Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Notes From a Small Island - Abridged

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed... Read more

Our Lady of the Freedoms - Abridged

By: Corwin Morman

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A great American voice narrates a poignant tribute to our most outstanding monument. One of Charles Kuralt's last projects, Our Lady of the Freedoms is a full-scale production of writer-director Norman Corwin's account of how the Statue of Liberty came to New York harbor.
Charles Kuralt's brilliant narration accompanies dramatizations of the... Read more

American Sucker - Abridged

By: David Denby

Narrated by: David Boutsikaris

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Read more

The Pursuit of Happyness - Abridged

By: Chris Gardner

Narrated by: Andre Blake

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street.At the age of twenty, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his... Read more

No Such Thing as a Bad Day - Abridged

By: Hamilton Jordan

Narrated by: Hamilton Jordan

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since serving in the Carter White House in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. Read more

'Tis - Abridged

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.

Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers... Read more

The Curse of the Bambino - Abridged

By: Dan Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Ken Coleman

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Boston Red Sox's loss to the New York Yankees in the final game of last year's playoffs has been called "the game of the century," evidence that the rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees is hotter than ever. In the wake of that defeat, author and Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy has updated his bewitching story of the... Read more

Diana: Her New Life - Abridged

By: Andrew Morton

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The publication in 1992 of Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story shook the British Royal family to its very foundations. Initially greeted with disbelief, as time passed, it became clear that the book was, as its title claimed, Diana's true story.

Diana's friends were hopeful that separation from Charles would bring Diana freedom to find... Read more

Marco Polo - Abridged

By: Laurence Bergreen

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully authoritative... Read more

My Stroke of Luck - Abridged

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Michael Douglas & Kirk Douglas

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the six decades since he took to the stage and screen, Kirk Douglas has starred in eighty-three films, nine plays, written seven books, and made a remarkable commitment to humanitarian causes world-wide. Now in My Stroke of Luck, his vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life, Kirk Douglas finally completes his story by... Read more

Aaron Spelling - Abridged

By: Aaron Spelling & Jefferson Graham

Narrated by: Aaron Spelling

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A captivating memoir by the man behind so many beloved programs including Charlie' s Angels, Charmed, and Beverly Hills 90210.No one else produced as many television programs as Aaron Spelling. And very few enjoyed such career longevity, with more than forty years in the business— from Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater in... Read more

Grant and Sherman - Abridged

By: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrated by: Charles Bracelen Flood

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""We were as brothers,"" William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.Heeding the call to save the Union, each... Read more

Shattered - Abridged

By: Faye Resnick, Jeanne V. Bell & Dominick Dunne

Narrated by: Meredith MacRae

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A memoir by the author of Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted.In this sensitive memoir, Faye Resnick— friend of Nicole Brown Simpson— recounts the story of how she found herself in the middle of the O. J. Simpson trial. In her attempt to defend the truth about the murder of her friend, Nicole,... Read more

Yo soy Egeria - Abridged

By: María Luisa Vidal Collazo

Narrated by: Immaculada Villalonga

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Al hecho ya de por sí fascinante de un viaje a Tierra Santa en el siglo IV, se le añaden en Yo soy Egeria las cualidades de su protagonista, una mujer de la por entonces provincia romana de Gallaecia, aguerrida, inteligente y prudente. Consciente de los límites impuestos, recoge para sus compañeras todo lo que va descubriendo, para mostrarnos... Read more

Alexander Hamilton - Abridged

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

"Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently... Read more

The Wendy Williams Experience - Abridged

By: Wendy Williams

Narrated by: Wendy Williams

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the dishiest book of the year, the top-rated and controversial radio host delivers the good, the bad, and the ugly on the industry’s biggest stars. But we’ll let her speak for herself:
 
Whitney Houston: “We have watched her go from our princess . . . to what looks like one step above a crackhead.”
 
Lil’ Kim: “[She] started out as a black girl... Read more

In My Time - Abridged

By: Dick Cheney

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a forty-year portrait of American politics and shares unyielding reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.

In his enlightening and provocative memoir—a stately page-turner with flashes of surprising... Read more

Der Tod ist dein letzter großer Termin - Ein Bestatter erzählt vom Leben (Autorenlesung) - Abridged

By: Christoph Kuckelkorn

Narrated by: Christoph Kuckelkorn

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Trauer und Freude, Ausgelassenheit und Verzweiflung, Leben und Tod. Fast mühelos springt Christoph Kuckelkorn zwischen diesen Welten hin und her - und wenn es sein Terminkalender verlangt, manchmal auch innerhalb nur weniger Stunden: morgens die Vorbereitung einer Beerdigung, mittags eine Sitzung beim Festkomitee, nachmittags ein Trauergespräch... Read more

Blackbird - Abridged

By: Jennifer Lauck

Narrated by: Jennifer Lauck

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.

To young Jenny, the house on Mary... Read more

Elizabeth and Mary - Abridged

By: Jane Dunn

Narrated by: Isla Blair

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).

In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a... Read more

The Snow Leopard - Abridged

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Peter Matthiessen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...

IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the... Read more

Jeder hat. Niemand darf. - Projektreisen (Gekürzte Autorinnenlesung) - Abridged

By: Katja Riemann

Narrated by: Katja Riemann

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Doch, die Welt lässt sich verändern! Katja Riemann ist seit 20 Jahren in der Welt unterwegs, ist vor Ort, schaut hin. Über Jahre hat sie die Arbeit von Molly Melching, der Gründerin von "Tostan" beobachtet, die in senegalesischen Dorfgemeinschaften das Ende der Beschneidung von Mädchen herbeiführt. An der Seite von Friedensnobelpreisträger Dr.... Read more

The Heart of the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the latest of Gervase Phinn's charming tales, The Heart of the Dales, read by the man himself.

His colourful cast of characters have now become firm favourites - the eccentric staff at County Hall as well as the children themselves who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent... Read more

Cartas para Ewan McGregor e João Barone mais jovens - Abridged

By: Ewan McGregor & João Barone

Narrated by: Ana Maria Moraes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA EWAN MCGREGOR E JOÃO BARONE MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu, personalidades... Read more