Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Meet You in Hell - Abridged

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.

“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today

“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more

Conduct Under Fire - Abridged

By: John Glusman

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more

Galileo's Daughter

By: Dava Sobel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition,... Read more

Bat Boy - Abridged

By: Matthew McGough

Narrated by: Matthew McGough

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections... Read more

Down Came The Rain - Abridged

By: Brooke Shields

Narrated by: Brooke Shields

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this compelling memoir, Brooke Shields talks candidly about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, and provides millions of women with an inspiring example of recovery. When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis, into the world, something unexpected followed--a crippling depression.... Read more

Surprised by Love

By: Lyle W. Dorsett

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1956, an item in The Times of London stunned England's literary set. Confirmed bachelor and celebrated Christian apologist C.S. Lewis announced his marriage to Joy Gresham. His choice could not have been more unlikely. Joy was an American, a divorcee, an ex-communist, and a former atheist. Yet this extraordinary and fascinating woman... Read more

One Ranger

By: H. Joaquin Jackson & David Marion Wilkinson

Narrated by: Rex Linn

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When his picture appeared on the cover ofTexas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. He was the inspiration for Nick Nolte's character in the movieExtreme Prejudice, and he even had a speaking part of his own inThe Good Old Boyswith Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of... Read more

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers

By: Fred Rogers

Narrated by: Lily Tomlin, Blair Brown, Richard Kind, Joanne ...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring collection of thoughts to take with us on the paths we travel in life.

For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don't, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some insights to share. Whether you're facing graduation, a new job, a new baby, marriage, any change in your life--expected or not--the wisdom that Mister... Read more

Isaac Newton

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of... Read more

Wilt, 1962 - Abridged

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

Narrated by: Roscoe Orman

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more

Cinderella Man - Abridged

By: Jeremy Schaap

Narrated by: Jeremy Schaap

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more

Cinderella Man

By: Jeremy Schaap

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more

Newjack

By: Ted Conover

Narrated by: Ted Conover

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards—both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works... Read more

The Story of My Life - Abridged

By: Farah Ahmedi

Narrated by: Masuda Sultan

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Farah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir.

Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" (Chicago Tribune) chronicles her journey from war to peace. Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and... Read more

Searching for the Sound - Abridged

By: Phil Lesh

Narrated by: Phil Lesh

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass and joined him in a new group that blended R & B, country, and rock 'n' roll with an experimental fervor never before heard.
In time for the Grateful Dead's fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the... Read more

One Soldier's Story - Abridged

By: Bob Dole

Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more

Three Nights in August

By: Buzz Bissinger

Narrated by: Jeffrey Nordling

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights follows 2004 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa through a three-game series with the arch-rival Chicago Cubs. Bissinger chronicles the process by which the manager leads his players to victory and distills the essence of the game from locker room and front... Read more

Luckiest Man - Abridged

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.

Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear,... Read more

Wilt, 1962

By: Gary M. Pomerantz

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more

My Life So Far

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her... Read more

My Life So Far - Abridged

By: Jane Fonda

Narrated by: Jane Fonda

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her... Read more

Assassination Vacation - Abridged

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires - Abridged

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Includes an interview with the author and recipe cards!

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double... Read more