Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The First Tycoon

By: T.J. Stiles

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 28 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.

Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose... Read more

Finding Grace

By: Donna VanLiere

Narrated by: Donna VanLiere

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires—even the simplest ones—are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God... Read more

Boy Clinton

By: R. Emmett Tyrrell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., editor-in-chief of The American Spectator, traces the formative influences on the young, fatherless Clinton by the hustlers and rogues who populated his boyhood hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tyrrell shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton’s real political models, and... Read more

The Unforgiving Minute

By: Craig M. Mullaney

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Craig M. Mullaney's education had been relentlessly preparing him for this moment. The four years he spent at West Point and the harrowing test of Ranger School readied him for a career in the Army. His subsequent experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford couldn't have been further from the Army and his working-class roots, and yet the unorthodox... Read more

Rainbow's End

By: Lauren St. John

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This searingly honest memoir describes growing up on an African farm during the Rhodesian Bush War and the twilight years of white colonialism in the 1970s. It also explores the shock yet euphoria of Zimbabwean independence in the 1980s as St John navigates her way through the immense personal and political changes.The abundance and beauty of... Read more

Wilbur and Orville

By: Fred Howard

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 21 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wrights' longest flight in 1903 covered 852 feet and lasted 59 seconds. In 1905, Wilbur flew 24 miles in 38 minutes and the issue was no longer how to fly but how to cash in. Their effort to exploit their invention is a suspense story of the best kind; their voyage into flight and into American history is a gripping tale from takeoff to... Read more

God’s Smuggler

By: Brother Andrew

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy, he dreamed of being an undercover spy behind enemy lines. As a man, he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name, and for decades, his life story has awed and inspired millions. This bestselling memoir recounts the incredible efforts of the young Dutch factory worker to transport Bibles across closed borders, and... Read more

Mommywood

By: Tori Spelling

Narrated by: Tori Spelling

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

IF YOU THOUGHT TINSELTOWN WAS TOUGH . . .

Tori Spelling might have grown up with everything a girl could wish for, but these days she’s just another suburban working mom . . . whose toddler regularly recognizes her in the pages of US Weekly. Welcome to Mommywood, where the stars are two feet tall and your neighbors know who you are before you... Read more

You’re Only as Good as Your Next One

By: Mike Medavoy

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, remained loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. He helped bring to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning films of our time, including Apocalypse Now, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The Silence of the Lambs,... Read more

Commodore

By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Edward J. Renehan, Jr.-author of Dark Genius of Wall Street -draws upon previously unreleased documents to deliver the definitive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th-century transportation tycoon who accumulated the largest private fortune in U.S. history. "[A] portrait of a brilliantly successful, genuinely... Read more

No Angel

By: Jay Dobyns & Nils Johnson-Shelton

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but... Read more

The Golden Willow

By: Harry Bernstein

Narrated by: Mike Kellogg

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“The golden willow was the first tree we had planted when we came here to live, and Ruby and I had good reason for doing that. Only it was a secret that we kept to ourselves.” Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In his first book, The Invisible Wall, he told a... Read more

Work Hard. Be Nice.

By: Jay Mathews

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly... Read more

Age Is Just a Number

By: Dara Torres & Elizabeth Weil

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.

Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive... Read more

I'm Hosting as Fast as I Can!

By: Tom Bergeron

Narrated by: Tom Bergeron

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of John O’Hurley’s It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump and Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Daytime Emmy-winner Tom Bergeron—host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos—offers a series of humorous and inspirational stories on surviving Hollywood, including behind-the-camera... Read more

A Mother for All Seasons

By: Debbie Phelps

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Mother for All Seasons is the heartfelt, intimate memoir of an everywoman—a single mom and an educator who raised three exceptional children, including the greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps.During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, when Michael achieved the impossible with his record-shattering eight gold-medal wins, Debbie Phelps... Read more

Priceless Memories

By: Bob Barker & Digby Diehl

Narrated by: Bob Barker

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first audiobook, Bob's trademark charm and charisma shine as he shares a lifetime of experiences. In front of the camera, he has been invited into the homes of millions of Americans as host of The Price Is Right, Truth or Consequences, Miss USA, Miss Universe, The Rose Parade, and many other programs and specials. He will share stories of... Read more

Crazy Love

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At twenty-two, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at Seventeen magazine, a downtown New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her. But behind her facade of success, this golden girl hid a dark secret. She’d made a mistake shared by millions: She fell in love... Read more

Charles de Gaulle

By: Don Cook

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 22 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent volume by veteran European correspondent Don Cook is the first major biography of de Gaulle written by an American from an American perspective. Rich with new anecdotal material, it offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe’s most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman.Arrogant, haughty,... Read more

The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mill’s autobiography deals with but one part of a life, the life of the mind-but a mind that ranks as one of the most remarkable and significant of the nineteenth century. The book memorably depicts the emergence of a brilliant child prodigy, the product of an extraordinary education that both hastened his development and brought him to the... Read more

Coming Out of the Ice

By: Victor Herman

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1931, a young American named Victor Herman accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union, where his father was to set up a Ford Motor Company plant. In 1938, he was inexplicably thrown into a Soviet prison. It was forty-five years before he was able to return to America.His was a common nightmare during the Stalin years. Those who survived... Read more

Life Is Like a Sailboat

By: John Grogan

Narrated by: John Larroquette

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From columnist and author of Marley and Me, John Grogan, comes a collection of more than 80 newspaper articles. In pieces that reflect his unique understanding of the crazy-quilt world we inhabit, Grogan shows us all sides of the human condition. From the fragility of life at a crosswalk to cell phones driving us to distraction (as we drive!),... Read more

When You Lie about Your Age, the Terrorists Win

By: Carol Liefer

Narrated by: Carol Liefer

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It occurred to standup comic and comedy writer Carol Liefer that she had to stop telling one of her favorite stories—seeing The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium—because it dated her. But then she thought: What's that about? “I see now that when you deny your age, you deny yourself, and when you lie about your age, you become your inauthentic... Read more

John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

By: John Piper

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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