Nonfiction audiobooks

Simple Joys of Every Day

By: Justine Willis Toms

Narrated by: Cheryl Esposito

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Ms. Toms shares stories about her conversations with New Dimensions guests; the circles with whom she’s shared laughter, love, and tears across generations; and even a quiet moment meditating with birds in her own backyard. Shining through it all is her fresh appreciation for life and her rare ability to find inspiration in the simple... Read more

The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President

By: Geoff Shepard

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The controversial book that will change how people think about WatergateDrawing on his insider knowledge and previously unpublished documents, Geoff Shepard shows that it didn't take long for Ted Kennedy and his allies to smell blood after the Watergate break-in. They set out to exaggerate and prolong the scandal, not merely to destroy Richard... Read more

Touching History

By: Lynn Spencer

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Touching History is told through the eyes of commercial airline pilots, FAA and military controllers, jet fighters and key military personnel at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and its subunit Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), and the national FAA Command Center, whose personnel had to grapple with the bizarre and... Read more

Makers and Takers

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Do as I Say (Not as I Do), Peter Schweizer exposed the hypocrisy of liberal elites in Washington and Hollywood. In Makers and Takers, he broadens his scope to examine the damaging effects of liberal philosophy on ordinary Americans. Drawing on national polls and academic studies, as well as the revealing testimony of liberals themselves,... Read more

Executricks

By: Stanley Bing

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The central question of every hard-working person's career is how to work less hard while still being able to buy a bottle of ninety-five-dollar Borolo without trembling. This is as true at age thirty as it is at more advanced ages. But by age forty, most of us are already thinking of exit strategies that will place us firmly off the grid for... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 05

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Rosendorfer erzählt im fünften Hörbuch seiner "Deutschen Geschichte" von der Zeit der Reformation und den Bauernkriegen, die verdeutlichen, dass die große Geschichte auf dem Rücken der kleinen Leute ausgetragen wird. Die neue Zeit drängt herein. Die Reformation schlägt ein Loch in die scheinbare Raum-Zeit-Konstante der bisherigen... Read more

Washington

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of... Read more

Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 02

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Joachim Steck

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen... Read more

Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 01

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Versuch Vol. 06

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Rosendorfer erzählt eines der dunkelsten Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte. Er zeigt, wie eine religiöse Auseinandersetzung zu einem europäischen Machtkampf wird, wie religiöser Fanatismus letztlich Verheerung und Verwüstung über ganz Europa bringt und dass Kriege, wenn man es genauer betrachtet, von beiden Seiten verloren... Read more

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel

By: Julia Keller

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Soon after its debut at the time of the Civil War, the Gatling gun changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging 200 shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world's first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America's overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in... Read more

The Slaves' War

By: Andrew Ward

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first narrative of the Civil War told by the very people that it freed.



Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century and African American history, Andrew Ward gives us the first narrative of the Civil War told... Read more

The Really Inconvenient Truths

By: Iain Murray

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that pollutants and estrogen from contraceptives are causing male fish in America to develop female sex organs? Or that ethanol, the liberals' favorite fuel, is destroying the world's rainforests? We hear about AIDS in Africa, but the number one killer of children in Africa is malaria, and guess who banned the pesticide that used to... Read more

Rules for Renegades

By: Christine Comaford-Lynch

Narrated by: Christine Comaford-Lynch

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Renegade entrepreneur - and runaway success story - Christine Comaford-Lynch has lived the kind of life most of us can only dream about. From model to monk to multimillionaire, she does what she wants - and gets things done. Now, in ten outrageous life lessons, she'll show you how to make your dreams come true.
Rules for Renegades distills what... Read more

When Markets Collide

By: Mohamed El-Erian

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST

"ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."--MONEY MAGAZINE

“This book is an essential read for those who wish to understand the modern world of investing.”

-Alan Greenspan



Winner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

When Markets Collide is... Read more

You Can Still Win

By: Andre Taylor

Narrated by: Andre Taylor

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

If you really want to win, listen to Andre Taylor. Anyone can talk about winning, but he knows first hand what it takes for individuals and organizations to succeed.
For more than 25 years, Andre Taylor has studied winning and has helped turn companies into market leaders. As an executive in corporate America, he worked for underdogs that fought... Read more

Isak Dinesen

By: Judith Thurman

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 21 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Isak Dinesen earned international fame for Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and other stories that skillfully combine elements of fable, social conflict, and psychological drama. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. Yet the story of her life-her travels, affairs, and friendships-remains the greatest story of all. Christened with the... Read more

Living Dangerously

By: Mark Cotta Vaz

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Explorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer, Merian C. Cooper, the adventurer who created King Kong, was truly larger than life. Spellbound since boyhood by tales of life-threatening adventure and exotic locales, Cooper plunged into harrowing expeditions to places not yet civilized by modern man. One of the first bomber pilots during World... Read more

Lopsided

By: Meredith Norton

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir.Meredith Norton displays the razor-sharp wit of a masterful humorist as she chronicles her experience, from the first appearance of her bizarre symptoms while she was living in Paris to moving to California to live with her compulsive parents and their five television sets.Along with hilarious and... Read more

The Drunkard's Walk

By: Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this irreverent and illuminating audiobook, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in... Read more

Make Today Count

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: Lew Grenville

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from the text of the Business Week bestseller Today Matters, this condensed, revised edition boils down John C. Maxwell's 12 daily practices to their very essence, giving maximum impact in minimal time. Presented in a quick-read format, this version is designed to be read cover to cover in one sitting or taken in as brief lessons in a... Read more

Wealth, War and Wisdom

By: Barton Biggs

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wealth, War, and Wisdom, legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs reveals how the turning points of World War II intersected with market performance. Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy."The wisdom of the markets" prevails, even in... Read more

Nudge

By: Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions—for fans of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow.



Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children's health and education, even about... Read more

Globality - Abridged

By: Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling & Arindam Bhattacharya

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An absolutely stunning -- and scary - wake-up call that reveals how the economic world is about to change dramatically in the next few years as dozens of RDEs ("Rapidly Developing Economies") begin to assert themselves as major economic powers.
Globalization is about Americans outsourcing product development and services to other countries.... Read more