Biography & Memoir audiobooks

FDR

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 32 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of today’s premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace... 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

FDR - Abridged

By: Jean Edward Smith

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean ... Read more

Crashing Through - Abridged

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May

In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.

Mike May spent his... Read more

Last Flag Down - Abridged

By: John Baldwin & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Fallen Founder

By: Nancy Isenberg

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial challenge to the works of Ron Chernow and David McCullough

Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding... Read more

Four Queens

By: Nancy Goldstone

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily.

From a cultured childhood in Provence, each sister was... Read more

Tales from Q School - Abridged

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Raise a Fist, Take a Knee and A Good Walk Spoiled, this "must-read" national bestseller takes you inside the dramatic world of the highest-pressure golf tournament in the world (Tampa Tribune).  

It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the... Read more

Bouillon de poulet pour l'âme d'une mère - Abridged

By: Jack Canfield

Narrated by: Patrice Laffont

Length: 50 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

Train Wreck

By: Donna Hogan

Narrated by: Henrietta Tiefenthaler

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

She was the most outlandish, outrageous, in-your-face symbol of the age— and suddenly, shockingly, she was gone. In life her antics, adventures, and behavior kept a nation riveted; in death she stunned a world gripped by the surprise and swiftness of her unexpected passing. The woman was, of course, Anna Nicole Smith. With fierce... Read more

Policarpa Salavarrieta

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Policarpa se convierte en una de las figuras más visibles por ser la conexión entre quienes apoyaban la independencia y la guerrilla de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia. Fue llevada presa al Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, donde fue ejecutada junto con su novio, Alejo Savarín.

Policarpa became prominent in history because she turned out... Read more

Leni

By: Steven Bach

Narrated by: Henrietta Teifenthaler

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Known as “Hitler's Filmmaker,” Leni Riefenstahl directed two of the most innovative and effective propaganda documentaries ever made, Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), which glorified the Third Reich. In this definitive biography, Steven Bach illuminates the truths and lies regarding the self-proclaimed apolitical artist's... Read more

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster - Abridged

By: Alice Cooper, Kenneth Zimmerman & Keith Zimmerman

Narrated by: Alice Cooper

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons–with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has... Read more

At the Center of the Storm

By: George Tenet

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... Read more

At the Center of the Storm - Abridged

By: George Tenet

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent. Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's time at the Central Intelligence Agency, a revealing look at the inner workings of the most important intelligence... Read more

The Invisible Wall

By: Harry Bernstein

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This enchanting true story, written when the author was ninety-three, is a moving tale of working-class life, social divide, and forbidden love on the eve of the first World War.The narrow street on which Harry grew up appeared identical to countless other working-class English neighborhoods—except for the invisible wall that ran down the center... Read more

Walter Isaacson: Einstein

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Einstein: His Life and Universe, biographer Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, rebellious, struggling patent clerk became the father of the Special Theory of Relativity and one of the most world renowned physicists. In this interview, Isaacson discusses why he decided to write about Einstein, the scientist's creativity and... Read more

On Wings of Eagles

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned... Read more

Empire of Blue Water

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more

Empire of Blue Water - Abridged

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Do You! - Abridged

By: Russell Simmons & Chris Morrow

Narrated by: Black Ice

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since rising out of the New York City streets over 25 years ago, Russell Simmons has helped create such groundbreaking ventures as Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam. Russell might have helped introduce hip-hop to the world, but he credits his success to his belief in a strong set of principles—or laws. In 12 straightforward steps,... Read more

Black Virgin Mountain

By: Larry Heinemann

Narrated by: Larry Heinemann

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Read more

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

By: Lee Iacocca

Narrated by: Lee Iacocca

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The late, legendary auto executive Lee Iacocca has posed a question for every American: Where have all the leaders gone?

The most widely recognized business executive of all time asked the tough questions that America's leaders must address:

• What is each of us giving back to our country?
• Do we truly love democracy?
• Are we too fat and... Read more