Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Barefoot in the Hills

By: E. M. Link

Narrated by: Amelia Taylor

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Step into a Journey of Heartwarming Americana
Imagine the lush, rolling hills of Pennsylvania, where a young girl runs free, her feet kissing the earth with every step. Barefoot in the Hills: A Country Girl's Tale is your personal invitation to walk alongside Emily, whose story unfolds with the wild spirit of nature itself.
Born into a life that... Read more

Reading Jane

By: Susannah Kennedy

Narrated by: Marnye Young

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past



Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her... Read more

ESSENCES OF TONGCHENG

By: Maureen Armstrong

Narrated by: Patrick Clark

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng. Read more

Schubert

By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius



Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and... Read more

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

By: Judith Tick

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist.



Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family... Read more

Fortune and Folly

By: Sara A. H. Butler

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built... Read more

The New Brownies' Book

By: Charly Palmer & Karida L. Brown

Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss & Jasmin Walker

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] heartfelt tribute to young people of color and their 'reflection of resplendent beauty, ancient history ... and irreplaceable value.' It's a standout."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewInspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor,... Read more

How Coppola Became Cage

By: Zach Schonfeld

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, a gangly teenager named Nicolas Coppola made his film debut and changed his name to Nicolas Cage. Once he achieved stardom as the rebel hunk of 1983's Valley Girl, Cage began a career defined by unorthodox risks and left turns. How Coppola Became Cage takes listeners behind the scenes of the beloved cult movies that transformed this... Read more

To the One I Love the Best

By: Ludwig Bemelmans

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty and charming account of the wildly entertaining Elsie de Wolfe in 1950s Hollywood, recounted by her dear friend, the beloved creator of Madeline.



Ludwig Bemelmans's charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life "First Lady of Interior Decoration" provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of... Read more

My Life Is Art

By: Emmanuel Jal

Narrated by: Emmanuel Jal

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on lessons from his remarkable life, former child soldier turned activist, author, entrepreneur, and international recording artist Emmanuel Jal provides his eleven pillars for overcoming adversity and living a life of purpose



"Who owns your mind?" Beginning with this provocative question, Emmanuel Jal invites listeners to claim ownership... Read more

Bugsy's Shadow

By: Larry D. Gragg

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the Prohibition era, Moe Sedway became part of the New York organized crime gang led by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. A loyal and highly effective operative for Siegel, Sedway eventually gained monopoly control of the race wire service in Las Vegas and also became an effective casino manager of the Las Vegas Club, El Cortez,... Read more

Shipwrecked

By: Jonathan W. White

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.... Read more

John P. Slough

By: Richard L. Miller

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a politician, Slough fought abolitionists in the Ohio legislature and during Kansas Territory's fourth and final constitutional convention. He... Read more

The Abolitionist’s Journal

By: James D. Richardson

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824–1911), across nine states, uncovering letters, diaries, and more memoirs hidden away. Their journey brought them to the brink of the racial divide in America, revealing how his great-great-grandfather... Read more

Son of the Old West

By: Nathan Ward

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie Siringo went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative "beeves" business boomed, Siringo drove longhorn steers north to the burgeoning Midwest Plains states' cattle and railroad towns, crossing paths with such... Read more

Seeking Social Democracy

By: Edward Broadbent

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life



Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from... Read more

Por qué volvías cada verano

By: Belén López Peiró

Narrated by: Belén López Peiró

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro que terminó con el secreto alrededor del abuso y se convirtió en clave de cientos de denuncias.
«Hay libros que son hechos. Este es uno: se puede leer como una novela, como una denuncia, como la propia construcción. Porque es todo eso: una novela polifónica, el relato de un abuso padecido en la adolescencia en manos de un hombre... Read more

Keeping the Chattahoochee

By: Sally Sierer Bethea

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Sally Sierer Bethea was one of the first women in America to become a "riverkeeper"—a vocal defender of a specific waterway who holds polluters accountable. In Keeping the Chattahoochee, she tells stories that range from joyous and funny to frustrating—even alarming—to illustrate what it takes to save an endangered river. Her tales are triggered... Read more

Extraordinary Wing Women

By: Kimothy Joy

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendshipWingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation.While researching her first book, That’s What She Said, Kimothy Joy discovered that the famous women she was profiling were not alone in their success. Each of them were propelled forward by a supporter—a wing... Read more

Endless Flight

By: Keiron Pim

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the twentieth-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age.



Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming... Read more

Beyond the Secret Garden

By: Ann Thwaite

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Frances Hodgson Burnett's favorite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she emigrated with her family to Tennessee because of the financial problems caused by the cotton famine. From a young age she published her stories to help the family make ends... Read more

Quilt of Souls

By: Phyllis Biffle Elmore

Narrated by: Phyllis Biffle Elmore

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked off her front porch in Detroit and dropped on her grandmother Lula Horn's doorstep in rural Alabama. Phyllis felt utterly abandoned until Grandma Lula showed her both all-encompassing love and her intricate "Quilts of Souls." Phyllis listened intently as Lula told epic stories of folks who had... Read more

Bonaparte et Joséphine - Abridged

By: Octave Aubry

Narrated by: Philippe Caulier

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

« JE NE VIS PLUS. J'AI PERDU PLUS QUE LA VIE, PLUS QUE LE BONHEUR, PLUS QUE LE REPOS. » (lettre de Napoléon à Joséphine) Napoléon et Joséphine ont formé un couple mythique, qui suscite encore la curiosité aujourd'hui, tant leurs caractères semblent opposés en tous points. Octave Aubry relate, entre roman et histoire, cette flamboyante... Read more

The Avid Amorous Adventures of Tordín Lyn

By: Tordín Lyn

Narrated by: Tordín Lyn & The Leanan Sídhe

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tordín Lyn, born Thanksgiving Day 1946 perfectly timed to become a hippie in California when the 1960's exploded on the scene. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, what else could a young man have wished for? Free love, psychedelic drugs, and the Beatles, what an amazing time! If you lived through that era with Tordín or just want to find out what it was... Read more