Nonfiction audiobooks

Green Business Practices for Dummies - Abridged

By: Lisa Swallow

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Green Business Practices For Dummies provides readers with the information they need to reduce the environmental impact of the business with out reducing their bottom line. The practical and expert advice and tips presented in this title benefits business owners at all levels, from large corporations to small, family-run stores. The only... Read more

World Wide Rave

By: David Meerman Scott

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

What do Blendtec, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Barack Obama have in common? They all created huge amounts of buzz and generated millions of dollars in sales and campaign contributions by using the principles found in this enlightening audio book. A World Wide Rave is when people around the world are talking about you, your company,... Read more

The Canal Builders

By: Julie Greene

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and technology. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis obscures a far more remarkable element of the canal's construction—the tens of thousands of workingmen and -women who traveled from around the world to build it. Drawing on research from... Read more

Dumb Money

By: Daniel Gross

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion dollars to bail out banks and financial... Read more

Nudge (Revised Edition)

By: Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and... Read more

Rain

By: Jeffrey J. Fox

Narrated by: Jeffrey J. Fox

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paperboys and girls symbolize our country’s relentless, indefatigable entrepreneurial spirit. They bought, sold, and delivered papers. And they did it alone, often in the dark and cold—and they were kids!In this witty and wise story, bestselling business author Jeffrey J. Fox reveals why the lessons paperboys learn so often establish them on the... Read more

Icons of the Iron Age

By: Susan Johnston

Narrated by: Susan Johnstone

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

were the Celts, who lived in Europe during the Iron Age, from about 600 BCE into the early centuries CE. They fascinated ancient Classical writers of Greece and Rome, who wrote about them often. They left behind an intriguing record of physical remains that have been recovered by archaeologists, and they have continued to hold our attention as... Read more

The Tiber and the Potomac

By: Thomas F. Madden

Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed university professor and best-selling author Thomas F. Madden presents an intriguing series of lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United States has more in common with the rising Roman Republic than with the declining Roman Empire. The Tiber and the Potomac explores the amazing parallels between history's two most unusual... Read more

Money for Nothing

By: Edward Ugel

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This wry and funny memoir tells the story of America's addiction to gambling from an astonishing angle. At age twenty-six, broke and knee-deep in gambling debt, Ed Ugel serendipitously landed a job as a salesman for The Firm, a company that offered up-front cash to lottery winners in exchange for their gradually doled-out prize money. Ed made a... Read more

The Big Picture MBA

By: Peter Navarro

Narrated by: Peter Navarro

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is designed to give listeners an overview of the MBA degree-one of the most valuable graduate degrees available. The focus is on the major courses taught in the core curriculum at any one of the top fifty business schools in the United States. We begin with an overview of the MBA core curriculum then proceed systematically through... Read more

The 30-Day Heartbreak Cure

By: Catherine Hickland

Narrated by: Catherine Hickland

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A straightforward, day-by-day plan for healing heartache in one month from the star of ABC's popular daytime drama One Life to Live

Day 1: It's over. You're devastated, numb, angry, lost, hurt, helpless, hopeless, shaken -- meanwhile, the source of your grief has the arrogant nerve to still be alive. He's probably having himself a perfectly... Read more

Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

Narrated by: Carrie Fisher

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action... Read more

If Not Now, When?

By: Colonel Jack Jacobs (Ret.) & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Army First Lieutenant Jack Jacobs was serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again to the site of the attack to rescue more men, saving the lives of a US advisor and thirteen Allied soldiers. Colonel Jacobs... Read more

Rubies in the Orchard

By: Lynda Resnick & Francis Wilkinson

Narrated by: Lynda Resnick

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

POM Wonderful. FIJI Water. Teleflora. The Franklin Mint. Lynda Resnick's marketing triumphs read like an encyclopedia of branding. She is the smartest and hardest-working marketing brain in the business - the kind of marketer who can sell "ice sculptures to Eskimos." But her brilliant ideas aren't simply the result of random... Read more

Yes!

By: Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin & Robert Cia...

Narrated by: Blair Hardman

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life.

Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our... Read more

Shadows in the Jungle

By: Larry Alexander

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. Out of thousands, only 138 men were chosen: the best, toughest, and most fit men the army had to offer. Their task: silently slip onto Japanese-held islands, stalk through the... Read more

Why We Make Mistakes

By: Joseph T. Hallinan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?

We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the... Read more

Money Girl's Guide to Retirement Planning

By: Laura D. Adams

Narrated by: Laura D. Adams

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Learn the essential steps to securing your financial future in Money Girl's Guide to Retirement Planning. With an uncertain economy and stable pensions disappearing, it's more critical than ever to take control of your financial destiny. Laura Adams, host of the top rated Money Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for a Richer Life podcast, is here to... Read more

Accountable

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tavis Smiley presents the successor to his two bestselling books, The Covenant of Black America and The Covenant in Action—Accountable will serve as a report card, holding the politicians accountable for what they have promised and holding the community responsible for its actions or inactions.

In Accountable, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Last Lion - Abridged

By: Peter S. Canellos

Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The comprehensive New York Times bestselling biography of Senator Ted Kennedy dives deeply into his political career, his shocking downfall, and his redemption from disappointing member of a grand dynasty to respected sage in the Senate.

No figure in American public life had such great expectations thrust upon him and fallen short of them so... Read more

Looking Deeply At Our Relationship With Money

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

You've worked hard all these years, believing you were working to support yourself, your family, your future. But in reality, Vicki Robin tells us, the current economic crisis makes it clear that most of us have been working to support the economic system-a system that is now in a downward spiral. Read more

Madness Under the Royal Palms

By: Laurence Leamer

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1999, a Palm Beach matron and her socially ambitious husband invited the elite of the island for a dinner dance honoring Prince Edward. Among those dancing to the string orchestra that evening would be those accused of murder and spousal abuse, and others who would suffer fates both unseemly and unspeakable. Among the outer circle there... Read more

Brothers in Arms

By: Stephen Molton & Gus Russo

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 23 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the killing of John F. Kennedy. The book centers on the two opposed sets of brothers—the Kennedys and the Castros—who collectively authored one of modern history's most... Read more

Seeds for the Soul

By: Chuck Hillig

Narrated by: Chuck Hillig

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Can we ever find real happiness? Combining eastern philosophy and western psychology, Chuck Hillig points the way to true happiness for those who have struggled to find peace of mind. Whether his profound words act as a gentle reminder or loud alarm clock, they will lovingly direct you to the only person who holds your truth: YOU! Read more