Nonfiction audiobooks

The Africans

By: David Lamb

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

David Lamb, critically-acclaimed author of The Arabs, spent four years in Africa as a news correspondent, traveling through 48 of its countries. Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent. It offers colorful, close-up views of presidents, peasants, guerilla leaders, and... Read more

Mortgage Meltdown

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the latest report of his Making Sen$e series, Paul Solman talks to New York Times economics reporter Ed Andrews, who chronicles his personal tale of the mortgage crisis in Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown. Read more

Plain, Honest Men

By: Richard Beeman

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Constitutional Convention affected nothing less than a revolution in the nature of the American government. Led by James Madison, a small cohort of delegates devised a plan that would radically alter the balance of power between state and national governments, and then sprung that idea on a largely unsuspecting convention. The success of... Read more

How the Mighty Fall

By: Jim Collins

Narrated by: Jim Collins

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

""Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.""—Jim CollinsDecline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed.Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early... Read more

Who's Got Your Back

By: Keith Ferrazzi

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman” and the rest of our culture’s go-it alone mentality. The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous... Read more

Ted Kennedy

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off before the promise of a better future could be realized, Ted lived... Read more

We Two

By: Gillian Gill

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery... Read more

Counterclockwise

By: Ellen J. Langer

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically?For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents a conclusive answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of presuming impossibility, can lead... Read more

Recollections of a Truant Officer

By: Alfred Canecchia

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Recollections of a Truant Officer” is a collection of on the job anecdotes. It traces the journey of a classroom teacher in the N.Y.C. Public schools in the inner city. He notices that some of his absent students live on the same block as the school. He decides to visit them during his lunch period. While entering a building, he is... Read more

The American Future

By: Simon Schama

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” —Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of  Rough Crossings offers an... Read more

Whittaker Chambers

By: Sam Tanenhaus

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad—including still-classified KGB dossiers—Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's... Read more

Lost Boy

By: Brent W. Jeffs & Maia Szalavitz

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and... Read more

The Inside Story of Afghanistan

By: Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For millennia the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies, and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, Tartar, and in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. Many people in the U.S. have no idea of the hidden dimensions that lay beneath the current... Read more

Think Smart

By: Richard Restak

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Think Smart, the renowned neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak details how each of us can improve and tone our body's most powerful organ: the brain.



As an expert on the brain, Restak knows that in the last five years there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain and its performance. So he has asked his... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 1

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Avery Brooks

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Basketball legend and New York Times bestselling author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life. ". a knowledgeable, passionate tour guide ."-New York Times Read more

The Shift Soundtrack

By: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Narrated by: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the music soundtrack behind the film The Shift,
starring Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.

Music by Ethan Lipton and Christopher Ferreira

In The Shift, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explores the spiritual journey from ambition to meaning. The powerful shift from the ego constructs we are taught early in life by parents and society-which promote an emphasis on... Read more

The Geopolitics Emotion

By: Dominique Moisi

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post - Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion Dominique Moïsi, a leading authority on international affairs, demonstrates that our... Read more

Bubba Talks

By: Dan Jenkins

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most acclaimed sportswriters, Dan Jenkins has won countless fans with his bawdy sense of humor. Bubba Talks is a series of reflections from the quintessential American redneck-a lover of hot ladies, football, cheeseburgers, and Firebirds. Read more

Spiritual Beings In A Material World

By: Charles Tart, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Facing the conflict between materialistic science and spirituality and bringing the reality of human spirituality into the public discourse is the work and the mission of Charles Tart. He shares scientific evidence for reincarnation, telepathy, psychic healing, and more. Read more

The Housing Boom and Bust

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mortgages, and the even more “creative” marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the... Read more

The Boston Stranglers

By: Susan Kelly

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in June, 1962, the Boston, Massachusetts, area was terrorized for eighteen months by an elusive serial killer who sexually assaulted and strangled to death a succession of women. Boasting that he was the killer and that he had raped an additional two thousand victims, Albert DeSalvo's horrific "confession" became the subject of a... Read more

Investing in the Bank of You and Me

By: Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Greco has a solution for our economy. With his fresh perspective on money, credit, and…well…civilization, he believes we can save our economy and our planet by reconstructing our financial system-and find ourselves happier and healthier in the bargain. Read more

The Sticking Point Solution

By: Jay Abraham

Narrated by: Jay Abraham

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Businesses can plateau, stall, or stagnate…without the owners or key executives even realizing it. A business might be achieving incremental year-on-year growth and yet still be in a situation of stagnation or stall. Why? Because entrepreneurs and executives often focus on the wrong things and don’t know how to solve the problems that get their... Read more

Music, Music for Everyone

By: Vera B. Williams

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosa's grandma is sick and must stay upstairs in bed. And so the big chair in the living room is often empty. And the money jar--in which the family saved their change to buy the big red chair and Rosa's accordion--is empty too. All extra money must be used to take care of Grandma.After school Rosa and her friends Leora, Mae, and Jenny often... Read more