Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Fight Back and Win - Abridged

By: Gloria Allred

Narrated by: Gloria Allred

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

World-renowned women's rights attorney and civil rights advocate Gloria Allred sharesempowering life lessons learned while fighting on the front lines for victims' rightsVoted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as ""one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes,"" Allred... Read more

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Fredd Wayne

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin was not only one of America's Founding Fathers—he was also a fascinating character who lived an exciting life. Whether carousing with prostitutes in Paris, taunting lightning bolts with kites, or founding America's first volunteer firefighting organization, Franklin was always at the center of activity. The Autobiography of... Read more

The Family Comes of Age - Abridged

By: Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee

Narrated by: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and the black community. Now they look back on a half- century of their personal and political struggles to... Read more

At Canaan's Edge - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history.

The final volume of Taylor... Read more

Devil in the Details

By: Jennifer Traig

Narrated by: Melinda Wade

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The struggles and humiliations of adolescence are told in an unflinching, funny, surprisingly universal tale of one good Jewish girl's battle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Read more

STAR TREK MOVIE MEMORIES - Abridged

By: William Shatner

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sequel to the bestselling Star Trek Memories, documenting in deliciously lurid and candid detail all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans in the making of the six Star Trek movies, with on-the-scene reporting from the set of the seventh in which...Kirk dies!Star Trek Movie Memories recounts all the chaos, creative turmoil, backstage politics,... Read more

All Rivers Run to the Sea - Abridged

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Elie Wiesel

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the... Read more

STAR TREK MEMORIES - Abridged

By: William Shatner

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A living pop culture legend and one of American film and television's most enduring stars, William Shatner will forever be associated with the role of James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise. Star Trek Memories is Shatner's classic behind-the-scenes look at the legendary series that continues to put forth movies, books, and series... Read more

Money, A Memoir - Abridged

By: Liz Perle

Narrated by: Liz Perle

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle made a quiet contract with cash: She would do what it took to get it—work hard, marry right—but she didn't want to have to think about it too much. Since she was a young girl, the subject of money had been quietly sidestepped, a shadowy factor whose private influence was impolite to discuss. When... Read more

Portrait: Joseph Beuys, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Heiner Stachelhaus

Narrated by: Friedrich Küppersbusch

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die neue PORTRAIT-Reihe startet mit "Joseph Beuys". Wer war er? Scharlatan, Guru, Magier, Schamane? Oder ein Künstler, der die Dimensionen herkömmlicher Kunst und Kunstauffassung sprengte? Basierend auf jahrzehntelangen persönlichen Kontakten und Gesprächen mit Angehörigen und Freunden, Anhängern und Gegnern, entwirft Heiner Stachelhaus ein... Read more

The Freedom Writers Diary

By: Erin Gruwell & The Freedom Writers

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, Bahni Turpin & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell
 
Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
 
In 1994, an... Read more

Flags of Our Fathers

By: James Bradley & Ron Powers

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.

In February 1945, American... Read more

Night

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An enduring classic of Holocaust literature, Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse... Read more

Girls of Tender Age - Abridged

By: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Narrated by: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that of Angela's Ashes with the tale of a... Read more

On Michael Jackson

By: Margo Jefferson

Narrated by: Andrea Johnson

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How... Read more

Parish Priest - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley & Julie M. Fenster

Narrated by: Julie M. Fenster

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Father Michael McGivney was a man to whom ""family values"" represented more than mere rhetoric, a man who has left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world.In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Called to action in 1882, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that helped... Read more

For Laci - Abridged

By: Sharon Rocha

Narrated by: Sharon Rocha

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.

A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son... Read more

The Hoax

By: Clifford Irving

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Novelist Clifford Irving’s “autobiography” of Howard Hughes was the literary hoax of our time. This no-holds-barred confession by the author was first published in Great Britain in 1977, where it became a bestseller. But no American hardcover house would touch it until now. Why? The answer is implicit in this ultimate caper story of daring,... Read more

The Prince of the City

By: Fred Siegel

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dark days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani established himself as “America’s mayor.” This first post-9/11 account of his career shows how Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.As one who has worked with him as well as studied him, Fred Siegel regards Giuliani as a... Read more

The Compleated Autobiography

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time—but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history—years in... Read more

Nature Notes for 1906

By: Edith Holden

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

More than one hundred years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.Besides noting the flora and fauna, she included poems and quaint folk sayings, saints' days, mottoes, and... Read more

Marian McPartland’s Jazz World

By: Marian McPartland

Narrated by: Marian McPartland

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pays sparkling tribute to such beloved and legendary figures as Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond, Alec Wilder, Mary Lou Williams, and others.In a preface to this new edition, published originally as All in Good Time, McPartland extends her... Read more

Miles to Go

By: Chris Murphy

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles to Go is a frank and intimate exploration of Miles Davis’ eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression, and subsequent recovery. Murphy explores Davis’ troubled relationship with his children and the controversial role Cicely Tyson played in his life. The book also delves into the dynamics that made Davis’ band work so well... Read more

A Grief Observed

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: “Nothing will shake a man—or at any rate a man like me—out of his... Read more