Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Decision Points - Abridged

By: George W. Bush

Narrated by: George W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
In gripping, never-before-heard... Read more

Speech-less - Abridged

By: Matthew Latimer

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most candid memoir ever written about official Washington–a laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest.  

Matt chronicles his descent into Washington, D.C., hell, as he snares a series of unsatisfying... Read more

Unconquered - Abridged

By: Adam Davis

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Face your pain. Live unconquered. Trauma is notorious for trapping people in the pain of their past. When you live in defeat, it can be difficult to embrace the hope and victory available in Christ. Former law enforcement officer Adam Davis knows what it's like to feel defeated. In Unconquered, Davis bravely shares his personal experiences... Read more

Dean and Me - Abridged

By: Jerry Lewis & James Kaplan

Narrated by: Gregory Jbara

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got... Read more

The Royal British Legion - Abridged

By: Matt Croucher & The Royal British Legion

Narrated by: Keeley Hawes, Bernard Cribbins, Nicky Henson, S...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921. It is now the country’s leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependants. The RBL is behind the annual Poppy Appeal, the highest profile charity appeal in Britain. ... Read more

Copy This! - Abridged

By: Paul Orfalea & Ann Marsh

Narrated by: Todd Cummings

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No business autobiography has ever let it all hang out like this one. In building an unconventionally democratic multinational company that has been named by Fortune, Forbes, and Working Mother magazines as one of the best places to work in America, Paul Orfalea never tamed his impulsive, rebellious nature, and he discusses his flaws and... Read more

من صرير القلم إلى هام السحاب - Abridged

By: عبد العزيز محمد هنيدي

Narrated by: أحمد اسماعيل

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

سيرة ذاتية لمعالي الفريق الطّيار المتقاعد عبد العزيز محمد هنيدي:حرصتُ في هذه السيرة أن أكونَ صادقًا وصريحًا لم تكن طريق الأحلام التي سلكتُها إلا رحلةً شاقّة، وكانت عوامل التأثير في حياتي كثيرة، حيث تأثرت بأشخاص كثيرين، وتعلّمت من كل عملٍ قمتُ به. لم أتخلّ عن أحلامي يومًا، وكان من فضل ربّي عليّ أنني كنتُ أقتربُ من تحقيقها يومًا بعد يوم. كان من... Read more

The Seven Storey Mountain - Abridged

By: Thomas Merton

Narrated by: Sidney Lanier

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of the 20th century's best-loved Christian writers comes this extraordinary spiritual testament. Thomas Merton was a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. In this memoir, he recounts his spiritual quest, one that led to his conversion to Catholicism. Read more

Starmaker - Abridged

By: Milan Hain

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was one of the most prominent film producers of the Hollywood studio era, responsible for such artistic and commercial triumphs as King Kong, David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, A Star Is Born, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Spellbound, and The Third Man. However, film production was not his only domain. Starting in the... Read more

بالتسعين-سيرة من اعترافات وحياة شاب سعودي عاش بالتسعينات الميلادية - Abridged

By: عبدالله حمد الزيد

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

الكتاب عبارة عن سيرةٍ وطُرفٍ من اعترافاتِ وحياة شابٍ سعودي عاش عقد التسعينات مراهقاً في فورة عواطفه مشبوب المشاعر رخو الوجدان سريع التأثر والتقلب ينتمي إلى الطبقة المتوسطة التي تشكل السواد الأعظم من السعوديين. كتاب "بالتسعين" اعترافات وسواليف شاب سعودي عاش جزءاً من حياته بالتسعين بكل تفاصيلها وسخريتها وأحداثها وخيباتها وانتصاراتها Read more

George Washington - Abridged

By: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Washington's legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments,... Read more

True Courage - Abridged

By: Made for Success, Gerald Coffee, Kelly Estes & ...

Narrated by: Gerald Coffee, Dan McGowan & Bill Chandler

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Full of action-packed experiences from world conflicts, this collection of war stories—some true, some not—tells tales of POWs surviving in Vietnam, World War II, and Cambodia. These stories of grit and strength put you in the middle of the action and will leave you with a respect for true war heroes.Beyond Survival is a journey into the... Read more

The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times - Abridged

By: Max Frankel

Narrated by: Max Frankel

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness America's role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his extraordinary life as he experienced them...within... Read more

Gifted Hands - Abridged

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: Ben Carson & Dion Graham

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more

Before the Wind - Abridged

By: Charles Tyng

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seafaring literature, no fictional sailor's story can match this true, real-life adventure. Before the Wind is the memoir of early nineteenth-century sea captain Charles Tyng— from his childhood and love affair with the sea to his rise through the ranks to captain and ship owner in the tea and sugar trade. Before the Wind takes... Read more

Sixty Feet, Six Inches - Abridged

By: Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson & Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in... Read more

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuart succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion, gambling away her throne for love. In a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, she stopped at nothing: Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest. Often misunderstood yet also revered, she... Read more

The Swedish Secret - Abridged

By: Cleo James

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following an intense chance meeting Mark leaves his wife to begin a new life with Cleo. What starts as a fairytale swiftly turns into a black comedy. Under the illusion she knows everything about the loveable rogue she has fallen for, Cleo is shocked to discover that he may not be so lovable after all. By the time realisation kicks in, Mark and... Read more

I Hate Everyone, Except You - Abridged

By: Clinton Kelly

Narrated by: Clinton Kelly

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore-unknown secrets about himself, like that he's a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jersey's premier water parks, and perhaps the world's least enthused... Read more

Memories of Madison County - Abridged

By: Jana St. James

Narrated by: Jana St. James

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1992, a novel by university professor Robert James Waller was published to less than glowing reviews. Despite the critical reception, The Bridges of Madison County became a publishing phenomenon, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list and selling more than 50 million copies. Decades before, Waller had met 18-year-old Jana... Read more

Lincoln - Abridged

By: Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt, II...

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An audiobook to be treasured by all history buffs: the companion volume to the ABC TV documentary.

This remarkable biography presents Abraham Lincoln as we have never before seen him. The insightful and vibrant narrative draws extensively on diaries, letters, and other primary sources to provide a remarkably close-up view of Lincoln: the boy,... Read more

Lorne Michaels : Book Of Quotes (100+ Selected Quotes) - Abridged

By: Quotes Station

Narrated by: Chris Wolff

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LORNE MICHAELS: BOOK OF QUOTES - ABOUT LORNE MICHAELSLorne Michaels CC is a Canadian-American television producer and screenwriter best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live (since 1975) and producing the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995) and The Tonight Show (since 2014). - QUOTES... Read more

The State of Jones - Abridged

By: Sally Jenkins & John Stauffer

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.

The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the... Read more

Audio PRU - Abridged

By: Facundo conforti

Narrated by: Amelia

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new book from aeronautical library. The history of boeing Read more