Nonfiction audiobooks

The Funny Thing Is...

By: Ellen DeGeneres

Narrated by: Ellen DeGeneres

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read—or wants to fool people into thinking they do—The Funny Thing Is... is sure to make you laugh.

Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen... Read more

Intelligence in War - Abridged

By: John Keegan

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence.

In... Read more

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Olympia Dukakis

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated;... Read more

The Stone Cold Truth - Abridged

By: Steve Austin, J.R. Ross & Dennis Brent

Narrated by: Steve Austin

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WWE Superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin shares an unvarnished take on his life and his days as a wrestler from growing up in small town Texas to his long-awaited return to the world of professional wrestling.

He's wrestled under many names, but to the fans he is and will always be Stone Cold Steve Austin™.

His quick wit and colorful use of... Read more

The Roots of Violence

By: Susan Griffin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dialogue, Susan Griffin explores the relationship between what happens in our intimate lives and the violence we express individually and as a nation. She explains, "The idea that we have to get somebody with a lot of muscles to take care of us happens when our core relationship to our own feelings has been erased." Read more

Bang!

By: Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval & Delia Marshall

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The founders of one of today's hottest, most innovative advertising agencies explain how to ignite the kind of marketing explosions that will capture customers' attention.

Linda Kaplan Thaler, the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of the Kaplan Thaler Group, is the brains behind a host of memorable and highly successful ads, from the irresistibly... Read more

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As elegant as his bestselling How to Know God and as practical as his phenomenal The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, this groundbreaking new book from Deepak Chopra contains a dramatic premise: Not only are everyday coincidences meaningful, they actually provide us with glimpses of the field of infinite possibilities that lies at the heart of... Read more

Whatever You Say I Am - Abridged

By: Anthony Bozza

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

does eminem matter?

On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white teenagers as his first single, “My Name Is,” went into... Read more

Blues City - Abridged

By: Ishmael Reed

Narrated by: Ishmael Reed

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .

Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost,... Read more

Preachers of Hate - Abridged

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Narrated by: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more

Reflections - Abridged

By: Barbara Bush

Narrated by: Barbara Bush

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“There is a myth in the United States—you’ve heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States...” —Barbara Bush

Not since Abigail Adams has one woman been both the wife and mother of presidents. Barbara Bush’s prominent place in American history is matched only by her... Read more

Cultural Nonviolence

By: Satish Kumar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Jesus, Satish Kumar brings a gentle wisdom to the difficult questions that must be answered if we are to end the pattern of destruction that threatens our world today. His simple, yet comprehensive perspective addresses the violence that is pervasive in human society and, amazingly, offers... Read more

The Big Year

By: Mark Obmascik

Narrated by: Del Roy

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.

In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more

Elizabeth and Mary

By: Jane Dunn

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 19 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).

In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a... Read more

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

The Genome War

By: James Shreeve

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within... 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

Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Lee Adams & Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.

Why... 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

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

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

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

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

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