Essays audiobooks
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer.... Read more
Hallowed Ground
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... 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
All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic multimillion copy bestseller
Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.
When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year,... 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
Every Living Thing
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.
Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more
James 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
James Herriot's Animal Stories
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Available for the first time on CD, ten more delightful stories from the pen of the world's most beloved veterinarian—a perfect gift book guaranteed to delight the Yorkshire vet's worldwide legions of fans.
When you enter the world of James Herriot's Animal Stories, you'll share his wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he... Read more
Who's Your Caddy?
By: Rick Reilly
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers—and some celebrity duffers—with hilarious results.
Who knows golfers best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So... Read more
Adventure Capitalist
By: Jim Rogers
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Drive . . . and grow rich!
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more
A Short History of Nearly Everything
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 18 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer.... Read more
The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)
By: Jill Conner Browne
Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the... Read more
View audiobookLost 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 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
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
View audiobookGod Save the Sweet Potato Queens
By: Jill Conner Browne
Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back!
In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestseller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (which contained everything you ever need to know about Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and the importance of... Read more
Crepúsculo de la cultura americana
By: Morris Berman
Narrated by: Jerónimo Hernández
Length: 7 hours 39 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
View audiobookThe 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 Future of Spacetime - Abridged
By: Richard H. Price
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.
Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here... 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
The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition - Abridged
By: Andrew Leckey & Ken Auletta
Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman & Oliver Wyman
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Vintage Original
The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.
Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more
Roughing It
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation;" not surprisingly for someone of Twain's temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way... Read more
View audiobookOh, the Things I Know!
By: Al Franken
Narrated by: Al Franken
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A Grammy® nominee.
The bestselling author and Emmy®-winning television star guides graduates across the uncertain seas of post-academic life. Inspired, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny. Read more