Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Thalberg - Abridged

By: Bob Thomas

Narrated by: John Landis

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 85 years after his untimely death at just age 37, Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) remains a legendary Hollywood figure. Called the “Boy Wonder of Hollywood,” Thalberg quickly climbed the ranks at MGM studios to became one of the most powerful and high-profile producers of the time, elevating filmmaking to an art form. In this definitive... 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

Still Talking - Abridged

By: Joan Rivers & Richard Meryman

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Picking up where her successful autobiography Enter Talking left off, Joan Rivers delivers a searing and funny account—as only she can—of private tragedy, a public fall from grace, and triumph against all odds. In Still Talking, Joan opens up about her rise to the top, dishes on fellow celebrities, and recounts the end of her treasured... Read more

Where White Men Fear to Tread - Abridged

By: Russell Means & Marvin J. Wolf

Narrated by: Russell Means

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time, and in Where White Men Fear to Tread, he recounts pivotal moments of his life. Means did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination—from storming Mount Rushmore and seizing Plymouth Rock to running for President in 1988.... Read more

Speaking My Mind - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan -- one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, laying out his vision for America and the world.... Read more

Wenn die Erinnerung kommt - Abridged

By: Saul Friedländer

Narrated by: Michael Prelle

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2007 Saul Friedländer wurde 1932 in Prag als Kind deutschsprachiger Juden geboren. In seinen autobiographischen Aufzeichnungen schildert er, wie die Familie nach dem Einmarsch der Deutschen nach Frankreich flüchtete. Als das Leben dort immer bedrohlicher wurde, brachte man ihn unter falschem Namen in... 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

Rewrites A Memoir - Abridged

By: Neil Simon

Narrated by: Neil Simon

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys -- Neil Simon's plays and movies have kept many millions of people laughing for almost four decades. Today he is recognized not only as the most successful American playwright of all time, but also as one of the greatest.

More than the humor, however, it is the humanity of Neil Simon's... Read more

Truman - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more

Takedown - Abridged

By: Rick Cowan & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Christopher Meloni

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seldom has the netherworld of the mafia been revealed with such fascinating detail and sheer suspense. Like the classics of the genre-from The Godfather to The French Connection toWise Guy-Takedown leads us to the inner ring of a conspiracy of corruption and terror that held the city in its grip for nearly fifty years. 

Rick Cowan was a young... Read more

Funny Cide - Abridged

By: Sally Jenkins & Funny Cide Ventures, LLC

Narrated by: Jamey Sheridan

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America.

In 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the... 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

The Age of Turbulence - Abridged

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year... Read more

A Life That Matters - Abridged

By: Terri's Family:, Mary and Robert Schindler, Suz...

Narrated by: Don Leslie & Kate McIntyre

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2004-2005, when the Terri Schiavo case divided the country, one side of the story was buried under the avalanche of politics and power. Now, Terri Schiavo's parents, brother, and sister speak out, for Terri and themselves. A Life That Matters may well change every assumption you have about Terri's too-brief life and prolonged, agonizing... Read more

The Pro - Abridged

By: Butch Harmon

Narrated by: David Bishins

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Butch Harmon is the world’s number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and, perhaps even more conspicuously, did not teach Tiger Woods following his unprecedented run), as well as superstars like Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Fred Couples, Darren Clarke, Natalie Gulbis, and Davis... Read more

Hit and Run - Abridged

By: Nancy Griffin

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives -- at Sony's expense. Veteran reporters Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters chronicle the rise of Jon Peters, a former hairdresser, seventh-grade dropout, and juvenile delinquent, and his... Read more

Der blaue Himmel trügt - Abridged

By: Reinhold Stecher

Narrated by: Reinhold Stecher

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Erinnern – gedenken – mahnen Wie Bischof Reinhold Stecher die NS-Diktatur und den Krieg erlebt hat Bischof Reinhold Stecher hat als Zeitzeuge immer wieder an die Gräuel des nationalsozialistischen Terrorregimes erinnert, an diese "unselige Zeit, die kein Altgold heroischer Verklärung verdient". Dieses Hörbuch ergänzt die Lesungen von... Read more

A Journey - Abridged

By: Tony Blair

Narrated by: Tony Blair

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour’s history, and bringing to an end eighteen years... Read more

Traitor to His Class - Abridged

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius,... Read more

Eine Frau ist eine Frau ist eine Frau - Abridged

By: Phenix Kühnert

Narrated by: Phenix Kühnert

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Kampf für Gerechtigkeit und trans* Rechte? – ein Kampf für uns alle! Eine Rose ist eine Rose ist eine Rose ist eine Rose … Sprache, Identität und vor allem: Empathie Der Name einer Sache verkörpert deren Bild, unsere Vorstellung davon und die damit verbundenen Gefühle. Oder: Eine Sache wird zur Sache durch ihre Benennung. Doch wie können... Read more

Ich weiß nicht, warum ich noch lebe - Abridged

By: Friedrich Orter

Narrated by: Friedrich Orter, Christina Trefny & Florentin G...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fritz Orter hat weit mehr gesehen, als seinem Publikum zugemutet werden konnte. Viele Jahrzehnte lang berichtete er als Reporter von den gefährlichsten Orten der Welt. In einem bewegenden Rückblick skizziert er seine Erlebnisse, erzählt von seinen Grenzerfahrungen und von ergreifenden Schicksalen. Und von einer großen Hoffnung, die seine Arbeit... 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

Bergab und doch bergauf - Abridged

By: Armin Assinger

Narrated by: Martina Rammer-Gmeiner & Armin Assinger

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Armin Assinger schreibt in diesem Buch über das Leben, über Höhen und Tiefen, Freud und Leid, Motivation, Resignation und weitere Befindlichkeiten, die uns durch unser Leben begleiten. Es geht in diesem Buch aber auch um die Frage, wie jeder einzelne von uns es schaffen kann, Grenzen zu überwinden. Der Abfahrtslauf ist für Armin Assinger zur... 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