Biographical Audio Books
Below are our current Audio
Books in our Biographical Audio Books section
- Story of My
Life, The
Farah is living proof that not only can the human heart endure, it
can also thrive. The Story of My Life is our new great American
memoir.
- Story of My
Life, The
A serious illness destroyed Helen Keller’s sight and hearing at the
age of two. At seven, she was helped by Anne Sullivan, her beloved
teacher and friend. Through sheer determination and resolve, she
learned to speak and prepared herself for entry into prep school by
age sixteen. Later she...
- Storyteller's
Daughter
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Stuffed: Adventures Of A Restaurant Family
This funny and charming memoir tells about a bigger-than-life New
York family that owned fourteen restaurants, including Morgen's in
the garment district. Sharing life and good food for three
gener...
- Sufferings
In Africa
Young American sea captain James Riley, shipwrecked off the coast
of north Africa in 1815, was captured by nomadic Arabs and sold
into slavery. This dramatic account of Riley's trials and
suffering...
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Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals
Selection of stories full of suffering, compassion, genuine courage
and how bad things can get when events transpire against us.
- Taking
Heat
Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing.
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Talking of History Number 1: Henry VIII and the Death of the
Monasteries
The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty
months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept
away the monasteries...
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Talking of History Number 2: Cardinal Wolsey
CARDINAL WOLSEY... The Last Great Medieval Minister...‘Built
Hampton Court, didn`t he?’...
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Talking of History Number 3: The Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only
professional soldier in English history to have served also as
Prime Minister...
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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil
Spector
Phil Spector, once an outsider despised by his peers, learned all
about music and quickly became the top producer of early rock and
roll. Hit followed hit, all with his signature “wall of sound.” But
the boy-man who owned pop culture spiraled into paranoid isolation
and peculiar behavior.
- Telling
Tales
Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are
funny, touching and told in his unique style...
- Ten
Minutes from Normal
An inside look at the life of President Bush’s most respected aide
and confidante.
- Then
We Came To The End
This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office
signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.
- Thomas
Hobbes: Leviathan
This presentation explores the social and political turmoil during
which Leviathan was written, including an examination of the
radical political philosophies spawned by opposition to the Stuart
mo...
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Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 1: The Virginian
This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work on the life and times of
Thomas Jefferson. Based on vast sources, it covers Jefferson’s
ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the
building of Monticello; the...
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Thomas Jefferson and His Time Vol. 2: Jefferson and the Rights of
Man
The second volume in this six-volume biography tells the story of
the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his
ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution
and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as
secretary of state in President George...
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Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 3: Jefferson and The Ordeal of
Liberty
The third volume in Dumas Malone’s distinguished study of Thomas
Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and
controversial periods of Jefferson’s life. It includes the story of
the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state, his
retirement to Monticello, his...
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Thomas Jefferson and His Time Vol. 4: The President, First Term,
1801-1805
The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work
vividly recounts Jefferson’s eventful first presidential term.
Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential
voyage, Jefferson’s first years in office find him confronting a
nation deeply divided following the...
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Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 5: Second Term,
1805-1809
The fifth volume of the Jefferson series is a vibrant account of
Jefferson’s disparate activities, sponsoring the Lewis and Clark
expedition, concluding the naval “war” with the Barbary pirates,
engaging in a political duel with Chief Justice Marshall over the
trial of Aaron Burr, attempting to...
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Thomas Jefferson and His Time Vol. 6: The Sage of
Monticello
The sixth and final volume of Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, The
Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments,
friendships, and family difficulties of Jefferson’s last seventeen
years, including his retirement from Washington and the presidency,
his correspondence with John Adams...
- Three
Weeks With My Brother
An astonishing around-the-world adventure and a life-affirming
inward journey.
- Timothy
Leary: A Biography
To a generation in revolt in the 1960s, Dr. Timothy Leary was its
guru. The brilliant psychologist became obsessed with the effects
of psychedelic drugs while teaching at Harvard. Timothy Leary is
the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures
in postwar America.
- 'Tis
'Angela’s Ashes', Frank McCourt’s critically acclaimed, lyrical
memoir of his Irish childhood, won the Pulitzer Prize...
- Titanic:
A Survivor's Story
Titanic is a unique record of one of the most traumatic events in
maritime history. Not only does Colonel Gracie describe his own
experience on that fateful night but the stories of as many other
survivors as he could track down. He also attended a court hearing
to obtain the official record....
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To America - Personal Reflections of an Historian
Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose—one of the country's
most influential historians—confronts America's failures and
struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs.
- Toast
Hilarious, irreverent and mouthwatering, TOAST captures thirty
years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with
since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in
chic.
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