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Biography audio books are excellent to get the inside scoop on the people who interest you.
Below is our current selection of Biography audio books.
- Spike & Co.
Inside The House of Fun with Milligan, Sykes, Galton & Simpson.
- Spook
The bestselling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
An amazing insight into the life of one of histories greatest villains...
- Stand for Something
If questioning certainties is an art, John Kasich has mastered it in his stand for something with eloquence, passion, and sincerity
- State of Denial
Bob Woodward examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the Congress, and often to
themselves.
- Steven Pacey Interview
Actor Steven Pacey discusses his work as a reader for audiobooks.
- Stick It!
Stick It! Rocking Road Stories told by legendary classic rock drummer Corky Laing...
- Stolen Lives
Stolen Lives is a heart-rending account of resilience in the face of extreme deprivation, of the courage and even humor with which one family
faced their tormented fate.
- Stone Cold Truth, The
He's wrestled under many names but to the fans he is and will always be Stone Cold Steve Austin
- Stonewall Jackson: The Great Generals
Series
Davis highlights Stonewall Jackson as a general who emphasized the importance of reliable information and early preparedness, and he details
Jackson's many lessons in strategy and leadership.
- Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and
Sea
Gripping stories of what happens when people find themselves caught up in treacherous weather - or when it finds them.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Talking of History Number 2: Cardinal
Wolsey
CARDINAL WOLSEY... The Last Great Medieval Minister...‘Built Hampton Court, didn`t he?’...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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.
- To Conquer The Air
To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without. It is the story of mankind's most wondrous technological
achievement; and it is an account of the mystery of creativity.
- To Hell and Back
In his classic WWII memoir, Audie Murphy depicts the harrowing events of the war, relating the fear, courage, and death that followed the men
he knew into battle. In the two years that he fought in Italy, France, and Germany, he killed at least 240 Germans, single-handedly destroyed
a German...
- Too Many Mothers
'A gut-wrenching memoir that still has you gasping with laughter. A hell of a book'
- Trial and the Death of Socrates, The
The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest
figures in history.
- Trip to the Beach, A
Opening a gourmet restaurant in paradise fulfills a couple's dreams.
- Trowel and Error
With the engaging charm, warm humour and down-to-earth style that has made him Britain's favourite television gardener and a popular TV
presenter, Alan Titchmarsh has now written 'a touch of the memoi
- True at First Light
Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was
written when he returned from Kenya in 1953.
- Truman
Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
- Trumpnation
This is the world of Donald Trump, full of glitz, glamour, and other people's money. Yet despite glaring cracks in the shimmering façade, the
myth and the image have remained stubbornly impenetrable.
- Truth & Beauty
What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when that person is not your lover, but
your best friend?
- Tyrannosaurus Sue
The true story of Sue, the greatest Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered.
- Ugly Americans
A real-life mixture of Liar’s Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic
characters.
- Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set, The
Collection of Sedaris's hilarious audio programs, including two of his most recent releases
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