Nonfiction audiobooks

Hurts So Good

By: Leigh Cowart

Narrated by: Leigh Cowart

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers

Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia,... Read more

Influence and Impact

By: Bill Berman & George B. Bradt

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Optimize your career development by focusing on what your job requires and what your colleagues need

Doing the right job the right way is critical to your professional success. Influence and Impact provides an easy-to-follow, common-sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization. Accomplished leadership and executive... Read more

American Happiness and Discontents

By: George F. Will

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Examine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist.
 
George F. Will has been one of this country’s leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977.... Read more

Conduct Unbecoming

By: Randy Shilts

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 38 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.

Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct... Read more

Jungle

By: Patrick Roberts

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made. 

To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives.  

Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts... Read more

Trauma and the Unbound Body

By: Judith Blackstone, PhD

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Heal trauma. Reclaim your body. Live with wholeness. These are the gifts of utilizing the power of fundamental consciousness—a subtle field of awareness that lies within each of us. In Trauma and the Unbound Body, Dr. Judith Blackstone explores how we can resolve the mental, physical, and emotional struggles of trauma through the power of... Read more

Travels with George

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Nathaniel Philbrick

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick—a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement.” —The Boston Globe
 
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through... Read more

Lessons from Plants

By: Beronda L. Montgomery

Narrated by: York Whitaker

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L.... Read more

Race After Technology

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen... Read more

The Path out of Loneliness

By: Mark Mayfield

Narrated by: Mark Mayfield

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions. We have lost the art of connection and relationship, and it’s killing us.

Odds are good that you have a loved one or friend whose struggle with addiction, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, or self-injury stems from loneliness. Maybe it’s you. Perhaps you’re feeling depressed or anxious, struggling... Read more

Aptavani-13 (P) - Gujarati Audio Book

By: Dada Bhagwan

Narrated by: Dada Bhagwan

Length: 19 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The essence of all scriptures, all spiritual discourses and spiritual activities is one and the same and that is to get the 'awareness and the knowledge of Self'. The 'main Self' is shuddha (verily pure), but one has the wrong belief of "who am I"? This wrong belief of I am Chandu (reader should use his name) has given rise to the prakruti... Read more

Meetings That Get Results

By: Terrence Metz

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes.

There's nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting-except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people... Read more

Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, Revised and Expanded

By: Melinda Emerson

Narrated by: Melinda Emerson

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Get expert advice on marketing, selling online, accounting, and more—all tailored to the current economic climate—in this new, updated edition of the go-to resource for hopeful entrepreneurs.

America’s #1 small business expert is back with a brand-new, updated, and expanded edition of her essential handbook, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months.... Read more

I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent

By: Sharon Charde

Narrated by: Simone Gayuma

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of the acclaimed movies Stand and Deliver. After the death of her child, a grief-stricken psychotherapist, teacher, and writer volunteers as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for “delinquent” girls. Here, their mutual support nourishes and enriches each other, though not without large quantities of drama and... Read more

The Seeker Under the Influence Collection

By: Seeker

Narrated by: Trace Dominguez, Chastity Vicencio, Crystal Dil...

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn all about the chemistry of alcohol, the science of psychedelics and the truth about weed in The Seeker Under the Influence Collection!

Under the Influence: The Chemistry of Booze
Let’s be honest, we’ve all had a little too much to drink at some point, but why do some people black out and others wake up feeling fine the next day? Listen in to... Read more

Illicit

By: Moisés Naím

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.



In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them.... Read more

A Short History of Christian Zionism

By: Donald M. Lewis

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about an idea—namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine—which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popular slogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Christian... Read more

Hijas de la historia

By: Isabel Revuelta Poo

Narrated by: Ana Ragasol

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

«CON UNA MINUCIOSA INVESTIGACIÓN, ISABEL CONSPIRA PARA ENTREGAR A LOS LECTORES UNA VISIÓN DE LA HISTORIA FEMENINA QUE NO ES COMPLACIENTE Y SÍ MUY REVELADORA». ALEJANDRO ROSAS Las vendieron como esclavas; las consideraron santas y demonios; unieron mundos opuestos por medio de la palabra; escribieron sobre los astros, la noche y la cocina; se... Read more

The Seeker Climate Activist Collection

By: Seeker

Narrated by: Maren Hunsberger, Julian Huguet, Amanda Deisler...

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn all about the science behind climate change, endangered species and the tech advances powering our future in The Seeker Climate Activist Collection!
Inventions Helping Fix the Climate CrisisScientific research and data show that the Earth doesn't have much time before climate change becomes irreversible. Listen to how scientists,... Read more

To Rule the Waves

By: Bruce Jones

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography.

For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which... Read more

Mama Bear

By: Shirley Smith

Narrated by: Tovah Ott

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brave. Compelling. Provocative. ” —Gabrielle Union Wade, actress and New York Times bestselling authorIn this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive—using her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black maternal... Read more

The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management

By: Eric Verzuh

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 19 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is a comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you the answers you need now. You'll find cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field's leading experts, delivered in short, lively... Read more

Mennonite Valley Girl

By: Carla Funk

Narrated by: Carla Funk

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging toward the flames. Coming of age in a remote valley town—a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands—she knows
her destiny is to marry, have babies, and join the church ladies’ sewing circle. In her world, the body is... Read more

Water

By: Giulio Boccaletti

Narrated by: Giulio Boccaletti

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host).
 
Writing with authority and brio,... Read more