Nonfiction audiobooks

No Angel

By: Jay Dobyns & Nils Johnson-Shelton

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but... Read more

How to Be a Billionaire

By: Martin S. Fridson

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Self-made billionaires all have one thing in common: they excel at making money. But hard work, thrift, and focus are only part of the story—you hold the rest of it in your hands. How to Be a Billionaire is the first comprehensive picture of the real strategies and tactics that built the great business fortunes of modern times. Packed with... Read more

Healing and Preventing Autism

By: Jenny McCarthy & Jerry Kartzinel MD

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2006, autism has become the leading disorder affecting children in the United States. As children continue to be diagnosed at epidemic rates and parents struggle to find help, a school of DAN (Defeat Autism Now) pediatricians has been pioneering therapies and treatments that help reverse the effects of autism. DAN doctors have discovered... Read more

The Golden Willow

By: Harry Bernstein

Narrated by: Mike Kellogg

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“The golden willow was the first tree we had planted when we came here to live, and Ruby and I had good reason for doing that. Only it was a secret that we kept to ourselves.” Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In his first book, The Invisible Wall, he told a... Read more

High-Tech India Contrasts with Rural Ways

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

India has benefited from supplying other countries with outsourcing services from computer help to legal document analysis, while in other parts of the country poor farmers are struggling to make a living. NewsHour special correspondent Simon Marks reports on the two Indias. Read more

The Pursuit of Perfect

By: Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to be perfect? Or do you want to be happy?



We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way—to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one... Read more

Work Hard. Be Nice.

By: Jay Mathews

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly... Read more

Der 30jährige Krieg - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Detlef Kügow & Claus Brockmeyer

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Was ursprünglich als Religionskrieg begonnen hatte, entwickelte sich rasch zu einer blutigen, nationalen Auseinandersetzung europäischer Großmächte. Deutschland wurde zum Schlachtfeld der Franzosen, Spanier, Österreicher und Schweden. Als die Waffen nach 30 Jahren endlich schwiegen und in Münster und in Osnabrück 1648 der Westfälische Frieden... Read more

Krebs - Abridged

By: Klaus Kayser

Narrated by: Torsten Michaelis

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie kommt es zum unkontrollierten Zellwachstum und was sind typische Ausbreitungsmuster und Symptome? Inwieweit ist Krebs erblich bedingt und welche Rolle spielen falsche Ernährung, Rauchen und andere Umwelteinflüsse? Übersichtlich und kenntnisreich bietet Klaus Kayser Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen und zeigt, was jeder Einzelne tun kann,... Read more

Der Wert des Lebens - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welchen Wert hat individuelles, menschliches Leben? Zunächst steht die subjektive Perspektive, in der wir Risiken für unser Leben eingehen und damit implizit eine Bewertung vornehmen. Diese subjektive Perspektive ist allerdings mit einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen verbunden, darunter dem, was überhaupt als vergleichbar gelten kann. Dem wird... Read more

Über menschliche Freiheit - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unser Gefühl frei zu sein, Entscheidungen nach Abwägung des Für und Wider zu treffen und dann auch dafür die Verantwortung zu tragen, Autoren unseres Lebens zu sein, wird heute von einigen Neurowissenschaftlern, aber von je her von Deterministen unterschiedlicher Couleur, als eine Illusion bezeichnet. Julian Nida-Rümelin entwickelt in diesem... Read more

Die Menschenrechte sind universell - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Am 10. Dezember 1948 verabschiedeten die noch jungen Vereinten Nationen die "Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte", die zur Grundlage völkerrechtlich verbindlicher Verträge in Gestalt des sogenannten Zivil- und des Sozialpaktes und weiterer völkerrechtlicher Vereinbarungen wurde. Julian Nida-Rümelin erläutert in diesem Vortrag anlässlich des... Read more

Demokratie und Wahrheit - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Entgegen der verbreiteten Auffassung, das Wahrheitsansprüche in der Demokratie unangemessen seien, begründet Nida-Rümelin die These, dass ohne normative Wahrheitsansprüche die demokratische Gesellschaft und Politik undenkbar seien. Die demokratische Ordnung beruht auf normativen Überzeugungen, wie die der Toleranz aus Respekt und der gleichen... Read more

Alexander der Große - Abridged

By: Ralf Behrwald

Narrated by: Ralf Behrwald

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alexander der Große, der von 336 323 v. Chr. regierte, war nicht nur einer der größten Eroberer der Weltgeschichte. Seine Eroberung des Perserreichs bereitete zugleich den Boden für die Hellenisierung weiter Teile des östlichen Mittelmeerraumes, die bis zum Fall von Byzanz 1453 und darüber hinaus wirken sollte. Zugleich markiert Alexanders... Read more

Age Is Just a Number

By: Dara Torres & Elizabeth Weil

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.

Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive... Read more

American History, 1877 to the Present, Second Edition

By: Mary Jane Capozzoli Ingui

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 23 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

A Mother for All Seasons

By: Debbie Phelps

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Mother for All Seasons is the heartfelt, intimate memoir of an everywoman—a single mom and an educator who raised three exceptional children, including the greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps.During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, when Michael achieved the impossible with his record-shattering eight gold-medal wins, Debbie Phelps... Read more

A History of Europe

By: J. M. Roberts

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 37 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions, has managed to exert so profound an influence on the rest of the world? Roberts’ sweeping and entertaining history notes the paradoxical effect, for good and ill, on everything touched by those Western values that originated in Europe.Beginning... Read more

Eine Reise durch Schottland

By: Kai Schwind

Narrated by: Matthias Keller, Sabine Mazay & Kai Schwind

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Reise beginnt in Edinburgh mit dem ohrenbeteubenden Knall der "One o'clock" Kanone, die jeden Tag pünktlich abgefeuert wird. Kunst, Kultur und ein Abstecher in die geheimnissvolle Unterwelt von Schottlands Hauptstadt stehen auf dem Programm. Danach erwarten uns die Highlands mit sagenumwobenen Schlössern und atemberaubenden Landschaften. Die... Read more

Choose Them Wisely

By: Mike Dooley

Narrated by: Mike Dooley

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Living the life of your dreams isn’t just about dreaming: it’s also about living—following your impulses, turning over every stone, and stepping out into the world so the wind can catch your sails. All that stands between you and the fulfillment of your dreams is what you think and what you do. To those in the know, it’s as if your dreams paint... Read more

I'm Hosting as Fast as I Can!

By: Tom Bergeron

Narrated by: Tom Bergeron

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of John O’Hurley’s It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump and Chelsea Handler’s Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Daytime Emmy-winner Tom Bergeron—host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos—offers a series of humorous and inspirational stories on surviving Hollywood, including behind-the-camera... Read more

Vanished Smile

By: R.A. Scotti

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest... Read more

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] paean to feminism and the solidarity of womenkind. . . . This book is a celebration of women in their various roles: mother, sister, civil rights advocate, consumer advocate, first-class mechanic, politician—which Roberts’ own mother once was.”
—Washington Post “The perfect combination of powerful feelings and a modulated style.”
— Los... Read more

The Living Universe

By: Duane Elgin

Narrated by: Robin Haynes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The author of the classic, bestselling book, "Voluntary Simplicity" (nearly 150,000 copies sold), shows how an exciting, new understanding of the nature of the universe has far-reaching implications for how we can better live our everyday lives, improve our communities, and meet the enormous challenges of our time. Read more