Nonfiction audiobooks

Personal Efficiency Program, 4th Edition

By: Kerry Gleeson

Narrated by: Erik Synnesvetd

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Increase Your Productivity, Reduce Stress, and Get Home on Time at Last! More than one million people worldwide are getting their work done and improving the way they feel at work thanks to Kerry Gleeson’s revolutionary program, The Personal Efficiency Program. Now, it’s your turn. Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like... Read more

Beyond The Secret:

By: Lisa Love

Narrated by: Lisa Love

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the publication of The Secret, everyone seems to be talking about the Law of Attraction. In the popular imagination, everything we desire can be ours. But the Law of Attraction is more than the power of positive thinking or a plan to get rich quick. In Beyond the Secret, Lisa Love teaches us how to use the Law of Attraction spiritually.... Read more

Capital Ideas Evolving

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In all of history and in all fields of intellectual endeavor, a tension has existed between theory and practice. Those who earn a living in the real world seldom want to appear as slaves to some set of abstract ideas. It was no surprise, therefore, that the word “baloney” was Wall Street’s greeting to the pioneering theories of finance developed... Read more

The Three Marriages

By: David Whyte

Narrated by: David Whyte

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Three Marriages, David Whyte, the bestselling author, poet, and speaker, asks you to think about your significant relationship to your partner, your work and your inner self in a radically different way by drawing them into a mutually supportive conversation. According to Whyte, we humans are involved not just with one marriage with a... Read more

The Element

By: Lou Aronica & Ken Robinson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Ken Robinson, Ph.D.

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves, most inspired, and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people: Paul McCartney, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Meg Ryan, Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the... Read more

Nothing to Fear

By: Adam Cohen

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history—the tense, feverish first one hundred days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, more than 10,000 banks had gone under following the Crash... Read more

Chain Blame

By: Padilla Muolo & Mathew Paul

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TRUTH BEHIND AMERICA’S HOUSING ANG MORTGAGE CRISIS In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, fifty lenders a month were going bust-and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists, but also investment bankers and home loan... Read more

Co. Aytch

By: Sam R. Watkins

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows," he wrote the remarkable account of "Co. Aytch," its... Read more

Seeing the Clues in Front of You

By: Charles Hess

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie Hess has made a profession of thinking outside the box. Instead of relying only on evidence directly related to the issue at hand, he gathers data from a network of resources in seemingly unrelated fields. He mixes all the information together with a healthy dose of discipline and a measure of intuition, and helps decision-makers in all... Read more

Lucrezia Borgia

By: Sarah Bradford

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance: incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither... Read more

Heroes Among Us

By: John Quinones

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas native and veteran ABC journalist John Quiñones has traveled the world and the country reporting on hundreds of stories during his illustrious career. Long ago he realized that the stories he was most attracted to had one thing in common—a shared focus on the goodness inherent in ordinary Americans.



According to John, truly heroic... Read more

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East—and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that.

President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three... Read more

The Great Gamble

By: Gregory Feifer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for American foreign policy today. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the war from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia... Read more

Breakthrough

By: Gwen Ifill

Narrated by: Gwen Ifill

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A veteran journalist surveys the American political landscape and illuminates the evolution of the African-American politician—and the future of American democracy.

Gwen Ifill began her journalism career at the Boston Herald in 1977, covering race riots by telephone. It was too risky for a young black reporter to venture onto the grounds of... Read more

The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Paul Evans

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Easy to understand and simple to apply, The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women is one of the most powerful books ever written about money and essential reading for any woman today.

When Richard Paul Evans was twelve years old, his father fell and broke both of his legs. With no income and no insurance, the Evans family was destitute.... Read more

Relentless

By: Ted Rogers & Robert Brehl

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From his earliest days buying Canada’s first FM radio station, CHFI, to developing Rogers Cable, Media and Wireless, Relentless tells the true story of the man who stood alone among Canada’s all-time business giants. Relentless is the amazing story of a young man who overcame the early death of his father—which cost the family a burgeoning radio... Read more

Mrs. Astor Regrets

By: Meryl Gordon

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a... Read more

The Art of the Start

By: Guy Kawasaki

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.



The Art... Read more

The Pluto Files

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, tiny, and eccentric in orbit, it’s a wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over Pluto’s status, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog. The year of Pluto’s discovery, Disney created an irresistible pup by the... Read more

Rich Like Them

By: Ryan D'Agostino

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan D'Agostino wanted to know how the extremely wealthy in America got that way. So he asked. Knocking on 500 doors in twenty neighborhoods in the most affluent ZIP codes in America, D'Agostino met with fifty regular (but very rich) men and women who welcomed him in and shared some of their most difficult financial decisions, toughest setbacks,... Read more

Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 32 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser... Read more

Rethinking Our Past

By: James Loewen

Narrated by: James Loewen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An esteemed academic for over 20 years, Dr. James W. Loewen also penned the New York Times best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me. Through this enlightening lecture series, Dr. Loewen roots out many historical inaccuracies that are still taught to children today. Read more

In search of the Obvious

By: Jack Trout

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio book could upset a lot of people It is the first to state the obvious: Marketing is a mess. Jack Trout intends to make a lot of people, who made the mess, very uncomfortable. Only then will they begin to look for the obvious solutions that will separate their products from their competitors—in a way that is equally obvious to... Read more

My Face Is Black Is True

By: Mary Frances Berry

Narrated by: Sharon Washington

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Civil Rights advocate Mary Frances Berry sheds new light on the fight for reparations. Callie House, an ex-slave who led the fight, founded the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1899. Defying conventions of race, class, and gender, Callie led the organization in an attempt to petition the government for the... Read more