Biography & Memoir audiobooks

PAPA THE POPULAR PRINTER

By: T. Lynette Yankson

Narrated by: T. Lynette Yankson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"PAPA THE POPULAR PRINTER" is an extraordinary nonfiction story about protagonist James Henry Forniss. He amazingly evolves from a young man as a shoe shiner, to become a successful Professional Printer.Akin to today's "IT" Information Technologist. His ingenious transformation was rare for a "colored man" especially in the south during post... Read more

John & Abigail Adams: America’s First Political Couple

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

John Adams has become one of the more popular presidents in history relatively recently, but it was not always so. For most of his life he was seen as a bit of an outsider, different from his fellow first presidents in his temperament, birth, life and politics. Adams and his son were the only presidents out of the first seven who were born north... Read more

Frozen Shadows

By: Myles Henman

Narrated by: Mitch Connor

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vast, unforgiving expanse of Alaska's wilderness, where the biting cold conceals secrets beneath layers of snow and ice, a chilling predator stalked the remote communities, earning the moniker "Alaska's Butcher Baker." "Frozen Shadows: The Hunt for Alaska's Butcher Baker" by Myles Henman is a gripping true-crime narrative that delves into... Read more

Love's Journey

By: Patrice Gaillard

Narrated by: Patrice Gaillard

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Love’s Journey can be best described as a cross between a spoken word album and an audio book that combines poetry with emotional story telling. It’s more than a collection of poems about love put together. Poems written over a two-decade period organically come together to form a narrative of their own to reveal emotions as the true protagonist... Read more

Captain Robert Falcon Scott: The Controversial Life and Expeditions of the British Explorer

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The golden age of polar exploration of the Northern and Southern continents did not reach its zenith until the turn of the 20th century, and national rivalries abounded between the major seafaring nations of the world. Where past explorers made glancing journeys to Antarctica, the superior technology of the coal engine, various new survival... Read more

Supernatural experiences

By: Burchardus Soltmann

Narrated by: Istishna Ishaayub

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to authentic experiences, supernatural, inexplicable, that show me that there must be more between heaven and earth. I had these experiences from childhood. Selected extraordinary experiences from my life are told. Read more

That's Life, So It Is

By: Charlie Lawson

Narrated by: Charlie Lawson

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Coronation Street legend Charlie Lawson celebrates over forty years on stage and screen with a uniquely entertaining, eye-opening and enthralling memoir.
The iconic actor best known for his role as Jim McDonald in Coronation Street, Lawson unveils a life as dramatic off-screen as his on-screen roles. In his own words, he recounts his shenanigans... Read more

Hollywatts

By: Arthur Lawrence Cribbs, Jr.

Narrated by: Salathiel Reagan

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Madness embraces us / There is no rest / Fighting for a cause / Without reason or test.” The Great Migration of the 1910s – 1940s was both a flight and a pursuit, as African Americans moved north and west in hopes of leaving behind the South’s violence and finding the freedom of equality. Journalist and author Art Cribbs tells the story of his... Read more

Jak potężny wiatr

By: Mel Tari

Narrated by: Maciej Kulig

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jak potężny wiatr” to niesamowita książka, która opisuje doświadczenia Mela Tari. Opowiada ona o niezwykłym przeżyciu na wyspie Timor w 1965 roku, w trakcie politycznych zamieszek. Książka stanowi niesamowite świadectwo mocy wiary i rzeczywistości działania Bożej mocy w dzisiejszych czasach. Duch Boży, który przeszedł przez tę wyspę “jak... Read more

Uncommon - Abridged

By: Tony Dungy

Narrated by: Tony Dungy

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!
Super Bowl–winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. He also works every day with young men... Read more

All the Money in the World - Abridged

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of theForbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne - Abridged

By: Larry Chambers

Narrated by: Brian Hallas

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, Recondo trained LRRPs to win.

They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions in the jungle that NVA considered... Read more

Funny Cide - Abridged

By: Sally Jenkins & Funny Cide Ventures, LLC

Narrated by: Jamey Sheridan

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America.

In 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the... Read more

Appetite - Abridged

By: Ed Balls

Narrated by: Ed Balls

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

‘Delightfully different’ – Delia Smith
 
Ed Balls was just three weeks old when he tried his first meal: pureed roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. While perhaps ill-advised by modern weaning standards, it worked for him in 1967, and from that moment on he was hooked on food.
 
Appetite is a memoir with a twist: part autobiography, part cookbook,... Read more

Schulz and Peanuts - Abridged

By: David Michaelis

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us an in-depth biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts.It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest... Read more

Chasing the Devil - Abridged

By: Sheriff David Reichert

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.

For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982,... Read more

How I Play Golf - Abridged

By: Tiger Woods

Narrated by: Walter Franks

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the first time, champion Tiger Woods reveals the five secrets to his amazing success - a combination of physical, metaphysical and psychological practices he uses daily to keep his game in top shape. Read more

End of the Spear - Abridged

By: Steve Saint

Narrated by: Todd Busteed

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2005 ECPA Retailer's Choice Award winner for best biography/autobiography!
Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home... Read more

The Great Nowitzki - Das außergewöhnliche Leben des großen deutschen Sportlers (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Thomas Pletzinger

Narrated by: Julian Mehne

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"All die Stunden in der Halle, die Niederlagen und Siege, all die Geschichten und Gedanken - es braucht einen Autor wie Thomas Pletzinger, um die richtigen Worte für meine Welt und mein Spiel zu finden. Ich hätte mir keinen besseren wünschen können." Dirk Nowitzki Wenn man über Dirk Nowitzki spricht, kommt man an Superlativen nicht vorbei. Er... 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

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

In the Presence of My Enemies - Abridged

By: Gracia Burnham

Narrated by: Aimee Lilly

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner!

Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world watched Gracia Burnham... Read more

The Age of Turbulence - Abridged

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year... Read more

Lebenslauf eines Optimisten - Abridged

By: Ludwig Ganghofer

Narrated by: Bernd Ungerer

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im 'Buch der Jugend' beschreibt Ludwig Ganghofer seine Ausbildungs- und Studienzeit. Am Ende des Buches beschreibt er auch seine Vorstellung eines idealen Staatswesens in allen Einzelheiten. Einzelne Ideen könnt man auch heute noch herausgreifen und weiter verfolgen, doch im großen und ganzen spiegeln seine Vorstellungen den Zeitgeist jener Zeit... Read more