Nonfiction audiobooks
An Alternative Future
By: Hazel Henderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this radical, visionary look at our possibilities for a sustainable future, Hazel Henderson discusses the “globalization” of human affairs, and proposes new ways of evaluating and improving a city or nation’s quality of life. We need an alternative, she explains, to such indicators as the GNP, which values war weapons but not environmental... Read more
View audiobookOf Kings and Warriors
By: Robert Moore
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Within each of us are four fundamental archetypes--King, Warrior, Magician and Lover--which Robert Moore describes as "programs for human emotional, behavioral and mental functioning." These archetypes need to be recognized and integrated into our lives for us to achieve maturity and self-realization. Read more
View audiobookInterview with Gerald Ford
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An interview with former President Gerald Ford on the prospect of the United States going to war in the Persian Gulf, following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Read more
View audiobookWhere Riches Lie
By: Paul Hwoschinsky
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Money and wealth are not the same thing, asserts Hwoschinsky, a venture capitalist, wilderness photographer and author. By using a "non-financial balance sheet" to identify the assets which, more than money ever could, indicate our aliveness and true wealth--our health, relationships, education, vision and creativity--we can begin to integrate... Read more
View audiobookMozart
By: Marcia Davenport
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had... Read more
View audiobookA Guided Meditation To Help You With Chemotherapy
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Guided imagery for chemotherapy is a holistic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to soothing music, to achieve specific healing goals. Repeated listening once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum impact on physical comfort and positive attitude. This particular audio program has been distributed by oncology... Read more
View audiobookThe American Heritage History of the Civil War
By: Bruce Catton
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Infinitely absorbing, Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a single volume.“America needed its great war of brothers,” wrote Bruce Catton, “to weld in a terrible fire what had been and what might be. The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the... Read more
View audiobookA Guided Meditation To Help You With Multiple Sclerosis
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This guided meditation for multiple sclerosis (MS) is designed as a natural, mind-body treatment for MS, to complement standard medical treatment. It is particularly effective aid in combating fatigue, stress and pain. Continued listening to positive affirmations and guided imagery for multiple sclerosis will bolster energy, mood and motivation,... Read more
View audiobookA Guided Meditation To Help You Manage Diabetes
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Offering affirmations and guided imagery for diabetes, this recording has been endorsed and distributed by AADE, the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Embedded in this soothing, hypnotic meditation for diabetes are suggestions designed to help lower blood sugar naturally. The narrative invokes images in a relaxed, focused state of... Read more
View audiobookA Guided Meditation To Support Your Recovery From Stroke
By: Belleruth Naparstek
Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A large body of research over the past decade has shown that imagining desired movement in a stroke-affected limb increases motor function recovery, and is a powerful rehabilitation aid, alongside other therapies in programs for recovery after a stroke. The hypnotic suggestions, soothing guided narrative and powerful affirmations on this audio... Read more
View audiobookThe Tempting of America - Abridged
By: Robert H. Bork
Narrated by: Robert H. Bork
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A rare, insider' s look into the Supreme Court nomination process.In July of 1987, Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, but by late October that year, his confirmation was denied. In this candid account of his experiences, Bork describes the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing from his point of... Read more
View audiobookBootlegger's Boy - Abridged
By: Barry Switzer
Narrated by: Barry Switzer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A riveting memoir by one of the most successful football coaches in America!As head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, Barry Switzer was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Both praised and reviled by the media as the "outlaw" of college football, Switzer was characterized as the "greatest rogue, pirate, hustler, and con man" ever to... Read more
View audiobookChutzpah - Abridged
By: Alan Dershowitz
Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
According to Alan M. Dershowitz, “ chutzpah” is "boldness, assertiveness, a willingness to demand what is due, to defy tradition, to challenge authority, to raise eyebrows." Assessing his experiences, he brings to bear all the chutzpah for which he is famous in examining such issues as antisemitism, assimilation, the... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1
By: William Manchester
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 41 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century.His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our... Read more
View audiobookThe Inklings
By: Humphrey Carpenter
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams—remarkable friends, writers, and scholars—met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings,... Read more
View audiobookFurther Along the Road Less Traveled: the Taste for Mystery - Abridged
By: M. Scott Peck
Narrated by: M. Scott Peck
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
View audiobookTaking Off the Colored Glasses
By: Robert Nozick
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning author and professor of philosophy at Harvard University,Robert Nozick shares his reflections here on happiness, spirituality, pain and suffering. “The world is unsuspectedly rich if one approaches it with the right attitude,” he tells us, and encourages us “to pay a particular kind of attention to this world, and to view it... Read more
View audiobookThere's a Country in My Cellar - Abridged
By: Russell Baker
Narrated by: Arte Johnson
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of America's most beloved social commentators— Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Russell Baker— followed up his bestselling memoir, The Good Times, with this collection of his best New York Times columns, dating back to 1962. There' s a Country in My Cellar covers Baker's usual wide range of... Read more
View audiobookThe Universe is a Story
By: Brian Thomas Swimme, PhD
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
According to cosmologist Swimme, science, humanity, and the natural world have all suffered from a myopic fragmentation of scientific knowledge. Yet some voices in physics today are beginning to echo the wonder and mystery of ancient mystical intuitions, and to present a more unified view of the nature and history of the world. Join Swimme in... Read more
View audiobookImages of Tibet
By: Galen Rowell
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Adventurer, award-winning photographer and collaborator with the Dalai Lama on the book My Tibet (University of California Press 1990), Galen Rowell speaks of the environmental and cultural devastation brought upon Tibet by Communist Chinese occupation. He shares his adventures in mountaineering, and what is needed for true nature conservation. Read more
View audiobookSongs of the Doomed - Abridged
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Hunter S. Thompson
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The third volume of the legendary “Gonzo Papers” recalls high and hideous moments in Hunter S. Thompson’s life and career—featuring a new introduction from comedian Tim Heidecker.
With Thompson’s trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed charts the long, strange trip from Kennedy to... Read more
Perfect Victim - Abridged
By: Christine McGuire
Narrated by: Amanda Plummer
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan left home to hitchhike from Oregon to California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and extraordinary crime. Known as the "sex slave" or "girl in the box" case, here's the whole story— too strange to be anything but true— of Colleen's horrifying imprisonment... Read more
View audiobook365 Ways You Can Save the Earth
By: Michael Viner
Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Our earth home is in trouble: plastic pollution, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, and hazardous waste all affect many processes that shape global climate and ecosystems. However, we don't have to go out with a whimper. We can fight back. Even better, we can win. The battlegrounds are our homes, schools, workplaces, and vacation... Read more
View audiobookWenn Frauen zu sehr lieben - Die heimliche Sucht, gebraucht zu werden (Ungekürzt)
By: Robin Norwood
Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
"Zu sehr lieben" bedeutet etwas ganz anderes als "zu viele Männer lieben" oder "sich zu oft verlieben" oder "einen anderen Menschen zu aufrichtig und zu tief lieben". "Zu sehr lieben" bedeutet: sich für einen Menschen bis zur Selbstaufgabe verzehren, diese Besessenheit mit Liebe gleichsetzen, zulassen, dass sie die eigenen Gefühle und einen... Read more
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