Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Navigating the Adult Industry, Cannabis: Crypto and Beyond (Reinvention Road)

By: Raul Cristian Săraru

Narrated by: Raul Cristian Săraru

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Hello, dear listener.My name is Raul Cristian Săraru, and I'm both the author and the narrator of this journey we're about to embark on together, titled 'Navigating the Adult Industry, Cannabis, Crypto, and Beyond.'This book is my heart laid bare. It's a voyage across the vast seas of resilience, transformation, and reinvention. From the vibrant... Read more

Nine Lives and Counting

By: Duane Chapman

Narrated by: Mike Ortego, Francie Chapman & Duane Chapman

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes an audiobook-exclusive introduction from the author.Go behind-the-scenes with Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life.From being in a... Read more

Dear Braveheart

By: Sheridan Rondeau

Narrated by: Ernestine Crossfield

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine being lost, then found, then lost again. Imagine being giddy in love with a man who is slipping away from you bit by bit. This is the heartbreak that I endured. This is the story of my journey as a caregiver and the route I chose to get my husband and me safely to the end.Research shows that more than half a million Canadians have... Read more

Life as We Know It

By: Bill Weir

Narrated by: Bill Weir

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Bill Weir confronts the biggest threats to life as we know it and explores ideas for building a more promising future.Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of change. As the first Chief Climate Correspondent in network news, he is immersed in the... Read more

Inconceivable

By: Valerie Bauman

Narrated by: Valerie Bauman

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to... Read more

Sunflowers in Iraq

By: Tara Darlene Smith

Narrated by: Tara Darlene Smith

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From steamy bedrooms to scorched battlefields, stifling suburbia to lush Irish landscapes, Tara invites her readers in close. Join this California girl on her journey through the unruly waters of FamilyCombatMental Healthand Love.One intimate essay at a time, Tara contemplates the true cost of survival, as she redefines Together. Read more

This Part Is Silent

By: SJ Kim

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing essay collection that explores displacement and loss, creativity and change, institutional power and progress.



Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity... Read more

A Darker Shade of Blue

By: Keith Merith

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When sixteen-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he's outraged. He's done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. From that day on, he vows to join a police service and effect change from within.



Twelve years and a multitude of infuriating applications later,... Read more

The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

By: Eliza Frances Andrews

Narrated by: Aundrea Cery

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865" is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction. Through Andrews' keen observations and personal reflections,... Read more

Ashoka

By: Patrick Olivelle

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his... Read more

Rashtramata Jijabai राष्ट्रमाता जिजाबाई

By: Sunila Sovani

Narrated by: Shruti Kulkarni

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराजांच्या आयुष्यातील, चरित्रातील माता जिजाबाई यांचे स्थान कुणाला माहीत नाही! अश्या लोकोत्तर महिलेचे चरित्र हे नक्कीच येणार्‍या अनेक पिढ्यांना स्फूर्तिदायक आहे यात शंकाच नाही. ह्या लहानशा पुस्तकातून आपल्याला राजमाता जिजाबाईच्या कार्याची, तपश्चर्येची आणि त्यांनी शिवबामध्ये शूरता, स्वातंत्र्य, समता आणि धर्म ह्या गुणांची जोपासना... Read more

Everest, Inc.

By: Will Cockrell

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author).

Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent... Read more

100% Selbstversorgung!?

By: Julian Haertl

Narrated by: Paul Schulz

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Macht Selbstversorgung unabhängig? Wie und warum wird man eigentlich zum Selbstversorger? Wie renoviert man mit wenig Geld einen Resthof? Warum hat man plötzlich Ziegen, Hühner, Schweine und Enten, wenn man doch eigentlich nur seine Pferde hinter dem Haus haben wollte? Julian und Nadine Haertl schildern in diesem Erfahrungsbericht ihren Weg... Read more

Better Off Bald

By: Andrea Wilson Woods

Narrated by: Andrea Wilson Woods & Charity Spencer

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Raw and honest story of great courage and unconditional love
Adrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager—until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers just how much she wants to live.
As Adrienne’s legal guardian, Andrea acts as her parent, sister, friend, and guide. In... Read more

Other People's Words

By: Lissa Soep

Narrated by: Lissa Soep

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating, intricately woven memoir about friendships, loss, and language—a stunning affirmation of the conversations that shape and sustain us, even in the presence of death
Lissa Soep lost two friends in quick succession. Christine died slowly, from a mysterious illness, while Jonnie died suddenly, too young. In the ten years since, Soep... Read more

The Devil to Pay

By: Sean Scott Hicks

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption.Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found... Read more

Character Matters

By: Jean Becker

Narrated by: Jean Becker, George Dvorsky, Allan Robertson, C...

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls.  

As America heads into what promises to be a tumultuous 2024 presidential election year, Character Matters will be a good... Read more

Committed

By: Suzanne Scanlon

Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
 
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
 
After nearly three... Read more

Victor!

By: Dr. Craig von Buseck

Narrated by: Craig von Buseck

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In some ways, everything in our world seems out of control, but turmoil has been a part of the evolution of our nation since its founding. America has endured extremely dark periods in its history—the Revolution, World War II, and perhaps the darkest of all, the Civil War.



But in darkness, leaders emerge to shine a light of hope to guide people.... Read more

Loose of Earth

By: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of... Read more

Can't Be Satisfied

By: Robert Gordon

Narrated by: Keb' Mo'

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix

The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band and its wild lifestyle—is chronicled with rare... Read more

Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life

By: Joseph Epstein

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.

An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times,... Read more

Lotus Girl

By: Helen Tworkov

Narrated by: Helen Tworkov

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against... Read more

I Cannot Control Everything Forever

By: Emily C. Bloom

Narrated by: Emily C. Bloom

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into... Read more