Education bestsellers

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Every story whispers his name

Jesus Storybook Bible

By: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Narrated by: David Suchet
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Trusted and treasured for over a decade,?The Jesus Storybook Bible?has been introducing children to God’s wonderful story, and the Savior at the center of that story.? With over 3 million copies sold,?The Jesus Storybook Bible?is the quintessential book for parents, grandparents, pastors, and anyone else who wants to share God’s??Never Stopping,... Read more

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

A Leadership Fable

By: Patrick Lencioni
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she... Read more

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Significations

By: Noliwe Rooks
Narrated by: Danielle Lee James
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation

When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount... Read more

Financial Feminist

Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

By: Tori Dunlap
Narrated by: Tori Dunlap, Samantha Tan, Shayna Small, Jaime Lamchick & Graham Halstead
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollarsTori Dunlap was always good with money. As a kid, she watched her prudent parents balance their checkbook every month and learned to save for... Read more

The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen?

First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and... Read more

Grit

The Power of Passion and Perseverance

By: Angela Duckworth
Narrated by: Angela Duckworth
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People).

The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela... Read more

Never Enough

When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Narrated by: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back

In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They jam-pack their schedules with AP... Read more

The Story of the World, Vol. 1 Audiobook

By: Susan Wise Bauer
Narrated by: Jim Weiss
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more

Unearthing Joy (A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning)

A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Teaching and Learning

By: Gholdy Muhammad
Narrated by: Melaine Morgan
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit-joy-to her groundbreaking instructional model. She defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows how teaching from cultural and historical realities can enhance our... Read more

Raising Free People

Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work

By: Akilah S. Richards
Narrated by: Akilah S. Richards
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems designed for any human to... Read more

The Art of Coaching Teams

Building Resilient Communities that Transform Schools

By: Elena Aguilar
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

The missing how-to manual for being an effective team leader



The Art of Coaching Teams is the manual you never received when you signed on to lead a team. Being a great teacher is one thing, but leading a team, or team development, is an entirely different dynamic. Your successes are public, but so are your failures—and there's no specific rubric... Read more

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

By: Christopher Emdin
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

A New York Times Best Seller

"Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America

An award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional... Read more

Dream Town

Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

By: Laura Meckler
Narrated by: Debi Tinsley & Laura Meckler
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America?

In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what’s being done to move forward—in... Read more

Humans Who Teach

A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools

By: Shamari Reid
Narrated by: Shamari Reid
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Love. Love now. Love always. Time and lives are wasting.
All of the humans in schools—kids and adults—deserve joy. Yet, our experiences in schools, and the experiences of our students, are often far from joyful. 
Humans Who Teach invites readers to explore the complicated humanity of those who teach, with a focus on how we have been socialized to... Read more

Why Don't Students Like School?

A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom, 2nd Edition

By: Daniel T. Willingham
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Why Don't Students Like School? Second Edition features 25% updated material while still honoring the classic, beloved approaches of the original. The book draws its themes from the most frequently asked questions in his "Ask the Cognitive Scientist" column in the American Educator, such as—How can I teach students the skills they need when... Read more

How Not to Fit In

An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

By: Jess Joy & Charlotte Mia
Narrated by: Emily Essery
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.’ – Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia Written by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women... Read more

Small Teaching

Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

By: James M. Lang
Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving... Read more

Pimsleur Italian Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Italian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Italian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Italian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Pimsleur Ukrainian Level 1 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Ukrainian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Ukrainian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it... Read more

Learn Italian: Can Do Italian

The comprehensive and practical language study method

Can Do Italian

By: ItalianPod101.com & Innovative Language Learning
Narrated by: ItalianPod101.com
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Why do most beginners struggle to speak real authentic Italian?
The answer is simple.
While most language programs focus on “reading” or “listening” to the language, most of us learn best by “doing.” Consequently, when it comes time to speak, those who use those programs tend to struggle.
Can Do Italian is different.
You learn to speak Italian by... Read more

Mothership

A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis

By: Greg Wrenn
Narrated by: Greg Wrenn
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, "The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological." What he's never told them is how he's lived out those correspondences to heal from childhood abuse at the hands of his mother.



Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, Mothership is not just a queer coming-of-age... Read more

Super Courses

The Future of Teaching and Learning

By: Ken Bain
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Decades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it's not through technology or even the best of lectures. In Super Courses, education expert and bestselling author Ken Bain tells the fascinating story of enterprising college, graduate school, and high school teachers who are using... Read more

Learn Chinese: Can Do Chinese

The comprehensive and practical language study method

Can Do Chinese

By: Innovative Language Learning, LLC & ChineseClass101.com
Narrated by: ChineseClass101.com
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Why do most beginners struggle to speak real authentic Chinese?
The answer is simple.
While most language programs focus on “reading” or “listening” to the language, most of us learn best by “doing.” Consequently, when it comes time to speak, those who use those programs tend to struggle.
Can Do Chinese is different.
You learn to speak Chinese by... Read more

RBT Exam Study Guide

Excel in the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) Exam | 200+ In-Depth Q&As | Must-Know Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Principles | Your Ultimate Guide to Certification Success!

By: Tommy Halington
Narrated by: Rob Williamson
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Are you looking to fast-track your career, increase your earnings, and secure swift promotions with the esteemed Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) certification?
Seeking a holistic study guide that includes all the necessary materials to ace the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) exam?
Look no further. Continue reading!
This book is your... Read more

The Proven People Management Success System Every Struggling First Time Manager Needs

By: Tajan Braithwaite Renderos
Narrated by: Tajan Braithwaite Renderos
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Discover the tools you need to uplevel as a first time manager so you can avoid crippling self-doubt and overwhelmI know you’re a Manager who dreams of becoming a more confident leader. Currently, you’re asking yourself how can I control self-doubt and be more confident? How can I be less stressed while leading? How can I have a tough... Read more

A Crash Course on Chinese in 35 Days

Everyday Chinese Challenge for Beginners

By: Letitia Wu
Narrated by: Letitia Wu
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Have you ever pondered studying Chinese but aren't sure where to begin? Have you started learning but only got as far as ni hao (hello) before giving up because you couldn't figure out how to put the words together? Then, you've come to the right place!

This audiobook is an adaptation of one of Letitia Wu's online video courses. Each day, you may... Read more

The Good Neighbor

The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

By: Maxwell King
Narrated by: LeVar Burton
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

“For many, Mister Rogers was a childhood friend of sorts. With him multiple generations learned about feelings, how things work and about different people. In this book you get to learn about why those lessons mattered so much and how they were developed. Moreover, you get to start the book with the old familiar intro song and then switch to... Read more

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

50th Anniversary Edition

By: Paulo Freire
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and... Read more

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

And Other Conversations About Race

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to... Read more

We Want to Do More Than Survive

Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love
Narrated by: Misty Monroe
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.

Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love... Read more

The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 1

Berenstain Bears/Living Lights: A Faith Story

By: Mike Berenstain
Narrated by: Kate Russell & Angela Park
Length: 33 minutes

Young readers will enjoy The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 1, a four-book treasury of Berenstain Bears Living Lights™ audiobooks. Children will learn biblical values through these classic seasonal stories about the familiar and well-loved Bear family.The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 1—part of the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights... Read more

The Berenstain Bears Values and Virtues Treasury

8 Books in 1

Berenstain Bears/Living Lights: A Faith Story

By: Mike Berenstain
Narrated by: Jill Blackwood, Angela Park & Julia Barnett Tracy
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Calling all Berenstain Bears fans! Young readers will enjoy this collection of 8 stories in this addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books. Children will learn about kindness, patience, love, respect, and much more alongside Brother, Sister and Honey Bear.Join the Berenstain Bear cubs as they explore the values of... Read more

Permission to Feel

Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

By: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

This program is read by the author.

The mental wellbeing of our children is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do.

"We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."

Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale... Read more

Every Kid a Writer

Strategies That Get Everyone Writing

By: Kelly Boswell
Narrated by: Kelly Boswell
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Sometimes the hardest part about teaching writing is getting students to write at all. Kelly Boswell reminds us that every  writer is reluctant to write at some point. It’s the conditions––not the kids––that determine success. In Every Kid A Writer, Kelly provides six field-tested strategies to get everyone in the classroom writing with energy... Read more

The Story of the World, Vol. 2 Audiobook

By: Susan Wise Bauer
Narrated by: Jim Weiss
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more

Risk. Fail. Rise. - Abridged

A Teacher's Guide to Learning from Mistakes

By: M. Colleen Cruz
Narrated by: M. Colleen Cruz
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Mistakes are not the problem. The problem is the shame we attach to mistakes and inability to grow from them.



