Biography & Memoir audiobooks

My Time as a Second Class Citizen

By: E. E. Stevens

Narrated by: Adam McCarthy

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Prison. The word conjures up thoughts of oppression, violence, and misery. An apt description. Follow along the personal experiences of a former police officer, who found out firsthand what it means when the law does not factor the intent of the criminal, forcing him to plead guilty to a crime that was unwittingly committed. From a corrupt... Read more

群星闪耀（人类群星闪耀时）

By: [奥]斯蒂芬·茨威格 著

Narrated by: 先读

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《人类群星闪耀时》是“传记文学之王”斯蒂芬·茨威格的传世名作，收录了照亮人类文明天空的14颗巨星，尽展决定人类历史走向的14个瞬间。作者将这些历史瞬间演绎得绚烂多彩，充满了理想主义、浪漫主义和英雄主义的情绪。是一部不可多得的经典之作。拜占庭的悲剧、亨德尔的复活、一夜之间的天才、玛丽恩巴德悲歌……这些震撼瞬间神奇般地降临到14位人物的身上，他们或被命运高高举起，送入英雄的殿堂；或被命运狠狠嘲弄，抛入千秋遗恨的行列。他们的不屈、勇敢和大无畏的精神感染了世人，那种强烈的个人意识与历史宿命的碰撞摩擦出闪烁的火花，如星星般闪耀，照亮人类文明的天空。作者简介：斯蒂芬·茨威格，奥地利著名小说家，传记作家，被誉为“传记文学之王”。他出身于富裕的犹太人家庭，青年时代在维也纳和柏林攻读哲学和文学... Read more

鲁迅的19种生活

By: 赵瑜

Narrated by: 赵瑜

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：著名作家、知名鲁迅研究者赵瑜采集丰富的史料，生动讲述鲁迅的19种身份、19个人生侧面，从没有人像他这样把鲁迅讲得如此活泼有趣、真实，告诉你一个真正有血有肉的鲁迅。作者简介：赵瑜，著名作家，曾获杜甫文学奖、在场主义散文奖等多种奖项;出版散文和小说十几部，有《小闲事:恋爱中的鲁迅》《小念头:恋爱中的沈从文》《小忧伤》等。《小闲事:恋爱中的鲁迅》被中央电视台“子午书简”栏目制作成专题推荐，并入选文学类图书畅销榜;多次受邀请参加有关鲁迅的活动。 Read more

Cop Under Cover

By: Johann van Loggerenberg

Narrated by: Gys de Villiers

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1990s deep-cover police agent RS536 took on the Durban underworld as part of a new organised crime intelligence unit. He rubbed shoulders with drug lords, smugglers and corrupt cops, and was instrumental in busting an international drug ring and foiling a bank heist, among many other dangerous engagements. But then, as the country’s new... Read more

Ich war zu jung, um zu hassen.

By: Lidia Maksymowicz & Paolo Rodari

Narrated by: Sabine von Maydell

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Lidia Maksymowicz ist drei Jahre alt, als sie mit ihrer Mutter in das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert wird. Dreizehn Monate lang überlebt sie in dieser Hölle, getrennt von ihrer Mutter, in der Kinderbaracke. Sie ist eines der kleinen »Versuchskaninchen« von Dr. Josef Mengele, der seine lebensbedrohlichen »Experimente« an ihr... Read more

Until the Last Pickle

By: Yuliya Patsay

Narrated by: Yuliya Patsay & A Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union, Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon, drafts caused pneumonia, and that Lenin was everyone’s benevolent grandpa.
After trading pickled herring and Soviet winters for San Francisco fog and year-round produce (the... Read more

My African Conquest

By: Julia Albu

Narrated by: Adrienne Pearce

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Next year I’m going to be 80 years old. My car will be 20 years old. Together we’ll be 100. We’re going to drive to Cairo.’ ‘And what route are you going to take?’ ‘I have no idea. I think I’ll keep to the right.’ When 80-year-old Julia Albu calls in to her favourite radio show with a zany, half-baked idea, she has no idea that it will lead her... Read more

Listy z pionowego świata

By: Cecylia Kukuczka

Narrated by: Adam Cywka & Paulina Holtz

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Autobiograficzna opowieść Cecylii Kukuczki, żony Jerzego Kukuczki, najwybitniejszego polskiego himalaisty, drugiego zdobywcy Korony Himalajów, który zginął w 1989 roku na Lhotse.
Audiobook „Listy z pionowego świata” to historia miłości i wiary, że śmierć w górach przydarza się tylko innym, oraz tęsknoty, która nie chce wygasnąć. To również... Read more

Niels Bohr and J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Lives and Careers of the Physicists Who Pioneered Atomic Energy

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Danes have incorporated a system that prizes a balance between work and play, the concept of “hygge,” solid investments made towards the treatment of mental illness, and a stellar welfare model. That has helped ensure that an endless stream of intellectuals, inventors, creative legends, and pioneers have hailed from Denmark over many... Read more

Pillars for Freedom

By: Richard B. Levine

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The maintenance of liberty rests upon our faith, our Founding, our families, and our commitments to uncorrupted education and science. Pillars for Freedom describes in consummate detail the powers that America must reconstitute and wield in order that we reclaim our destiny. Our Judeo-Christian heritage must form the center of America's rebirth.... Read more

A Scar is Also Skin

By: Ben Mckelvey

Narrated by: Ben Mckelvey

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first twenty-seven years of his life, Ben McKelvey didn't spend too much time thinking about his brain, nor much about trauma. He was fit, carefree and happy working as a magazine journalist, writing listicles and doing celebrity junket interviews.

