Biography & Memoir audiobooks

A Lion Called Christian

By: Anthony Bourke & John Rendall

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.

A Lion Called Christian tells the... Read more

The Motorcycle Diaries

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on "La Poderosa", the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the 23-year-old Che Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Che's diaries - full of disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy and laddish improvisations.During... Read more

Got The Life

By: Fieldy

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption through a conversion to Christianity. Got the Life is simultaneously an insider’s look at rock n’ roll superstardom—the good, the bad, and everything in... Read more

A Saint on Death Row

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African... Read more

Passing Strange

By: Martha A. Sandweiss

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent... Read more

The Bolivian Diary - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Home will be the open sky... each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea, but to make that idea a reality."Che Guevara remains one of the world's most iconic political and revolutionary figures. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla... Read more

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary Wa - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The people of Cuba struggled against immense odds to emerge victorious from years of brutal dictatorship and poverty in 1959. This is Che Guevara's classic eyewitness account of the transformation of a country and also the transformation of Che himself - from a troop doctor to a revolutionary leader, who would become one of the greatest icons of... Read more

Out of Captivity - Abridged

By: Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Keith Stansell & Gar...

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“[A] remarkable story….An honest and harrowing memoir of a life-changing ordeal.” —Arizona RepublicThe spellbinding New York Times bestseller, Out of Captivity is the amazing true story of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell, three American civilian contractors who were held hostage by the FARC rebel group in Colombia for five and a... Read more

The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty, with eBook

By: William Bligh

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain William Bligh recorded the most famous mutiny in sea history when a group of his men, led by Fletcher Christian, forced him from his ship onto a small launch and cast him adrift into the sea. Was Bligh a harsh sea captain whose vicious cruelty forced his men to mutiny? Or was Fletcher Christian greedy for power and unjustified in taking... Read more

1864

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P.... Read more

Burton

By: Byron Farwell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: “an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world.” The pioneering traveler in Central Africa who discovered Lake... Read more

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By: Bich Minh Nguyen

Narrated by: Alice H. Kennedy

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning with her family’s harrowing migration out of Saigon in 1975, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner follows Bich Nguyen as she comes of age in the pre-PC-era Midwest. Filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, Nguyen’s desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food – Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House cookies. More... Read more

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

By: Masood Farivar

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you liked The Kite Runner, you must read this riveting, firsthand account by one of the real Afghan mujahideen . . . An extraordinary tale.” —Leslie Cockburn Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Although he was born into a long line of... Read more

Angels and Ages

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the literal truth and authoritarianism as... Read more

The Accountant's Story

By: Roberto Escobar

Narrated by: Ruben Diaz

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful... Read more

Icons of the Iron Age

By: Susan Johnston

Narrated by: Susan Johnstone

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

were the Celts, who lived in Europe during the Iron Age, from about 600 BCE into the early centuries CE. They fascinated ancient Classical writers of Greece and Rome, who wrote about them often. They left behind an intriguing record of physical remains that have been recovered by archaeologists, and they have continued to hold our attention as... Read more

Money for Nothing

By: Edward Ugel

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This wry and funny memoir tells the story of America's addiction to gambling from an astonishing angle. At age twenty-six, broke and knee-deep in gambling debt, Ed Ugel serendipitously landed a job as a salesman for The Firm, a company that offered up-front cash to lottery winners in exchange for their gradually doled-out prize money. Ed made a... Read more

If Not Now, When?

By: Colonel Jack Jacobs (Ret.) & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Army First Lieutenant Jack Jacobs was serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again to the site of the attack to rescue more men, saving the lives of a US advisor and thirteen Allied soldiers. Colonel Jacobs... Read more

Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

Narrated by: Carrie Fisher

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action... Read more

Rubies in the Orchard

By: Lynda Resnick & Francis Wilkinson

Narrated by: Lynda Resnick

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

POM Wonderful. FIJI Water. Teleflora. The Franklin Mint. Lynda Resnick's marketing triumphs read like an encyclopedia of branding. She is the smartest and hardest-working marketing brain in the business - the kind of marketer who can sell "ice sculptures to Eskimos." But her brilliant ideas aren't simply the result of random... Read more

Last Lion - Abridged

By: Peter S. Canellos

Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The comprehensive New York Times bestselling biography of Senator Ted Kennedy dives deeply into his political career, his shocking downfall, and his redemption from disappointing member of a grand dynasty to respected sage in the Senate.

No figure in American public life had such great expectations thrust upon him and fallen short of them so... Read more

Joe & Marilyn

By: Roger Kahn

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was America’s blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didn’t work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage. Joe & Marilyn is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: James M. McPherson

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tried by War, James M. McPherson is acclaimed as the greatest living Civil War historian. In this compelling biography, McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House. This concise yet comprehensive account reveals why Lincoln still remains a... Read more

James Joyce in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a young age, James Joyce showed a precocious, original intellect and a confidence in his own artistic destiny. He would indeed go on to transform the nature of modern literature, employing a unique stream-of-consciousness technique rich in symbolism and wordplay. Through his art, the Dublin native sought to reveal the radiance and meaning... Read more