Nonfiction audiobooks

Eyes on the Horizon

By: Malcolm McConnell & Richard B. Myers

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

General Richard B. Myers has unique insight into how the American national security system works. In Eyes on the Horizon, he recounts his military career and outlines a bold blueprint for a strategic overhaul of our security system, including the military, so that the nation is adequately protected and prepared to fight in this era of what he... Read more

The Big Rich

By: Bryan Burrough

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L.... Read more

Purple Cow

By: Seth Godin

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true... Read more

Free Prize Inside!

By: Seth Godin

Narrated by: Seth Godin

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Purple Cow was the #1 bestselling marketing book on Amazon in 2003. Now in Free Prize Inside, Seth Godin is back with practical advice on how to put Purple Cow thinking to work inside your organization (big or small, profit or non) to MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN. The next big marketing idea is a proven strategy for making your products or services so... Read more

Commodore

By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Edward J. Renehan, Jr.-author of Dark Genius of Wall Street -draws upon previously unreleased documents to deliver the definitive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th-century transportation tycoon who accumulated the largest private fortune in U.S. history. "[A] portrait of a brilliantly successful, genuinely... Read more

Healing and Preventing Autism

By: Jenny McCarthy & Jerry Kartzinel MD

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2006, autism has become the leading disorder affecting children in the United States. As children continue to be diagnosed at epidemic rates and parents struggle to find help, a school of DAN (Defeat Autism Now) pediatricians has been pioneering therapies and treatments that help reverse the effects of autism. DAN doctors have discovered... Read more

No Angel

By: Jay Dobyns & Nils Johnson-Shelton

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but... Read more

The Golden Willow

By: Harry Bernstein

Narrated by: Mike Kellogg

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“The golden willow was the first tree we had planted when we came here to live, and Ruby and I had good reason for doing that. Only it was a secret that we kept to ourselves.” Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In his first book, The Invisible Wall, he told a... Read more

How to Be a Billionaire

By: Martin S. Fridson

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Self-made billionaires all have one thing in common: they excel at making money. But hard work, thrift, and focus are only part of the story—you hold the rest of it in your hands. How to Be a Billionaire is the first comprehensive picture of the real strategies and tactics that built the great business fortunes of modern times. Packed with... Read more

The Pursuit of Perfect

By: Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to be perfect? Or do you want to be happy?

We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way—to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one... Read more

Work Hard. Be Nice.

By: Jay Mathews

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly... Read more

High-Tech India Contrasts with Rural Ways

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

India has benefited from supplying other countries with outsourcing services from computer help to legal document analysis, while in other parts of the country poor farmers are struggling to make a living. NewsHour special correspondent Simon Marks reports on the two Indias. Read more

Der Wert des Lebens - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welchen Wert hat individuelles, menschliches Leben? Zunächst steht die subjektive Perspektive, in der wir Risiken für unser Leben eingehen und damit implizit eine Bewertung vornehmen. Diese subjektive Perspektive ist allerdings mit einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen verbunden, darunter dem, was überhaupt als vergleichbar gelten kann. Dem wird... Read more

Der 30jährige Krieg - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Detlef Kügow & Claus Brockmeyer

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Was ursprünglich als Religionskrieg begonnen hatte, entwickelte sich rasch zu einer blutigen, nationalen Auseinandersetzung europäischer Großmächte. Deutschland wurde zum Schlachtfeld der Franzosen, Spanier, Österreicher und Schweden. Als die Waffen nach 30 Jahren endlich schwiegen und in Münster und in Osnabrück 1648 der Westfälische Frieden... Read more

Über menschliche Freiheit - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unser Gefühl frei zu sein, Entscheidungen nach Abwägung des Für und Wider zu treffen und dann auch dafür die Verantwortung zu tragen, Autoren unseres Lebens zu sein, wird heute von einigen Neurowissenschaftlern, aber von je her von Deterministen unterschiedlicher Couleur, als eine Illusion bezeichnet. Julian Nida-Rümelin entwickelt in diesem... Read more

Krebs - Abridged

By: Klaus Kayser

Narrated by: Torsten Michaelis

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie kommt es zum unkontrollierten Zellwachstum und was sind typische Ausbreitungsmuster und Symptome? Inwieweit ist Krebs erblich bedingt und welche Rolle spielen falsche Ernährung, Rauchen und andere Umwelteinflüsse? Übersichtlich und kenntnisreich bietet Klaus Kayser Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen und zeigt, was jeder Einzelne tun kann,... Read more

Alexander der Große - Abridged

By: Ralf Behrwald

Narrated by: Ralf Behrwald

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alexander der Große, der von 336 323 v. Chr. regierte, war nicht nur einer der größten Eroberer der Weltgeschichte. Seine Eroberung des Perserreichs bereitete zugleich den Boden für die Hellenisierung weiter Teile des östlichen Mittelmeerraumes, die bis zum Fall von Byzanz 1453 und darüber hinaus wirken sollte. Zugleich markiert Alexanders... Read more

Die Menschenrechte sind universell - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Am 10. Dezember 1948 verabschiedeten die noch jungen Vereinten Nationen die "Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte", die zur Grundlage völkerrechtlich verbindlicher Verträge in Gestalt des sogenannten Zivil- und des Sozialpaktes und weiterer völkerrechtlicher Vereinbarungen wurde. Julian Nida-Rümelin erläutert in diesem Vortrag anlässlich des... Read more

Demokratie und Wahrheit - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Entgegen der verbreiteten Auffassung, das Wahrheitsansprüche in der Demokratie unangemessen seien, begründet Nida-Rümelin die These, dass ohne normative Wahrheitsansprüche die demokratische Gesellschaft und Politik undenkbar seien. Die demokratische Ordnung beruht auf normativen Überzeugungen, wie die der Toleranz aus Respekt und der gleichen... Read more

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] paean to feminism and the solidarity of womenkind. . . . This book is a celebration of women in their various roles: mother, sister, civil rights advocate, consumer advocate, first-class mechanic, politician—which Roberts’ own mother once was.”
—Washington Post “The perfect combination of powerful feelings and a modulated style.”
— Los... Read more

Age Is Just a Number

By: Dara Torres & Elizabeth Weil

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.

Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive... Read more

Eine Reise durch Schottland

By: Kai Schwind

Narrated by: Matthias Keller, Sabine Mazay & Kai Schwind

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Reise beginnt in Edinburgh mit dem ohrenbeteubenden Knall der "One o'clock" Kanone, die jeden Tag pünktlich abgefeuert wird. Kunst, Kultur und ein Abstecher in die geheimnissvolle Unterwelt von Schottlands Hauptstadt stehen auf dem Programm. Danach erwarten uns die Highlands mit sagenumwobenen Schlössern und atemberaubenden Landschaften. Die... Read more

I'm Hosting as Fast as I Can!

By: Tom Bergeron

Narrated by: Tom Bergeron

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of John O’Hurley’s It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump and Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Daytime Emmy-winner Tom Bergeron—host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos—offers a series of humorous and inspirational stories on surviving Hollywood, including behind-the-camera... Read more

In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms

By: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Narrated by: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerThe internationally syndicated radio host celebrates a group of critically important yet usually overlooked women—stay-at-home moms—and offers them words of inspiration and wisdom.“I’m scared out of my mind.”Dr. Laura hears this frequently from women who know that staying home to raise their children is the right thing... Read more