Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Quiet Time with the President

By: Peter Friedland with Jill Margo

Narrated by: Adam Niell

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One Sunday in 2001 ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Peter Friedland received an unexpected call from Nelson Mandela’s personal physician. The former president was struggling to hear. Could Peter visit him at home?Friedland discovered that Mandela was using antiquated hearing aids and was struggling to maintain them. Soon he became a regular... Read more

A Year of Ebola

By: David Brett-Major

Narrated by: David Brett-Major

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Who should read this book? Someone on their way out the door for their first or an early career health emergency and disaster risk management (HEDRM) experience, regardless of role, or someone who is trying to support one who is, or who does it all of the time and wants to know that they are not aloneWhat does this book tell the reader? It... Read more

A Survivor's Education

By: Joy Neumeyer

Narrated by: Joy Neumeyer

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timely memoir, a journalist examines intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe. 

In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a... Read more

Earth to Moon

By: Moon Unit Zappa

Narrated by: Moon Unit Zappa

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as the “Valley Girl,” gaining momentum as an accidental VJ on a new network called MTV, and finding herself after losing her father, then her... Read more

Everybody Loves Dirty

By: Cherry Jones & Jerome Baldwin

Narrated by: Jarred Weisfeld, Jerome Baldwin & Cherry Jones

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time in this audio original, three of the people closest to him are sharing their memories of Russell Tyrone Jones—the man known to the world as Ol' Dirty Bastard.



Ol' Dirty Bastard was the heart and soul of the revolutionary East Coast rap group Wu-Tang Clan. He was an iconic figure with a new way of rapping his verse that changed... Read more

American Mercenary

By: Daniel Corbett

Narrated by: Daniel Corbett

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States’ most dangerous enemies takes readers inside the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary.

In American Mercenary, Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild ride through the unadulterated, morally ambiguous, and... Read more

Prisoner of Lies

By: Barry Werth

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A “riveting” (The Economist), “gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years.

John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other... Read more

Don't Wait Till You're Dead

By: Matt Fraser

Narrated by: Matt Fraser

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and America’s top psychic, Matt Fraser presents an immersive guide to intentional living and discovering what life is really all about before reaching the pearly gates.

New York Times bestselling author Matt Fraser knows a lot about life… from the dead. We’ve all heard there is a mystical moment that occurs just... Read more

Live Like a Guide Dog

By: Michael Hingson & Keri Wyatt Kent

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide dog’s guide to life’s most important lessons! Michael Hingson’s inspiring true story captivated the world when he and his guide dog Roselle escaped the Twin Towers together on 9/11, a story that became the New York Times bestselling book Thunder Dog. During decades of walking with guide dogs, he had learned a surprising truth that helped... Read more

The Slow Road North

By: Rosie Schaap

Narrated by: Rosie Schaap

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of the “wonderfully funny and openhearted” (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book—equal parts memoir and social history—that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing. Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a... Read more

You Did Say Have Another Sausage

By: John Meadows

Narrated by: John Delino Ziegler

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Light-hearted, anecdotal true stories as the author shares his wide-ranging experiences as a mischievous art student, bemused psychiatric nurse, reluctant parachutist, harassed teacher, American counsellor and time-traveller. Follow his hilarious escapades with a human skeleton, nude model and a lion, and witness incidents of mistaken identity... Read more

A Woman in the Polar Night

By: Christiane Ritter

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.



In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it... Read more

Broken Open

By: Craig Hamilton & Neil Jameson

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of how ABC broadcaster Craig Hamilton stared down his demons to recover from a mental breakdown.
Broken Open is the story of ABC sports broadcaster Craig Hamilton and how, on the eve of the biggest undertaking of his career, he suffered a complete mental breakdown. Instead of covering the Sydney Olympics Craig was confined to a... Read more

A Rebel in Gaza

By: Asmaa Alghoul & Sélim Nassib

Narrated by: Dina Elshinnawi

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Gaza has always been rebellious... stubborn, addictive. I’m her daughter, and I look like her.” Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa al-Ghoul has continued to speak her truth. She has continued to live... Read more

Out of the Darkness

By: Ian O'Connor

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller""A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game."" —Peter KingFour-time New York Times bestselling sport biographer Ian O’Connor pulls back the curtain on four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, delivering the definitive... Read more

The Devil at His Elbow

By: Valerie Bauerlein

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed & Valerie Bauerlein

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Valerie Bauerlein’s blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century’s wildest crime stories.”—Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of... Read more

Ryssland utan Putin

By: Stig Fredrikson

Narrated by: Mikael Roupé

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hur skulle Ryssland se ut utan sin auktoritära ledare? I "Ryssland utan Putin" skildrar Stig Fredrikson hur Putins styre är uppbyggt och hur en framtid bortom Putin skulle kunna se ut. Vladimir Putin har styrt Ryssland med järnhand i drygt tjugo år. Under hans regim har landet utvecklats mot mer förtryck och statlig kontroll. Utrikes har Putin... Read more

Cowpuppy

By: Gregory Berns

Narrated by: Derek Dysart

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling How Dogs Love Us, a fascinating glimpse into the cognitive and emotional lives of cows.When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows were a key part of a successful operation. But that was where his knowledge of... Read more

Healing Generational Wounds: Transform Your Inherited Pain

By: Elias Thornbrook

Narrated by: Nick Porter

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Healing Generational Wounds: Transform Your Inherited Pain
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Are you eager to progress in your personal journey and find inner peace by healing generational trauma?
Looking for a comprehensive guide that offers all the necessary elements to heal and transform inherited pain?
Your search ends... Read more

Combing Through the White House

By: Theodore Pappas

Narrated by: Theodore Pappas

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Discover a fascinating and novel look at the U.S. presidents, the first families, and American history—all through the lens of hair. With meticulous detail and engaging storytelling, encyclopedia editor Theodore Pappas combs through American history, teasing out long-forgotten and little-known ways that hair has influenced the... Read more

A Measure of Intelligence

By: Pepper Stetler

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When Pepper Stetler was told that her daughter who has Down Syndrome would be regularly required to take IQ tests to secure support in school, she asked a simple question: why? In questioning the authority and relevance of the test, Stetler sets herself on a winding investigation into how the IQ test came to be the irrefutable standard for... Read more

John Charles Ryle

By: Joel R. Beeke & Douglas Bond

Narrated by: Jonathan St. John

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What do George Whitefield, Elisabeth Elliot, and J. Gresham Machen have in common? They were all Evangelical Heroes. In the Evangelical Heroes series, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangelical leaders from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. From George Whitfield to Charles Spurgeon... Read more

Keep Living

By: Loreal Chanel "LC" Palmer

Narrated by: Loreal Chanel "LC" Palmer

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As long as you’re alive and breathing, you have a say in what direction your life will take. Just keep living.After seven years of marriage, multiple miscarriages, and three beautiful children, Loreal’s life changed in an instant when she found out that her husband, her first and only love, had a secret. At first, they embraced an untraditional... Read more

William Carey

By: Joel R. Beeke & Douglas Bond

Narrated by: Jonathan St. John

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What do George Whitefield, Elisabeth Elliot, and J. Gresham Machen have in common? They were all Evangelical Heroes. In the Evangelical Heroes series, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangelical leaders from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. From George Whitfield to Charles Spurgeon... Read more