Nonfiction audiobooks

Skinny Bastard

By: Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Fed up with being fat? Good! That means you're ready to get ripped—and there's nothing mamsy-pamsy about wanting to look good.Hundreds of thousands of women have been inspired to get real about the food they eat after reading the best-selling manifestoSkinny Bitch. Now it's time for the guys to have a book of their own.Guys like the Milwaukee... Read more

How Sex Works

By: Sharon Moalem

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It’s almost as much fun, and needs less energy.”
— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History ""How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag.""
—O magazine Medical... Read more

Showing Up for Life

By: Bill Gates, Sr. & Mary Ann Mackin

Narrated by: Patrick Egan & Bill Gates, Sr.

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill... Read more

Yogi Berra

By: Allen Barra

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs.



In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's... Read more

Keeping the Edge

By: Dick Schaaf

Narrated by: Glenn Birney

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

What is a company’s balance point between the demands of its customers and the profit expectations of its shareholders? In the era of “lean and mean” operations, is quality service still the key to a business’ bottom line? To answer these corporate life-and-death questions, Dick Schaaf, a leading authority on the subject and co-author of The... Read more

Dreams, with eBook

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1915 and 1917, Sigmund Freud delivered a series of well-received lectures at the University of Vienna on his theories of psychoanalysis. Nine of them focused on Freud's theories about dreams—what they are and what they mean. The content of these lectures are presented in Dreams.



Freud covered a lot of ground in his lectures, focusing... Read more

Let’s Go to the Beach

By: Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that women once wore corsets under their bathing suits? Or that “semi-drowning”—the strip and plunge practice—was thought to be good for one’s health? Or that Pudgy Stockton, the body-building queen of Muscle Beach, California, opened the country’s first gym for women?From the bathhouses of the ancient Greeks to Venice Beach and... Read more

Lords of Finance

By: Liaquat Ahamed

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for... Read more

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." This was one of the most famous catch-phrases of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Rising from poverty-stricken Louisville in the 1950s he became one of the world's greatest athletes. Beginning life as Cassius Clay, Ali would struggle against opponents both in and out of the ring. Segregation and racism... Read more

A Little Bit Wicked

By: Kristin Chenoweth & Joni Rodgers

Narrated by: Kristin Chenoweth

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Life's too short. I'm not." You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV-The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street...oh, and her huge... Read more

Contando con tu alma

By: Eric Rolf

Narrated by: George Bass

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

oTe gustaria saber ... -En que se inspiro Dios cuando te creo? -Cual es realmente tu razon de ser y vivir? -Cual es el ca'mino que solo tu puedes andar? -Que talentos y dones solo tu puedes expresar? La Numerologia del Alma forma parte del paradigma de la Medicina del Alma, junto con el codigo secreto del cuerpo y el idioma creativo interior. La... Read more

Ishi in Two Worlds

By: Theodora Kroeber

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse... Read more

Shopping

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Slumping Economy, a Shift in Shopping HabitsA leading retail consultant discusses why this recession may change consumer behavior permanently. Read more

Hastened To the Grave

By: Jack Olsen

Narrated by: Susie Breck

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked the story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do, and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family - the Tene Bimbos. Fay Fanon, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay... Read more

Fabric of America

By: Andro Linklater

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the same blend of narrative and rhetorical brilliance that made his critically acclaimed debut history so successful, Andro Linklater begins with premier U.S. surveyor Andrew Ellicott calculating the Pennsylvania-Virginia border in 1784- using telescope, chronograph, and astronomical tables. As pioneers move westward, Ellicott and his kind... Read more

Deception

By: Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 21 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned investigative journalists. In Deception, they reveal the decades-long story of Pakistan's nuclear program-and how the United States has been complicit in the spread of nuclear arms. Based on hundreds of interviews from around the world, this work will force Americans to reexamine... Read more

Adelgazar para siempre

By: Ana Martos

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

La obesidad es un mal de nuestro tiempo que origina numerosas enfermedades y que afecta cada vez a un mayor numero de personas. Principalmente esta causada por una conducta alimentaria caracterizada por comer mal, sin control, sin placer y a destiempo. Cuando el origen de la obesidad esta causada por ese tipo de conducta alimentaria, esta no se... Read more

The Great Terror

By: Robert Conquest

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 30 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive work on Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. In recent years, even the former Soviet Union has come to call it the definitive account of the period. While the original volume relied heavily on unofficial sources, later developments within the Soviet Union provided an avalanche... Read more

Expanding Your Tribe Through Circles

By: Jalaja Bonheim, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Humans have been gathering in circles since we discovered fire. Circles are deeply ingrained in our collective consciousness and have a powerful resonance in our psyches - even today. Jalaja Bonheim sees circles as a key to healing the personal and global wounds we all face – as a way of reconnecting to our hearts, to our spirituality, and to... Read more

All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes

By: Kenneth A. Myers

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Where did popular culture come from? Why is it the way it is? How does it influence Americans in general and Christians in particular? Ken Myers offers fascinating answers. He sees pop culture as a culture of diversion, preventing people from asking questions about their origin and destiny and about the meaning of life. Two aspects stand out: a... Read more

Rudyard Kipling

By: Andrew Lycett

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping biography mixes intimate detail with a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time to unravel the intricate story of the misunderstood genius who wrote Kim, The Jungle Books, and the poem “If.”Growing up in both England and India, this descendant of a high-achieving family crossed... Read more

The Disuniting of America

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The promise of America has always been that of a fresh economic start on equal footing. This is linked to the classic image of the republic as a melting pot, where differences of class, race, and religion are submerged in the pursuit of democracy. But today, the idea of assimilation into the mainstream is giving ground to the cult of ethnicity.... Read more

Secrets, Plots, and Hidden Agendas

By: Paul T. Coughlin

Narrated by: Paul T. Coughlin

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Were the government actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco "planned executions?" Has the national debt been deliberately increased to give international bankers control over the country? Is there a secret organization of top political, economic, military, and religious leaders whose goal is to control the entire planet?The people who answer "yes" to... Read more

Lustige Fußgymnastik für Kinder - Hörbuch

By: Christian Larsen, Bea Miescher & Spiraldynamik ...

Narrated by: Antje Von der Ahe, Robert Schoen, Carmen Maja A...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Zart und duftig und dabei so stark, um uns durch ein ganzes Leben zu tragen - das sind unsere Füße. Leider verkennen wir allzu oft ihren Wert. Wir verstecken diese Wunderwerke der Natur in finsterem Schuhwerk und kümmern uns kaum um sie. Ersparen wir doch unseren Kindern dieses Schicksal! Dieses Hörbuch basiert auf der erfolgreichen, von Dr.... Read more