Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Jim Cramer's Real Money - Abridged

By: James J. Cramer

Narrated by: James J. Cramer

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Even after repeated boom and bust cycles on Wall Street, it’s still possible to make real money in the stock market—provided investors take a disciplined approach to investing. Financial guru Jim Cramer shows how ordinary investors can prosper, no matter the climate on Wall Street.

How do we find hot stocks without getting burned? How do we... Read more

The Audacity of Hope - Abridged

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Barack Obama

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in Congress... Read more

Bill Bryson Collector's Edition - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Notes from a Small Island
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that... Read more

Soldier

By: Karen DeYoung

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, “the most trusted man in America.” From his humble origins as the son of Jamaican immigrants to the highest levels of government in four administrations, he helped guide the nation through some of its... Read more

Soldier - Abridged

By: Karen DeYoung

Narrated by: Roscoe Orman

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, “the most trusted man in America.” From his humble origins as the son of Jamaican immigrants to the highest levels of government in four administrations, he helped guide the nation through some of its... Read more

The Real Deal - Abridged

By: Sandy Weill & Judah S. Kraushaar

Narrated by: Harry Chase, Chuck Prince & Sandy Weill

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Shortly after we set up shop, the four of us and our wives convened at Arthur's home on Long Island to celebrate. It was a festive occasion, and we all openly shared our aspirations. To this day, I remember the others stressing over and over their desire to become wealthy. Given that Joanie and I were raising two toddlers and lived nearly... Read more

Tough Choices - Abridged

By: Carly Fiorina

Narrated by: Carly Fiorina

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestseller by the most talked about woman in American business.

For five and a half years, Carly Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard through major internal changes, the worst technology slump in decades, and the most controversial merger in high-tech history. Yet just as things were about to turn around, she was abruptly fired,... Read more

My Father, My President - Abridged

By: Doro Bush Koch

Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.

Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

By: Tucker Max

Narrated by: Tucker Max

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Tucker Max graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago in 1998 and received an academic scholarship to Duke Law School, where he graduated in 2001, despite the fact that he spent part of one semester--while still enrolled in classes--living in Cancun. He took these degrees and set out to help the world--by drinking, hooking up,... Read more

From Baghdad, With Love

By: Jay Kopelman & Melinda Roth

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and hope often arrive in the strangest places and in the strangest ways. During his tour of duty in Iraq, LtCol Jay Kopelman of the U.S. Marines endured the emotional stress common for those involved in bloody battles for freedom. Although the rules forbid pets, Kopelman and his comrades adopted an abandoned puppy left behind after the... Read more

Mellon

By: David Cannadine

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 36 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.

Following a boyhood in nineteenth-century Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon overcame painful shyness to... Read more

Mellon - Abridged

By: David Cannadine

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.
Following a boyhood in nineteenth-century Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon overcame painful shyness to... Read more

Setting the Table - Abridged

By: Danny Meyer

Narrated by: Danny Meyer

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is... Read more

Blood and Thunder - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).

In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed... Read more

Why I Jumped

By: Tina Zahn & Wanda Dyson

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Not long ago, network news carried the stunning video of a young woman trying to jump to her death off the Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge in Green Bay. By God's providence, the Wisconsin State trooper who had been chasing her, Les Boldt, caught her by her wrist just as she began her plunge to certain death, and with the help of other officers, lifted... Read more

Kiss and Tell

By: Shannon Tweed & Julie McCarron

Narrated by: Shannon Tweed

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular and best-known Playboy pin-ups ever, Shannon Tweed burst on the scene in the 1980s as Playmate of the Year and Hugh Hefner's love interest. She soon became a successful actress, appearing in countless movies and television series. She met Gene Simmons at a party at the Playboy Mansion, and they lived happily ever after... Read more

Portrait: Marlene Dietrich, Vol. 04 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Helga Bemmann

Narrated by: Lo Malinke

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie nur wenige andere hat Marlene Dietrich das Gesicht des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt: als Lola in Sternbergs "Der blaue Engel", als Frenchy in "Der große Bluff" und als "Zeugin der Anklage". Mit Anfang 50 startete sie eine zweite internationale Karriere - als Diseuse. Einfühlsam folgt Helga Bemmann dem Lebensweg der großen Schauspielerin und... Read more

Hello, Lied the Agent - Abridged

By: Ian Gurvitz

Narrated by: Ian Gurvitz

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While TV is prevalent in most of our lives, few of us have much knowledge of its behind-the-scenes operations. In this riveting expose, veteran writer and producer Ian Gurvitz illuminates a side of the business few people get to see. Drawing on notes from his personal journal, Gurvitz details two years in the dizzying ups-and-downs life of a... Read more

Diana

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From The New York Times-bestselling author of America's Queen and Elizabeth- the definitive biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Unabridged CDs - 11 CDs, 14 hours Read more

Saving Graces

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own... Read more

Saving Graces - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Narrated by: Elizabeth Edwards

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own... Read more

The Blind Side - Abridged

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn... Read more

Through the Children's Gate - Abridged

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

By turns elegant and exultant, jubilant and poignant, Through the Children's Gate is a loving portrait of a family and their city. Read more

Broken

By: William Cope Moyers & Katherine Ketcham

Narrated by: Katherine Ketcham

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike some popular memoirs that have fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug addiction, Broken is a true-life tale of recovery that stuns and inspires with virtually every page. The eldest son of journalist Bill Moyers, William Cope Moyers relates with unforgettable clarity the story of how a young man with every advantage found... Read more