Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Gasping for Airtime - Abridged

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling,... Read more

What I Saw at the Revolution - Abridged

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Peggy Noonan

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ronald Reagan carried a conservative vision of America to the White House, where his administration gave it life. Peggy Noonan followed Reagan to Washington as his speechwriter— and gave his vision voice. As speech writer for George Bush during his Presidential campaign, Noonan dispelled her candidate's "wimpy" image and replaced it... Read more

أما هذه.. فرقصتي أنا - Abridged

By: غادة محمد محمود

Narrated by: عائشة الخراط

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

غادة محمد محمود من مواليد 1984، وخريجة كلية الآداب قسم اللغة الإنجليزية لعام 2004. محررة ومترجمة ولها مدونة على الإنترنت تحمل اسم "مع نفسي". "أما هذه فرقصتي أنا" هو اسم الكتاب الأول لغادة محمود التي لاقت كتاباتها نجاحاً من خلال مدونتها التي تحمل اسم "مع نفسي"، حيث يحمل في طيّاته 35 قصة قصيرة، وهي عبارة عن مدونة تجمع ما بين الخواطر الذاتية والنص... 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

STAR TREK MOVIE MEMORIES - Abridged

By: William Shatner

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sequel to the bestselling Star Trek Memories, documenting in deliciously lurid and candid detail all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans in the making of the six Star Trek movies, with on-the-scene reporting from the set of the seventh in which...Kirk dies!Star Trek Movie Memories recounts all the chaos, creative turmoil, backstage politics,... Read more

Absolutely American - Abridged

By: David Lipsky

Narrated by: David Lipsky

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review

As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more

Steel Victories - Abridged

By: Monica C. Smith

Narrated by: Monica C. Smith & Marla Smith-McCoy

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This father-daughter tale reveals how the author’s father taught her how to fight and survive in an unfiltered America. Born in the early 1940s, her father was thrown into a world where he had no choice but to fight in many different arenas, including the boxing ring and the courtroom. He instilled in her his unrelenting drive and will to win.... Read more

Geisterkinder - Abridged

By: Valerie Riedesel

Narrated by: Johanna Klöpper

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nach dem missglückten Attentat auf Adolf Hitler 1944 wird der Offizier Cäsar von Hofacker, ein Cousin Stauffenbergs, hingerichtet. Seine Frau und die fünf Kinder ereilt das Schicksal der Sippenhaft in Gefängnissen, Konzentrationslagern und Kinderheimen. Nach der Befreiung schreiben die 13 und 15 Jahre alten Schwestern Christa und Anna-Luise ihre... Read more

My Losing Season - Abridged

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
 
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military... Read more

Bleiben ist keines - nirgendwo - Abridged

By: Mohammed Jabur

Narrated by: Heinzl Spagl & Mohammed Jabur

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nirgens durfte der 1958 geborene, staatenlose Palästinenser Mohammed Jabur bleiben: nicht in Syrien, im Irak, in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, nicht in Libyen. Schließlich gelangte er nach Deutschland, wo er nach zähem Ringen die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft erhielt. 2001 erkrankte er an Krebs. Mehrmals war Mohammed Jabur klinisch tot.... Read more

My FBI - Abridged

By: Louis J. Freeh

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement, and of one man's determined struggle to strengthen and reform the FBI while ensuring its freedom from political interference.

Bill Clinton called Freeh a "law... Read more

Das Märchen ist zu Ende - Abridged

By: Emmy Hennings

Narrated by: Ella Endlich, Uwe Friedrichsen, Frank Roder, Th...

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rastlos, heimatlos, vielseitig begabt, naiv, melancholisch und stets selbst reflektierend verdichtete sie ihr Leben als Tänzerin, Schauspielerin, Dichterin, Autorin, Morphinistin, Gelegenheitsprostituierte, Revoluzzerin und früher Bohemien zwischen Berlin, München und Zürich in einer schieren Sucht nach Leben als Abenteuer. An der Seite Hugo... Read more

I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It - Abridged

By: Charles Barkley

Narrated by: Charles Barkley

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If there’s one thing Charles Barkley knows, it’s the crying need for honest, open discussion in this country—the more uncomfortable the subject, the more necessary the dialogue. And if the discussion leader can be as wise, irreverent, (occasionally) profane and (consistently) funny as Charles Barkley, so much the better. Many people are going to... Read more

In den Spuren des Verbrechertums - Abridged

By: Ernst Engelbrecht

Narrated by: Peter Bieringer

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Texte Ernst Engelbrechts lassen tief in eine noch vom Kolonialgeist geprägte europäische Epoche blicken. Seine Umgangssprache pendelt zwischen Höflichkeit und herablassendem Leutnantsjargon und macht ihn zu einem der erfolgreichsten Autoren der Weimarer Republik. In Engelbrechts Worten zeigt sich das Sittenbild einer Gesellschaft, die sich... Read more

Wasted - Abridged

By: Marya Hornbacher

Narrated by: Marya Hornbacher

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of five, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on a enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried--because she thought she was fat. By age nine she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at... 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

Stranger Than Fiction - Abridged

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Abridged

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: E. Lynn Harris

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.

Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and... Read more

Kokain - Abridged

By: Walter Rheiner

Narrated by: Ulrich Tukur, Marc Bator, Helmut Krauss & Isabe...

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Stern des Expressionistischen Dichters Walter Rheiner verglühte 1925 in Berlin. Einsam und verlassen starb er im Alter von nur dreißig Jahren an einer Überdosis Morphium in einer Absteige in der Berliner Kantstraße. Das hektische Berlin der zwanziger Jahre verschlang diesen 'Düsteren Dichter', wie er selbst sich sah, fast spurlos. Walrer... Read more

I Am Spock - Abridged

By: Leonard Nimoy

Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Best known to the world as the actor who created the legendary Mr. Spock in the cult television series that launched the Star Trek phenomenon, Leonard Nimoy has written the definitive Star Trek memoir. In this long-awaited autobiography, Nimoy opens up to his fans in ways the Vulcan never could.Having played the pivotal role of Mr. Spock in the... Read more

In the Arena - Abridged

By: Richard Nixon

Narrated by: Richard Nixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In the Arena is the most personal, profound, and revealing memoir ever written by a major political figure. It is Richard Nixon's frankest, most outspoken book—which includes the inside story of his resignation from the Presidency and its aftermath.

President Nixon's previous books have brilliantly chronicled his public career and examined... 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

In Spite of Myself - Abridged

By: Christopher Plummer

Narrated by: Christopher Plummer

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors.

Plummer tells how “this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early... Read more

Blood Done Sign My Name - Abridged

By: Timothy B. Tyson

Narrated by: Timothy B. Tyson

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
 
*Chicago Tribune

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert... Read more