Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Wolfgang Pauli - Abridged

By: Wolfgang Pauli & Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wolfgang Pauli (1900-58) wird von seinen Fachkollegen in einem Atemzug mit Isaac Newton und Albert Einstein genannt. Der bezeichnete Pauli als seinen "geistigen Sohn". Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte hat Pauli lange Zeit vernachlässigt. Wer den Grund dafür sucht, kann ihn in Paulis Bemühen finden, die Rolle des Unbewussten in der Physik und die... Read more

Antes

By: Carmen Boullosa

Narrated by: Carmen Boullosa

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

La protagonista de esta novela de Carmen Boullosa retorna, como acaso lo hubieran querido Euridice o Beatriz, a los territorios de la infancia: esa condicion salvajemente desordenada donde se genera la conciencia. La infanta de Antes, salta el cerco del jardin de las palabras para recobrar de ellas su inocencia, sabe que en el miedo principia el... Read more

Know Your Power

By: Nancy Pelosi & Amy Hill Hearth

Narrated by: Nancy Pelosi

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights. But women weren't just waiting; women were working. Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and our granddaughters today we have broken the marble ceiling. For our daughters... Read more

Waiter Rant

By: Steve Dublanica

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server’s unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in... Read more

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore comes this rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakami’s four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. Settings range from... Read more

The Summer of 1787

By: David O. Stewart

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

David O. Stewart presents this well-researched account of the U.S. Constitution's creation not as a dry analysis of events, but as a high-powered narrative filled with dramatic intensity and larger-than-life historical figures. "Briskly written, full of deft characterizations and drama ... a splendid rendering of the [Constitution's] creation."... Read more

Dali & I

By: Stan Lauryssens

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Lauryssens didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The... Read more

A Thousand Hills

By: Stephen Kinzer

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country. Now, as President... Read more

Identical Strangers

By: Elyse Schein & Paula Bernstein

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo & Effie Johnson

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What's more, after being separated as infants, she and her sister had been, for a time, part of a secret study on separated... Read more

What's It All About? - Abridged

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Michael Caine

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

From Alfred to Zulu, Michael Caine has been Britain's best-loved actor for half a century.

Now, for the first time, he reveals the truth behind his remarkable life. From his time as an evacuee during the Blitz to his front-line military service in the Korean War, from his early days as an assistant stagehand to becoming... Read more

No Greater Glory

By: Dan Kurzman

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

During the night of February 3, 1943, a torpedo shattered the side of the SS Dorchester off the coast of Greenland. The 904 men aboard, who would certainly have drowned, were saved, thanks to the tremendous bravery of the four chaplains aboard: the Reverend George L. Fox (Methodist), the Reverend Clark V. Poling (Dutch Reformed), Father John P.... Read more

Life With My Sister Madonna - Abridged

By: Christopher Ciccone

Narrated by: Christopher Ciccone

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now in paperback, Christopher Ciccone’s “breathless tell-all” (Time) based on his fortyseven years of growing up with, working with, and understanding one of the most famous women of our time—Madonna.

Only Christopher can tell the full scale, riveting untold story behind the woman who has intrigued, scandalized, and entertained millions for half... Read more

Asunto de familia

By: Victor Rivas Rivers

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Asi comiensa Victor Rivas Rivers esta magnifica cronica en que narra su fuga desde la zona de guerra de la violencia domestica-considerada con demasiada frecuencia como -y su trayectoria hacia la independencia, la recuperacion y la renovacion. En Asunto de familia, Victor recuerda su epoca de joven iracundo que vivia bajo la tirania y la colera... Read more

We're Just Like You, Only Prettier

By: Celia Rivenbark

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Celia Rivenbark's hilarious observations of life below the Mason-Dixon Line have made her a Southeast Booksellers Association best-selling author. In this collection of essays she shows how to be a true Southerner. For starters, don't forget that Chuck E. Cheese's is a place where a kid can be a kid- while mommie gets hammered on watered-down... Read more

Alexander the Great

By: Norman F. Cantor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines—heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure.In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor draws on the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries... Read more

Journey of a Thousand Miles

By: Lang Lang & David Ritz

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number... Read more

Icon of Evil

By: David G. Dalin & John F. Rothmann

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1920s, Hajj Amin-al-Husseini was the political and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs. A vicious anti-Semite, he led numerous pogroms against Jewish settlers. During World War II, al-Husseini allied himself and his people with Hitler; he lived in Germany, met with Hitler, encouraged "the final solution," and became close friends... Read more

I Never Had It Made - Abridged

By: Jackie Robinson

Narrated by: Ossie Davis

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A straightforward yet inspiring story of what it took to be the first man of color to break into the white world of professional sports. Jackie Robinson's story is more than a telling of his tremendous talent; it is also a recollection that showcases his tenacious spirit, bravery and the courage of his ideals. From the early influences of family... Read more

My Stroke of Insight

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not... Read more

Pieces of Glass

By: Sarah Kay

Narrated by: Connie Wetzell

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes joy and grief are separated by mere moments. A last-minute run down a ski slope … a catastrophic accident … and an amazing young man is reduced to a comatose form in a hospital bed. His adoring fiancée remains to weep, pray, grieve, rage, and struggle with the jagged trauma of suffering and loss. Some questions have no answers. Some... Read more

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

By: John Foxe

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning with the story of Stephen from the book of Acts, considered the first Christian martyr, the drama builds to the passion of the early Church's persecution under the Roman Empire. The hardy and radical faith of those first believers spawned medieval missionary movements that spread the gospel across Europe and into England, Scotland, and... Read more

Jennie Churchill

By: Anne Sebba

Narrated by: Joanna David

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

After a three-day romance, Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy to become Lady Randolph Churchill. At a time when women had few freedoms, she was a cornerstone of high society and behind-the-scenes political dynamo. However it was Jennie's love life that marked her out, causing scandal and earning her the epithet... Read more

Black Wave

By: John Silverwood & Jean Silverwood

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie & Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences, not only about the natural world but about the beauty of human life stripped down to its essence, far from civilization. But the adventure that awaited them... Read more

Forbidden Fruit

By: Betty DeRamus

Narrated by: Bernadette Drayton, Yusef Miller, Kevin R. Free...

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Betty DeRamus is an award-winning journalist who rummaged through musty records and forgotten memoirs to resurrect this book's unsung heroes. Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses grieved deeply and... Read more