Nonfiction audiobooks

Everyday Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurence Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the lessons of our evolutionary history to overcome the hazards of everyday life. He finds that natural laws profoundly affect our actions, and he reveals the... Read more

The Irregulars

By: Jennet Conant

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins who were the eyes and ears of Sherlock Holmes in some Arthur Conan Doyle stories. This group constituted the very beginning of what would become MI6, the British... Read more

The Little Red Book of Selling

By: Jeffrey Gitomer

Narrated by: Jeffrey Gitomer

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Business/Educational Audiobook

New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer shares his crucial sales principles featuring strategies and techniques on how to efficiently sell anything.

With a lifetime of sales experience New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer shares his 12.5 Principles of Sales... Read more

The First Billion is the Hardest

By: T. Boone Pickens

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil,” he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States. When Pickens left Mesa after a downward spiral in the company’s profits, many counted him out.  What followed for him was the loss of 90... Read more

Leadership from the Inside Out

By: Kevin Cashman

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this rapidly transforming age of 24/7 connectivity and globalization, Cashman encourages listeners to strive no longer for the fiction of “Balance” but instead for “Resilience Mastery.” He also incorporates some powerful new insights he and his colleagues have acquired while helping thousands of leaders in more than sixty countries apply his... Read more

Change We Can Believe In

By: Obama for Change

Narrated by: Andre Blake

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and a failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader—one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation... Read more

Bob Schieffer's America

By: Bob Schieffer

Narrated by: Bob Schieffer

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Unbridged CDs * 6 CDs, 7 hours

Wise, rueful, candid, graceful commentaries from one of journalism’s most stylish and respected writers. Read more

The Necklace

By: Cheryl Jarvis & Women of Jewelia

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jonell McLain saw the diamond necklace in the store window, it aroused first desire, then a provocative question: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful, yet accessible to so few? What if we shared what we desired? A dozen phone calls and a leap of faith later, Jonell bought the necklace with twelve other women, with the goal of sharing it.... Read more

Zen and Now

By: Mark Richardson

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that would become the inspiration for Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a powerful blend of personal narrative and philosophical investigation that has inspired generations. Among the millions of readers to fall under the... Read more

Hurry Down Sunshine

By: Michael Greenberg

Narrated by: Michael Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most... Read more

Tears of the Desert

By: Halima Bashir & Damien Lewis

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima was doted on by her father, a cattle herder, and kept in line by her formidable grandmother. A politically astute man, Halima’s father saw to it that his daughter received a good education away from their rural surroundings. Halima excelled in her studies and exams, surpassing even the... Read more

The Road of Lost Innocence

By: Somaly Mam

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human... Read more

Lo Mejor De Ti (Become a Better You) - Abridged

By: Joel Osteen

Narrated by: Edgar Sotelo

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joel Osteen is America's pastor-and that includes the Spanish-speaking population in this country. With his weekly televised services and his travels throughout the country, no one has more influence in spiritual matters than Pastor Osteen. His first title, Your Best Life Now, was a huge bestseller (the Spanish edition sold over 40,000). His... Read more

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 20 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of... Read more

The Political Mind

By: George Lakoff

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In What's the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why.



As it turns out, human beings are not the rational creatures we've so long imagined ourselves to be. Ideas, morals, and values do not exist somewhere outside the... Read more

The North Pole

By: Robert E. Peary

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 1909—after nearly two decades of determined effort and numerous attempts, during which he lost eight toes to frostbite—American polar explorer Robert E. Peary emerged from the Arctic's frozen wasteland and declared that his final expedition had been victorious: on April 6, 1909, Peary had attained the North Pole, a long-sought prize... Read more

Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Abridged

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of... Read more

Jack - Abridged

By: Geoffrey Perret

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There has been no complete biography like this one. Jack deals with the full scope of Kennedy's life - his family, his friends, his infidelities. There's much to say, much culled from hundreds of hours of tapes from the Oval Office. Through painstaking research, Geoffrey Perret located thousands of revealing documents on national security issues... Read more

The War Within - Abridged

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2009 Audie Award Finalist for the Judges’ Award

Bob Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war in his fourth book on President George W. Bush.

The War Within provides an exhaustive account of the struggles of General David Petraeus, who takes over in Iraq during one of the bleakest... Read more

Working with Difficult People - Abridged

By: William Lundin, Ph.D., Kathleen Lundin & Michae...

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Working with difficult people can reduce your morale, threaten your productivity, deplete your energy, and waste your time. But you don’t have to be helpless in the face of other people’s craziness! Knowing how to handle coworkers’ disruptive behavior is one of the most important career skills you can have, allowing you to become a more valuable... Read more

Sarah

By: Kaylene Johnson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Palin, a hockey mom and small town mayor, thought her dream of making a difference in the male-dominated realm of Alaska politics was over when she clashed with the state chairman of her Republican Party and went head-to-head with the powerful Republican governor. In 2006, she became a long-shot candidate for governor, demanding a higher... Read more

The World is Curved

By: David M. Smick

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

David Smick keeps a low profile, but experts consider him one of the most insightful financial market strategists in the world. For more than two decades, he has conferred with central bankers and advised top Wall Street executives and investors.The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat left off, taking listeners on... Read more

The Limits of Power

By: Andrew Bacevich

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Andrew Bacevich speaks truth to power, no matter who's in power, which may be why those of both the left and right listen to him."—Bill Moyers

An immediate New York Times bestseller, The Limits of Power offers an unparalleled examination of the profound triple crisis facing America: an economy in disarray that can no longer be fixed by relying... Read more

Harry S. Truman

By: Robert Dallek

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century

In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the... Read more