Nonfiction audiobooks

The Science Being Well

By: Wallace Wattles

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to start your journey to perfect health? From the author of The Science of Getting Rich comes his second book, the Science of Being Well. The original book was first published in 1910. Peter Wink has added a foreword and revised and modernized some of the text in this new and updated version. This amazing audio will teach you how... Read more

Astronomy I

By: James Kaler

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a journey through fascinating outer worlds that lay beyond the earth's sphere.We begin with a unifying overview of the Universe that provides a broad context into which we place the objects of our planetary system. The course then divides into four overlapping portions, exploring the Earth and the layout of the sky, examining the physical... Read more

Odyssey of the West I

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in... Read more

The Masters of Enterprise

By: H.W. Brands

Narrated by: H.W. Brands

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the formation of the American Republic the principles of free enterprise and equal opportunity have been at the very core of economic philosophy. During the revolution, colonists fought not only for intangibles like "liberty" and "justice," but also for the promises of a free market that provided everyone with the opportunity to pursue... 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

Weight Loss Forever!

By: Linda Gabriel

Narrated by: Linda Gabriel

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What if I told you that it’s as important to manage the thoughts you feed yourself as it is to manage the food you eat? What if your physical condition is simply a reflection of your inner world? Perhaps in the past you have managed to lose weight through diet and exercise alone. However if you didn’t address the underlying subconscious thoughts... Read more

Love in 90 Days:

By: Diana Kirschner

Narrated by: Diana Kirschner

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Kirschner, Ph.D., knows the questions single women everywhere face: "Why am I attracted to the wrong kind of guys?" "Why is he just not that into me?" "Why can't I seem to find the One?" In LOVE IN 90 DAYS, Dr. Diana reveals the secrets to finding Mr. Right and the crucial steps single women can take to create fulfilling love that lasts.... Read more

Christianity at the Crossroads

By: Thomas F. Madden

Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed history professor Thomas F. Madden explores the reformations that swept across Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The impact of these reforms affected government, popes, and kings as well as commoners, for at this time the Church was an omnipresent part of European identity-and the import of Church reforms on every... Read more

Odyssey of the West II

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more

De la confianza ficticia a la confianza real

By: Krishnananda y Amana

Narrated by: Monica Steuer

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A menudo mostramos la tendencia de cerrarnos a quienes nos han herido; al hacerlo, tambien nos cerramos a nosotros mismos y a nuestra conexion con el Universo. Aunque no seamos conscientes de sentir el dolor, esta forma de cerrarse es muy dolorosa y es causa de muchas enfermedades fisicas o psicologicas. Cuando no cerramos, nos retiramos a un... 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

Astronomy II

By: James Kaler

Narrated by: James Kaler

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As huge and prominent as it appears to us, our planet and solar system are but small parts of our galaxy, a massive assembly that spatters the sky with billions of stars and that extends away from us for tens of thousands of light years. And this galaxy of ours is in turn but a small portion of the universe of trillions of other galaxies that... Read more

Winston Churchill

By: John Ramsden

Narrated by: John Ramsden

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill was seen even in his own lifetime as a historic figure, one of the great men of world history, commemorated all across the world (but especially among the English-speaking peoples) in statues, memorials, streets and schools named after him, and in a plethora of stamps, medals, plates, and other such memorabilia. By his own... Read more

Price of Prosperity

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

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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

Blood in the Cage

By: L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on unique access to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and its rival organizations, Blood in the Cage peers through the chain-link Octagon into the frighteningly seductive world of mixed martial arts, which has exploded in popularity despite resistance. Wertheim focuses on Pat Miletich, who runs the most famous MMA training school in... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 08 - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prinz Eugen kämpft erfolgreich gegen die Türken, trägt im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg Siege davon und fördert als Mäzen Kunst und Wissenschaft. Doch das 18. Jahrhundert wird zum Schauplatz für andere werden: Maria Theresia und Friedrich der Große. Ein kulturgeschichtlicher Überblick in bissiger Rosendorfer-Manier. Read more

A. Lincoln

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 27 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this important new biography, Ronald C. White, Jr. offers a fresh and fascinating definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity—what today’s commentators are calling “authenticity”—whose internal moral compass is the key to understanding his life. Through meticulous research, utilizing recently discovered Lincoln letters, legal papers, and... Read more

Elsewhere, U.S.A.

By: Dalton Conley

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How many of us talk to our children while... Read more

Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo #16: Bad Rap

By: Nancy Krulik

Narrated by: Anne Bobby

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Katie and Suzanne are so excited-they won tickets to see their favorite rock group, the Bayside Boys, at the Cherrydale Arena! And not only do they get to see the show, but they get to attend the dress rehearsal and go backstage to hang out with the group! But when the magic wind turns Katie into one of the band members in the middle of the... Read more

The Inheritance

By: David E. Sanger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times examines the effect the Bush Administration’s foreign and domestic policies will have on global politics.

This trenchant analysis of the Bush Administration’s legacy is a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the foreign policy decisions that have come out of the White House in the last... Read more

American Grit

By: Tony Blankley

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans need to toughen up, personally, culturally, and as a national fighting force, if we are to survive the unprecedented threat from Islamist assault. So says New York Times bestselling author Tony Blankley in his new book, American Grit. In it, Blankley prescribes a three-pronged approach, and lays out a compelling plan for the US to... Read more

Voluntary Madness

By: Norah Vincent

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Norah Vincent’s bestselling book of investigative journalism, Self-Made Man, ended on a harrowing note. Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. On the advice of her psychologist, she committed herself to a mental institution.Vincent’s new journey takes her... Read more

Speaking of Freedom - Abridged

By: George H.W. Bush

Narrated by: George H.W. Bush

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of his inauguration and the commission of the USS George H.W. Bush, a collection of the forty-first president’s speeches.  

Here, in his own words, is the record of George H.W. Bush’s presidency. Chosen and annotated by former President Bush, these forty-two speeches reflect his concerns, his political... Read more