Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Age of Turbulence - Abridged

By: Alan Greenspan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year... Read more

The Immortalists

By: David M. Friedman

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize winner regarded by many as the most brilliant surgeon who ever lived.



Lindbergh and Carrel met not long after Lindbergh's... Read more

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace

By: Dang Thuy Tram

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and friends,... Read more

Cheney

By: Stephen F. Hayes

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 21 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War. Nearly thirty years later, from the presidential bunker below the... Read more

A Prison Diary Volume I - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with... Read more

Giving

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Bill Clinton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out... Read more

All the Money in the World

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

By: Alan Alda

Narrated by: Alan Alda

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?)

Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself... Read more

All the Money in the World - Abridged

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of theForbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years - Abridged

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how... Read more

Agent Zigzag - Abridged

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941,... Read more

Bad Dogs Have More Fun

By: John Grogan

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an unforgettable collection of more than 75 newspaper columns by John Grogan, the New York Times best-selling author of Marley & Me. Combining humor, wit, poignancy, and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in. Whether writing about animals (from dogs to elephants to geese!), life's... Read more

The Death of Manolete

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday, August 28, 1947, a 30-year-old millionaire named Manuel Laureano Rodriguez—Manolete—and a Miura bull named Islero killed each other. The Death of Manolete recounts the extraordinary life and demise of this young bullfighter, from the childhood that made the Spanish boy and the sacrifice that made the man to the girl who brought him... Read more

Amerigo

By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit,... Read more

Wonderful Tonight - Abridged

By: Pattie Boyd

Narrated by: Pattie Boyd

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast... Read more

Obama

By: David Mendell

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential reading. Mendell, who covered Obama for... Read more

Peeling the Onion

By: Gunter Grass

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published.

During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years... Read more

Hard Call - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain & Daniel Hugh Kelly

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's most inspiring politician pays tribute to men and woman who have exhibited composure, wisdom and intellect in the face of tough decisions. John McCain draws from experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances, culling lessons about the process and nature of judicious and effective decision-making.

... Read more

Nach Süden - Ein Briefwechsel und 11 Lieder (ungekürzt)

By: Fanny Hensel

Narrated by: Markus Hoffmann, Beate Kurecki, Andreas Hueck, ...

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn wird am 14. November 1805 als erstes von vier Kindern geboren. Schon früh entdeckt sie ihre Liebe zur Musik, die ganz im Sinne der Familientradition zunächst auch gefördert wird. Doch bald muß sie erkennen, daß sie sich in ihrer Arbeit als Frau nur begrenzt entfalten darf. Im Gegensatz zu ihrem Bruder bleiben ihr... Read more

Der Regimentsmedicus Schiller (ungekürzt)

By: Meike Schlüter

Narrated by: Meike Schlüter & Marcus Reinhardt

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Räuber", "Kabale und Liebe" oder "Wilhelm Tell" sind nur einige seiner Stücke, die als Klassiker der deutschen Literatur gelten. Seine Bedeutung als Dramatiker ist unumstritten. Wenige aber wissen, daß Schiller vor seiner Flucht nach Mannheim - um sich aus den Fängen seines tyrannischen Landesfürsten zu befreien und sich ganz der... Read more

The Preacher and the Presidents - Abridged

By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public... Read more

Bouillon de poulet pour l'âme - Abridged

By: Jack Canfield

Narrated by: Patrice Laffont

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Des histoires qui nous invitent à l’écoute des jours pour cueillir ce qu’ils nous offrent de meilleur parmi les aléas du quotidien. De merveilleuses histoires, qui vous arrivent droit au cœur. Read more

Shaggy Muses

By: Maureen Adams

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer’s equally fierce spirit. We enter the creative sanctum... Read more

The Heart of the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the latest of Gervase Phinn's charming tales, The Heart of the Dales, read by the man himself.

His colourful cast of characters have now become firm favourites - the eccentric staff at County Hall as well as the children themselves who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent... Read more