Nonfiction audiobooks

Bringing the Song Inside Out

By: Rachel Bagby

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Breaking into chant and song even as she is speaking, Rachel Bagby shows us how music can do more than we ever thought possible. She believes in, "giving the sacred back to our breath, and giving our breath back to the sacred," and describes what happens when we start listening to and expressing the music inside of us. Read more

Charms for the Easy Life - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too... Read more

Funny People - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Few people had a better perspective on comedy and comedians than the master of it all, Steve Allen. In Funny People, Allen conveys insightful and personal observations— by anecdote and example— of some of the 20th century' s greatest comic performers: Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, and Jimmy Durante.... Read more

Listening to Prozac - Abridged

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: Peter D. Kramer

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE END OF PERSONALITY?

Since it was introduce in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac has changed millions of troubled lives -- but not without raising... Read more

The Survival Of Consciousness

By: Stanislav Grof & Willis Harman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compelling dialogue with two researchers who have devoted their lives to exploring the questions related to survival of consciousness after death and experiences of non-ordinary consciousness. Read more

Creating Conscious Community

By: Carolyn Shaffer & Kristin Anundsen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaffer and Anundsen discuss how modern times have created new needs as well as opportunities for creating effective community of many kinds. Our human need for connection is as strong as ever, and here are creative, encouraging ways to fulfill our connection in the context of today's world. Read more

The Hiding Place

By: Corrie ten Boom

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated... Read more

What You Can Change and What You Can't - Abridged

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: Martin E. P. Seligman

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Los Siete Habitos de las Personas Altamente Eficaces - Abridged

By: Stephen R. Covey

Narrated by: Peter Gil & Maria Siccardi

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En Los Siete Habitos de las Personas Altamente Eficaces, el autor Stephen R. Covey presenta un método holístico, integrado y basado en principios para resolver problema personales y profesionales. Con comentarios penetrantes y anécdotas emotivos, el doctor Covey revela un camino detallado para viver con rectitud, integridad, honestidad y... Read more

Don't Fire Them, Fire them Up - Abridged

By: Frank Pacetta

Narrated by: Frank Pacetta

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don't Fire Them, Fire Them Up is a real-world story of winning in business by motivating employees in the most positive way possible—nurturing them, showing that you value their accomplishments, and giving them the skills and the responsibility to become winners.

Frank Pacetta, the hard-working man who engineered the drastic performance... Read more

Falling Awake

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By paying attention in the moment and to the people we are with, Jon Kabat-Zinn says we can bring a richness and power to our lives that goes beyond healing to give us meaning, wonder and joy in life. “It’s very similar to falling asleep,” he says, “only this is actually falling awake.” Kabat-Zinn has decades of experience with the effectiveness... Read more

The Leader in You - Abridged

By: Dale Carnegie

Narrated by: Stuart R. Levine & Ross Klavan

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Learn the proven, time-tested human relations principles from Dale Carnegie Training and discover how bring creativity, enthusiasm, and productivity to your job.

With insights from leading figures in the corporate, entertainment, sports, academic, and political arenas, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide includes strategies to help you excel... Read more

Meeting of Minds

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more

Is Paris Burning?

By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Is Paris burning?” is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly—and how miraculously—the city escaped Hitler’s secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is... Read more

The Kingdom

By: Robert Lacey

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 22 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kingdom is the story of a country—a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words “In the name of God,” where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are publicly executed in the street. By its own reckoning, this country is... Read more

10 Steps to Financial Prosperity - Abridged

By: Bill Griffeth

Narrated by: Bill Griffeth

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Years of borrowing and spending have left many Americans in perilous financial shape. To secure their futures and achieve financial independence, Americans must begin to save and invest. In his characteristically clear and congenial style, award-winning financial news anchor Bill Griffeth provides a simple 10-step program for lifelong financial... Read more

Positive Plus - Abridged

By: Joyce Brothers

Narrated by: Joyce Brothers

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Turn negative traits like nagging, perfectionism, and compulsive behavior into positives with this simple guide from renowned psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers. For decades Dr. Brothers was a sage, down-to-earth voice of reason to the millions who read her books and newspaper and magazine columns and heeded her advice on television and radio.... Read more

Superself - Abridged

By: Charles J. Givens

Narrated by: Charles J. Givens

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE POWERFUL NEW AUDIO PROGRAM FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WEALTH WITHOUT RISK

"Of all the strategies I could share with you, the most important are those that let you take control and achieve success in the total experience of living."

Charles J. Givens is famous for his powerful strategies that have helped millions of people along the... Read more

Leaving Home - Abridged

By: Art Buchwald

Narrated by: Art Buchwald

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Funny men don't necessarily have funny childhoods. Art Buchwald had to find his humor the hard way. In this poignant memoir, Buchwald writes with intimacy and candor about his early years— of a life constantly on the move and in the company of strangers. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother were separated. He tells of a... Read more

Thomas Merton the Man

By: Ron Seitz

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1993, Michael Toms made a "pilgrimage" to the hermitage of Thomas Merton at the Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. This is a recording of his visit with Ron Seitz, who was a young poet when he befriended and was mentored by Merton. Here Seitz offers memories and insight from the life of the brilliant Trappist monk and spiritual teacher. Read more

O Jerusalem!

By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

At the center of this massive and brilliant book is the most universal of man's cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions it inspires by being, through forty centuries, the most bitterly disputed site in the world.Collins and Lapierre's story is the fruit of five years of intensive research... Read more

Gangland - Abridged

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: Jerry Orbach

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the bestselling tradition of Wiseguy and Boss of Bosses -- the inside story of the fall of the "Teflon Don"

The team: A handpicked squad of FBI agents -- led by a war hero determined to get the job done. The target: John Gotti, the seemingly invincible head of the richest and most powerful crime of modern-day Untouchables, the FBI's C-16... Read more

Human Energy Fields and Healing

By: Barbara Brennan, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A skilled explorer of the possibilities of healing through unconventional methods, Barbara Brennan is gifted with the ability to see and affect energy colors and patterns in and around the body--an ability she says everyone potentially has. Deep and thorough healing occurs, she explains, through the honoring of subtle energies on physical,... Read more

Embraced by the Light - Abridged

By: Betty J. Eadie

Narrated by: Betty J. Eadie

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the age of 31, Betty Eadie died after routine surgery. The events that followed can only be described as the most profound and extensive near-death experience ever recorded. During the time she was clinically dead, Betty was given knowledge of the afterlife that would make even the greatest skeptic think twice. As she traveled through the... Read more