Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Helpless

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: DeNica Fairman

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy soon uncovers how dangerous their situation has truly become. Riley and his two little siblings, Jayden and... Read more

The Red Emperor

By: Michael Sheridan

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong

The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families, the young Xi... Read more

梁山英雄传

By: 孙一

Narrated by: 孙一

Length: 21 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：《水浒传》是第一部描写农民起义的小说，全书围绕“官逼民反”这一线索展开情节，表现了一群不堪暴政欺压的“好汉”揭杆而起，本部评书讲到《水浒传》的前半部份，到108位好汉聚义水泊梁山为止，是这部小说的精华。这部书最闪光的思想在于：它将封建统治者视为“盗贼草寇”的起义农民给予充分肯定，并深刻揭示了农民起义的社会根源：即上至皇帝和高俅这样的大臣，下至大小官吏的横行霸道、昏庸无能，致使民不聊生，尖锐的阶级矛盾逐渐加深。 ... Read more

青楼女子传奇

By: 孙一

Narrated by: 孙一

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

内容简介：中国古代的青楼女子，有些女子们原本就出身于绅士之家，精通文墨，长于歌舞，诗书琴画俱能；有的与官宦，士大夫、文人有广泛的交往和接触。耳濡目染，渐就具备了较高的文学艺术修养，她们的技艺受到赏识，名声传扬。她们之所以沦为青楼行院，原因多种，迫于生计，被逼而进入青楼。有些青楼女子，确有其过人的独到之处。今日的人们，只要不带社会偏见，就会认识到这是一种历史现象和社会现象，这些现象产生在中国各个历史时期，从不同的青楼女之身上也可看出造就她们的不同历史时期的特点。在中国的正史和野史中都有对青楼女子的记载，但内容不相同，至于民间演绎的传说故事就更是真假同存了作者简介：孙一，“孙派短打评书”非遗传承人、清华大学出版社中国传统文化顾问 、哈尔滨华德学院客座教授，黑龙江省国防教育专家... Read more

Be Your Own Best Friend

By: Ekin-Su Cülcüloglu

Narrated by: Ekin-Su Cülcüloglu

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

'I want to take you on the rollercoaster of my life - throughout all the highs and lows, I have learned a lot. And hopefully, these lessons will feel useful to you too.'

If life on both sides of fame has taught Ekin-Su anything, it's that the most important relationship you have is the one with yourself.

As one of the most talked about TV stars,... Read more

Moidl - Abridged

By: Hermann Egger

Narrated by: Klaus G. Förg

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Moidl ist eine der Töchter des Hohenhauserbauern in Hintertux im Zillertal. Die enge Bindung an ihre Familie und ihren Hof ist ihr Lebenselixier und wird nur noch stärker, als verschiedene Schicksalsschläge die Hohenhauser treffen. Sie bleibt ledig und arbeitet tagtäglich von früh bis spät auf dem Hof. Auf einem Markt begegnet sie Hermann, der... Read more

Secrets of Deal Making: A Practical Guide

By: Ethan Crowley

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets of Deal Making: A Practical Guide
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you looking to progress in your career and solidify your knowledge by mastering the art of deal-making?
Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all the necessary elements to succeed in deal-making?
Your search ends here!
This guide serves as your... Read more

Echoes of Family: A Journey with My Mother and Brother

By: Maxwell Hargrove

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Echoes of Family: A Journey with My Mother and Brother
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you looking to make personal strides and deepen your understanding through the inspiring journey detailed in “Echoes of Family: A Journey with My Mother and Brother”?
In search of a comprehensive narrative that encompasses every essential... Read more

Sassafras

By: Rebecca Huntley

Narrated by: Menik Gooneratne

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When you've experienced trauma and conventional treatments have failed, where do you turn? After unsuccessfully trying traditional therapy, renowned author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley chose an unconventional path to healing: MDMA.

The drug MDMA is made from the root of the sassafras tree. It is known as a party drug, taken to have a... Read more

Angeball

By: Vince Rugari

Narrated by: Alex Andreas

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography and ultimate origin story of Ange Postecoglou, the Premier League's most intriguing new manager and instigator of the 'Angeball' phenomenon that has taken the football world by storm.


