Nonfiction audiobooks

Are You Ready to Succeed? - Abridged

By: Srikumar S. Rao

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Whether you’re looking for personal, financial, or career support, this carefully curated guidebook will help you get your life on track and prepared to reach all your goals.

The premise is simple: A person's ideal life, especially their career, can be carefully conceived and crafted. Based on Dr. Rao's popular course "Creativity and Personal... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help With Parkinson's Disease - Abridged

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This guided meditation for Parkinson's Disease is carefully and expertly designed to encourage balance and good posture, mentally rehearse strong, steady movement, alleviate depression, discouragement and fatigue, and increase symptom control over common movement problems such as freezing, cramping, tremors and other side effects. In other... Read more

Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People - Abridged

By: Jane Bryant Quinn

Narrated by: Jane Bryant Quinn

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you too busy to pay much attention to your money? Do you worry that maybe you haven't been doing the right things? This book is for you, from Jane Bryant Quinn, the most trusted voice in personal finance.

Her classic bestseller, Making the Most of Your Money, guided a generation toward smart and sensible financial choices. Here she strips... Read more

Bill Clinton - Abridged

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A decade and a half after William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began disastrously and deteriorated in a series of fiascoes. How Bill Clinton faced up to his... Read more

The Heart of a Soldier

By: Kate Blaise & Dana White

Narrated by: Melissa Edris

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful true story of a heroic couple whose love for their country was matched only by their love for each other.

Mike and Kate Blaise fell in love during high school in small-town Macon, Missouri. Sharing a deep sense of patriotism, they both entered the U.S. Army—she as a commissioned officer and he as an enlisted infantry soldier who... Read more

The War That Made America

By: Fred Anderson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War-also known as the Seven Years' War-and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and... Read more

Jawbreaker

By: Gary Berntsen

Narrated by: Ralph Pezzullo & Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

The Informant

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America.

It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior executive at Archer Daniels Midland--America's most politically powerful corporation--became a... Read more

She Got Up Off the Couch

By: Haven Kimmel

Narrated by: Haven Kimmel

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Picking up where A Girl Named Zippy left off, Haven Kimmel crafts a tender portrait of her mother, a modestly heroic woman who took the odds that life gave her and somehow managed to win.

When we last saw Zippy, she was oblivious to the storm that was brewing in her home. Her mother, Delonda, had literally just gotten up off the couch and... Read more

Jawbreaker - Abridged

By: Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo

Narrated by: Gary Berntsen

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents the new face of counterterrorism. Recognized... Read more

SuperFoods Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Steven G. Pratt

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

HealthStyle is the 21st Century program for promoting vigor, preventing disease and extending your lifespan.If, up until now you have relied on luck, genetics and a few healthy practices to achieve this goal, SuperFoods HealthStyle will be your authoritative, engaging, introduction to a new, better, life. Like SuperFoods Rx, the authors'... Read more

Eating, Drinking, Overthinking - Abridged

By: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Narrated by: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why do so many women drink and eat to excess and then spend their days regretting it? An expert on women and depression explains what can be done to treat and prevent it.

Depression is a common and debilitating problem among women, though it rarely occurs in a vacuum. As Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's original research shows, overthinking—a tendency to... Read more

Vows

By: Peter Manseau

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty — two eager young parishioners from different towns — became part of a new breed of clergy,... Read more

My Hero

By: The My Hero Project

Narrated by: Alan Sklar & Ellen Archer

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Marlo Thomas's The Right Words at the Right Time, My Hero is a stunning collection of essays by American heroes—including Michael J. Fox, Senator John McCain, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, astronaut John Glenn—about their heroes, inspiring examples of the best that we can be.

In My Hero, some of the most prominent heroes and leaders... Read more

The Divided Land

By: Theresa Lee

Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Geography dealt Korea a fateful role. Sandwiched between China and Japan, and within easy reach of Russia, Korea has suffered five major foreign occupations-by China, Mongolia, Japan, and after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was in that tiny peninsula I was born when Korea was under the heel of Japan, when we were... Read more

Anger in Teens

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This program will guide you to a deeper understanding of the issues underlying teen anger, and provide you with the necessary skills to help. Listen to the program in the presence or absence of your teens, to learn the causes of adolescent anger problems and the methods and techniques for solving them. Learn specific things to say to your teens... Read more

Flying Through Midnight

By: John T. Halliday

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War

Like Jarhead, We Were Soldiers Once..., and Young, John T. Halliday's combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying in the Vietnam War.

The year is 1970, and John T.... Read more

Introducing Goodfinding

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program gives you an introduction to Goodfinding, and a full understanding of the steps to building gratitude, appreciation and optimism in your everyday life, which will lead you to the motivation and fulfillment you're looking for. This is nothing short of re-training your brain to make you happy! Note: This audiobook is a recording of a... Read more

Expectations In Marriage

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This program will help you understand yourself and your spouse at a deeper level. Explore your expectations for your marriage, and discover how to use this insight to make your connection stronger, and get through the tough times more smoothly and easily. You will gain insight into the processes that lead to conflict and anger, and what to do... Read more

Anger Management Techniques

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful, information-packed program will give you all of the basics of anger management, based on Dr. DeFoore's 50 years of counseling experience. You will understand the value and benefit of your emotions, and how to express and control them for your own benefit and for the good of your loved ones. Recognize how anger can work for you... Read more

French Women Don't Get Fat

By: Mireille Guiliano

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.

French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how... Read more

Patriot Act

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Congress is working to renew key provisions of the USA Patriot Act before they expire at the end of the year. Ray Suarez discusses Patriot Act renewal and the divisions that remain among lawmakers with Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Russ Feingold, D-WI. Read more

The Confidence Course - Abridged

By: Walter Anderson

Narrated by: Walter Anderson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Based on Walter Anderson's popular course at the New School for Social Research in New York City, The Confidence Course teaches you how to make anxiety your ally and overcome crippling self-doubt. With interactive lessons, complete with real-life examples, renowned storyteller and editor of Parade magazine Walter Anderson uses his gift for... Read more

Consider the Lobster - Abridged

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: David Foster Wallace

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?

David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read more