Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Amerigo

By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit,... Read more

Wonderful Tonight - Abridged

By: Pattie Boyd

Narrated by: Pattie Boyd

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast... Read more

Obama

By: David Mendell

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential reading. Mendell, who covered Obama for... Read more

Peeling the Onion

By: Gunter Grass

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published.

During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years... Read more

Hard Call - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain & Daniel Hugh Kelly

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's most inspiring politician pays tribute to men and woman who have exhibited composure, wisdom and intellect in the face of tough decisions. John McCain draws from experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances, culling lessons about the process and nature of judicious and effective decision-making.

... Read more

Der Regimentsmedicus Schiller (ungekürzt)

By: Meike Schlüter

Narrated by: Meike Schlüter & Marcus Reinhardt

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Räuber", "Kabale und Liebe" oder "Wilhelm Tell" sind nur einige seiner Stücke, die als Klassiker der deutschen Literatur gelten. Seine Bedeutung als Dramatiker ist unumstritten. Wenige aber wissen, daß Schiller vor seiner Flucht nach Mannheim - um sich aus den Fängen seines tyrannischen Landesfürsten zu befreien und sich ganz der... Read more

Nach Süden - Ein Briefwechsel und 11 Lieder (ungekürzt)

By: Fanny Hensel

Narrated by: Markus Hoffmann, Beate Kurecki, Andreas Hueck, ...

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn wird am 14. November 1805 als erstes von vier Kindern geboren. Schon früh entdeckt sie ihre Liebe zur Musik, die ganz im Sinne der Familientradition zunächst auch gefördert wird. Doch bald muß sie erkennen, daß sie sich in ihrer Arbeit als Frau nur begrenzt entfalten darf. Im Gegensatz zu ihrem Bruder bleiben ihr... Read more

The Preacher and the Presidents - Abridged

By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public... Read more

Bouillon de poulet pour l'âme - Abridged

By: Jack Canfield

Narrated by: Patrice Laffont

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Des histoires qui nous invitent à l’écoute des jours pour cueillir ce qu’ils nous offrent de meilleur parmi les aléas du quotidien. De merveilleuses histoires, qui vous arrivent droit au cœur. Read more

Shaggy Muses

By: Maureen Adams

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer’s equally fierce spirit. We enter the creative sanctum... Read more

The Heart of the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the latest of Gervase Phinn's charming tales, The Heart of the Dales, read by the man himself.

His colourful cast of characters have now become firm favourites - the eccentric staff at County Hall as well as the children themselves who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent... Read more

Here If You Need Me

By: Kate Braestrup

Narrated by: Kate Braestrup

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver... Read more

Body of Work

By: Christine Montross

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.



Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped... Read more

A Child Called It

By: Dave Pelzer

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it".He was physically and mentally tortured and starved. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare he experienced behind closed doors, and his father was aware of the abuse but turned to denial and... Read more

The Lost Boy

By: Dave Pelzer

Narrated by: Brian Keeler

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lost Boy has spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list and has profoundly influenced more than one million readers' lives. Following the tremendous success of Pulitzer Prize nominee A Child Called "It", this book continues the extraordinary tale of author Dave Pelzer's childhood. On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued... Read more

No Excuses

By: Robert Shrum

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 22 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

He was named by The Atlantic Monthly "the most sought-after strategist in the Democratic party." He was targeted by National Review as the Democratic Party's "poet goon." From his unique perspective, Robert Shrum gives us an epic and personal story of the struggle for power in America during the past four decades.



With wit and humor, rare candor,... Read more

Savage Kingdom

By: Benjamin Woolley

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first American colony, Savage Kingdom presents a bold, even reckless, political adventure driven by a sense of imperial destiny and dogged by official hostility.



Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat,... Read more

Happy Endings

By: Jim Norton

Narrated by: Jim Norton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Norton is a pervert

in the truest sense of the word. The physical equivalent of a tall slug, he pays top dollar for massages with happy endings and is fascinated by shitty sitcoms and fat girls. He is also, at times, racially offensive and morally repugnant. He spares no one in his comedy -- least of all himself.

Now, in this... Read more

Quiet Strength - Abridged

By: Tony Dungy

Narrated by: Tony Dungy

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner!
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach—especially a football coach—to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming... Read more

Pistol

By: Mark Kriegel

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream—and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete—a basketball icon for baby boomers—all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of... Read more

The Blair Years - Abridged

By: Alastair Campbell

Narrated by: Alastair Campbell

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life.

Here are the defining... Read more

Ten Points

By: Bill Strickland

Narrated by: Chuck Kourouklis

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“When Bill Strickland writes about cycling, he takes you on one of the most intense, most unforgettable rides of your life.”–Lance Armstrong

Bill Strickland believed he was cursed. No matter how secure his life outwardly seemed, the happiness he had attained with his wife and daughter hung by a thread–threatened by the monster Bill lived in... Read more

The Late Bloomer's Revolution

By: Amy Cohen

Narrated by: Amy Cohen

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy Cohen always imagined that by age thirty she would be juggling a thriving career, a devoted English husband, and two adorable children who had shag haircuts and a room in their loft where they could play the drums. But at thirty-five, as she struggled to come to terms with the loss of her adored mother, she found herself “between jobs”... Read more

Armed and Dangerous

By: William Queen & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Under and Alone comes an intimate and riveting account of federal law-enforcement agent William Queen’s relentless hunt for one of America’s most cold-blooded criminals.

As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases, including... Read more