Nonfiction audiobooks

Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever

By: Leroy “Satchel” Paige

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Leroy "Satchel" Paige was forty-two years old when he became the first African American pitcher in the American League in 1948. Although he was the oldest rookie around, he had already become a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled fans with his performance in the Negro Major Leagues. He outlasted everyone by playing... Read more

Live Your Joy

By: Noah St. John

Narrated by: Noah St. John

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Joy is something that comes from the inside out. It feels like a flowing grace, a feeling of goodness all around, a sense of well-being through good and bad. It is love, gratitude, faith, and empowerment all wrapped together. Joy deepens our experiences. It opens us to seeing a more beautiful sunset, appreciating rather than fault finding, to... Read more

The Little Book of Main Street Money

By: Jonathan Clements

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Little Book of Main Street Money, Clements brings us back to basics, with common sense suggestions for intelligent money management. Chock-full of financial guidance that will stand up in any market, the book also reflects a financial philosophy that Clements has developed over a lifetime of watching Wall Street and writing about money -... Read more

The Power Positive Confrontation:

By: Susan Barbara & Magee Pachter

Narrated by: Magee Pachter & Susan Barbara

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When slighted, misunderstood, cut-in-front-of, annoyed, taken advantage of, or treated rudely, most people avoid their bosses, ignore co-workers, change hairdressers, complain to friends, shout and pound their fists. They often miss the most positive, effective alternative of all: confronting positively.
Now, for everyone who was never taught, or... Read more

Mysteries of Food Cravings

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to author Dr. David Kessler about overeating and what is behind people's cravings, the subject of his new book, The End of Overeating. Read more

Glenn Beck's Common Sense

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation’s... Read more

Closing Time

By: Joe Queenan

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop culture have made him one of the most popular humorists and commentators of our time. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s.... Read more

The Game - Abridged

By: Neil Strauss

Narrated by: Neil Strauss

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women.This is not fiction.For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity, he began his... Read more

Owning Up

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Owning Up

Your world as a director has suddenly changed. You've seen members of other boards take the heat when their companies imploded. The managements of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Washington Mutual clearly failed, but so did their boards. Now the board of every company beset with problems is coming under scrutiny.

The... Read more

The Search for Aliens

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lynne Koplitz

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to believe? Seth Shostak of SETI talks about his hunt for aliens in this show about the search for life beyond Earth.Scientists have been searching for aliens in our solar system and beyond, but have not yet found evidence that life exists beyond Earth. SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has been scanning the stars... Read more

Go Down Together

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Previous books and films have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real story is completely different—and far more fascinating.

With newly discovered material, bestselling author Jeff Guinn tells the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love... Read more

The Last Man On the Moon - Abridged

By: Eugene Cernan

Narrated by: Eugene Cernan

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of a unique American hero who came of age as an astronaut during the few dramatic years when man reached the moon. Cernan's career spanned the entire Apollo program, from the tragic fire that killed three of his comrades on Apollo 1, through the moment when he left man's last footprint on the moon as commander of Apollo 17.This... Read more

In Pursuit of Elegance

By: Matthew E. May

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darned irresistible? What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks? The answer is elegance.Matthew May explores why certain events, products, and people... Read more

And Then There's This

By: Bill Wasik

Narrated by: Bill Wasik

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged • 6 hours

An entertaining and eye-opening look into the new frontier of idea making. Read more

The Great Escape

By: Paul Brickhill

Narrated by: Robert Whitfield

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred American and British air force officers, every single one of them, every minute, every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade... Read more

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his... Read more

The Last Best Hope

By: Joe Scarborough

Narrated by: Joe Scarborough

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book, Joe Scarborough tells Republican Party bosses what they don’t want to hear, explains why Democrats are making matters so much worse, and then shows leaders of both parties the way forward.

The Last Best Hope draws on the forgotten genius of conservatism to offer a road map for the movement and the country. Delivering... Read more

Satchel

By: Larry Tye

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige

“Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe

Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in... Read more

Would You Be A Space Tourist?

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Lynne Koplitz

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Branson has formed Virgin Galactic and is now taking reservations aboard the maiden voyage of SpaceShipOne. Would you spend the estimated $200,000 for a 45-minute trip into space? Neil and Lynne also discuss the mechanics of sex in space.Co-host:
Lynne KoplitzGuests:
Robert K. Weiss: President and Vice Chairman of the X Prize Foundation,... Read more

The Sages

By: Charles Morris

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Three titans of finance predicted the current economic crisis several years ago, but their warnings went unheeded. A New York Times bestselling author distills the wisdom of all three.

Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros,... Read more

The Ascent of George Washington

By: John Ferling

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day. Now John Ferling peers behind that image, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics but a canny... Read more

Saving Freedom

By: Jim DeMint

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States—the world's great bastion of freedom—is sliding toward socialism. Recent high-profile bailouts show the walls between government and the private sector are getting thinner each day. Federal control now extends in various ways to education, healthcare, financial markets, real estate, businesses, and religion. And as... Read more

40 More Years

By: Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza & James Carville

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Every four years Americans hold a presidential election. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's life. But 2008 was an anomaly. The election of President Barack Obama is about something far bigger than four or even eight years in the White House. Since 2004, Americans have been witnessing and participating in the emergence of a Democratic... Read more

I Hate People!

By: Marc Hershon & Jonathan Littman

Narrated by: Jonathan Littman & Marc Hershon

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Face it, whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I HATE PEOPLE!, a smart, counter-intuitive, andirreverentturn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify theTen Least Wanted--the people you... Read more