Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Time of My Life - Abridged

By: Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi Swayze

Narrated by: Patrick Swayze

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author

Now in paperback, the internationally bestselling heartfelt memoir from movie legend Patrick Swayze and his wife of over thirty years, Lisa Niemi, about Patrick’s remarkable career and brave battle against pancreatic cancer.

An entertaining and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood... Read more

Step Out on Nothing - Abridged

By: Byron Pitts

Narrated by: Byron Pitts

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."
…If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm... Read more

Churchill and Secret Service

By: David Stafford

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence, in times of war as well as of peace. Historian David Stafford makes the compelling case that one cannot understand Churchill's astounding success as a modern-day statesman without reference to his deep involvement in the world of espionage.With absorbing detail about... Read more

Old Soldiers Never Die

By: Geoffrey Perret

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 29 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Always colorful, always controversial, Douglas MacArthur is one of the dominant characters in American military history. To his admirers, he was the greatest American soldier; to his critics, he was a five-star fake. With unprecedented access to official military records, reports, correspondence and diaries, Geoffrey Perret’s groundbreaking... Read more

Bobby and Jackie

By: C. David Heymann

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Few writers have immersed themselves in the world of the Kennedys as completely or successfully as C. David Heymann, whose biographies of Jackie, Robert, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Caroline together have sold millions of copies and have shed light on the private lives of the most prominent members of this iconic American family. Now he draws on... Read more

Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: Jack Hurst

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America’s most celebrated war. A superb tactician and ferocious fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of rising from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.In this detailed and... Read more

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

By: Donald Miller

Narrated by: Donald Miller

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

After the publication of his wildly successful memoir, Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller's life began to stall. During what should have been the height of his success, he found himself avoiding responsibility and even questioning the meaning of life. But when two producers proposed turning his memoir into a movie, Miller found himself launched into... Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left and an editor of Ramparts, the magazine that set the intellectual and revolutionary tone for the movement. From his vantage point at the center of the action, he populates Radical Son with vivid portraits of people who made the radical decade, while unmaking America at the same time. We are... Read more

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

By: Aurelius Augustinus

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless work is applicable to everyone who has experienced the struggle between good and evil in his own soul. St. Augustine, born in Tagaste, Numidia, in North Africa (now Constantine) in 354, was raised by a devout Christian mother. He abandoned the Christianity in which he had been brought up, taking on a mistress who bore him an... Read more

Bogart

By: Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is Humphrey Bogart: the pro’s pro on the set and the Hollywood renegade off it; the man’s man, the ladies’ man, the hard worker, and the man who liked to drink too much; the husband in three roller-coaster marriages and finally one perfect match; the proud father and absentee parent; the good friend and even better enemy.Writing with the... Read more

Remember the Sweet Things

By: Ellen Greene

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

After her first divorce, Ellen gave up on marriage- but then she met Marsh Greene. Over the next 20 years, Ellen secretly wrote down all the thoughtful and caring things her husband said and did in her "Sweet Things List." In Remember the Sweet Things, Greene recalls these memories, sharing an honest account of her own love story, and reminding... Read more

Terror by Night

By: Terry Caffey & James Pence

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In one evening, Terry Caffey lost everything.  His wife, Penny, and his sons, Matthew and Tyler, were brutally murdered; his home was burned to the ground, and his sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was in jail, charged with thiree counts of capital murder.  In one year's time, God would restore it all. At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey... Read more

High On Arrival - Abridged

By: Mackenzie Phillips

Narrated by: Mackenzie Phillips

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mackenzie Phillips shares “a raw glimpse” (Entertainment Weekly) into her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions—and reveals the shattering truth behind her complex, secretive, and damaging history with her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas.

Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie... Read more

Barack and Michelle

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Barack and Michelle, America's First Couple is scrutinized in stirring detail by Christopher Andersen, author of thirteen New York Times bestsellers including Jack and Jackie, Somewhere in Heaven, and the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestsellers The Day Diana Died and The Day John Died. Subtitled Portrait of an American Marriage, here is the... Read more

Sixty Feet, Six Inches

By: Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson & Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in... Read more

Speech-less

By: Matthew Latimer

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most candid memoir ever written about official Washington–a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.  

Matt chronicles his descent into Washington, D.C., hell, as he snares a series of unsatisfying... Read more

American on Purpose

By: Craig Ferguson

Narrated by: Craig Ferguson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“With American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson somehow manages to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence and self-importance that plague most (okay, all) Hollywood autobiographies. He has, instead, written a book that is hilarious and irrepressibly daft, yet also kind, poignant, and undeniably wise. It was a joy to read.”  — Dennis Lehane, New York... Read more

The Dude Abides

By: Cathleen Falsani

Narrated by: Allen Secher

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye. Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani is the perfect guide for Coen fans, inviting them to take a deeper look at the popular films, from their debut Blood Simple to the recent Burn After Reading and all the... Read more

Sixty Feet, Six Inches - Abridged

By: Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson & Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in... Read more

Speech-less - Abridged

By: Matthew Latimer

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most candid memoir ever written about official Washington–a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.  

Matt chronicles his descent into Washington, D.C., hell, as he snares a series of unsatisfying... Read more

The Life of Mozart, with eBook

By: Edward Holmes

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In his timeless biography—written long before the significance of Mozart's work was fully realized—author Edward Holmes reveals the musician's character and genius, his struggles, his influence on art, and the brilliant reputation that surrounded him. Published in 1845 as the first authentic narrative of the life of Mozart to appear in English,... Read more

Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry

By: Karen Karbiener

Narrated by: Karen Karbiener

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this course, Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry, we'll explore how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry. By throwing aside the stolid conventions and clichEd meters of old Europe, Walt Whitman produced a vital, compelling form of verse, one... Read more

Unbowed

By: Wangari Maathai

Narrated by: Chinasa Ogbuagu

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Wangari Maathai has been fighting for environmental responsibility and democracy in her native Kenya for over 35 years. Unbowed recounts the incredible journey that culminated in her appointment to Parliament in 2002. Despite repeated jailings, beatings, and other obstacles along the way, Maathai created... Read more

Zeitoun

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The CircleThe true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young... Read more