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Iron Rose - Abridged
By: Cindy Adams & Susan Crimp
Narrated by: Cindy Adams
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Iron Rose takes an intimate look at the incredible life of Rose Kennedy—head of the Kennedy dynasty and one of the 20th century's most influential women—and her nine famous children. A riveting account of the power behind America's political throne for several decades, Iron Rose reveals the secrets behind the triumphs and tragedies of the... Read more
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No Ordinary Time - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.
With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story... Read more
Pavarotti - Abridged
By: Luciano Pavarotti
Narrated by: David Dukes
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the world of opera, no figure in modern times loomed larger than the late Luciano Pavarotti, especially in his triumphant collaborations with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras as the Three Tenors. Pavarotti captured the imagination of audiences around the world. In this memoir, the Grammy-award winning legend shares both the fortunate and the... Read more
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In Retrospect - Abridged
By: Robert S. McNamara, Brian VanDeMark & Robert Mc...
Narrated by: Joseph Campanella
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the years since he resigned his office, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara refused any public comment on the unpopular Vietnam War. As the chief architect of the strategy that propelled the U.S. into the war, though, McNamara has much to say. In this chronicle, McNamara explores and explains why the American "government and its... Read more
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Marilyn - Abridged
By: George Barris & Marilyn Monroe
Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy, yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, Marilyn Monroe was no ordinary screen goddess. But few really knew her. On June 1, 1962— Marilyn's 36th birthday— famed photographer and reporter George Barris visited Marilyn on the set of what would... Read more
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The Private Diary of Lyle Menendez
By: Lyle Menendez
Narrated by: Lyle Menendez
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In August of 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez shot their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, to death—a cold-blooded act that shocked the nation. Seven years later, the brothers were convicted of murder, and both were sentenced to life in prison without parole. The brothers' first trial started a media frenzy and was filled with lurid details, but... Read more
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Pope John Paul II - Abridged
By: Tad Szulc
Narrated by: Josef Sommer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A comprehensive and exclusive biography on one of the most pivotal figures of the 20th century: Pope John Paul II.
As the spiritual head of more than one billion Catholics and a world statesman of immense stature and influence, Pope John Paul II was a major international figure. Yet he remained a mystery—theologically, politically, and... Read more
Benjamin Franklin, Citizen - Abridged
By: Fredd Wayne
Narrated by: Fredd Wayne
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ben Franklin's wisdom is just as potent now as it was more than two hundred years ago. A founding father of the United States, he was also a world citizen, a philosopher, author, and scientist. Fredd Wayne's brilliant performance reveals this genius with a sense of proportion that carefully balances excerpts from Franklin's public writings and... Read more
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Raging Heart - Abridged
By: Sheila Weller
Narrated by: Rodney Saulsberry
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A tumultuous story of love, obsession, provocation, and violence that featured in “ Trial of the Century.” Here is the intimate untold story of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson's tragic, turbulent marriage. Author Sheila Weller was granted unprecedented cooperation by Nicole's family and exclusive access to friends who... Read more
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Princess in Love - Abridged
By: Anna Pasternak
Narrated by: Patrick Macnee
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Their love was both passionate and full of hope, yet ultimately hopeless. This is the true story of the love between a man and a woman— a romance doomed from the start— besieged by media and public opinion on the world stage. The woman was Diana, the Princess of Wales; the man was Captain James Hewitt. Their love affair... Read more
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Memories of Madison County - Abridged
By: Jana St. James
Narrated by: Jana St. James
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1992, a novel by university professor Robert James Waller was published to less than glowing reviews. Despite the critical reception, The Bridges of Madison County became a publishing phenomenon, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list and selling more than 50 million copies. Decades before, Waller had met 18-year-old Jana... Read more
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - Abridged
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Julie Christie
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuart succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion, gambling away her throne for love. In a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, she stopped at nothing: Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest. Often misunderstood yet also revered, she... Read more
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Diana: Her New Life - Abridged
By: Andrew Morton
Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The publication in 1992 of Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story shook the British Royal family to its very foundations. Initially greeted with disbelief, as time passed, it became clear that the book was, as its title claimed, Diana's true story.
Diana's friends were hopeful that separation from Charles would bring Diana freedom to find... Read more
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains - Abridged
By: Charles Eastman
Narrated by: Lorenzo Baca
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the pen of a Santee Sioux— Charles Eastman— come these biographical portraits of American Indian leaders Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph. Eastman was born in Red Falls, Minnesota, and raised by his grandmother and uncle in Manitoba, Canada, where he learned Native American... Read more
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Barbara Bush - Abridged
By: Barbara Bush
Narrated by: Barbara Bush
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, celebrating the life and legacy of First Lady Barbara Bush—updated with new forewords from her five children, including reflections from George W. and Jeb, as featured on A&E’s Biography.
Barbara Bush endures as one of America’s most popular First Ladies. She has won worldwide acclaim for her... Read more
To the Stars - Abridged
By: George Takei
Narrated by: George Takei
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
Best known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise™ and captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new vistas of adventure in Star Trek®—the unprecedented television and feature film phenomenon.
From the program’s birth in the changing world of the 1960s... Read more
Empire
By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 28 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.Hughes had always been... Read more
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Grace - Abridged
By: Robert Lacey
Narrated by: Donna Mills
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At the age of 25, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress and little more than a year later, she became royalty. Stunningly beautiful, elusive, and aloof, Grace Kelly captured our imagination and affection throughout her storybook career and royal marriage. Raised in Philadelphia in an atmosphere of great wealth and greater expectations,... Read more
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Funny People - Abridged
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Few people had a better perspective on comedy and comedians than the master of it all, Steve Allen. In Funny People, Allen conveys insightful and personal observations— by anecdote and example— of some of the 20th century' s greatest comic performers: Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, and Jimmy Durante.... Read more
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The Hiding Place
By: Corrie ten Boom
Narrated by: Nadia May
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated... Read more
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Leaving Home - Abridged
By: Art Buchwald
Narrated by: Art Buchwald
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Funny men don't necessarily have funny childhoods. Art Buchwald had to find his humor the hard way. In this poignant memoir, Buchwald writes with intimacy and candor about his early years— of a life constantly on the move and in the company of strangers. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother were separated. He tells of a... Read more
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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 Hayslip— the youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family— was 12 years old when... Read more
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See I Told You So - Abridged
By: Rush Limbaugh
Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller lists with The Way Things Ought to Be, the #1 New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling audio in history. Now, this consummate entertainer and provocative political commentator, whom conservatives love and liberals love to hate—this “harmless little... Read more
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Lucifer’s 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 sorceress—passionate and wickedly witty.Act I opens on... Read more
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