Nonfiction audiobooks

Hollywood Animal

By: Joe Eszterhas

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 28 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland—stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never... Read more

Cork Boat

By: John Pollack

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.

Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after... Read more

The Mind of the Soul

By: Gary Zukav & Linda Francis

Narrated by: Gary Zukav & Linda Francis

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

People make hundreds of choices every day, yet most of them feel they have little control over their lives. Here, Gary Zukav, author of the monumental bestseller The Seat of the Soul, joins his spiritual partner, Linda Francis, in a revolutionary look at the power of choice to change lives from the inside out.

The Mind of the Soul describes with... Read more

Franklin and Winston - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
 
“Intense and compelling... Read more

There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere - Abridged

By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey

Narrated by: Kara Swisher

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her acclaimed AOL.COM, Kara Swisher chronicled the unlikely ascent of a group of underdog entrepreneurs and their influence on American net culture. This book picks up where the previous one left off, investigating AOL's merger with Time Warner and its aftermath. Journalists Swisher and Dickey have an ear for the comic and an appreciation... Read more

Visits from the Afterlife - Abridged

By: Sylvia Browne

Narrated by: Jeanie Hackett

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne recounts her encounters with ghosts and explains this spiritual phenomena in the same way she explained the spirituality in dreams with SYLVIA BROWNE'S BOOK OF DREAMS. In VISITS FROM THE OTHER SIDE, she visits haunted homes, explains the meanings of visions and nightmares, considers why ghosts... Read more

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

By: Robert Fulghum

Narrated by: Robert Fulghum

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A book to raise the spirits and warm the heart. Includes the famous Kindergarten essay that was read on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Read more

The Flyers

By: Noah Adams

Narrated by: Noah Adams

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if I’d entered the black-and-white photograph I’d been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, there’s a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and... Read more

Cosmopolitan - Abridged

By: Toby Cecchini

Narrated by: Toby Cecchini

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cosmopolitan is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life of Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature—of the outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, of lust, and of the sheer desire to bust loose and party. As the typical day progresses,... Read more

History of the World (Updated)

By: J. M. Roberts

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 54 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In his monumental History of the World, J. M. Roberts delivered a powerful vision of human history as a story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment. This revised and updated edition takes into account the great range of events and discoveries that have altered our views on everything from early civilizations to post–Cold... Read more

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

By: Sarah Vowell

Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Pau...

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of... Read more

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Narrated by: Kate Fleming

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing her husband, Elinore Pruitt washed clothes in Denver to support herself and her daughter. In 1909 she took a job working for a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. Subsequently she filed her own claim and married the rancher. The letters she wrote to her former employer over several years are packed with delightful stories and... Read more

The Bible Cure for Headaches

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Greg Wheatley

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen your way to better health! Are you a headache sufferer? God's plan for your life has no place for the distractions of headaches! In this concise easy to understand audio version of the Bible Cure booklet you'll discover valuable, usable information that can help you get rid of headache pain! Learn biblical secrets health and the latest... Read more

Hegemony or Survival

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Brian Jones

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The world's foremost intellectual activist narrates his irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow

The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood—the heavens—as a militarized sphere of influence. Our... Read more

Jefferson's Demons

By: Michael Beran

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Though he was a great statesman, one of America's founding fathers, and the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson suffered from depression. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran examines episodes of melancholia in Jefferson's life. In particular, he focuses on the journey Jefferson made to Europe in 1787 to escape the... Read more

Secret Empire

By: Philip Taubman

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the country's first spy satellite-revolutionized espionage and intelligence gathering." ... Read more

Measuring America

By: Andro Linklater

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"This expertly written and eminently enjoyable chronicle is highly recommended for history and history of science collections." —Library Journal



"Make room on the library shelf for the never-before-told saga of the survey that converted the vast wilderness west of the Ohio River into a commodity marked out for government sale." —Booklist,... Read more

Blood, Money & Power

By: Barr McClellan

Narrated by: Barr McClellan

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings.



Now, after nearly forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President. Using court... Read more

The Bible Cure for ADD and Hyperactivity

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Greg Wheatley

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

If your child has been diagnosed as having ADHD, you do not have to resort to heavy drug treatments that affect the unique, God-given personality of your precious child. Read more

Out on a Leash

By: Shirley MacLaine

Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author, beloved actress, and “one-of-a-kind wit” (Vanity Fair) Shirley MacLaine comes a brilliant, fun-loving, and inspiring story of unconditional love.

Shirley MacLaine found perfect love—in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that was Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of... Read more

The Brass Wall - Abridged

By: David Kocieniewski

Narrated by: Greg Salata

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of Serpico and Prince of the City, a brilliantly reported true story of power and betrayal in the NYPD set against the worlds of the Mafia and big-city politics

In 1993, Vincent Armanti, Undercover Detective #4126 agreed to infiltrate a branch of the Luchese family responsible for the homicide of a beloved fireman. Already a... Read more

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Abridged

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Ralph Blum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Joseph Cambell transformed forever the way we view mythology, as he wove traditional wisdom together with the modern struggle for identity and spiritual depth. This adaptation of his all-time bestseller gives new life to his brilliant poetic vision. The Adventure of the Hero, part one, describes the universal image of the hero and shows that... Read more

Death's Acre - Abridged

By: Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson

Narrated by: George Grizzard

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the "Body Farm," nature takes its course, with corpses buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, concealed beneath slabs of concrete, locked in... Read more

The Discoverers - Abridged

By: Daniel Boorstin

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this wide-ranging, panoramic examination, former Librarian of Congress and esteemed historian Daniel J. Boorstin traces man's insatiable need to know. Boorstin also considers the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way—covering time, the earth, the seas, nature, and society. In this engaging, witty, and... Read more