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Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes - Abridged
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why... Read more
Loud and Clear
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.
“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more
Idyll Banter - Abridged
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Chris Bohjalian
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house.... Read more
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The Progress Paradox - Abridged
By: Gregg Easterbrook
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it... Read more
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Maiden, Mother, Matriarch and Crone: Birthing the Circlesof Our Lives
By: Elizabeth Davis
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Midwife, mother, teacher and visionary, Elizabeth Davis brings new insights to the experience of everywoman as she describes the phases and cycles through which all women pass. At the same time she recognizes the challenges and ambivalence often encountered in moving through each passage. Read more
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An Imperfect God - Abridged
By: Henry Wiencek
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding... Read more
The Roots of Violence
By: Susan Griffin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this dialogue, Susan Griffin explores the relationship between what happens in our intimate lives and the violence we express individually and as a nation. She explains, "The idea that we have to get somebody with a lot of muscles to take care of us happens when our core relationship to our own feelings has been erased." Read more
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Preachers of Hate - Abridged
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Narrated by: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more
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Cultural Nonviolence
By: Satish Kumar
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Jesus, Satish Kumar brings a gentle wisdom to the difficult questions that must be answered if we are to end the pattern of destruction that threatens our world today. His simple, yet comprehensive perspective addresses the violence that is pervasive in human society and, amazingly, offers... Read more
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Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Lee Adams & Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why... Read more
There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere - Abridged
By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey
Narrated by: Kara Swisher
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In her acclaimed AOL.COM, Kara Swisher chronicled the unlikely ascent of a group of underdog entrepreneurs and their influence on American net culture. This book picks up where the previous one left off, investigating AOL's merger with Time Warner and its aftermath. Journalists Swisher and Dickey have an ear for the comic and an appreciation... Read more
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Pau...
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of... Read more
True Notebooks - Abridged
By: Mark Salzman
Narrated by: Mark Salzman
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years... Read more
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Mountains Beyond Mountains - Abridged
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more
The Progress Paradox
By: Gregg Easterbrook
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it... Read more
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American Patriots
By: Gail Buckley
Narrated by: Robert Stuart
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and culminating with Desert Storm.
The best histories are about more than facts and events — they... Read more
The Borderlands of Science
By: Michael Shermer
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... Read more
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Embracing Crone Wisdom
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
What wisdom do you have that you can pass on? Have the difficult times in your life left you bitter, seeking someone to blame? Or have they left you juicy with self-awareness, purpose, and humor? Have you become a crone? Join author and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen as she explores the enormous potential for wisdom in the last third of your... Read more
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Global Spiritual Activism
By: Starhawk
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a society that seems unsure of what to do with a "witch," Starhawk has remarkably and quietly attained broad recognition as an authority on Goddess religion. She shares the excitement and hope she derives from the dedication of a new generation of activists who devote their lives to fostering global transformation. Read more
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Throw the Rascals Out
By: Jim Hightower
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Like a modern day Thomas Paine, America's populist and rabble-rouser speaks out for the rest of us, as contrasted to the ruling elite. Hightower rises up against assorted robber barons, profiteers, empire builders, supremacists, militants and the neo-cons in our midst, that have amassed domineering power and run roughshod over common folks and... Read more
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Preachers of Hate
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more
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Under the Banner of Heaven - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist... Read more
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The Death of Right and Wrong - Abridged
By: Tammy Bruce
Narrated by: Tammy Bruce
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.
But if you’ve always... Read more
Soul Capital: Wealth to Live By
By: Danah Zohar
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
What would it take to shift our culture away from anger, fear and greed, and toward the higher motivations of exploration and cooperation? What if five or ten percent of people could commit their authentic selves to a life of higher service? Danah Zohar believes that's all it would take to save us from the violence and destruction that face the... Read more
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