James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this very special collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us to both laughter and tears, and Herriot's personal introduction and notes make this tribute by a master storyteller to man's... Read more
View audiobookJames Herriot's Cat Stories
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
James Herriot's Cat Stories is the purr-fect gift for anyone who loves cuddling kitties.
Kittens and cats of all kinds abound in this program and, like their flesh-and-blood counterparts, they will purr their way into the hearts and minds of everyone who hears their stories. This warm and joyful volume of stories collects some of the Yorkshire... Read more
All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.
Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world.
All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to... Read more
All Things Wise and Wonderful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Readers adore James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful.
Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom, and the basis for the PBS Masterpiece drama.
In the midst of World War II, James is training... Read more
The Lord God Made Them All
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Now available as an audio book for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories--the basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small.
In this repackaged volume, after serving in the... Read more
Complications - Abridged
By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: William David Griffith
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized... Read more
Why People Believe Weird Things - Abridged
By: Michael Shermer
Narrated by: Michael Shermer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
UFO abductions, television psychics, creationism, Holocaust denial. Faced with the rapid changes and anxieties of modern life, many people are turning to the alluring comforts of pseudoscience and the occult. In Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find these otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy... Read more
View audiobookThe Tao of Physics - Abridged
By: Fritjof Capra
Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Their paths to the truth could not be more different—but the amazing thing is that, in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex... Read more
Women Who Think Too Much - Abridged
By: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Narrated by: Sheryl Bernstein
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From one of the nation's preeminent experts in the study of women and emotion, a breakthrough new book based on the author's award-winning research
It's not a surprise that our fast-paced, overly analytical culture is pushing people—especially women—to spend countless hours thinking about negative ideas, feelings, and experiences. Renowned... Read more
Are You the One for Me? - Abridged
By: Barbara De Angelis
Narrated by: Barbara De Angelis
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The ultimate guide to understanding compatibility and getting the most out of your relationship. With the powerful advice and techniques that have helped thousands of people transform their lives, Dr. De Angelis helps you evaluate your past and present relationships, freeing you to love in a more healthy way. Whether you're single, married or... Read more
View audiobookVote.com - Abridged
By: Dick Morris
Narrated by: Dick Morris
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
As the print and broadcast media-commonly referred to as the Fourth Estate-falters and fails, a new social and political force is rising in power. The Fifth Estate, as Morris has dubbed it, is made up of the rapidly growing number of voters who use Internet technology. This army of younger citizens with easy access to information and a direct... Read more
View audiobookDiscours sur la servitude volontaire
By: Étienne de La Boétie
Narrated by: Denis Podalydes
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Étienne de la Boétie écrit le Discours sur la servitude volontaire en 1549 alors qu'il n'a que 18 ans. Si la question est politique, l'auteur ne se contente pas de critiquer les régimes tyranniques, il questionne aussi l'agent politique, celui qui est gouverné : comment peut-il se faire que « tant d'hommes, tant de bourgs, tant de villes, tant... Read more
View audiobookWhat Should I Do With My Life? - Abridged
By: Po Bronson
Narrated by: Po Bronson
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
What should I do with my life?
It's a question many of us have wondered with frequency. Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book - an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves.
Po traveled the country in search of... Read more
Fatal Deception - Abridged
By: Michael Bowker
Narrated by: John Slattery
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At first glance, the events in this audiobook may seem equal parts science fiction and legal thriller. Unfortunately, this is a true story of blinding greed, cruel deceit, unfortunate circumstance, and powerful human tragedy. It has villains and heroes, but it does not yet have a good ending.
Something's wrong in Libby, Montana. Residents are... Read more
Linked
By: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?
All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks,... Read more
The Science of Superheroes
By: Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The Science of Superheroes takes a lighthearted but clear-headed look at the real science that underlies some of the greatest superhero comic books of all time, including Spider-Man, Batman, Fantastic Four, and many more. Each chapter presents the story of the origin of one or more superheroes and asks intriguing questions that lead to... Read more
View audiobookThe Physics of Christmas
By: Roger Highfield
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Can reindeer fly? Why is Santa Claus fat? Could scientists clone the perfect Christmas tree? Was the Star of Bethlehem really a comet? Why is Rudolph’s nose red? How does Santa manage to deliver presents to an estimated 842 million households in a single night? What could we do to guarantee a white Christmas every year?
These are among the... Read more
Lost Discoveries
By: Dick Teresi
Narrated by: Peter Johnson
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world -- Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others -- and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy,... Read more
View audiobookSeeing in the Dark
By: Timothy Ferris
Narrated by: Timothy Ferris
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a major revolution sweeping astronomy as amateur astronomers, linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. In Seeing in the Dark, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers, capturing the exquisite experience when ancient starlight strikes the eye and incites the mind. He reports... Read more
View audiobookAn Ethiopian Heroine's Story
By: Bogaletch Gebre
Narrated by: Neil Harvey
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more
View audiobookThe Demon in the Freezer - Abridged
By: Richard Preston
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more
Finders Keepers
By: Mark Bowden
Narrated by: Mark Bowden
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Who hasn't dreamed of finding a million dollars?
Joey Coyle was down and out -- the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the streets just blocks... Read more
The Measure of All Things - Abridged
By: Ken Alder
Narrated by: Brian Jennings
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their... Read more
View audiobookEntanglement
By: Amir D. Aczel
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.
Entanglement tells the... Read more