Nonfiction audiobooks
Outcasts United
By: Warren St. John
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more
Red Orchestra
By: Anne Nelson
Narrated by: Anne Nelson
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This riveting account of German resistance is based on years of research by the distinguished journalist Anne Nelson. This is a beautiful and moving portrait of ordinary but heroic figures—an untold story of a circle of Germans and German-Americans in Berlin who took a principled stand against Hitler and the Holocaust. They expressed their... Read more
View audiobookThe First Tycoon
By: T.J. Stiles
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 28 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.
Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose... Read more
Stop the Retirement Rip-off
By: David B. Loeper
Narrated by: Erik Synnesvetd
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
How much more secure would your retirement be with an extra $100,000 or more?
What would you do if you could retire three years earlier?
What would you do in retirement with an extra $7,000 per year?
While it may seem too good to be true, you can achieve these retirement goals, if you learn how to put the expenses of your retirement plan—whether... Read more
The Power of Small
By: Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval
Narrated by: Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The authors of the national bestseller THE POWER OF NICE once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers.
Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our biggest goals, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval.... Read more
The Day We Found the Universe
By: Marcia Bartusiak
Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it possible.
On January 1, 1925, thity-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that... Read more
The Think Big Manifesto
By: Michael Port
Narrated by: Michael Port
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Every year, millions of people fall victim to a debilitating disease—a disease that cripples careers, destroys relationships, and undermines the health and happiness of the entire world. This disease is responsible for poverty, crime, war, natural disasters, and our economic ills. It has had no name until now—it's called small thinking. Its... Read more
View audiobookHow to Win a Cosmic War
By: Reza Aslan
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other.
The hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. According to... Read more
Curious? - Abridged
By: Todd Kashdan
Narrated by: Todd Kashdan
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Curious? is one of those rare books that can make you rethink how you see the world.”
—Arianna Huffington “This is the perfect book to read when you are having second thoughts about challenging yourself to explore that next step in life!”
—Stephen Post, Ph.D., coauthor of Why Good Things Happen to Good People
Discover the missing ingredient to a... Read more
Outcasts United - Abridged
By: Warren St. John
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more
Emperors of the Ice
By: Richard Farr
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1909, every continent had been thoroughly explored . . . except one. That September, Captain Robert F. Scott announced a new scientific expedition that would put Antarctica firmly on the map at last and claim the South Pole for Great Britain. Twenty-three-year-old Apsley Cherry-Garrard was asked to join. With no special skills, and terrible... Read more
View audiobookFinding Grace
By: Donna VanLiere
Narrated by: Donna VanLiere
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires—even the simplest ones—are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God... Read more
View audiobookSummer World
By: Bernd Heinrich
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
As the snow melts and the spring approaches, the animal kingdom awakens. In Summer World, Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, brings us an up-close and personal view of that awakening and rebirth.
Almost all life on the surface of the earth derives its energy from the sun, either directly through photosynthesis or indirectly... Read more
American History to 1877
By: Robert D. Geise
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more
View audiobookThe Unforgiving Minute
By: Craig M. Mullaney
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Craig M. Mullaney's education had been relentlessly preparing him for this moment. The four years he spent at West Point and the harrowing test of Ranger School readied him for a career in the Army. His subsequent experience as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford couldn't have been further from the Army and his working-class roots, and yet the unorthodox... Read more
View audiobookHouse of Cards
By: William D. Cohan
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 25 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had... Read more
View audiobookUranium
By: Tom Zoellner
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order—whoever could master uranium could master the world.
Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to... Read more
Boy Clinton
By: R. Emmett Tyrrell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., editor-in-chief of The American Spectator, traces the formative influences on the young, fatherless Clinton by the hustlers and rogues who populated his boyhood hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tyrrell shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton’s real political models, and... Read more
View audiobookHana's Suitcase
By: Karen Levine
Narrated by: Stephanie Wolfe
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children’s Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind – the German word for orphan.Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko... Read more
View audiobookThe Solution
By: Joe Vitale
Narrated by: Joe Vitale
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Looking for answers to the challenges you face today? Want to know how to thrive (not just survive) in today's tough times? Dr. Joe Vitale has The Solution! Best-selling author and one of the standout stars of the hit movie "The Secret", Dr. Joe Vitale goes beyond feel good pep talks to reveal the real solution to attracting miracles in every... Read more
View audiobookRainbow's End
By: Lauren St. John
Narrated by: Bianca Amato
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This searingly honest memoir describes growing up on an African farm during the Rhodesian Bush War and the twilight years of white colonialism in the 1970s. It also explores the shock yet euphoria of Zimbabwean independence in the 1980s as St John navigates her way through the immense personal and political changes.
The abundance and beauty of... Read more
Classical Mythology
By: Peter Meineck
Narrated by: Peter Meineck
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed... Read more
View audiobookWilbur and Orville
By: Fred Howard
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: 21 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Wrights' longest flight in 1903 covered 852 feet and lasted 59 seconds. In 1905, Wilbur flew 24 miles in 38 minutes and the issue was no longer how to fly but how to cash in. Their effort to exploit their invention is a suspense story of the best kind; their voyage into flight and into American history is a gripping tale from takeoff to... Read more
View audiobookThe Money Magpie
By: Vermillion
Narrated by: Jasmine Birtles
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Jasmine Birtles believes that anyone can be better off, she just needs to show you how…
Packed full of practical financial advice and brilliant money-saving ideas, The Money Magpie shows you how to spend less, make more and invest what's left over, even in hard times. Based on this key idea, Jasmine tells you how to:
- be the King or Queen of cash... Read more