Biography & Memoir audiobooks

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

By: Giulia Melucci

Narrated by: Giulia Melucci

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early '90s, Giulia Melucci moved out of the Brooklyn home where she was raised full of romantic hopes and her mother’s excellent Italian cooking. She dreamed of finding the perfect guy, but fresh ingredients were scarce. After nearly twenty years of New York City dating she had nothing more than a slew of broken relationships under her... Read more

The Greatest Presidential Speeches of Our Time

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Barack Obama

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compilation of presidential speeches that spans 75 years, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural speech in 1933 to Barack Obama's victory speech in 2008. All presidents from this period are featured here, including Harry S. Truman (“Inaugural Address”), Dwight Eisenhower (“Republican Convention Address”), John F. Kennedy... Read more

Masters of Sex

By: Thomas Maier

Narrated by: Dorie Barton

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in the 1950s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson convinced hundreds of people to shed their clothes and copulate—in the name of science. For more than 40 years, the pair served as the nation's top experts on love, sex, and intimacy. In this eye-opening work, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier presents an unprecedented look... Read more

Joker One

By: Donovan Campbell

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Donovan Campbell's platoon deployed to Ramadi in the spring of 2004, they believed they'd be spending most of their time building schools, training police, and making friends with the citizens. But shortly after arriving, when Campbell awoke to the chilling cry of "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad!" echoing from minaret to minaret across the city, he... Read more

Casanova

By: John Masters

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Giacomo Casanova’s reputation rests largely on his obsession with women, but he was much more than the great eighteenth-century lover. Lawyer, mathematician, poet, translator, and librarian who was fluent in several languages, he was described by one contemporary as “the most civilized man in Europe.” That he was also a con man, cabalist, spy,... Read more

Live Through This

By: Debra Gwartney

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country, to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other... Read more

Paul

By: Frederick Brotherton Meyer

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Why some sheep hear the Shepherd’s voice and follow, while others persist is one of those secrets which are not revealed as yet to the children of men.”“But as the eye of omniscient love glanced down the ages, it must have lighted with peculiar pleasure on the eager, devoted soul of Paul. God foreknew and predestined him. The divine purpose,... Read more

Against All Hope

By: Armando Valladares

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a history of the Cuban revolution viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his twenty-two years of torment and triumph in Castro’s prison. Arrested at the age of twenty-two for being philosophically opposed to Communism, he gives a dramatic and harrowing account of the regular beatings, the hunger, the humiliation, and the... Read more

Happens Every Day

By: Isabel Gillies

Narrated by: Isabel Gillies

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life—a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving... Read more

Beyond the Yellow Star to America

By: Inge Auerbacher

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1942, when she is seven, Inge Auerbacher and her family are torn from their comfortable home in Germany and sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. In 1945, they are freed from the camp and emigrate to America. Their survival seems like a miracle. But once they settle in New York, Inge, who is now eleven, is imprisoned again. This... Read more

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven - Abridged

By: Susan Jane Gilman

Narrated by: Susan Jane Gilman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's memoir is a hilarious and harrowing journey—a modern heart of darkness filled with Communist operatives, backpackers, and pancakes. 

They were young, brilliant, and bold. They set out to conquer the world. But the world had other plans for them.

Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's new memoir is a hilarious... Read more

Master of War

By: Benson Bobrick

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this revelatory, dynamic biography, one of our finest historians, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh... Read more

Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss

By: Tom Davis

Narrated by: Tom Davis

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny, offbeat, and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities—Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Written by Tom Davis, an original SNL... Read more

Sailing Alone Around the World, with eBook

By: Joshua Slocum

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Joshua Slocum is believed to be the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. After a distinguished nautical career, during which he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Turning this catastrophe to his advantage, he built a sailing canoe from the wreckage and sailed back to New... Read more

Seeking Peace

By: Mary Pipher

Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each OtherLike most lives, Mary Pipher’s is filled with glory and tragedy, chaos and clarity, love and abandonment. She spent her childhood in small Midwestern towns, the nurturing daughter of a doctor mother and... Read more

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan

By: James Mann

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, James Mann offers a fresh and compelling narrative—a new history assessing what Ronald Reagan did and did not do to help bring America's four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union to a close.



As he did so masterfully in Rise of the Vulcans, Mann sheds new light on the hidden aspects... Read more

Forever Blue

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Resented by some in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O’Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade major league baseball and altered the course of history in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles when he moved the Dodgers to California. But while many New York critics attacked him, O’Malley looked to... Read more

The Protector

By: Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether viewed as subjugator or protector, Oliver Cromwell was a titan of seventeenth-century England. Theologian J. H. Merle d’Aubigné wrote this 1847 biography for one purpose: “rectification of the common opinion with regard to Cromwell’s religious character.” And rectify it he does. Working from Cromwell’s letters and speeches, he reveals... Read more

Picking Cotton

By: Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Erin...

Narrated by: Richard Allen & Karen White

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken—but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed... Read more

The Road from Coorain

By: Jill Ker Conway

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill struggled to find a place for herself among Sydney's elite. Her story, both a chronicle of life in the... Read more

Jeb Stuart

By: Burke Davis

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War, General J. E. B. Stuart.This life-size portrait of Stuart surveys his life from childhood through his training at West Point, his years on the Western frontier, and his decision to stand with Virginia when war arrived. His brilliant Civil War... Read more

The Lizard King

By: Bryan Christy

Narrated by: Tony Ward

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Freelance writer Bryan Christy's The Lizard King "is a wild, woolly, finny, feathery and scaly account of animal smuggling on a grand scale" (New York Times). For one U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, stopping the dealings of a notorious snake trader became a personal crusade. Read more

The Bullpen Gospels

By: Dirk Hayhurst

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his gun-toting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk Hayhurst steps out of the bullpen to deliver the best pitch of his career—a raw and unflinching account of his life in the minor leagues. Whether training tarantulas to protect his room from... Read more

The Most Reluctant Convert

By: David C. Downing

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

His books have sold millions, including classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he evolve from staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?Unlike most biographies... Read more