Biography & Memoir audiobooks
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places - Abridged
By: Le Hayslip & Jay Wurts
Narrated by: Nancy Kwan
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. Le Ly Hayslipโ the youngest in a close-knit Buddhist familyโ was 12 years old when... Read more
View audiobookLuciferโs Child - Abridged
By: William Luce
Narrated by: Julie Harris
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceressโpassionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on... Read more
View audiobookHere on Gilliganโs Isle - Abridged
By: Russell Johnson & Steve Cox
Narrated by: Russell Johnson
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sit right back and take a nostalgic, first-hand look into the world of Gilligan's Islandโ everything you ever wanted to know about the show from the Professor himself, Russell Johnson. Directly from the ship's log, Johnson takes you to the day when Sherwood Schwartz shipwrecked seven strangers on a tiny desert isleโ and... Read more
View audiobookBeating the Street - Abridged
By: Peter Lynch
Narrated by: Peter Lynch
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.
Develop a Winning Investment Strategyโwith Expert Advice from โThe Nationโs #1 Money Manager.โ Peter Lynchโs โinvest in what you knowโ strategy has made him a... Read more
Bound for Glory - Abridged
By: Woody Guthrie
Narrated by: Arlo Guthrie
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Legendary folk singer and activist, Woody Guthrie and his songs changed the world. Born in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, Guthrie traveled America by boxcar, thumb, and foot. Along the journey, he composed and sang songs that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. This remarkable autobiography brings to life... Read more
View audiobookMarlene Dietrich - Abridged
By: Steven Bach
Narrated by: Roddy McDowall
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Marlene Dietrich was an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe. In a grand and sweeping biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on this singular star, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth. Based on six... Read more
View audiobookChicago Days / Hoboken Nights - Abridged
By: Daniel Pinkwater
Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As millions of radio listeners already know, no one has had a life quite like storyteller Daniel Pinkwater. In this comical collection of memories, Pinkwater tells of how he grew into the beloved figure he is today: a robust genius of the printed page and rotund genie of the radio. He shares a conversation with his father about art school that... Read more
View audiobookThe Late Show - Abridged
By: Helen Brown
Narrated by: Helen Gurley Brown
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Part advice manual and part memoir, The Late Show is truly an insightful guide to growing old, presented in candid, unyielding, and often humorous form by Helen Gurley Brown. Focused on such topics as emotional security, marriage, money, sex, beauty, exercise, health, and work, Brown explains her philosophy and shares personal experiences. She... Read more
View audiobookTruman - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Pulitzer Prizeโwinning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by Americaโs beloved and distinguished historian.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more
Diana: Her True Story - Abridged
By: Andrew Morton
Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Her life has seemed liek a fairy-tale come true. . .
yet the shocking truth is that for Diana Princess of Wales, life has been far from perfect. Written with the cooperation and support of members of Diana's family and her closest friends, Diana: Her True Story reveals a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who has suffered from chronic illness... Read more
Tales Told By An Idiot - Abridged
By: Keith Perreur-Lloyd
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At the age of youthful unreasoning, Keith Perreur-Lloyd cut his ties, and set off with enough money to last for a couple of months - well maybe three. Effectively, he had begun his career ... fundless travel. His pattern over the following years - involving about 114 jobs - was to leave a country with whatever he had saved whilst working... Read more
View audiobookStranger Beside Me - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Ann Rule
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, โAmericaโs best true-crime writerโ (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friendโTed Bundyโwas not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.
Meeting... Read more
The Last Great Ride - Abridged
By: Brandon Tartikoff
Narrated by: Brandon Tartikoff
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1980, Brandon Tartikoff became president of NBC Entertainment. At the age of 31, he was the youngest person ever to hold such a position. When he left NBC a decade later, he had held the job longer than anyone, and NBC had attained a streak of dominance never equaled. A list of his successes include some of the greatest shows in television... Read more
View audiobookPeter the Great
By: Robert K. Massie & John E. Dowling
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 43 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulersโโand menโโin all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peterโs birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of... Read more
View audiobookRivethead
By: Ben Hamper
Narrated by: Joe Don Baker
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Ben Hamper vowed never to be an autoworker. Life had other plans. In the 1970s and '80s, the General Motors assembly plant in Flint, Michigan provided steady work for the town's citizens. But at what cost? The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue-collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a... Read more
View audiobookStill Talking - Abridged
By: Joan Rivers & Richard Meryman
Narrated by: Joan Rivers
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Picking up where her successful autobiography Enter Talking left off, Joan Rivers delivers a searing and funny accountโas only she canโof private tragedy, a public fall from grace, and triumph against all odds. In Still Talking, Joan opens up about her rise to the top, dishes on fellow celebrities, and recounts the end of her treasured... Read more
View audiobookWarrior for Peace
By: Danaan Parry
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an extraordinary interview on conflict and peace. Parry tells deeply moving stories from his own life - from the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland to his own neighborhood laundromat. They are stories of anger, truth and healing. Read more
View audiobookBeyond Love - Abridged
By: Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From its first appearance in the late 1970s to the remarkable treatment methods that are now keeping millions alive, AIDS has been a headlining topic for decades. Master storyteller Dominique Lapierreโ renowned for his best sellers Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joyโ has created his most extraordinary epic of human... Read more
View audiobookRyan White - Abridged
By: Ryan White, Greg Louganis & Ann Marie Cunningham
Narrated by: Lukas Haas
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old living in a small town in the Midwest. Then, it was discovered that Ryan had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. Denied the right to return to school, he went to court. Newspaper headlines followed the many legal battles, and although Ryan won the court case,... Read more
View audiobookFlashbacks - Abridged
By: Timothy Leary
Narrated by: Timothy Leary
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was an American psychologist, educator, and author who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs. His books included Exo-Psychology, Your Brain Is God, and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. Read more
View audiobookMozart
By: Marcia Davenport
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had... Read more
View audiobookChutzpah - Abridged
By: Alan Dershowitz
Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
According to Alan M. Dershowitz, โ chutzpahโ is "boldness, assertiveness, a willingness to demand what is due, to defy tradition, to challenge authority, to raise eyebrows." Assessing his experiences, he brings to bear all the chutzpah for which he is famous in examining such issues as antisemitism, assimilation, the... Read more
View audiobookThe Tempting of America - Abridged
By: Robert H. Bork
Narrated by: Robert H. Bork
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A rare, insider' s look into the Supreme Court nomination process.In July of 1987, Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, but by late October that year, his confirmation was denied. In this candid account of his experiences, Bork describes the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing from his point of... Read more
View audiobookBootlegger's Boy - Abridged
By: Barry Switzer
Narrated by: Barry Switzer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A riveting memoir by one of the most successful football coaches in America!As head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, Barry Switzer was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Both praised and reviled by the media as the "outlaw" of college football, Switzer was characterized as the "greatest rogue, pirate, hustler, and con man" ever to... Read more
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