Nonfiction audiobooks
On Mexican Time - Abridged
By: Tony Cohan
Narrated by: Tony Cohan
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets... Read more
Ranting Again - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage. This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines.
Setting his sights higher and wider than ever before, Dennis Miller is at the top of his game,... Read more
Success Is a Choice - Abridged
By: Rick Pitino
Narrated by: Rick Pitino
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
MAKE RICK PITINO YOUR PERSONAL COACH AND ACHIEVE MORE THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE.
For Rick Pitino, the first coach to bring teams from three different schools to the Final Four, success isn’t about shortcuts. Pitino’s secret–and the reason he has become both a great coach and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the... Read more
The Courage to Be Rich - Abridged
By: Suze Orman
Narrated by: Suze Orman
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bestselling author and financial expert Suze Orman helped millions of Americans turn toward their money and embark on a true path to wealth with her #1 bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and her national bestseller You've Earned It, Don't Lose It. Now she returns, with a book that goes beyond the fundamentals of her earlier work in... Read more
View audiobookWasted - Abridged
By: Marya Hornbacher
Narrated by: Marya Hornbacher
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of five, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on a enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried--because she thought she was fat. By age nine she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at... Read more
View audiobookRants Redux - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Why are Americans so disinterested in politics? Because we can be. Democracy is voluntary. And our lack of interest hasn't happened overnight. It can be traced directly back to our ever-decreasing attention spans. We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez-small, sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head.
Why has flying in... Read more
Instant Emotional Healing - Abridged
By: George Pratt & Peter Lambrou
Narrated by: George Pratt & Peter Lambrou
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The revolutionary, highly effective technique that allows you to free yourself from emotional hang-ups—forever!
Does your fear of flying make travel with friends and family impossible? Are you having trouble coping with the loss of a loved one or forgiving yourself for a mistake you made long ago? For the millions of people who suffer from... Read more
A Walk in the Woods - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more
Hillary's Choice - Abridged
By: Gail Sheehy
Narrated by: Gail Sheehy
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
This is the story of a woman and a marriage, both so famous the world over, we think we know everything there is to know. But Hillary's Choice renders America's First Lady fully human for the first time.
Gail Sheehy uncovers the lifelong imprint of Hillary's drillmaster father and the frustrated mother who taught her to bottle up her... Read more
Bella Tuscany - Abridged
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more
The Rants - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There's good news for those that rage at the evening news, shake their heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from social crisis to political crisis to economic crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the nation by its lapels.
Miller respects no boundaries. Whether the subject is... Read more
Awakening the Buddha Within - Abridged
By: Lama Surya Das
Narrated by: Lama Surya Das
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a... Read more
Eiger Dreams - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
In Pakistan, the fearsome... Read more
If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules
By: Cherie Carter-Scott
Narrated by: Cherie Carter-Scott
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you wish you knew the rules for the game of love?
In her #1 New York Times bestseller If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules, Chérie Carter-Scott gave us ten rules for conquering life's challenges and managing its unpredictable ups and downs. Now, in If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules, she presents ten simple rules to help us find true... Read more
Passion
By: Barbara De Angelis
Narrated by: Barbara De Angelis
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Barbara De Angelis explores passion and its essential place in our lives in a compact tour-de-force for all seasons. A primary motive force that invests life with color, purpose and ultimate meaning, our passion defines how we approach each day and is at the heart of our closest relationships and our most profound achievements. Now, drawing upon... Read more
View audiobookIt's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now - Abridged
By: Barbara Sher
Narrated by: Barbara Sher
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Sher has transformed the lives of millions with her phenomenally successful books, workshops, and television appearances. Now, in a work that explores and demystifies one of life's most challenging and bewildering passages, she shatters the myth that turns midlife into a crisis and offers a bold new... Read more
View audiobookReviving Ophelia - Abridged
By: Mary Pipher, PhD
Narrated by: Mary Pipher, PhD
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating... Read more
View audiobookSix Sigma - Abridged
By: Mikel Harry, Ph.D. & Richard Schroeder
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The extraordinary breakthrough management program--heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal--that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results.
Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic... Read more
The Other Side of the River - Abridged
By: Alex Kotlowitz
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by... Read more
View audiobookHOMICIDE - Abridged
By: David Simon
Narrated by: Reed Diamond
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of... Read more
View audiobookInto Thin Air - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had... Read more
View audiobookThe Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - Abridged
By: Peter M. Senge
Narrated by: Peter M. Senge
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Create your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning with this invaluable guide based on the national bestseller The Fifth Discipline.
“The Fieldbook is a must read for anyone serious about building communities of common purpose, collective action, and continuous learning.”—H. Thomas Johnson, author of Relevance Lost and... Read more
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was - Abridged
By: Barbara Sher
Narrated by: Barbara Sher
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-changing guide to finding your direction—and your passion—in a world of seemingly limitless options
“For those who want to find their passion . . . a step-by-step guide for restructuring one’s life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.”—Ellen Kreidman, author of Light His Fire and Light Her Fire
If you... Read more
Seabiscuit - Abridged
By: Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more