Education bestsellers

Raising Antiracist Children

A Practical Parenting Guide

By: Britt Hawthorne
Narrated by: Stephanie Keiko Kong
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educator and advocate, Britt Hawthorne.

Raising antiracist children is a noble goal for any parent, caregiver, or educator, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne—a nationally recognized teacher and advocate—be your guide. Raising... Read more

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 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

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

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

That Librarian

The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones
Narrated by: Amanda Jones
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

“This book is the incredible - and highly stress inducing, don't read before bedtime - the memoir of a Louisiana middle-school librarian who finds herself at the front line of the culture wars. Powerful!! Read more

Ulysses by James Joyce

By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Sam Blair , Pietro Kelley, Teo Harding, Sefa Chandler, Clarissa Meyer Samuel Welch, Arina Sharp, Joshua Riley
Length: 31 hours 28 minutes

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature.
Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main... Read more

A Pedagogy of Kindness

Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed: Book #1

By: Catherine J. Denial
Narrated by: Emma Faye
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors—and its mission—in critical ways.



Part manifesto, part teaching memoir, part how-to guide, A Pedagogy of Kindness urges higher education to get... Read more

Make It Stick

The Science of Successful Learning

By: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III & Mark A. McDaniel
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Many common study habits and practice routines... Read more

Arise

The Art of Transformational Coaching

By: Elena Aguilar
Narrated by: Elena Aguilar
Length: 19 hours 19 minutes

In Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching, renowned author and coach Elena Aguilar delivers a compelling and inspirational message about how to coach in the face of daunting challenges. In the book, you'll learn how to listen expansively in a coaching conversation, how to plan conversations effectively, how to coach across lines of racial... Read more

The Privateers

How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers

By: Josh Cowen
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives



This thought-provoking work traces the origins of voucher-based education reform to mid-twentieth-century fears over school desegregation. It shows how, in the intervening... 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

Miseducated

A Memoir

By: Brandon P. Fleming
Narrated by: Brandon P. Fleming & Landon Woodson
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven.

Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in... 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

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Mandarin Chinese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Mandarin Chinese — 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... Read more

Learn Spanish While Sleeping

By: Innovative Language Learning & SpanishPod101.com
Narrated by: SpanishPod101.com
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Can you learn while sleeping? Studies* say that… yes you can. 
Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary.
Learn Easily with the Power of Pleasant Repetition
With the Learn Spanish While Sleeping Audiobook, you’ll absorb over 430 Spanish words and phrases effortlessly. 
You can use this Beginner-Level Audiobook... Read more

Congratulations, by the way

Some Thoughts on Kindness

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 12 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.

Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting... Read more

Pimsleur Ukrainian Level 1 Lessons 1-5

Learn to Speak and Understand Ukrainian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #1

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 36 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

Indigenous Storywork

Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

By: Jo-Ann Archibald
Narrated by: Jo-Ann Archibald, Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen & Margo Kane
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Indigenous oral narratives are an important source for, and component of, Coast Salish knowledge systems. Stories are not only to be recounted and passed down; they are also intended as tools for teaching. Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in... Read more

Pimsleur Norwegian Level 2 Lessons 6-10

Learn to Speak and Understand Norwegian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #2

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Norwegian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Norwegian — 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 Norwegian Level 2 Lessons 11-15

Learn to Speak and Understand Norwegian with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur Digital: Book #2

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Norwegian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Norwegian — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

A Brief History of Intelligence

Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Bennett
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can... 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

How We Learn

Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

By: Stanislas Dehaene
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”--The New York Times Book Review

An illuminating dive into the latest science on... Read more

Gladys Aylward

The Adventure of a Lifetime

Christian Heroes: Then & Now

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

This is the powerful story of Gladys Aylward. Without formal education or a missionary organization to back her, Gladys raised her own finances for the overland trip that would bring her to the country and people that God had etched so deeply on her heart.... China!

What follows is an amazing adventure of faith and determination. Gladys Aylward,... Read more

Parkland

Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen
Narrated by: Dave Cullen & Robert Fass
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller""A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. It succeeds as an in-depth report about the “generational campaign” in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy, a bi-partisan movement advocating serious gun reform.” — Atlanta... 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

Strive-for-Five Conversations

A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate Their Language Comprehension and Literacy

The Science of Reading in Practice

By: Tricia A. Zucker & Sonia Q. Cabell
Narrated by: Kim Handysides
Length: 5 hours

Teachers know that encouraging young children to talk and listen improves their ability to communicate. Strive-for-Five Conversations: A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate Their Language Comprehension and Literacy gives them a power tool aligned with the science of reading: the “Strive-for-Five” framework. These responsive... Read more

Poor

By: Katriona O'Sullivan
Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.'

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and... Read more

Belonging

The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub



Book of the Year Selection Behavioral Scientist and Greater Good Society



"This is perhaps the richest book on belonging you'll ever [listen to] . . . The inspiration one draws from every page of this book is an enhanced sense of what is possible. It revives the very thing we need most in these times: hope."... 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

Fugitive Pedagogy

Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

By: Jarvis R. Givens
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today.

Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even... Read more

The Berenstain Bears I Can Read Collection #3

5 Audio Books in 1

By: Zondervan
Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
Length: 26 minutes

Early readers can now experience the classic The Berenstain Bears I Can Read titles in audio download format! These five adventures of the Bear Scouts in I Can Read Level One format are perfect for learning classic life lessons in early reader audio format.The Berenstain Bears I Can Read Audio Collection #3: Includes five complete Berenstain... Read more

Lower Ed

The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so... Read more

Teaching White Supremacy

America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

By: Donald Yacovone
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.
 
“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,... Read more

The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2

Berenstain Bears/Living Lights: A Faith Story

By: Jan Berenstain & Mike Berenstain
Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
Length: 30 minutes

Young readers will enjoy The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2, 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 2—part of the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights... Read more