Nonfiction audiobooks

Be Super Inspired

By: Tony Wrighton

Narrated by: Tony Wrighton

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"How quickly do you want to feel more inspired?"Tony Wrighton is the UK's best-selling self-development audiobook author, and his down-to-earth, contemporary style has helped an whole new generation to find self-help accessible and start to make simple, effective changes to their lives. Be Super Inspired is a book that will encourage you to... Read more

Fleißige Frauen arbeiten, schlaue steigen auf

By: Barbara Schneider

Narrated by: Sonngard Dressler & Heiko Grauel

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Frauen haben in den letzten Jahren das fachliche Fundament gelegt und damit allerbeste Karriere-Voraussetzungen geschaffen. Die besseren Jobs bekommen aber nach wie vor die Männer. Leistung ohne Ende heißt für viele Frauen immer noch die Devise. Zu Karriere gehört aber längst mehr als Fleiß und Leistung. Effektives Selbstmarketing gepaart mit... Read more

Fremdkörper - Abridged

By: Miriam Pielhau

Narrated by: Miriam Pielhau

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gib nicht auf und kämpfe! Anfang 2008 wurde bei der bekannten TV-Moderatorin Miriam Pielhau mit erst 32 Jahren Brustkrebs festgestellt: Innerhalb kurzer Zeit durchlief sie das gesamte medizinische Programm mit Operation, Chemotherapie und Bestrahlung. Parallel dazu hat sie ihre Erlebnisse, Gefühle und Gedanken aus dieser Zeit festgehalten.... Read more

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?

The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are... Read more

On Second Thought

By: Wray Herbert

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Our brains are marvels, hard-wired by millions of years of evolution to boast a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to negotiate our complicated lives without overthinking every choice and decision we have to make. Unfortunately, those ancient shortcuts don't always work to our advantage in our modern lives—when we don't... Read more

Patti LuPone

By: Patti LuPone

Narrated by: Patti LuPone

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.

With nearly 100 photographs, including an 8-page four-color insert,... Read more

The Lampshade

By: Mark Jacobson

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The journey that takes Mark Jacobson around the world began when a friend bought a lamp at a rummage sale and was told that it was made from the skins of Jews. While he didn't believe the story, he sent it to Mark, saying, "You're a journalist, you figure out what it is."



After three years of research in America, Poland, Germany, and Israel, and... Read more

Composing a Further Life

By: Mary Catherine Bateson

Narrated by: Sevanne Kassarjian

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women—herself included—who, upon entering this second adulthood, have found new meaning and new ways to contribute, composing their lives in new... Read more

The Mob and Me

By: John Partington & Arlene Violet

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When U.S. Marshal John Partington suddenly found himself protecting the family of renowned mobster Joe "The Animal" Barboza, he made up the rules as he went along. Among Partington's diverse activities: managing a rotating crew of U.S. Marshals; chasing the family cat; convincing Barboza's wife not to leave; keeping the witness, his wife, and... Read more

Release The Future with Marianne Williamson

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling with an always-relevant message. Recorded live in Los Angeles, BetterListen! is delighted to offer you the opportunity to partake in the wisdom of Marianne Williamson and the Course in Miracles... Read more

The End and the Beginning

By: George Weigel

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.”
 
With these words, world-renowned author and NBC Vatican analyst... Read more

Working Together

By: Michael D. Eisner & Aaron R. Cohen

Narrated by: Michael D. Eisner & Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In Working Together, a fascinating and invaluable look at why great partnerships succeed, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner discusses how professional partnerships have contributed to his success. In addition, Eisner tells the stories of nine other highly successful business collaborations, including Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, Valentino... Read more

Pinheads and Patriots

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Television host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity guides Americans through the extensive transformations sweeping... Read more

The Wave

By: Susan Casey

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,  ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis­missed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws of... Read more

Psychiatry

By: Thomas Szasz

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness... Read more

What's Mine Is Yours

By: Rachel Botsman & Roo Rogers

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist to emerging sectors such as peer-to-peer lending (Zopa), "swap trading" (Swaptree), and car sharing (Zipcar),... Read more

The Happiness Advantage

By: Shawn Achor

Narrated by: Shawn Achor

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An engaging, deeply researched guide to flourishing in a world of increasing stress and negativity—the inspiration for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time

“Powerful [and] charming . . . A book for just about anyone . . . The philosophies in this book are easily the best wire frames to build a happy and... Read more

Boiling Mad

By: Kate Zernike

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A surprising and revealing look inside the Tea Party movement—where it came from, what it stands for, and what it means for the future of American politics.

They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession—angry voters gathering by the thousands to rail against bailouts and big government. Evoking the Founding Fathers, they called... Read more

The Man Who Lied to His Laptop

By: Corina Yen & Clifford Nass

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

STARTLING INSIGHTS INTO PERSUASION, TRUST, EMPATHY, AND TEAMWORK BASED ON REVELATIONS ABOUT HOW WE TREAT OUR COMPUTERS

The driver was insistent: “A woman should not be giving directions.” Despite the customer service rep’s reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn’t actually a woman—just a computer with a female voice—the driver (and... Read more

The Great Reflation

By: Anthony J Boeckh

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The extended bubble in the credit, housing, and financial markets created twenty-five years of artificial prosperity and wealth. The bubble has burst and much of that inflated wealth is gone.

The government has attempted to pump air back into the bubble in a financial experiment of unprecedented magnitude. The goal is to get markets up, save... Read more

Profiles in Folly

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the same engrossing anecdotal format that has proved so popular in Profiles in Audacity, Alan Axelrod now turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making: those choices that, in retrospect, were shockingly wrongheaded.

Although Axelrod investigates some dumb decisions by stupid people and some evil decisions by evil people, the... Read more

Midnights with the Mystic

By: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev & Cheryl Simone

Narrated by: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev & Cheryl Simone

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Constructed around a series of late night conversations around a camp fire between Cheryl Simone and Sadhguru Vasudev on an Island in the middle of a Western North Carolina lake near her mountain home, Midnights with the Mystic is the most thorough exposition of the teachings of India's most sought after mystic. Sadhguru challenges us to embrace... Read more

Islands of Profit in a Sea Red Ink

By: Jonathan L.S. Byrnes

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Top companies around the world turn to Jonathan Byrnes to figure out where the profit is. He can show them which parts of their businesses are worth expanding and which are just a drain on resources. Most astonishing, he has found that roughly 40 percent of any new client’s business is unprofitable and that profit increases of 30 percent or more... Read more

Outlive Your LIfe

By: Max Lucado

Narrated by: Daniel Butler

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Friend,May I share a story that is very dear to my heart?It's a story of hillbillies and simple folk, net casters and tax collectors. A story of a movement that exploded like a just-opened fire hydrant out of Jerusalem and spilled into the ends of the earth: into the streets of Paris, the districts of Rome, and the ports of Athens,... Read more