Nonfiction audiobooks

Democracy Lives in Darkness

By: Emily Van Duyn

Narrated by: Sarah Welborn

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Democracy Lives in Darkness, Emily Van Duyn discovers and follows a secret political organization of progressive women in a conservative community in rural Texas. Its members met in secret to protect themselves from retaliation by their conservative neighbors, friends, and family. They discussed immigrant rights, women's reproductive rights,... Read more

It's Better to Bite Your Tongue Than Eat Your Words

By: Dr. Mike Bechtle

Narrated by: Mike Bechtle

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever come away from a conversation wishing you'd said something differently, something else, or just something? We've all had conversations that took an unproductive turn or avoided conversations that really needed to happen. If you want to become a better communicator, Dr. Mike Bechtle has good news: the art of confident conversation is... Read more

The Unicorn’s Shadow

By: Ethan Mollick

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When you think of a successful entrepreneur, who comes to mind? Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerberg? Or maybe even Jesse Eisenberg, the man who played Zuckerberg in The Social Network? It may surprise you that most successful founders look very different from Zuckerberg or Gates. In fact, most startup origin stories are very different from the famous... Read more

Home in the World

By: Amartya Sen

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.

A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in... Read more

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

By: Matthieu Aikins

Narrated by: Nick Nikon

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders – not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership.” — Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestIn this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter... Read more

Queda una voz

By: Anna Pagés

Narrated by: Anna Pagés

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

En este libro se exploran distintas dimensiones de la voz más allá del logos filosófico que tan bien conocemos como razonamiento, argumento o idea. A través de un coro de autores de la literatura, la filosofía y el psicoanálisis, la voz se desliza entre las letras y acoge otras tonalidades: Sócrates, Aristóteles, Barbara Cassin, Jacques Lacan,... Read more

Forbidden History

By: J. Douglas Kenyon

Narrated by: Micah Hanks

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology

• Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timms

• Edited by Atlantis Rising publisher, J. Douglas Kenyon

In Forbidden History... Read more

Proposito, Sentido + Pasión

By: Harvard Business Review, Morten T. Hansen, Tere...

Narrated by: German Torres

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

En un mundo ideal, nuestra vida laboral sería completamente satisfactoria y motivadora. Pero, ¿y si estás comprometido en un empleo cuando tu corazón ya no lo está? ¿O qué ocurre si la misión de tu empresa parece no estar en sintonía con tu trabajo? Este libro muestra el poder de la pasión y cómo tú y tu equipo pueden encontrarla en el... Read more

How to Be a Man (Whatever That Means)

By: James Breakwell

Narrated by: James Breakwell

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

There's no wrong way to be a woman. There are countless wrong ways to be a man.

James Breakwell should know. He's tried just about all of them. Journalism. Pig ownership. Felony lawn gnome theft. Whatever masculinity is supposed to be, this can't be it. But can you really fail at something no one can quite define? Apparently.

Now, in a series... Read more

The Leader's Brain

By: Michael L. Platt

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and persuaders, and agile and strategic thinkers. The good news for the rest of us is that those abilities can be developed. In The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions,... Read more

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

By: John Avlon

Narrated by: John Avlon

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world’s most famous peacemakers.

As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a... Read more

The ABCs of Black History

By: Rio Cortez

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In rhyming couplets, Cortez leads readers on a journey through Black life that acknowledges pain and struggle while building confidence with examples of triumph. It’s a tricky maneuver when writing for children, but Cortez pulls it off.” – The New York Times"A uniquely crafted ABC book that portrays some of the most... Read more

Showing Superpower

By: Roseann Galvan

Narrated by: Roseann Galvan

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In an industry being threatened by technology, the real estate agent with masterful showing skills will win every time.Close more deals and earn more commissions—faster!There are lots of great books out there on marketing and lead generation, but Showing SuperPower focuses on one supremely important aspect of every transaction in the real estate... Read more

KNOW ABOUT "GIORDANO BRUNO"

By: Saurabh Singh Chauhan

Narrated by: Saurabh Singh Chauhan

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is small copy of introduction of the book: Giordano Bruno was a 16th-century Italian friar, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and occultist. He is best known for his cosmological theories, which anticipated the Copernican model of the universe and held that the stars are distant suns surrounded by their own planets. Bruno's ideas were... Read more

Bake Infinite Pie with X + Y

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Aspiring bakers will embrace this charming picture book about baking pie by using simple math, from one of the world’s most creative and celebrated mathematicians.

X + Y are dreaming of baking infinite pie. But they don’t know if infinite pie is real. With the help of quirky and uber-smart Aunt Z, and a whole lot of flour and butter, X and Y will... Read more

El mundo en moto con Charly Sinewan: Capítulo 7. ¿Y esto cómo se paga?

By: Carlos García Portal

Narrated by: Carlos García Portal & Clara Peñalver

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Un buen día, Charly Sinewan decidió abandonarlo todo para dedicarse a lo que realmente quería: dar la vuelta al mundo en moto y contarlo. Tras 25 años de aventuras por todo el planeta, no solo ha amasado una comunidad con miles de seguidores incondicionales, sino también una experiencia que lo convierte en el mejor consejero para todo aquel que... Read more

Index, A History of the

By: Dennis Duncan

Narrated by: Neil Gardner

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or... Read more

El vértigo horizontal

By: Juan Villoro

Narrated by: Bern Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Con mirada atenta y pulso firme, Juan Villoro se desdobla en periodista, transeúnte, comprador de plumas, adulto nostálgico, padre responsable, brigadista de emergencia, y nos ofrece un testimonio de las múltiples experiencias que la capital mexicana depara a todos y cada uno de sus agremiados.
 
Convencido de que quizá la Ciudad de México no sea... Read more

Born of Lakes and Plains

By: Anne F. Hyde

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.

Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create... Read more

Good Enough

By: Kate Bowler & Jessica Richie

Narrated by: Kate Bowler & Jessica Richie

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast

“Brilliant, hilarious, absurd,... Read more

Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan

By: Carl Abrahamsson

Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

• Includes never-before-published material from LaVey, including transcripts from his never-released “Hail Satan!” video

• Shares in-depth interviews with intimate friends and collaborators, including LaVey’s partner Blanche Barton, his son Xerxes LaVey, and current heads of the Church of Satan Peter Gilmore and Peggy Nadramia

• Provides inside... Read more

Heartbreak: The Lenka Trilogy Part 1

By: John Righten

Narrated by: Siobhan Waring & Greg Patmore

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

1990. Lenka Brett, a smart but unworldly young, Irish teacher, volunteers to deliver aid when the world learns of the horrifying plight of children in Romanian orphanages. An English naval officer, Captain Simon Syrianus, volunteers to be her co-driver. Together, they join a convoy of humanitarian aid drivers known as the Rogues, the last hope... Read more

The Lost Promise

By: Ellen Schrecker

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their... Read more

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

By: Julian Barnes

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic
fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is “the most rational thing in the... Read more