A Child of the East End
By: Jean Fullerton
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Sorrow and joyin London's oldest suburb. . .
Welcome to the East End.
Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed: the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled through... Read more
Walking Back Home
By: Ricky Ross
Narrated by: Ricky Ross
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The first memoir by Deacon Blue singer and music icon Ricky Ross.
In 1986, Ricky Ross started a full-time career in music, which has lasted for over 35 years. His earlier working life was spent in youth work and teaching in his home city of Dundee, and his adopted home of Glasgow. It was in these two cities where he spent his formative years... Read more
Sisters / Women of Wisdom: The Icon Black Lives Matter Series
By: Geoffrey Giuliano
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this unique inspirational audiobook, we remember we take a deep dive and remember the almost superhuman contributions of black leaders of our greatest black leaders from the 20th century. Each in their own way educating liberating and freeing untold millions of souls from the heartless bondage they were forced to endure at the hands of a... Read more
View audiobookHysterical Memories
By: Eugene Wallace
Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is the story of a man’s life that has been riddled and ruffled with emotionally unstable personality disorder, a known mental illness. Despite spending a considerable part of his life at various rehabilitation facilities, Eugene’s life was largely marred with crazy-bound incidences. He was a convicted drug dealer with a history of violence.... Read more
View audiobookA Gypsy In Auschwitz
By: Otto Rosenberg
Narrated by: Richard Trinder
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and businesses to live in forced encampments outside the city. One by one, families are broken up, adults and children disappear... Read more
View audiobookKuunaama – Tarinoita tähdistä
By: Lasse Norres
Narrated by: Aki Räty
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Musiikkialan monitoimimies Lasse Norres on elänyt jännittävän elämän. Hän on työskennellyt levy-yhtiössä, toiminut managerina ja päässyt tapaamaan huikeita tähtiä aina Eric Claptonista lähtien. Mutta millaista Norreksen elämä on ollut tähtisumun takana? Kuunaama – Tarinoita tähdistä on Norreksen rehellinen selonteko hänen omasta urastaan sekä... Read more
View audiobookRoberto Mancini, senza mezze misure
By: Marco Gaetani
Narrated by: Stefano Scialanga
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Il corpo di tre quarti, la gamba destra piegata all'indietro, il tacco che colpisce il pallone e manda fuori tempo gli avversari. Se si potesse fermare la carriera di Roberto Mancini in un attimo, riassumerla in un solo gesto, sarebbe questo. Una vita calcistica trascorsa all'insegna del colpo a effetto, con un bagaglio tecnico sterminato e una... Read more
View audiobookEn mammas dagbok
By: Karin Milles
Narrated by: Frida Bergh
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Hur kommer det att bli när barnet väl är här? Moderskap är någonting som många drömmer om och har bestämda idéer kring, men det är omöjligt att förutspå vad som faktiskt väntar. Som nybliven mamma förstår författaren Karin Milles att det inte är samma sak att se någon annan gå igenom moderskapet som att göra det själv. Sömnlösa nätter, att på... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Ironman
By: Patrick Lange
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Mit 3,8 km Schwimmen, 180 km auf dem Rad und 42 km Laufen gilt die Triathlon-Langdistanz als einer der härtesten Ausdauersportwettkämpfe der Welt. Der Weltmeister über die Ironman-Distanz wird auf Hawaii gekürt, dem mythischen Sehnsuchtsort der Triathlonszene. Patrick Lange hat das Rennen bereits zweimal gewonnen, er zählt zur absoluten... Read more
View audiobookHappy As
By: Larry Emdur
Narrated by: Larry Emdur
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry.
Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit and bowl haircut. It was an idyllic... Read more
The Shadow of Death
By: Fernando Arroyo
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
When I returned home from my latest deployment in the U.S. Army, my life began to fall apart. One night, after heavy drinking, I placed my 1911 pistol in my mouth and thought a prayer—silence. I deactivated the safety and began to slowly squeeze the trigger. BANG! I dropped the pistol, and I looked around me, but there was no blood. The bang I... Read more
View audiobookThe Ten-Dollar Dream
By: Aksana Palevich
Narrated by: Fatemah Dhanji
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of a dream – moving to another country and building a successful life – and how it came to fruition. Aksana Palevich moved abroad in her early twenties, carrying only a dream, some clothes and ten dollars in her pocket. However, this isn’t just a story of struggle, but of dream-like success built out of 48 lessons learnt along the way.... Read more
View audiobookThe Music Never Stops
By: Peter Shapiro
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden & Peter Shapiro
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
An engrossing and insightful memoir by Peter Shapiro, the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation
Peter Shapiro is perhaps the most notable independent concert promoter since Bill Graham. He owned the legendary Wetlands in Tribeca and has gone onto much bigger things, including Brooklyn Bowl (NYC, Las Vegas,... Read more
Paths of Dissent
By: Andrew Bacevich & Daniel A. Sjursen
Narrated by: Andrew Bacevich, Andrew Wehrlen, Dan Berschinsk...
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of... Read more
Sentimental Economy
By: Edoardo Nesi
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
From the Strega Prize–winning author of Story of My People comes an astute, multifaceted essay on the seismic shifts of 2020 and how he and people from all walks of life are adapting.Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020—from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father—Edoardo Nesi considers the... Read more
View audiobookMeatEater's Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls
By: Steven Rinella
Narrated by: Steven Rinella & the Contributors
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Ten harrowing firsthand tales of survival from the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio collection MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls.
In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with wild and true stories, a reminder that the... Read more
Camarades de front
By: Sven Hassel
Narrated by: Herve Carrasco
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
« LE SOLDAT INCONNU DE LA DEUXIÈME GUERRE MONDIALE POSSÈDE MAINTENANT SON MONUMENT » MORGENAVISEN, Norvège Nous entendons les chenilles des tanks qui s'approchent. – Un T-34. Ils nous ont sûrement découverts, murmure Petit-Frère. – Ne bougez pas tant qu'il n'arrive pas ici, après on s'enfuira ! L'affreux bruit des chenilles se rapproche de plus... Read more
View audiobookListening Well
By: Heather Morris
Narrated by: Heather Morris & Nicolette McKenzie
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an interview between the author and Lale Sokolov and a new introduction read by the author.
From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others.
In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener—a skill she employed when she first met Lale... Read more
Good Grief
By: E.B. Bartels
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed.E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets—dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they’ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet,... Read more
View audiobookWhy Patti Smith Matters
By: Caryn Rose
Narrated by: Lori Prince
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. No other... Read more
View audiobookWhy the Beach Boys Matter
By: Tom Smucker
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later... Read more
View audiobookA Sea between Us
By: Yosely Pereira & Billy Ivey
Narrated by: Gustavo Rex
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the harrowing true story of Yosely Pereira, the love of his life, Taire, and their incredible fight to escape the brutal bonds of communist Cuba. Ninety miles lay between their island prison and their dreams. But crossing those miles was only the beginning of this gripping journey. After building a boat and enduring the Florida Straits,... Read more
View audiobookWalking with Fay
By: Carolyn Birrell
Narrated by: Allison Hart
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2012, Carolyn Birrell flew down to Georgia to kidnap her mother.
Fay had been living by herself since her husband’s death in 2000 and clung fiercely to her independence. She went to church on Sundays, paid her bills on time, and volunteered at Vacation Bible School every summer. But at 79 years old, she’d begun showing escalating signs of... Read more
Mothercare
By: Lynne Tillman
Narrated by: Kim Niemi
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman became one of nearly 53 million Americans who care for a sick family member when her mother developed an unusual and little understood condition called Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.
Instantly, Tillman's independent and spirited mother went from someone she knew to someone else, a... Read more