Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Gallo Be Thy Name

By: Jerome Tuccille

Narrated by: Grainger Hines

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Rising from hardscrabble poverty in the early 1900s, the Gallo family used hard work, cunning, and crime to become the largest, most influential winemakers in the world. Gallo Be Thy Name is the portrait of an American dynasty, chronicling the family's history from Prohibition and the Great Depression to its roots in organized crime, its impact... 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

Fighting for America

By: Christopher Paul Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Paul Moore is a curator and research historian for the New York Public Library's world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This noble work of history is a tribute to the inspiring accomplishments of black servicemen and servicewomen whose selflessness helped America achieve victory in World War II. Read more

Cult Insanity

By: Irene Spencer

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first book, Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of her struggle to provide for her children in abject poverty and feelings of abandonment each time her husband left to be with one of his other wives. Irene was raised to believe that polygamy was... Read more

The Long Snapper

By: Jeffrey Marx

Narrated by: Jeff Rechner

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Kinchen was a thirty-eight-year-old husband, father of four, and seventh-grade Bible teacher whose professional football career had been over for three years when the New England Patriots called on December 15, 2003. With the Patriots riding a ten-game winning streak and the playoffs only a few weeks away, they needed a fill-in for the... Read more

Strength in What Remains

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains... Read more

Homer's Odyssey

By: Gwen Cooper

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Once in nine lives,
something extraordinary happens...

The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first sight.

Everyone warned... Read more

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe - Abridged

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes the definitive biography of the most enduring icon in popular American culture.

When Marilyn Monroe became famous in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was... Read more

Ludwig von Mises

By: Eamonn Butler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is increasingly recognized as one of the most important originators of modern economic thought. This book studies his ideas in a clear and systematic way and pulls out from Mises’ own writings the main themes of his work. With an emphasis on microeconomics, Mises argues that all real economic decisions are... Read more

Time Is All We Have

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

For most of us, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, has been a mysterious, almost mythical place where the rich and famous went to be cured. Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Tony Curtis, Mary Tyler Moore, and Robert Mitchum are only a few of the Betty Ford Center's celebrated alumni.When writer Barnaby Conrad checked into the... Read more

Passionate Sage

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a fresh look at an astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award–winning American Sphinx.John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement, grappling with contradictory views of... Read more

The Inextinguishable Symphony

By: Martin Goldsmith

Narrated by: Martin Goldsmith

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 1933, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians, actors, and other artists were expelled from their positions with German orchestras, opera companies, and theater groups. Later that year, the Jüdische Kulturbund, or Jewish Culture Association, was created to allow Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences.Here is the riveting and... Read more

George Eliot

By: Kathryn Hughes

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of a respectable self-made businessman, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exile when she began a scandalous liaison with married writer and scientist George Henry Lewes. Only her burgeoning literary success allowed her to overcome society’s disapproval and eventually take her proper place at the heart of London’s literary... Read more

We Who Are Alive and Remain

By: Marcus Brotherton

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France, and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration camps, and drank a victory toast in April 1945 at Hitler's... Read more

John Quincy Adams

By: Paul C. Nagel

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A United States minister, senator, president, and congressman in turn, John Quincy Adams was one of the most prevalent and dedicated Americans in history. Drawing from Adams' seventy-year diary, author Paul Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable... Read more

Born Round

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough

Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he... Read more

The Meaning of Matthew

By: Judy Shepard

Narrated by: Judy Shepard

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 9 hours

The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son’s death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist. Read more

32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny

By: Phillip Done

Narrated by: Phillip Done

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Phillip Done fixes staplers that won’t staple, zippers that won’t zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung “Happy Birthday” 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires listeners with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third graders in this irresistible collection of bite-sized... Read more

Building a Home with My Husband

By: Rachel Simon

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Simon's historic home on a charming tree-lined street was hardly ideal. It was too small, too dark, and there was a gaping hole in the dining room ceiling. So when the house is burglarized, Rachel and her husband, Hal, agree it's time to sell. But in a difficult housing market, and with Hal being an architect, they soon realize: Why leave... Read more

SEAL Warrior

By: Thomas H. Keith & J. Terry Riebling

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The old battle tactics were useless for the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, who were fighting a guerrilla war on foreign soil for the first time in American history.



With the depth and honesty of Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, SEAL Warrior sheds light on the operations of the SEAL teams in Vietnam and shows how the SEALs laid the foundation for the modern... Read more

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, with eBook

By: Frederick Douglass

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. For a slave, it was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North, and the beginnings of the career that was to... Read more

The Deal Maker

By: Axel Madsen

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of fourteen biographies, Axel Madsen chronicles the people who shaped the 20th century. In The Deal Maker, he sheds light on a man whose tireless optimism led to the formation of the first super-corporation. A charismatic salesman in the late 19th century, William Durant started a cart-building business after accepting an especially... Read more

Taking Woodstock

By: Tom Monte & Elliot Tiber

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who was instrumental in arranging the site for the original Woodstock Concert. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 3

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Bob Costas

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and NBA all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes listeners on a tour through the segregated days of early basketball. Along the way, hoops icons like Charles Barkley, Julius Erving, and John Wooden share their thoughts, while broadcast legend Bob Costas narrates. Read more