Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Tweak

By: Nic Sheff

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he regularly smoked pot, did cocaine and ecstasy, and developed addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to... Read more

Donald Davis Live from Fearrington Village

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For 16 years, Donald Davis has performed during the Christmas season at Fearrington Village, a unique destination community near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hundreds of people fill the seats in this historic barn, now converted for use as an events venue. Recorded live at Davis's December 15, 2007 performance, this audio captures the familiar... Read more

Generals in Bronze

By: William B. Styple

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the decades that followed the American Civil War, artist James E. Kelly (1855–1933) conducted in-depth interviews with more than forty Union generals in an effort to accurately portray them in their greatest moment of glory. “I had always felt a great lack of certain personal details,” Kelly explained. “I made up my mind to ask from the... Read more

The Time Machine

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Donald Davis walked into his 45th high-school reunion, he had two startling visions. The first was that the only signage he saw read, WELCOME HARLEY RIDERS.After discovering that he and his classmates would be sharing space with the bikers, Davis had his second surprise: "I was amazed to see how many parents had come." In The Time Machine,... Read more

Her Last Death

By: Susanna Sonnenberg

Narrated by: Susanna Sonnenberg

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any daughter would rush the thousands of miles to her mother's bedside. But Susanna cannot bring... Read more

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Abridged

By: Rifleman Harris

Narrated by: Jason Salkey

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula. Read more

Touch and Go

By: Sydney Lewis & Studs Terkel

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that—embodying the spirit of the man himself—is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun.

Terkel begins by taking us back to his early childhood with his father, mother, and two older brothers, describing the hectic... Read more

My Life as a Traitor

By: Zarah Ghahramani

Narrated by: Marjanne Dorée

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Zarah Ghahramani was born in Tehran in 1981, two years after Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran to establish the Islamic Republic. Her life changed suddenly in 2001 when, after having taken part in student demonstrations, she was arrested—literally snatched off the street by secret police—and charged with "inciting crimes against the people of... Read more

Jane Boleyn

By: Julia Fox

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and... Read more

Jane Boleyn - Abridged

By: Julia Fox

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and... Read more

The Fighting 69th

By: Sean Michael Flynn

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of September 11, 2001, New York City’s famous National Guard regiment, the fighting 69th Infantry, was not fit for duty. Most of its soldiers were immigrant kids with no prior military experience, their uniforms were incomplete, and their equipment was derelict. The thought of deploying such a unit was laughable. Sean Flynn, himself a... Read more

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

By: Nicholas Wapshott

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years in office, the U.S. president and the U.K. prime minister worked together to promote lower taxes, deregulation, free trade, and an aggressive stance against the Soviet Union.



But according to Nicholas... Read more

Shattered Dreams

By: Irene Spencer

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert... Read more

Condoleezza Rice: An American Life

By: Elisabeth Bumiller

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Condoleezza Rice has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush’s national security adviser on September 11, 2001. The... Read more

Chasing the Dream - Abridged

By: Joe Torre

Narrated by: Joe Torre

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Maybe the good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes."

When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded him--winning a World Series.  

He had all but given up his... Read more

George H. W. Bush

By: Timothy Naftali

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for his eloquence, Bush readily dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, there was no person of his generation better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely shepherded Soviet reformers... Read more

Marx's Das Kapital

By: Francis Wheen

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867 to... Read more

House of Abraham

By: Stephen Berry

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For all the talk of the Civil War "pitting brother against brother," until now there has never been a single book that traces the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family could better illustrate the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the... Read more

Around the World on Two Wheels

By: Peter Zheutlin

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that.



Annie was a Jewish immigrant and working mother of three living in a Boston tenement with her husband, a peddler. This was as close to the American dream as she... Read more

American Caesar

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 31 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a... Read more

The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton

By: Bay Buchanan

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The race is on, and Hillary Clinton is looking to transform herself into a candidate that middle-Americans might elect as our first woman president. Can she do it?Positioning herself for her 2008 presidential run, Hillary has put away the trappings of a liberal and wrapped herself in a cloak of moderation. The senator who had been one of the... Read more

Keep Walking

By: Larry Jones

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1979, Larry Jones was ministering in Haiti, where he was approached by a young boy who hadn’t eaten all day. The child asked for a nickel to buy a roll. Recalling the wheat surplus back home in Oklahoma, Jones soon started Feed The Children, initially a wheat-exporting outreach, that grew into one of the world’s largest and most respected... Read more

Chosen by a Horse

By: Susan Richards

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection—had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still... Read more

Cross and the Switchblade

By: John Sherill & David Wilkerson

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing true story of Wilkerson's outreach to New York teens trapped by drugs and gangs. Gang-fighters! Drug addicts. Teenage runaways and prostitutes! The toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. Then a young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a message of renewal,... Read more