Nonfiction audiobooks

Don’T Worry--Be Happy

By: Marsha Sinetar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the Hansel and Gretel myth as a metaphor for life, psychologist and writer Sinetar speaks to those who are attempting to live their deepest calling in the midst of a seductive world. She emphasizes the power of a positive view without being pollyannish, and stresses how optimism is essential for the creative process to unfold. Read more

What I Saw at the Revolution - Abridged

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Peggy Noonan

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ronald Reagan carried a conservative vision of America to the White House, where his administration gave it life. Peggy Noonan followed Reagan to Washington as his speechwriter— and gave his vision voice. As speech writer for George Bush during his Presidential campaign, Noonan dispelled her candidate's "wimpy" image and replaced it... Read more

Living and Working With Heart

By: Linda Marks

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Tapping the power that resides within each of us to encode all of our actions with love provides the central focus of this dialogue. Finding purpose, facing pain, learning trust, understanding money, discovering joy are covered by Marks, a body-centered psychotherapist, lifework counselor and management consultant. Read more

Authentic Power: Between Energy and Matter

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Venturing beyond the realm he opened with the classicThe Dancing Wu Li Masters (Bantam 1980), Zukav expands his vision, penetrating the fascinating complexities of human experience with a new theory of personal reality. He explains how we create the events in our lives with our thoughts and intentions, and puts us in touch with an ability to... Read more

Beyond Blame, Guilt and Shame

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Trained as both a biologist and a psychologist, Joan Borysenko has had a lifelong interest in the connections between science, psychology and spirituality. Exploring ways to shed self-blame and the pessimism of unhealthy guilt, she retrieves the wonder and mystery of being alive, and reviews the 21 telling “expressions” that indicate excessive... Read more

Elizabeth Taylor - Abridged

By: Kitty Kelley

Narrated by: Susan Strasberg

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before she became a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already a star, appearing in such films as Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. One of the few child actors to transition to a successful film career as an adult, Taylor starred in such classics as Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and Who' s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In... Read more

Beware the Naked Man Who offers You His Shirt - Abridged

By: Harvey Mackay

Narrated by: Harvey Mackay

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay knows about life at the top--and knows what it takes to stay there. Now, he tells you how to get there too, with dozens of common-sense lessons from all walks of life. Whether you're selling, managing, or punching the clock, you'll find the questions and the answers you need to questions like: Do you do what... Read more

If You Haven't Got the Time to Do It Right When Will You Find the Time to Do It - Abridged

By: Jeffrey J. Mayer

Narrated by: Jeffrey J. Mayer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Work smarter, not harder

Executives pay $300 an hour for Jeffrey J. Mayer to clear their desks and organize their offices. Now in this hands-on, result-oriented program, he takes you step-by-step through his remarkable system that will leave your desk top and your day free of clutter.

Did you know that: 60 percent of all your paper... Read more

Drumming the Spirit

By: Mickey Hart

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than two decades Hart has traveled the planet listening to the musical beat of other cultures and developing a global awareness of issues affecting all life. Here he speaks of his personal journey as a virtuoso percussionist with the legendary Grateful Dead rock band, his encounters with drum masters from around the world, the sacred... Read more

Seeing With the Heart

By: David Whyte

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet and workshop leader Whyte tells us, “Poetry belongs in many parts of our lives. It can bring mythological and concrete worlds together.” He takes us on a journey from the outer world of the Galapagos Islands where he was a Naturalist Guide to the inner world of an emerging poet. Read more

Interview with Nelson Mandela

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A 1990 interview with Nelson after his release from prison. Originally broadcast on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on February 16, 1990. Read more

Perennial Wisdom

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A new wind is blowing ... and the future is radically open, says the eminent philosopher, professor and author of the now-classic Religions of Man (republished as The World's Religions, HarperSanFrancisco 1992), as he recalls his spiritual roots and points to a new balance between the worlds of science and mysticism. Read more

An Astronaut'S Path To Inner Space

By: Brian O'Leary

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Astronomer, scientist, and former astronaut encourages scientific research to include the serious study of paranormal events such as telepathy, UFOs, and the Faces on Mars project. He says, "No problem can be solved from the place it was created." O'Leary shares the possibilities of space exploration as having the potential for global cooperation. Read more

Talking to Our Selves

By: Hal Stone, Ph.D. & Sidra Winkelman Stone, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A husband-wife team, they have together developed "Voice Dialogue," a powerful and innovative approach to recognizing and integrating the many sub-personalities that exist within each of us. In this conversation they talk about our primary selves and disowned selves, especially with reference to relationship, bonding patterns, and how we can use... Read more

The Second World War

By: Martin Gilbert

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 43 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, here offers a complete history of World War II.It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day—August 14, 1945—it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be,... Read more

Myths, Symbols, Stories: Bi-Cultural Vision

By: Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Basque native, Arrien is at the forefront of those who see the common threads that unite us while honoring our differences. She speaks of the importance of myth and symbol in everyday life and combines the two disciplines of anthropology and psychology. Her cross-cultural approach provides both a universal and practical means of addressing... Read more

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 2

By: William Manchester & Eric Garner

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 36 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This second volume in William Manchester’s three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932–1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for sale), he remained solvent only by writing an... Read more

Healing Partnerships

By: Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

Narrated by: Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Bernie Siegel guides you through a series of positive statements spoken as audible and subliminal affirmations to help you attain a feeling of well-being. Introducing affirmations to your conscious self may at first generate resistance. You may find yourself thinking, "This just isn't so. This is just wishful thinking." However, it is... Read more

Healing Images

By: Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

Narrated by: Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Dr. Bernie Siegel guides you through a series of positive statements spoken as audible and subliminal affirmations to help you attain a feeling of well-being. Introducing affirmations to your conscious self may at first generate resistance. You may find yourself thinking, "This just isn't so. This is just wishful thinking." However, it is... Read more

Harry S. Truman

By: Robert H. Ferrell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 21 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Few US presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who—with modesty,... Read more

The Long Gray Line - Abridged

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Bruce Weitz

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A gripping look at the cadets of West Point whose dedication to duty was not honored by the country they served. Young men who dream of heroes look to West Point and to a career of serving their country. The class of 1966 was no exception, but these cadets faced greater challenges than any earlier generation could have imagined. Thirty of them... Read more

The Hero Inside

By: Carol Pearson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the six main archetypes of the Hero’s journey? Pearson provides a map to chart and examine the heroic archetypes that exist in all of us, enabling us to better understand our own quest. Read more

Return of the Goddess

By: Marija Gimbutas, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Almost single-handedly, through her excavations and discovery of artifacts and remnants from European cultures predating both Egyptian and Greek civilization, the late Marija Gimbutas revamped both history and the field of archaeology. Here she speaks about the thousands of Goddess-related figurines she unearthed, pointing to the existence of... Read more

Loving Kindness and Active Peace

By: Dalai Lama & H.E. Tai Situpa Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace, the Dalai Lama has emerged as one of the great spiritual figures of this century. Here, in an exclusive interview with Michael Toms, he speaks of his positive impressions of Costa Rica, the purpose of religion, and his memorable meeting with Thomas Merton. Read more