by: Keith Floyd

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises. An idiosyncratic, splendid autobiography of a well known personality, and the discovery of a writing... Read more

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II.  Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue,... Read more

Hayek

By: Eamonn Butler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel prize winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance. Eamonn Butler’s clear, systematic, perceptive study fills this gap. Starting with a short survey of Hayek’s life, Dr. Butler goes on to analyze... Read more

Homeland

By: George Obama

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkable memoir, President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother, twenty-seven-year-old George Obama, describes his unique struggles with family, tribe, inheritance, and redemption and the seminal influence his brother had on his own future.The elusive father that both brothers shared died when George was only six months old. George was raised... Read more

Committed

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both... Read more

Marx's General

By: Tristram Hunt

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman.



Yet Engels was also,... Read more