Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Democratic Presidents of the 20th Century: The History of the Democrats Who Led the United States during the American Century

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the most influential men of the 20th century, there is no shortage of adjectives to use when describing Woodrow Wilson’s two terms as president of the United States. Wilson was a pioneer of the Progressive movement both before and during his presidency, becoming a populist champion a generation before Franklin Roosevelt’s New... Read more

In Search of Marvellousness

By: Marcus Lovett

Narrated by: Marcus Lovett

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Search of Marvellousness. Fear, pain and the pursuit of happiness. The back story.Is your pain telling you something? Do you listen to it or try to drown it out? What if your discomfort inspired you to push beyond, but you chose to avoid being uncomfortable? This is a story of pain, discomfort, fear and rejection and how an action man learns... Read more

Jean-Pierre Cuoni, un banquier de cœur

By: Christophe Vuilleumier

Narrated by: Noëlle Demole

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Le destin d’un homme se forge au travers de ses réalisations, mais aussi de son attitude à l’égard de la vie, de ses valeurs et de son éthique. Jean-Pierre Cuoni, le créateur de la banque internationale EFG, épaulé par un ami de longue date qui traversa bien des batailles avec lui, Lonnie Howell, éleva comme vertus cardinales l’éthique et la... Read more

Marisol Casola: Besada por el éxito

By: Marybel Torres & Marisol Casola

Narrated by: Ray Diaz, Juan Alberto Silva & Marianela Toro

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Marisol Casola: Besada por el éxito es un libro que resume los aspectos más resaltantes de la vida de esta empresaria de origen dominicano que emigró a los Estados Unidos en búsqueda del sueño americano... y lo encontró. Más allá del amor incondicional de su familia y el afecto de amistades verdaderas, herramientas que le permitieron construir... Read more

Searching for Home

By: Joseph Gosler

Narrated by: Joseph Gosler

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Second World War ends and Josje is returned to his parents. Who are these people who call themselves my parents, he imagines. He is three years old and feels abandoned, confused and angry. He wants to return to his “real” parents who loved and sheltered him during the war. “My name is Pietje Dijkstra not Josje Gosler!”, he states tearfully... Read more

The Soil of Leadership

By: Dr. Britt Yamamoto

Narrated by: Dr. Britt Yamamoto & Priti Bhattarai

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Soil of Leadership, Dr. Britt Yamamoto presents a unique and memorable perspective on leadership that challenges conventional wisdom for guiding others. Drawing from his extensive global leadership experience—working closely with leaders and organizations from all over Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North... Read more

Behind the Dress

By: Christine Faour

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you known someone who was in a cult? Do you think you know your neighbors pretty well? You really don't know what's going on behind the smile, the dress, and the doors of the house down the street.



This is the story of a Canadian woman who was in the Advanced Training Institute, run by Bill Gothard, for fourteen years. The amazing thing is... Read more

The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards

By: Jessica Waite

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“You will stay up all night reading this gem” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author) about a widow whose life is turned upside down when she uncovers the truth about her late husband. A lyrical, witty, and deeply moving memoir of betrayal and forgiveness.

While mourning her husband’s sudden death, Jessica Waite discovered shocking... Read more

Being Hindu Being Indian

By: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargava

Narrated by: Vasundhara Bose

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders, avenged Rai’ s death, caused by a police lathi charge, and was hanged for it. Lajpat Rai is also remembered for his fervent opposition to British rule.In recent decades, however, historians have converged with the Hindu Right... Read more

Zest! Seller

By: Christopher Joseph

Narrated by: Christopher Joseph

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Zest! Seller’ is a series of short, true, humorous and horrific stories from Chris Joseph’s life that can be read together or in isolation. They should give listeners an insight into the joyful, painful, but certainly crazy world that he has inhabited where insanity often follows creativity. Whether it’s madness or genius, you be the judge. Read more

Funny Boy

By: Jessica Max Stein

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography tells the life story of a gifted performer whose gleeful irreverence, sharp wit, and generous spirit inspired millions. Richard Hunt was one of the original main five performers in the Muppet troupe. He brought to life an impressive range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and... Read more

When Christians Disagree

By: Tim Cooper

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Oppositional Figures in Church History Shed Light on Division in the Church Today Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting the church. But for centuries, theological disagreements, political differences, and issues relating to church leadership have made it challenging for Christians... Read more

Max

By: André Hoogeboom

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

La biografía del campeón y fenómeno mundial de Fórmula 1. Max Verstappen es la nueva y sensacional estrella de la Fórmula 1. Nacido en el seno de una familia automovilista, empezó a correr en karts a los 4 años y, en 2015, menos de seis meses después de su decimoséptimo aniversario, se convirtió en el piloto más joven en sentarse al volante de... Read more

Wild Wisdom

By: Christine Amour-Levar

Narrated by: Ellie Flory Fawcett

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A tale of adventure, pushing limits, humanity and the transformative power of challenging expeditions to help us grow wiser, more compassionate and purposeful with our livesWild Wisdom recounts the story of social entrepreneur and philanthropist Christine Amour-Levar and the all-female expeditions she has led across the globe via her two... Read more

Endurance. La prisión blanca

By: Alfred Lansing

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Uno de los grandes clásicos de la narrativa de no ficción. El mejor libro sobre una de las historias más épicas del siglo XX En diciembre de 1914, sir Ernest Shackleton y una tripulación de veintisiete hombres embarcaron en el Endurance rumbo al Polo Sur, con el objetivo de cruzar por tierra la Antártida, el último continente inexplorado. Un mes... Read more

Bernhard Sindberg

By: Peter Harmsen

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are killed. At the very onset of the atrocities, the Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside the city, 26-year-old Bernhard Arp... Read more

Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?

By: Jay Ellis

Narrated by: Jay Ellis

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Jay Ellis, star of HBO’s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget—part Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, part Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—in this hilarious, vulnerable memoir.

“So funny, poignant, and personal. I loved this and you will, too.”—Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not... Read more

All in the Family

By: Fred C. Trump

Narrated by: Fred C. Trump

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.

For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked... Read more

Pride Amid Prejudice

By: Chief Warrant Officer (Ret’d) Necole E. Belange...

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Chief Warrant Officer Necole Belanger created a professional persona that was no-nonsense and highly put-together. But the truth was much more complex.



Necole's story is a tale of two lives, the CWO raised in a military family, and the woman coming to terms with her sexuality, in a time where the two could not coexist. A lesbian member of the... Read more

The Movement

By: Clara Bingham

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards, Gibson Fraz...

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral... Read more

Mr. Churchill in the White House

By: Robert Schmuhl

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Well into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert Schmuhl, the noted author and journalist, may be the first to depict him as a demanding, indeed exhausting White House guest. Drawing on years of... Read more

I Have America Surrounded

By: John Higgs

Narrated by: John Higgs

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few people have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on, and drop out. His influence was so wide-ranging... Read more

Women of Hope

By: Terry Polakovic

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout the history of the Catholic Church, in her most troubled and turbulent times, God has raised up great saints as beacons of hope in the midst of darkness. Among these great saints, the four women Doctors of the Church stand out as models of courage, wisdom, and trust. Their example and teachings remain with us, are relevant to the... Read more

Alpine Rising

By: Bernadette McDonald

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world's highest peaks." —Jon Krakauer



The name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna, is widely recognized, but how many know Ang Tharkay, the Sherpa who... Read more