Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Vows

By: Peter Manseau

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty — two eager young parishioners from different towns — became part of a new breed of clergy,... Read more

The Divided Land

By: Theresa Lee

Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Geography dealt Korea a fateful role. Sandwiched between China and Japan, and within easy reach of Russia, Korea has suffered five major foreign occupations-by China, Mongolia, Japan, and after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was in that tiny peninsula I was born when Korea was under the heel of Japan, when we were... Read more

Finding Fish - Abridged

By: Antwone Q. Fisher

Narrated by: Alton Fitzgeral White

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. And just as his life was about to hit rock bottom, Antwone enlisted in the U.S.... Read more

End of the Spear - Abridged

By: Steve Saint

Narrated by: Todd Busteed

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2005 ECPA Retailer's Choice Award winner for best biography/autobiography!
Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home... Read more

One Woman's Army

By: General Janis Karpinski & Steven Strasser

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When Janis Karpinski first saw the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, she felt the walls of her Baghdad office closing in on her. She recognized that the soldiers shown grinning over the naked, cowering Iraqi detainees serves under her command. Military justice already had swept up the seven MPs charged in the abuse case–and Karpinski... Read more

I Should Have Been at Work - Abridged

By: Des Lynam

Narrated by: Des Lynam

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most sought-after celebrity titles of recent years, Des Lynam’s autobiography gives a frank and opinionated insight into the man behind the myth. Famously guarded about his private life, Des sets the record straight on all the stories that have been written about him, giving a unique view of life at the very top... Read more

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Abridged

By: Clayborne Carson

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world —and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all.

Martin Luther King: the child and student who rebelled against segregation. The dedicated minister who questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his... Read more

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Abridged

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute... Read more

Even the Stars Look Lonesome - Abridged

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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This wise book is the wonderful continuation of the bestselling Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her... Read more

The Heart of a Woman - Abridged

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired  countless readers with the first three volumes of  her autobiography, one of the most remarkable  personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth  volume, The Heart of a Woman, her  turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the  singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous  New York... Read more

Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now - Abridged

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.

This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and... Read more

Unlikely Angel

By: Ashley Smith

Narrated by: Ashley Smith & Stacy Mattingly

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"He believed that I was an angel sent from God."---Ashley SmithIn April 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational memoir, the... Read more

Teacher Man

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at... Read more

Teacher Man - Abridged

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.

Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at... Read more

Mirror to America - Abridged

By: John Hope Franklin

Narrated by: John Hope Franklin

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation's preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation... Read more

Jarhead

By: Anthony Swofford

Narrated by: Anthony Swofford

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family.

When the U.S. Marines -- or "jarheads" -- were sent to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the first Gulf War, Anthony... Read more

Truth and Duty - Abridged

By: Mary Mapes

Narrated by: Mary Mapes

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America.

Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.

For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning... Read more

The Other Side of Me - Abridged

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Mike O'Malley

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's premier storyteller shares the story of his own life in a frank and revealing book that rivals any of his fictional tales. Sidney Sheldon is truly an entertainment legend: Author of over a dozen best sellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, he has lived a singularly fascinating... Read more

The Case for Hillary Clinton - Abridged

By: Susan Estrich

Narrated by: Susan Estrich

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With the Bush era now in its final years, all eyes are turning to the 2008 political season -- especially those of Democratic voters, who are casting about for a galvanizing leader to help them win back the White House. Longtime political analyst Susan Estrich argues that no candidate even approaches the power and promise of Hillary Rodham... Read more

Dean and Me

By: Jerry Lewis

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. 

They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined... Read more

Jack

By: Jack Welch & John A. Byrne

Narrated by: Mike Barnicle

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

The most widely respected CEO in America looks back on his brilliant career at General Electric and reveals his personal business philosophy and unique managerial style.
Nearly 20 years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch's office and wrapped him in a bear hug. "Congratulations, Mr. Chairman," said Reg. It was a... Read more

Churchill and America

By: Martin Gilbert

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.



Winston Churchill, whose mother, Jennie Jerome, the daughter of a leading American... Read more

Shakespeare

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the big one from Peter Ackroyd — and a worthy companion to London: The Biography.

Only Peter Ackroyd can combine readable narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of... Read more

The Beatles - Abridged

By: Bob Spitz

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2007 Audie Award Winner for Non-Fiction, Abridged

Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now.
The product of almost a decade of... Read more