Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Case of Abraham Lincoln

By: Julie M. Fenster

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1856, he became drawn to the case of the gruesome murder of a blacksmith named George Anderson. Lincoln was asked... Read more

Stonewall Jackson

By: Donald A. Davis

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Deemed “irreplaceable” by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that the Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Jackson’s leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died in 1863. Davis highlights Stonewall Jackson as a... Read more

MacArthur

By: Richard B. Frank

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability that hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. No American figure better... Read more

LeMay

By: Barrett Tillman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Packed with breathtaking air battles and ground tactics, this new addition to the Great Generals Series features the controversial command and strategies of the former Air Force Chief of Staff.Curtis LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when atomic bombs... Read more

What a Party!

By: Terry McAuliffe

Narrated by: Terry McAuliffe

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For a generation of Democrats, Terry McAuliffe has been the ultimate political insider: strategist and spokesperson for the party, confidant for the candidates, mediator among party leaders, and without question the most successful fundraiser in political history. Now, McAuliffe’s energetic memoir provides readers with a fly-on-the-wall view,... Read more

Eisenhower

By: John Wukovits

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This new addition to Wesley Clark’s Great Generals Series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II and his relevance today.World War II expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower’s contributions to American warfare. American general and thirty-fourth president of the United States, Eisenhower... Read more

Grant

By: John Mosier

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this addition to the Palgrave Great Generals Series, John Mosier brings to life the brilliant military strategist Ulysses S. Grant. A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming president of the re-united states. Grant revolutionized military... Read more

Patton

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the... Read more

String of Pearls

By: Priscilla Buckley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Priscilla Buckley is probably best known as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded by her brother, William F. Buckley Jr. But in String of Pearls, we meet young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, the United Press Radio News Department’s fresh and eager fledgling employee. The atmosphere in UP’s New York... Read more

iWoz

By: Gina Smith & Steve Wozniak

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.



Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a... Read more

The Fall of Che Guevara

By: Henry Butterfield Ryan

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This book tells the story—for the first time—of the United States government’s response to Guevara’s ill-starred insurgency in Bolivia in 1967. Henry Butterfield Ryan argues that Guevara’s life must be reevaluated in light of secret documents only recently released by the CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the National Security... Read more

Saddam’s Bombmaker

By: Khidir Hamza

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Saddam’s Bombmaker is the true saga of one man’s journey through the circles of hell. Educated at MIT and Florida State University, dedicated to a life of peaceful teaching in America, Iraqi scientist Dr. Khidhir Hamza relates how Saddam’s regime ordered him home, seduced him into a pampered life as an atomic energy official, and forced him to... Read more

Susanna Wesley

By: Kathy McReynolds

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In a period of twenty-one years, Susanna Wesley (1669–1742) bore nineteen children. Ten survived infancy. Two grew up to be influential church leaders whose legacies live on almost three centuries later.This is the story of one of Church history’s most revered women, the godly mother of John and Charles Wesley. This biography recounts the story... Read more

Name Dropping

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When El Matador opened in 1958, Bennett Cerf called it "the most attractive room in America." Part saloon, part salon, Barnaby Conrad's nightclub was nestled in the heart of San Francisco's cabaret and nightlife district. On any given night, one might find Noël Coward, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, or Tyrone Power... Read more

The Gettysburg Gospel

By: Gabor Boritt

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The literature of the Gettysburg Address tends to fall into one of two extremes. At one end are those books that maintain that Lincoln wrote his speech hastily, even on a scrap of paper on the train en route from Washington to Gettysburg. In this version, Lincoln delivered his remarks to an uncomprehending public, which applauded politely,... Read more

Strange Son - Abridged

By: Portia Iversen

Narrated by: Jane Kaczmarek

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The uplifting true story of two mothers from opposite sides of the world united to help their sons.

Portia Iversen's life was turned upside down when her two-year-old son Dov was diagnosed with autism. Desperate to find a treatment, Portia was shocked to learn that almost nothing was known about the disorder, which only a handful of... Read more

Digging for the Truth

By: Josh Bernstein

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Digging For the Truth: A Real-Life Adventurer Explores the World's Greatest Ancient Mysteries
Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as... Read more

About Alice

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.” Now, five years after her death, her husband... Read more

The Brotherhoods

By: Guy Lawson & William Oldham

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 24 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the shocking crimes of NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops convicted in April 2006 of the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their acts behind their badges while they worked for the mob. Their crimes included participation in the murders of at least... Read more

Green Hills of Africa

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Josh Lucas

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

When it was first... Read more

Under and Alone

By: William Queen

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern... Read more

England's Mistress

By: Kate Williams

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Hamilton was England's first superstar. She fought her way out of dire poverty to become a fashion icon, an Ambassador's wife, a confidante of both Queen Marie Antoinette and the Queen of Naples, and the mistress of Lord Nelson, England's greatest military hero. Drawing on hundreds of previously undiscovered letters, England's Mistress... Read more

Dynasties

By: David S. Landes

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Through perseverance, solid ingenuity, and unwavering determination, family-run companies—dynasties—have dominated wealth and business throughout the last two centuries. One third of Fortune 500 firms are family owned and, in most cases, the ideal of the family business is one synonymous with continuity, watchful leadership, and dedication to... Read more

Further Under the Duvet

By: Marian Keyes

Narrated by: Catriona Keyes

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Get yourself comfortable and let Marian Keyes take you places you've never been before. Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs with... Read more