Nonfiction audiobooks

And Then There's This

By: Bill Wasik

Narrated by: Bill Wasik

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged • 6 hours

An entertaining and eye-opening look into the new frontier of idea making. Read more

The Great Escape

By: Paul Brickhill

Narrated by: Robert Whitfield

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred American and British air force officers, every single one of them, every minute, every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade... Read more

In Pursuit of Elegance

By: Matthew E. May

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darned irresistible? What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks? The answer is elegance.Matthew May explores why certain events, products, and people... Read more

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his... Read more

Satchel

By: Larry Tye

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige

“Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe

Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in... Read more

The Last Best Hope

By: Joe Scarborough

Narrated by: Joe Scarborough

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book, Joe Scarborough tells Republican Party bosses what they don’t want to hear, explains why Democrats are making matters so much worse, and then shows leaders of both parties the way forward.

The Last Best Hope draws on the forgotten genius of conservatism to offer a road map for the movement and the country. Delivering... Read more

The Sages

By: Charles Morris

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Three titans of finance predicted the current economic crisis several years ago, but their warnings went unheeded. A New York Times bestselling author distills the wisdom of all three.

Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros,... Read more

Would You Be A Space Tourist?

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lynne Koplitz

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Branson has formed Virgin Galactic and is now taking reservations aboard the maiden voyage of SpaceShipOne. Would you spend the estimated $200,000 for a 45-minute trip into space? Neil and Lynne also discuss the mechanics of sex in space.Co-host:
Lynne KoplitzGuests:
Robert K. Weiss: President and Vice Chairman of the X Prize Foundation,... Read more

The Ascent of George Washington

By: John Ferling

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day. Now John Ferling peers behind that image, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics but a canny... Read more

Saving Freedom

By: Jim DeMint

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States—the world's great bastion of freedom—is sliding toward socialism. Recent high-profile bailouts show the walls between government and the private sector are getting thinner each day. Federal control now extends in various ways to education, healthcare, financial markets, real estate, businesses, and religion. And as... Read more

40 More Years

By: Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza & James Carville

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Every four years Americans hold a presidential election. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's life. But 2008 was an anomaly. The election of President Barack Obama is about something far bigger than four or even eight years in the White House. Since 2004, Americans have been witnessing and participating in the emergence of a Democratic... Read more

I Hate People!

By: Marc Hershon & Jonathan Littman

Narrated by: Marc Hershon & Jonathan Littman

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Face it, whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I HATE PEOPLE!, a smart, counter-intuitive, andirreverentturn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify theTen Least Wanted--the people you... Read more

Gravitational Marketing

By: Joel Bauer, Travis Miller & Jimmy Vee

Narrated by: Travis Miller

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Wouldn't it be great if you could just sit there on your duff while customers came to you—with no need for cold-calling, prospecting, hard-selling, or flat-out begging for business? Too bad it doesn't work that way in the real world. Or does it? In Gravitational Marketing, you'll discover just how easy it is to create a low-cost, high-powered... Read more

Integration Marketing

By: Mark Joyner

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The biggest, most successful businesses you can think of all started small and grew their way to massive success. What was their secret? Is there something those companies have in common—from Microsoft to McDonald’s to U.S. Steel—that helped them grow from small businesses to globe-spanning corporations? The answer is “yes,” and it’s right... Read more

The Illustrious Dead

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful dual narrative of Napoleon Bonaparte and a tiny microbe that pits the height of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water
 
“Gripping . . . Talty brings international politics and science together in a compelling story of personal hubris and... Read more

Crazy for the Storm

By: Norman Ollestad

Narrated by: Norman Ollestad

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Breathtaking....Crazy for the Storm will keep you up late into the night.”
—Washington Post Book World Norman Olstead’s New York Times bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing plane crash the author miraculously survived at age eleven, framed by the moving tale of his complicated relationship with his charismatic,... Read more

Reagan's Secret War

By: Martin Anderson & Annelise Anderson

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the Cold War.... Read more

Traveller

By: Michael Katakis

Narrated by: Michael Katakis

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"How could I have known then with no maps acquired and my bags not yet packed that my journey had already begun? ...The tools of a traveler are compass and map. They calculate distances covered and destinations sought but cannot measure the consequences of experiences on a human heart," writes Michael Katakis in his introduction.

Traveller is... Read more

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

By: Alain de Botton

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do... Read more

Renegade

By: Richard Wolffe

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.

This book is the previously untold and epic story... Read more

The Vixen Diaries

By: Karrine Steffans

Narrated by: Karrine Steffans

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Karrine Steffans continues to share the much-sought-after details of her star-studded life in this juicy tell-all—​and dishes on the celebrity men that helped her get where she needed to be.

This titillating expose chronicles the personal and professional adventures of this tabloid-laden socialite, dispelling some rumors, while confirming... Read more

Life Inc.

By: Douglas Rushkoff

Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This didn’t just happen.

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer... Read more

Womenomics

By: Claire Shipman & Katherine Kay

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“A personal, provocative, and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life.”
—Diane Sawyer Womenomics, the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, is an invaluable guide for this generation of professional women, provide knowledgeable advice on how to “Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better.”... Read more

Science Matters

By: Robert M. Hazen & James Trefil

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers.“Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book Review

Knowledge of the basic... Read more