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What Liberal Media? - Abridged
By: Eric Alterman
Narrated by: Eric Alterman
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the Liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio stations of this country, duping an unsuspecting public into mistaking their party line for news? Or is it the conservatives who have identified media bias as a rallying cry around... Read more
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Kate Remembered
By: A. Scott Berg
Narrated by: Tony Goldwyn
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller!
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century—reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
In 1983—at the age of 75,... 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
Women's Health - The Wise and Natural Way
By: Susun Weed
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Susun engages in a fascinating, candid and controversial dialogue about women's health, natural healing and the "wise woman" tradition. Susun exposes the illusion about menopause and hormones, addresses the HRT/cancer connection and shares information about bone density. Read more
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The 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
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
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The Matrix and Philosophy - Abridged
By: William Irwin
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Rick Adamson & Jennifer Jay Myers
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers who created The Simpsons and... Read more
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An 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
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Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros tells the story of the Reyes family who has members and memories on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. In this interview, Cisneros discusses the context of her novel, her personal connection to the characters, learning her family history, and more. Read more
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American Studies - Abridged
By: Louis Menand
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Brilliant, surprising insights into America yesterday and today from the New York Times bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club. Read more
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Psyche and Soul: Walking The Transformational Path
By: Jacquelyn Small
Narrated by: Jacquelyn Small
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
According to psychotherapist and author, Jacquelyn Small, Psyche was the only goddess willing to become a human girl to travel through life in order to teach us that we are both human and divine. In this insightful dialogue, Small invites us to walk the two worlds of Psyche. Read more
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Henry Louis Gates: The Bondwoman's Narrative
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses The Bondwoman's Narrative, which is described as an autobiographical novel written in the 1850s by a female slave who called herself and her main character Hannah Crafts. The manuscript was found at an auction of African American artifacts by Gates, Jr., who is credited as editor of the book. Read more
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Crepúsculo de la cultura americana
By: Morris Berman
Narrated by: Jerónimo Hernández
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Desde las entrañas mismas del imperio yanqui surge una voz que arremete sin piedad contra la autocomplacencia y la estupidez que, día a día, se apoderan inexorablemente de los ciudadanos estadounidenses. Morris Berman es quien profiere esta devastadora crítica. Sin embargo, El crepúsculo de la cultura americana representa también un lamento por... Read more
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The Men's Health Playbook - Abridged
By: Men's Health Magazine
Narrated by: Hank Jacobs & Nicole Fonarow
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Witty and insightful, Men's Health writers Joe Kita, Lisa Jones, Hugh O'Neill, Ron Geraci and others share their personal and often comical experiences as they tackle the universal topics of love, life, and exactly how to find and keep that special someone. The Men's Health Playbook features selected articles from Men's Health including:
• 50... Read more
The Next Fifty Years - Abridged
By: John Brockman
Narrated by: Henry Leyva, Jennifer Wiltsie, Oliver Wyman & S...
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a... Read more
Celebrating Partnership: A Formula for Survival
By: Riane Eisler
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Internationally known scholar, author, futurist and activist Riane Eisler cogently states that if we are to survive as a species we must release the "Domination" model, which has shaped our present day civilization, and move to a new paradigm. According to her, the shift from the "Domination" model to the "Partnership" model has never been... Read more
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Over the Edge - Abridged
By: Greg Child
Narrated by: Aramand Schultz
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the... Read more
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The Sacred Feminine
By: Mary Ford Grabowski
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1995 Mary Ford-Grabowsky was packing to move. As she peeled from her walls the sacred quotes that had been nurturing her for decades, she began to read them and became fascinated, and then appalled, because every single one of the hundreds of quotes was written by a man. Thus her journey to discover the voice of the sacred feminine began. Read more
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Being American in a Changing World
By: Ronald Takaki
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Takaki takes us back to our nation's founding principles - to the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights guaranteed by our Constitution - and implores us to remember that "the Declaration of Independence…belongs to all of us…as members of humanity." Read more
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The Broken Hearth
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Eric Park
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author William Bennett addresses the central social issue of our time—the deline of the family—in a book as intellectually provocative and politically controversial as his landmark The Death of Outrage.
Our recent economic prosperity has masked the devastation of the American family, which is now under seige as never before. From the... Read more
The New Joys of Yiddish - Abridged
By: Leo Rosten
Narrated by: Ron Rifkin, Peter Riegert, Harry Goz, Michael G...
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students,... Read more
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A Trial by Jury
By: D. Graham Burnett
Narrated by: D. Graham Burnett
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming experiences of his life.
Burnett begins with the story of... Read more
Ava's Man - Abridged
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.
This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible... Read more
Once and Future Myths
By: Phil Cousineau
Narrated by: Phil Cousineau
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this masterwork, Phil Cousineau examines the connection of mythology to contemporary life and what that means for self-improvement. Drawing on his extensive work with Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth), this is Cousineau's grand opus—revealing mythic insights for everyday life. Cousineau retells classic myths such as Eros and Psyche—with new... Read more
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