Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Benjamin Franklin, Citizen - Abridged

By: Fredd Wayne

Narrated by: Fredd Wayne

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ben Franklin's wisdom is just as potent now as it was more than two hundred years ago. A founding father of the United States, he was also a world citizen, a philosopher, author, and scientist. Fredd Wayne's brilliant performance reveals this genius with a sense of proportion that carefully balances excerpts from Franklin's public writings and... Read more

Downtown - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Pete Hamill

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. 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

Talking Back - Abridged

By: Andrea Mitchell

Narrated by: Andrea Mitchell

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A frank, highly engaging, behind-the-scenes memoir by one of today's most respected journalists.

Read by the author
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This Time, This Place - Abridged

By: Jack Valenti

Narrated by: Michael Douglas

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different kind of war in Vietnam, he was in that... Read more

Треска - Abridged

By: Марк Курлански

Narrated by: Алексей Макрецкий

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

В книге Марка Курлански скромная треска становится главным персонажем мировой истории. Ради трески европейцы начали пересекать Атлантику — и именно благодаря треске столь дальние плавания стали возможны. Из-за трески велись войны и начинались революции, она служила основой рациона целых народов, от нее зависели экономики разных стран, и... Read more

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - Abridged

By: James Shapiro

Narrated by: James Shapiro

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, ""succeed[ing] where others have fallen short."" (Boston Globe)1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year,... Read more

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Abridged

By: Rifleman Harris

Narrated by: Jason Salkey

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula. 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

Empire - Abridged

By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.Hughes had always been... Read more

Out of Africa - Abridged

By: Isak Dinesen

Narrated by: Julie Harris

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"When I was a young girl, it was very far from my thoughts to go to Africa, nor did I dream then that an African farm should be the place in which I should be perfectly happy."After the failure of her coffee farm, Karen Blixen returned to Denmark, where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life... Read more

Salir a Comer - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Álvaro

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Salir a cenar puede ser una experiencia placentera, pero a menudo puede ser un desafío para cualquiera que intente mantener una dieta saludable. En este libro electrónico, analizaremos estrategias y consejos para ayudarlo a tomar decisiones saludables en restaurantes, cafeterías y eventos sociales. Read more

Comer con Placer - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Álvaro

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Comer es una de las actividades más placenteras de la vida. Es un momento para relajarse, disfrutar de la compañía de amigos y familiares y disfrutar de los sabores de la comida. Sin embargo, muchas personas asocian la alimentación saludable con restricciones y sacrificios. ¡Esto no tiene que ser verdad! Es posible comer saludablemente y aun así... 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

Comida Real, Cuerpo Real - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Álvaro

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lo que comes no es solo combustible para tu cuerpo. También es una forma de expresarse. Cuando eliges comer comida real, estás eligiendo vivir una vida auténtica. La comida real es comida que ha sido mínimamente procesada. Son ricas en nutrientes y bajas en calorías, grasas y sodio. También tienen un alto contenido de fibra, lo que te ayuda a... Read more

Official Book Club Selection - Abridged

By: Kathy Griffin

Narrated by: Kathy Griffin

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Official Book Club Selection is Kathy Griffin unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. (It’s also her big chance to score that coveted book club endorsement she’s always wanted. Are you there, Oprah? It’s me, Kathy.)

Kathy Griffin has won Emmys... Read more

Speaking of Freedom - Abridged

By: George H.W. Bush

Narrated by: George H.W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of his inauguration and the commission of the USS George H.W. Bush, a collection of the forty-first president’s speeches.  

Here, in his own words, is the record of George H.W. Bush’s presidency. Chosen and annotated by former President Bush, these forty-two speeches reflect his concerns, his political... Read more

And You Know You Should Be Glad - Abridged

By: Bob Greene

Narrated by: Bob Greene

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A highly personal and moving true story of friendship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School.Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, Bob Greene and his four best friends -- Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they... Read more

Consciente de Comer - Abridged

By: MAX EDITORIAL

Narrated by: Álvaro

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La alimentación consciente es el acto de comer consciente y conscientemente. Es prestar atención a lo que estás comiendo, cómo lo estás comiendo y por qué lo estás comiendo. Es comer sin distracciones como ver la televisión o usar el teléfono. Es saborear cada bocado y ser consciente de cómo te hace sentir tu comida. Read more

My Life with the Chimpanzees - Abridged

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Jane Goodall

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing... Read more

The Other Woman - Abridged

By: Paula Barbieri

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Paula Barbieri reveals how O. J. Simpson treated women, including his abusive relationship with her. After the murders she turned to religion and became a born-again Christian. Read more

Mississippi Sissy - Abridged

By: Kevin Sessums

Narrated by: Kevin Sessums

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.

As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its... 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 Case for Hillary Clinton - Abridged

By: Susan Estrich

Narrated by: Susan Estrich

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With the Bush era now in its final years, all eyes are turning to the 2008 political season -- especially those of Democratic voters, who are casting about for a galvanizing leader to help them win back the White House. Longtime political analyst Susan Estrich argues that no candidate even approaches the power and promise of Hillary Rodham... Read more