Biography Top 100 Best Selling Audio Books

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her 12 Black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut...

This is not an ordinary audiobook. It is a spiritual treasure. To hear its message of hope to all truthseekers is to begin a great adventure.

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching....

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.

The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.

Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? How do they invest? How did they get rich? Can you ever become one of them?...

In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less then 24 hours later, only one of those SEALs remained alive.

In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Sonny Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers...

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, is a collection of first-person tales of sex, alcohol, and mayhem that transport the reader into Tucker's comical, perverse, and oftentimes surreal world.

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 black American....

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of Steve Jobs.

Once, she felt lucky to be part of the Jackson clan. A former teenage runaway who had barely survived...

Saint Augustine’s contributions to Christian theology are second to no other post-apostolic author in the whole sweep of church history.

The rising democratic star and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Dreams From My Father" invokes the hopes and ideals that have made "our improbably experiment in democracy" work and proclaims his vision for more authentic politics.

The runaway best seller The Millionaire Next Door told us who America's wealthy really are. The Millionaire Mind tells how they got there, and how to become one of them...

In Living the 7 Habits, Covey provides valuable insights that will deepen our understanding of the habits and allow us to make them part of our daily lives.

Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, movingly read in his own voice, bears all the marks...

Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....

If you only had a year to live, what would you do? In his work with the dying, author Stephen Levine...

The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? How do they invest? How did they get rich? Can you ever become one of them?...

The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...

In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment.

This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story.