Biography & Autobiography - General

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Courage and Consequence: My Life as a...

Karl Rove

Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's presidency, recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into the White House.

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated...

Mark Twain

A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 1999

Scent of the Missing: Love and Partne...

Susannah Charleson

After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own. A dog lover and pilot with search ex...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Amy Chua

Unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hours Read by TBA An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tri...

James McBride

This beautifully written New York Times bestseller has become a new American classic.  As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say, "I'm li...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Highest Duty: My Search for What Real...

Chesley B. Sullenberger

In this inspirational autobiography, Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger, the airline pilot whose emergency landing on the Hudson River earned the world's admiration, tells his life story and talks about the essential qualities that he belie...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

Isabel Allende

In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Surrender is Not an Option: Defending...

John R. Bolton

The Straight-Talking Former Ambassador Takes Listeners Behind the Scenes at the State Department and the U.N.A veteran of three Republican administrations and a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, John Bolton reveals how the U.S. ...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2007

Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love...

Carol Burnett

In this beautiful and poignant tribute to her late daughter, award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Carol Burnett presents a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggl...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2013

Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm...

Jon Katz

In five memorable books, readers have followed Katzs transformation from a suburban New Jersey dog owner to squire of Bedlam Farm. In his latest book, Katz chronicles the experience of life with animals--what they teach us, and what t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Sto...

Shant Kenderian

Shant Kendarian's visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be short, just long enough to make peace with his estranged father before returning home to the United States. But Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and U...

Eric Blehm

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afgh...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Strong at the Broken Places: Voices o...

Richard M. Cohen

In an extension of his New York Times bestselling book Blindsided, author Richard M. Cohen depicts one year in the lives of five individuals who are living with serious chronic illness and of their families. These "citizens of si...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

Black Boy

Richard Wright

One rises from the reading of such a book with mixed thoughts. Richard Wright uses vigorous and straightforward English; often there is real beauty in his words even when they are mingled with sadism....Yet at the result one is baffle...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2005

Wilson

A. Scott Berg

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

The Elephant to Hollywood

Michael Caine

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second actWhen he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hol...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2010

Children of Jihad: Journeys into the ...

Jared Cohen

Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand. While studying on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, he took a crash course in Arabic, read voraciously on the histor...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2007

The Duck Commander Family: How Faith,...

Willie Robertson

Faith. Family. Ducks—in that order. This audiobook gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding A&E show—Duck Dynasty. This Louisiana bayou family operates Duck Commander, a booming...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memo...

Dave Van Ronk

*Winner of the 2006 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award* **Now the inspiration for a major motion picture written and directed by the Coen brothers** Dave Van Ronk was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more th...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Tchaikovsky

Jeremy Siepmann

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers of all time. Many people who may never have heard his name know his melodies. They crop up on mobile telephones, alarm clocks and answering machines as often as on records and concert p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2003

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Soci...

Neil Strauss

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling ...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Mark Twain

Geoffrey C. Ward

The companion audiobook to the upcoming PBS miniseries presents material from the great writer's literary works, diaries, and letters, and follows him from his Hannibal, Missouri childhood, through his travels throughout the world, to...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2001

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Pre...

Walter R. Borneman

Tennessee Democrat James K. Polk is generally ranked among the nation's most effective chief executives. In this straightforward, unnuanced biography, Borneman (1812: The War That Forged a Nation) relates why. Coming into office deter...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir

Emma Forrest

Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2011

Inside Marine One: Four U.S. Presiden...

Lee Kelley

Colonel Ray "Frenchy" L'Heureux always dreamed of being a pilot. Growing up, he built airplane models and dreamed about soaring over the earth. When he was twelve, his mom treated him to a flying lesson at the local airfield...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2014

Benjamin Franklin : An American Life

Walter Isaacson

In this biography, former CNN chairman Isaacson shows the many facets and incredibly prodigious activity of the Founding Father who was also an inventor, printer, diplomat, businessman, community organizer, and author of an important ...

Abridged CD
Published: Jul 2003

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really l...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2009

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir

Augusten Burroughs

Millions of listeners have been flat-out astonished, profoundly moved, and massively entertained by the writing of Augusten Burroughs. Now, with A Wolf At The Table-his first full-length memoir in five years-Augusten returns to his li...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitc...

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 th...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2006

Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search Fo...

Gene Wilder

divTold in his own words, a very personal story from the star of many beloved and classic comedies, including Young Frankenstein, The Producers, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory/Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors wh...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2005
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