Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Werner Heisenberg - Abridged

By: Ernst Peter Fischer

Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) war kreativer und ehrgeiziger als alle anderen Physiker seiner Generation. Er beherrschte bereits in frühester Jugend die Werkzeuge der Mathematik ebenso wie die Tasten des Pianos. Mühelos lernte er fremde Sprachen und fuhr rasant Ski. Er schüttelte vor allem grandiose, physikalische Ideen aus dem Ärmel und... Read more

The Wah-Wah Diaries

By: Richard E Grant

Narrated by: Richard E Grant

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ten years after the publication of With Nails, Richard E Grant’s brilliant memoir of his years in Hollywood, Macmillan Digital Audio are proud to be publishing Wah-Wah, the very personal diaries of his debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name. It is both a fascinating insight into the... Read more

Baldwin's Harlem

By: Herb Boyd

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd, author of Sugar Ray Robinson's biography Pound for Pound, combines impeccable research with astute literary criticism in Baldwin's Harlem. Packed with telling anecdotes, this concise volume illuminates Baldwin's diverse views and his impressions of the community that would remain a consistent presence in... Read more

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant

By: Alexandra Fuller

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller presents this heart-rending story of a simple man whose life is cut short. Colton H. Bryant loves Wyoming and loves life. Mind over matter, he always says-"If you don't mind, it don't matter." And so, like his father and his father's father before him, he gets a... Read more

No Man's Land

By: Ruth Fowler

Narrated by: Ruth Fowler

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 8 hours

The gripping, gritty story of a young woman’s plunge into the underbelly of Manhattan’s strip clubs—and how she got back out. Read more

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel

By: Julia Keller

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Soon after its debut at the time of the Civil War, the Gatling gun changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging 200 shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world's first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America's overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in... Read more

Living Dangerously

By: Mark Cotta Vaz

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Explorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer, Merian C. Cooper, the adventurer who created King Kong, was truly larger than life. Spellbound since boyhood by tales of life-threatening adventure and exotic locales, Cooper plunged into harrowing expeditions to places not yet civilized by modern man. One of the first bomber pilots during World... Read more

Isak Dinesen

By: Judith Thurman

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 21 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life-her travels, affairs, and friendships-remains the greatest story of all. Christened with the... Read more

Lopsided

By: Meredith Norton

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir.Meredith Norton displays the razor-sharp wit of a masterful humorist as she chronicles her experience, from the first appearance of her bizarre symptoms while she was living in Paris to moving to California to live with her compulsive parents and their five television sets.Along with hilarious and... Read more

Pure Goldwater

By: John W. Dean & Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Goldwater was a defining figure in American public life, a firebrand politician associated with an optimistic brand of conservatism. In an era in which American conservatism has lost its way, his legacy is more important than ever. For over fifty years, in those moments when he was away from the political fray, Senator Goldwater kept a... Read more

A Champion's Mind

By: Pete Sampras & Peter Bodo

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket... Read more

A Champion's Mind - Abridged

By: Pete Sampras & Peter Bodo

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let... Read more

Warrior King - Abridged

By: Nathan Sassaman & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The startling and controversial memoir of combat and betrayal, written by one of the most prominent members of the U.S. fighting forces in Iraq.

A West Point graduate, a former star quarterback who carried Army to its first bowl victory, and a courageous warrior who had proven himself on the battlefield time and again, Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman... Read more

Brotherhood of Warriors

By: Douglas Century & Aaron Cohen

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Beverly Hills native Aaron Cohen was eighteen years old when he left behind his privileged American life with the single-minded ambition of joining Israel's top anti-terrorist commando unit. After fifteen months of grueling training, Cohen was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold: a top-secret, highly controversial unit that dispatches... Read more

An Open Book

By: Michael Dirda

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda shares his love for all literature-novels, comic books, poetry, even erotica-in this humorous memoir of his childhood. Growing up in a bluecollar, Midwestern household of the 50s and 60s, Dirda appalled his father with his insatiable thirst for reading. His humorous remembrances of the works he loved will... Read more

Alternadad

By: Neal Pollack

Narrated by: Neal Pollack

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Alternadad, Neal Pollack offers a wonderfully candid account of his and his wife's attempt to bring up their son while still having fun and preserving their attachment to youth culture. For Pollack, this means bringing the boy to music festivals and teaching him about the history of rock and roll, and nothing brings joy to his heart like... Read more

The Snake Charmer

By: Jamie James

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most brilliant biologists of our time and a charismatic daredevil, Dr. Joe Slowinski had been obsessed with venomous snakes since his youth. In 2001, Slowinski led a team of young scientists deep into the wilds of Burma on a final tragic expedition. Immediately after being bitten by the many-banded krait, the deadliest serpent in... Read more

Ghost

By: Fred Burton

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spy craft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to keep Americans safe around the world. Now, in this hard-hitting memoir, Burton emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an... Read more

Stolen Innocence

By: Lisa Pulitzer & Elissa Wall

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the... Read more

Dog Man

By: Martha Sherrill

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know very little about—the snow country of Japan during World War II. In a mountain village, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on his property.



During the war, the magnificent and intensely... Read more

Diana's Boys - Abridged

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Derek Partridge

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Devoid of salacious gossip and groundless speculation, Diana's Boys is the first candid chronicle of the world's two most celebrated royals—and far more. Read more

Where Did I Go Right?

By: Bernie Brillstein & David Rensin

Narrated by: Bernie Brillstein

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In a 45-year career as a personal manager, Hollywood agent, producer, and studio head, Bernie Brillstein learned how to survive and prosper in Hollywood. And in Where Did I Go Right?, Brillstein's street-smart, funny, and thoroughly human account of his life in show business, he shares those secrets. With his trademark wit and candor, Bernie... Read more

Army Wives

By: Tanya Biank

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring listeners into the hearts and homes of today’s military wives.Biank tells the story of four typical army wives who, in a flash, find themselves in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and wives. This is a true story... Read more

Chosen Forever

By: Susan Richards

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA, she didn’t know how Lay Me Down’s loving nature would touch her heart—and change her life.For more than a decade she had aspired to be a published writer but it was only with the memoir she wrote to honor Lay Me Down that she achieved this goal.The book led to a book tour in... Read more