Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Broken Bones

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Broken Bones is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story Davis's grandmother told about the time his mother broke her arm - twice! The second story in the first set is about how his little brother's collarbone was broken - twice! It is about how trouble is genetic in families. The second set of stories concerns Davis'... Read more

Bill Clinton

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A decade and a half after William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began disastrously and deteriorated in a series of fiascoes. How Bill Clinton faced up to his... Read more

The Sense of Wonder

By: Rachel L. Carson

Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in…If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each... Read more

House to House

By: David Bellavia

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the personal side of battle, where emotion, courage, and strength are stretched to the limits.Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story—it is one of the most compelling combat narratives ever written. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of... Read more

The Long Walk

By: Slavomir Rawicz

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one... Read more

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound

By: Mick Brown

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Phil Spector, born in the Bronx in 1939, grew up an outsider despised by his peers. Yet after his family moved to California, he learned everything he could about music, formed a band, and had a number-one hit with "To Know Him Is to Love Him." He quickly became the top producer of early rock and roll, originator of such girl groups as the... Read more

My Dinner of Herbs

By: Efrem Zimbalist

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”—Proverbs 15:17It’s a long way from a large, luxurious, and rambling estate in the Connecticut countryside to Hollywood’s 77 Sunset Strip, but Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., made that journey, traveling many different roads during the life he so engagingly recreates in... Read more

The Big Three in Economics

By: Mark Skousen

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views... Read more

Gullible’s Travels

By: Cash Peters

Narrated by: Cash Peters

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America visiting some of the tackiest attractions in the world for his hugely popular public radio series, The Bad Taste Tours. But a guy can only take so much. Now, as Peters prepares to leave his travel-reporting days behind forever, he takes us along on some of the more... Read more

A Mormon in the White House?

By: Hugh Hewitt

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

He may be the only Republican who can deny John McCain the nomination, and he may be the only Republican who can stop Hillary Clinton. He’s an incredibly successful businessman and a fiscal and social conservative who managed to win the governorship in one of the staunchest Democratic states in America. But Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is... Read more

Blooding at Great Meadows

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country. But what has gone previously unexamined is Washington’s life as a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant colonel; he led four hundred American militiamen against a bigger, more experienced French army and paid a high price. Not only did... Read more

Kabul Beauty School

By: Deborah Rodriguez

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside the wall of a military compound or embassy. Deborah Rodriguez is one of the very few who lives life smack in the middle of Kabul. Now, Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founded and the vibrant women who were her students there.When Rodriguez opened the... Read more

Here’s the Bright Side

By: Betty Rollin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here’s the Bright Side is a wise, moving, and funny book about what people gain from situations of loss. Using examples from her own life and from other people’s lives, Rollin inspires readers with stories that illustrate the value that can come from the hardest times in our lives and how the worst can lead to the best, resulting in happier,... Read more

Kiss Tomorrow Hello

By: Kim Barnes & Claire Davis

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The twenty-five stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace... Read more

Timothy Leary

By: Robert Greenfield

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 25 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. In the handsome, charismatic Leary, the youth of the 1960s found someone who promised it all: self-liberation, hedonistic satisfaction, and spiritual fulfillment.While in Mexico in 1960,... Read more

Full Throttle

By: Robert Edelstein

Narrated by: Rex Linn

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Motor racing and mayhem, the non-stop pursuit of outrageous dreams, high-speed thrills and a really good time: these are the raw materials of Full Throttle.Curtis Turner was the most dynamic stock-car racer of all time; he wrote the book on living fast and dying young. The first NASCAR celebrity, his life embodied all that made NASCAR a hit... Read more

The Dogs Who Found Me

By: Ken Foster

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Disaster-prone writer and reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster never intended to adopt an abandoned dog. But after bringing Brando home, he finds it hard not to notice how many homeless strays there are in the city. Suddenly, he finds them everywhere—from a beagle abandoned in a New York City dog run to a pit bull in a Mississippi truck stop—and... Read more

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’s Dossier on Hillary Clinton

By: Amanda B. Carpenter

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

They adore her in Manhattan. They worship her in Hollywood. They idolize her in the liberal media. But out in the real world are those of us who see through her lies about her husband, reject her socialist economics, and despise her radical social agenda. We are the members of what Hillary Clinton described as a “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy,” and... Read more

After Fidel

By: Brian Latell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this compelling, behind-the-scenes account, former top CIA officer and Cuba expert Brian Latell examines the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel’s younger brother, Raul. Exploring the brothers’ remarkable relationship, he reveals how Fidel and Raul have collaborated, divided responsibilities, and... Read more

Go Long!

By: Jerry Rice

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Football hero Jerry Rice grew up in Crawford, Mississippi, the son of a brick mason. He developed his hands by catching the bricks that his brothers threw at him. From these humble beginnings, Rice blazed a path to greatness, becoming the greatest wide receiver in the NFL and winning three super bowl rings for the San Francisco 49ers.In spite of... Read more

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

By: Dito Montiel

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Orlandito “Dito” Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses, and at times getting near much graver trouble. Entering adulthood in the... Read more

Without You

By: Anthony Rapp

Narrated by: Anthony Rapp

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthony Rapp captures the passion and grit unique to the theater world as he recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical Rent.Anthony Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent as early as his first audition, which won him a starring role as the video artist Mark... Read more

Beyond Band of Brothers

By: Dick Winters

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the “Band of Brothers,” they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire.Dick Winters led them through the Battle of the Bulge, the attack on... 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