Nonfiction audiobooks

Extreme Toyota

By: Norihiko Shimizu, Emi Osono & Hirotaka Takeuchi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

To an outsider, Toyota is hard to understand. The company moves forward gradually while also advancing in big leaps. It is frugal with its resources while spending extravagantly on people and projects. It is both efficient and redundant; it cultivates an environment of stability and paranoia; it is hierarchical and bureaucratic, but encourages... Read more

The Six Secrets of Change

By: Michael Fullan

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It is commonly acknowledged that successful organizations adjust quickly and intelligently to shifts in consumer tastes, political climate, and economic opportunity. But how are some able to succeed at change while so many others fail?
Drawing on his acclaimed work in bringing about large-scale and substantial change in education reform in both... Read more

The Training Ground

By: Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly all of the Civil War’s greatest soldiers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Davis, and Jackson—were forged in the heat of the Mexican War. This is their story.The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance. It was the first US war waged on foreign soil, and it nearly doubled the size of our nation. At... Read more

The Detox Strategy

By: Leonard Smith, M.D. & Brenda Watson, C.N.C.

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Regardless of where and how you live, your body is harboring dozens if not hundreds of toxins that could be sabotaging your health. Low on energy? Dealing with chronic illness? Having trouble losing weight? Toxins might be to blame. From your mattress to your toothpaste to your nonstick pans to the food you eat and the (bottled) water you... Read more

Easy Company Soldier

By: Don Malarkey & Bob Welch

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Elite paratrooper Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the World War II battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne.

Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their... Read more

Up Till Now

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.

It was the original Star Trek series, and... Read more

The Exhaustion Cure

By: Laura Stack

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

LAURA STACK, MBA, CSP, is a personal productivity expert and the author of Leave the Office Earlier and Find More Time. As a professional speaker, she helps workers Leave the Office Earlier® with Maximum Results in Minimum Time™. Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., an international time management company whose clients include... Read more

Boots on the Ground by Dusk

By: Mary Tillman & Narda Zacchino

Narrated by: Mary Tillman

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract after the 9/11 attacks, choosing to enlist in the U.S. Army. He graduated from their elite Ranger school and was deployed to Iraq in 2003. On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan.... Read more

Pennsylvania Avenue

By: John Harwood & Gerald F. Seib

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

With keen inside analysis and great stories drawn from astonishing access to Washington’s key players, Pennsylvania Avenue takes us behind the scenes to show what really happens on the first street in America and how that affects the country.The last decade produced one of the greatest political transformations in American history: a shift from... Read more

The Middle-Class Millionaire

By: Russ Alan Prince & Lewis Schiff

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book, Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff examine the far-reaching impact of the middle-class millionaires—people who enjoy a net worth ranging from one to ten million dollars who have earned rather than inherited their wealth. Comprising 8.4 million households, these working rich are exerting a powerful influence on our... Read more

The Exhaustion Cure - Abridged

By: Laura Stack

Narrated by: Laura Stack

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LAURA STACK, MBA, CSP, is a personal productivity expert and the author of Leave the Office Earlier and Find More Time. As a professional speaker, she helps workers Leave the Office Earlier® with Maximum Results in Minimum Time™. Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., an international time management company whose clients include... Read more

The Billionaire's Vinegar - Abridged

By: Benjamin Wallace

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band... Read more

An Inconvenient Truth - Abridged

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly -- and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to... Read more

Up Till Now - Abridged

By: William Shatner & David Fisher

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies,... Read more

Your 15th Club - Abridged

By: Bob Rotella

Narrated by: Bob Rotella

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

All golfers have fourteen clubs in their bag, but the real winners have a little something extra—that mental attitude that puts their game above the others. Dr. Bob Rotella, author of the bestselling book Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, brings together his skills and years of experience as a golf psychologist to give readers the insight they need... Read more

The Education of Henry Adams

By: Henry Adams

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he... Read more

The Best Game Ever

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season’s NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America’s post-war economic boom, was still greatly over-shadowed by the country’s favored pastime—baseball—but the 1958 championship proved to be the turning point for... Read more

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

By: John Lukacs

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as prime minister. Europe was in crisis: three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low Countries. Facing only feeble resistance, Hitler’s armies were rapidly sweeping westward. Churchill had little support within the British government... Read more

Your Child's Strengths

By: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns... Read more

It's Our Ship - Abridged

By: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Narrated by: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, legendary commander of the USS Benfold, continues in the same vein of his bestselling book It's Your Ship with the knowledge he's gained from his speaking to and advising some of the top business minds in the world.

The story of Captain Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside... Read more

The She Spot

By: Lisa Chen & Lisa Witter

Narrated by: Sally Hughes

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this practical, provocative and inspiring guide, Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen of public relations powerhouse Fenton Communications offer social change organizations key recommendations for leveraging the untapped power of women for positive change through fundraising, advocacy and the ballot box. Read more

The Woman Who Can't Forget

By: Bart Davis & Jill Price

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world... Read more

Polk

By: Walter R. Borneman

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Tennessee Democrat James K. Polk is generally ranked among the nation's most effective chief executives. In this straightforward, unnuanced biography, Borneman (1812: The War That Forged a Nation) relates why. Coming into office determined to annex Texas, gain the Oregon Territory from Britain, lower the tariff and reform the national banking... Read more

Final Salute

By: Jim Sheeler

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more