Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

Joe's Law

By: Sheriff Joe Arpaio & Len Sherman

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

He is both feared and admired, and for the past two decades he has been both lionized and demonized by the media. Outspoken, no-nonsense, and eminently fascinating, Joseph M. Arpaio captured the public’s imagination from his first day as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, (a county larger than the state of New Jersey) in 1992. He has become an... Read more

Breathing the Fire

By: Kimberly Dozier

Narrated by: Kimberly Dozier

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier battled back from critical injuries sustained in a Baghdad bombing, a prominent incident that claimed the lives of her two crew members, an Army officer, and his interpreter. In Breathing the Fire, Dozier offers a personal memoir of tenacity as well as dedication and drama. Through her often painful and... Read more

Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War"

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Were World Wars I and II–which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction–inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond man’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative... Read more

George Washington on Leadership

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

America's first president was also one of its strongest leaders—from the military, to government, to business.



Richard Brookhiser's revolutionary biography Founding Father took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly examines the details of Washington's life that... Read more

The Lincolns

By: Daniel Mark Epstein

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Mark Epstein has produced an incisive and balanced portrait of the Lincolns, from their mysterious and troubled courtship in 1840 until his assassination in Ford's Theatre in 1865. For the first time, in The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage we can feel the full force of the tragedy that was the slow crumbling of their marriage, knowing it... Read more

That Summer in Sicily

By: Marlena de Blasi

Narrated by: Marlena de Blasi

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

One summer in Sicily, Marlena de Blasi entered a world of unforgettable magic when she discovered the secret Sicilian villa of Donnafugata. There, life was ruled by ritual and by an unassailable seventy-year-old matriarch and protectress, Tosca.Willowy and aloof, with an aura of a distant time, Tosca was a woman whose life story begged to be... Read more

Call of Duty

By: Marcus Brotherton & Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in the critical battles of Normandy and Market Garden and in the freezing cold of Bastogne. Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers, stands today as an unparalleled icon of brotherhood and bravery under fire.



Here, Compton tells his own story for the first... Read more

Fall of Frost

By: Brian Hall

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In his most recent novel, I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Brian Hall won acclaim for the way he used the intimate, revelatory voice of fiction to capture the half-hidden personal stories of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In his new novel, Hall turns to the life of Robert Frost, arguably America's most well-known poet. Frost, as... Read more

Breaking News

By: Martin Fletcher

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Fletcher doesn't claim to be a hero. Yet he didn't flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his own fears while facing up to mass killers, warlords, and murderers. With humor and elegance, Fletcher... Read more

Time Bandit

By: Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand & Malcolm...

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Time Bandit is the fishing vessel that Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand use to hook the "deadliest catch," Alaskan king crabs and opilio crabs, in the Bering Sea, a dangerous and mercurial body of water that can steal years from a fisherman's life. The Hillstrand brothers, however, are the real "thieves." They take valuable crabs from the sea... Read more

A Time to Fight

By: Jim Webb

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos."

Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people, rather than special... Read more

Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more... Read more

A Time to Fight - Abridged

By: Jim Webb

Narrated by: Jim Webb

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos."

Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people, rather than special... Read more

Change in the Weather

By: Mark McEwen & Daniel Paisner

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark McEwen's stroke was anything but sudden. His symptoms led him to a hospital, where he was misdiagnosed with the flu. Two days later, on an airplane flight just hours before he finally collapsed, flight attendants and airport staff discounted his slurred speech and heavy sweating, passing him off as intoxicated. Misinformation not only... Read more

The Training Ground

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly all of the Civil War’s greatest soldiers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Davis, and Jackson—were forged in the heat of the Mexican War. This is their story.The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance. It was the first US war waged on foreign soil, and it nearly doubled the size of our nation. At... Read more

Up Till Now

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.

It was the original Star Trek series, and... Read more

Boots on the Ground by Dusk

By: Mary Tillman & Narda Zacchino

Narrated by: Mary Tillman

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract after the 9/11 attacks, choosing to enlist in the U.S. Army. He graduated from their elite Ranger school and was deployed to Iraq in 2003. On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan.... Read more

Up Till Now - Abridged

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies,... Read more

The Education of Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he... Read more

It's Our Ship - Abridged

By: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Narrated by: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, legendary commander of the USS Benfold, continues in the same vein of his bestselling book It's Your Ship with the knowledge he's gained from his speaking to and advising some of the top business minds in the world.

The story of Captain Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside... Read more

Polk

By: Walter R. Borneman

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Tennessee Democrat James K. Polk is generally ranked among the nation's most effective chief executives. In this straightforward, unnuanced biography, Borneman (1812: The War That Forged a Nation) relates why. Coming into office determined to annex Texas, gain the Oregon Territory from Britain, lower the tariff and reform the national banking... Read more

The Woman Who Can't Forget

By: Bart Davis & Jill Price

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world... Read more

Muqtada

By: Patrick Cockburn

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever else the United States intended when it invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, it was not to hand the country over to a 32-year-old militant cleric who fought against their presence from the start and whom former Iraqi administrator L. Paul Bremer III described as a "Bolshevik Islamist." Yet, as the occupation steadily disintegrates, the... Read more