Nonfiction audiobooks

Y2K, the Problem and the Promise

By: Jay Earley & Tom Atlee

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At midnight on December 31 of 1999, you might have been thinking about something besides New Year’s resolutions as you entered a new century.  You might have been wondering whether the world as you knew it would cease to exist.  Would travel arrangements become an impossibility?  Would your toaster, microwave, car or pacemaker suddenly be out of... Read more

Ustaca Sevmek - İlişki Sanatına Dair Pratik Bir Rehber

By: Don Miguel Ruiz & Janet Mills

Narrated by: Alişan Özkan

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times çok satan "Dört Anlaşma" kitabının yazarından! Spiritüel rehber, guru ve şaman Don Miguel Ruiz, Toltek atalarının kadim bilgeliğini paylaşmaya devam ettiği "Ustaca Sevmek" adlı ikinci kitabı sunmaktadır. Toltekler, atalarının kutsal bilgeliğini kimsenin kötüye kullanmaması için binlerce yıl boyunca bilgilerini dış dünyadan gizli... Read more

Healing Trauma: A Guided Meditation for Posttraumatic Stress

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The hypnotic, healing suggestions go very deep, and are designed to counter ugly flashbacks and nightmares with positive images. Additional segments reduce the intense spikes of anxiety and serve as a natural treatment for panic attacks, as well as anger and fury; others shift the tendency toward avoidance, numbness and isolation. Created by... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You With Radiation Therapy

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This guided meditation for radiation therapy is designed to ease treatment side effects and symptoms, such as fatigue, burns, soreness and other discomforts, while at the same time reducing anxiety and encouraging a positive attitude toward healing. Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to... Read more

Take Yourself to the Top

By: Laura Fortgang

Narrated by: Laura Berman Fortgang

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Let one of the nation's foremost career coaches show you how to take charge of your career!There are plenty of resources that show you how to write a resume, improve your interview skills, or dress for success. But this guide is something much more valuable! If you're willing to take charge of your career and be responsible for the choices you... Read more

Brave Dames and Wimpettes

By: Susan Isaacs

Narrated by: Tracey Brooks Swope

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes Buffy the Vampire Slayer a "brave dame" but Ally McBeal a "wimpette"? In this witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page, Susan Isaacs argues that assertive, ethical women characters are losing ground to wounded, shallow sisters who are driven by what she calls, "the articles of wimpette philosophy." Although female... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Promote A Healthy Heart

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Listening to this relaxing guided meditation for heart health is a powerful, evidence based practice for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, holistically and naturally. The hypnotic suggestions, soothing narrative, and powerful affirmations on this research-based audio program combine seamlessly to deliver a state-of-the-art guided... Read more

Deadlines and Datelines

By: Dan Rather

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Compelling essays from Peabody and Emmy-award winning newsman Dan RatherWith his distinctive blend of frontline determination and a journalist's knack for a good story, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather looks at the awesome struggles and everyday accomplishments he's witnessed at home and around the globe. Ranging from the Iraq conflict to a... Read more

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex - Abridged

By: Sari Locker

Narrated by: Sari Locker

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Get great tips to improve your love life from sexpert Sari Locker!Want to have more fun in and out of the sack? Could you use some help when it comes to exciting foreplay and afterplay? Would you like to know more about erotic techniques like tantric sex and sexual massage? Let noted sex educator Sari Locker show you how to explore your sexual... Read more

The Grand Canyon - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down, you may have difficulty picturing the temporary insanity that leads otherwise responsible adults to sign away the remainder of their natural life expectancy just for the chance to see the Grand Canyon's... Read more

How to Profit from Today's Rapid Changes - Abridged

By: Robert Tucker

Narrated by: Robert Tucker

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of America's leading experts on innovation comes his classic guide -- now updated for the new millennium!
Are you bringing yesterday's attitudes into today's world?
Change is one constant in today's turbulent economic world. Now a leading business futurist and innovation expert has made a study of what it will take to put change to work... Read more

Braces - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of... Read more

The Fast Forward MBA in Technology Management - Abridged

By: Daniel Petrozzo, Richard McGonagle & Richard Cox

Narrated by: Meredith MacRae

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Get instant access to cutting-edge ideas and the hard-won wisdom of one of today's leading experts on information technology (IT). Using real-world examples, this audio guide delivers the facts you need to navigate complex IT issues, including:
Which technologies are most important in running a business today
How to manage the use of and direction... Read more

A Sportsman's Life - Abridged

By: Leigh Perkins & Geoffrey Norman

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Insights from a businessman who achieved the ultimate accomplishment— transforming his personal enthusiasm into a wildly successful company.Imagine if you could live a life in which there were no boundaries between work and play, if you could blend the job you love— running a company that is committed to excellence— ... Read more

When the Man You Love Won't Take Care of His Health - Abridged

By: Ken Goldberg

Narrated by: Kathy Garver

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Women often find themselves the caretakers of their men— and not just of their relationships. When the men in their lives resist managing their own well-being, women are forced to take on this challenge. They learn how to understand the health of their men and how it differs from their own. This guide empowers women with the most... Read more

Lighting Your Fire

By: Cathy Walker & Michael Walker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael and Cathy Walker, who met in Washington, D.C. in 1971, and left careers in law and medicine in 1995 when they decided to follow their passion.  They created Clarity International, offering support services for the design and implementation of personal and professional vision. Read more

The Spiritual Art of Speaking

By: Lee Glickstein

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Glickstein believes you may fear speaking because you were not properly listened to as a child--perhaps you were even ridiculed--causing you to lock away your inner speaker; the voice that longs to come out and express your God-self. Read more

Christian Dior

By: Marie-France Pochna

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy.Born... Read more

Eva Perón

By: Nicholas Fraser & Marysa Navarro

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Per├Án being hidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was buried, it would inspire... Read more

The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: James Boswell

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 54 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson.James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the... Read more

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet

By: Bob Arnot

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Doctors at leading institutions across the nation have been investigating the relationship between breast cancer and diet, uncovering amazing insights. The research confirms that what a woman eats can have a dramatic impact on whether or not she contracts the disease. In The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Dr. Bob Arnot has synthesized this... Read more

A World without Heroes

By: George Roche

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roche’s A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianity—humorous, insightful, and uncompromising—takes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of... Read more

Reconstruction

By: Eric Foner

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 30 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America.Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes... Read more

Rodin

By: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 27 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more