It has taken no time at all for fans of Tottenham Hotspur to fall completely in love with Ange Postecoglou and his 'Angeball' brand of... Read more

Blacksound

By: Matthew D. Morrison

Narrated by: Matthew D. Morrison

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry.



Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound"... Read more

Brother-Souls

By: Ann Charters & Samuel Charters

Narrated by: Brian Holden

Length: 19 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were—in Holmes's words—"Brother Souls." Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon... Read more

Frogman Stories

By: Rick Kaiser

Narrated by: Rick Kaiser

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling look at US Navy SEALs through a true-to-life lens focused on the triumphs and challenges of the elite warriors of the Special Forces community. Master Chief (SEAL) Rick Kaiser (Ret.) captures over forty-five years of events in and around the SEAL Teams. It is not a blood-and-guts portrayal of battlefield victories and losses, but an... Read more

Double Exposure

By: Robert Sullivan

Narrated by: Colm O'Leary

Length: 17 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Timothy O'Sullivan is America's most famous war photographer. You know his work even if you don't know his name: A Harvest of Death, taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. He was also among the first photographers to elevate what was then a trade to the status of fine art. The images of the American West he made after the war, while... Read more

Men and Style

By: David Coggins

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller



Men and Style reaches beyond standard "what to wear" advice: It is equal parts style guide and intriguing conversation about the masculine identity within the world of fashion. David Coggins explores the history of men's style and learns from some of the most notable tastemakers in the industry and beyond. Its essays... Read more

Through the Morgue Door

By: Colette Brull-Ulmann & Jean-Christophe Portes

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the ever-increasing statutes against them enacted by Petain's government. Her father had been arrested and interned at the Drancy detention camp and Brull-Ulman had become an... Read more

In the Garden Behind the Moon

By: Alexandra A. Chan

Narrated by: Rachel Yong

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound grief.... Read more

One Last Song

By: Mike Ayers

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear



If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super... Read more

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza

By: Zito Madu

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A "hauntingly effective" surrealist travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all (Library Journal, starred review).



Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see... Read more

Country Editor's Boy

By: Hal Borland

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of High, Wide, and Lonesome and The Dog Who Came to Stay.



Country Editor's Boy picks up where Hal Borland's classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an... Read more

Golf Is Hard

By: Beef Johnston

Narrated by: Dan Calley

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Professional golfer Andrew "Beef" Johnston has played in the world's biggest tournament, won big-money events, and sunk monster putts while fans were booming out his nickname: "BEEEEEEF!" On the downside, Beef has also duffed it, thinned it, and shanked it like every single person who's ever played the game. Because no matter who you are, golf... Read more

Some Unfinished Chaos

By: Arthur Krystal

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Surely enough has been written about F. Scott Fitzgerald, the man who coined "the Jazz Age" and symbolized the Roaring Twenties, whose very name conjures up a meteoric rise and an equally spectacular fall? But the better question might be, why has so much ink been spent on a writer who completed only four novels, who fell from grace in the 1930s... Read more

Agnes - ensimmäinen naisjuristi

By: Marja Toivio

Narrated by: Marja Toivio

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Lundell (1878-1936) oli Suomen ensimmäinen naisjuristi. Miltä tuntui pyytää varakanslerilta erivapautta yliopisto-opintoihin vuonna 1899? Millaista oli työskennellä virastossa, jossa kaikki työtoverit olivat miehiä? Miten asianajajakollegat suhtautuivat ainoaan naisjuristiin joukossaan? Aluksi Agnes Lundell tunsi ulkopuolisuutta... Read more

Destroyer Captain

By: James D. Hornfischer & David J. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Lou Del Bianco & David J. Hornfischer

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

From James D. Hornfischer, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers, a riveting account of the life of WWII hero Commander Ernest E. Evans and his heroics and sacrifice during the Leyte Gulf Battle of Samar.

For the first time ever, acclaimed naval historian James D. Hornfischer, “the dean of World War II... Read more