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Desperate Networks - Abridged
By: Bill Carter
Narrated by: Dean Olsher
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such... Read more
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Revolutionary Wealth
By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler
Narrated by: Melissa Edris
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more
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Revolutionary Wealth - Abridged
By: Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler
Narrated by: Kevin Gray & Laura Dean
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp... Read more
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To Hell with All That
By: Caitlin Flanagan
Narrated by: Julia Fletcher
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Presented as a series of essays, it follows the natural course of women’s lives. Read more
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year
Winner of the James Beard Award
Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules
What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening... Read more
Game of Shadows
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down
For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more
Big: a Personal Journey
By: Michael S. Berman
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Berman has spent most of his sixty-plus years "living large." Though his weight has gone up and down dramatically a number of times, he estimates that he has gained and lost well over a thousand pounds. Yet even with a healthy and loving family and an accomplished career, Berman felt the humiliation and the sadness which often... Read more
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Cod
By: Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The cod has played a vital part in livelihoods, diets, and health in general—as well as roles in national economies and international wars. Drawing on his love of food and food culture, Mark Kurlansky leaps into history and folklore to explore how this innocuous fish had such an impact over the centuries. Kurlansky recounts how the cod spurred... Read more
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The Tipping Point - Abridged
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a... Read more
Game of Shadows - Abridged
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams
Narrated by: Arnie Mazer
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down
For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more
Rethinking Our Love Affair With Technology
By: Bob Seidensticker
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bob Seidensticker has been at the fifty-yard line of technology since the 1970s, when computers had 64 kilobytes of memory and ran on disks larger than car tires. He graduated from M.I.T., and worked for I.B.M. and Microsoft. But from his vantage point as an inside player, the current technological revolution is just another day at the ballpark. Read more
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Tripping the Prom Queen
By: Susan Shapiro Barash
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Tripping the Prom Queen is an investigation of the dark secret of female friendships-the deep vein of female rivalry. Based on interviews with women across the social spectrum, Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women are generally supportive of one another. In fact, the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it... Read more
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Field Notes From a Catastrophe - Abridged
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Hope Davis
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous path, the world has reached a critical threshold. By the end of the century, it will likely be hotter than at any... Read more
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Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads - Abridged
By: Rosalind Wiseman & Elizabeth Rapoport
Narrated by: Rosalind Wiseman
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?
Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and... Read more
Birthing Death
By: Jerrigrace Lyons & Leslene della Madre
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a profound shift taking place in the way we handle death. Because of the work of people like Lyons and della Madre, we find encouragement to return to the ancient practices of caring for the dying at home and caring for the body of a deceased loved one, rather than relinquishing it to the care of a funeral home. Read more
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Murder in Greenwich - Abridged
By: Mark Fuhrman
Narrated by: Len Cariou
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Newsflash: Grand Jury just empaneled to investigate the unsolved murder of Martha Moxley!The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed with a golf club on the grounds of her family1s Greenwich home.The golf club that killed Martha came from the house of Thomas and Michael Skakel, two boys who had been... Read more
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Money, A Memoir - Abridged
By: Liz Perle
Narrated by: Liz Perle
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle made a quiet contract with cash: She would do what it took to get it—work hard, marry right—but she didn't want to have to think about it too much. Since she was a young girl, the subject of money had been quietly sidestepped, a shadowy factor whose private influence was impolite to discuss. When... Read more
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Sex and the Seasoned Woman
By: Gail Sheehy
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more
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On Michael Jackson
By: Margo Jefferson
Narrated by: Andrea Johnson
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How... Read more
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Sex and the Seasoned Woman - Abridged
By: Gail Sheehy
Narrated by: Gail Sheehy
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second... Read more
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Sufferings in Africa
By: James Riley
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.This dramatic account of Captain... Read more
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Feminist Fantasies
By: Phyllis Schlafly
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Phyllis Schlafly was one of the first to recognize that radical feminism, like other destructive ideologies, is at odds with human nature. As the rest of the intellectual elite fell compliantly into line, Schlafly courageously took up the fight for the right to be a woman. Feminist Fantasies is the inspiring story of that fight. In these... Read more
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God’s Harvard
By: Hanna Rosin
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname “God’s Harvard.” Most of these students are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the... Read more
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The Jihad Next Door
By: Dina Temple-Raston
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Dina Temple-Raston uncovers a strange corner of the war on terror in Lackawanna, New York, home of the first homegrown al-Qaeda terrorist cell in America. Or was it?The “Lackawanna Six” were young men, born of Yemeni families long settled in upstate New York, who took a trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent time in an al-Qaeda training... Read more
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