Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more

Death in the Jungle - Abridged

By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Eric Conger
2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.

With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more

Be Quick - But Don't Hurry

By: Andrew Hill

Narrated by: Andrew Hill

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Be Quick, But Don't Hurry presents the team-building management secrets of the greatest coach of the twentieth century, cloaked in the heartwarming tale of the reluctant protege who learned those secrets in spite of himself.

Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as "Coach of the Century" by... Read more

Prince of Tennesee

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he might have been. The Gore who comes to life in this audiobook is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that... Read more

Best Friends

By: Samantha Glen

Narrated by: Juliette Parker

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the... Read more

Jane Austen

By: Carol Shields

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement,... Read more

Buddha

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. In lucid and compelling prose, Armstrong brings to life the Buddha’s quest, from his renunciation of his privileged life to the discovery of a truth that he believed would utterly transform human beings and enable them to... Read more

Shackleton's Way

By: Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship Endurance, crushed in the Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. When the ice began to break up, Shackleton set out to save them all on his heroic eight-hundred-mile-trip across the... Read more

Paris to the Moon - Abridged

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, breathtaking facades around every corner—in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New... Read more

Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 2

By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum

Narrated by: Yossef Brami

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.1 - L'ours danseur2 - Le Pourim de Saragosse3 - Les actions de 'Hiya4 - L'étrange bénédiction5 - La piscine du Roi Salomon Read more

An Album of Memories

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more

2.5 Minute Ride

By: Lisa Kron

Narrated by: Lisa Kron

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2.5 Minute Ride--winner of the Obie Award, The New York Press Award, and the L.A. Dramalogue Award— Lisa Kron invites her audience on a roller coaster ride through the Kron family album. Kron's performance switches back and forth between a journey to Auschwitz with her septuagenarian father, a Holocaust survivor; her Michigan... Read more

The Song of Leonard Cohen

By: Harry Rasky

Narrated by: Al Bernstein

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“‘Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.’

Then he left his personal number.”
– Harry Rasky, April 2000.

No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his... Read more

An Hour Before Daylight - Abridged

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker

In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.

Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a... Read more

My Life in Three Acts - Abridged

By: Helen Hayes

Narrated by: Helen Hayes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this extremely candid and honest account, Helen Hayes, acclaimed "First Lady of the American Theater", looks back on her life and career, and you are invited to a private listening session. So sit back, relax, and listen to behind-the-scenes portraits and anecdotes of personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, John F. Kennedy, Al... Read more

Evan Thomas - Robert Kennedy: His Life

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret Warner speaks with Evan Thomas, the author of a new book about the life of Robert F. Kennedy. Read more

Cochrane

By: Robert Harvey

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The life and adventures of Thomas Cochrane, a young man who rose from midshipman to admiral, are so extraordinary that, to paraphrase Patrick O’Brian, one has to suspend disbelief. In fact, O’Brian admitted to using Cochrane as the model for his character Jack Aubrey. Second only to Nelson among the heroes of the Royal Navy, Cochrane became a... Read more

Anything Goes! - Abridged

By: Larry King & Pat Piper

Narrated by: Larry King

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As host of Larry King Live, which was one of the most popular daily forums for political news and commentary, Larry King asked probing questions of major world leaders, politicians, pundits, spin doctors, and reporters. Drawing upon insights gained during those interviews, King takes an in-depth look at how the United States arrived at a pivotal... Read more

John Nathan-Turner Memoirs Volume 1-2 (Unabridged)

By: John Nathan-Turner

Narrated by: John Nathan-Turner

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Nathan-Turner was the ninth - and longest-serving - producer of "Classic" Doctor Who, running the show from 1980 until it was effectively cancelled in 1989. In this candid memoir he looks back over his years working on the series. Read more

Thalberg - Abridged

By: Bob Thomas

Narrated by: John Landis

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 85 years after his untimely death at just age 37, Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) remains a legendary Hollywood figure. Called the “Boy Wonder of Hollywood,” Thalberg quickly climbed the ranks at MGM studios to became one of the most powerful and high-profile producers of the time, elevating filmmaking to an art form. In this definitive... Read more

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Eboys

By: Randall E. Stross

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.

Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends... Read more

The Coalwood Way - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.

The strains can be felt within the... Read more

Off Camera - Abridged

By: Ted Koppel

Narrated by: Ted Koppel

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of America's most admired TV anchors gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In this engrossing narrative, a national bestseller, are all the most significant matters of that year--from Bill Clinton’s impeachment to Columbine, from the war in Kosovo to Y2K and the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the... Read more