Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Camino - Abridged

By: Shirley MacLaine

Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet.

The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters... Read more

The Hill Fights - Abridged

By: Edward F. Murphy

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more

Name All the Animals - Abridged

By: Alison Smith

Narrated by: Alison Smith

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The critically acclaimed, heartbreaking memoir that is at once a gorgeous, profound, and redemptive story of a family holding desperately to the memory of a lost child; and a touching, intelligent, and inspiring coming-out story.

A luminous, true story, Name All the Animals is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family... Read more

Empire of Blue Water - Abridged

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in... Read more

Tough Choices - Abridged

By: Carly Fiorina

Narrated by: Carly Fiorina

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestseller by the most talked about woman in American business.

For five and a half years, Carly Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard through major internal changes, the worst technology slump in decades, and the most controversial merger in high-tech history. Yet just as things were about to turn around, she was abruptly fired,... 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

The Poet's Guide to Life - Abridged

By: Ulrich Baer

Narrated by: Ethan Hawke

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.”
–RAINER MARIA RILKE

In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of... Read more

500 réflexions, sentences ou maximes morales de François de la Rochefoucauld - Abridged

By: François de la Rochefoucauld

Narrated by: Stella Garnier

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Les Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, plus connues sous le titres de Maximes, sont une collection de peintures philosophiques rassemblées par le duc de la Rochefoucauld. " C'est un des ouvrages qui contribuèrent le plus à former le goût de la nation, et à lui donner un esprit de justesse et de précision… Il accoutuma à penser et à... Read more

Knee Deep in Paradis - Abridged

By: Brett Butler

Narrated by: Brett Butler

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonable certain would never come back - my daddy and Jesus Christ. I don't wait for them anymore. My dad anyway. And at least with Jesus I didn't spend all that time thinking he was gone because of something I did." So begins Brett Butler's extraordinary memoir, the... Read more

Things I've Been Silent About - Abridged

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about... 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

My Life - Abridged

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more

The Book of Honor - Abridged

By: Ted Gup

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country.

In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has... 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

Dear Me - Abridged

By: Peter Ustinov

Narrated by: Peter Ustinov

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is... Read more

Reagan In His Own Voice - Abridged

By: Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson & Martin An...

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reagan In His Own Voice features Ronald Reagan's radio addresses from the late 1970s. Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, they are introduced by George Shultz and feature additional introductions by Nancy Reagan, Richard V. Allen, Judge William Clark, Michael Deaver, Peter Hannaford, Edwin Meese III and Harry... Read more

Married to Laughter - Abridged

By: Jerry Stiller

Narrated by: Jerry Stiller

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara began performing together in coffehouses in Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and then as frequent guests on The Ed Sullivan Show. They based their standup characters on exaggerated vrsions of themselves, especially in the irrepressible commercials for Blue Nun wine. Offstage they raised two children, Amy and... Read more

Thieves of Baghdad - Abridged

By: Matthew Bogdanos

Narrated by: Matthew Bogdanos

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures.

A blend of treasure hunt, police procedural, war-time thriller, and exposé of the international black-market in stolen art, told in the voice of a truly remarkable man: a soldier, a father, and a scholar.

The New York tabloids call him... Read more

Aus der schönen neuen Welt - Expeditionen ins Landesinnere (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Günter Wallraff

Narrated by: Günter Wallraff

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zum 80. Geburtstag des Autors endlich wieder erhältlich: "Man muss sich verkleiden, um die Gesellschaft zu demaskieren..." - Günter Wallraff. Niemand hat mehr Missstände aufgedeckt als er. Junge Journalisten nehmen sich an ihm ein Vorbild, wenn sie in Rollen schlüpfen, um die dunklen Seiten der gesellschaftlichen Realität aufzudecken - eine... Read more

Ich, der Andere - Reportagen aus vier Jahrzehnten (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Günter Wallraff

Narrated by: Günter Wallraff

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zum 80. Geburtstag des Autors endlich wieder erhältlich: Günter Wallraff wagt sich seit Jahrzehnten in die verschiedensten Rollen, gibt sich immer wieder neue Gesichter, geht an seine Grenzen, erfindungsreich und kompromisslos. Getarnt als Hans Esser enthüllte er in seinem Buch Der Aufmacher die Praktiken der Bild-Zeitung. Für Ganz unten lebte... Read more

John Wayne's America - Abridged

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Garry Wills

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality—the biography of an idea—Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and... 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

أنا السلام المستدام لنفسي - Abridged

By: دلال محمد الجريذي

Narrated by: ورد اسماعيل

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

عبارة عن خواطر فتاة في عمر الزهور كانت تعاني منها في وحدتها أمورًا قررت أن تواجهها بنفسها ولوحدها، ودروس أخرى تعلمتها من الحياة في ألمها وفرحها وحتى في سقوطها وخذلانها. وفي ظل بشاعة العالم قررت أن تبحث عن السلام من حولها ومن أقرب الناس أولًا حتى توسعت دائرة البحث شيئا فشيئًا لنطاق أبعد. لكنها لم تجد ما تبحث عنه، بل وجدت النقيض له تمامًا. وفي... Read more

Janice the Original - Abridged

By: Janice Dickinson

Narrated by: Janice Dickinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This book is a compilation of the audiobooks of No Lifeguard on Duty, Everything About Me Is Fake...And I'm Perfect, and Check, Please!No Lifeguard on DutySex. Trauma. Abuse. Fashion. Photography. Glamour. Cash. Alcohol. Drugs. Fame. Rock Bottom. Triumph. For Janice Dickinson, life just never stops coming.Everything About Me Is Fake...And I'm... Read more