Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Preacher and the Presidents - Abridged

By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public... Read more

Tour of Duty - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America’s most intriguing politicians—the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004—and its profound effects on his career and lifeIn Tour of Duty, Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry’s career and deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S.... Read more

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle - Abridged

By: Robyn Scott

Narrated by: Robyn Scott

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. 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

The Year of Living Biblically - Abridged

By: A. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a TV series Living Biblically streaming on CBS All Access!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying―as literally as possible―the tenets of the Bible.

Raised in a secular family but... Read more

Ein Gespräch über Dante Alighieri: Die Göttliche Komödie - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 2 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Narrated by: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In diesem Jahr jährt sich der 700. Todestag von Dante Alighieri: Die Göttliche Komödie, bedeutendes Werk der Weltliteratur, begründete die "Volks- sprache" Italienisch als Literatur- und Schriftsprache. Über den Autor, der 1265 in Flo- renz geboren wurde und im Alter von 62 in Ravenna verstarb, wissen wir indes wenig. Die Göttliche Komödie... Read more

Miracle in the Andes - Abridged

By: Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Narrated by: Josh Davis

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home

“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days... Read more

America's Women - Abridged

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Jane Alexander

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-centuryIn this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over... 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

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

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Peter Robinson

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, ""Dad, is that the President you worked for?""What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize... Read more

Strange Son - Abridged

By: Portia Iversen

Narrated by: Jane Kaczmarek

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The uplifting true story of two mothers from opposite sides of the world united to help their sons.

Portia Iversen's life was turned upside down when her two-year-old son Dov was diagnosed with autism. Desperate to find a treatment, Portia was shocked to learn that almost nothing was known about the disorder, which only a handful of... Read more

A Good Man - Abridged

By: Mark Shriver

Narrated by: Mark Shriver

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father and applies them to his own life

When Sargent "Sarge" Shriver—founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Johnson's War on Poverty—died in 2011 after a valiant fight with Alzheimer's,... Read more

A Perfect Union - Abridged

By: Catherine Allgor

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, incisive portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics hen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere which... Read more

Ein Gespräch über Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Langstrumpf und Die Brüder Löwenherz - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 9 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Narrated by: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Astrid Lindgrens Figuren haben Generationen von Kindern geprägt und begeistern auch Erwachsene bis heute. "Pippi Langstrumpf" ist zwar nicht ihr Erstlingswerk, aber das wohl Bekannteste. Da es als Kinder- buch zu anspruchsvoll erschien, wurde es vom Verlag zunächst abgelehnt. Mit überarbeitetem Text und der erfolgreichen Teilnahme an einem... Read more

Hard Call - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain & Daniel Hugh Kelly

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's most inspiring politician pays tribute to men and woman who have exhibited composure, wisdom and intellect in the face of tough decisions. John McCain draws from experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances, culling lessons about the process and nature of judicious and effective decision-making.

... Read more

De Profundis - Abridged

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: ® bseal voice

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. De Profundis es una larga carta escrita por Oscar Wilde desde la cárcel de Reading y finalmente publicada por primera vez por su albacea literario Robert Baldwin Ross en 1905, cinco años después de la muerte del poeta y dramaturgo irlandés.Escrita con carácter autobiográfico y privado; fundamental para entender... Read more

Superarme siempre fue un placer - Abridged

By: Federico Atilio Rodriguez De Lima

Narrated by: Lucia .I.A

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vivir es un aprendizaje continuo, un ejercicio de adaptación que nunca termina, un camino que, en ocasiones, se oscurece y se vuelve hostil, asediado por situaciones que nos atormentan y nos hacen querer tirar la toalla. Pero esas situaciones son, al final, tan solo experiencias, momentos pasajeros que podemos superar, incluso en las condiciones... Read more

Ten Minutes from Normal - Abridged

By: Karen Hughes

Narrated by: Karen Hughes & Robert Hughes

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"The rule of thumb in any White House is that nobody is indispensable except the president," said The New York Times, "but Karen Hughes has come as close to that description as any recent presidential aide." Karen Hughes has worked beside President George W. Bush since, as she says, "the motorcade was only one car and he was sometimes the one... Read more

Sweet and Low - Abridged

By: Rich Cohen

Narrated by: Rich Cohen

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family.

It is also the... Read more

Ein Gespräch über Otfried Preußler: Krabat und Die kleine Hexe - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 1 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Narrated by: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Otfried Preußlers Geschichten haben Generationen von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen begeistert. Genannt seien nur die bekanntesten Figuren: Die kleine Hexe, Der Räuber Hotzenplotz und Das kleine Gespenst. Sein erstes Buch, Der kleine Was- sermann, erschien 1956 und erhielt ein Jahr später den Deutschen Jugendbuchpreis. Zunächst war... Read more

Fremdkörper - Abridged

By: Miriam Pielhau

Narrated by: Miriam Pielhau

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gib nicht auf und kämpfe! Anfang 2008 wurde bei der bekannten TV-Moderatorin Miriam Pielhau mit erst 32 Jahren Brustkrebs festgestellt: Innerhalb kurzer Zeit durchlief sie das gesamte medizinische Programm mit Operation, Chemotherapie und Bestrahlung. Parallel dazu hat sie ihre Erlebnisse, Gefühle und Gedanken aus dieser Zeit festgehalten.... Read more

Here on Gilligan’s Isle - Abridged

By: Russell Johnson & Steve Cox

Narrated by: Russell Johnson

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sit right back and take a nostalgic, first-hand look into the world of Gilligan's Island— everything you ever wanted to know about the show from the Professor himself, Russell Johnson. Directly from the ship's log, Johnson takes you to the day when Sherwood Schwartz shipwrecked seven strangers on a tiny desert isle— and... Read more

Marlene Dietrich - Abridged

By: Steven Bach

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Marlene Dietrich was an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe. In a grand and sweeping biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on this singular star, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth. Based on six... Read more