Family & Relationships audiobooks

Motherless Mothers - Abridged

By: Hope Edelman

Narrated by: Hope Edelman

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Hope Edelman published Motherless Daughters about the long-term effects of early mother loss, the book touched a nerve in women across the country, and went on to become an enduring New York Times bestseller. Edelman, who was seventeen when her own mother died, told the collective story of mother loss with such candor, empathy, and informed... Read more

Holidays on Ice - Abridged

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris, Ann Magnuson & Amy Sedaris

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the... Read more

When Peace Finds Its Own Keepers

By: Sharon Mehdi

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For ten years Sharon Mehdi struggled to write a book that she hoped would bring the world a step closer to peace. Then one day, after a months of writer's block, as she sat in a small café in Medford, Oregon, a different book began to write itself. It, too, was a book of peace, one she thought would be a simple fable for her newborn granddaughter. Read more

A Gentler Way to Communicate

By: Marshall Rosenberg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, diagnose and to think and communicate in terms of “right” and “wrong” – all of which can generate needless conflict. Rosenberg has developed a form of communication that provides a peaceful alternative to the violence that underlies most of our communication. Read more

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenally successful book--more than 1,600,000 copies were sold--and as copies were passed between friends and loved ones, it touched millions more lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, received thousands of letters from readers, many of whom expressed the desire to convey those same principles to their... Read more

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents - Abridged

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenally successful book--more than 1,600,000 copies were sold--and as copies were passed between friends and loved ones, it touched millions more lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, received thousands of letters from readers, many of whom expressed the desire to convey those same principles to their... Read more

If Mama Goes South, We're All Going with Her - Abridged

By: Lindsey O'Connor

Narrated by: Lindsey O'Connor

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With all that women have to do and the many "hats" they wear, it's easy for them to feel like they are "going south" physically, emotionally, or spiritually. And yet, others are depending on them and being influenced by them. So for those women who are running on empty, feeling lonely or weary, Lindsey O'Connor offers an invigorating dose of... Read more

Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads

By: Rosalind Wiseman & Elizabeth Rapoport

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?

Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and... Read more

Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads - Abridged

By: Rosalind Wiseman & Elizabeth Rapoport

Narrated by: Rosalind Wiseman

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?

Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and... Read more

Romantic Relationships

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Marianne Williamson audio programs is a compliation of her popular lectures on Relationships. Includes the lectures entitled:

Romantic Tyranny/More on Relationships
Romance: Releasing Our Stuff/When Form Changes
Undoing Terrorism/Rebirth-Transformation
The Living Temple

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Birthing Death

By: Jerrigrace Lyons & Leslene della Madre

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a profound shift taking place in the way we handle death. Because of the work of people like Lyons and della Madre, we find encouragement to return to the ancient practices of caring for the dying at home and caring for the body of a deceased loved one, rather than relinquishing it to the care of a funeral home. Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Janet Suzman

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Audio presents Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel. Anne Elliot had never forgotten the personable Captain Wentworth, who reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement.

He makes no secret of his angry indignation. Newly wealthy from success at sea, a marriage with Frederick Wentworth... Read more

Wild Orchids - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: John Dossett & Lauren Mufson

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since his wife's death, world-famous author Ford Newcombe has lived a solitary life, void of creativity -- or love. Then Jackie Maxwell tears down the walls of his isolated world with her sassy wit and fierce intelligence. Ford's heart is touched by his vivacious assistant -- and his imagination sparked by her knowledge of a strange story that... Read more

A Piece of Cake

By: Cupcake Brown

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake

“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times

There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction,... Read more

A Piece of Cake - Abridged

By: Cupcake Brown

Narrated by: Cupcake Brown

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and... Read more

Seeing Miracles

By: Susan Apollon

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Apollon sees miracles everywhere, every day, and she teaches others to do the same thing. Here she shares her own extraordinary experiences, and stories she’s gathered in her years of studying miracles in the lives of others. She talks about coincidences, the protection of guardian angels, communication from loved ones who have died, and... Read more

Boundaries with Teens

By: John Townsend

Narrated by: Jay Charles

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Establish wise and loving limits that make a positive difference in your teen, in the rest of your family, and in you.The teen years: relationships, peer pressure, school, dating, character. To help teenagers grow into healthy adults, parents and youth workers need to teach them how to take responsibility for their behavior, their values, and... Read more

The Family Comes of Age - Abridged

By: Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee

Narrated by: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and the black community. Now they look back on a half- century of their personal and political struggles to... Read more

You're Wearing That?

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that... Read more

You're Wearing That? - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Times bestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.
It was Tannen who first showed us that... Read more

The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel - Abridged

By: Emily Kaufman

Narrated by: Emily Kaufman

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A vacation has the special power to bring a family closer together— breaking away from familiar routines, allowing time to enjoy each others’ company, and experiencing the world together. All it takes is the right mindset and some planning. The Travel Mom shows you how.

In one invaluable guide, you’ll get a host of ideas for some of the most... Read more

Living and Dying with Peace and Joy

By: Tulku Thondup

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

While our western culture tends to pay as little attention to death as possible, in the Buddhist tradition it is embraced and demystified. Tulku Thondup offers wisdom in this dialogue. The peace that comes through his gentle words leads us to a greater understanding of our own death, and helps us ease the way for those who walk the path before us. Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more

Sex and the Seasoned Woman - Abridged

By: Gail Sheehy

Narrated by: Gail Sheehy

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more