Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Bruce Lee: Book Of Quotes (100+ Selected Quotes) - Abridged

By: Quotes Station

Narrated by: Chris Wolff

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

BRUCE LEE: BOOK OF QUOTES - ABOUT BRUCE LEELee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), commonly known as Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍), was a Hong Kong American martial artist, actor, director, martial arts instructor and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines... Read more

Iron Man: Book Of Quotes (100+ Selected Quotes) - Abridged

By: Quotes Station

Narrated by: Chris Wolff

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

IRON MAN: BOOK OF QUOTES - ABOUT IRON MANIron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. The character made his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 (cover... Read more

Jerry Seinfeld: Book Of Quotes (100+ Selected Quotes) - Abridged

By: Quotes Station

Narrated by: Chris Wolff

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

JERRY SEINFELD: BOOK OF QUOTES - ABOUT JERRY SEINFELDJerome Allen Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American comedian, actor, writer and producer. He is best known for playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld, which he created and wrote with Larry David. The show aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998, becoming one of... Read more

St Ex - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Bernard Chabbert

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry est né à Lyon dans un milieu aristocratique, construit sur une architecture de valeurs classiques évoquant la marquise de Sévigné, les dentelles, les goûters d'enfants sous les arbres d'un jardin familial vaste comme un parc... Il est mort 44 ans plus tard, encapsulé aux commandes d'un avion de reconnaissance... Read more

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

Carrie Kills A Man - Abridged

By: Carrie Marshall

Narrated by: Carrie Marshall

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: Yes

Carrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesn't want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life. It's the story of how a tattooed transgender rock singer killed a depressed suburban dad, and of the lessons you learn when you renounce all your privilege and power. When more people think they've seen a... Read more

I’ll Always Have Paris - Abridged

By: Art Buchwald

Narrated by: Art Buchwald

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1948, an Austrian-Hungarian Jewish 22-year-old from New York began his new career. Determined to be famous, he bought a one-way ticket to Paris, France. His assignment: cover nightclubs, sidewalk cafes, and weddings for the legendary Paris Herald Tribune. For the next 14 years, he developed a life and career by socializing and reporting on... Read more

Leaving Home - Abridged

By: Art Buchwald

Narrated by: Art Buchwald

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Funny men don't necessarily have funny childhoods. Art Buchwald had to find his humor the hard way. In this poignant memoir, Buchwald writes with intimacy and candor about his early years— of a life constantly on the move and in the company of strangers. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother were separated. He tells of a... Read more

The Wheel of Life - Abridged

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying comes an inspiring account of a life well-lived with compassion and service.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying... Read more

Papa Hemingway - Abridged

By: A.E. Hotchner

Narrated by: Robert Stack

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. Everywhere they went, they talked. For fourteen years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their thoughts and as Hemingway reminisced about his childhood, recalled the Paris literary scene of... Read more

Lessons in Becoming Myself - Abridged

By: Ellen Burstyn

Narrated by: Ellen Burstyn

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee.

By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just as many name changes and spiritual paths. Theater... Read more

Grace and Power - Abridged

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made... Read more

Truth and Duty - Abridged

By: Mary Mapes

Narrated by: Mary Mapes

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America.

Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.

For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning... Read more

Without Hesitation - Abridged

By: Gen. Hugh Shelton, Ronald Levinson & Malcolm Mc...

Narrated by: Gen. Hugh Shelton

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The powerful unvarnished memoir of General Hugh Shelton, war hero, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, and one of the leading military figures of our time.

Whether serving under a Democratic president or a Republican president, General Shelton was never afraid to speak out and tell it like it is. Shelton chronicles his incredible... Read more

Mirror to America - Abridged

By: John Hope Franklin

Narrated by: John Hope Franklin

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation's preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation... Read more

My FBI - Abridged

By: Louis J. Freeh

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement, and of one man's determined struggle to strengthen and reform the FBI while ensuring its freedom from political interference.

Bill Clinton called Freeh a "law... Read more

The Tae-Bo Way - Abridged

By: Billy Blanks

Narrated by: Billy Blanks

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Team up with the creator of Tae-Bo, the total body workout.  Strengthen your spirit, mind, and body!

Energizing and explosive, Tae-Bo is the hottest workout in America. It's fun. It's exciting. It's simple to learn. And best of all, it works! It's Tae-Bo: the future of fitness. And here's the book that teaches you the ultimate way to fitness for... Read more

Sixty Feet, Six Inches - Abridged

By: Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson & Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in... Read more

Antarctic Basalt - Abridged

By: Lewis Juckes

Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"By 1st February the unloading had been completed, and when the ice anchors had been recovered the ship drew slowly away from the ice edge. The dull weather could not suppress the thrill that pulsed through me – this was the real start of my adventure. Up till then I could at any time have turned back. It might have been embarrassing,... Read more

Gasping for Airtime - Abridged

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling,... Read more

Lincoln - Abridged

By: Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt, II...

Narrated by: Frank Langella

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An audiobook to be treasured by all history buffs: the companion volume to the ABC TV documentary.

This remarkable biography presents Abraham Lincoln as we have never before seen him. The insightful and vibrant narrative draws extensively on diaries, letters, and other primary sources to provide a remarkably close-up view of Lincoln: the boy,... Read more

Lebenslauf eines Optimisten - Abridged

By: Ludwig Ganghofer

Narrated by: Bernd Ungerer

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im 'Buch der Jugend' beschreibt Ludwig Ganghofer seine Ausbildungs- und Studienzeit. Am Ende des Buches beschreibt er auch seine Vorstellung eines idealen Staatswesens in allen Einzelheiten. Einzelne Ideen könnt man auch heute noch herausgreifen und weiter verfolgen, doch im großen und ganzen spiegeln seine Vorstellungen den Zeitgeist jener Zeit... Read more

Michel Strogoff - Abridged

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Découvrez les aventures de Michel Strogoff, capitaine des courriers du tsar de Russie, dont la mission à très hauts risques l'emmène de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale. Son objectif ? Avertir le grand-duc, frère du tsar, sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'invasion imminente des hordes tartares. Son voyage de plus de 5500 km sera... Read more

Ulysses S. Grant - Abridged

By: Josiah Bunting, III

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well

As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the man who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But... Read more