Biography & Memoir audiobooks

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

A Journal for Jordan - Abridged

By: Dana Canedy

Narrated by: Dana Canedy

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful account of a family fractured by war . . . filled with vivid and heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “Full of wonderful treasures offered by a unique and spirited father . . . written with serene grace: part memoir, part love story, all... Read more

The Game - Abridged

By: Neil Strauss

Narrated by: Neil Strauss

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women.This is not fiction.For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity, he began his... Read more

A Writer's Life - Abridged

By: Gay Talese

Narrated by: Gay Talese

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books... Read more

Hollywood Animal - Abridged

By: Joe Eszterhas

Narrated by: Eric Bogosian

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland—stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never... Read more

Sam Walton - Abridged

By: Sam Walton & John Huey

Narrated by: Peter Wolter

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dies ist die außergewöhnliche Geschichte von Sam Walton, eines mutigen Unternehmers, der Anfang der 1960er durch die Gründung von Walmart die Welt der Supermärkte und Einzelhändler aus den Angeln hob – lange vor Amazon. In Sam Walton verschafft er den Lesern einen einzigartigen Einblick in seine Karriere, die ihresgleichen sucht: seinem... Read more

Open - Abridged

By: Andre Agassi

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.

Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a... Read more

Robinson Crusoe – neu erzählt - Abridged

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Jürgen Thormann

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es gibt Bücher, die kennt jeder, auch wenn er sie nicht gelesen hat. "Moby Dick" ist so eines, oder "Robinson Crusoe". Der britische Autor Daniel Defoe verdiente mit seinem 1719 verfassten Roman über einen Schiffbrüchigen lediglich fünfzig Pfund, wurde jedoch mit einem Schlag weltberühmt. Und sein Held avancierte zum allgemeinen... Read more

Odyssee – neu erzählt - Abridged

By: Homer

Narrated by: Ernst-August Schepmann

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit Odysseus schuf Homer – wenn es ihn denn tatsächlich gegeben hat – den wohl ersten Superhelden. Sein Epos gilt heute als eines der ältesten und einflussreichsten Werke der abendländischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Neben der "Ilias" ist die "Odyssee" das wohl bekannteste Epos der griechischen Mythologie. Und es ist immer wieder ein... Read more

Gullivers Reisen – neu erzählt - Abridged

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Ilja Richter

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als "Gullivers Reisen" 1726 erschien, wurde es schnell zum Jugendbuchklassiker. Doch Jonathan Swift schrieb seine Geschichte mit einer derart scharfen Feder, dass auch Erwachsene sie durchaus mit Gewinn lesen können. "Es birgt scharfsinnige Gesellschaftsbeobachtungen und Psychogramme, entlarvt den korrupten, geld- und machtgeilen,... Read more

Love in the Driest Season - Abridged

By: Neely Tucker

Narrated by: Neely Tucker

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to... Read more

Der letzte Mohikaner - neu erzählt - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Horst Janson

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Angespornt vom Erfolg seines Buches "Der Spion" (1821), das heute als erster bedeutender historischer Roman der amerikanischen Literatur gilt, bearbeitete James Fenimore Cooper weitere Wendepunkte der Geschichte Nordamerikas. Nach dem Vorbild des schottischen Schriftstellers Walter Scott verfasste er mehrere Bände, in denen der Waldläufer Natty... 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

Reason for Hope - Abridged

By: Jane Goodall & Phillip Berman

Narrated by: Jane Goodall

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope.

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.... Read more

Assassination Vacation - Abridged

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more

Sixty Days in Combat - Abridged

By: Dean Joy

Narrated by: Don Hastings

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”

He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.

For two months in... Read more

General Ike - Abridged

By: John Eisenhower

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.

General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always... Read more

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary Wa - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The people of Cuba struggled against immense odds to emerge victorious from years of brutal dictatorship and poverty in 1959. This is Che Guevara's classic eyewitness account of the transformation of a country and also the transformation of Che himself - from a troop doctor to a revolutionary leader, who would become one of the greatest icons of... Read more

The Bolivian Diary - Abridged

By: Che Guevara

Narrated by: Bruno Gerardo

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Home will be the open sky... each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea, but to make that idea a reality."Che Guevara remains one of the world's most iconic political and revolutionary figures. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla... Read more

For Love of Politics - Abridged

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives had far-reaching consequences–for politics, domestic policy, and international affairs–and their marital troubles became a national soap opera. Based on unparalleled... Read more

Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne - Abridged

By: Larry Chambers

Narrated by: Brian Hallas

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, Recondo trained LRRPs to win.

They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions in the jungle that NVA considered... Read more

Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more

Jackie, Ethel, Joan - Abridged

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Beth Fowler

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jacqueline Bouvier. Ethel Skakel. Joan Bennett. Three women who married into America's royal family and became forever linked in legend.
Set against the panorama of explosive American history, this unique story offers a rarely-seen look at the relationship shared among the three women -- during the Camelot years and beyond. Whether dealing with... Read more

Seabiscuit - Abridged

By: Laura Hillenbrand

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more