Biography & Memoir audiobooks

الدحيحة - تشرنوبل - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: أحمد الغندور

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ما هي تكلفة الكذب؟ في 26 أبريل 1986، على بُعد حوالي 130 كيلو متر من مدينة كييف عاصمة أوكرانيا، اللي كانت وقتها جزء من الاتحاد السوفيتي، أدّى اختبار مش مُصرَّح بيه وخطأ في التشغيل بعد قفل توربينات المياه المستخدمة في تبريد اليورانيوم وتوليد الكهرباء، إلى ارتفاع حرارة اليورانيوم في المفاعل الرابع في محطة تشرنوبل للقوى النووية، وفقدان السيطرة على... Read more

Los Misterios del Reino de los Cielos - Abridged

By: Carlos Avalos Losano

Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Investigación Bíblico- Científica por más de 30 años sobre el Cantar de los Cantares a partir de una revelación privada del señor Jesucristo donde le dio a conocer al auto que lo que él estaba leyendo (el Cantar de los Cantares) son escenas diapositivas de la vida de Jesús y de María. Read more

Châteaubriand et son temps - Extrait des mémoires d'Outre-Tombe - Abridged

By: François-René de Chateaubriand

Narrated by: Pierre Fresnay

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Extraits des Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Contient aussi une romance écrite par Chateaubriand, "Combien j'ai douce souvenance", chantée par Suzanne Vayssaire. François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand est un écrivain et homme politique français. Il est considéré comme l'un des précurseurs du romantisme français et l'un des grands noms de la littérature... Read more

الدحيحة - كريستوفر نولان - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: أحمد الغندور

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لا وقت للانتظار. لما بنتفرج على أفلامه، غالبًا بنبقى متأكدين من إننا هنحس بقدر كبير من المتعة وهنشوف حاجة مختلفة مليانة بالخيال والألغاز والإثارة، ومع كل إعادة مشاهدة بنكتشف حاجات جديدة. ودايمًا أفلامه بتاخدنا لمواضيع مهمة زي الوجودية والمعرفة والتجربة الذاتية وتشويه الذاكرة والأخلاق الإنسانية والأحلام وطبيعة الزمن وبناء الهوية الشخصية. قدر يحط... Read more

الدحيحة - ألبرت أينشتاين - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: أحمد الغندور

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

قول للزمان ارجع زمكان. في طفولته، كان فيه حدثين مهمين أثروا عليه: الأول لما والده جابله بوصلة وهو عنده خمس سنين، فاحتار من القوة غير المرئية اللي بتحرك إبرة البوصلة. والحدث التاني في سن اتناشر سنة لما اتعرّف على طالب الطب الشاب «ماكس تالمود» اللي أهداه كتاب في علم الهندسة، فاستوعبه بسرعة رهيبة واعتبره «كتاب الهندسة الصغير المقدس»، ولما ساعده... Read more

John Bunyan - Abridged

By: John Brown

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A traveling tinker, John Bunyan accepted long imprisonment rather than give up preaching the Gospel. He explained the life of the Spirit in language the common people could understand and in pictures that stuck in the mind. When he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, his fame spread rapidly, and within fifty years of his death, the book was reputed to... 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

My Family and Other Strangers - Abridged

By: Jeremy Hardy

Narrated by: Jeremy Hardy

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Exploring family history is an urge that has gripped the nation, and it has gripped Jeremy Hardy too. In My Family and Other Strangers he sets out on the road and on the world wide web to find out all he can about the Hardy clan.

His aim is to prove - or more likely disprove - his grandmother Becky's dubious claims that they are descended from... Read more

Blue Box Boy - Abridged

By: Matthew Waterhouse

Narrated by: Matthew Waterhouse

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Highlights from Matthew Waterhouse’s acclaimed memoir, Blue Box Boy, read by the author. Read more

Special Agent - Abridged

By: Candice DeLong

Narrated by: Candice DeLong

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Candice DeLong worked on some of the toughest hig-stakes criminal investigations of our time. As a field profiler, DeLong collected evidence at the scene of the crime to creat a specific portrait of criminals via behavioral patterns, character traits, background, etc. Special Agent is her remarkable personal... Read more

