Biography & Memoir audiobooks


What Remains - Abridged
By: Carole Radziwill
Narrated by: Carole Radziwill
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.
What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small... Read more


American Lion - Abridged
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and... Read more


Clapton - Abridged
By: Eric Clapton
Narrated by: Bill Nighy
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.... Read more


The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach - Abridged
By: Peter Schickele
Narrated by: Peter Schickele
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach. Read more
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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
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My Losing Season - Abridged
By: Pat Conroy
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military... Read more


My Life - Abridged
By: Bill Clinton
Narrated by: Bill Clinton
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.
It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more


Space Between the Stars - Abridged
By: Deborah Santana
Narrated by: Deborah Santana
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.
In this... Read more


Chasing the Devil - Abridged
By: Sheriff David Reichert
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.
For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982,... Read more


Storyteller's Daughter - Abridged
By: Saira Shah
Narrated by: Saira Shah
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The startling memoir of a young woman
shaped by two dramatically disparate worldsBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive... Read more


The Pat Conroy Cookbook - Abridged
By: Pat Conroy
Narrated by: Pat Conroy
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America's favorite storyteller is back—with a memoir of good food and good company from his beloved South and beyond.
This audiobook is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that... Read more


Exil im Paradies - Abridged
By: Ursel Braun
Narrated by: Britta Berthold, Elisabeth Baulitz, Inka Lioba ...
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sachertorte unter Palmen – ein Stück Heimat und Geborgenheit, das gab's bei Salka Viertel für die deutschen Emigranten und ihre Frauen in Los Angeles. Ihr Salon war einer der wichtigsten Treffpunkte für all diejenigen, die auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten im vermeintlichen Paradies Pacific Palisades gestrandet waren. Klug und... Read more
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Kitchen Confidential: Book Summary & Analysis - Abridged
By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Daniel Brooks
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Book summary by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title. An unfiltered, behind-the-scenes look at the high-energy world of professional kitchens, this book reveals the gritty realities, chaotic intensity, and unexpected camaraderie of restaurant life. With sharp wit and raw honesty, the author takes readers through his personal... Read more
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Abridged
By: Edmund Morris
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt ... Read more


Survival - Abridged
By: Stuart Diver
Narrated by: Roger Cardwell & Chris Pitman
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On the night of July 30th 1997 a landslide shattered the tranquility of Thredbo Village, sweeping away two ski lodges and burying 19 people beneath tonnes of concrete and mud. In the days that followed, the world mourned as rescuers dragged body after body from the rubble. But out of tragedy sprang an amazing story of survival. Stuart Diver,... Read more
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Heat - Abridged
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.
Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more


Saving Graces - Abridged
By: Elizabeth Edwards
Narrated by: Elizabeth Edwards
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own... Read more
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El Diario de Ana Frank - Abridged
By: Ana Frank
Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a campos de... Read more
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Marquês de Olinda e Visconde de Cairu - Abridged
By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson
Narrated by: Ricardo Daunt
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Estas biografias do Marquês de Olinda e do Viconde de Cairú têm a peculiaridade de terem sido escritas por um quase contemporâneo deles, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Pedro de Araújo Lima, o Marquês de Olinda, tem destacada sua atuação política – deputado, senador, ministro – nos complexos tempos iniciais do... Read more
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Marquês de Paranaguá - Abridged
By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson
Narrated by: Ricardo Daunt
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Esta biografia do Marquês de Paranaguá tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela destaca-se a patriótica trajetória política de Francisco Vilela Barbosa, o Marquês de Paranaguá, sobretudo no conturbado período das regências, que antecederam a subida... Read more
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José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva - Abridged
By: Sébastien Auguste Sisson
Narrated by: Ricardo Daunt
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Esta biografia de José Bonifácio tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a infância influenciada pela mãe, que cobrava dedicação aos estudos, sua formação acadêmica em Portugal, seu fervor pela causa brasileira – que o levou a... Read more
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Aprendiendo a crecer desde la magia interior - Abridged
By: Carmen Roca Nadal
Narrated by: Lucía I. A.
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Este libro lo que quiere mostrar es que el ser humano solo está en su esencia cuando es pequeño, de niños somos transparentes, hacemos las cosas porque sí sin pararnos a pensar si lo hacemos bien o no. A medida que vamos creciendo, tanto los padres, profesores y la sociedad en sí misma nos educa, nos pone unas normas y nos dice qué es... Read more
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El arte de educar al chimpancé - Abridged
By: Gabriel Ruiz Huerta
Narrated by: Alicia I. A.
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Los adolescentes no son chimpancés, pero su sistema límbico (el chimpancé) responde y madura con una gran potencia, por eso es la época de la vida con mayor plasticidad cerebral y por tanto la de mayor potencial para prepararse para las grandes hazañas. Este libro es una reflexión conmovedora, dirigido a padres, profesores, tutores y... Read more
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