Biography & Memoir audiobooks


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


Listening Is an Act of Love - Abridged
By: Dave Isay
Narrated by: Dave Isay & StoryCorps Participants
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps—the largest oral history project in the nation's history—presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love.
StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting... Read more


Educating Esmé - Abridged
By: Esmé Raji Codell
Narrated by: Esmé Raji Codell
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring. Read more
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The Darkest Jungle - Abridged
By: Todd Balf
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”
The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers... Read more


The Great Nowitzki - Das außergewöhnliche Leben des großen deutschen Sportlers (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged
By: Thomas Pletzinger
Narrated by: Julian Mehne
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"All die Stunden in der Halle, die Niederlagen und Siege, all die Geschichten und Gedanken - es braucht einen Autor wie Thomas Pletzinger, um die richtigen Worte für meine Welt und mein Spiel zu finden. Ich hätte mir keinen besseren wünschen können." Dirk Nowitzki Wenn man über Dirk Nowitzki spricht, kommt man an Superlativen nicht vorbei. Er... Read more
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The Poet's Guide to Life - Abridged
By: Ulrich Baer
Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.”
–RAINER MARIA RILKE
In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of... Read more


Metaphysical Sherpa: Misunderstood Mystic - Abridged
By: Nick Mirisola
Narrated by: Gill Mills & Nick Mirisola
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: Yes
Metaphysical Sherpa. Misunderstood Mystic by Nick MirisolaA Condensed Autobiography and more…An Anthology of a life’s work, with Artwork, Memes, and Meditative Animal Song Lyrics.Accompanied by a Philosophy of Science Paper first published in The International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation Points About Points with a PointNature... Read more
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The Bin Ladens - Abridged
By: Steve Coll
Narrated by: Erik Singer
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap
"Riveting . . . The most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
In The Bin Ladens, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll continues where Ghost Wars left off, shedding new light on one... Read more


Warped Factors - Abridged
By: Walter Koenig
Narrated by: Walter Koenig
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is actor Walter Koenig's story— from growing up as the neurotic child of Russian immigrants in 1940s Manhattan through his rise to fame on Star Trek as Pavel Chekov, Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise. With wry wit, striking candor, and a true gift for storytelling, Koenig takes us on a sometimes bumpy but often... Read more
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Ghost Light - Abridged
By: Frank Rich
Narrated by: Frank Rich
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is a theater superstition that if the emptied house is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have left. In this eloquent and moving memoir, celebrated New York Times drama critic and columnist... Read more
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When Money Is King - Abridged
By: Richard Hack
Narrated by: Joseph Campanella
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Financier Ronald O. Perelman is one of the richest men in America, building a personal business empire worth billions. Linked to society's most dazzling beauties, Perelman owns palatial estates in Palm Beach, East Hampton, Manhattan, Sun Valley, and Bel Air, plus an impressive art collection, a fleet of automobiles, and two G-4 jets. This first... Read more
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The Great Getty - Abridged
By: Robert Lenzner
Narrated by: Liz Smith
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) was a shrewd industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, ultimately becoming a dominant player in the oil industry. In The Great Getty, Robert Lenzner presents an in-depth biography of the savviest entrepreneur of the 20th century and the world's richest private citizen at the time of his death— ... Read more
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O menino do alpendre - Abridged
By: Romulo Vaz
Narrated by: Livri
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A história de vida que impacta e inspira, muito mais que uma biografia, mais que superação pessoal. Este livro é uma ferramenta para que você encontre seus caminhos, seu verdadeiro eu, sua identidade. Uma luz para que você consiga uma forma de vencer seus medos e se libertar dos sentimentos ruins que dele se originam como insegurança,... Read more
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Condi - Abridged
By: Antonia Felix
Narrated by: Antonia Felix
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is the remarkable and galvanizing true story of Condoleezza Rice—sixty-sixth United States Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, who once said about his close confidante, “Dr. Rice is not only a brilliant person, she is an experienced person. . . . America will find that she is a wise person.”With the current release of her own... Read more
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more


Road to the Dales - Abridged
By: Gervase Phinn
Narrated by: Gervase Phinn
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad,
Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This audiobook is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal... Read more


All Rivers Run to the Sea - Abridged
By: Elie Wiesel
Narrated by: Elie Wiesel
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the... Read more
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Soldier - Abridged
By: Karen DeYoung
Narrated by: Roscoe Orman
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, “the most trusted man in America.” From his humble origins as the son of Jamaican immigrants to the highest levels of government in four administrations, he helped guide the nation through some of its... Read more
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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


Mark Twain - Abridged
By: Ron Powers
Narrated by: Ron Powers
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles Times
A magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story.
Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became... 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


No Shortcuts to the Top - Abridged
By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts
Narrated by: Ed Viesturs
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much... Read more


My Life in Three Acts - Abridged
By: Helen Hayes
Narrated by: Helen Hayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In this extremely candid and honest account, Helen Hayes, acclaimed "First Lady of the American Theater", looks back on her life and career, and you are invited to a private listening session. So sit back, relax, and listen to behind-the-scenes portraits and anecdotes of personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, John F. Kennedy, Al... Read more
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A Good Life - Abridged
By: Ben Bradlee
Narrated by: Ben Bradlee
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.
The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the... Read more