Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

All but My Life - Abridged

By: Gerda Weissman Klein

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

All but My Life tells the haunting story of Gerda Weissman Klein’s experience under the Nazi regime. Taken from her home in Bielitz, Poland, and sent to German labor camps, Gerda survived and was liberated by American troops. In her memoir, Klein takes audiences on an alarming journey from the comforts of life in Poland to the horrifying... Read more

Idyll Banter - Abridged

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Chris Bohjalian

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house.... 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

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

Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the West - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: McAvoy Layne

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one man performance based on Twain's writings. The early years of Samuel Clemens, the Mississippi River experiences, and his move to the silver mining area of Nevada are portrayed by exuberant actor McAvoy Layne. Some of the most famous tales, from The Blue Jay Yarn... Read more

Lucifer’s Child - Abridged

By: William Luce

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on... Read more

The Lady and the Panda - Abridged

By: Vicki Croke

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine... 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

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

Antarctic Basalt - Abridged

By: Lewis Juckes

Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"By 1st February the unloading had been completed, and when the ice anchors had been recovered the ship drew slowly away from the ice edge. The dull weather could not suppress the thrill that pulsed through me – this was the real start of my adventure. Up till then I could at any time have turned back. It might have been embarrassing,... Read more

Endurance - Abridged

By: Alfred Lansing

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance—just a day's sail short of its destination—became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history. For ten... Read more

Man's Search for Meaning - Abridged

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Daniel Brooks

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book summary by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title.
"Man's Search for Meaning" is a profound memoir by Viktor E. Frankl, which details his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The book presents his theory of logotherapy, which is based on the idea that human primary drive is not... Read more

Michel Strogoff - Abridged

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Découvrez les aventures de Michel Strogoff, capitaine des courriers du tsar de Russie, dont la mission à très hauts risques l'emmène de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale. Son objectif ? Avertir le grand-duc, frère du tsar, sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'invasion imminente des hordes tartares. Son voyage de plus de 5500 km sera... Read more

Faith of My Fathers - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies."... Read more

Palladian Days - Abridged

By: Sally Gable & Carl I. Gable

Narrated by: Sally Gable

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A chronicle of an influential villa by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio that brings a sense of discovery to the Italian countryside and its larger national history. • “If a vacation in Italy this summer just isn’t going to make the cut, this book might be the next best thing.” —Chicago Tribune

In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the... Read more

A Migrant From The Expelled Generation - Abridged

By: Firas EL ECHI

Narrated by: Firas EL Echi

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A Migrant from the Expelled Generation"What happens to a generation when their dreams of a decent, dignified life in their own home are shattered? Firas El Echi shares his story and theirs, recounting the journey of those who left everything behind in search of hope and opportunity. From his school days in Tunisia to starting over in Cairo,... 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

The Forever War - Abridged

By: Dexter Filkins

Narrated by: Dexter Filkins

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgetable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires - Abridged

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Includes an interview with the author and recipe cards!

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double... Read more

A Journey - Abridged

By: Tony Blair

Narrated by: Tony Blair

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour’s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years... Read more

Rambam - The Story of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon - Abridged

By: Rochel Yaffe

Narrated by: Pam Ephron Goldberg

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brilliant scholar. Dedicated physician. Prolific author. Torah leader.Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon was all of these and much more. From morning to night he toiled on behalf of his suffering brethren. His contributions to Torah literature and thought electrified the Jewish world during his life, and continue to influence world Jewry in modern times. ... Read more

Essential Anais Nin - Abridged

By: Anais Nin

Narrated by: Anais Nin

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell–binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an... 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