My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
By: Sissy Spacek
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and... Read more
View audiobookThe Drunk Diet
By: Lüc Carl
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
With his trademark rock 'n' roll hair and snakeskin spandex pants, plus a hot rod and a Harley, Lüc Carl fit the part as a bar manager based in New York City's gritty Lower East Side. And life was good for this Omaha, Nebraska, transplant—a talented drummer who originally moved to the big city to pursue his rock 'n' roll dreams—until, suddenly,... Read more
View audiobookTwo Americans
By: William Lee Miller
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 20 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri-Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat, pigs and... Read more
View audiobookThe Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
By: Andrew Carnegie
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant, a poor boy who worked in a cotton mill, a man who amassed a great fortune as a steel baron and then became one of the most generous and influential philanthropists the world has ever known. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired philanthropists and philanthropic enterprises for... Read more
View audiobookCaliente, Apasionado, Ilegal?
By: Cristian de la Fuente
Narrated by: Marcelo Rodriguez
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Tan pronto entre al cuarto para mi primera entrevista con los productores de Dancing with the Stars, uno de ellos dijo, "oPor que no estas bailando?" Mire a mi alrededor. No habia musica. "Perdon, oEntre cuando no debia?" No tenia la mas remota idea de que estaban hablando. Todos se rieron, y me explicaron, "Tu eres Latino, asi que creiamos que... Read more
View audiobookLegends in Sports: Michael Jordan
By: Matt Christopher
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Don’t miss this action-packed and informative look at the life and achievements of a basketball legend!Matt Christopher, the number one sports writer for kids, profiles basketball superstar Michael Jordan, covering his childhood, college career, rookie years, professional career highlights, and even his short stint in minor league baseball.... Read more
View audiobookHadrian and the Triumph of Rome
By: Anthony Everitt
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed British historian Anthony Everitt delivers a compelling account of the former orphan who became Roman emperor in A.D. 117 after the death of his guardian Trajan. Hadrian strengthened Rome by ending territorial expansion and fortifying existing borders. And-except for the uprising he triggered in Judea-his strength-based diplomacy... Read more
View audiobookJeffanory
By: Jeff Stelling
Narrated by: Jeff Stelling
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you sitting comfortably? Then Jeff will begin ... The universally-loved, award-winning host of Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday and Channel 4's Countdown, and author of the bestselling Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly, returns with a Jackanory-style, football-flavoured narrative which gathers together the funniest, weirdest, most tragic, most... Read more
View audiobookGirl Walks into a Bar . . .
By: Rachel Dratch
Narrated by: Rachel Dratch
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After... Read more
View audiobookMy Two Moms
By: Bruce Littlefield & Zach Wahls
Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public forum regarding civil unions. The nineteen-year-old son of a same-sex couple, Wahls proudly proclaimed, "The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character." Hours later, his speech was posted on YouTube, where it went... Read more
View audiobookOrwell
By: Michael Shelden
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 19 hours
Abridged: No
In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks new ground in the evocation of George Orwell’s personal life and in our understanding of his art. Based on original interviews, previously undiscovered letters and documents, and astute literary... Read more
View audiobookMy Happy Days in Hollywood
By: Garry Marshall
Narrated by: Garry Marshall
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall was among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. His work on the small and big... Read more
View audiobookPrague Winter
By: Madeleine Albright
Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy.” -- Los Angeles TimesDrawn... Read more
View audiobookAfter Camelot
By: J. Randy Taraborrelli
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 21 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys - their joy and heartbreak, tragedy and triumph, the dark side and the remarkable achievements. In this ambitious and sweeping account, Taraborelli continues the family chronicle begun with his bestselling Jackie, Ethel, Joan and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the... Read more
View audiobookLots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Anna Quindlen
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more.
As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short... Read more
Farther Away
By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound... Read more
View audiobookStirling Moss In His Own Words
By: Stirling Moss
Narrated by: Stirling Moss
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Sir Stirling Moss, OBE, was a legendary British racing driver. In this collection we hear - in his own words - about his family and upbringing, on starting out and his early career choices, and why he became a racing driver.
He discusses being a businessman, his relationships and the bittersweet feelings that occur with racing. He also touches on... Read more
You Have No Idea
By: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams
Narrated by: Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss AmericaWhen Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She’d go to college and major in musical theater; afterward she’d get her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and then... Read more
View audiobookDriving Mr. Yogi
By: Harvey Araton
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch the young players. They talk shop. They eat dinner together and tease each other mercilessly. They trade stories about the greats they have met... Read more
View audiobookThe Presidents Club
By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy
Narrated by: Bob Walter
Length: 22 hours
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief.
The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated... Read more
Never Say Never
By: Ricki Lake
Narrated by: Ricki Lake
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved teen star, talk-show host, and media personality, an uplifting and revelatory memoir about turning forty, losing weight, and learning to reinvent oneself at any age.
Ricki Lake’s life has been a series of rebirths—from fat to skinny, married to divorced, rich to poor, and more. In her intimate, bold, and relatable book, Ricki... Read more
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy.
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and... Read more
Crossing the Borders of Time
By: Leslie Maitland
Narrated by: Leslie Maitland
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees—the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed the harbors. Then, barred... Read more
View audiobookIn the Water They Can't See You Cry
By: Amanda Beard & Rebecca Paley
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
At the tender age of fourteen, Amanda Beard walked onto the pool deck at the Atlanta Olympics carrying her teddy bear, Harold, and left with two silvers and a gold medal. She competed in three more Olympic games, winning a total of seven medals, and enjoyed a lucrative modeling career on the side. At one point, she was the most downloaded female... Read more
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