Biography & Memoir audiobooks

No woman no cry (resumo) - Abridged

By: Rita Marley

Narrated by: Marisol Marcondes

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM RESUMO DA OBRA NO WOMAN NO CRY, DE RITA MARLEY. PARA SE APRODUNDAR, LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA UM LIVRO DE MEMÓRIAS REVELADOR DA MULHER QUE CONHECIA BOB MARLEY COMO NENHUMA OUTRA PESSOA... Rita Marley se casou com Bob Marley quando eles tinham vinte e poucos anos e esteve ao lado do astro da música jamaicana durante sua meteórica ascensão à... Read more

Kurt Cobain – About a boy (resumo) - Abridged

By: Carlos García Miranda

Narrated by: Marisol Marcondes

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM RESUMO DA OBRA KURT COBAIN – ABOUT A BOY, DE CARLOS GARCÍA MIRANDA. PARA SE APRODUNDAR, LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA Em 1991, Kurt Cobain sacudiu a indústria da música ao transformar seu álbum Nevermind emum sucesso milionário e levar a música underground para o grande público. Foi o início de uma carreira meteórica que fez de Cobain uma... Read more

Agent Zigzag - Abridged

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941,... Read more

Edith Wharton - Abridged

By: Hermione Lee

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf.
Born in 1862, Edith Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary... Read more

Renegade - Abridged

By: Richard Wolffe

Narrated by: Richard Wolffe

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.

This book is the previously untold and epic story... Read more

Amy Winehouse - mais forte que ela (resumo) - Abridged

By: Susana Monteagudo

Narrated by: Marisol Marcondes

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM RESUMO DA OBRA AMY WINEHOUSE - MAIS FORTE QUE ELA, DE SUSANA MONTEAGUDO. PARA SE APRODUNDAR, LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA Inquieta, dramática e sempre em busca de ação e atenção, desde a infância Amy Winehouse demonstrou rebeldia e inteligência. A garota que cresceu cercada de música – o jazz do pai, o folk da mãe e a própria incursão pelo... Read more

Amos N' Andy - More Than 300 Radio Shows - Abridged

By: Spencer Williams

Narrated by: Charles Correll

Length: 142 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amos 'n' Andy, radio's all-time most popular series, dominated American broadcasting for a third of a century. More than 104 hours of good and healthy humor that would bring back your memories! Titles included: 1944-10-13 (Phil Baker) Ichthyologist 1944-10-20 (Raymond Massey) Mistaken Identity 1944-10-27 (AFRS) Madame Queen's... Read more

De moto pela América do Sul (resumo) - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Rodrygo Gomes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Este livro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. Filme - Diários de Motocicleta Este diário - reelaborado por Ernesto Che Guevara, em forma narrativa, graças às suas anotações detalhadas - é o relato da viagem feita por Che e seu amigo Alberto Granado, desde a Argentina até a Venezuela, em 1952. Aventura e emoção entremeadas de... Read more

Nerd Do Well - Abridged

By: Simon Pegg

Narrated by: Simon Pegg

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged, 5 hoursRead by the authorThe unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, the star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Star Trek the movie. Read more

Philistines at the Hedgerow - Abridged

By: Steven Gaines

Narrated by: Steven Gaines

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons.

As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant collision among the established old guard, New Money, and the... Read more

Known and Unknown - Abridged

By: Donald Rumsfeld

Narrated by: Donald Rumsfeld

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often... Read more

After Extra Time and Penalties - Abridged

By: Mike Ingham

Narrated by: Mike Ingham

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After almost a quarter-century as the BBC's Chief Football Correspondent, Mike Ingham MBE shares a candid, comprehensive and sometimes controversial account of how the world of broadcasting and football changed beyond recognition throughout his career. His broadcasting experiences saw him attend eight World Cups, commentate on twenty-eight... Read more

Elizabeth Taylor's Kiss and Other Brushes with Hollywood - Abridged

By: David Wood

Narrated by: David Wood

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"What a treat. An all-star cast with one thing in common: they worked with David Wood. And just for us he's brought them to life again – and so vividly – in this irresistible memoir of his 'brushes with Hollywood'." Gyles Brandreth In this memoir, actor and writer David Wood recalls his 'brushes with Hollywood', notably being kissed on the... Read more

Jimi Hendrix - uma sala cheia de espelhos - Resumo - Abridged

By: Charles R. Cross

Narrated by: Renato Peres

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta biografia, escrita pelo autor best-seller e reconhecido jornalista musical Charles R. Cross, traz relatos inéditos sobre a vida e obra do maior guitarrista de todos os tempos. Muito já foi escrito sobre ele, contudo, Hendrix é muito mais conhecido pelo seu mito do que por sua verdadeira biografia, por sua infância e pelos bastidores da sua... Read more

Tenente-General Marquês de Caxias - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Hellen Vasconcelos

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta biografia do Duque de Caxias – então ainda Marquês de Caixas! – tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a influência da educação familiar na formação do jovem militar, bem como parcela de suas façanhas no exército brasileiro,... Read more

St Ex - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Bernard Chabbert

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry est né à Lyon dans un milieu aristocratique, construit sur une architecture de valeurs classiques évoquant la marquise de Sévigné, les dentelles, les goûters d'enfants sous les arbres d'un jardin familial vaste comme un parc... Il est mort 44 ans plus tard, encapsulé aux commandes d'un avion de reconnaissance... 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

José de Alencar - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Lu Affonso

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta biografia de José de Alencar tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. "Trinta e seis anos são passados..." escreve o autor... 36 anos desde 1822, ano da Independência do Brasil! Eis o frescor do texto. Nesta biografia, é privilegiada sua atuação... Read more

O Senhor D. Pedro II - Abridged

By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson

Narrated by: Lu Affonso

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Esta biografia de D. Pedro II tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. O leitor fica assim conhecendo os passos que antecederam a subida ao trono do imperador, no chamado "decênio das regências", quando muitas calamidades pesaram sobre o país. A imagem... Read more

Forgiving the Dead Man Walking - Abridged

By: Debbie Morris

Narrated by: Debbie Morris

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In one horrible act of violence he destroyed her life. In one incredible act of grace, she forgave him. It was just another time of enjoying milkshakes and small talk. Neither Debbie Cuevas nor her boyfriend, Mark Brewster, gave much thought to the white pickup truck that pulled up beside them on the riverfront. Until . . . A revolver thrust... Read more

A Year in the World - Abridged

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places.

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous... Read more

Bert Hellinger (resumo) - Abridged

By: Bert Hellinger

Narrated by: Lu Affonso

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este livro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. Bert Hellinger é uma das personalidades mais bem-sucedidas no ambiente psicoterapêutico, mas também uma das mais controversas e polêmicas. O que marcou sua trajetória? Quais experiências o levaram a se ocupar tão intensivamente de traumas que muitas vezes influenciam dinâmicas... Read more

Mirror to America - Abridged

By: John Hope Franklin

Narrated by: John Hope Franklin

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation's preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation... Read more

Washington - Abridged

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.

In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the... Read more