Biography & Memoir audiobooks

William Conrad - Abridged

By: Charles Tranberg

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Conrad (1920–1994) was one of the most prolific and recognizable voices of the golden age of radio drama on such programs as The Whistler, Escape, Suspense, Favorite Story, Lux Radio Theater, and many others, but it was his performance as Marshal Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke that made him a radio institution. In addition... Read more

My Father, My President - Abridged

By: Doro Bush Koch

Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.

Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more

الدحيحة - ديانا - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: طاهر المعتز بالله

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

الرقص مع الأفاعي. في 31 أغسطس 1997 بعد نُص الليل، وفي نفق على بُعد أقل من ميل من برج إيفل في باريس، حادثة سيارة مريبة راحت ضحيتها الأميرة ديانا وصديقها دودي فايد والسواق هنري بول. بعد وفاتها المأساوية، العالم كله تساءل وقتها مين اللي قتل ديانا، وظهرت نظريات كتير بتقول إن فيه مؤامرة اتدبرت لاغتيالها هي والفايد. ديانا واحدة من أشهر النساء على... Read more

Hero - Abridged

By: Michael Korda

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Michael Korda, author of the New York Times bestselling Eisenhower biography Ike and the captivating Battle of Britain book With Wings Like Eagles, comes the critically-acclaimed definitive biography of T. E. Lawrence—the legendary British soldier, strategist, scholar, and adventurer whose exploits as “Lawrence of Arabia” created a legacy... Read more

Reisen außerhalb der Zeit. Life is a Story – story.one - Abridged

By: Gregor Sieböck

Narrated by: Gregor Sieböck

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zu Fuß, im Kajak, mit Frachtschiff, Flugzeug, Bus und Eisenbahn unterwegs rund um unseren Zauberplaneten Erde. Seit 2003 reist der Weltenwanderer Gregor Sieböck in die weite Welt hinaus und folgt der Stimme seines Herzens. Beschenkt von der Magie des Augenblicks lösen sich dabei Zeit, Raum und Grenzen auf. Die große Herausforderung besteht... Read more

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova - Abridged

By: Ian Kelly

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly’s biography of one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of any age.

In this fascinating biography of the notorious libertine, Ian Kelly draws on documents by Casanova, his friends and his lovers (male and female) in order to bring fresh insights to the man’s life and world. The sights and smells... Read more

Teacher Man - Abridged

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at... Read more

America's Queen - Abridged

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has captivated the American public for more than five decades. From her introduction to the world as "debutante of the year" in 1947 to her untimely death in 1994, she has truly remained America's answer to royalty. In America's Queen, the acclaimed biographer of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Grace reveals the real... Read more

Give Me a Break - Abridged

By: John Stossel

Narrated by: John Stossel

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort lawyers run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, ""Give me a break.""When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers. But along the way, he... Read more

الدحيحة - تايسون فيوري - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: طاهر المعتز بالله

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

بطل العالم في مواجهة الاكتئاب! من أبوين أيرلنديين، اتولد تايسون فيوري في سنة 1988، لكنه اتولد قبل ميعاده بتلات شهور، وبوزن 450 جرام تقريبًا. كان أقرب للموت وقتها، لكن تشاء الأقدار إنه يعيش ويكون واحد من أعظم ملاكمي الوزن التقيل عبر العصور. في العشرينات من عمره، تايسون فيوري بقا بطل العالم في الوزن التقيل للملاكمة. اتحول من غجري بيكافح في حياته... Read more

Die verbotene Reise - Abridged

By: Peter Wensierski

Narrated by: Jutta Seifert

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Im Sommer 1987 wagen zwei junge Ostberliner aus dem Prenzlauer Berg das große Abenteuer: Bedrängt von den politischen Verhältnissen, fälschen sie eine Einladung und erhalten daraufhin ein Visum für Russland und die Mongolei, Sehnsuchtsorte der beiden Wildnisliebhaber. Aber ihr geheimes Ziel ist das für DDR-Bürger eigentlich unerreichbare China.... Read more

الدحيحة - رولينج - Abridged

By: طاهر المعتز بالله

Narrated by: طاهر المعتز بالله

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

بعد كل هذا الوقت؟ إلى الأبد. كانت فقيرة وتكاد تكون بلا مأوى وعايشة على إعانات الدولة، وكتبت كتابتها من مقهى بيسمح لها تقعد طالما إنها بتطلب مشروب. كان عندها طفل صغير ومطلقة ووالدتها مُشخصة بمرض التصلب العصبي المتعدد. وفوق كل دا، كانت بتعاني من الاكتئاب وبتفكر في الانتحار. لكن كل دا مخلهاش تبطل تحلم تحقق طموحها في إنها تبقى كاتبة. في سنة 1990،... Read more

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Robinson

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, ""Dad, is that the President you worked for?""What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize... 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

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

Ein Gespräch über Otfried Preußler: Krabat und Die kleine Hexe - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 1 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

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

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

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Otfried Preußlers Geschichten haben Generationen von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen begeistert. Genannt seien nur die bekanntesten Figuren: Die kleine Hexe, Der Räuber Hotzenplotz und Das kleine Gespenst. Sein erstes Buch, Der kleine Was- sermann, erschien 1956 und erhielt ein Jahr später den Deutschen Jugendbuchpreis. Zunächst war... 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

Ein Gespräch über William Shakespeare - Hamlet - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 5 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

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

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

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1601 am Globe Theatre in London uraufgeführt, gehört Shakespeares Drama "Hamlet" zu den bekanntesten und meistdiskutierten Tragödien der Weltliteratur. Bereits in der Entstehungszeit war das Stück populär und genießt bis heute eine beeindruckende Bühnenpräsenz; Aussprüche wie "Sein oder Nichtsein" haben Eingang gefunden in unsere... Read more

Blackbird - Abridged

By: Jennifer Lauck

Narrated by: Jennifer Lauck

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.

To young Jenny, the house on Mary... Read more

Thomas Jefferson An Autobiography - Abridged

By: Thomas Jefferson

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I cannot live without books.”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman,... Read more

Ein Gespräch über Kleist - Käthchen von Heilbronn - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 8 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

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

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

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heinrich von Kleist, 1777 in eine Adelsfamilie geboren, befand sich zeitlebens in einer Außenseiterstellung zwischen den literarischen Lagern der Romantik und der Weimarer Klassik. In seinen erzählenden und dramatischen Werken sticht er durch die Darstellung der Extreme hervor: Starke Gefühlsausbrüche, gewaltsame Bilder und das Missachten... 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

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

Mindhunter - Abridged

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: John E. Douglas

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a Netflix original series

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.

In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind... Read more