Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Anxious Souls Will Ask

By: John Matthews

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

John Matthews has been captivated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer for thirty years, long before the film brought this modern Christian martyr back into the public eye. This book will take you into Bonhoeffer’s struggle of terror and faith in his Letters and Papers from Prison. Guided by Matthews’s keen mind and pastoral courage, you will be led past the... Read more

E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer

By: Lyle W. Dorsett

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"The name of E. M. Bounds is familiar to anyone who has an interest in prayer. In a world awash in books that jam the isles of bookstores everywhere, few will even begin to survive the lifetime of the authors, but that is not true of E. M. Bounds. After a century, many of his books are still in print. Their long life is a testimony to the... Read more

Population: 485 - Abridged

By: Michael Perry

Narrated by: Michael Perry

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today)Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior... Read more

Silent Witness

By: Mark Fuhrman

Narrated by: John Hinch

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

We all watched Terri Schiavo die.The controversy around her case dominated the headlines and talk shows, going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House and the Vatican.And it's not over yet. Despite her death, the controversy lingers.In Silent Witness, Mark Fuhrman applies his crack detective skills to examine the medical evidence,... Read more

Confessions of a Video Vixen

By: Karrine Steffans & Karen Hunter

Narrated by: Karrine Steffans

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs,... Read more

Kafka in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A handsome recluse, plagued by indecision and hypochondria, Kafka nonetheless exhibited an extraordinary strength. He developed the uncanny ability to observe himself with cool objectivity, and he cultivated this ability in his writing, where it appeared in increasingly original metaphorical form. His works became among the greatest of the... Read more

Kabloona

By: Gontran de Poncins

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others'... Read more

Brother Ray

By: Ray Charles & David Ritz

Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Charles (1930–2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his life story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life.Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles... Read more

In the Shadow of Fame

By: Sue Erikson Bloland

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, this is the intimate story of a daughter’s struggle to develop a sense of self in a family—and a world—in which being famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human being.Sue Erikson Bloland struggled from an early age to reconcile the public view of her father as a... Read more

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This phenomenal New York Times bestseller is an exposé of international corruption and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations.John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States, from Indonesia to Panama, to accept enormous loans for infrastructure... Read more

Miles Gone By

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: William F. Buckley

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than fifty years, you’ll meet William Buckley the boy, growing up in a family of ten children; Buckley the political enfant terrible, whose debut book, God and Man at Yale, was a New York Times bestseller; Buckley the editor of the... Read more

Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years... Read more

García Márquez in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

García Márquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is also that modern rarity, a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is one of the richest literary dreams ever written. Its “magical realism” has... Read more

How to Build a Tin Canoe

By: Robb White

Narrated by: Robb White

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

While still a young boy, Robb White built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop in the back yard. Today, without any formal training, White constructs some of the most sought-after wooden boats around.In How to Build a Tin Canoe, this Southern raconteur and self-taught, expert wooden-boat builder builder recounts... Read more

John Ransom’s Diary

By: John Ransom

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is an extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville. Here thirteen thousand wretched Union prisoners died within barely fourteen months, from starvation, scurvy, and other diseases that spread through the camp. There was little shelter but makeshift... Read more

West with the Night

By: Beryl Markham

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautifully written autobiography brings us the remarkable life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which... Read more

Hope and Honor

By: General Sid Shachnow & Jann Robbins

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Major General Sid Shachnow was ten-years old when he escaped the notorious Kovno concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. Later, he traveled to post-war Germany and he earned a living as a courier for his mother’s black market business. His family eventually came to America where he struggled to get an education, held down three jobs and... Read more

Back in Action

By: David Rozelle

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more

Kindred Souls

By: Edna P. Gurewitsch

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For fifteen years, Eleanor Roosevelt and her handsome doctor, David Gurewitsch, were friends—traveling, entertaining, and eventually buying a townhouse together in Manhattan. Their friendship has always intrigued historians, but not much was known about it. David kept detailed journals and took thousands of photos, but he never publicly... Read more

Divorced from the Mob

By: Andrea Giovino

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family—and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother... Read more

Raoul Wallenberg, Revised Edition

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an international symbol of twentieth-century humanitarianism, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, issued countless “false” visas and other documents which were virtual life certificates that saved approximately one hundred thousand Jews from the Nazis in wartime Hungary. Then in 1945, as the war drew to a close, he disappeared after being... Read more

Dylan Thomas

By: Andrew Lycett

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 18 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this authoritative, fresh, and compelling account of the extraordinary life and enduring work of Dylan Thomas—author of Under Milkwood, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Adventures in the Skin Trade, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog, and numerous poems and stories—Andrew Lycett peels back the layers of story that have accumulated around this... Read more

Wolves and Honey

By: Susan Brind Morrow

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Our complex relationship to the natural world is revealed through the unusual lives and deaths of a trapper and a beekeeper.Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world.Prompted by the emotional loss... Read more

Let Me Go

By: Helga Schneider

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. When she next saw her mother, thirty years later, she learned the shocking reason why.Helga’s mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a “correction” unit and... Read more