Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Che Guevara

By: Jon Lee Anderson

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 36 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This acclaimed national bestseller is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Anderson traces Che’s extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the... Read more

Albert Einstein - Ein Portrait - Abridged

By: Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) kennt jeder, auch wenn er sich kaum für Wissenschaft interessiert. Wir kennen sein Gesicht (das uns die Zunge herausstreckt), seine Friedensliebe und seine Ansicht, dass Gott nicht würfelt. Einstein ist kurz nach dem 1. Weltkrieg zum Weltstar der Wissenschaft geworden, als bei einer Sonnenfinsternis sorgfältige... Read more

Come Back

By: Claire Fontaine & Mia Fontaine

Narrated by: Terra Deva & Anne Twomey

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The unflinching true account of a teenage girl's descent into society's underbelly -- and her mother's desperate and ultimately successful attempts to bring her back.How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schools -- a bright, beautiful girl from a loving home -- trade school uniforms and afternoons at the beach for... Read more

sTORI Telling - Abridged

By: Tori Spelling

Narrated by: Tori Spelling

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The star of Beverly Hills 90210 offers a hilarious, insightful memoir about growing up on America’s favorite teen drama and her life after the show.

She was television's most famous virgin—and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the... Read more

Grausamer Spass? - Abridged

By: Karl-Josef Kuschel

Narrated by: Karl-Josef Kuschel & Heinz Dieter Assmann

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein erfolgreiches, kämpferisches Leben hatte er gelebt, Heinrich Heine, der 1831 unter dem Eindruck einer neuen Revolution nach Paris gegangen war. Große Visionen von einer Erneuerung der Menschheit im Geist der Freiheit und der Schönheit hatte er entworfen: die Menschen als Götter. Den "Himmel" hatte er "den Engeln und den Spatzen" überlassen... Read more

The Black Hand

By: Chris Blatchford

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison—at the age of nineteen—Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La... Read more

Sherman’s March

By: Richard Wheeler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

General William Tecumseh Sherman is known as the man who said “War is hell” and who waged it so fiercely that it left a permanent scar on the Southern psyche. But Civil War historian Richard Wheeler offers a new view of Sherman, as a man of compassion as well as conviction, a military leader who was ahead of his time in understanding that the... Read more

The Journey of T. D. Jakes

By: Richard Young

Narrated by: Alan Bomar Jones

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the lessons Thomas Dexter Jakes learned as a young boy growing up in Appalachian poverty. Experience the victory and redemption of a young man who faced – and overcame – the seduction of drugs and crime. Witness the entrepreneurial seeds that were planted as he shouldered the responsibilities of his deceased father’s business as a... Read more

Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday

By: Kim "Howard" Johnson

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978, Kim "Howard" Johnson ran away to join the circus—Monty Python's Flying Circus, that is. The Pythons converged on Tunisia to film their timeless classic Life of Brian, and Howard found himself in the thick of it, doubling for nearly all the Pythons, playing more roles in the film than John Cleese, and managing to ruin only one shot. He... Read more

Wesley the Owl

By: Stacey O'Brien

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl—a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing nineteen-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory... Read more

The Man Who Owns the News

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... Read more

Body with Soul - Abridged

By: Randy Jackson

Narrated by: Randy Jackson

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours

From beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health. Read more

The Man Who Owns the News - Abridged

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Michael Wolff

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... Read more

The Defining Moment

By: Jonathan Alter

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dramatic and fascinating account, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his first one hundred days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency. Instead of becoming the dictator so many wanted in those first days, FDR... Read more

The First American

By: H.W. Brands

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 36 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian H.W. Brands' acclaimed, comprehensive biography of Ben Franklin--the first in over 60 years--made the New York Times best-seller list, was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. The New Yorker hails, "Like its subject, this biography is both solid and enchanting." Many consider Franklin... Read more

Muhammad

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Karen Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The man who inspired the world's fastest-growing religionMuhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad’s story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss... Read more

The Daily Coyote

By: Shreve Stockton

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York, she never imagined she would end up making a log cabin in Wyoming her home, falling in love with a trapper, and working as a ranch hand. She also could not have predicted adopting Charlie, an orphaned coyote pup. In a world where coyotes are hunted as... Read more

Samuel Adams

By: Ira Stoll

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"I pity Mr. Sam Adams," his cousin John Adams wrote to his wife, "for he was born a Rebel." At virtually every juncture of the American Revolution, from the Boston Massacre and Tea Party to Lexington and Concord and the ratification of the Constitution, Samuel Adams played a forceful role. With his fiery rhetoric and religious fervor, he was in... Read more

Do the Right Thing - Abridged

By: Mike Huckabee

Narrated by: Mike Huckabee

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Governor Mike Huckabee entered the Republican presidential race, he was the ultimate dark horse, with almost no money, no consultants, and no name recognition beyond Arkansas. The so-called experts were highly amused by this former small state governor from blue-collar roots who also played bass in a rock band. He wouldn’t have a prayer... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with eBook

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Walter Costello

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New... Read more

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

By: Andrew Meier

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the riveting account of one of the first Americans to spy for Joseph Stalin. A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country-but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. Classified for decades, Oggins' story... Read more

The Beautiful Struggle

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free... Read more

Too Fat to Fish

By: Artie Lange

Narrated by: Artie Lange, The Reverend Bob Levy, Gary Dell'A...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show’s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same place: a wit quick enough to keep pace with his own, a... Read more

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

By: Robert Southey

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Having entered the British Navy at the age of twelve, Horatio Lord Nelson achieved the rank of captain at the age of twenty. As captain, he was quickly recognized as a magnetic and controversial figure. He triumphed at Cape St. Vincent and the Nile but failed at Tenefife and Boulogne. With the glories of Copenhagen and Trafalgar yet ahead of... Read more