Nonfiction audiobooks

Toxic Asset Plan

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

While markets rose Monday on details of the toxic asset plan, critics voiced concern over taxpayer risk and the need for a long-term fix to financial sector troubles. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Donald Marron of Lightyear Capital debate the details. Read more

The Age of the Unthinkable

By: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Narrated by: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies... Read more

Sailing Alone Around the World, with eBook

By: Joshua Slocum

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Joshua Slocum is believed to be the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. After a distinguished nautical career, during which he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Turning this catastrophe to his advantage, he built a sailing canoe from the wreckage and sailed back to New... Read more

Master of War

By: Benson Bobrick

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this revelatory, dynamic biography, one of our finest historians, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh... Read more

Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss

By: Tom Davis

Narrated by: Tom Davis

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny, offbeat, and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities—Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Written by Tom Davis, an original SNL... Read more

From Oppression Springs Safety, Community, And Hope

By: Will Keepin, Ph.D., Sister Lucy Kurien & Chaya ...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sister Lucy created Maher, a model refuge for abused women and children in India. At Maher they receive shelter, food, and medicine—but also love, and the support of a community that can sustain them for a lifetime. And now, Sister Lucy stands strong at the center of a safety net that defies raging husbands, corrupt government officials, and the... Read more

Prehistory

By: Colin Renfrew

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory-human existence that predates the development of written records-while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself. Read more

Team Moon

By: Catherine Thimmesh

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When three heroic men traveled aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft bound for the moon, the entire world sat glued to their television sets in suspense. But few knew just how much it took to get that far. To put a man on the moon, thousands of people diligently worked behind the scenes. Countless preparations had to be made and no detail, however... Read more

Girls Think of Everything

By: Catherine Thimmesh

Narrated by: Karen Zippler

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Did you know Toll House Cookies were created accidentally in an old Toll House in Massachusetts by a woman hurrying to make a tasty snack for her patrons? And did you know that Liquid Paper (or white-out) was invented because of one small typing mistake? Often overshadowed by famous male inventors, women have also made many significant... Read more

Forever Blue

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Resented by some in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O’Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade major league baseball and altered the course of history in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles when he moved the Dodgers to California. But while many New York critics attacked him, O’Malley looked to... Read more

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan

By: James Mann

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, James Mann offers a fresh and compelling narrative—a new history assessing what Ronald Reagan did and did not do to help bring America's four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union to a close.



As he did so masterfully in Rise of the Vulcans, Mann sheds new light on the hidden aspects... Read more

The Boys of Summer

By: Roger Kahn

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is an audiobook by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good... Read more

Seeking Peace

By: Mary Pipher

Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each OtherLike most lives, Mary Pipher’s is filled with glory and tragedy, chaos and clarity, love and abandonment. She spent her childhood in small Midwestern towns, the nurturing daughter of a doctor mother and... Read more

Inside Rupert's Brain

By: Paul R. LaMonica

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt & Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

How the world’s most powerful media mogul really thinks!

Rupert Murdoch, the controversial chairman and CEO of News Corp., is the subject of endless gossip, speculation, and criticism. But what really drives his bold (and usually successful) gambles?

Based on comments from News Corp. executives and competitors and interviews with Wall Street... Read more

Hit the Ground Running

By: Jason Jennings

Narrated by: Jason Jennings

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Want to compete with the best of the best? Then hit the ground running. Here’s how.

The toughest job in business is taking over as a new leader. You have to quickly assess the situation, pull together a strong team, decide on a strategy, and inspire everyone to execute it.

The stakes for new leaders are even higher. Whether you’ve been brought on... Read more

Green Hell

By: Steve Milloy

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Everywhere you look, all you see is green. People are "living green," businesses are"going green," and consumers are "buying green." But soon, this trendy "green"lifestyle won't be voluntary. It will be mandatory.InGreen Hell,Steve Milloy shows how the government and environmental eliteswill soon have you under their green thumb, controlling the... Read more

The Mirror Effect

By: Drew Pinsky & S. Mark Young

Narrated by: Drew Pinsky

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eye-opening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and behavior specialist and producer/host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1, Dr. Drew Pinsky takes a hard look at the profound changes blogging, tweeting, tabloids, and reality TV are having on the American way of life. An important wake up call for... Read more

Picking Cotton

By: Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Erin...

Narrated by: Richard Allen & Karen White

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken—but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed... Read more

Stealing MySpace

By: Julia Angwin

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of MySpace, a powerhouse Internet company that rose from humble beginnings to become nothing less than one of the centerpieces of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. No one would have predicted that this company—barely funded, technologically inept, conceptually derivative, and driven by rivalries—would morph into the biggest... Read more

The Protector

By: Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether viewed as subjugator or protector, Oliver Cromwell was a titan of seventeenth-century England. Theologian J. H. Merle d’Aubigné wrote this 1847 biography for one purpose: “rectification of the common opinion with regard to Cromwell’s religious character.” And rectify it he does. Working from Cromwell’s letters and speeches, he reveals... Read more

Die Psychologie des Geldes - Abridged

By: Rüdiger Dahlke

Narrated by: Rüdiger Dahlke

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welche Macht hat Geld wirklich? Nach welchen Gesetzen funktioniert Reichtum? Der bekannte Arzt und Therapeut Ruediger Dahlke entlarvt Geldprobleme auf psychologischer Ebene und zeigt die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen auf. Mit seinen praktischen Ratschlägen und Übungen kann jeder wieder ein gesundes und entspanntes Verhältnis zum Geld... Read more

Meltdown

By: Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation. But the real blame lies elsewhere. In Meltdown, bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., unearths the real causes behind the collapse of housing values and the stock... Read more

Clever kommunizieren

By: Marion Recknagel & Heike Rohmann-van Wüllen

Narrated by: Gisa Bergmann & Gilles Karolyi

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Gehen Ihnen Dauernörgler auf die Nerven? Finden Sie es unmöglich, ständig unterbrochen zu werden? Oder platzt Ihnen der Kragen bei Leuten, die permanent gute Laune verbreiten? Dieses Hörbuch zeigt Ihnen typische "nervige Kommunikationsmuster" und gibt Ihnen Tipps, wie Sie konstruktiv reagieren können. Sie lernen also, wie Sie clever und gelassen... Read more

30 Minuten Delegieren

By: Hans J. Kratz

Narrated by: Sonngard Dressler, Heiko Grauel & Michael Deckner

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Delegation zählt zu den wirksamsten Managementmethoden. Delegation entlastet von überflüssigen Arbeiten, führt zu besseren Ergebnissen und zu größerer Zufriedenheit der Mitarbeiter. Doch: Erfolgreiches Delegieren will gelernt sein. Und genau dabei möchte dieses praxisorientierte Hörbuch Sie unterstützen. • Durch Delegation die Flut von... Read more