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By: David Bradford, Ph.D. & Carole Robin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: David Bradford, Ph.D. & Carole Robin, Ph.D.

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformative guide to building more fulfilling relationships with colleagues, friends, partners, and family, based on the landmark Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy-Feely”) course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business

“Carole Robin and David Bradford are masters at helping people bring IQ and EQ together tosatisfy both and be... Read more

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

By: Helena Kelly

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.

In this fascinating, revelatory work, Helena... Read more

The Anxiety Audit

By: Lynn Lyons, LICSW

Narrated by: Lynn Lyons

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask people to describe anxiety and they'll start with the familiar symptoms: racing heart, sweaty palms, difficulty breathing. Anxiety, they might add, is "freaking out," a panic attack, or a frightening loss of control. But anxiety isn't always what we think it is, especially now. Anxiety has become the new normal, constant and simmering,... Read more

Write for Life

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A 6-Week Artist’s Way Program

Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist’s Way, first broke open the conversation around art.

Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjects closest to her heart: the art and practice of writing.

Over the course of six weeks, Cameron carefully guides... Read more

The Violinist's Thumb

By: Sam Kean

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.

In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist's Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.

There are... Read more

American Idolatry

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

Narrated by: Andrew L. Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.



Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of... Read more

A Furious Sky

By: Eric Jay Dolin

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of... Read more

The Uses of Enchantment

By: Bruno Bettelheim

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.



Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little... Read more

Of Water and Spirit - Abridged

By: Malidoma Patrice Somé

Narrated by: Malidoma Patrice Somé

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Born in West Africa in the early 1950s Somé was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he returned to his Dugara people in Upper... Read more

Any Person is the Only Self

By: Elisa Gabbert

Narrated by: Elisa Gabbert

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love?
In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and... Read more

Resistance

By: Halik Kochanski

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 46 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.



It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe... Read more

Beyond Fear

By: Mary Nelson & Don Miguel Ruiz

Narrated by: Blair Hardman

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive guide to the foundations of Toltec wisdom, Beyond Fear is essential reading for fans of Don Miguel Ruiz’s New York Times bestselling book, The Four Agreements, which has sold over 8 million copies and has been translated into 46 languages worldwide. Providing instruction in the basic elements of the Toltec spiritual practice,... Read more

Memorial Drive

By: Natasha Trethewey

Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter... Read more

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

There Are No Children Here

By: Alex Kotlowitz

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This national bestseller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang... Read more

The Black Period

By: Hafizah Augustus Geter

Narrated by: Hafizah Augustus Geter

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist in this groundbreaking memoir, combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals.

“Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the... Read more

Force and Freedom

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative efforts as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Supreme... Read more

The New Silk Roads

By: Peter Frankopan

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.  

"All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan in this revelatory new book.

In... Read more

The Rise of Rome

By: Anthony Everitt

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth
and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world's
preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory
into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time. He
chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the... Read more

The Shortest History of Japan

By: Lesley Downer

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.



Even at the nearest point, Japan—an archipelago strung like a necklace around... Read more

Lesbian Love Story

By: Amelia Possanza

Narrated by: Amelia Possanza

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to loveWhen Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer... Read more

Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Rich Roll

Narrated by: Rich Roll

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“Finding Ultra blends Rich Roll’s story of superhuman personal transformation with an amazingly practical guide to plant-based living. It’s also an enlightened manifesto for anyone wanting to transform their life.”—Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling author of the Blue Zones books
 
“An incredible story of... Read more

Build the Life You Want

By: Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey

Narrated by: Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people... Read more

Net Positive

By: Andrew Winston & Paul Polman

Narrated by: Andrew Winston, Paul Polman & Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Runaway climate change and gross inequality are ravaging the world. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business.



These and other massive challenges threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together.



At this critical time in history, the imperative to... Read more