Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Rod Stewart’s amazing life from the early days of rage with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces to his stellar success as a solo artist and the seemingly endless procession of leggy blondes along the way. This no-holds-barred account goes behind the myth, offering an extraordinary account of Stewart’s unparalleled career. Read more

Uncle John's Band

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Grateful Dead mesmerized generations with their tribal rhythms and uninhibited performances. Through never-before-published interviews with music-industry insiders, Geoffrey Giuliano breaks through the curtain of silence surrounding the band's personal and professional lives to bring you the true story of The Grateful Dead in all its... Read more

Christophe Colomb

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Johann Koullepis

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Vous allez découvrir l'Histoire de la découverte des Amériques en suivant Christophe Colomb, marin devenu Amiral, Vice-Roi et gouverneur du Nouveau Monde. Nous allons parcourir les océans, à la rencontre de contrées lointaines, des peuples indiens et de leur culture, lorsque l'Ancien Monde est allé à la rencontre du Nouveau Monde. Read more

Love Me Tender

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the history of rock 'n' roll, only Elvis Aaron Presley can truly be called the King. It is a measure of his huge talent, his musical legacy and his personality that years after his death, he is still remembered and revered by legions of fans around the world. Listen to never before released interviews with Elvis and the people who knew him best. Read more

Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Cat Parker

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

The Grand Canyon is wild and sublime, a thing of mystery and wonder, a place to grip the heart of a man and unleash his wild spirit. Follow Zane Grey as he recounts his true adventure pursuing lions in the canyon, roping them, dragging them from trees, and engaging their snarling ferocity in an encounter with the wilderness not even Daniel Boone... Read more

Marco Polo

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Philippe Spiteri

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Voici le récit des aventures de Marco Polo, ce personnage de légende, parti de Venise à 17 ans pour un long voyage périlleux de 24 années à la rencontre des peuples et pays d'Orient, d'Inde et d'Asie.Nous allons parcourir le monde, de l'Empire Ottoman à la Chine, en passant par les déserts et les mers d'Asie, l'Inde et la Perse, les steppes de... Read more

Tending Lives

By: Echo Heron

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Echo Heron served for eighteen years as a critical care nurse. In this book, she relates the true and riveting stories of nurses staff whose every-day experiences in the front line of medicine will inspire the listener. “Heron gives a voice to her fellow nurses (a savvy, wisecracking, take-no-guff voice) and turns them into real people.”... Read more

Things We Said Today

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time in spoken word audio Geoffrey Giulliano presents his material in its most authentic form. Talking with the Beatles gives new inside information on the Beatles' lives. A Treat for music fans young and old. Read more

Bach, la vie et l'oeuvre des grands compositeurs

By: John Mac

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Voici l'histoire de Johann Sebastian Bach, et de son oeuvre où, comme dans une fiction historique, les dialogues sont imaginaires et tous les faits historiquement exacts. Orphelin à 10 ans, Bach est un compositeur et un musicien reconnu comme étant l'un des plus grands compositeurs de tous les temps, par des hommes tels que Mozart et Beethoven.... Read more

Hitman

By: Pablo Fenjves & David Foster

Narrated by: David Foster

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most influential musical forces of our time, David Foster—producer, arranger, songwriter, performer—has worked with superstars every decade since the 1970s. In this compelling and outspoken memoir, Foster shares revealing portraits and stories from his over five decades of working with music superstars including Michael Bublé, Celine... Read more

Papa Hemingway - Abridged

By: A.E. Hotchner

Narrated by: Robert Stack

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. Everywhere they went, they talked. For fourteen years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their thoughts and as Hemingway reminisced about his childhood, recalled the Paris literary scene of... Read more

Donnie Brasco - Abridged

By: Joseph D. Pistone

Narrated by: Joseph D. Pistone

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Posing as a jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone worked undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant and deadly community of Mafia wise guys, captains and bosses. Now his eyewitness account brings to pulsing life the code of honor, loyalties and treacheries, and dirty dealings of unforgettable characters. Read more

The First Partner - Abridged

By: Joyce Milton

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a formidable, fascinating, enigmatic woman, and this provocative, probing biography - in the works for over two years - offers real insight into her character, her values, and her career. Joyce Milton offers a meticulously detailed chronicle of Mrs. Clinton's life: her midwestern childhood; her first Washington stint... Read more

Michel Strogoff - Abridged

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Découvrez les aventures de Michel Strogoff, capitaine des courriers du tsar de Russie, dont la mission à très hauts risques l'emmène de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale. Son objectif ? Avertir le grand-duc, frère du tsar, sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'invasion imminente des hordes tartares. Son voyage de plus de 5500 km sera... Read more

Things I've Been Silent About

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Naila Azad

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about... Read more

A Journal for Jordan (Movie Tie-In)

By: Dana Canedy

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful account of a family fractured by war . . . filled with vivid and heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “Full of wonderful treasures offered by a unique and spirited father . . . written with serene grace: part memoir, part love story, all... Read more

Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs - Abridged

By: Joan Rivers

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Red carpet fashion laureate, comic icon, and outspoken superstar Joan Rivers gives her signature straight-talking advice to women on how to live better through looking better.

Joan Rivers’s abiding life philosophy is simple: in the appearance focused society of the twenty-first century, beauty is key—especially where men are concerned. So,... Read more

A Journal for Jordan - Abridged

By: Dana Canedy

Narrated by: Dana Canedy

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful account of a family fractured by war . . . filled with vivid and heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “Full of wonderful treasures offered by a unique and spirited father . . . written with serene grace: part memoir, part love story, all... Read more

Things I've Been Silent About - Abridged

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about... Read more

Lincoln - Abridged

By: Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt, II...

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An audiobook to be treasured by all history buffs: the companion volume to the ABC TV documentary.

This remarkable biography presents Abraham Lincoln as we have never before seen him. The insightful and vibrant narrative draws extensively on diaries, letters, and other primary sources to provide a remarkably close-up view of Lincoln: the boy,... Read more

The Invention of Air

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers.

The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and... Read more

A License to Steal

By: Walter T. Shaw

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of... Read more

FDR

By: Anthony J. Badger

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933 confronting twenty-five-percent unemployment, bank closings, and a nationwide crisis in confidence. Between March 9 and June 16, FDR sent Congress a record number of bills, all of which passed easily. With reforms ranging from the legalization of alcohol to mortgage relief for millions of... Read more

Abraham Lincoln - Abridged

By: George S. McGovern

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on... Read more