Nonfiction audiobooks

Transformational Speaking

By: Gail Larsen

Narrated by: Gail Larsen

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's challenging times call for passionate visionaries who are authentic and articulate communicators. Speaking coach and consultant Gail Larsen presents a proven program that liberates the "speaker within" and transforms even the reluctant orator into an agent of change.While most programs on public speaking focus on a polished presentation... Read more

Real Solutions for Busy Moms

By: Kathy Ireland

Narrated by: Kathy Ireland

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ready for real solutions?  Are you a mom who is feeling overwhelmed and unappreciated? Are you trying to balance a marriage and raising kids with managing a household, a budget, and a career? Need help? Do you want real solutions... right now? Kathy Ireland understands. She’s been there as a wife, a mother of three, and the CEO of an... Read more

Re-imagine!

By: Tom Peters

Narrated by: Tom Peters

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Peters sees a problem with the way people do business today: Those who like to get things done are thwarted by absurd organizational barriers and by the egos of petty tyrants. His vision: Employees who dance from project to project; enterprise that reduces the bureaucracy to almost nothing; societies that educate their young to break the... Read more

Catastrophe

By: Deborah Strober

Narrated by: Connor Trinneer

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this comprehensive account of Bernie Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme, Catastrophe exposes the real story behind the financial mastermind's upstanding façade—his confession, his family's involvement, and his unlikely rise and incredible crash. The book defines and explains the whole diabolical debacle, including how Madoff evaded SEC watchdogs and... Read more

John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

By: John Piper

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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Masters of Sex

By: Thomas Maier

Narrated by: Dorie Barton

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in the 1950s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson convinced hundreds of people to shed their clothes and copulate—in the name of science. For more than 40 years, the pair served as the nation's top experts on love, sex, and intimacy. In this eye-opening work, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier presents an unprecedented look... Read more

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

By: Giulia Melucci

Narrated by: Giulia Melucci

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early '90s, Giulia Melucci moved out of the Brooklyn home where she was raised full of romantic hopes and her mother’s excellent Italian cooking. She dreamed of finding the perfect guy, but fresh ingredients were scarce. After nearly twenty years of New York City dating she had nothing more than a slew of broken relationships under her... Read more

Practicing Catholic

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

James Carroll delivers a tour-de-force look at what it means to be a Catholic today--set against the rich history of the Catholic Church in America. Brilliantly wresting meaning from the historical, social and religious strands of his story, Carroll illuminates the Church's transformation from reactionary monolith to an institution in which the... Read more

Life Is Like a Sailboat

By: John Grogan

Narrated by: John Larroquette

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From columnist and author of Marley and Me, John Grogan, comes a collection of more than 80 newspaper articles. In pieces that reflect his unique understanding of the crazy-quilt world we inhabit, Grogan shows us all sides of the human condition. From the fragility of life at a crosswalk to cell phones driving us to distraction (as we drive!),... Read more

Dis papa, l'amour c'est quoi - Abridged

By: Jacques Salomé

Narrated by: Jacques Salomé

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mon propos s'adresse essentiellement à des femmes et à des hommes qui souhaiteraient, dans leurs réponses ou leurs tentatives d'exploration du vaste sujet de l'amour, ne pas leurrer leurs enfants, ou veiller à ne pas entretenir des mythologies et des fables, des songes et des mensonges, autour de ce qui est peut-être la plus belle aventure... Read more

Joker One

By: Donovan Campbell

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Donovan Campbell's platoon deployed to Ramadi in the spring of 2004, they believed they'd be spending most of their time building schools, training police, and making friends with the citizens. But shortly after arriving, when Campbell awoke to the chilling cry of "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad!" echoing from minaret to minaret across the city, he... Read more

Always Looking Up - Abridged

By: Michael J. Fox

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and... Read more

Always Looking Up - Abridged

By: Michael J. Fox

Narrated by: Michael J. Fox

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and... Read more

The Last Stand of Fox Company

By: Tom Clavin & Bob Drury

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the... Read more

Casanova

By: John Masters

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Giacomo Casanova’s reputation rests largely on his obsession with women, but he was much more than the great eighteenth-century lover. Lawyer, mathematician, poet, translator, and librarian who was fluent in several languages, he was described by one contemporary as “the most civilized man in Europe.” That he was also a con man, cabalist, spy,... Read more

Tough Terms for GM, Chrysler

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Former President Barack Obama outlined tough terms for continued federal aid for failing auto giants General Motors and Chrysler. White House advisor Austan Goolsbee, a member of the auto task force details the plan. Read more

Live Through This

By: Debra Gwartney

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country, to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other... Read more

Feel First/Think Later, Finding Your Way to Emotional Freedom

By: Raphael Cushnir

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are there places in your life where you feel blocked? Is your career or your relationship not what you thought it would be? Are you still struggling with an addiction to smoking or food? Raphael Cushnir believes that whenever we struggle, or whenever we feel unable to accomplish the things that matter to us, there’s an emotion waiting to be... Read more

Paul

By: Frederick Brotherton Meyer

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Why some sheep hear the Shepherd’s voice and follow, while others persist is one of those secrets which are not revealed as yet to the children of men.”“But as the eye of omniscient love glanced down the ages, it must have lighted with peculiar pleasure on the eager, devoted soul of Paul. God foreknew and predestined him. The divine purpose,... Read more

Against All Hope

By: Armando Valladares

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a history of the Cuban revolution viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his twenty-two years of torment and triumph in Castro’s prison. Arrested at the age of twenty-two for being philosophically opposed to Communism, he gives a dramatic and harrowing account of the regular beatings, the hunger, the humiliation, and the... Read more

The Persian Night

By: Amir Taheri

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the US embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States; as a revolutionary regime, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. As a nation-state, Iran is not concerned with the Palestinian issue; but as a revolutionary cause, the... Read more

Liberty and Tyranny

By: Mark R. Levin

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin's #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.

When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency, Americans responded by making his clarion call for a new era in... Read more

Beyond the Yellow Star to America

By: Inge Auerbacher

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1942, when she is seven, Inge Auerbacher and her family are torn from their comfortable home in Germany and sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. In 1945, they are freed from the camp and emigrate to America. Their survival seems like a miracle. But once they settle in New York, Inge, who is now eleven, is imprisoned again. This... Read more

Happens Every Day

By: Isabel Gillies

Narrated by: Isabel Gillies

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life—a handsome, intelligent, loving husband who was a professor; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house in their Midwestern college town; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, the life Isabel had made crumbled. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving... Read more