Biography & Memoir audiobooks

By Myself and Then Some - Abridged

By: Lauren Bacall

Narrated by: Lauren Bacall

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple.But when Bogart died of... Read more

Father to the Fatherless

By: Paul H Boge

Narrated by: Peter Friberg

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Six-year-old Charles Mulli wakes up in his Kenyan hut to discover his parents have abandoned him. Forced to beg from hut to hut in search of food, Charles scrapes out a meagre existence while trying to come to terms with his abusive past and seemingly hopeless future. As a teenager, Charles is invited by a friend to a crusade where he commits... Read more

Unraveled

By: Maria Housden

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.

Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... Read more

A Paper Life - Abridged

By: Tatum O'Neal

Narrated by: Tatum O'Neal

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Filled with stunning revelations, here is the sensational memoir of one of Hollywood’s most talented and troubled stars—an inspirational true tale of survival and triumph against all oddsThough she has shunned the media spotlight, Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal at last goes on the record to tell her story-a tale of personal turmoil... Read more

General George Washington

By: Edward G. Lengel

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and "father of his country." Less often discussed is Washington's military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has... Read more

Unraveled - Abridged

By: Maria Housden

Narrated by: Maria Housden

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.

Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... Read more

The Colonel and Little Missie

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the "slip of a girl" from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star
of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.



In this sweeping dual biography, Larry McMurtry explores the... Read more

A Hundred and One Days

By: Asne Seierstad

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul paints a stunning and intimate portrait of Baghdad under siege



From January until April 2003-for one hundred and one days-Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the... Read more

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

""These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Theseare the men who took the cliffs. These are thechampions who helped free a continent. Theseare the heroes who helped end a war.""—Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984,Normandy, FranceAcclaimed historian and author of the ""New York Times"" bestselling Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley tells the riveting account of... Read more

Sinatra

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more

Meet You in Hell

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more

The Gift of Valor - Abridged

By: Michael M. Phillips

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: Yes

Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips... Read more

1776

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more

Conduct Under Fire

By: John Glusman

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more

A Joy I'd Never Known - Abridged

By: Jan Dravecky & Connie Neal

Narrated by: Jan Dravecky

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just a year after her husband Dave beat cancer and resumed his pitching career, Jan Dravecky found herself fighting a crippling depression that refused to lift. Admonitions to "snap out of it" or "pray through it" only left her guilt-ridden and exhausted. She wondered, can a Christian woman really lose her mind? A Joy I’d Never Known is Jan... Read more

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa - Abridged

By: Michael Finkel

Narrated by: Michael Finkel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the runIn 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under extraordinary pressure to keep producing... Read more

1776 - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more

Oh the Glory of It All

By: Sean Wilsey

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the thinly veiled characters in Armistead Maupin's bestselling... Read more

Fishing on the Edge - Abridged

By: Mike Iaconelli, Brian Kamenetzky & Andrew Kamen...

Narrated by: Mike Iaconelli

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With his colorful tattoos and booming hip-hop sound track, Mike Iaconelli has turned the world of big-money competitive bass fishing upside down. In Fishing on the Edge, Iaconelli tells his own story–and it’s a whopper: a Philly-born, Jersey-bred Yankee who’s been stealing the spotlight from bass fishing’s traditionally all-Southern anglers,... Read more

Sinatra - Abridged

By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more

Bat Boy

By: Matthew McGough

Narrated by: Jason Harris

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections... Read more

Coach

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Michael Lewis

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind;
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line... Read more

Conduct Under Fire - Abridged

By: John Glusman

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more

Meet You in Hell - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more