Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Shiksa Goddess - Abridged

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: Wendy Wasserstein

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein' s mid-life... Read more

A Passion to Win - Abridged

By: Sumner Redstone

Narrated by: Sumner Redstone

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A titan of modern media, Sumner Redstone shares how he became the head of one of the world’s great media empires and one of the richest men in the entertainment business.

In one of the most fascinating and eye-opening business autobiographies written, Sumner Redstone shares the unvarnished story of how he overcame significant obstacles on his... Read more

Ghost Soldiers - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II.

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a... Read more

John Adams

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 29 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more

An Album of Memories - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more

Special Agent - Abridged

By: Candice DeLong

Narrated by: Candice DeLong

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Candice DeLong worked on some of the toughest hig-stakes criminal investigations of our time. As a field profiler, DeLong collected evidence at the scene of the crime to creat a specific portrait of criminals via behavioral patterns, character traits, background, etc. Special Agent is her remarkable personal... Read more

John Adams - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann & Jan Maxwell

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more

Comfort Me with Apples - Abridged

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Ruth Reichl’s latest book — one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales — the author brings to life her adventures in pursuit of good meals and good company. Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl’s transformation from chef to food writer, a process... Read more

LRRP Company Command - Abridged

By: Kregg P. Jorgenson

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone to do it in.
 
The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men’s new AO was brutal. It was bad enough that the provinces of Binh Long, Phuoc Long, and Tay... Read more

Diary of an Airborne Ranger - Abridged

By: Frank Johnson

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at war
ever to appear in print!

When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was nineteen, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others--but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance... Read more

Let Me Entertain You

By: David Brown

Narrated by: David Brown

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Seldom has the world seen a man with the grace, style, intellect, and success of journalist, author, publisher, Broadway and film producer, and husband to long-time Cosmopolitan head Helen Gurley Brown, David Brown. Throughout his remarkable life, he was a friend, acquaintance, and confidant of the world's most powerful, most famous, and most... Read more

Far Appalachia

By: Noah Adams

Narrated by: Noah Adams

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey through the heart of Appalachia--a journey shared by pioneers and preachers, white-water... Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more

Death in the Jungle - Abridged

By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Eric Conger
2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.

With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more

Be Quick - But Don't Hurry

By: Andrew Hill

Narrated by: Andrew Hill

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Be Quick, But Don't Hurry presents the team-building management secrets of the greatest coach of the twentieth century, cloaked in the heartwarming tale of the reluctant protege who learned those secrets in spite of himself.

Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as "Coach of the Century" by... Read more

Prince of Tennesee

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he might have been. The Gore who comes to life in this audiobook is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that... Read more

Best Friends

By: Samantha Glen

Narrated by: Juliette Parker

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the... Read more

Jane Austen

By: Carol Shields

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement,... Read more

Buddha

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. In lucid and compelling prose, Armstrong brings to life the Buddha’s quest, from his renunciation of his privileged life to the discovery of a truth that he believed would utterly transform human beings and enable them to... Read more

Shackleton's Way

By: Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship Endurance, crushed in the Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. When the ice began to break up, Shackleton set out to save them all on his heroic eight-hundred-mile-trip across the... Read more

Paris to the Moon - Abridged

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, breathtaking facades around every corner—in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New... Read more

Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 2

By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum

Narrated by: Yossef Brami

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.1 - L'ours danseur2 - Le Pourim de Saragosse3 - Les actions de 'Hiya4 - L'étrange bénédiction5 - La piscine du Roi Salomon Read more

An Album of Memories

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more

2.5 Minute Ride

By: Lisa Kron

Narrated by: Lisa Kron

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2.5 Minute Ride--winner of the Obie Award, The New York Press Award, and the L.A. Dramalogue Award— Lisa Kron invites her audience on a roller coaster ride through the Kron family album. Kron's performance switches back and forth between a journey to Auschwitz with her septuagenarian father, a Holocaust survivor; her Michigan... Read more