Recommended Biographie & Autobiographie Audiobooks

Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention! In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: May 2005

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Teacher Man: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Angela's Ashes describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Nov 2005

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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood,' writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. 'Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.' Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood....

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Nov 2005

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Clapton: The Autobiography

by Eric Clapton

“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”With striking...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Oct 2007

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Jarhead

by Anthony Swofford

A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry Marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his girlfriend's infidelity, his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his identity as a soldier and an...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: May 2003

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Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker

by Duke Annie

A top-ranked woman poker player presents an insider's view of the World Series of Poker, in a personal account that describes her academic achievements, impulsive entry into the world of gambling, and insights into strategic tournament play.

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Sep 2005

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Charlie Wilson's War Abridged

by George Crile

This investigative report on the secret CIA operations during the 1980s Russia-Afghanistan war tells of the billion-dollar-a-year effort to arm, supply, and train the Afghan resistance, and to maintain relations in the region--all centered on an...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Aug 2005

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My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy

by Wen Ho Lee

Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, had devoted almost his entire life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities. He loved his job at Los Alamos National Laboratory and spent his leisure time fishing, cooking,...

MP3-CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Jun 2004

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Learning to Sing

by CLAY AIKEN

Clay Aiken's interest in music began early with the usual round of local amateur productions in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. However, second place in the final of the popular TV talent show AMERICAN IDOL, together with his fresh-faced...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Nov 2004

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Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

by Gordon S. Wood

A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmolitan lover of Europe, a one-time loyalist turned...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Jun 2004

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Lost In The Amazon: The True Story Of Five Men And Their Desperate Battle for Survival

by Stephen Kirkpatrick

Lost is a resonant title for this direct, intense, true adventure story. Stephen Kirkpatrick is lost in his attempt to maintain closeness and trust in his post-divorce relationship with his three sons. Lost as an ex-husband in the painful aftermath...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Jul 2005

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Running with Scissors: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs

When his dysfunctional family sent Augusten Burroughs away to be raised in the home of his mother’s therapist, he became part of an even more dysfunctional and unusual family dynamic. In this bestseller, which has become a classic of the...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Oct 2002

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Fresh Air

by Terry Gross

Exhilarating, thought-provoking interviews from the Peabody Award-winning public radio show. 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross,' the award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Nov 2005

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Here If You Need Me: A Memoir

by Kate Braestrup

When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Aug 2007

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James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories

by James Herriot

In this very special collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us to both laughter and tears,...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Oct 2004

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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

by The Countess of Carnarvon

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award–winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Mar 2012

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Symptoms of Withdrawal

by Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a rare glimpse into the private worlds of both Washington politics and the Hollywood elite. ...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Oct 2005

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There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale

by SEAN ASTIN

[A] brutally frank, hard-hitting portrait of the film business....Astin comes across as a complex personality--courageous, impulsive, loving, abrasive--and these contradictory qualities make him an arresting centerpiece for a Hollywood story.

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Oct 2004

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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

by Rob Sheffield

Rock critic Rob Sheffield, an editor at Rolling Stone, uses 15 mix tapes to help structure his lively, funny, and surprisingly touching ode to the 1990s, rock music, and his punk-rock wife who died suddenly five years into their marriage.

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Jan 2007

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Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope

by Ed and Lois Smart

At 3:58 in the morning of June 5, 2002, Ed and Lois Smart awoke to the sound of their nine-year-old daughter Mary Katherine's frightened voice. 'She's gone. Elizabeth is gone.' At first they thought she was having a bad dream about her older sister,...

MP3-CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Aug 2004

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Sep 2003

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The Long Run: One Man's Attempt to Regain his Athletic Career-and His Life-by Running the New York City Marathon

by Matthew Long

New York City firefighter's emotional and inspiring memoir of learning to run again after a debilitating accident, based on the wildly popular March 2009 piece in Runner's WorldOn the morning of December 22, 2005, Matt Long was cycling to work in...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Oct 2010

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The Journey of Crazy Horse

by Joseph M. Marshall

In the great oral tradition of the Lakota people, author Joseph M. Marshall III shares the compelling history of a man, a tribe, and a legacy of courage and endurance.Tasunke Witko, or Crazy Horse, as he is often remembered, brought the U.S....

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Oct 2004

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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

by Bill Buford

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: May 2006

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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

by Alan Alda

On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he’s...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Oct 2007

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The Beatles: The Biography

by Bob Spitz

Challenging popular myths attributed to the Beatles, an extensively researched band portrait traces their individual experiences of rising from young, angry rock-and-roll musicians to fame; in an account that endeavors to provide balanced coverage of...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Nov 2005

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The Prince of Frogtown

by Rick Bragg

In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin' and continued with Ava's Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own...

CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: May 2008

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The Spiral Staircase

by Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent (which she described in a previous memoir) and, when she left, was at a loss as to what to do with her life. In THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, she writes about her difficulties, as she first picked up a couple of...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Mar 2004

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Opposite of Fate, The

by Amy Tan

Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers...

CD Audiobook: Abridged Publication Date: Jun 2004

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All Fishermen Are Liars

by Linda Greenlaw

Just before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Dry Dock, a well-worn watering hole in Portland, Maine. Alden, the captain of Linda's first fishing expedition, has seen his...

MP3-CD Audiobook: Unabridged Publication Date: Jul 2004