Language

Talk Like TED

By: Carmine Gallo
Narrated by: Carmine Gallo
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking... Read More »

Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Spanish Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Spanish, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Spanish. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and two native Latin American Spanish speakers to aid... Read More »

How to Write Short

By: Roy Peter Clark
Narrated by: Roy Peter Clark
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this... Read More »

Behind the Wheel Express - French 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Express French covers beginning to intermediate level French, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in French. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and native speakers to aid with your pronunciation.

This... Read More »

Behind the Wheel Express - Italian 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Express Italian covers beginning to intermediate level Italian, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Italian. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and native speakers to aid with your pronunciation.... Read More »

Drive Time Spanish: Beginner Level

By: Living Language
Narrated by: Living Language
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Learn Spanish while running errands, commuting or even while working out! This Spanish language course is easy and convenient in an all-audio format.

Drive Time Spanish is the easiest way to learn Spanish vocabulary, to learn Spanish grammar, to learn Spanish pronunciation, conversation and even Spanish culture — all without a book. The experts... Read More »

Behind the Wheel - Mandarin Chinese 1

By: Mark Frobose & Behind the Wheel
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Behind the Wheel Chinese Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Mandarin, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Mandarin Chinese. An easy-to-understand companion book is provided in phonetic Pinyin, a system of representing Chinese using the English... Read More »

The Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing

By: Mignon Fogarty
Narrated by: Mignon Fogarty
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Mignon Fogarty can't remember whether it was a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an "affect" when an "effect" was called for, but at some point she had seen one mangled sentence too many. Determined to counter the slipping standards of good writing in daily discourse, Mignon created a weekly podcast called Grammar Girl's... Read More »

Greek to Me

By: Mary Norris
Narrated by: Mary Norris
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

"Hilarious. . . . This book charmed my socks off." ?Patricia O'Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous... Read More »

In Other Words

By: Jhumpa Lahiri & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
 
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:... Read More »

Dreyer's English

By: Benjamin Dreyer
Narrated by: Benjamin Dreyer & Alison Fraser
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect back-to-school gift: A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus
 
“Essential (and delightful!)”—People, “Book of the Week”

We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all... Read More »

Say What You Mean

By: Oren Jay Sofer & Joseph Goldstein
Narrated by: Oren Jay Sofer & Mark Bramhall
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Find your voice, speak your truth, listen deeply—a guide to more meaningful and mindful conversations.

We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how much are we simply running on automatic—relying on old habits and hoping for the best? Are we able to truly hear others and speak our mind in a clear and kind way, without needing to... Read More »

Wordslut

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Amanda Montell
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them.

“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill Soloway

The... Read More »

Sweat the Technique

By: Toure & Rakim
Narrated by: Rakim
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

The musician and Hip Hop legend—hailed as “the greatest MC of all time” and compared to Thelonious Monk—reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist.

When he exploded on the music scene, musical genius Rakim was hailed for his brilliant artistic style,... Read More »

On Writing

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No

Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master... Read More »

Writing Tools

By: Roy Peter Clark
Narrated by: Roy Peter Clark
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No

“Writing is a craft you can learn,” says Roy Peter Clark. “You need tools, not rules.” In this essential guide, Clark distills decades of experience into fifty tools that writers of all kinds can use every day. You may be crafting a newspaper story or an admissions essay for college. You may be writing a technical report or drafting your first... Read More »

Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke
Narrated by: Marc Allen
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No

These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers. This luminous translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's classic offers... Read More »

Perennial Seller

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

The book that Inc. says "every entrepreneur should read" and an FT Book of the Month selection...

How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic?

How did The 48 Laws of Power miss the bestseller lists for more than a decade and still sell more than a million copies?

How... Read More »

Rapid Japanese, Vol. 1

By: Earworms Learning
Narrated by: Marlon Lodge & Tomomi Trebing
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Earworms MBT is a revolutionary accelerated technique that takes the hard work out of learning a new language. By repeatedly listening to melodies specially composed with rhythmic repetitions of Japanese and English, you will pick up essential words and phrases that will not only be on the tip of your tongue but burned deeply into your long-term... Read More »

Pimsleur Hindi Level 1 Lessons 11-15

By: Pimsleur
Narrated by: Pimsleur
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Hindi
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Hindi — 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 into... Read More »

Working

By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robert A. Caro
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in book form, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these... Read More »

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

An essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist-and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as "masterful" by Roxane Gay, "incendiary" by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection... Read More »

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

By: Jessica Brody
Narrated by: Jessica Brody
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.

Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing.... Read More »

Learn Korean - Ultimate Getting Started with Korean

By: Innovative Language Learning
Narrated by: KoreanClass101.com
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

Ultimate Getting Started with Korean



The easiest way to speak Korean in minutes!



Grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with the Ultimate Getting Started with Korean, the easiest way to learn Korean!

The Ultimate Getting Started with Korean will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm... Read More »