Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Debbie - Abridged

By: Debbie Reynolds & David Patrick Columbia

Narrated by: Debbie Reynolds

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Debbie: My Life is a heartfelt, feel-good autobiography that chronicles the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of the indomitable Debbie Reynolds. The much-beloved actress first grabbed America's heart when, as a poor 16-year-old, she entered and won the Miss Burbank contest. Ms. Reynolds went on to embody fresh-faced American grace and gumption in... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 2

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines some of the leading political and cultural figures of the Harlem Renaissance-including Marcus Garvey,W.E.B. Du Bois, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Langston Hughes, and many more. Read more

Standing Like A Stone Wall

By: James Robertson

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Jackson fought poverty and sadness, rising to become one of the most extraordinary figures in American military history. His clever Civil War strategies were unmatched. While holding the line during one battle, he earned the nickname "Stonewall," and became a legend. From the world's most acclaimed Civil War historian, this is the complete story... Read more

The Cracker Queen

By: Lauretta Hannon

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author and humorist Lauretta Hannon is also a popular contributor to Georgia Public Radio. A collection of hilarious and poignant true Southern stories, The Cracker Queen dispels the popular image of the Southern belle with spirited portraits of strong, authentic Southern women. Read more

The Girls from Ames

By: Jeffrey Zaslow

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow is a Will Rogers Humanitarian Award winner and was the replacement advice columnist for Ann Landers in the Chicago Sun-Times. Here he turns his eye to a group of 11 friends who grew up in Ames, Iowa, during the 1960s, a period of unprecedented opportunity for women. What emerges is an inspiring look at the... Read more

Surprised by Joy

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the closest thing we have to an autobiography, C. S. Lewis, an unfailingly honest and perceptive observer of self, here shares the story of his personal spiritual journey. With characteristic candor and insight, he describes how his “search for joy” led him from the conventional Christianity of his childhood to a youthful atheism, and finally... Read more

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the go-go nineties, Jordan Belfort proved that you didn’t need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. His company was good at separating wealthy investors from their cash and spending it as fast as it came in—on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordan’s empire crashed, the man who had become legend was cornered into a... Read more

Valkyrie

By: Florence Fehrenbach, Jerome Fehrenbach & Philip...

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When World War II erupted, Philipp von Boeselager, son of an aristocratic Catholic family, fought enthusiastically for his country as a cavalry lieutenant. But in the summer of 1942, when he witnessed the regime's criminal brutality toward Jews and Gypsies, his patriotism quickly turned to disgust, and he joined a group of officers intent on... Read more

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

By: Susan Jacoby

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948—that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.



In this highly... Read more

We Two

By: Gillian Gill

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery... Read more

Whittaker Chambers

By: Sam Tanenhaus

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad—including still-classified KGB dossiers—Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's... Read more

Ted Kennedy

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off before the promise of a better future could be realized, Ted lived... Read more

Lost Boy

By: Brent W. Jeffs & Maia Szalavitz

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and... Read more

Recollections of a Truant Officer

By: Alfred Canecchia

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Recollections of a Truant Officer” is a collection of on the job anecdotes. It traces the journey of a classroom teacher in the N.Y.C. Public schools in the inner city. He notices that some of his absent students live on the same block as the school. He decides to visit them during his lunch period. While entering a building, he is... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 1

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Avery Brooks

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Basketball legend and New York Times bestselling author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life. ". a knowledgeable, passionate tour guide ."-New York Times Read more

Bright Lights, Big Ass

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged ? 10 hours

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly... Read more

Bitter is the New Black

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged ? 11 hours

This is the smart-mouthed, soul- searching story of a woman trying to figure out what happens next when she's gone from six figures to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she thought she'd never have to answer for when times were good. Read more

Pretty in Plaid

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 9 hours

The hardcover debut from the New York Times– bestselling author of Such a Pretty Fat. Read more

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

By: Danzy Senna

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Danzy Senna’s parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. A white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man raised by a struggling single mother, these two beautiful young American writers were boldly challenging long-held racial biases. When their marriage violently disintegrated eight years later, it... Read more

A Different Life

By: Quinn Bradlee & Jeff Himmelman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Bonnie and Clyde

By: Paul Schneider

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Paul Schneider's hands, the legend behind the daring movie that revolutionized Hollywood becomes the true story of Bonnie and Clyde. Told in the lovers' own voices, it offers verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.



Strictly nonfiction—no dialogue or other material has been made up—and set in the dirt-poor Texas... Read more

Such a Pretty Fat

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER:"To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to... Read more

Resilience

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Narrated by: Elizabeth Edwards

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Edwards is one of the most beloved political figures in the country and, on the surface, she seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendships. But she’s no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she showed after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident... Read more

Losing Mum and Pup

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Christopher Buckley

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes... Read more