Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Chasing the Dream - Abridged

By: Joe Torre

Narrated by: Joe Torre

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Maybe the good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes."

When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded him--winning a World Series.  

He had all but given up his... Read more

American Prince - Abridged

By: Tony Curtis & Peter Golenbock

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies.”

He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame, women, and adulation—Elvis copied his look and... Read more

Wiseguy - Abridged

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Narrated by: Nicholas Pileggi

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is... Read more

The Bully Pulpit - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in... Read more

Abraham zwischen den Welten - Abridged

By: Thorsten Schmitz

Narrated by: Helmut Berger

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Helmut Bergers Interpretation der Ansichten aus Israel wird das Porträt eines pulsierenden Landes voller Widersprüche zwischen unbändiger Lebenslust und religiösem Eifer lebendig. Thorsten Schmitz, Korrespondent der "Süddeutschen Zeitung", beobachtet einen orthodoxen Rabbiner beim Surfen, folgt den Spuren des religiösen Fanatismus in... 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

Einladung zum Untergang - Abridged

By: Gaston Salvatore

Narrated by: Markus Hering

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Markus Hering interpretiert Gaston Salvatores Hommage an Venedig, die von der steinernen Schönheit der Lagunenstadt, dem koketten Spiel seiner Bewohner mit dem Untergang, den erfolglosen Bemühungen der Politiker, die Stadtkassen zu füllen, und vom Karneval erzählt, der den Venezianern nicht immer nur Heiterkeit beschert. 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

Halfway To Hollywood - Abridged

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor),... Read more

Franklin and Lucy - Abridged

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Just when you thought you knew everything about Franklin D. Roosevelt, think again. Joseph E. Persico [is] one of America’s finest historians. . . . You can’t properly understand FDR the man without reading this landmark study.”—Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University 

“Persico’s exploration of FDR’s emotional life is... 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

Jehovas Gefängnis - Abridged

By: Oliver Wolschke

Narrated by: Armand Presser

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jahrzehntelang ist Oliver Wolschke ein vorbildlicher Zeuge Jehovas: Er lebt seinen Glauben, feiert weder Weihnachten noch Geburtstage, betet täglich und erzieht seine Kinder nach den Richtlinien der Gemeinschaft. Doch eines Tages beginnt er, an den Glaubenslehren zu zweifeln. Er fängt an, sich mit den Hintergründen der Gemeinschaft zu... Read more

Mark Twain - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns & Dayton Duncan

Narrated by: Bill Meisle

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been... Read more

DAS IST ALPHA! - Abridged

By: Kollegah

Narrated by: Kollegah

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fünf Nummer-1-Alben in Folge, ein eigenes Fitnessprogramm und über 1,8 Millionen Facebook-Fans – Kollegah ist der unangefochtene Boss der deutschen Rapszene. Und nur der Boss weiß, wie man vom Lauch zum echten Boss wird. Der Schlüssel dazu ist ein starkes Alpha-Mindset: "Ein Alpha richtet den Blick auf den Horizont, nicht auf den Arsch... Read more

Marilyn - Abridged

By: George Barris & Marilyn Monroe

Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy, yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, Marilyn Monroe was no ordinary screen goddess. But few really knew her. On June 1, 1962— Marilyn's 36th birthday— famed photographer and reporter George Barris visited Marilyn on the set of what would... Read more

Total Recall - Abridged

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Narrated by: Stephen Lang & Arnold Schwarzenegger

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial, and truly unique life.

The greatest immigrant success story of our time.

His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages.

He was born in a year of famine, in a... Read more

German Champion - Abridged

By: Sebastian Vollmer & Dominik Hechler

Narrated by: David Zimmerschmied

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie schafft man es als deutscher American-Football-Spieler in die NFL? Die beeindruckende Geschichte von Sebastian Vollmer zeigt: Talent ist nur eine Voraussetzung. Genauso wichtig sind unbändiger Wille, Training und Liebe zum Sport. Damit lassen sich Hindernisse überwinden – wovon es in Vollmers Karriere einige gab: Sein erster Coach nannte ihn... Read more

"Immer ist es Liebe, die gewinnt" - Abridged

By: Cord Balthasar

Narrated by: Shirin Lotze

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Helene Fischer weiß schon früh, dass sie später einmal auf der großen Bühne stehen will. Der samstägliche Putztag wurde in ihrem Elternhaus stets durch die Komödie Hurra, die Schule brennt aufgelockert. An diesen Tagen steht Helene begeistert vor dem Fernseher und singt leidenschaftlich alle Lieder mit. Mit Anfang 20 ist sie selbst das erste Mal... Read more

MontanaBlack - Abridged

By: Dennis Sand & Marcel Eris

Narrated by: Rolf Berg

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ich wachte auf und fühlte mich wie ein King. Seitdem habe ich nie wieder gekifft." Mit Anfang 20 ist Marcel Eris an seinem absoluten Tiefpunkt. Er ist drogenabhängig, hat keine Arbeit und wird obdachlos. Um an Geld für Gras und Kokain zu kommen, knackt er Autos und steigt in Häuser ein. Nichts deutet darauf hin, dass dieser perspektivlose... Read more

Der Schöne und die Beats - Abridged

By: Josip Radovic & Michael Schindler

Narrated by: Shindy

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vom Hate zum Hype zum modernen Klassiker: Shindy ist ein Phänomen. Sein Weg führte ihn aus der schwäbischen Provinz an die Spitze der deutschen Charts. Von seinen ersten Versuchen als Rapper arbeitete er sich hoch, bis er schließlich von Bushido unter Vertrag genommen wurde. Mittlerweile ist er ein Superstar der deutschen Hip-Hop-Szene. Mit... Read more

No Retreat, No Surrender - Abridged

By: Tom DeLay & Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Tom DeLay

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics. 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

Fair Game - Abridged

By: Valerie Plame Wilson

Narrated by: Valerie Plame Wilson

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The... Read more

Chronicles - Abridged

By: Bob Dylan

Narrated by: Sean Penn

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”

So writes Bob Dylan in... Read more