Nonfiction audiobooks

Purpose And Possibility In Your Work

By: Richard Leider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What are your gifts?  How can you best serve?  What are you here to do and be in this life?  Richard Leider has helped individuals, leaders and teams answer these questions and discover the power of purpose in their lives. Read more

The Expectant Universe

By: James Redfield

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of one of the most successful self-published books of all time, The Celestine Prophecy (Warner 1993), James Redfield discusses the personal experiences that made it possible. He says that we need to open ourselves to the mysterious coincidences that we would see happening in our lives all the time, if we would only take notice. "We... Read more

Diana

By: Peter Donnelly

Narrated by: Samantha Eggar

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer attained wealth, power, and title with her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales. But her ultimate triumph owed nothing to those circumstances and everything to her inner qualities: an innate ability to understand and connect with ordinary people, particularly... Read more

The Mysteries Of Healing

By: Caroline Myss

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It is often taken for granted that everyone who is sick or injured wants to heal.  Caroline Myss has discovered that this isn't always true.  Some don't want to give up the manipulative power and attention that illness has brought; others have identified so strongly with their illness that they've literally become one with it.  While illness can... Read more

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...And It's All Small Stuff - Abridged

By: Richard Carlson

Narrated by: Richard Carlson

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff is an audiobook that tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.
You can learn to put things into perspective... Read more

The Breakthrough Factor - Abridged

By: Henry Marsh

Narrated by: Henry Marsh

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Use the power of principles to transform your life.
In his repeated bids for Olympic gold, Henry Marsh learned that the highest degree of reward and satisfaction is to be found in the unswerving pursuit of personal excellence. The Breakthrough Factor is Marsh's comprehensive plan to achieve a life of value by determining what principles or... Read more

Giving the Love That Heals - Abridged

By: Harville Hendrix

Narrated by: Harville Hendrix

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, he and his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, bring us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they... Read more

Citizen Soldiers - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen... Read more

Golf of Your Dreams - Abridged

By: Bob Rotella

Narrated by: Bob Rotella

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fifteen years ago, the average male golfer's handicap was 16.2. The average female golfer's handicap was 29. Today, the average American male golfer's handicap is 16.2 and the average female golfer's is 29. American golfers have not gotten any better. World-renowned performance consultant and sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella now offers The... Read more

Achieving Emotional Literacy - Abridged

By: George A. Steiner

Narrated by: Claude Steiner

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

High IQ alone doesn't make a person smart. Without emotional intelligence -- the ability to understand and manage your feelings and how the feelings of others affect you -- your chances of having a successful and happy life are very slim.
Dr. Claude Steiner has taught emotional literacy to groups and individuals for twenty years. Now, in this... Read more

Full Heart--No Self: Being A Nobody

By: Robert Fuller

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We all want to "be somebody."  But often, those who become somebody become statues, trapped in an identity that doesn't allow them to change or grow.  Robert Fuller talks about his own struggle with being a nobody between periods of high recognition and status.  He has learned to respect the "nobody" inside himself because "the nobody is... Read more

Buddhism For Everyone

By: Slyvia Boorstein

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Boorstein found a deepening and enrichment of her Jewish faith through years of meditation practice. She says, "You don't have to be a Buddhist to practice Buddhism. It's not about being a something--a Buddhist, a Jew or a Christian--it's about being more awake." Read more

Cold War Face-off

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Lehrer discusses the significance of Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis with the presidential historians and Sergei Khrushchev, the son of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Read more

Love Your Job

By: Barbara Reinhold

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An estimated twenty million Americans are staying in jobs they hate in order to keep their health insurance, while research indicates that job stress will ensure they use it.  We can't all quit our jobs, so how do we cope?  Barbara Reinhold offers some excellent solutions for managing stress and taking more control in your life. Read more

The Zen Of Work

By: Les Kaye

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1970, Les Kaye asked the management at IBM if he could take a three-month leave of absence to live in a Zen monastery.  Suprisingly, they said yes.  A year later, he was ordained as a Zen monk.  Back at IBM, he discovered joy, harmony and fluid relationships in a job that had previously been an endless desert of problems to overcome and goals... Read more

Self-Mastery

By: Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy born at 1:00 a.m. on New Year's Day in Korea is considered to be incredible good fortune, but Tae Yun Kim turned out to be a girl, thereby cursing her family with bad luck.  This 4'11", 90-pound martial arts Grandmaster overcame multiple challenges, to become one of the highest-ranking martial artists in the world. Read more

Starting In Your Own Backyard

By: Melody Ermachild Chavis

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A private investigator who works on trials and appeals for death-row inmates, Chavis knows firsthand that, with help, people can change.  It was on death-row that she met Jarvis Masters, who wrote a prize-winning book about his experience.  "Jarvis has shown that a reactive, violent young man in a rage from having been separated from his mother... Read more

Intuitive Thinking:  Wisdom for the 21st Century

By: Harlan Cleveland

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Leadership is a quality in short supply during a time in history when we need it the most. Cleveland has worked closely with four American presidents and offers intriguing insights and visions about the Information Age, explaining why it is so unique from ages past. His eight attitudes of leadership are both provocative and profound. Read more

Angela's Ashes

By: Frank McCourt

Narrated by: Frank McCourt

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is... Read more

The Children's Book of Heroes - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Bennett and Michael Hague, the team that brought us the national bestseller The Children's Book of Virtues, have once again collaborated to create The Children's Book of Heroes, a beautifully illustrated celebration of heroic deeds, both real and fictional, that will delight and inspire millions of young children and their parents.

"We... Read more

Taking Charge - Abridged

By: Michael R. Beschloss

Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taking Charge brings you into the room with an American political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
The only President to record his private conversations from his first day in... Read more

Next of Kin - Abridged

By: Roger Fouts

Narrated by: Roger Fouts

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist and caretaker of a family of chimpanzees, to his impassioned awakening as a crusader for the... Read more

Our Sacred Honor - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: Philip Bosco, William J. Bennett & Barry Bostwick

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction as well -- this time of a particularly American sort.
In Our Sacred Honor, Bennett has collected the best that has been thought and said by and... Read more

Wait Till Next Year - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were... Read more