Nonfiction audiobooks
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." This was one of the most famous catch-phrases of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Rising from poverty-stricken Louisville in the 1950s he became one of the world's greatest athletes. Beginning life as Cassius Clay, Ali would struggle against opponents both in and out of the ring. Segregation and racism... Read more
View audiobookFabric of America
By: Andro Linklater
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Using the same blend of narrative and rhetorical brilliance that made his critically acclaimed debut history so successful, Andro Linklater begins with premier U.S. surveyor Andrew Ellicott calculating the Pennsylvania-Virginia border in 1784- using telescope, chronograph, and astronomical tables. As pioneers move westward, Ellicott and his kind... Read more
View audiobookIshi in Two Worlds
By: Theodora Kroeber
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse... Read more
View audiobookA Little Bit Wicked
By: Kristin Chenoweth & Joni Rodgers
Narrated by: Kristin Chenoweth
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"Life's too short. I'm not." You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV-The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street...oh, and her huge... Read more
View audiobookDeception
By: Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 21 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned investigative journalists. In Deception, they reveal the decades-long story of Pakistan's nuclear program-and how the United States has been complicit in the spread of nuclear arms. Based on hundreds of interviews from around the world, this work will force Americans to reexamine... Read more
View audiobookHastened To the Grave
By: Jack Olsen
Narrated by: Susie Breck
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked the story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do, and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family - the Tene Bimbos. Fay Fanon, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay... Read more
View audiobookShopping
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In Slumping Economy, a Shift in Shopping HabitsA leading retail consultant discusses why this recession may change consumer behavior permanently. Read more
View audiobookContando con tu alma
By: Eric Rolf
Narrated by: George Bass
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
oTe gustaria saber ... -En que se inspiro Dios cuando te creo? -Cual es realmente tu razon de ser y vivir? -Cual es el ca'mino que solo tu puedes andar? -Que talentos y dones solo tu puedes expresar? La Numerologia del Alma forma parte del paradigma de la Medicina del Alma, junto con el codigo secreto del cuerpo y el idioma creativo interior. La... Read more
View audiobookAdelgazar para siempre
By: Ana Martos
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
La obesidad es un mal de nuestro tiempo que origina numerosas enfermedades y que afecta cada vez a un mayor numero de personas. Principalmente esta causada por una conducta alimentaria caracterizada por comer mal, sin control, sin placer y a destiempo. Cuando el origen de la obesidad esta causada por ese tipo de conducta alimentaria, esta no se... Read more
View audiobookThe Disuniting of America
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The promise of America has always been that of a fresh economic start on equal footing. This is linked to the classic image of the republic as a melting pot, where differences of class, race, and religion are submerged in the pursuit of democracy. But today, the idea of assimilation into the mainstream is giving ground to the cult of ethnicity.... Read more
View audiobookRudyard Kipling
By: Andrew Lycett
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 29 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This gripping biography mixes intimate detail with a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time to unravel the intricate story of the misunderstood genius who wrote Kim, The Jungle Books, and the poem “If.”Growing up in both England and India, this descendant of a high-achieving family crossed... Read more
View audiobookExpanding Your Tribe Through Circles
By: Jalaja Bonheim, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Humans have been gathering in circles since we discovered fire. Circles are deeply ingrained in our collective consciousness and have a powerful resonance in our psyches - even today. Jalaja Bonheim sees circles as a key to healing the personal and global wounds we all face – as a way of reconnecting to our hearts, to our spirituality, and to... Read more
View audiobookSecrets, Plots, and Hidden Agendas
By: Paul T. Coughlin
Narrated by: Paul T. Coughlin
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Were the government actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco "planned executions?" Has the national debt been deliberately increased to give international bankers control over the country? Is there a secret organization of top political, economic, military, and religious leaders whose goal is to control the entire planet?The people who answer "yes" to... Read more
View audiobookAll God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes
By: Kenneth A. Myers
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Where did popular culture come from? Why is it the way it is? How does it influence Americans in general and Christians in particular? Ken Myers offers fascinating answers. He sees pop culture as a culture of diversion, preventing people from asking questions about their origin and destiny and about the meaning of life. Two aspects stand out: a... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Terror
By: Robert Conquest
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 30 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive work on Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. In recent years, even the former Soviet Union has come to call it the definitive account of the period. While the original volume relied heavily on unofficial sources, later developments within the Soviet Union provided an avalanche... Read more
View audiobookHating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes
By: David Horowitz
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The anti-white racism of the political left remains one of the few taboo subjects in America. In this book, David Horowitz, a former confidante of the Black Panthers, lays bare the liberal attack on “whiteness,” the latest battle in the war against American democracy.Horowitz acknowledges that America’s political culture is the creation of... Read more
View audiobookBenjamin Franklin
By: Carl Van Doren
Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
Length: 32 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin’s activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them.In this Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more
View audiobookLustige Fußgymnastik für Kinder - Hörbuch
By: Christian Larsen, Bea Miescher & Spiraldynamik ...
Narrated by: Antje Von der Ahe, Robert Schoen, Carmen Maja A...
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Zart und duftig und dabei so stark, um uns durch ein ganzes Leben zu tragen - das sind unsere Füße. Leider verkennen wir allzu oft ihren Wert. Wir verstecken diese Wunderwerke der Natur in finsterem Schuhwerk und kümmern uns kaum um sie. Ersparen wir doch unseren Kindern dieses Schicksal! Dieses Hörbuch basiert auf der erfolgreichen, von Dr.... Read more
View audiobookEmpire - Abridged
By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.Hughes had always been... Read more
View audiobookNPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions
By: NPR
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (“Velveteria”) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?
Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are... Read more
NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe
By: NPR
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s... Read more
View audiobookFor You, Mom. Finally.
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticulated truths of a generation of exceptional women
A former New York Times restaurant critic, editor in chief of Gourmet, and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl is a beloved cultural figure in the food world and beyond. Not Becoming My... Read more
Who Is Mark Twain?
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: John Lithgow
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Twain] was, in the phrase of his friend William Dean Howells, ‘the Lincoln of our literature’... At the heart of his work lies that greatest of all American qualities: irreverence.”
— Washington Post “More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern.... Ninety-nine years after... Read more
Perfectly Imperfect
By: Lee Woodruff
Narrated by: Lee Woodruff
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“You can tell a woman’s whole life story from the possessions in her jewelry box. Like reading a palm, you can trace the points where her life has intersected with memorable events, people, places, and loves. You can speculate on the essence of her personality, all from what she has accumulated in that box.”—from Perfectly Imperfect
In her... Read more