Nonfiction audiobooks

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He... Read more

Stronger After Stroke, Third Edition

By: Peter G. Levine

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in its third edition, Stronger After Stroke gives the power of recovery to the listeners by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery. The book's neuroplastic recovery model stresses repetition of task-specific practice, proper scheduling of practice, setting goals, and measuring progress to... Read more

The Garner Files

By: James Garner & Jon Winokur

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, James Garner left home at fourteen. He became Oklahoma's first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and settling in Los Angeles to become an actor. Working alongside some of the most renowned celebrities, including... Read more

The Vanishing Velázquez

By: Laura Cumming

Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016

“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.

When John... Read more

Robert Redford

By: Michael Feeney Callan

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.

Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the... Read more

Four Points of the Compass

By: Jerry Brotton

Narrated by: Liam Garrigan

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia.

North, south, east, and west: almost all societies use these four cardinal directions to orientate themselves and to understand who... Read more

Toxic Productivity

By: Israa Nasir, MHC-LP

Narrated by: Israa Nasir

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rise and grind!" "Time is money." "You can rest when you're dead!"



For decades, societal pressures have had us scrambling to do more, achieve more, overcome more, BE MORE—all with the promise that we'll feel accomplished, fulfilled, worthy . . . even happy. But it often comes at a price: our mental and physical health. Are we happier? Will it... Read more

The Great Transformation

By: Odd Arne Westad & Chen Jian

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

THE FIRST THOROUGH ACCOUNT OF A FORMATIVE AND LITTLE UNDERSTOOD CHAPTER IN CHINESE HISTORYOdd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These... Read more

The Iron Cage

By: Rashid Khalidi

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi provides a lucid context for the realities on the ground today, a context that has been, until now, notably lacking in our... Read more

Reversing Neuropathy

By: Dr. Brian Prax

Narrated by: Dr. Brian Prax

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The attached PDF includes all of the references for the book. Read more

Chants of a Lifetime

By: Krishna Das

Narrated by: Krishna Das

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Chants of a Lifetime offers an intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called "the chant master of American yoga" by the New York Times. Since 1994, the sound of his voice singing traditional Indian chants with a Western flavor has brought the spiritual experience of chanting to audiences all over... Read more

Undisputed

By: Donovan Bailey

Narrated by: Donovan Bailey

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more

Discussing Design

By: Adam Connor & Aaron Irizarry

Narrated by: Silas Brahams

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback." In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a... Read more

Birds, Beasts, and Bedlam

By: Derek Gow

Narrated by: Calum Beaton

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam recounts the adventures of farmer-turned-rewilder Derek Gow, who is saving Britain’s much-loved but dangerously threatened species, from the water vole to beaver, wildcat to white stork, and tree frog to glow worm. Derek tells us all about the realities of rewilding: how he reared delicate roe deer and a sofa-loving wild... Read more

Don't Alienate the Kids

By: Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this tenth anniversary edition of Don't Alienate the Kids! attorney, mediator, and therapist Bill Eddy shows listeners how to protect children from the harm of alienation and high-conflict divorce, boosting their resilience by teaching them to think flexibly, manage their emotions, and moderate their behaviors. We all know breakups can get... Read more

Imperial America

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Gore Vidal has been described as the last “noble defender” of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America—those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue—by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend... Read more

Reconcilable Differences, Second Edition

By: Andrew Christensen, PhD, Brian D. Doss, PhD & N...

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Every couple has disagreements, but what happens when recurring conflicts start to pull your relationship apart? Do you lie awake hoping that your spouse will eventually see things your way, or rehashing the evidence that you're right? Demand some immediate changes—or else? This popular, science-based guide offers powerful solutions for couples... Read more

The Greatest Fury

By: William C Davis

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Davis’s accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling.”—The Wall Street Journal

From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic.

It was a battle that... Read more

Teardown

By: Dave Meslin

Narrated by: Dave Meslin

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on TVO’s adaptation Unrigged

A handbook of democratic solutions in troubled times, from the activist the media call a "wizard," a "mastermind," "the ultimate ideas guy," a "mad scientist," a "start-up genius."

Our democracy is a trainwreck. Our elections feel hollow and our legislatures have become toxic. Fierce partisanship, centralized... Read more

Total Reset

By: Greg Campbell, Lulu & The Goolarabooloo Family

Narrated by: Mark Coles Smith

Length: 36 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991 the author met Lulu, a widely respected Aboriginal elder and powerful maban (shaman) in the remote Kimberley region of Australia. He asked Greg to work with him and the Goolarabooloo people to write one book. Its purpose: enable people to view reality through the lens of original knowledge and apply it for the well-being of one another... Read more

Do Your Best

By: Bear Grylls

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential handbook for the scout in all of us -- by BEAR GRYLLS OBE, Chief Ambassador of World Scouting

What more could you ask for, than a book stuffed like an overfilled rucksack with tips and tricks from one of the world's most celebrated adventurers from pitching a tent, leading a team, how to keep fit, tie knots, memorise facts, identify... Read more

The Gilded Page

By: Mary Wellesley

Narrated by: Mary Wellesley

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII.Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author’s status—part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer’s writing, for example, is because... Read more

Mediating High Conflict Disputes

By: Bill Eddy, LCSW Esq. & Michael Lomax

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

High conflict mediation requires a paradigm shift from traditional mediation—high conflict experts Bill Eddy and Michael Lomax show you how.



Over the past twelve years the authors have been developing and practicing tips for managing high conflict clients in mediation, which is now a fully developed new method called New Ways for Mediation®.... Read more

Drums in the Distance

By: Joe Mulhall

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrifying and timely look at the spread of far-right movements across the globe
Joe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk, he has investigated hate groups.
He infiltrated a US white supremacist militia, set up a fake Ku Klux Klan branch, has been on countless... Read more