شهيا كفراق - Abridged

By: أحلام مستغانمي

Narrated by: عائشة الخراط

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

«الحياة أقصر من أن تهدرها في إثبات حسن نواياك للآخرين، فهم في النهاية لن يحكموا عليك إلّا بحسب نواياهم». تسرد هذه الرواية قصة فراق عاشها أحد الرجال، وفقد على إثرها ثقته بالحبّ. هو رجل غامض جدًا، يتوجه برسالة من ذكرياته للكاتبة «أحلام مستغانمي»، ويتقرب من بطلة القصة والتي تعمل كاتبة، وتكشف الأحداث من هو هذا الرجل وماذا يريد من البطلة. تضم... Read more

Through Thick and Thin - Abridged

By: Gok Wan

Narrated by: Gok Wan

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a short space of time, Gok Wan's infectious energy and charisma have made him an essential and much-loved part of Britain's TV landscape. He dominates the Channel 4 schedules with no less than three shows: How to Look Good Naked, Gok's Fashion Fix and Miss Naked Beauty, has published bestselling style guides to go with them, and he is also a... Read more

The Men We Became - Abridged

By: Robert T. Littell

Narrated by: Robert T. Littell

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From youth to adulthood, Rob Littell spent 20 years alongside John F. Kennedy Jr.—through laughter and sorrow, joy and heartbreak. Now in this moving and poignant memoir of their touching friendship, Rob Littell shares his story with listeners

Rob Littell was a freshman at Brown when he met JFK Jr. Although Littell came from a privileged... Read more

كيف تعاش الحياة أو حياة مونتاني - Abridged

By: Sarah Bakewell

Narrated by: يامن عبد النور

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: Yes

كيف تُعاش الحياة؟! سؤالٌ واحد، وعشرون محاولة للإجابة. يتناول هذا الكتاب سيرة حياة النبيل والفيلسوف، وكاتب المقالات الفرنسي في القرن السادس عشر، «ميشيل إيكيم دي مونتاني». تتتبع الكاتبة البريطانية «سارة بكويل» حياة مونتاني وفقًا للأسئلة التي طرحها على نفسه طوال حياته، وتستمد الإجابات من مقالاته. كان مونتاني واحدًا من أكثر الكتاب تأثيرًا في عصر... Read more

The Last American Man - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable look at a truly pioneering, but thoroughly modern, American hero.Finalist for the National Book Award 2002In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his... Read more

Sich fügen heißt lügen. Henning Venske liest Erich Mühsam - Abridged

By: Henning Venske

Narrated by: Henning Venske

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Erich Mühsam war ein anarchistischer Dichter, den deutsche Nazis ermordeten und dessen Bücher sie verbrannten. Erich Mühsam war den Nazis, aber auch allen anderen Anhängern eines deutschen Obrigkeitsstaates als Jude, als Antifaschist, als Dichter des Klassenkampfes und als geistiger Anführer der Münchener Räterepublik verhasst. Vor allem war er... Read more

Ask Not - Abridged

By: Thurston Clarke

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those... Read more

In addition to Dale Carnegie´s Method - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Christopher

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Audiobook Beyond the Method of Dale Carnegie is a work that presents advanced techniques of communication and persuasion, capable of transforming the personal and professional lives of listeners. With practical examples and inspiring stories, the author shows how to apply these strategies in different situations, from a conversation with... Read more

Wasserfahrt von Regensburg nach Trapezunt - Abridged

By: Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer

Narrated by: Gert Westphal

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der gebürtige Südtiroler Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790–1861) gilt als bedeutender Orientalist. Der Kleinbauernsohn (geboren in Tschötsch bei Brixen) war ein für seine Zeit liberaler Denker, der in München und Frankfurt tätig war, und noch heute als Gelehrter bekannt ist. Sein maßgebliches Werk "Fragmente aus dem Orient", 1845 erstmals... 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

Reisen außerhalb der Zeit. Life is a Story – story.one - Abridged

By: Gregor Sieböck

Narrated by: Gregor Sieböck

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zu Fuß, im Kajak, mit Frachtschiff, Flugzeug, Bus und Eisenbahn unterwegs rund um unseren Zauberplaneten Erde. Seit 2003 reist der Weltenwanderer Gregor Sieböck in die weite Welt hinaus und folgt der Stimme seines Herzens. Beschenkt von der Magie des Augenblicks lösen sich dabei Zeit, Raum und Grenzen auf. Die große Herausforderung besteht... 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

West Dickens Avenue - Abridged

By: John Corbett

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho... Read more

Truman - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more