Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Maimonides

By: Joel L. Kraemer

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. Recalling such bestsellers as David McCullough’s John Adams and Walter Isaacson’s Einstein, MAIMONIDES is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one... Read more

Borges in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges’ frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges’ focus on universal themes early on came to belittle the... Read more

Lincoln

By: Richard Carwardine

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. This extraordinary biography by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president.While pursuing office, Lincoln drew... Read more

The Mighty Queens of Freeville

By: Amy Dickinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Mighty Queens of Freeville is great American storytelling at its best. A tale of promise postponed and scrappy survival, Amy Dickinson's glorious triumphs are like rabbits pulled out of a hat, one after another after another. Full of hope and humor and big simple truths, it is a story told with grace and without a trace of cynicism. This is... Read more

Joseph P. Kennedy Presents

By: Cari Beauchamp

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph P. Kennedy reigned in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930, when he ran three movie studios, led the revolution in sound pictures, and created the first modern entertainment empire. Sorting through the archives of Kennedy deals, letters, and memos, Cari Beauchamp tells for the first time how he made it all happen, a miracle of smoke and mirrors... Read more

Honeymoon in Tehran

By: Azadeh Moaveni

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Azadeh Moaveni was an American reporter covering the rise of Ahmadinejad in Tehran when the unexpected happened: she met her soul-mate, fell in love, and became pregnant. Facing an uncertain future, she continued to publish increasingly sensitive reports on Iran, while hiding her pregnancy from the religious authorities until she could marry.... Read more

War Child

By: Emmanuel Jal

Narrated by: Ademola Adeyemo

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal's family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was... Read more

The Mighty Queens of Freeville

By: Amy Dickinson

Narrated by: Amy Dickinson

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This beloved New York Times bestselling memoir from "Ask Amy" is a warm and moving true story of second chances in a tiny upstate New York town.

Dear Amy,
First my husband told me he didn't love me. Then he said he didn't think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by myself. Amy, I don't want to be a single mother. I... Read more

The Yankee Years

By: Joe Torre & Tom Verducci

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre’s twelve years as manager of the New York Yankees.

Joe Torre is the most successful–and most respected–baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships. When he left the team in 2007, it was front-page news around the... Read more

The Yankee Years - Abridged

By: Joe Torre & Tom Verducci

Narrated by: Tom Verducci

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years

When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. The famously tough and mercurial... Read more

Crossbearer

By: Joe Eszterhaus

Narrated by: Grainger Hines

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Eszterhas knows a lot about darkness. A writer of sinister, sexually graphic, violent films like Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge, he awoke one hellishly hot day in 2001 and found God. Or, rather, God found him. Crossbearer is the powerful, poignant story of how a streetwise, cynical man who must overcome his addictions to stay alive found... Read more

Hiding Place

By: Bernadette Dunne & Corrie ten Boom

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now retold for a new generation. Read more

C. H. Spurgeon Autobiography, Vol. 2

By: C.H. Spurgeon

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 19 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

C. H. Spurgeon's last thirty years, from the building of the Metropolitan Tabernacle to his death in 1892, saw long years of the full harvest of his youthful efforts. With a congregation of nearly six thousand in the heart of London, and a wider audience of perhaps a million to be addressed weekly through his printed sermon, Spurgeon not only... Read more

D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

By the end of his life, Lawrence had despaired of Western civilization, which he felt had corrupted and weakened the human spirit. He believed that we had somehow lost touch with our instinctual being and no longer responded to the 'true voice' of our blood. We still possessed such truth deep within us, but it was smothered by a dead culture.His... Read more

Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection. Under the influence of the Bloomsbury Group and their progressive... Read more

Beckett in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Samuel Beckett’s work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving us blinking with stinging eyes at unremitting reality. Beckett’s... Read more

Uncommon - Abridged

By: Tony Dungy

Narrated by: Tony Dungy

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!
Super Bowl–winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. He also works every day with young men... Read more

La historia escondida de Juan Luis Guerra

By: Dario Tejeda

Narrated by: Cenia Beltre

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro es indispensable para conocer a ese ser humano llamado Juan Luis Guerra, especialmente en zonas de su vida tan desconocidas hasta hoy como imprescindibles para entenderlo: esta historia nos lo dibuja con objetividad, con sus temores, sus suenos, sus amores ... Dario Tejeda desglosa a Juan Luis en sus partes esenciales: su familia; su... Read more

Nothing to Fear

By: Adam Cohen

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history—the tense, feverish first one hundred days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, more than 10,000 banks had gone under following the Crash... Read more

Lucrezia Borgia

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance: incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither... Read more

Co. Aytch

By: Sam R. Watkins

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows," he wrote the remarkable account of "Co. Aytch," its... Read more

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East—and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that.

President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three... Read more

Mrs. Astor Regrets

By: Meryl Gordon

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a... Read more

The Masters of Enterprise

By: H.W. Brands

Narrated by: H.W. Brands

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the formation of the American Republic the principles of free enterprise and equal opportunity have been at the very core of economic philosophy. During the revolution, colonists fought not only for intangibles like "liberty" and "justice," but also for the promises of a free market that provided everyone with the opportunity to pursue... Read more