Nonfiction audiobooks
How the Irish Saved Civilization - Abridged
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Liam Neeson
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent... Read more
View audiobookActual Innocence - Abridged
By: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld & Jim Dwyer
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.
A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: a horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock at your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your... Read more
Creating Love - Abridged
By: John Bradshaw
Narrated by: John Bradshaw
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
โWhy are so many of us at times completely baffled by a relationship?
How can we think we know someone so well and admit in the end that we hardly knew that person at all?
Why do many people who work diligently and strenuously to gain wholeness and balance still feel so frustrated about having a fulfilling relationship?
Why have so many people... Read more
Slim Forever - For Women: Subliminal Self-Help - Abridged
By: Audio Activation
Narrated by: Audio Activation
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's a scientific fact: subliminal persuasion works. Now you can lose weight anywhere, anytimeโwithout dieting. Play SLIM FOREVER on your CD player as you dress in the morning, travel to work, or when you want to unwind. Just listen to this gentle combination of soothing relaxation techniques, soft music, and persuasive affirmations and let your... Read more
View audiobookDifficult Conversations - Abridged
By: Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen & Bruce Patton
Narrated by: Douglas Stone
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dealing with your ex-husband, who can't seem to show up reliably for weekends with the kids; navigating a workplace fraught with office politics or racial tensions; saying "I'm sorry" or "I love you".
We all have difficult conversations, no matter how confident or competent we are. And too often, no matter what we try, things don't go well.... Read more
Shot in the Heart - Abridged
By: Mikal Gilmore
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER โข Aย murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born."ย Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer... Read more
The Shelter of Each Other - Abridged
By: Mary Pipher, PhD
Narrated by: Mary Pipher, PhD
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
โSimple solutions for survival in this family-unfriendly culture. . . . Eye-opening. . . heart-wrenching and uplifting.โโSan Franciscoย Chronicleย
Even more resonant today than at its original publication in 1996,ย The Shelter of Each Otherย traces the effects of our societyโs โanti-familyโ way of life, where parents are overtaxed, children are... Read more
The Tae-Bo Way - Abridged
By: Billy Blanks
Narrated by: Billy Blanks
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Team up with the creator of Tae-Bo, the total body workout.ย ย Strengthen your spirit, mind, and body!
Energizing and explosive, Tae-Bo is the hottest workout in America. It's fun. It's exciting. It's simple to learn. And best of all, it works! It's Tae-Bo: the future of fitness. And here's the book that teaches you the ultimate way to fitness for... Read more
The Book of Honor - Abridged
By: Ted Gup
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country.
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has... Read more
The Great Republic - Abridged
By: Winston S. Churchill
Narrated by: Winston S. Churchill
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best short histories of theย ย ... Read more
View audiobookFlags of Our Fathers - Abridged
By: James Bradley & Ron Powers
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.
In February 1945, American... Read more
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba - Abridged
By: Jacki Lyden
Narrated by: Jacki Lyden
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world's most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing up in a small Midwestern town,... Read more
View audiobookTender at the Bone - Abridged
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and... Read more
View audiobookDig Your Well Before You're Thirsty - Abridged
By: Harvey Mackay
Narrated by: Harvey Mackay
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bestselling author Harvey Mackay reveals his techniques for the most essential tool in business--networking, the indispensable art of building contacts.
Now in paperback, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking.ย ย For everyone from the sales rep facing a... Read more
How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty - Abridged
By: Patti Breitman & Connie Hatch
Narrated by: Connie Hatch & Patti Breitman
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"To this book I say yes, yes, yes!"
โfrom the Foreword by Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Find more time and energy for the things you love to doโlearn to say no without feeling guilty!
The simple word "no" is often the most difficult to say. Yet anyone can develop the skills to say no with confidence, kindness, and peace of... Read more
Don't Know Much About the Civil War - Abridged
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
โDistinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.โโNew York Times Book Review
โLively and relevant.โ โUSA Today
ย
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue,... Read more
Real Moments - Abridged
By: Barbara De Angelis
Narrated by: Barbara De Angelis
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bestselling author and renowned relationships expert Barbara De Angelis offers you her profound insights and powerful techniques for creating more real
moments of meaning with your mate, your children, your work, and yourself. Barbara takes you on an inner journey that will help you discover the peace and
fulfillment you've been seeking.ย ย Real... Read more
Notes From a Small Island - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed... Read more
View audiobookEight Steps to Seven Figures - Abridged
By: Charles Carlson
Narrated by: Charles Carlson
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the tradition of the megabestseller The Millionaire Next Door, Eight Steps to Seven Figures brings together in-depth interviews with over two hundred everyday people whose investments have made them millionaires. But while The Millionaire Next Door describes its subjects' lifestyles and spending habits, Eight Steps to Seven Figures focuses... Read more
View audiobookSeven Years in Tibet - Abridged
By: Heinrich Harrer
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dramatized in a motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a noted mountain climber and skier, slipped out of captivity in India and made his way through the Himalayan passes... Read more
View audiobookI Rant, Therefore I Am - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.
Dennis Miller first gained national... Read more
Leadership by the Book - Abridged
By: Kenneth Blanchard, Bill Hybels & Phil Hodges
Narrated by: Sam Freed
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Best-selling authors Kenneth Blanchard, Bill Hybels, and Phil Hodges offer a unique, compelling, and paradigm-shifting model that effectively interweaves successful leadership methods with character development principles based on the teachings of history's most influential leader, Jesus Christ. Told in the parable format of The One Minute... Read more
View audiobookI'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliensโas he later put it, "it was... Read more
Simplify Your Life - Abridged
By: Elaine St. James
Narrated by: Elaine St. James
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is the audio version of Elaine St. James' first bestselling book, Simplify Your Life. St. James shows us how to reduce the clutter in our lives, from cleaning out our closets to canceling newspaper subscriptions. Full of hints and anecdotes, listening to this audiobook is the perfect way to help you map out a plan to un-complicate your... Read more
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