Nonfiction audiobooks

Brian Johnston Down Your Way: Favourite People And Places Vol. 1

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston & Guests

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on radio and spanned six decades. Every week the presenter would visit towns and villages throughout the UK, discovering fascinating people and places. Brian Johnston presented the series for fifteen years and 733 programmes. For this recording, his son Barry has selected the most eccentric,... Read more

The Art of Choosing

By: Sheena Iyengar

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?

Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control... Read more

The 4 Day Detox

By: Ian K. Smith, M.D.

Narrated by: Ian K. Smith, M.D.

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Ian Smith's diets really work. America has lost millions of pounds following his bestselling programs: The Fat Smash Diet, Extreme Fat Smash and, his newest, The 4 Day Diet—an eating plan that allows readers to avoid the normal (and fatal) pitfalls of dieting. Now you can try THE 4 DAY DETOX: the first of seven four-day modules straight from... Read more

Making the Shift

By: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Narrated by: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Shift" is a call to become more conscious, to move from aimless Ambition . . . to Meaning and purpose. Making this Shift is a necessity in order to live a peaceful, fulfilling life aligned with your Divine calling.In this deeply engaging live seminar, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explains that instead of heeding the demands of the ego, which keep you... Read more

The Digital Handshake

By: Paul Chaney

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Traditional marketing tactics aren't bringing in customers like they used to, and even today's most successful businesses are suffering shrinking returns on their advertising and marketing investment. The Digital Handshake explains this phenomenon and reveals seven effective, proven strategies for using new media and online tools to find new... Read more

Vivas en su jardín

By: Dede Mirabal

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes & Dede Mirabal

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

El testimonio valiente y vibrante de la unica sobreviviente de las Hermanas Mirabal, asesinadas cruelmente por el tirano Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Dede Mirabal nos cuenta la verdadera historia de Patria, Minerva y Maria Teresa y de la ferrea lucha de sus hermanas por vivir en libertad y de sus esfuerzos junto a un pueblo oprimido por una... Read more

Winston Churchill CEO

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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La Super Dieta Latina

By: Manny Alvarez

Narrated by: Tony Plana

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

El objetivo de este libro es informar y motivar. Usted encontrara mucha informacion que seguramente lo inspirara a alcanzar sus metas. En este libro encontrara las herramientas con las cuales alcanzara su sueno de tener buena salud y un peso equilibrado. Y lo mas importante, La Super Dieta Latina es la base para una vida larga, feliz y... Read more

Social Media 101

By: Chris Brogan

Narrated by: Chris Brogan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Trust Agents…100 ways to tap into social media for a more profitable business Your competitors are using social media platforms like blogs, Twitter, and Facebook to reach their customers in order to grow their businesses and profits—are you? With Social Media 101, you can quickly bring your business up to speed on... Read more

Helmet for My Pillow

By: Robert Leckie

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow, we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging... Read more

How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street

By: Allan S. Roth

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Investing is simple, but never easy. We carry a lot of investment baggage, including hot tips from friends and the financial media, as well as complicated financial recommendations from Wall Street "experts." Yet the biggest obstacle we face is the tendency to outsmart ourselves. In order to overcome this obstacle, you need to follow... Read more

The Tender Beauty Of Aging

By: Alice Matzkin & Richard Matzkin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice and Richard Matzkin are artists whose work truly is an expression of their lives. Most recently they’ve been applying their gifts to express the beauty—yes, the beauty—of aging, and they do it with the tenderness they’ve learned in their twenty-seven years of loving each other. Read more

Getting Naked

By: Patrick Lencioni

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After focusing on topics ranging from teamwork and leadership to employee engagement and meetings  New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni has finally turned his attention toward his own craft—consulting and client service. Tapping into the simple but powerful model that his firm, The Table Group, has been built on, Lencioni presents... Read more

Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror

By: Patrick Morley

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Patrick Morley's compelling follow-up to The Man in the Mirror, a man is taken beyond the day-to-day problems he faces and is confronted with seven major seasons of life that can make him or break him. Includes a leader's guide for small groups.In his phenomenally successful The Man in the Mirror, award-winning author Patrick Morley took men... Read more

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up

By: Annabelle Gurwitch & Jeff Kahn

Narrated by: Annabelle Gurwitch, Jeff Kahn & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love-and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir. After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found "We're just not that into us." Instead of giving... Read more

A Certain Risk

By: Paul Andrew Richardson

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Busy? Yes. Fruitful? No. Many of us lead frenzied lives—but feel we are going nowhere. Every day you may be asking yourself, “How can I become a voice of hope when the problems are so great? How can I envision my circumstances through God’s eyes and respond to others with the passions of his heart when the dry details of the day take over? How... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War

By: Phillip Jennings

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Think the United States lost the Vietnam War? Think again.No war in American history is so shrouded in obfuscation and myth as the Vietnam War. "Vietnam" has entered into our national memory as a byword for disaster, usually accompanied by the word "quagmire," and the specter of the war has haunted our foreign policy discussions ever since.... Read more

The Tudors

By: G. J. Meyer

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 24 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time in decades comes a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country.

“A thoroughly readable and often compelling narrative . . . Five centuries have not diminished the appetite for all things Tudor.”—Associated Press

In 1485, young Henry... Read more

My Footprint

By: Jeff Garlin

Narrated by: Jeff Garlin

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Garlin shares his hysterical and eye-opening journey to reduce his waistline and his carbon footprint during the production of the seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical... Read more

The Essential Engineer

By: Henry Petroski

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles... Read more

The Whale

By: Philip Hoare

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The whale is the largest, loudest, oldest animal ever to have existed. It is improbable, amazing, and—as anyone who has seen an underwater documentary or visited the display at the American Museum of Natural History can attest—a powerful source of wonder and delight to millions. The Whale is an extraordinary journey into the world of this... Read more

Mission Profit

By: Thomas Burzler, Jörg Stuttmann & Gabi Franke

Narrated by: Gabi Franke & Jörg Stuttmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Preisverhandlungen gewinnen mit Tom Profit Der Agententhriller aus der Welt der Verkäufer nun auch als Hörbuch! Tom Profit ist Chef-Agent der "Mission Profit". Schritt für Schritt bringt er dem unerfahrenen Verkäufer Simon Tricks und Strategien der Preisverhandlung bei. Handfeste Infos: Unerquickliche Preisdiskussionen und wirtschaftlich... Read more

flight plan

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Gordon Piedesack & Gabi Franke

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Flugplan zum Erfolg Das Leben als Langstreckenflug: Erst muss man bestimmen, wo die Reise hingehen soll, und dann genau in Richtung des Zieles fliegen. Bestsellerautor Brian Tracy erklärt die wahren Geheimnisse von Erfolg in Beruf und Privatleben und nutzt dafür die Metapher des Fluges. Da man 99 Prozent der Reise vom Kurs abkommt, müssen... Read more

Math Wiz

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From his home in the San Francisco Bay area, Salman Khan is using the Web to teach math and science to millions. Spencer Michels reports on how the non-profit Kahn Academy is providing educational materials through its YouTube video library. Read more