Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Las siniestras predicciones de Baba Vanga Para 2024 - Abridged

By: victor montas

Narrated by: victor montas

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Las siniestras predicciones de Baba Vanga Para 2024Baba Vanga, nacida en 1911 y fallecida en 1996, fue una misteriosa vidente búlgara que ha capturado la atención del mundo con sus supuestas predicciones sobre eventos globales. A lo largo de su vida, se le atribuyeron muchas profecías que abarcaban desde desastres naturales hasta cambios... Read more

Soul Survivor - Abridged

By: Philip Yancey

Narrated by: Philip Yancey

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. "When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in recovery from the church."

Yancey acknowledges... Read more

Mornings On Horseback - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.

Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore... Read more

Tales from Q School - Abridged

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of Raise a Fist, Take a Knee and A Good Walk Spoiled, this "must-read" national bestseller takes you inside the dramatic world of the highest-pressure golf tournament in the world (Tampa Tribune).  

It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the... Read more

Papa Bravo Romeo - Abridged

By: Wynn Goldsmith

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Our mission was independent, no-holds-barred combat against a stubborn enemy in the enemy's backyard."                

In Vietnam, river warfare was often conducted in the dark. It was always dangerous, sometimes fatal--especially in the eastern end of the Cong-plagued Mekong Delta. In 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Wynn Goldsmith was the "river rat" who... Read more

Beatrix Potter Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman - Abridged

By: Judy Taylor

Narrated by: Patricia Routledge

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The downloadable audiobook edition of Judy Taylor's classic biography, Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman, read by the actress Patricia Routledge.

Starting with the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, Beatrix Potter went on to become one of the world's most successful children's authors. This illustrated... Read more

In My Time - Abridged

By: Dick Cheney

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a forty-year portrait of American politics and shares unyielding reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.

In his enlightening and provocative memoir—a stately page-turner with flashes of surprising... Read more

CORAÇÃO DE ATLETA - Abridged

By: Patricia Fonseca

Narrated by: Patricia Fonseca

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Fui tirando aos poucos a roupa bem devagar, enquanto ainda olhava para o espelho. E então me permiti chorar. Minhas mãos cobriram meu rosto e eu apoiei minhas costas nuas na parede fria de azulejos, deixando o desconforto gelado me abraçar ao me lembrar que ainda estava viva e fui escorregando até sentar no chão do banheiro. A água caía no... Read more

Ein Gespräch über Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Langstrumpf und Die Brüder Löwenherz - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 9 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Narrated by: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Astrid Lindgrens Figuren haben Generationen von Kindern geprägt und begeistern auch Erwachsene bis heute. "Pippi Langstrumpf" ist zwar nicht ihr Erstlingswerk, aber das wohl Bekannteste. Da es als Kinder- buch zu anspruchsvoll erschien, wurde es vom Verlag zunächst abgelehnt. Mit überarbeitetem Text und der erfolgreichen Teilnahme an einem... Read more

The Darkest Jungle - Abridged

By: Todd Balf

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers... 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

Assholes Finish First - Abridged

By: Tucker Max

Narrated by: Tucker Max

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The best gift for the dudes and bros in your life: the fratire New York Times bestseller Assholes Finish First, featuring twenty-five new and exclusive stories by Tucker Max.

What do you do after you write a #1 bestselling book about your drunken, sexual misadventures that makes you rich and famous? Celebrate by getting more drunk and having... Read more

Steve Jobs - Abridged

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more

Undaunted Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more

يوميات دراجة نارية - رحلة في أميريكا اللاتينية - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: داود عفيشات

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

يوميات تشي غيفارا يطبعها سحر خاص، شخصية ملأت القرن العشرين وفاضت أطيافها على الألفية الثالثة، مثال إنساني وكفاحي مضيء لكل الأزمنة. هذه اليوميات التي كتبها غيفارا خلال رحلة في أرجاء أميركا اللاتينية سنة 1952 قطع خلالها مع صديقه ألبرتو غرانادو على دراجة نارية 4500 كليومتر، كانت البوابة التي ولج منها الطبيب الأرجنتيني الشاب غيفارا إلى فضاء أميركا... Read more

Death in the Jungle - Abridged

By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Eric Conger
2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.

With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more

Made in America - Abridged

By: Peter Ueberroth

Narrated by: Peter Ueberroth

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A behind-the-scenes look about how Los Angeles prepared to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.For five years Peter Ueberroth spearheaded the committee that oversaw the 23rd Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California. While the athletes trained, competed, and qualified, this future baseball commissioner and his committee— primarily comprised... Read more

The Kid Stays in the Picture - Abridged

By: Robert Evans

Narrated by: Robert Evans

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.
 
With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction... Read more

Marilyn - Abridged

By: George Barris & Marilyn Monroe

Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy, yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, Marilyn Monroe was no ordinary screen goddess. But few really knew her. On June 1, 1962— Marilyn's 36th birthday— famed photographer and reporter George Barris visited Marilyn on the set of what would... Read more

Jack - Abridged

By: Geoffrey Perret

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There has been no complete biography like this one. Jack deals with the full scope of Kennedy's life - his family, his friends, his infidelities. There's much to say, much culled from hundreds of hours of tapes from the Oval Office. Through painstaking research, Geoffrey Perret located thousands of revealing documents on national security issues... Read more

I Never Had It Made - Abridged

By: Jackie Robinson

Narrated by: Ossie Davis

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A straightforward yet inspiring story of what it took to be the first man of color to break into the white world of professional sports. Jackie Robinson's story is more than a telling of his tremendous talent; it is also a recollection that showcases his tenacious spirit, bravery and the courage of his ideals. From the early influences of family... Read more

Cronkite - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite. An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring detail and depth to this deeply personal portrait. He also... Read more

The Man Who Owns the News - Abridged

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Michael Wolff

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer... Read more

Money, A Memoir - Abridged

By: Liz Perle

Narrated by: Liz Perle

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle made a quiet contract with cash: She would do what it took to get it—work hard, marry right—but she didn't want to have to think about it too much. Since she was a young girl, the subject of money had been quietly sidestepped, a shadowy factor whose private influence was impolite to discuss. When... Read more