Biography & Memoir audiobooks

A Long Way from Home - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years

From his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into... Read more

The Heart of a Woman - Abridged

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired  countless readers with the first three volumes of  her autobiography, one of the most remarkable  personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth  volume, The Heart of a Woman, her  turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the  singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous  New York... Read more

Jim Cramer's Real Money - Abridged

By: James J. Cramer

Narrated by: James J. Cramer

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Even after repeated boom and bust cycles on Wall Street, it’s still possible to make real money in the stock market—provided investors take a disciplined approach to investing. Financial guru Jim Cramer shows how ordinary investors can prosper, no matter the climate on Wall Street.

How do we find hot stocks without getting burned? How do we... Read more

Bush Country - Abridged

By: John Podhoretz

Narrated by: John Podhoretz

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining acerbic wit with insider political savvy, one of America's most entertaining journalists tells readers why George W. Bush is not only the Right Man at the Right Time, but has become the greatest Leader of the Age

George W. Bush arrived in the White House an untested governor with an unfortunate habit of tripping over his own tongue,... Read more

Blood on the Risers - Abridged

By: John Leppelman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. 

As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often... Read more

The Marauder and His Daughter - Abridged

By: Linda Cunningham

Narrated by: Diedre Eby

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AFTER DISCOVERING HER FATHER'S WAR DIARY, a young girl begins the lifelong journey of understanding how his brutal and miraculous war experience shaped their family and faith while bringing new insight to one of the most ambitious and secretive war missions of World War II. MERRILL'S MARAUDERS became the 172nd recipient of the Congressional Gold... Read more

Things I've Been Silent About - Abridged

By: Azar Nafisi

Narrated by: Azar Nafisi

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about... Read more

The Majesty of the Law - Abridged

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more

Into Africa - Abridged

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... Read more

My Father, My President - Abridged

By: Doro Bush Koch

Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.

Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more

Schulz and Peanuts - Abridged

By: David Michaelis

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us an in-depth biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts.It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest... Read more

Empreendedoras da história - Abridged

By: Renata Losso

Narrated by: Karina Coviello Boscaino

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Empreendedoras da história é um mergulho nas vidas de mulheres que transformaram sonhos em realidade, desafiando estereótipos e pavimentando caminhos para futuras gerações. Cada capítulo traz a história de uma mulher inspiradora no mundo dos negócios, revelando não apenas os sucessos estrondosos, mas também os desafios e as lições valiosas que... Read more

Fixing the Fates - Abridged

By: Diane Dewey

Narrated by: Rachel Pater

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when... Read more

A Migrant From The Expelled Generation - Abridged

By: Firas EL ECHI

Narrated by: Firas EL Echi

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A Migrant from the Expelled Generation"What happens to a generation when their dreams of a decent, dignified life in their own home are shattered? Firas El Echi shares his story and theirs, recounting the journey of those who left everything behind in search of hope and opportunity. From his school days in Tunisia to starting over in Cairo,... Read more

George Washington - Abridged

By: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Washington's legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments,... Read more

Political Animal - Abridged

By: Frank Perez

Narrated by: Thomas Fria

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of... Read more

The Preventorium - Abridged

By: Susan Annah Currie

Narrated by: Vanessa Webb

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of... Read more

Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz - Abridged

By: Pequena Lô

Narrated by: Mari Haruno

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O que a gente faz quando não sabe o que fazer? Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz. Este livro começa com a minha história e esbarra na sua. Na correria do dia a dia e nos detalhes da rotina, você vai perceber que somos mais parecidos do que imaginamos. O meu desejo é que as minhas vivências e histórias te façam enxergar que é possível encontrar graça... Read more

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Abridged

By: Roy Jenkins

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterly, posthumous work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Gladstone

A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention... 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

The Blair Years - Abridged

By: Alastair Campbell

Narrated by: Alastair Campbell

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life.

Here are the defining... Read more

Fernão Lopes e Gomes Eanes de Azurara - duas biografias - Abridged

By: Alexandre Herculano

Narrated by: Léo Stefanini

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Se em tempos mais modernos e mais civilizados houvera vivido e escrito, não teríamos por certo que invejar às outras nações nenhum dos seus historiadores". Assim Alexandre Herculano elogia Fernão Lopes, responsável pelo que sabemos da monarquia portuguesa dos primeiros tempos. De Gomes Eanes de Azurara, cronista que sucedeu Fernão Lopes, diz o... Read more

Undaunted Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more

Blue Box Boy - Abridged

By: Matthew Waterhouse

Narrated by: Matthew Waterhouse

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Highlights from Matthew Waterhouse’s acclaimed memoir, Blue Box Boy, read by the author. Read more