Nonfiction audiobooks

A 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

Mozart

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

A 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

A 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

A 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

The 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

Bootlegger'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

Chutzpah - 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

Further 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

Taking 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

There'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

The 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

Images 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

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

Songs 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

Wenn 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

365 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

Wiseguy - Abridged

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Narrated by: Nicholas Pileggi

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is... Read more

NLP

By: Charles Faulkner, Gerry Schmidt, Kelly Gerling,...

Narrated by: Charles Faulkner, Gerry Schmidt, Kelly Gerling,...

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NLP: A Powerful Technology for Producing Change


When we first encountered NLP more than a dozen years ago, we realized it represented a paradigm shift, a completely new way of thinking that makes heightened achievement levels and personal transformation possible.

Here's the great reality about NLP: If one person can do something, anyone else... Read more

The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 5 of 13

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

THE PATHLESS PATH. Describing the nature of the vision quest, Campbell explores the authentic Western spirit and the relevance of myth in restoring our relationship with the natural world. Read more

The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell Part 6 of 13

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

THE ETERNAL QUEST. Taking the risk of leaving the wasteland behind and living a spontaneous life is at the center of the mythic journey. Read more