Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Swedish Secret - Abridged

By: Cleo James

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following an intense chance meeting Mark leaves his wife to begin a new life with Cleo. What starts as a fairytale swiftly turns into a black comedy. Under the illusion she knows everything about the loveable rogue she has fallen for, Cleo is shocked to discover that he may not be so lovable after all. By the time realisation kicks in, Mark and... Read more

من صرير القلم إلى هام السحاب - Abridged

By: عبد العزيز محمد هنيدي

Narrated by: أحمد اسماعيل

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

سيرة ذاتية لمعالي الفريق الطّيار المتقاعد عبد العزيز محمد هنيدي:حرصتُ في هذه السيرة أن أكونَ صادقًا وصريحًا لم تكن طريق الأحلام التي سلكتُها إلا رحلةً شاقّة، وكانت عوامل التأثير في حياتي كثيرة، حيث تأثرت بأشخاص كثيرين، وتعلّمت من كل عملٍ قمتُ به. لم أتخلّ عن أحلامي يومًا، وكان من فضل ربّي عليّ أنني كنتُ أقتربُ من تحقيقها يومًا بعد يوم. كان من... Read more

Ely Samuel Parker and Stand Watie: The Life and Legacy of the Civil War’s Most Famous Native American Officers

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Caufield

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the best known of the six nations is the Seneca, and arguably the most famous Seneca chief was Ely Samuel Parker. Over the course of his life, he was a Seneca chief, a civil engineer, a close friend and adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant, an advocate for the Indian peoples, and the first Native American Commissioner of the Department of... Read more

Ich hab das Paradies gesehen (ungekürzt)

By: Achim Reichel

Narrated by: Achim Reichel

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Achim Reichel, seit weit über 60 Jahren auf der Bühne zuhause, blickt zurück auf sein Leben. 2024 feierte er zu seiner größten Verwunderung seinen 80. Geburtstag - und es ist viel passiert, was sich zu erzählen lohnt: In den Sechzigern feiert er als Frontmann der Rattles Erfolge, wird in den Siebzigern Vorreiter des Krautrocks, veröffentlicht... Read more

From Addict to Advocate

By: Abdirahman Warsame

Narrated by: Abdirahman Warsame

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Addict to Advocate is a series of poems that dive into the mind and emotions of Abdirahman Warsame throughout his journey through recovery. Read more

Neville Goddard - Das Geheimnis ist zu fühlen (Feeling is the Secret 1944)

By: Fabio Mantegna

Narrated by: Konrad Lindemann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Neville Goddard (Deutsch): Das Geheimnis ist zu fühlen - Originaltitel: Feeling is the Secret - aus dem Jahre 1944. Das 4. Buch von Neville Goddard über das Manifestieren mit dem Gesetz der Annahme. Das Geheimnis ist zu fühlen ist die deutsche Übersetzung von Feeling is the Secret aus dem Jahre 1944. Es ist das 4. Buch über das Manifestieren... Read more

Love From Venice

By: Gill Johnson

Narrated by: Rose Akroyd

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming, funny and glamorous memoir and love-story, about a summer in 1957 in Venice, working for an aristocratic Italian family.

In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and... Read more

The Cooking of Books

By: Ramachandra Guha

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and... Read more

Queer Villains of Myth and Legend

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.

Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more

PDA in the Family

By: Steph Curtis

Narrated by: Chris Curtis & Steph Curtis

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this honest and open account of life with her PDA daughter, Sasha, Steph Curtis reveals the everyday struggles and explores the milestones of raising a child diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance. This book guides you through the Curtis family's 'lightbulb moment' of recognising Sasha's PDA profile following her autism diagnosis at the... Read more

The Making of a King

By: Robert Hardman

Narrated by: Robert Hardman

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world. He is the custodian of a thousand-year-old institution that must redefine its place in the digital age while others insist on rewriting the past. With unrivaled... Read more

El Viejo y el Mar

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Christian Grosso

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D. El mismo está diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. El viejo y el mar (The Old Man and the Sea) es una novela corta escrita por Ernest Hemingway en 1951 en Cabo Blanco y publicada en 1952. Fue su último trabajo de ficción importante publicado en vida y posiblemente su obra más... Read more

