Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Hollywood Animal - Abridged

By: Joe Eszterhas

Narrated by: Eric Bogosian

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland—stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never... Read more

Divided Soul - Abridged

By: David Ritz

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges here is a... Read more

Seabiscuit - Abridged

By: Laura Hillenbrand

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more

Sam Walton - Abridged

By: Sam Walton & John Huey

Narrated by: Peter Wolter

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dies ist die außergewöhnliche Geschichte von Sam Walton, eines mutigen Unternehmers, der Anfang der 1960er durch die Gründung von Walmart die Welt der Supermärkte und Einzelhändler aus den Angeln hob – lange vor Amazon. In Sam Walton verschafft er den Lesern einen einzigartigen Einblick in seine Karriere, die ihresgleichen sucht: seinem... Read more

Robinson Crusoe – neu erzählt - Abridged

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Jürgen Thormann

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es gibt Bücher, die kennt jeder, auch wenn er sie nicht gelesen hat. "Moby Dick" ist so eines, oder "Robinson Crusoe". Der britische Autor Daniel Defoe verdiente mit seinem 1719 verfassten Roman über einen Schiffbrüchigen lediglich fünfzig Pfund, wurde jedoch mit einem Schlag weltberühmt. Und sein Held avancierte zum allgemeinen... Read more

Odyssee – neu erzählt - Abridged

By: Homer

Narrated by: Ernst-August Schepmann

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit Odysseus schuf Homer – wenn es ihn denn tatsächlich gegeben hat – den wohl ersten Superhelden. Sein Epos gilt heute als eines der ältesten und einflussreichsten Werke der abendländischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Neben der "Ilias" ist die "Odyssee" das wohl bekannteste Epos der griechischen Mythologie. Und es ist immer wieder ein... Read more

Gullivers Reisen – neu erzählt - Abridged

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Ilja Richter

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als "Gullivers Reisen" 1726 erschien, wurde es schnell zum Jugendbuchklassiker. Doch Jonathan Swift schrieb seine Geschichte mit einer derart scharfen Feder, dass auch Erwachsene sie durchaus mit Gewinn lesen können. "Es birgt scharfsinnige Gesellschaftsbeobachtungen und Psychogramme, entlarvt den korrupten, geld- und machtgeilen,... Read more

Der letzte Mohikaner - neu erzählt - Abridged

By: author

Narrated by: Horst Janson

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Angespornt vom Erfolg seines Buches "Der Spion" (1821), das heute als erster bedeutender historischer Roman der amerikanischen Literatur gilt, bearbeitete James Fenimore Cooper weitere Wendepunkte der Geschichte Nordamerikas. Nach dem Vorbild des schottischen Schriftstellers Walter Scott verfasste er mehrere Bände, in denen der Waldläufer Natty... Read more

John Bunyan - Abridged

By: John Brown

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A traveling tinker, John Bunyan accepted long imprisonment rather than give up preaching the Gospel. He explained the life of the Spirit in language the common people could understand and in pictures that stuck in the mind. When he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, his fame spread rapidly, and within fifty years of his death, the book was reputed to... Read more

Thieves of Baghdad - Abridged

By: Matthew Bogdanos

Narrated by: Matthew Bogdanos

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One Marine's Passion for Ancient Civilizations and the Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures.

A blend of treasure hunt, police procedural, war-time thriller, and exposé of the international black-market in stolen art, told in the voice of a truly remarkable man: a soldier, a father, and a scholar.

The New York tabloids call him... Read more

Wonderful Tonight - Abridged

By: Pattie Boyd

Narrated by: Pattie Boyd

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast... Read more

Johann Sebastian Bach - Abridged

By: Ramón Andrés

Narrated by: Rojo Córdova

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Johann Sebastian Bach dejó una biblioteca de poco más de ochenta libros entre los que se contaban títulos de teología y espiritualidad—o al menos así lo certifica el inventario efectuado a su muerte—, y que constituyeron, cabe imaginar que junto a otros textos, un espacio de intimidad cotidiana y de reflexión. Contemporáneo de Newton y Leibniz,... Read more

The Children's Book of Heroes - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Bennett and Michael Hague, the team that brought us the national bestseller The Children's Book of Virtues, have once again collaborated to create The Children's Book of Heroes, a beautifully illustrated celebration of heroic deeds, both real and fictional, that will delight and inspire millions of young children and their parents.

"We... Read more

The Preacher and the Presidents - Abridged

By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public... Read more

A Piece of Cake - Abridged

By: Cupcake Brown

Narrated by: Cupcake Brown

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and... Read more

The Wolf of Wall Street - Abridged

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Bobby Cannavale

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
 
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife... Read more

This Is That - Abridged

By: Aimee Semple McPherson

Narrated by: Karen Heimbuch

Length: 26 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aimee Semple McPherson was honored by Time magazine as one of 20th Century's 100 Women of The Year and was one of the most famous women of the 1920s and 1930s.She was greeted by multitudes wherever she arrived and usually presented with the Key to the City.Her meetings packed the largest indoor arenas.And her visits were always deemed a blessing... Read more

Nicht ohne meine Kippa - Mein Alltag in Deutschland zwischen Klischees und Antisemitismus (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Levi Israel Ufferfilge

Narrated by: Levi Israel Ufferfilge

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ohne Kippa geht Levi Ufferfilge nicht aus dem Haus. Tagtäglich bestreitet er mit dem kleinen Stück Stoff auf dem Kopf seinen Alltag. Doch das Sichtbarsein als Jude bleibt nicht ohne Folgen: Antisemitische Anfeindungen, Beleidigungen und kuriose Begegnungen aller Art. Eine erhellende wie schockierende Erzählung über das Jüdischsein in Deutschland... Read more

Love in the Driest Season - Abridged

By: Neely Tucker

Narrated by: Neely Tucker

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to... Read more

Las siniestras predicciones de Baba Vanga Para 2024 - Abridged

By: victor montas

Narrated by: victor montas

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Las siniestras predicciones de Baba Vanga Para 2024Baba Vanga, nacida en 1911 y fallecida en 1996, fue una misteriosa vidente búlgara que ha capturado la atención del mundo con sus supuestas predicciones sobre eventos globales. A lo largo de su vida, se le atribuyeron muchas profecías que abarcaban desde desastres naturales hasta cambios... Read more

El niño que domó el viento - Abridged

By: William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

Narrated by: George Whitman

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Resumen del libro por Strem readers, esta es una versión abreviada del título original. "El niño que domó el viento" cuenta la inspiradora historia de un joven de Malaui que, enfrentado a la pobreza extrema y la hambruna, utiliza su ingenio y determinación para construir un molino de viento que proporciona electricidad a su hogar y a su... Read more

Parky: My Autobiography - Abridged

By: Michael Parkinson

Narrated by: Michael Parkinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades.
Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family who can tease out the secrets of even the most reticent star guest, at... Read more

Dear Fatty - Abridged

By: Dawn French

Narrated by: Liza Tarbuck

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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A SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn French.

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedians of our time with a career that has spanned nearly four decades. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has... Read more

Sixty Days in Combat - Abridged

By: Dean Joy

Narrated by: Don Hastings

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”

He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.

For two months in... Read more