The Map That Changed the World
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery... Read more
View audiobookKrakatoa
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword... Read more
View audiobookFinding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety - Abridged
By: Robert Gerzon
Narrated by: Robert Gerzon
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
ANXIETY! Is there anything that does not cause anxiety in a world where stress at the workplace, disillusioned dreams, broken families, and minutes that fly past us are a dominant reality? Finding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety, skillfully proposes that hope, inspiration, and practical solutions do exist. Dispelling the myth that all anxiety... Read more
View audiobookWhy Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes - Abridged
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why... Read more
A Journey of Discovery
By: Ché Vyfhuis
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this engaging discussion, Ché Vyfhuis recounts her courageous choice to leave a safe, secure, well-structured life to strike out on an unknown path with little more than a willingness to follow the guidance of a higher power. With candor and humor she shares her own process of discovery, including the realization that her core personality is... Read more
View audiobookScurvy
By: Stephen Bown
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored. In this intriguing book, Stephen R. Brown delivers a lively recounting of how three... Read more
View audiobookThe Anatomy of Hope - Abridged
By: Jerome Groopman
Narrated by: Jerome Groopman
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
the course of illness
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.
The... Read more
The Science and Mysticism of Water
By: West Marrin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In an age where we see water as a commodity to be bought and sold, and we attempt to control it in the hope that it will serve our immediate needs, West Marrin invites us to reexamine our relationship to this substance, which the ancients viewed as a sentient being. Read more
View audiobookSafe People
By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Narrated by: Dick Fredricks
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep.Too many of us have invested in relationships that have gone wrong. Maybe you've been judged, manipulated, or controlled. Or... Read more
View audiobookChanges That Heal
By: Henry Cloud
Narrated by: Dick Fredricks
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A down-to-earth plan to help us recover from the wounds of the past and grow more and more into the image of God.Many of us struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy. We know that God created us in his image, but how can we be loving when we feel burned out? How can we be free when we struggle with addiction? Will we ever... Read more
View audiobookSafe People - Abridged
By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Narrated by: Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep.Too many of us have invested in relationships that have gone wrong. Maybe you've been judged, manipulated, or controlled. Or... Read more
View audiobookGifted Hands - Abridged
By: Ben Carson, M.D.
Narrated by: Ben Carson & Dion Graham
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more
View audiobookThe Fabric of the Cosmos
By: Brian Greene
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 22 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without... Read more
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea - Abridged
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Olympia Dukakis
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated;... Read more
Cultural Nonviolence
By: Satish Kumar
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Jesus, Satish Kumar brings a gentle wisdom to the difficult questions that must be answered if we are to end the pattern of destruction that threatens our world today. His simple, yet comprehensive perspective addresses the violence that is pervasive in human society and, amazingly, offers... Read more
View audiobookWhy Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Lee Adams & Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why... Read more
The Genome War
By: James Shreeve
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within... Read more
The Big Year
By: Mark Obmascik
Narrated by: Del Roy
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more
The Anatomy of Hope
By: Jerome Groopman
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
the course of illness
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.
The... Read more
Visits from the Afterlife - Abridged
By: Sylvia Browne
Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne recounts her encounters with ghosts and explains this spiritual phenomena in the same way she explained the spirituality in dreams with SYLVIA BROWNE'S BOOK OF DREAMS. In VISITS FROM THE OTHER SIDE, she visits haunted homes, explains the meanings of visions and nightmares, considers why ghosts... Read more
View audiobookThe Flyers
By: Noah Adams
Narrated by: Noah Adams
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
“It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if I’d entered the black-and-white photograph I’d been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, there’s a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and... Read more
View audiobookOut on a Leash
By: Shirley MacLaine
Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From internationally bestselling author, beloved actress, and “one-of-a-kind wit” (Vanity Fair) Shirley MacLaine comes a brilliant, fun-loving, and inspiring story of unconditional love.
Shirley MacLaine found perfect love—in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that was Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of... Read more
Secret Empire
By: Philip Taubman
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the country's first spy satellite-revolutionized espionage and intelligence gathering." ... Read more
View audiobookMeasuring America
By: Andro Linklater
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"This expertly written and eminently enjoyable chronicle is highly recommended for history and history of science collections." —Library Journal
"Make room on the library shelf for the never-before-told saga of the survey that converted the vast wilderness west of the Ohio River into a commodity marked out for government sale." ... Read more