Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Devotedly

By: Valerie Elliot Shepard

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Their paths to God’s purpose led them together.Many know the heroic story of Jim Elliot’s violent death in 1956, killed along with four other missionaries by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe they were seeking to reach. Many also know the prolific legacy of Elisabeth Elliot, whose inspiring influence on generations of believers through print,... Read more

مذكرات د. مصطفى محمود

By: السيد الحراني

Narrated by: جمال مرعي

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

يعدُّ الدكتور مصطفى محمود من أبرز مفكري القرن الواحد العشرين فبعد حصوله على شهادة الطب تفرَّغ للبحث والكتابة فألَّف ما يقارب المئة كتاب بمواضيع فكرية مختلفة علمية ودينية وفلسفية واجتماعية وسياسية كما قدَّم 400 حلقة من برنامجه الشهير العلم والإيمان على مدى ربع قرنٍ من الزمان. في هذا الكتاب سنتعرَّف على الدكتور مصطفى محمود عن قرب، عن طفولته... Read more

Rock Needs River

By: Vanessa McGrady

Narrated by: Vanessa McGrady

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomes more than a new daughter into her home.After two years of waiting to adopt—slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair—a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady. Her sweet baby, Grace, was a... Read more

Walking Free

By: Munjed Al Muderis

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a surgical resident working in Baghdad when the Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the team to... Read more

100 genios del balón

By: Alberto Lati

Narrated by: Ricardo Correa & Alberto Lati

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Cómo surgieron los mayores genios del balón? Sus orígenes e inicios. Todos los obstáculos a los que se sobrepusieron. Su vida antes de la gloria. La infancia de los cracks. Pelé vendiendo cacahuates para tener un balón, Maradona dominando una naranja por Villa Fiorito, Cruyff pidiendo a sumadre que cosiera una franja roja a su playera para que... Read more

Biografi Sejarah Kehidupan Nabi Muhammad SAW Edisi Bahasa Inggris

By: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro

Narrated by: Maghfirah Maulany Aqmarina

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Audiobook Biografi sejarah kehidupan Nabi Muhammad SAW utusan Allah SWT Sang Pencipta Alam Semesta yang terakhir dan sekaligus penutup para Nabi dan Rasul, dalam bahasa Inggris bersumberkan dari Kitab Suci Al-Quran dan Al-Hadist.  The advent of the Prophet Muhammad SAW changed the face of the history of mankind in a manner that this world has... Read more

Nevertheless We Persisted: Me Too

By: Tanya Eby, Deepti Gupta, Suzanne Barbetta, Sama...

Narrated by: Christa Lewis, Tanya Eby, Emily Beresford, Hill...

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This special collection of prose and poetry was created by survivors of sexual discrimination and/or abuse.
These pieces were written specifically for audio and present a range of emotion, including anger. For too long, victims have been told to be quiet, to keep a secret, to be ashamed, to be blamed, and we now say No More. It is time to speak.... Read more

Feed the Beast

By: David Clayton & Jon Parkin

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With 19 spells at various clubs in the Football League, Jon Parkin has cut an instantly recognisable figure in English football for the past 20 years. At 6'4 and weighing in as one of football's heavyweights, Parkin has played more than 600 games during his time with Barnsley, Hartlepool, York, Macclesfield Town, Hull City, Stoke City, Preston,... Read more

Push the Rock - Abridged

By: R.W. Long

Narrated by: R.W. Long

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Living the American Dream at the pinnacle of his life, R.W. Long had it all: a loving family, a promising career, and a multitude of blessings. All of this was cut short with the diagnosis of an incurable disease. In the prime of life, he lost nearly everything he had worked for and felt he was given a life sentence and incarcerated in his own... Read more

I’ll Be OK, It’s Just A Hole In My Head

By: Mimi Hayes

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Mimi Hayes is a New York-based comedian and the author of the memoir I'll Be OK, It's Just a Hole in My Head. A former high school teacher and brain injury survivor, Hayes wrote her first humorous memoir while recovering from a traumatic head injury at the age of twenty-two. Her honest take on trauma and love followed her to the stage as a... Read more

William Walker's Wars

By: Scott Martelle

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately... Read more

Lynyrd Skynyrd

By: Gene Odom

Narrated by: Arthur Flavell

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to play covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and the country and blues–rock music they had grown to love. Naming their band after Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher at Robert E. Lee Senior High School who... Read more

A Serial Killer's Daughter

By: Kerri Rawson

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?In 2005, Kerri Rawson opened the door of her apartment to greet an FBI agent who shared the shocking news that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children.That's also when she first learned that her father was the notorious serial... Read more

All the Lives We Ever Lived

By: Katharine Smyth

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most.

“Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY

Katharine Smyth was a student... Read more

The Two Popes

By: Anthony McCarten

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

THE STORY BEHIND THE SCREENPLAY OF THE TWO POPES, THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS AND JONATHAN PRYCE (PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE POPE).

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very... Read more

Mar-a-Lago

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Todd McClaren

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Where Trump Learned to Rule

To know Donald J. Trump—to understand what makes the forty-fifth president of the United States tick—it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive... Read more

Winterdance

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod—the eleven hundred and eighty mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness—in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For seventeen days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness,... Read more

Black Is the Body

By: Emily Bernard

Narrated by: Emily Bernard

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” 

In these twelve deeply personal, connected... Read more

The Bold World

By: Jodie Patterson

Narrated by: Jodie Patterson

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation.

“A courageous and poetic testimony on family and the self, and the learning and unlearning we must do for those we love.”—Janet Mock
 
In 2009, Jodie Patterson, mother of... Read more

On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein

By: Charlie Harmon

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by his former assistant and with a foreword by Broadway legend Harold Prince, this book celebrates Leonard Bernstein's centenary with an intimate and detailed look at the public and private life of the Maestro.

Leonard Bernstein reeked of cheap cologne and obviously hadn't showered, shaved, or slept in a while. Was he drunk to boot? He... Read more

The Mastermind

By: Evan Ratliff

Narrated by: Evan Ratliff

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

“A tour de force of shoe-leather reporting—undertaken, amid threats and menacing, at considerable... Read more

Bliss(ters)

By: Gail M. Francis

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Just before her fortieth birthday, Gail Francis quit her perfectly good job and set out to hike one of the great trails of the world. Carrying everything she needed on her back, Francis spent five months walking from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail. Along the way, she lost her pack scrambling over scree in the desert, struggled to... Read more

Vietnam

By: James C. Mooney, Jr.

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a U.S. Army helicopter pilot's candid first-hand account of his Vietnam experience in the air and on the ground at the height of U.S. troop strength and then again when he returned for a second tour of duty at the very end of the war. It is a non-political description of what life was really like for him and others who served in Vietnam.... Read more

Fatal Charm

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River Killer: a chilling true account of the dream husband who was every woman's nightmare.

Randy Roth was handsome, hardworking, kind, and in top physical shape. But for all his charm and good looks, he was seemingly cursed with the ladies. His first marriage ended in divorce before the... Read more