Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Surrender is Not an Option - Abridged

By: John Bolton

Narrated by: John Bolton

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With no-holds-barred candor, Donald Trump's new National Security Adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations takes us behind the scenes at the UN and the US State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the US can lead the way to a more realistic... Read more

Blue Like Jazz - Abridged

By: Donald Miller

Narrated by: Donald Miller

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Donald Miller's fresh and original voice may change the way Christians view the "status quo" faith and build a bridge to seekers who believe that organized religion doesn't meet their spiritual needs."I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of... Read more

Metaphysical Sherpa: Misunderstood Mystic - Abridged

By: Nick Mirisola

Narrated by: Gill Mills & Nick Mirisola

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Metaphysical Sherpa. Misunderstood Mystic by Nick MirisolaA Condensed Autobiography and more…An Anthology of a life’s work, with Artwork, Memes, and Meditative Animal Song Lyrics.Accompanied by a Philosophy of Science Paper first published in The International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation Points About Points with a PointNature... Read more

A Paper Life - Abridged

By: Tatum O'Neal

Narrated by: Tatum O'Neal

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Filled with stunning revelations, here is the sensational memoir of one of Hollywood’s most talented and troubled stars—an inspirational true tale of survival and triumph against all oddsThough she has shunned the media spotlight, Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal at last goes on the record to tell her story-a tale of personal turmoil... Read more

Nicht ohne meine Kippa - Mein Alltag in Deutschland zwischen Klischees und Antisemitismus (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Levi Israel Ufferfilge

Narrated by: Levi Israel Ufferfilge

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ohne Kippa geht Levi Ufferfilge nicht aus dem Haus. Tagtäglich bestreitet er mit dem kleinen Stück Stoff auf dem Kopf seinen Alltag. Doch das Sichtbarsein als Jude bleibt nicht ohne Folgen: Antisemitische Anfeindungen, Beleidigungen und kuriose Begegnungen aller Art. Eine erhellende wie schockierende Erzählung über das Jüdischsein in Deutschland... Read more

Miracle in the Andes - Abridged

By: Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Narrated by: Josh Davis

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home

“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days... Read more

The Vanished World of Robert Youngson - Abridged

By: Jim Manago

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Writer-Producer Robert Youngson’s seminal compilation documentaries of silent comedy in the 1960s inspired a Renaissance in the legacies of Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, and, above all, Laurel and Hardy as well as other comedians from movies of the teens and twenties. Youngson died young, but his widow, Jeanne, tells author Manago about her late... Read more

Escape from Appalachia - Abridged

By: Mary Frances Barron

Narrated by: Mary Frances Barron

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Told through the eyes of a witty, outgoing, and curious little girl, Francie beautifully weaves together personal narratives and historical information about the ever-present American tragedy known as Appalachia. She peels back layers of her early life while walking us through the patches where coal miners and their families once lived, the... Read more

GIMP - Abridged

By: Mark Zupan

Narrated by: Mark Zupan

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Zupan was a college soccer star, out drinking one night with friends. Tired from the game and from a few too many beers, he decided to take a nap in the back of his best friend's pickup truck. Still asleep when the pickup started and drove away, he was suddenly jolted awake when the truck crashed. Mark was thrown into a canal and stuck for... Read more

Parky: My Autobiography - Abridged

By: Michael Parkinson

Narrated by: Michael Parkinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades.
Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family who can tease out the secrets of even the most reticent star guest, at... 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

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

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

Never Again War - Abridged

By: Helen Engelhardt

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson, Nick Sullivan, Katherine Kel...

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SueMedia Productions / Midsummer Sound Company present the original audio drama, Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz by Helen Engelhardt.Begun as a stage play by Engelhardt, this audio adaptation of Never Again War focuses on key biographical moments in Kollwitz’s long life to give the audience an understanding of the complex world... 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

Rambam - The Story of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon - Abridged

By: Rochel Yaffe

Narrated by: Pam Ephron Goldberg

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brilliant scholar. Dedicated physician. Prolific author. Torah leader.Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon was all of these and much more. From morning to night he toiled on behalf of his suffering brethren. His contributions to Torah literature and thought electrified the Jewish world during his life, and continue to influence world Jewry in modern times. ... Read more

The Cell - Abridged

By: John Miller & Michael Stone

Narrated by: John Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden... Read more

And There Was Light - Abridged

By: Jacques Lusseyran

Narrated by: Andre Gregory

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy,... Read more

O ceramista do Interior - Abridged

By: Roberto Ney Lusvarghi

Narrated by: Adriano

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Em uma tentativa sincera de traduzir tudo que essa belíssima obra significa e proporciona, é certo que se render às páginas de "O Ceramista do Interior" é trilhar uma jornada de iluminação e profundo aprendizado e reflexão, sendo impossível sairmos ilesos do contato com o relato poderoso dessa alma que aqui, para nós, se abre com tamanha... Read more

TrumpNation - Abridged

By: Timothy L. O'Brien

Narrated by: Timothy L. O'Brien

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Available for the first time in a decade-the book that launched a $5 billion lawsuit--with a new introduction by the author in which O'Brien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania.

This entertaining look inside the world of Donald Trump is chock full of rip-roaring anecdotes, jaw-dropping quotes, and rigorous research into the business... Read more

To Conquer the Air - Abridged

By: James Tobin

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.

For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in... 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

Long Walk to Freedom - Abridged

By: Nelson Mandela

Narrated by: Danny Glover

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan.


Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from... Read more

West End Girls - Abridged

By: Barbara Tate

Narrated by: Kate O'Sullivan

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Now a Top Ten bestseller. Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war - things would never be the same... Read more