Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Big Bam - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

Strange Piece of Paradise - Abridged

By: Terri Jentz

Narrated by: Margaret Colin

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever... Read more

And You Know You Should Be Glad - Abridged

By: Bob Greene

Narrated by: Bob Greene

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A highly personal and moving true story of friendship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School.Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, Bob Greene and his four best friends -- Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they... Read more

Barbra

By: Christopher Andersen

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti, the political dilettante driving to the barricades in her Rolls-Royce, the Oscar-winning actress and bona fide movie... Read more

Billy - Abridged

By: Pamela Stephenson

Narrated by: Pamela Stephenson

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The best-selling biography of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, written by the woman who knows him best: his wife. Read more

The Other Woman - Abridged

By: Paula Barbieri

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Paula Barbieri reveals how O. J. Simpson treated women, including his abusive relationship with her. After the murders she turned to religion and became a born-again Christian. Read more

Mark Felt

By: Mark Felt & John O'Connor

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.

A patriotic man, Felt only... Read more

Mama Made the Difference

By: T. D. Jakes

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that celebrates motherhood-for-mothers and those who love them.

Beloved pastor and bestselling author T. D. Jakes pays tribute to his mother—and mothers everywhere—with powerful, heartwarming stories and lessons from his own experiences as a son and pastor.

Woven into these vignettes are Biblical stories and... Read more

A Writer's Life

By: Gay Talese

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 20 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books... Read more

A Writer's Life - Abridged

By: Gay Talese

Narrated by: Gay Talese

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books... Read more

Clemente - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Discover the remarkable life of Roberto Clemente—one of the most accomplished—and beloved—baseball heroes of his generation from Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.

On New Year’s Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food... Read more

The Ride of Our Lives

By: Mike Leonard

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike,... Read more

The Ride of Our Lives - Abridged

By: Mike Leonard

Narrated by: Mike Leonard

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike,... Read more

Janice the Original - Abridged

By: Janice Dickinson

Narrated by: Janice Dickinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This book is a compilation of the audiobooks of No Lifeguard on Duty, Everything About Me Is Fake...And I'm Perfect, and Check, Please!No Lifeguard on DutySex. Trauma. Abuse. Fashion. Photography. Glamour. Cash. Alcohol. Drugs. Fame. Rock Bottom. Triumph. For Janice Dickinson, life just never stops coming.Everything About Me Is Fake...And I'm... Read more

Many Ways to Say I Love You

By: Fred Rogers

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspirational words on parenting from the beloved PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, for new parents and those whose children are grown.

Fred Rogers has long been a wonderful resource for parents, offering their children entertainment and education through his enduring television show. Now his special brand of good cheer and wisdom are... Read more

31 Days

By: Barry Werth

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon’s resignation and the swearing-in of America’s “accidental president,” Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon’s increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within... Read more

31 Days - Abridged

By: Barry Werth

Narrated by: J. R. Horne

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes readers inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon’s resignation and the swearing-in of America’s “accidental president,” Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon’s increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within... Read more

An Ordinary Man

By: Paul Rusesabagina & Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda

“Fascinating…your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage, determination, and diplomacy.” – Oprah, O, The Oprah Magazine

As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide,... Read more

Laura Bush

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush’s footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?

“I think I’ll just be Laura Bush,” she would say.

On Saturday, April 30, 2005, the world got a glimpse... Read more

A Perfect Union

By: Catherine Allgor

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which... Read more

Eminent Lives: The Presidents Collection

By: James Atlas, Michael Korda, Paul Johnson & Chri...

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent LivesMichael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the... Read more

My Life in France

By: Julia Child

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more

Laura Bush - Abridged

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Laura Turner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush’s footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?

“I think I’ll just be Laura Bush,” she would say.

On Saturday, April 30, 2005, the world got a glimpse... Read more

Sweet and Low - Abridged

By: Rich Cohen

Narrated by: Rich Cohen

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family.

It is also the... Read more