Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

Narrated by: Brittany Bradford, Darrin Bell, Emyree Zazu Bel...

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"The audiobook version of The Talk,...isn’t a graphic novel stripped of its pictures; it’s a radio play that delivers its own powerful aural experience. The production employs music, subtle sound effects and a cast that includes Bell and his little boy. The charming humor and incisive wisdom that elevates the print version of 'The Talk' are... Read more

Pieces Falling

By: Ann Van Hine

Narrated by: Caroline Bailey

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As a wife and mom, church volunteer, and small business owner, Ann Van Hine prided herself on being in control of her life.
Until 9/11.
Pieces Falling is Ann's story of navigating the very personal loss of her husband, Bruce-a New York City firefighter who died on 9/11- amid the very public tragedy that shocked the world.
Her poignant reflections... Read more

Dos veces única

By: Elena Poniatowska

Narrated by: Elena Poniatowska, Ignacio Casas & Diana Huicochea

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

. Esposa de Diego Rivera y, después, del poeta y crítico Jorge Cuesta, autor insigne de los Contemporáneos, María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, Lupe Marín (1895-1983), fue protagonista de una época esplendorosa y musa de una pléyade de creadores como Xavier Villaurrutia y Juan Soriano, además de ejercer una influencia poderosa sobre hijos y nietos,... 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

Rotten Evidence

By: Ahmed Naji

Narrated by: Michael Rahhal

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for “violating public decency,” after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cellblock in Cairo’s Tora Prison.Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months.... Read more

At War with Ourselves

By: H. R. McMaster

Narrated by: H. R. McMaster

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the... 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

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

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

Driven by Determination

By: E.J. Agosti

Narrated by: Charlotte Vaughan

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Feel the anticipation, hear the engines roar, and sense the thrill of racing as you step into the world of Formula 1. You're at the starting line, ready to showcase your talents in a sport where women have made their mark through sheer skill and determination.
Driven by Determination: A Celebration of the Achievements of Women in Formula 1 takes... Read more

SpaceX

By: Brad Bergan

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the fascinating past, present, and possible future of Elon Musk’s SpaceX in this comprehensive history of the company.

The private space industry’s consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, was worth an estimated $187 billion in 2023 while taking on more roles—flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer... Read more

The Price

By: Armen Keteyian & John Talty

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“An explosive tell-all book.”—Sports Illustrated“This is a must-read masterpiece.”—Paul Finebaum, ESPN college football analyst and New York Times bestselling authorTwo of the nation’s most respected sports journalists team up for a vital, hard-hitting investigation into the tumultuous state of big-time college football.We are living in the Wild... Read more

The Rent Collectors

By: Jesse Katz

Narrated by: Jesse Katz

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"A searing account of gang violence and its consequences . . . Macedo's grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives for redemption. A masterful work of true crime—and, to be sure, true punishment." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)



Baby-faced teen Giovanni... Read more

Misguided

By: Perry Bulwer

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1972, Perry Bulwer, a naive sixteen-year-old growing up in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, dropped out of high school to run away with the Children of God, one of a number of millennial Christian cults that sprang up in the 1960s and 1970s. Bulwer takes the listener on an extraordinary trip through the world of biblical... 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

The Strategists

By: Phillips Payson O'Brien

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.

In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five... 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

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

The Woman Who Would Be King

By: Debrah Miceli & Greg Oliver

Narrated by: Debrah Miceli

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah "Madusa" Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets . . . Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are... Read more

Tot het laatste uur

By: Traudl Junge & Melissa Müller

Narrated by: Marijke Beversluis & Emmelie Zipson

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

De opkomst en val van het Derde Rijk, door de ogen van Hitler's secretaresse. Traudl Junge, de laatste overlevende getuige uit de directe omgeving van Adolf Hitler, werpt met haar memoires een uniek licht op de invloed van een charismatische leider op een jonge vrouw. Als tweeëntwintigjarige met grote dromen van een danscarrière, nam Traudl... Read more

Essay: A Beauty Worth Admiring By Joshua Dixon

By: Joshua Dixon

Narrated by: Joshua Dixon

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

What does self-care look like when struggling to make ends meet, living with a disability, or navigating intersectional marginalization? How can you prioritize well-being while divesting from systems built to destroy you? The answer: Hood Wellness, a groundbreaking exploration that challenges the oppressive systems deeply rooted in health and... Read more

MI ANGEL DE LA INMIGRACION

By: CFB

Narrated by: Uziel Abdalah Lopantzi Nacar & Daniel Mendez

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

la epopeya de dos hermanos cruzando la frontera los miedos el secuestro los peligros del desierto el abandono la presencia de ángeles y de los designios milagrosos de DIOS el encuentro al inmigrar con la patrulla de inmigración los pasos después de recién llegar a un gran país las cosas que debes y no debes hacer la inmigración el racismo la... Read more

Scoundrels to the Hoosegow

By: Morley Swingle

Narrated by: Morley Swingle

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Morley Swingle’s Scoundrels to the Hoosegow is not only consistently fascinating, but there is much to be learned from it about life in and out of an American courtroom. I highly recommend this engrossing book.” Vincent Bugliosi, Author of Helter Skelter In Scoundrels to the Hoosegow, a veteran prosecutor who is also a terrific storyteller... Read more