Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Cuando era Puertorriquena

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivian una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De nina, Esmeralda aprendio a apreciar como se come una guayaba, a distinguir la cancion del coqui, a identificar los ingredientes en... Read more

Children of Jihad

By: Jared Cohen

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face-to-face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth—and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype.Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand. While studying on a... Read more

Letters from Nuremberg

By: Lary Bloom & Christopher J. Dodd

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Senator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg.

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career of public service as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Chris Dodd recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during the trials. Through his father, Chris... Read more

The Wolf of Wall Street - Abridged

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Bobby Cannavale

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
 
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife... Read more

Look Me in the Eye - Abridged

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his... Read more

The Pirate Queen

By: Susan Ronald

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy... Read more

Finding Home

By: Jim Daly

Narrated by: Jim Daly

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Since 2005, Daly has been president and CEO of Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian organization founded by child psychologist and Republican activist James Dobson. Daly's childhood family sorely needed focus: the last of five children born to aging alcoholics, young Jimmy experienced his father's abandonment, his stepfather's rages,... Read more

How Starbucks Saved My Life

By: Michael Gates Gill

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks.

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and... Read more

A Time to Lead

By: Wesley K. Clark

Narrated by: Wesley K. Clark

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2003, General Wesley Clark ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States. Since then, he has become a major figure on the political scene, commenting on television and keynoting conferences. Focusing on his major life battles—from his difficult youth in Arkansas, through the horror of Vietnam, the post-war... Read more

The Age of Turbulence

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than 18-year tenure... Read more

India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

By: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Narrated by: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer behind 'The Kumars at No. 42' embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev’s characteristic humour and unique perspective form the heart of this audiobook that accompanies his travels for the BBC2 series. Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and... Read more

The Age of Turbulence - Abridged

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year... Read more

The Immortalists

By: David M. Friedman

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize winner regarded by many as the most brilliant surgeon who ever lived.



Lindbergh and Carrel met not long after Lindbergh's... Read more

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace

By: Dang Thuy Tram

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and friends,... Read more

Cheney

By: Stephen F. Hayes

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 21 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War. Nearly thirty years later, from the presidential bunker below the... Read more

A Prison Diary Volume I - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with... Read more

All the Money in the World

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Giving

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out... Read more

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

By: Alan Alda

Narrated by: Alan Alda

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?)

Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself... Read more

All the Money in the World - Abridged

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of theForbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years - Abridged

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how... Read more

Agent Zigzag - Abridged

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941,... Read more

Bad Dogs Have More Fun

By: John Grogan

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an unforgettable collection of more than 75 newspaper columns by John Grogan, the New York Times best-selling author of Marley & Me. Combining humor, wit, poignancy, and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in. Whether writing about animals (from dogs to elephants to geese!), life's... Read more

The Death of Manolete

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday, August 28, 1947, a 30-year-old millionaire named Manuel Laureano Rodriguez—Manolete—and a Miura bull named Islero killed each other. The Death of Manolete recounts the extraordinary life and demise of this young bullfighter, from the childhood that made the Spanish boy and the sacrifice that made the man to the girl who brought him... Read more