Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Setting the Table - Abridged

By: Danny Meyer

Narrated by: Danny Meyer

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is... Read more

Bush Country - Abridged

By: John Podhoretz

Narrated by: John Podhoretz

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining acerbic wit with insider political savvy, one of America's most entertaining journalists tells readers why George W. Bush is not only the Right Man at the Right Time, but has become the greatest Leader of the Age

George W. Bush arrived in the White House an untested governor with an unfortunate habit of tripping over his own tongue,... Read more

حقيقة قوس قزح - Abridged

By: علوان السهيمي

Narrated by: قصي حمود

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

مرحبًا بكم في تيفوي، حيث نجسد في شركتنا الكتب الورقية إلى تجارب مسموعة رائعة! ونفخر بتقديم خدمة تسجيل الكتب الصوتية. اخترنا هذا الطريق لأننا نؤمن بأن العلم والمعرفة يجب أن تكون في متناول الجميع، وخاصة أولئك الذين يعانون من ضيق الوقت أو القراءة التقليدية. رواية تتحدث عن روائي يصاب بحبسة الكتابة، ثم يحاول أن يكتب روايته الجديدة، لينتقل إلى شقة... Read more

Вкус. Кулинарные мемуары - Abridged

By: Стэнли Туччи

Narrated by: Дмитрий Стрелков

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Стэнли Туччи вырос в италоамериканской семье, которая уделяла огромное внимание еде и каждый вечер собиралась за кухонным столом. В этой книге он не только делится самыми разными рецептами, но и рассказывает связанные с ними удивительные истории. «Вкус» — это размышления о жизни и еде, перемежаемые рассказами актера о детстве в США... Read more

Antonio Vivaldi : sa vie et son oeuvre - Abridged

By: Jean-Claude Michel

Narrated by: Jean-Claude Michel

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Initiation à l'oeuvre et à la vie d'Antonio Vivaldi. Antonio Vivaldi est l'un des plus importants compositeurs de la période baroque, et a eu une influence considérable en Italie et dans toute l'Europe. Sa virtuosité au violon était incomparable, et c'est l'initiateur principal du concerto de soliste ; son art s'est exprimé dans une intense... Read more

Hector Berlioz : sa vie et son oeuvre - Abridged

By: Michel Droit

Narrated by: Michel Droit

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Berlioz est un maître incontesté de l'orchestre ; on lui doit la notion de festival, il a inauguré le genre de la mélodie avec ensemble instrumental, et c'est un éminent représentant du romantisme européen. Mais cette réussite n'a pas été sans son lot de déceptions : cet enregistrement original retrace la vie de Berlioz d'une manière plus... Read more

Raging Heart - Abridged

By: Sheila Weller

Narrated by: Rodney Saulsberry

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A tumultuous story of love, obsession, provocation, and violence that featured in “ Trial of the Century.” Here is the intimate untold story of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson's tragic, turbulent marriage. Author Sheila Weller was granted unprecedented cooperation by Nicole's family and exclusive access to friends who... 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

Rocket Boys - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives....And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a... 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

An Unfinished Life - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had... Read more

El niño que domó el viento - Abridged

By: William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

Narrated by: George Whitman

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Resumen del libro por Strem readers, esta es una versión abreviada del título original. "El niño que domó el viento" cuenta la inspiradora historia de un joven de Malaui que, enfrentado a la pobreza extrema y la hambruna, utiliza su ingenio y determinación para construir un molino de viento que proporciona electricidad a su hogar y a su... Read more

Manhunt - Abridged

By: James L. Swanson

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history -- the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, twelve-day chase from the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.At the very center... Read more

A Migrant From The Expelled Generation - Abridged

By: Firas EL ECHI

Narrated by: Firas EL Echi

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A Migrant from the Expelled Generation"What happens to a generation when their dreams of a decent, dignified life in their own home are shattered? Firas El Echi shares his story and theirs, recounting the journey of those who left everything behind in search of hope and opportunity. From his school days in Tunisia to starting over in Cairo,... Read more

De sertanejo a taxista - Abridged

By: Hotelim Armindo Vieira

Narrated by: Gustavo Andrade

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Neste emocionante relato autobiográfico, Hotelim Armindo Vieira compartilha a trajetória de sua vida, desde sua infância no sertão até se tornar taxista na cidade de São Gonçalo. Com uma narrativa envolvente, o autor nos transporta para suas primeiras memórias no povoado de Bananeira, onde sua família vivia em meio à simplicidade e aos desafios... Read more

The 2nd Daws Butler Collection - Abridged

By: Charles Dawson Butler

Narrated by: Charles Dawson Butler, Joe Bevilacqua & a full ...

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

His voice can be heard in countless classic animated cartoons still seen on television around the world. He was Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and a hundred others. His fans included Groucho Marx, Lionel Barrymore, and even Albert Einstein. His work with satirist Stan Freberg sold millions of records. You have probably never heard of him. His... Read more

Princess in Love - Abridged

By: Anna Pasternak

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Their love was both passionate and full of hope, yet ultimately hopeless. This is the true story of the love between a man and a woman— a romance doomed from the start— besieged by media and public opinion on the world stage. The woman was Diana, the Princess of Wales; the man was Captain James Hewitt. Their love affair... Read more

Master of the Senate - Abridged

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from... Read more

Ryan White - Abridged

By: Ryan White, Greg Louganis & Ann Marie Cunningham

Narrated by: Lukas Haas

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old living in a small town in the Midwest. Then, it was discovered that Ryan had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. Denied the right to return to school, he went to court. Newspaper headlines followed the many legal battles, and although Ryan won the court case,... Read more

Been There, Done That - Abridged

By: Eddie Fisher & David Fisher

Narrated by: Eddie Fisher

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

By the time he was 21 years old, Eddie Fisher was one of America's most popular entertainers. But for Eddie, that was only the beginning of a two-decade affair with fame and fortune that made him more popular than Frank Sinatra, turned out more consecutive hit records than the Beatles, and earned him millions of dollars. He married America's... Read more

My Husband, My Friend - Abridged

By: Neile McQueen-Toffel

Narrated by: Neile McQueen-Toffel

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the 1960s and 70s, actor Steve McQueen was the king of cool, appearing in such classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bullitt. McQueen left the world at age 50, a film legend who went from abandoned child to glittering superstar to a haunted man. In My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir, Steve' s wife of more than 15... Read more

Molecules of Emotion - Abridged

By: Candace B. Pert

Narrated by: Candace B. Pert

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling and revolutionary book that serves as a “landmark in our understanding of the mind-body connection” (Deepak Chopra, MD).

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health?

In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert—an extraordinary neuroscientist who played a pivotal role in 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

Rites of Passage - Abridged

By: Robert Peterson

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . .

Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his life forever. Peterson vividly relives the tense patrols... Read more