Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

A Bright Shining Lie

By: Neil Sheehan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 35 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life... Read more

Every Patient Tells A Story

By: Lisa Sanders

Narrated by: Lisa Sanders

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.

"The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as... Read more

My Journey with Farrah

By: Alana Stewart

Narrated by: Deanna Hurst

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful testament to the powerful love and friendship the two women shared as they searched for a miracle.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News

In My Journey with Farrah, Farrah Fawcett’s longtime friend Alana Stewart shares her personal diaries from her three years by Farrah’s side, during the former Charlie’s Angels actress’s tragic struggle... Read more

Unmasked

By: Ian Halperin

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In late December 2008, New York Times bestselling author Ian Halperin told the world that Michael Jackson had only six months to live. His investigations into Jackson's failing health made headlines around the globe. Six months later, the King of Pop was dead.



Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson.... Read more

Love Has a Face

By: Michele Perry

Narrated by: Rebecca St. James

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Termites for dinner. Bombs in the backyard. A nation torn by decades of war, still on the brink. Can one life really make a difference here? Born without her left hip and leg, Michele Perry is no stranger to seeming impossibilities. So when she arrived in war-torn southern Sudan, with little more than faith in God’s promises, she did what... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Paul Cartledge

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356–323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order. Alexander’s legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and... Read more

*My Father, Maker of the Trees

By: Tracey Lawrence & Eric Irivuzumugabe

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, 16-year-old Eric Irivuzumugabe climbed a cypress tree and remained there for 15 days without food or water. He wasn't trying to win a bet with his friends--he was attempting to save his life. Eric is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed the lives of 800,000 people in just 100 days. In the midst of indescribable loss, and... Read more

*Jumping through Fires

By: David Nasser

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Religion has left an undeniable mark in our world. Some see it as the answer to every problem, while others see it as the problem itself. Simply put, religion is the single greatest force in history. But in a much more intimate sense, what does religion mean to one life? In this honest, suspenseful, and moving memoir, author David Nasser tells... Read more

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 29 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, “one of the historian’s most envied magic acts:... Read more

1001 Nights in Iraq

By: Shant Kenderian

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Shant Kenderian’s visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be short, just long enough to make peace with his estranged father before returning home to the United States. But Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off Iraq’s borders to every man of military age—including Kenderian. Suddenly forced onto the frontlines, he saw his... Read more

One of a Kind

By: Nolan Dalla

Narrated by: Peter Alson & Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a legend before he was of legal age. Stuey Ungar dropped out of high school to become an underground card-table sensation, eventually taking out every top gin-rummy player on the east coast. Bankrolled by the Genovese crime family, Ungar went on to win the World Series of Poker a record three times—then his luck began to run out.Nolan... Read more

Hero Tales

By: Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Theodore Roosevelt proved that a political figure could also excel in military matters and literary endeavors. This work covers a most interesting list of heroes in American history, from Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark through various Revolutionary War participants, to activities during the Civil War. Daniel Boone will always occupy a... Read more

Agnes's Jacket

By: Gail A. Hornstein

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form. Today, in a vibrant... Read more

Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1860-1861

By: Michael Burlingame

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard... Read more

Resolute Determination

By: Donald Sutherland

Narrated by: Donald Sutherland

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In these lectures, Professor Donald M.G. Sutherland explores the life and times of Napoleon, one of history's most brilliant strategic thinkers. But despite his inarguable brilliance, Napoleon has also been denounced as unscrupulously ambitious and as alone responsible for the wars that bear his name. With his scholarly eye, Professor Sutherland... Read more

Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Stephen Van Doren

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecce Homo, which is Latin for “behold the man,” is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his... Read more

Farm City

By: Novella Carpenter

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Novella Carpenter loves cities—the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter... Read more

Perfection

By: Julie Metz

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Metz's life changes forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapses on the kitchen floor and dies in her arms. Suddenly, this mother of a six-year-old is the young widow in a bucolic small town. And this is only the beginning. Seven months after Henry's death, just when Julie thinks she is emerging from the... Read more

Perfection

By: Julie Metz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense

By: Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the... Read more

In-N-Out Burger

By: Stacy Perman

Narrated by: Loren Lester

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book grills up an enjoyable read for both avid foodies and novice diners alike! Perman’s sneak peek into the fascinating history of In-N-Out is as good as the delicious burgers themselves.”—Mario Batali, celebrity chef and author of Molto Italiano A behind-the-counter look at the fast-food chain that breaks all the rules, Stacy Perman’s... Read more

The Age of Entanglement

By: Louisa Gilder

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

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I'm Down

By: Mishna Wolff

Narrated by: Mishna Wolff

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes... Read more