Biography & Memoir audiobooks
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
View audiobookThe Bible
By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book—it has been translated into over 2,000 languages—and the world's best-selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history.... Read more
View audiobookThe Day Donny Herbert Woke Up
By: Rich Blake
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping hand, Donny fell into a vegetative state... Read more
View audiobookEl manana
By: Mirta Ojito
Narrated by: Mirta Ojito
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
En estasmemorias sobre una nina, dos culturas y la lucha por la libertad, la periodistaMirtaOjito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambio su vida para siempre: el exodo en el 1980 demas de 125.000 cubanos, conocido como el puente maritimo del Mariel. Con perservancia y mucho corazon, Ojito logra localizar a... Read more
View audiobookBrother, I'm Dying
By: Edwidge Danticat
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. As Edwidge made a life in a new... Read more
View audiobookA Life Decoded
By: J. Craig Venter
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 16 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing... Read more
View audiobookMax Planck - Abridged
By: Ernst Peter Fischer
Narrated by: Ernst Peter Fischer
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Max Planck (1858 - 1947) gehört zu den Menschen, vor denen man sich verneigen sollte. Planck war groß als Physiker und sein Name ist - mindestens durch das Plancksche Quantum der Wirkung - unsterblich geworden. Sein Name wird durch die (seit 1948) nach ihm benannte Gesellschaft in alle Welt verbreitet. Er war überzeugend als Philosoph, wobei... Read more
View audiobookBorn Standing Up
By: Steve Martin
Narrated by: Steve Martin
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit... Read more
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Narrated by: René Auberjonois
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had... Read more
View audiobookMy Lobotomy
By: Howard Dully & Charles Fleming
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve.
Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered.
"In 1960," he writes, "I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy.... Read more
One Man Great Enough
By: John C. Waugh
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Lincoln is the central axis of this story about America’s seemingly unstoppable march toward war, the shattering of its political landscape, and its grappling with the moral underpinnings of a republic of the people, by the people, and for the people.Here are such key events as the Mexican-American War, the Dred Scott Case, westward expansion,... Read more
View audiobookFinding Iris Chang
By: Paula Kamen
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Iris Chang, bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking and tireless human rights activist, symbolized strength to many in the literary and social justice worlds. Her fearlessness made it all the more shocking when she committed suicide in 2004 at age thirty-six.Longtime friend and confidante Paula Kamen, author of the critically acclaimed All in... Read more
View audiobookListening Is an Act of Love - Abridged
By: Dave Isay
Narrated by: Dave Isay & StoryCorps Participants
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps—the largest oral history project in the nation's history—presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love.
StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting... Read more
A Slave No More
By: David W. Blight
Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama... Read more
Boom!
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 18 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line... Read more
View audiobookSage-ing While Age-ing - Abridged
By: Shirley MacLaine
Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bestselling author and award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine invites readers to share in her decades-long quest for spiritual, physical, and personal harmony and truth. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover now in paperback, this book offers a provocative and enlightening synthesis of what Shirley has discovered in her years of searching for... Read more
View audiobookBoom! - Abridged
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line... Read more
View audiobookSurrender is Not an Option - Abridged
By: John Bolton
Narrated by: John Bolton
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With no-holds-barred candor, Donald Trump's new National Security Adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations takes us behind the scenes at the UN and the US State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the US can lead the way to a more realistic... Read more
View audiobookA Slave No More - Abridged
By: David W. Blight
Narrated by: David W. Blight, Richard Allen & Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama... Read more
The Man Who Knew Infinity
By: Robert Kanigel
Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk named Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers.Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most remarkable collaborations... Read more
View audiobookShattered Air
By: Bob Madgic
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
On the evening of July 27, 1985, five hikers made a fateful choice to climb Yosemite's fabled Half Dome, even as the sky darkened and thunder rolled. By night's end, two would be dead from a lightning strike, three gravely wounded, and desperate EMTs would be overseeing a harrowing midnight helicopter rescue.Shattered Airis a haunting account of... Read more
View audiobookThe Everything Martin Luther King Jr. Book
By: Jessica McElrath
Narrated by: Dwain Kyles
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most inspirational figures in American history. From his march on Washington to his time in a Birmingham jail, King’s life and work continue to have a profound effect on our nation. The Everything® Martin Luther King Jr. Book explores King’s life, times and influence. Fascinating facts and little-known... Read more
View audiobookIf I Only Knew Then...
By: author
Narrated by: Charles Grodin & Marion Grodin
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Writer, activist, and actor Charles Grodin delivers a fascinating collection of more than eighty intimate and revealing stories from friends and colleagues in the worlds of entertainment, sports, journalism, politics, and business-inspiring, entertaining, and heartfelt accounts of mistakes they've made and the lessons they learned.
Carol Burnett... Read more
Chasing Rubi
By: Marty Wall & Isabella Wall
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Was he a spy, assassin, or just a gigolo? Porfirio Rubirosa mingled with kings, dined with princes, and socialized with presidents, dictators, mobsters, and movie stars. In the wake of his frenzied activities, he left screaming headlines, hundreds of one-night stands, multiple divorces from the world’s richest women—including one who paid... Read more
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