Nonfiction audiobooks

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for any occasion.

“Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t... Read more

John Nathan-Turner Memoirs Volume 1-2 (Unabridged)

By: John Nathan-Turner

Narrated by: John Nathan-Turner

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Nathan-Turner was the ninth - and longest-serving - producer of "Classic" Doctor Who, running the show from 1980 until it was effectively cancelled in 1989. In this candid memoir he looks back over his years working on the series. Read more

Thalberg - Abridged

By: Bob Thomas

Narrated by: John Landis

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than 85 years after his untimely death at just age 37, Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) remains a legendary Hollywood figure. Called the “Boy Wonder of Hollywood,” Thalberg quickly climbed the ranks at MGM studios to became one of the most powerful and high-profile producers of the time, elevating filmmaking to an art form. In this definitive... Read more

On The Road With Charles Kuralt - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!

On The Road With Charles Kuralt

Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt

"To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for... Read more

Maestro - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. What do they do? Why precisely do they do it? Who is Greenspan? How does he think? What is the basis for his decisions? Why is he so powerful? What kind of relationships has he had with Reagan, Bush, and Clinton -- presidents during... Read more

A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance - Abridged

By: Sarah Ban Breathnach

Narrated by: Murphy Guyer

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Authentic Journey Continues -- for Women to Understand Men, and for Men to Understand Themselves. Read more

In Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza
 
“A love letter to Italy written in precise and passionate language of near-poetic density.”—Newsday
 
In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at... Read more

Eboys

By: Randall E. Stross

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.

Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends... Read more

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

By: Alan Deutschman

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more

Mean Genes

By: Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

Narrated by: Pat Woodruff

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic . . . a self-help book for the merely average human being." (The Washington Post Book World)

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." (The New Yorker)

Why do we want-and do-so many things that are bad for us? In Mean Genes Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan argue that we need... Read more

Irrational Exuberance - Abridged

By: Robert J. Shiller

Narrated by: Robert J. Shiller

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a new Afterword on the current state of the stock market, the ongoing debate over the “new economy,” and the larger implications of “irrational exuberance.”

In this controversial, hard-hitting account of today’s explosive market, Robert J. Shiller, a leading expert on market volatility, evokes Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 reference,... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-07: Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local

By: Jerry Mander, Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., Alisa Gravi...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? Read more

Bioneers Series 2-08: Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing The Feminine

By: Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., Susan Griffin, Guji Co...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine," feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-02: Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance

By: Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Steven Foster, Jennifer Gr...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-04: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

By: Janine M. Benyus

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it's the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-09: Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land

By: J.L. Chestnut

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-12: The Age of Extinction and the Emerging Environmental Health Movement

By: Michael Lerner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Who doesn't know someone touched by the nightmare of cancer? Scientists have proven that 70-90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors. Why is it so hard to fathom that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable? The Environmental Health Movement could become THE most potent force for restoring the Earth. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive

By: John Mohawk, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-10: First Nations and the Future of the Earth

By: Rebecca Adamson, Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D. & John...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Indigenous peoples were the first "Bioneers" who worked with nature in a reciprocal relationship -- giving back as much as they took. This program highlights startling new studies that have identified "biodiversity hotspots" around the globe, lands that are critical to the health of the biosphere, lands which are under the care of indigenous... Read more

Bioneers Series 2-01: Re-Imagining Design: Becoming Tools of Nature

By: William McDonough

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" Read more

Bioneers Series 2-05: Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships

By: Joel Salatin, Fred Kirschenmann & Wes Jackson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-06: Rewilding The Earth: Nurturing The Web Of Life

By: Dave Foreman & Dennis Martinez

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-11: Global Green Plan and Urban Design

By: Mark Hertsgaard & Francesca Vietor

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits. Read more

Bioneers Series 2-03: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames

By: Terri Swearingen, RN, Henry Clark, Ph.D. & Carw...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters. Read more