Then one day, while boxing, he suffered a stroke. In the time it took for a left hook to be... Read more

Despertar

By: Rachel Vogelstein & Meighan Stone

Narrated by: Sara Gómez

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Un libro sobre el impacto mundial del #MeToo, que se expande como la pólvora.  Desde que la etiqueta #MeToo se hizo viral, se ha roto el silencio que rodea el acoso y las agresiones y abusos sexuales. Pero ¿cómo ha sido la interacción entre esta campaña global y los activismos locales de largo recorrido? ¿De qué forma se ha desarrollado este... Read more

Born in Chains

By: Clinton Chauke

Narrated by: Tshamano Sebe

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Just like in the squatter camp in Atteridgeville, there was no electricity in our new home. But here it was very different: it was safe. Only years later I figured out why the crime rate was so low in our village: there was nothing to steal. Born in Chains is a first-hand account of living in abject poverty in South Africa. Clinton Chauke was... Read more

Letter to the Shooting Stars Among Us

By: Dylan Thomas Doyle

Narrated by: Dylan Thomas Doyle

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear You,Welcome to your love letter. A letter signed to the secrets and celebrations that brought you here. The found family, and the lost innocence, and the wanderlust, and the returning home again in ways you never thought possible. Not to mention the whiskey and the sobriety and the streetlights and the sweet sleepless nights you danced... Read more

Soundtrack of Silence

By: Matt Hay

Narrated by: Matt Hay

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment he’d fallen in love for the first time.

As a child, Matt Hay didn’t know his hearing wasn’t the way everyone else processed sound—because of the workarounds he did to fit in, even the school nurse didn’t catch his... Read more

Meetings With Poe

By: Richard Henry Stoddard

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMeetings With Poe from Recollections, Personal and Literary by Richard Henry StoddardNarrated by Joseph TablerA. S. Barnes and Company 1903.Editor’s Note: Living as he did through several distinct periods of American literary history, Mr. Stoddard’s recollections inevitably represented a... Read more

Siempre positivo, nunca negativo

By: Michael Engel

Narrated by: Michael Engel

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Camino frances, der französische Jakobsweg, beginnt in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in den französischen Pyrenäen und endet nach 800 Kilometern in Santiago de Compostela. Er ist auch im 21. Jahrhundert noch eine Herausforderung, obwohl er jedes Jahr von Tausenden Pilgern gelaufen wird. Auch Michael Engel hat sich den Camino erobert. Sein Buch ist... Read more

L'Histoire du Golem

By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum

Narrated by: Yossef Brami

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Des comédiens merveilleux, des effets sonores époustouflants feront vibrer petits et grands et vous plongeront dans cette époque sombre où le Maharal de Prague a sauvé sa communauté grâce à une étrange créature... Le Golem. Read more

On Thriving

By: Brandi Sellerz-Jackson

Narrated by: Brandi Sellerz-Jackson

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A renowned doula shares powerful lessons on healing and thriving through the murky seasons of life in this moving, intimate guide to deeper self-awareness and radical joy.

“This book is a beacon of resilience. . . . A must-read for anyone committed to growth.”—Erica Chidi Cohen, author of Nurture

We’ve all been there: We take a pause, look at our... Read more

The World That Wasn't

By: Benn Steil

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 23 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan, a “timely, riveting” (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—one that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.

Henry Wallace is the most important, and certainly the most... Read more

Almost French

By: Louis Jansen van Vuuren

Narrated by: Louis Jansen van Vuuren

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When he first visited Paris as a young student, artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren could never have imagined that one day he would end up owning a château in rural France. Almost French is the entertaining, often hilarious account of his induction over the past 21 years into all things French: snooty waiters, highbrow countesses, numerous faux pas... Read more

Karma

By: Boy George

Narrated by: Boy George

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing short of an amazing story, Karma is the long-anticipated celebrity memoir from Boy George. The memoir delivers a searingly honest and captivating account of his extraordinary life. Take a front-row seat to the highs and lows of a life lived in the spotlight. Boy George's compelling storytelling shines a light on his encounters with... Read more

August Wilson

By: Patti Hartigan

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him.

August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has completed such an... Read more

Si Fragile

By: Fiona Gélin

Narrated by: Fiona Gélin

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

« Le désespoir, l'alcool, la traversée du désert, j'ai tout connu ! » confie Fiona Gélin, qui revient dans ce récit sur son parcours... et sa résurrection.Elle y évoque les Gélin, dynastie de comédiens, restés si présents en elle. Tout d'abord son père, Daniel, l'acteur charismatique, qui n'a cessé de l'encourager ; sa demi-soeur, Maria... Read more