Upstairs at the Roosevelts’
By: Curtis Roosevelt
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister Eleanor and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents’ new home—the White House—Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and lived in one of the most famous buildings in... Read more
View audiobookBrand New Me
By: Charlotte Crosby
Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of ME ME ME, this is the next chapter in Charlotte Crosby's life - Celebrity Big Brother winner, MTV presenter, fitness DVD and book bestseller and one of the UK's best loved and funniest reality stars.
In the two years since ME ME ME, national sweetheart Charlotte Crosby could not have been busier. Her jam-packed TV schedule has... Read more
A Manual for Heartache
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Narrated by: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
'I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting . . . a kind, honest and wise book about how to make a friend of sadness.' Rachel Joyce
When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the... Read more
The Hurley Maker's Son
By: Patrick Deeley
Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Hurley Maker's Son by Patrick Deeley, read by Gerry O'Brien.
Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced.
From this moment, Patrick unfolds... Read more
Toscanini
By: Harvey Sachs
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 40 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
During a sixty-eight year career, conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) was famed for his fierce dedication, photographic memory, explosive temper, and impassioned performances. At various times he dominated La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony, and the Bayreuth, Salzburg, and Lucerne festivals. His... Read more
View audiobookShark Drunk
By: Morten Stroksnes
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean
The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small... Read more
Working Class Republican
By: Henry Olsen
Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program’s ultimate savior.Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the... Read more
View audiobookBut Seriously
By: John McEnroe
Narrated by: John McEnroe
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? Fifteen years after his international number-one bestseller You Cannot Be Serious, John McEnroe is back and ready to talk.
Now the undisputed elder statesman of... Read more
How to Fall in Love with Anyone
By: Mandy Len Catron
Narrated by: Mandy Len Catron
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy.
What really makes love... Read more
No Way! Okay, Fine
By: Brodie Lancaster
Narrated by: Brodie Lancaster
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"Brodie is whip smart; merging pop-culture references with vulnerable, personal experiences to create a collection that reads like a hilarious catch-up call with an old friend. What a pleasure to hear from this fresh, extremely relevant point of view." Abbi Jacobson, CO-CREATOR / WRITER / STAR of BROAD CITY
"I wish Brodie was the voice of my... Read more
Loving Robert Lowell
By: Sandra Hochman
Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
When asked in 1976 by a reporter from People magazine if her first two novels were autobiographical, Sandra Hochman replied, “My real life is much more fabulous than the books. One day I plan to write about it―men, Paris, and women’s liberation. It will probably be called Unreal Life.”Hochman first met Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet Robert... Read more
View audiobookNarrow River, Wide Sky
By: Jenny Forrester
Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle, Jenny Forrester's memoir perfectly captures both place and a community situated on the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, where she grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag.
Forrester's powerfully eloquent story... Read more
You Say to Brick
By: Wendy Lesser
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last... Read more
View audiobookOff the Cliff
By: Becky Aikman
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of history's most controversial and influential movies, drawing on exclusive interviews with the cast and crew.
“You’ve always been crazy,” says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. “This is just the first chance you’ve had to express... Read more
Chief Engineer
By: Erica Wagner
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial; I also know that each day brings its little quota of experiences, which with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while." —Washington Roebling
His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but after John Roebling's sudden death, Washington Roebling built what has become... Read more
Son of a Grifter
By: Mark Schone & Kent Walker
Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1988 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. Suddenly, America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters. The media couldn't get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her twenty-three-year-old son Kenny.
But the most... Read more
Drone Warrior
By: Brett Velicovich & Christopher S. Stewart
Narrated by: Brett Velicovich & Roger Wayne
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A former Delta Force black ops member takes us inside America’s covert drone war in this headline-making, never-before-told account for fans of Zero Dark Thirty and Lone Survivor, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal writer and filled with eye-opening and sure to be controversial details.For nearly a decade Brett Velicovich was... Read more
View audiobookTwo Small Footprints in Wet Sand
By: Anne-Dauphine Julliand
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Thaïs is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.A true tale told by a mother, it’s the... Read more
View audiobookNotes on Blindness: A Journey Through the Dark
By: John Hull
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
‘It’s a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift.’
Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what... Read more
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends
By: Amy Silverstein
Narrated by: Erin Moon
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein’s donor heart... Read more
View audiobookDiana
By: Andrew Morton
Narrated by: Michael Maloney & Caroline Langrishe
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death.
When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Greeted initially with disbelief and ridicule, the #1 New... Read more
Live From New York
By: James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales
Narrated by: Paul Woodson & Christina Delaine
Length: 28 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When first published to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Live From New York was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics... Read more
View audiobookGrowing Up Twice
By: Aaron Kirk Douglas
Narrated by: Aaron Kirk Douglas
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
While mentoring a troubled Latino youth, a man confronts memories of his own painful teenage years growing up gay in a small Oregon town. A Readers' Favorite 2018 Audiobook and 2017 Inspirational Book Award Winner -- this heartfelt memoir captures the life-changing power of unconditional love and perseverance. Read more
View audiobookGuidebook to Relative Strangers
By: Camille T. Dungy
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille T. Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler. As they travel, Dungy is intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child but as black females. With a poet's eye, she celebrates the particular in the universal, such as a child's... Read more
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