Rising Tide - Abridged
By: John M. Barry
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more
The Argument Culture - Abridged
By: Deborah Tannen
Narrated by: Deborah Tannen
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
View audiobookThe Gold of Exodus - Abridged
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.
In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers -... Read more
The Micro-Lending Revolution
By: Muhammad Yunus & Alex Counts
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Founder of the Grameen Bank in his native Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus is a financial pioneer who has loaned over two billion dollars to over three million people with no money or collateral. They have all paid him back. Read more
View audiobookOur Sacred Honor - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Philip Bosco, William J. Bennett & Barry Bostwick
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction as well -- this time of a particularly American sort.
In Our Sacred Honor, Bennett has collected the best that has been thought and said by and... Read more
From Girl To Wise-Woman
By: Joan Borysenko
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Psychologist/biologist Joan Borysenko illuminates the gifts of being female and celebrates the power of the feminine life-cycle, a brand new field of study. She shows us, through new research, the path to realizing our unique female gifts, and how to utilize them for a life of extraordinary power. Read more
View audiobookOne World Ready or Not - Abridged
By: William Greider
Narrated by: Howard McGillin
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In ONE WORLD, READY OR NOT, William Greider focuses his incomparable reportorial skills on the global economy, which he contends is sowing "creative destruction" everywhere.
Greider explains the dynamics of the global economy in terms of human struggle. As he makes clear, the actions of multinational corporations and finance capitalists are no... Read more
Genesis: A New View
By: Bill Moyers
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Moyers discusses his original approach to broadcast journalism and his series "Genesis: A Living Conversation," He describes why these are among the most powerful stories in Western Civilization, and uncovering their deeper, often controversial meanings. Moyers says, "Stories are the way we organize our response to the world…Listening to others,... Read more
View audiobookPoison Pen - Abridged
By: Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu & David LaFontaine
Narrated by: Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu & David LaFontaine
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Two sleazy tabloid reporters expose all of their shocking secrets!The public appetite for intimate details about celebrities continues to grow— online, on television, and at the check-out counter of every grocery store. To feed the public' s insatiable desire for juicy gossip, Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu and David LaFontaine... Read more
View audiobookThe Physics of Star Trek
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Explore the science behind one of television’s greatest series. Star Trek shaped and defined the science-fiction genre for generations of television viewers and writers, and now readers can learn more about the science presented on the show. What’s it like traveling at warp speed? What are the different types of dark matter and black holes?... Read more
View audiobookAlchemy of Love and Lust - Abridged
By: Theresa L. Crenshaw
Narrated by: Theresa L. Crenshaw
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Simon & Schuster, The Alchemy of Love and Lust is Theresa L. Crenshaw's guide to how our sex hormones influence our relationships.
The Alchemy of Love and Lust identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes and how hormones can determine the course of... Read more
Inside the NRA - Abridged
By: Jack Anderson
Narrated by: Jack Anderson
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A chilling examination of the NRA and its powerful influence on America.In 1996, deaths by gun violence in the United States totaled roughly 14,000. With so many casualties—along with an astounding rise of armed militias and the discovery of huge caches of weapons stockpiled in private residences—Americans were forced to re-examine what it meant... Read more
View audiobookCasino - Abridged
By: Nicholas Pileggi
Narrated by: Ken Weitzman, Fred Neumann & Ron Leibman
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas mob.
From Nicholas Pileggi, author of the bestselling Wiseguy -- the #1 bestseller that later became the hit movie Goodfellas -- comes this brilliantly told tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder and revenge Mafia-style, the true story of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the... Read more
Towards Gender Partnership
By: Riane Eisler, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In the war of the sexes, both lose. says Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade, a seminal study of early societies based on partnership rather than domination, continues her keen re-thinking of social reality by focusing here on gender, pleasure and sexuality. Read more
View audiobookRed Suitcase
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new... Read more
View audiobookPoetry, Passion and Zen
By: Jane Hirshfield
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Poetry offers depth and color to life and is a natural way to express what it means to be human. Hirshfield offers gentle wisdom about writing and appreciating poetry. She says, "The poem is the speech of the inner heart, the inner mind. If you can simply hear what it's saying as if it were being whispered to you in the dark, you will understand... Read more
View audiobookReclaiming Native Culture
By: Winona Laduke
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Passionate, outspoken, and articulate, Winona LaDuke is an internationally known activist for indigenous rights and environmental and women's issues. All over the world, she observes, colonialism is encroaching upon natural ecosystems and the people who have lived in them for many centuries--but destroying land and cultures is not a sustainable... Read more
View audiobookDialogue With Sir Laurens Van der Post: A Mythic Journey, Part 1
By: Laurens Van der Post
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The experiences of Sir Laurens Van der Post, including time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and a sojourn in the Kalahari desert after World War II, give him a broad perspective. He shares with us the mythic origins of Hitler and Nazism, and why the end of “the age of leaders” is relevant today. Read more
View audiobookDown and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his... Read more
View audiobookThe Eternal Feminine
By: Marion Woodman
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
For both men and women, this dialogue offers tremendous insights into who we are and what we need. In fairy tales, Woodman explains, the hero needs a container in which to bring the hard-won treasure home, or else it may be lost or stolen. She tells us that container is the "eternal feminine" quality of being receptive instead of fearing and... Read more
View audiobookThe Mythic Power of Film
By: Geoffrey Hill
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
After listening to this exploration of the mythological significance of films, you will never watch movies with the same eyes again. Psychotherapist Geoffrey Hill describes cinema as an art form revealing the fears and desires, symbols and issues of contemporary times. Read more
View audiobookWagner’s Ring Cycle In Our Lives
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“People experience a myth as the truth, in metaphor form, for themselves,” says psychiatrist and author Jean Bolen. Her book Ring of Power (HarperSanFrancisco 1992) describes the truths that Wagner’s great mythical Ring cycle of operas shows us about personal family situations and world politics. The parallels are fascinating and compelling. Read more
View audiobookSaving America-Saving the World
By: Helen Caldicott, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An articulate firebrand and one of the world's leading advocates of nuclear disarmament, environmentalism and citizen action delivers a scathing wake-up call about abuses of power in American government, media and industry, and the urgent need to truly care for the planet and each other. Read more
View audiobookAlchemy and Archetypes
By: Carol Pearson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
We all possess the archetypes necessary for the hero’s journey. Though one or two may be predominant in our lives, we can call forth and awaken these inner guides as needed on our quest. In this provocative interview, Carol Pearson reveals how these archetypes can aid our experience of soul initiation. Her message is one of gentleness and... Read more
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