Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Lone Survivor - Abridged

By: Marcus Luttrell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a... Read more

Bouillon de poulet pour l'âme des femmes - Abridged

By: Jack Canfield

Narrated by: Patrice Laffont

Length: 34 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

The Education of Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, The Education of Henry Adams recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth,... Read more

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness

By: Joel ben Izzy

Narrated by: Joel Izzy

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When a storyteller loses his voice, he believes he's lost everything. In fact, he's been given a great gift.



Once upon a time, a successful storyteller lost his voice to throat cancer. Deprived of the instrument of his art and his livelihood, he retreated into dark, sullen silence and depression. While searching for a spiritual explanation, he... Read more

Byline: Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal glimpse into the life of writer, journalist, war correspondent, adventurer Ernest Hemingway, ranging from experiences in the Spanish Civil War and World War II to his passion for bullfighting and first safari in Africa.

Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a... Read more

The Conviction of Richard Nixon

By: James Reston, Jr.

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon... Read more

Her Way - Abridged

By: Don Van Natta Jr. & Jeff Gerth

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The truth about the most important woman in America

In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary.

Never-before-revealed information about Hillary's... Read more

Hey, I'm Italian

By: Judith A. Habert

Narrated by: Hallie Ricardo

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hey, I’m Italian is an insiders look at growing up Italian in New York.  Abducted at gunpoint, being bitten on the nose by the family dog two days before my wedding, and paying for a lavish Hawaiian honeymoon only to learn that our travel agent had absconded with our money, were but a few of the events that shaped my life. But growing up Italian... Read more

The Diana Chronicles

By: Tina Brown

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 21 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?

Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler–England’s glossiest gossip magazine–Vanity Fair,... Read more

The Diana Chronicles - Abridged

By: Tina Brown

Narrated by: Tina Brown

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."

–Academy... Read more

GROWING UP REPUBLICAN - Abridged

By: Patricia Beard

Narrated by: Patricia Beard

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

An authorized biography of the New Jersey governor and possible vice-presidential candidate is based on the author's interviews with Christine Todd Whitman, the governor's family and friends, and Whitman's personal documents and photos. Read more

A Woman in Charge

By: Carl Bernstein

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 24 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing
else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed,... Read more

This Time, This Place

By: Jack Valenti

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different kind of war in Vietnam, he was in that... Read more

The Reagan Diaries Extended Selections - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record—the only daily... Read more

The Reagan Diaries Selections - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record—the only daily... Read more

This Time, This Place - Abridged

By: Jack Valenti

Narrated by: Michael Douglas

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different kind of war in Vietnam, he was in that... Read more

A Woman in Charge - Abridged

By: Carl Bernstein

Narrated by: Dick Rodstein

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed,... Read more

The Long Road Home

By: Martha Raddatz

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz comes the story of a brutal forty-eight-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at home.



In April 2004, soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were on a routine patrol in Sadr City, Iraq, when they came under... Read more

Bouillon de poulet pour l'âme des ados - Abridged

By: Jack Canfield

Narrated by: Patrice Laffont

Length: 38 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

Billy the Kid

By: Michael Wallis

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.



Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to... Read more

Jesus of Nazareth

By: Pope Benedict XVI

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is . . . my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord.’” –Benedict XVI

In this bold, momentous work, the Pope––in his first book written as Benedict XVI––seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his... Read more

Last Flag Down

By: John Baldwin & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

a loyal warrior. a dying cause. an epic race for salvation.

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah,... Read more

Crashing Through

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.

Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s... Read more

If I Am Missing or Dead

By: Janine Latus

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved," it read, "but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this... Read more