The City
By: Joel Kotkin
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this erudite and enjoyable Los Angeles Times best-seller, Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order. These exciting concentrations of ideas and energy have long been and should continue to be meaningful... Read more
View audiobookCollective Creating Through Conversations
By: Juanita Brown, Ph.D. & David Isaacs
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
More than ever, we are in need of conversations that bring people together for creative solutions. Imagine having the opportunity to sit with a group of people and have a deep interaction around something you all really care about. These kinds of dialogues are taking place across the globe and are making a difference in creating a better world.... Read more
View audiobookOutrageous Women
By: Elizabeth Debold, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In the last century, women made a declaration of independence from patriarchy, and still struggle to find a way to be powerful and compassionate, proactive and creative without repeating the mistakes of the old paradigm. It's a shift of evolutionary proportions. But the paradox, according to Elizabeth Debold, is that "the group that has... Read more
View audiobookLa chèvre de M. Seguin
By: Alphonse Daudet
Narrated by: Albert Millaire
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
M. Seguin avait choisi, cette fois, une chèvre toute jeune croyant ainsi la retenir. Mais Blanquette, comme toutes les autres, préféra la bruyère des montagnes au pré vert de son clos; la liberté et ses risques plutôt que la sécurité et l'ennui. Elle comprit bientôt qu'il ne suffisait pas d'être brave et courageuse pour se défendre contre le... Read more
View audiobookBound for Canaan - Abridged
By: Fergus Bordewich
Narrated by: Fergus Bordewich
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce... Read more
View audiobook100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - Abridged
By: Bernard Goldberg
Narrated by: Bernard Goldberg
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans and detest so much of what this country is about)...the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous)...the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose show... Read more
View audiobookUrgent Message: Gather The Women
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Bec Kageyama
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Informed by the Sacred Feminine, which both women and men embody into consciousness and culture, Bolen wants every child in the world to be wanted, to be fed, to be safe, to have healthcare. She speaks of realms of empathy, connectedness, and nurturing, and how, at this time, our world needs the combined qualities of each of these. Read more
View audiobookMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - Abridged
By: John Gray
Narrated by: John Gray
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The most well-know, long-lived, and tried-and-tested relationships guide ever, the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is now available for the first time ever as an audio book. In this classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women... Read more
View audiobookThe Murderer Next Door
By: David M. Buss
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of a Video Vixen
By: Karrine Steffans & Karen Hunter
Narrated by: Karrine Steffans
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs,... Read more
View audiobookThe Genius Factory
By: David Plotz
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN... Read more
Surrounded by Idiots - Abridged
By: Mike Gallagher
Narrated by: Mike Gallagher
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The controvserial radio host speaks out on liberalism, grassroots politics, and the control of America in a polemic that is sure raise liberal hacklesIn the book his fans have long been clamoring for, conservative talk show host and commander in chief of “Gallagher’s Army,” Mike Gallagher chronicles the daily war between liberals and... Read more
View audiobookBack in Action
By: David Rozelle
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more
View audiobookKabloona
By: Gontran de Poncins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others'... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This phenomenal New York Times bestseller is an exposé of international corruption and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations.John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States, from Indonesia to Panama, to accept enormous loans for infrastructure... Read more
View audiobookBlack Rednecks and White Liberals
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Hugh Mann
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.This explosive new book challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans and Nazis, slavery, and education. Through a series of essays, Sowell presents an in-depth look at key... Read more
View audiobookAnti-Americanism
By: Jean-François Revel
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
After the 9/11 attack on the United States, the brief moment of global sympathy for America soon began giving way to blame. In France and other quarters of Europe, and elsewhere in the world, it was said that the Americans had brought this violence upon themselves. The United States was a “cowboy” nation disinclined to abide by the will of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Golden Mountain
By: Irene Kai
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A journey back in time, The Golden Mountain is the gripping story of four generations of Chinese women who live and die under the restrictions of their culture—except for one, the author. Her story tells of growing up in Hong Kong and of her transition to New York City, where she struggled to meld the American dream with her ethnic background.... Read more
View audiobookA Call to Heroism
By: Peter H. Gibbon
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
What do we look for in our heroes of today? And what are we to expect of heroes in our uncertain future? In this book, Gibbon traces the evolution of our collective vision of greatness from the age of our founders to today’s celebrity-obsessed media age.Among history’s exemplary men and women who have sacrificed for causes greater than... Read more
View audiobookThe Denial of Death
By: Ernest Becker
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing... Read more
View audiobookThe Reluctant Metrosexual
By: Peter Hyman
Narrated by: Peter Hyman
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author, an essayist and stand-up comedian, this collection of hilarious essays is about a single guy attempting to live on the right side of hip.If Peter Hyman is a metrosexual, a straight man with gay tastes, then he is one reluctantly, being loath to hitch himself to an au courant cultural trend unless doing so would get him a... Read more
View audiobookCommander of the Exodus
By: Yoram Kaniuk
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world,” Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. It is the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to... Read more
View audiobookThe Soul of the Indian and Seven Native American Tales
By: Charles Alexander Eastman
Narrated by: Scott Peterson
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Charles Alexander Eastman, an educated and well-known Sioux, saw both sides of the great divide between Indians and whites, and he wrote eleven books attempting to reconcile the two cultures. Although he was a convert to Christianity, Eastman never lost his sense of the wholeness and beauty of the Indian's relation to his existence and to the... Read more
View audiobookA Conflict of Visions
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas," Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a... Read more
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