You have likely heard the adage, ‘Everyone makes mistakes.’ But what you might not have heard is that there are some predictable reasons why we make these mistakes. Knowing why we make mistakes can help us make fewer mistakes and ensure... Read more

Pushout

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

By: Monique W. Morris
Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.



Just... Read more

Visual Thinking

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman

“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds... Read more

Brave New Words

How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan
Narrated by: Salman Khan
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

“A timely masterclass for anyone interested in the future of learning in the AI era.”
—Bill Gates

“This book is required reading for everyone who cares about education.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

“Read this book. It’s the most fascinating and important... Read more

Corrie ten Boom

Keeper of the Angels’ Den

Christian Heroes: Then & Now

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Suddenly, Corrie's ordered life was lost in the insanity of war. With bravery and compassion, her family and countless other Dutch citizens risked everything to extend God's hand to those innocents marked for certain execution in a world gone mad.

Corrie ten Boom's life of determination, faith, and forgiveness in the face of unimaginable... Read more

Start Here, Start Now - Abridged

A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community

By: Liz Kleinrock
Narrated by: Liz Kleinrock
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Most educators want to cultivate an antibias and antiracist classroom and school community, but they often struggle with where and how to get started. Liz helps us set ourselves up for success and prepare for the mistakes we’ll make along the way. 
Each chapter in Start Here, Start Now addresses many of the questions and challenges educators have... Read more

The Knowledge Gap

The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

By: Natalie Wexler
Narrated by: Natalie Wexler
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike.” —STARRED Library Journal

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis

It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it... Read more

Between the Commas - Abridged

Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers)

By: Martin Brandt
Narrated by: Martin Brandt
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

For too long, sentence instruction has been heavy on correctness and terminology (as in “mind your grammar”) and light on play and experimentation. Or it has been abandoned altogether. In this lively book, Marty Brandt sets out to change all that.
It is partly the story of a teacher hitting a plateau in mid-career, deeply frustrated by the... Read more

She Comes First - Abridged

The Grammer of Oral Sex

Kerner

By: Ian Kerner
Narrated by: Ian Kerner
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

""She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there."" —AskMen.comThe essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring womenAs women everywhere will attest, men are ""ill-cliterate."" But in the pages of She Comes First, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved, and the tongue... Read more

The Joy of Reading - Abridged

By: Donalyn Miller & Teri Lesesne
Narrated by: Donalyn Miller
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

What reading experiences have entertained you, provoked you, taught you, inspired you, helped you to see your own life more clearly, or connected you with others?  As teachers, librarians, school administrators, and caregivers who love reading, we know what it feels like to fall into a book and let the world fall away. We have joyous reading... Read more

Textured Teaching - Abridged

A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

By: Lorena Escoto Germán
Narrated by: Lorena Escoto Germán
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

“Be prepared to be embraced with words, images, stories, examples, experiences, and a love for teaching in community with young people toward social and cultural justice.”—Django Paris
As middle and high school teachers, we know that students begin to develop racial identities and ideologies as early as preschool.  By the time they reach us,... Read more

Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

By: Debby Irving
Narrated by: Debby Irving
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Debby Irving is an emerging voice in the national racial justice community. Combining her organization development skills, classroom teaching experience, and understanding of systemic racism, Irving educates and consults with individuals and organizations seeking to create racial equity at both the personal and institutional level.
Irving grew up... Read more

To Name the Bigger Lie

A Memoir in Two Stories

By: Sarah Viren
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

“What really goes through the mind of those who believe in conspiracy theories despite compelling evidence to the contrary? Where is the line between espousing a conspiracy theory and challenging conventional thinking? Sarah Viren explores these questions as she revisits the views of a particularly impactful high school philosophy teacher. In... Read more

Free to Learn

Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

By: Peter Gray
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn.

"All kids love learning. Most don't love school. That's a disconnect we've avoided discussing—until this lightning bolt of a book. If you've ever wondered why your curious kid is turning into a sullen... Read more

The Opposite of Spoiled

Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

By: Ron Lieber
Narrated by: Ron Lieber
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

New York Times Bestseller“We all want to raise children with good values—children who are the opposite of spoiled—yet we often neglect to talk to our children about money. . . . From handling the tooth fairy, to tips on allowance, chores, charity, checking accounts, and part-time jobs, this engaging and important book is a must-read for... Read more