Nonfiction audiobooks
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 8: Honoring The Wild
By: Gary Snyder
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Gary Snyder is a renowned poet, activist, and ecologist. Here he offers specific advice on practical ways to improve your personal relationship to wild nature, understand the global situation more fully, and work to improve the ecological health of your own local community. Read more
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Chocolate for A Womans Heart - Abridged
By: Kay Allenbaugh
Narrated by: Victoria Dillard, Arija Bareikis & Jayne Atki...
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Love, like chocolate, comes to us in many varietiespure and simple, rich and complicated, sweet and bittersweet, and always memorable. Now, the creator of the bestselling Chocolate for a Woman's Soul serves up another selection of delectable new "chocolate stories," once again written by and especially for women.
These real-life tales celebrate... Read more
Rising Tide - Abridged
By: John M. Barry
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more
Warped Factors - Abridged
By: Walter Koenig
Narrated by: Walter Koenig
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is actor Walter Koenig's story— from growing up as the neurotic child of Russian immigrants in 1940s Manhattan through his rise to fame on Star Trek as Pavel Chekov, Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise. With wry wit, striking candor, and a true gift for storytelling, Koenig takes us on a sometimes bumpy but often... Read more
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Spin Cycle - Abridged
By: Howard Kurtz
Narrated by: Howard Kurtz
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bill Clinton is the most investigated president since Richard Nixonfacing inquiries into Whitewater, campaign fundraising abuses, and sexual misconductand yet he began 1998 with approval ratings as high as those of Ronald Reagan. But the new year has brought a barrage of new allegations, and the president and his advisers face once again the... Read more
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About This Life - Abridged
By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: Barry Lopez
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez captivated the world with his bestselling books Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men. Now, in this memoir, Lopez takes the listener on a literal and figurative journey through essays that provide great wisdom and insights into our times. Lopez leads listeners from Japan's beautiful Hokkaido Island to the... Read more
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The Cowboy Detective - Abridged
By: Charles Siringo
Narrated by: Michael Martin Murphey
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A fascinating, true-life memoir of an undercover agent in the wild, wild west of the late 1800s!After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo settled down in Caldwell, Kansas to run a store— until an acquaintance told him that he was "cut out" for detective work. Thereupon, Siringo joined the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, where... Read more
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Angela's Ashes - Abridged
By: Frank McCourt
Narrated by: Frank McCourt
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is... Read more
The Gifts Of The Jews - Abridged
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Claire Bloom
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
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Close to the Bone - Abridged
By: M.D. Bolen, Jean Shinoda
Narrated by: M.D. Bolen, Jean Shinoda
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Everyone faces illness. Whether it' s a personal health crisis or the sickness a loved one is experiencing, none of us is immune to illness or death. While we can try to ignore the reality, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen suggests we do the exact opposite: face it. Dr. Bolen shares how illness gives us purpose, guiding us towards finding the... Read more
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Douglas Wilson: Honor's Voice
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Douglas Wilson, author of Honor's Voice, talks about the life of President Abraham Lincoln. On "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." Read more
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The Argument Culture - Abridged
By: Deborah Tannen
Narrated by: Deborah Tannen
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
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I Think I'm Outta Here - Abridged
By: Carroll O'connor
Narrated by: Caroll O'Connor
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It is the genius of actor Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him with his most unforgettable creation, Archie Bunker. But O'Connor has lived the kind of rich, momentous life that Archie would never have imagined. Now, O'Connor speaks eloquently and intimately about his great triumphs and terrible tragedies -- and a... Read more
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Finding Your Life Assignment
By: Iyanla Vanzant
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
“We think we know the whole story; we think the chapter we’re in is it. But characters have yet to come on stage, the director may be changing and the set will be altered. If you don’t like what’s going on, you’re the producer--rewrite the script!” These are the words of Iyanla Vanzant, who believes we all have a divine nature and wants to... Read more
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Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 1: Ecological State of The World
By: David Suzuki, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
With scientific detail and political awareness, CBC Science Broadcaster, David Suzuki points to major problems in the ecological state of the world today - but also to ways you can begin to effectively address them, and why it is so important to do this. He reminds us what matters most in life, and how to live accordingly. Read more
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Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Part 2: The Natural Wonder: An Ecocentric World View
By: Edward Abbey, Paul Shepard, Bill Mollison, Case...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is a powerful sampling of information and issues from Edward Abbey, Paul Shepard, and several other environmentalists and scientists, all talking about why and how we can shift our priorities to care for all life on the planet. Read more
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Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Taylor Branch, author of Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual and political legacy. Read more
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Pillar of Fire - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more
Obsession - Abridged
By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: John E. Douglas
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape, stalking, and sexual murder through such cases as... Read more
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Buffettology - Abridged
By: Mary Buffett & David Clark
Narrated by: Mary Buffett
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity—now you can learn how Warren Buffett did it and how you can, too.
Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is now famous. Mary Buffett, former daughter-in-law of this... Read more
Bitter Harvest - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Mary Beth Hurt
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
True crime icon Ann Rule presents a “must-read” (People) New York Times bestseller—and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire—following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a harrowing and deadly madness.
Debora Green, a doctor and mother in a picturesque and exclusive Kansas town, seems to have the perfect life with her own... Read more
Parting the Waters - Abridged
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: CCH Pounder & Joe Morton
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement,... Read more
The Centerless Corporation - Abridged
By: Bruce A. Pasternack
Narrated by: Scott Byce
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In today's fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever altered the requirements for running a business today. Now, in response, The Centerless Corporation presents a... Read more
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The Gold of Exodus - Abridged
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.
In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers -... Read more
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