Nonfiction audiobooks

Shiksa Goddess - Abridged

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: Wendy Wasserstein

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein' s mid-life... Read more

The New Market Leaders - Abridged

By: Fred Wiersema

Narrated by: Fred Wiersema

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the decade since Fred Wiersema coauthored the #1 bestseller The Discipline of Market Leaders, a momentous shift has occured. We have entered an age of customer scarcity--an age in which exciting, often unorthodox companies are revolutionizing the global marketplace. In this path-cutting work, Wiersema provides new benchmarks for ranking... Read more

A Passion to Win - Abridged

By: Sumner Redstone

Narrated by: Sumner Redstone

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A titan of modern media, Sumner Redstone shares how he became the head of one of the world’s great media empires and one of the richest men in the entertainment business.

In one of the most fascinating and eye-opening business autobiographies written, Sumner Redstone shares the unvarnished story of how he overcame significant obstacles on his... Read more

Journey Into Wisdom

By: Pramila Jayapal

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

India, an ancient culture, has many gifts to share with the western world.  Pramila Jayapal, is an Indian-born, Western educated woman, banker turned community activist, who returns to India to explore the complex issues of progress and development, immersing herself in the life of her native land. Read more

Cyberselfish - Abridged

By: Pauline Borsook

Narrated by: Paula Parker

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of the most controversial personalities in the high-tech world comes this rare critique of the narcissism, ignorance and anti-communitarianism of the digital elite and their culture. Until now, the lofty pronouncements of the high-tech gurus and society's obsession with them have seldom been questioned. Sub-titled 'A Critical Romp... Read more

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself - Abridged

By: Steve Chandler

Narrated by: Steve Chandler

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Live the life you've always wanted to live! 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself is packed with techniques for breaking down negative barriers and pessimistic thoughts that prevent you from fulfilling your goals and dreams. It's easy to get stuck in a humdrum life and only fantasize about what "could have been." Motivational speaker Steve Chandler... Read more

Neil Henry: Pearl's Secret

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Henry discusses Pearl's Secret, his book about black man's search for his white family. Read more

The Relationship Cure - Abridged

By: John Gottman, PhD & Joan De Claire

Narrated by: John Gottman, PhD & Joan De Claire

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones

“This is the best book on relationships I have ever read. . . . John Gottman has decoded the subtle secrets that can either enrich or destroy the quality of our ties with others.” Daniel B. Wile, Ph.D., author of After the Fight: Using Your... Read more

The Monticello Dialogues, Part I: Democratic Design

By: William McDonough

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

McDonough shares how his early life growing up in Hong Kong affected his worldview, and how his work has been influenced by innovative designs of Thomas Jefferson. He describes his work with chemist Michael Braungart in designing from the point of view of nature. Read more

Ghost Soldiers - Abridged

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II.

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a... Read more

War Letters - Abridged

By: Andrew Carroll

Narrated by: Joan Allen & Tom Brokaw

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection—including never-before-published letters that... Read more

A Call to Spirit: Living an Awakened Life

By: Swami Shuddhandanda

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Swami Shuddhandanda Brahmachari, a living saint, who tries to keep a low profile.  This eloquent "holy man" with the mindset of an economist, tells us the story of his journey and life's work in the villages and slums of Calcutta. Read more

French Lessons

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.

The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the Foire aux Escargots. We attend a truly French... Read more

Close to Shore - Abridged

By: Michael Capuzzo

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.

In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual... Read more

Dot-Gone

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Spencer Michels reports from San Francisco on the ongoing corporate bloodletting in the dot-com industry. Read more

John Adams

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 29 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more

John Adams - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann & Jan Maxwell

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more

Networth - Abridged

By: Steve Frank

Narrated by: Steve Frank

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Invest sucessfully in the companies that will prevail through thechnology booms and busts -- with indispensable advice from the world's most trusted business publication, The Wall Street Journal.
There's no doubt the Internet has changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we invest in the new millennium. But while many investors made... Read more

The Power Of Positive Thinking in Business - Abridged

By: Scott W. Ventrella

Narrated by: Scott W. Ventrella

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most powerful forces in business today is the positive psychology movement -- overcoming self-defeating attitudes and developing our talents and positive traits. Much of the new thinking stems directly from the concepts in Norman Vincent Peale's classic bestseller, The Power of Positive Thinking, which has sold over 22 million copies.... Read more

The Wrinkle Cure - Abridged

By: Nicholas Perricone

Narrated by: Nicholas Perricone

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Look Ten Years Younger In Days -- Without Surgery!
From Yale University's dermatological and anti-aging, expert Nicholas Perricone, M.D. comes the all-natural program that has already helped tbousands -- including top Hollywood stars. This antioxidant plan revitalizes your skin from the outside and inside, reducing and effectively erasing... Read more

The Power Of Positive Thinking - Abridged

By: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Narrated by: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An international bestseller with over five million copies in print, The Power of Positive Thinking has helped men and women around the world to achieve fulfillment in their lives through Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s powerful message of faith and inspiration.

In this phenomenal bestseller, “written with the sole objective of helping the reader... Read more

An Album of Memories - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more

Special Agent - Abridged

By: Candice DeLong

Narrated by: Candice DeLong

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Candice DeLong worked on some of the toughest hig-stakes criminal investigations of our time. As a field profiler, DeLong collected evidence at the scene of the crime to creat a specific portrait of criminals via behavioral patterns, character traits, background, etc. Special Agent is her remarkable personal... Read more

I Only Say This Because I Love You - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic -- even when we're all adults.
Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often... Read more