(Out)Law - From Teenage Mum to Legal Trailblazer - Abridged

By: Alice Stephenson

Narrated by: Gill Mills

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

(Out)Law is a powerful and inspiring journey of survival and resourcefulness, exploring the remarkable life of Alice Stephenson, who defied adversity to become a beacon of change in the legal world. At just 18, Alice faced the challenges of teenage motherhood and homelessness, yet refused to be defined by her circumstances. Determined and... Read more

The Road to Tangible Hope

By: Telile Yoseph

Narrated by: Telile Yoseph & Janet Dean

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, having told my story, I feel that a huge burden has been lifted. My secrets are now in the open and I believe that no girl or woman in the world should have such dark secrets hiding in her heart. I want to encourage all women who are or have suffered the indignation of abuse to break free of the silence, live their lives with joy and look... Read more

Babette:

By: Ross Eliot

Narrated by: Ross Eliot

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A college student moves in with his elderly history professor and soon discovers her connections with a mysterious abduction, WWII Nazi collaborators, the assassin of Rasputin and an unorthodox Benedictine convent. The true story of trans pioneer who fiercely defied stereotypes and forged her own path through the world.  Read more

Woman Up!: Your Guide to Success in Engineering and Tech

By: Anat Rapoport

Narrated by: Emily M. Wilson

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever felt your career's trajectory was in someone else's hands?In the male-dominated world of engineering, breaking through barriers and claiming your rightful place can seem like an impossible challenge. Yet for Anat Rapoport, this challenge was an opportunity, not just for her, but for women everywhere.In 2015, she stood on the cusp... Read more

Travels with a donkey in the cevennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" is a classic travel memoir written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book recounts Stevenson's journey through the Cévennes region of France in 1878. The author embarked on this trek with a donkey named Modestine, and the narrative captures the landscapes, people, and challenges encountered during the journey. Read more

Finding the Way

By: Constantine Mavroudis

Narrated by: Hermann Edward

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Mavroudis was born in Thasos, Greece in July of 1946. He spent the first year of his life in his birthplace before immigrating to the United States with his family in 1947. In his inspiring, extraordinary memoir, Dr. Mavroudis recounts his youth in New Jersey with his parents making a living through a luncheonette-ice cream parlor and his... Read more

EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF AN EVERYDAY WOMAN

By: Crystal Stewart

Narrated by: Melanie Taylor

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about people who are starting to awaken. To give them some of the experiences that I have had and to show them that you can have these experiences and still have a loving, productive life. To let them know there is nothing wrong with them, they are magnificent. Read more

We Are Free to Change the World

By: Lyndsey Stonebridge

Narrated by: Cosima Shaw

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism

“We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt

The violent unease of today’s world would have been... Read more

Resilient

By: Brooke Wells

Narrated by: Brooke Wells & Todd Meleney

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational memoir about CrossFit star Brooke Wells' rise to fame and miraculous comeback.

This program is read by the author.

On the last night of the 2021 CrossFit Games, ten thousand fans watched in horror as Brooke Wells’ elbow dislocated under the weight of a 190-pound barbell. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How... Read more

The Black Yearbook [Portraits and Stories]

By: Adraint Khadafhi Bereal

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping exploration of the joys, hardships, and truths of Black students through intimate, honest dialogues and stunning photography, author of Heavy

“A radical, reverential, and restorative document of community.”—Rebecca Bengal, author of Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

When photographer Adraint Bereal graduated... Read more

American Girls

By: Jessica Roy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle

A CNN, NPR, and Today Most-Anticipated Book of 2024

A “gripping” (CNN), true account of religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of family: the story of an American woman who traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children and extremist husband and the sister back home who worked tirelessly... Read more

Under the Hornbeams

By: Emma Tarlo

Narrated by: Emma Tarlo

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

'I'm not homeless: this is my home!' Nick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing, its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning rain. On one of the lower branches sits a robin, joining our conversation. It seems to be saying: Why should anyone want to leave this place? Nick and Pascal live and sleep... Read more